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1852. 



307 specimens i^resentecl ; 419 purchased. Total, 726. 

 115 eggs, presented by H. F. Walter, Esq. 

 106 birds from New Zealand. Presented by Captain Stokes, 

 R.N. 



29 birds from Damara Land, collected by C. J. Andersson. 



1853. 



158 specimens presented ; 488 purchased. Total, 646. 

 104 birds from Bagdad. Presented by Kenneth Loftus, Esq. 

 55 Humming Birds, and 86 Toucans. Purchased of Mr. 

 Gould. 



1854. 



84 specimens presented ; 540 purchased. Total, 624. 

 127 specimens from Bogota. Purchased of Mr. Samuel 

 Stevens. 



1855. 



1 50 specimens presented ; 742 purchased. Total, 892. 



40.3 birds from various localities. Purchased from the 

 Zoological Society. 



On the determination of the Zoological Society to give up its 

 Museum, the first choice of acquiring the specimens was offered 

 to the British Museum, which thus regained the typical examples 

 described from the voyage of the Beagle and other exploring 

 vessels, the collections of which should by rights have gone into 

 the national museum. A few seem to have been overlooked 

 by Mr. G. R. Gray and passed into the hands of private 

 collectors, but within the past few years some of these have 

 likewise been regained by the Museum, on the death of the 

 owners, whose collections have been dispersed. 



1855. 



101 l)irds from South America. Purchased of Mr. J. Gould. 

 88 birds from N.W. America. Presented by Captain Collin- 

 son, R.N. (H.M.SS. Enterprise and Endeavour). 



1856. 



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319 birds presented; 160 purchased. Total, 429. 

 36 V)ii-ds from Teheran, Persia, collected by the Hon. 

 C. ^Murray. Presented by Charles Darwin, Esq. 



