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1837. 



A further series of Mammalian bones and teeth from the 

 Kirkdale Cave, Yorkshire, was presented by Mr. W. Salmond. 



The first instalment of a collection of Mammalia (Dlno- 

 therium, Mastodon, <tc.), from the Lower Pliocene of Eppelsheim, 

 was purchased from Dr. Kaup. 



Some fish-remains from the Oligocene of Canton Glarus, 

 Switzerland, were purchased through Prof. L. Agassiz. 



Numerous German Triassic and Jurassic fossils were purchased 

 from Dr. Braun. Some English and French Jurassic and 

 Cretaceous fossils were presented by Sir Henry T. De la Beche. 

 A few Palaeozoic fossils, chiefly Brachiopods, from Tasmania, 

 were purchased from Dr. J. Lhotzky. 



1839. 



The most important event of this year was the purchase of 

 the collection of Wealden and Cretaceous fossils of Dr. Gideon 

 A. Mantell, which had for some time been exhibited as the 

 Mantellian Museum in Brighton. 



More German Jurassic fossils were purchased from Dr. 

 Braun. A few Invertebrata, chiefly Lamellibranchs and Echino- 

 derms, from the Tertiary of Malta, were presented by Miss 

 Emilie Attersol. 



A few Cretaceous plant-remains from the Iguanodon quarry 

 at Maidstone, were presented by Mr. W. H. Bensted. Lower 

 Jurassic plant-remains from Yorkshire, were purchased from Dr. 

 Peter Murray of Scarborough. 



A collection of silicified fern-stems (Psaronius, &c.) from the 

 Permian of Saxony, including the originals of Cotta's " Die 

 Dendrolithen " (1832), was purchased from Dr. C. Bernhard 

 Cotta. 



1840. 



The additions to the collection of fossil Vertebrata were 

 specially remarkable this year. 



The extensive series of remains of Tertiary Mammalia 

 collected in the Siwalik Hills, India, by Major (afterwards 

 Colonel Sir) Proby T. Cautley, was presented by him to the 

 Museum. 



Additional Liassic Ichthyosaurs and Plesiosaurs, illustra- 

 tive of Hawkins' "Book of the Great Sea Dragons" (1840), 

 were purchased from Mr. Thomas Hawkins. The type-specimen 

 of Plesiosaurus rugosus, Owen, from the Lower Lias of Granby, 



