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Norman M'Leod. Some fish-remains from the Siwalik forma- 

 tion were presented by Major (afterwards Colonel Sir) Proby T. 

 Cautley. 



A collection of Miocene shells and corals from Touraine, was 

 purchased from Mr. Mathieu. Specimens of amber from the 

 Baltic coast, containing insects and plant-remains, were pui*- 

 chased from Dr. Berendt. 



1848. 



Another instalment of Mr. Charles Fraser's donation of 

 Indian fossil Mammalia was received. A few Mammalian 

 remains from Perim Island, Gulf of Cambay, were presented by 

 Dr. Buist. 



A large collection of Lower Tertiary Mammalia, with a few 

 other vertebrate remains, from Auvergne, France, was purchased 

 from the Abbe Croizet. 



Remains of an ostrich, Struthio asiaticus, from the Pliocene of 

 the Siwalik Hills, India, were presented by Colonel Colvin. A 

 large series of bones of Dinornithidse, Aptornis, and other birds, 

 collected by the Hon. Walter B. D. Mantell in the superficial 

 deposits of New Zealand, was acquired by purchase. 



The type-specimen of Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, from the 

 Lower Lias of Lyme Regis, was purchased at the sale of the late 

 Duke of Buckingham. Some Cheirotherian footprints from the 

 Trias of Cheshire, were purchased from Mrs. E. Slone. 



A large and miscellaneous collection of fossils, chiefly from 

 Germany and France, was purchased from Mr. Paul Mohr. It 

 included a slab of Upper Lias from Wiirtemberg covered with 

 fine examples of Pentacrinus. 



A few British Palaeozoic Brachiopoda were presented by Dr. 

 Thomas Davidson. Some Palaeozoic Brachiopoda from the Arctic 

 Regions were presented by Sir John Richardson. 



Some rock-specimens with fossil Mollusca and silicifiecl wood, 

 from the interior of Northern Australia, were presented by Sir 

 Thomas Mitchell. 



1849. 



The first instalment of a large collection of British fossils, 

 chiefly Jurassic and Cretaceous, was purchased from Mr. William 

 Cunnington. Invertebrata from the Upper Greensand of War- 

 minster, were purchased from Mr. John Baker. 



Some Pleistocene non-marine Mollusca from Copford, Essex, 

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