218 Geology. 



A second instalment of the Haberlein Collection, was pur- 

 chased, comprising chiefly Insecta, Crustacea, Cephalopoda, and 

 Plantse. 



Plaster casts of the much-discussed Neanderthal and Engis 

 skulls were acquired by purchase. Some remains of Hyopotamus, 

 from the Oligocene of the Isle of Wight, were presented by 

 Mr. F. E. Edwards. 



Some fossil Chelonia were purchased from the collection of 

 Prof. Thomas Bell. More remains of Plesiosaurus australis, and 

 other extinct marine reptiles from New Zealand, were presented 

 by Mr. T. H. Cockburn Hood. Supposed fossil eggs of reptiles 

 from the Great Oolite of Cirencester were presented by Mr. 

 Joshua Brown. 



A fine skull of the gigantic Labyrinthodont, Metopias 

 diagnosticus, from the Keuper of Wurtemberg, was included in 

 the Haberlein Collection. 



Numerous Jurassic and other English invertebrate fossils. 

 were purchased from the collections of Prof. John Morris and 

 Mr. William Buy. Some almost unique specimens of Mero- 

 stomata (Eurypterus lanceolatus and Slimonia acuminata) from the 

 Upper Silurian of Lanarkshire, and specimens of the newly- 

 discovered Cambrian trilobite, Paradoxides davidis, were also 

 purchased. Cretaceous fossils collected by Captain Mansell, R.N., 

 in the Lebanon, were presented by Dr. J. D. (afterwards Sir 

 Joseph) Hooker. Palaeozoic fossils, chiefly ferns, from Tasmania, 

 were presented by Dr. Joseph Milligan. 



Dicotyledonous leaves from the Tertiary of Disco, North 

 Greenland, were presented by Mr. J. W. Taylor. 



Total number of acquisitions, 3053. 



1864. 



The most important acquisition of this year was a collection 

 of remains of Pleistocene Mammalia associated with human 

 bones and implements, discovered by the Vicomte de Lastic in 

 a cavern on the banks of the Aveyron, near Bruniquel, Tarn- 

 et-Garonne, France. The collection was purchased from the 

 discoverer. 



A nearly complete skull of the mammoth, ElepJtas primigenius, 

 was extricated from the Thames brick-earth at Ilford, Essex, 

 under the direction of Mr. William Davies and Dr. Henry 

 Woodward. Another important collection of Pleistocene Mam- 



