220 Geology. 



Some Cretaceous fishes collected in the Lebanon by Rev. 

 Canon H. B. Tristram, were acquired by purchase. 



Among Invertebrata, the Saxby Collection, consisting chiefly 

 of Cretaceous Mollusca from the Isle of Wight, was purchased. A 

 nearly complete body of Pterygotus anglicus, from the Lower Old 

 Red Sandstone of Forf arshire, was presented by Mr. James Powrie. 



Some Devonian plants from North America were presented 

 by Dr. J. W. (afterwards Sir William) Dawson. 



Total number of acquisitions, 10,079. 



1866. 



Another collection of Mammalian remains, including evidence 

 of a new gigantic kangaroo, Palorchestes, from the Pleistocene of 

 Queensland, was presented by Sir Daniel Cooper, Bart. Other 

 remains of Scelidotherium and Mylodon, with a nearly complete 

 carapace and other fragments of Glyptodon, from the Pampa 

 formation of Buenos Ayres, were purchased. 



Additional Reptilian remains from the Kimmeridge Clay of 

 Dorset were presented by Mr. J. C. Mansel (afterwards Mansel- 

 Pleydell). A fine example of a new Plesiosaur (Plesiosaurus 

 iaticeps), a small Ichthyosaurus communis, and other remains of 

 reptiles and fishes from the Lower Lias of Dorset, were acquired 

 by purchase. 



Skulls of Capitosaurus and Trematosaurus from the Trias of 

 Wiirtemberg, and a fine skeleton of Archegosaurus decheni, from 

 the Lower Permian of Rhenish Prussia, were also purchased. 



A collection of Cretaceous fossils from Bogota, a series of 

 Tertiary shells from the Vienna Basin, and some Silurian In- 

 vertebrata collected by Dr. Gustaf Lindstrom in Gotland, were 

 among the most important purchases of Invertebrata. A col- 

 lection of Arenig fossils from Pembrokeshire was presented by 

 Dr. Henry Hicks and Mr. J. W. Salter. 



Total number of acquisitions, 4061. 



1867. 



A large series of vertebrate fossils from the collection of the 

 late Dr. Hugh Falconer, was presented by Mr. Charles Falconer. 

 It comprised numerous remains of Proboscidea, the skull of an 

 Irish Deer, bones and teeth of Hippopotamus from Sicilian 

 caverns, and a skull of Crocodilus lonibifrons from the Siwalik 

 formation of India. 



