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a series of specimens from the Oligocene slates of Canton Glarus, 

 Switzerland, finely prepared by Emile Meyrat. The unique jaw 

 of an extinct Cestraciont from the Oolite of Caen, Normandy, 

 described as Strophodus medius by Owen, and showing for the 

 first time the arrangement of the Strophodus-teeth in the mouth, 

 was also purchased. Some English Chalk fishes, notably a head 

 of Pachyrhizodus gardneri, were included in the Toulmin Smith 

 Collection mentioned below. 



Among fossil Invertebrata, Dr. W. T. Blanford presented an 

 important series, chiefly Jurassic, collected by him in Abyssinia. 

 The second instalment of the collection of Mr. John Gray, of 

 Hagley, comprising Upper Silurian trilobites, crinoids, and corals, 

 was purchased. Other Wenlock Limestone fossils from Dudley 

 were purchased from Mr. Charles Ketley. A large collection of 

 English Jurassic fossils was purchased from Mr. R. , Etheridge. 

 The late Mr. Toulmin Smith's collection of Cretaceous sponges, 

 including the originals of his own descriptions, was purchased 

 from his executors. Many Crag Mollusca from Norfolk and 

 Suffolk, including type-specimens described in Mr. Searles Wood's 

 " Supplement," were purchased from Mr. Edward Charlesworth. 

 A collection of Miocene Mollusca from Maryland, U.S.A., was 

 also purchased. About 150 bivalved Crustacea, purchased from 

 Prof. T. Rupert Jones, illustrated his " Monograph of the Fossil 

 Estherife." 



A large series of Tertiary leaves, collected by Mr. Edward 

 Whymper in Greenland, by means of grants from the British 

 Association and the Royal Society, was presented by Mr. Robert 

 H. Scott. 



Total number of acquisitions, 7226. 



1870. 



A complete skeleton of the hornless female Irish Deer, Cervus 

 Mbernicus, was purchased from Dr. E. P. Wright. Numerous 

 teeth of Pliocene Mammalia from a cavern near Ching-King-Foo, 

 China (some described by Prof. Owen in Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc. vol. xxvi.), were purchased from Mr. Swinhoe, of Formosa. 

 A series of Marsupial remains from the Wellington Caves, New 

 South Wales, was presented by the Trustees of the Australian 

 Museum, Sydney ; and other bones from the same caves were 

 presented by Prof. A. M. Thomson. 



Two eggs of Aepyornis from Madagascar were purchased. 

 Bones of Dinornis casuarinus from Glenmark Swamp, New Zealand, 



