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were presented by Mr. W. Reeve ; while gizzard-stones and 

 tracheal rings of Dinornithidte were presented by Prof. Owen. 



The type-specimen of Plesiosaurus manseli from the Kim- 

 meridge Clay of Dorset, was presented by Mr. J. C. Mansel- 

 Pleydell ; and numerous other remains of reptiles and fishes from 

 the same formation, and from the Neocomian bone-bed of Potton, 

 Bedfordshire, were purchased. 



A collection of Labyrinthodonts, with a few fishes, from the 

 Coal Measures of Jarrow Colliery, Kilkenny, Ireland, was pur- 

 chased from Mr. W. B. Brownrigg. The Thomas Baugh Collection, 

 chiefly consisting of fish-teeth from the Carboniferous Limestone 

 of Shropshire, and the Charles W. Peach Collection of Old Red 

 Sandstone Fishes from Caithness, were also acquired by purchase. 



Among important purchases of fossil Invertebrata may be 

 mentioned some specimens of Placocystis from the Wenlock 

 Limestone ; a fine Apiocrinus from the Bradford Clay of Wiltshire ; 

 type-specimens of Cretaceous and Tertiary Entomostraca, including 

 the Bosquet Collection ; Oolitic fossils from Brora, Sutherland ; 

 and a series of Tertiary shells collected by Mr. Hauxwell in 

 the valley of the Amazon, and described by Dr. H. Woodward 

 (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. vii.). 



Silicified wood from the desert near Cairo, described by Mr. 

 Carruthers as Nicolia oweni, was presented by Prof. Owen. A 

 fine Araucarian stem from the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis was pur- 

 chased. A large series of plant-remains, from the Coal Measures 

 of the Forest of Wyre, was included in the Baugh Collection. 



Total number of acquisitions, 7620. 



1871. 



The most important acquisition of this year was the collection 

 of the late Prof. Van Breda, of Haarlem, purchased from his 

 executors. It comprised fossils from the Miocene of Oeningen, 

 the Lignites of Rott, near Bonn, the Upper Cretaceous of 

 Maastricht, the Lithographic Stone of Bavaria, the Keuper of 

 Wiirtemberg, and the Permian of Thuringia. From all these 

 horizons there were unique type-specimens of Vertebrata, besides 

 numerous Invertebrata. 



The Wetherell Collection, chiefly of London Clay fossils, 

 purchased from Mr. N. T. Wetherell, was also of great value, 

 comprising many type-specimens described by Edwards, Bell, 

 Owen, and Darwin. 



