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Series of Pleistocene Mammalian remains from Queensland, 

 presented by Mr. Richard Daintree, and from Buenos Ayres, 

 presented by Senor Luis J. Fontana, included many important 

 new specimens. Remains of beaver from the Cambridgeshire 

 Fens were purchased. 



The type upper jaw of Teleosaurus megarhinus, from the 

 Kimmeridge Clay of Dorsetshire, was presented by Mr. J. C. 

 Maiisel-Pleydell. The type-specimen of the extinct Chimseroid, 

 Ischyodus orthorhinus of Egerton, from the Lower Lias of Lyme 

 Regis, was purchased. 



Some Upper Silurian Crinoids, Cystideans, Trilobites, other 

 Crustacea, and two Starfishes, were purchased from the collection 

 of Samuel Allport. Some Ordovician Trilobites from North 

 Wales, including the type-specimens of Calymene daviesi and 

 Ogygia angustissima and other specimens figured by Salter, were 

 purchased from Mr. G. Davies. Polished sections of Carboni- 

 ferous Corals, prepared with a grant from the British Association, 

 were presented by Mr. James Thomson. A huge ammonite, 

 39 inches in diameter, and regarded as Psiloceras planorbe, 

 from the Lias near Rugby, was purchased. (See " Mem. Geol. 

 Surv. U.K., Jurassic Rocks," iii., p. 163.) 



A few slabs of shale with fossil plants from the Coal Measures 

 of Rhymney, South Wales, were presented by Mr. Coles Child. 



Total number of acquisitions, 4789. 



1872. 



After the death of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, a selection 

 from his collection was presented by his nephew and heir, Mr. 

 Kenneth Murchison. Besides an extensive series of Invertebrata, 

 chiefly Devonian and Silurian, it comprised many fossil fishes, 

 among others the type-specimen of Aeclimodus leachi from the 

 Lower Lias of Lyme Regis. 



Pleistocene Mammalian remains from Queensland and Buenos 

 Ayres were presented by Dr. George Bennett and Senor L. J. 

 Fontana respectively. 



A footprint of Dinornis in modern beach-sandstone from 

 New Zealand, was presented by Mr. T. H. Cockburn Hood. 



Reptilian remains from the Karoo formation of Cape Colony, 

 including Pariasaurus, Tapinocephalus, and Galesaurus, were pre- 

 sented by Dr. W. Guybon Atherstone. A fine Ichthyosaurian 

 head from the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis, and a complete shell 



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