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1874. 



Remarkable additions to the series of British Pleistocene 

 .Mammalia were made this year by the purchase of Sir Antonio 

 Brady's collection from the Thames Brick-earth at Ilford, Essex, 

 and Mr. J. J. Owles' collection obtained from trawlers off the 

 eastern coast, especially from the Dogger Bank. Valuable 

 remains of Marsupialia from the Pleistocene of Queensland, were 

 received as donations from Dr. George Bennett and others. 

 The jaws of the extinct ungulate, Homalodontotherium cunning- 

 liami, from the Tertiary of Patagonia, described by Sir William 

 Flower (Phil. Trans. 1874), were presented by the Lords of the 

 Admiralty through Dr. Cunningham. The unique skull of the 

 primitive Sirenian, Prorastomus sirenoides, from Jamaica, was 

 presented by Prof, (afterwards Sir Richard) Owen. 



A nearly complete skeleton of Dinornis maximus, novr exhi- 

 bited in the Department of Zoology, was obtained by exchange 

 with the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand. 



A large part of the skeleton of a gigantic Dinosaur, described 

 as Omosaurus armatus by Owen, was dug out of the Kimmeridge 

 Clay at Swindon by Mr. William Davies, and presented to 

 the Museum by the Directors of the Swindon Brick and Tile 

 Company. 



An extensive series of fish-remains from the Lower Old Red 

 Sandstone and Upper Silurian of the neighbourhood of Ludlow, 

 including several type- and described specimens, was presented by 

 Mr. Robert Lightbody. The first well-preserved fossil fish, a 

 Palseoniscid, from the Karoo Formation of Cape Colony, was 

 presented by the Trustees of the Albany Museum. 



A series of Tertiary fossils from the Sinai peninsula and 

 Egypt was collected and presented by Prof. John Milne. A 

 fine collection of Crinoidea from the Lower Carboniferous of 

 Burlington, Iowa, U.S.A., was purchased from Mr. C. Wachs- 

 muth. A slab of Eozoon canadense from Canada was also 

 purchased. 



Total number of acquisitions, 3103. 



1875. 



Another large instalment of the Cunnington Collection was 

 purchased, including Mammalian remains from Wookey Hole, 

 Pleurosternum from the Purbeck Beds, fishes from the Purbeck 



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