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Beds and Kimmeridge Clay, and numerous Crustacea, Echino- 

 derma, Mollusca, Brachiopoda, and Sponges, of which many were 

 type-specimens described in the Monographs of the Palseonto- 

 graphical Society. 



Numerous fossil Mammalia from the Red Crag of Suffolk 

 were purchased from Mr. E. Charlesworth. A natural cast of a 

 Sirenian brain, Eotherium aegyptiacum, from the Eocene of 

 Egypt, was presented by Prof, (afterwards Sir Richard) Owen. 

 Bones of ox, stag, wild-boar, and beaver from the excavations 

 for the Thames Embankment, Westminster, were presented by 

 the Metropolitan Board of Works. Marsupial remains from 

 Queensland and New South Wales were presented by Dr. George 

 Bennett and Mr. W. L. R. Gipps. 



Various described bones of Cnemiornis, Aptornis, and other 

 birds from the surface deposits of New Zealand, were pre- 

 sented by Prof. Owen. Bones of the Great Auk, discovered 

 by Prof. John Milne in Funk Island, off Newfoundland, were 

 purchased. 



A small, but valuable collection of Cretaceous fishes from 

 Mount Lebanon was purchased. 



An important collection of fossils from New Zealand, chiefly 

 Cretaceous and Cretaceo-Tertiary Invertebrata, was presented 

 by Dr. (afterwards Sir James) Hector. About 5000 English, 

 French, North German, and Austrian Tertiary Mollusca, from 

 the collection of the late F. E. Edwards, were purchased. 



Specimens of Glossopteris and silicified wood from New South 

 Wales were presented by Mr. W. L. R. Gipps. 



Total number of acquisitions, 10,711. 



1876. 



Some valuable collections of fossil Mammalia from caverns 

 were obtained this year. The results of the Brixham Cave 

 exploration, described in Phil. Trans. 1873, were presented by 

 the Council of the Royal Society. A few remains from the 

 Oreston Caves, near Plymouth (obtained by the late Mr. Joseph 

 Cottle of Bristol), were purchased. A large collection made by 

 the late Captain Fox Brome in caverns and fissures in the rock 

 of Gibraltar, described by Prof. Busk (Trans. Zool Soc., vol. x. 

 1877), was presented by the Governor of Gibraltar. 



A collection of Mammalian remains from the Middle Pur- 

 beck Beds, Durdlestone Bay, Dorsetshire, described in Owen's 



