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1879. 



A bequest from the late Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, Bart., 

 added many important British fossils and some Tertiary shells 

 from Italy. The purchase of the collection of English Chalk 

 fossils made by Mr. J. Rand Capron, also formed a valuable 

 acquisition this year. 



A skull of Bos primigenius from Ilford was acquired by 

 purchase. Four teeth of Ovibos moscJiatus from Thames deposits 

 near Crayford, Kent, were presented by Mr. R. W. Cheadle. A 

 series of vertebrate remains and freshwater shells, obtained by a 

 Committea from the caverns of Borneo, was presented by the 

 Council of the British Association. 



Numerous fossil Invertebrata from Australia were presented 

 by Mr. R. L. Jack, Mr. H. Y. Lyell Brown, and the executor of 

 Mr. Richard Daintree. Some Lower Silurian Graptolites from 

 Victoria, described by Mr. R. Etheridge (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 1876), were purchased from Mr. Philip Ewen. 



Some Tertiaiy Mollusca from the Upper Amazons, described 

 by Mr. Etheridge (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxxv., 1878), 

 were presented by Mr. C. Barrington Brown. 



Additional fossil plant-remains from Austria, including some 

 type-specimens, were purchased from Baron von Ettingshausen. 



Total number of acquisitions, 4555. 



1880. 



The largest accession this year was due to the transfer of 

 about 50,000 non-British fossils from the Museum of Practical 

 Geology, Jermyn Street. 



The type mandibular ramus of Ohoeropotamus cuvieri, from the 

 Eocene of Seafield, Isle of Wight, was presented by Rev. W. D. 

 Fox. Some Pleistocene Mammalian remains from San Angelo, 

 Mexico, were presented by Mr. Patrick Geddes. 



The type-skeleton of Dinornis parvus, from New Zealand, was 

 purchased from Mr. W. J. Upton. The skull of Argillornis 

 longipennis, a bird from the London Clay of Sheppey, was 

 purchased from Mr. W. H. Shrubsole. 



The type-skull of the horned tortoise, Miolania oweni, from 

 the Pleistocene of Queensland, was presented, with associated 

 vertebrate remains, by Mr. G. F. Bennett. A nodule of Lower 

 Lias from Bennington, containing part of a skeleton of Plesio- 



