232 Geology. 



saurus noticed in Nichols' " History of Leicestershire," was pre- 

 sented by Major Harlowe Turner. A plaster cast of the type- 

 specimen of Plesiosaurus cramptoni, in the Dublin Museum, was 

 acquired by purchase. A Teleosaurian skull from the Upper 

 Lias of Whitby, and the type-specimen of Pelobatochelys Uakei, 

 from the Kimmeridge Clay of Weymouth, were purchased from 

 Prof. J. F. Blake. The type-skull of CMone gigas, from the 

 London Clay of Sheppey, was purchased from Mr. W. H. 

 Shrubsole. Eggs of turtles from a consolidated beach in the 

 Island of Ascension, were presented by Lieut. Haggard, R.N. 



The Weaver Jones Collection of Carboniferous and Old Red 

 Sandstone fish-remains from the West of England, was acquired 

 by purchase. Many well-preserved fishes collected by Mr. Jex in 

 the Lower Old Red Sandstone of Forfarshire, were purchased 

 from Mr. R. Damon. 



A large collection of English Cretaceous fossils was purchased 

 from Mr. J. S. Gardner. The James Armstrong Collection of 

 Lower Carboniferous fossils from the Glasgow district, was also 

 purchased. Some Tertiary fossils from Patagonia were presented 

 by Dr. R. W. Coppinger. Palaeozoic fossils from Bolivia were 

 presented by Mr. R. Inwards ; similar fossils from New South 

 Wales were presented by Prof. A. Liversidge; others from 

 Tasmania were purchased from Mr. P. J. Smith. A collection of 

 New Zealand fossils was purchased through Dr. (afterwards Sir 

 James) Hector. Devonian fossils from Belgium were purchased 

 from Mr. G. E. Gavey. A collection of Silurian Entomostraca 

 was purchased from Prof. T. Rupert Jones ; and a collection of 

 American Carboniferous Echinoderms, from Mr. R. Damon. 



An important collection of English Eocene plant-remains was 

 purchased from Mr. J. S. Gardner. Fossil wood and leaves from 

 the Mackenzie River, Canada, described by Prof. O. Heer, were 

 presented by the Council of the Royal Society. 



Total number of acquisitions, 55,496. 



1881. 



A few bones of Elephas, from the Pleistocene of Belgrade, 

 were purchased from Mr. E. M. Grant. 



Plaster casts of some detached bones of the type-specimens 

 of toothed birds (Hesperornis, Ichthyornis), from the Chalk of 

 Kansas, were presented by Prof. O. C. Marsh. 



Two remarkable skeletons of Neusticosaurus pusillus, collected 



