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fine head of Ichthyosaurus platyodon, and other valuable remains 

 of reptiles and fishes from the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis, were 

 presented by Sir F. Seymour Haden. Eggs of turtles from a 

 consolidated beach in the Island of Ascension, were presented by 

 Surgeon T. Conry, R.N. 



Another selection from the collection of the late Prof. J. 

 Tennant, was purchased ; and numerous British fossils were 

 presented by Mrs. Burnett. Welsh Silurian and Cambrian 

 fossils were presented by Mr. David Homfray. Tertiary shells 

 from Dalmatia and Croatia, were presented by Prof. S. Brusina ; 

 from Bordighera, by Mr. J. G. Goodchild. Tertiary fossils from 

 Gippsland, Victoria, were presented by Mr. W. H. Grigson. 

 Mesozoic fossils from Japan, were presented by Prof. John 

 Milne ; from Bahia, Brazil, by Mr. Joseph Mawson. A large 

 collection of fossil Entomostraca and Foraminifera (including 

 Lonsdale's specimens from Portsdown), was purchased from 

 Prof. T. Rupert Jones. 



Another large collection of fossil plants from Austria was 

 purchased from Baron Constantin von Ettingshausen. 



Total number of acquisitions, 16,316. 



1883. 



The second and final instalment of the collection of the Earl 

 of Enniskillen was purchased. Among miscellaneous specimens, 

 this included a complete skeleton of the Irish Deer (Cervus 

 giganteus), and the type-specimen of Plesiosaurus macrocephalus 

 from the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis. 



A large selection from the series of remains of Pleistocene 

 Mammalia and implements collected by Mr. Pengelly while 

 exploring Kent's Cavern, Torquay, under the direction of a 

 Committee of the British Association, was presented by Lord 

 Haldon and the Council of the British Association. 



The first part of an important collection of fossil Mammalia 

 from the Oligocene Phosphorites of Caylux and other localities 

 in S. France, was purchased from Mr. B. Stiirtz. Remains of an 

 Irish Deer (Cervus giganteus) from Russia, were purchased from 

 Mr. P. A. Hoist. A carapace of the extinct armadillo, Hoplo- 

 phorus ornatus, from Buenos Ayres, was purchased from Mr. E. 

 Gerrard. 



Part of the upper jaw of Megalosaurus bucklandi, from the 

 Inferior Oolite of Sherborne, Dorset, described by Owen (Quart. 



