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Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxxix., 1883), was presented by Mr. E. Clemin- 

 shaw. Plaster casts of Khamphorhynchus phyllurus and a femur 

 of Atlantosaurus immanis were presented by Prof. O. C. Marsh. 



Some Pteraspidian fishes, including the type -specimen of 

 Holaspis sericeus, from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of 

 Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, were presented by Dr. D. M. 

 MacCullough. The type-specimens of Semionotus capensis from 

 the Stormberg beds (Trias or Rhsetic) of South Africa were 

 presented by Dr. Hugh Exton. Lower Carboniferous fishes from 

 Eskdale (Jex Coll.) and Upper Cretaceous fishes from the 

 Lebanon (Lewis Coll.) were purchased from Mr. R. Damon. 



Brachiopoda from the Wenlock Shale of Shropshire were 

 presented by Mr. J. F. Walker. Graptolites and micro-sections 

 of tabulate corals were purchased from Prof. H. A. Nicholson. 

 Devonian star-fishes from Bundenbach, Rhenish Prussia, were 

 purchased from Mr. F. Braun. Corals and Stromatoporoids 

 from the Devonian of Torquay were presented by Mr. E. B. 

 Luxmoore. Carboniferous corals from Northumberland were 

 presented by Prof. H. A. Nicholson. A few bivalved shells from 

 the Coal Measures of Staffordshire, were presented by Mr. John 

 Ward. Some Liassic insects were presented by Rev. P. B. 

 Brodie. A collection of Post-Tertiary fossils from the Clyde was 

 presented by Dr. David Robertson. 



Total number of acquisitions, 14,575. 



1884. 



The second portion of the collection of fossil Mammalia from 

 the Oligocene Phosphorites of Caylux and other localities in 

 S. France, was purchased from Mr. B. Stiirtz. A plaster cast of 

 the restored skeleton of Halitherium schinzi, from the Lower 

 Miocene of Hesse Darmstadt, was purchased from Prof. R. 

 Lepsius. Marsupial bones from river deposits in King's Creek, 

 Queensland, were presented by Mr. C. H. Hartmann. Mammalian 

 remains from Pen Park Cave, Westbury-on-Trym, were presented 

 by Mr. Spencer G. Perceval. The type-tooth of Macacus pliocenus 

 from Grays, Essex, and other Mammalian remains, were presented 

 by Sir Richard Owen. The parts of a human skeleton, described 

 by Owen, from Thames mud at Tilbury Docks, were presented 

 by the Directors of the E. and W. India Docks Co. 



A fine skeleton of Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris, from the Lower 

 Lias of Street, Somersetshire, was presented by Mr. Alfred 



