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Gillett. A collection of bones of Iguanodon and Goniopholis, with 

 a, few fish-reraains, from the Wealden of Sussex, was purchased 

 from Mr. Charles Da wson. The type-specimens of Tritylodon and 

 JRhytidosteus from the Stormberg Beds, Orange River Colony, 

 were obtained by exchange with the Bloernfontein Museum. A 

 unique uncrushed skull of Loxomma allmanni, from the Coal 

 Measures of Coalbrookdale, was presented by Mr. George Maw. 



Numerous fossil fishes from the Upper Cretaceous of the 

 Lebanon (E. R. Lewis Coll.) and from the Kimmeridgian of 

 Cirin, Ain, France, were purchased from Mr. R. Damon. A 

 gigantic fish-spine from the Carboniferous Limestone of Bristol, 

 described by Mr. J. W. Davis under the name of Phoderacanthus 

 grandis, was presented by the Earl of Ducie. The type-specimen 

 of Atherstonia scutata, from the Karoo Formation of Cape Colony, 

 was presented by the Hon. W. Guybon Atherstone. 



A valuable miscellaneous collection of fossils, chiefly British, 

 was presented by Mr. Charles Westendarp. Some Greensancl 

 fossils from Blackdown were presented by Mr. W. Vicary. Car- 

 boniferous and Devonian fossils from Devonshire were presented 

 by Mr. J. E. Lee. Lower Carboniferous fossils from Scotland 

 {James Armstrong Coll.) were presented by Prof. T. C. Archer. 

 .Silurian and Cambrian fossils from Wales were presented by Dr. 

 H. Hicks. Eocene Ostracoda were presented by Prof. J . Morris ; 

 Post-Tertiary Ostracoda from the Clyde, by Dr. D. Robertson. 



A continuation of the Gardner Collection of Lower Tertiary 

 plants, with a series of other British Cretaceous and Tertiary 

 fossils, was acquired by purchase. 



Total number of acquisitions, 10,011. 



1885. 



The most important acquisition of this year was the extensive 

 collection made by Mr. John Edward Lee and presented by him 

 to the Museum. A miscellaneous collection was also presented 

 by Prof, (afterwards Sir) Joseph Prestwich. 



Pleistocene Mammalia from the Cae Gwyn and Ffynnoii 

 Beuno Caves, Vale of Clwyd, were presented by Dr. Henry 

 Hicks and Mr. E. B. Luxmoore; from the Coygau Cave, 

 Carmarthenshire, by Dr. Hicks ; from Windy Knoll and the 

 Creswell Caves, Derbyshire, by Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins. Part 

 of the upper jaw of a young Elephas from the Creswell Caves 

 was also presented by Mr. A. T. Metcalfe. Bones of Pleistocene 



