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from Muddy Creek, Victoria, were presented by Mr. J. Dennant. 

 Fossil Mollusca from Greenland were purchased from Mr. E. 

 Whymper. Two blocks of Eozoon canadense were presented by 

 the Director of the Geological Survey of Canada. London Clay 

 Foraminifera were purchased from Mr. C. D. Sherborn. The 

 type-specimens of Necroscilla wilsoni and Eoscorpius anglicus, from 

 the Coal Measures, were presented by Mr. Edward Wilson. 



Tertiary plants collected by Mr. J. S. Gardner in the Island 

 of Mull and Ireland, were presented by the Council of the Royal 

 Society. Similar plants from Bournemouth and Alum Bay, 

 England, and Chiavon, Italy, were purchased from Mr. J. S. 

 Gardner. Tertiary plants from Greenland were purchased from 

 Mr. E. Whymper. 



Total number of acquisitions, 37,821. 



1887. 



Valuable additions to the collection of British fossils were 

 made by the purchase of selections from the collections of the 

 late Dr. Harvey B. Holl, Dr. Thomas Wright, and Mr. Caleb 

 Evans. 



A few more mammalian remains from the Siwalik Forma- 

 tion of Perim Island were presented by Col. J. W. Watson. A 

 human calvaria, found in excavations for the docks at Tilbury, 

 was presented by Mr. Donald S. Baynes. 



Some feathers of Dinornis from New Zealand were purchased 

 from Sir Walter Buller. Part of a skeleton of Dinornis struthioides 

 was presented by Mr. N. Chevalier. 



Additional Dinosaurian bones from the Wealden of Sussex 

 were purchased through Mr. Charles Dawson. Some Dinosaurian 

 bones from the Karoo Formation of S. Africa, Euskelesaurus and 

 Orosaurus, Huxley (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxiii., 1867), 

 were presented by Prof. T. H. Huxley. 



A few Cephalaspidian fishes from the Ledbury Passage Beds 

 were presented by Mr. G. H. Piper. Elasmobranch teeth from 

 the Carboniferous Limestone of Ticknall, Derbyshire, were pur- 

 chased from Mr. Edward Wilson. The type-specimen of Holo- 

 centrum melitense, from the Miocene of Malta, was purchased 

 from the Duke of Argyll. Some nodules containing fishes, from 

 Glacial Clay, Bindalen, Norway, were presented by Mr. Henry 

 Tryon. 



Miscellaneous rocks and .fossils from a deep boring at 



