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Richmond, Surrey, were presented by Mr. Colette Homersham. 

 Palaeozoic fossils from South Africa were presented by Mr. W. 

 Carruthers ; from Western Australia, by Mr. E. T. Hardman. 

 Mesozoic fossils from the Lake Eyre District were presented by 

 the Director of the Geological Survey of South Australia. 

 Tertiary fossils, chiefly Mollusca, from the Murray River, near 

 Adelaide, South Australia, were presented by Mr. William 

 Evans. Eocene Mollusca found between Cap d'Ailly and 

 Dieppe, were presented by Colonel L. Worthington Wilmer. 

 Oligocene fossils collected by Mr. Henry Keeping in the Isle of 

 Wight were presented by the Council of the Royal Society. 

 Post-Tertiary shells from the Solomon Isles were presented by 

 Mr. H. B. Guppy and Dr. H. B. Brady. Carboniferous 

 Crinoids and a specimen of Pentacrinus fossilis figured in 

 Buckland's " Bridgewater Treatise " were presented by Rev. 

 Canon J. E. Jackson. 



Fossil plants collected by Mr. R. Kidston from the Somerset- 

 shire Coal Measures were presented by the Council of the Royal 

 Society. 



Total number of acquisitions, 8370. 



1888. 



A second selection from the collection of the late Dr. Thomas 

 Wright was purchased from a dealer. Another valuable general 

 collection of British fossils, including some almost unique Chalk 

 fishes, was purchased from Mr. Frederick Harford. A collection 

 of Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils, chiefly from Sussex, was 

 presented by Mr. P. E. Coombe. 



An important series of Mammalian remains, collected by 

 Dr. Hans Pohlig in the Lower Pliocene deposits of Maragha, 

 Persia, was purchased from a dealer. A carapace and other 

 remains of Glyptodon, from the Pampa formation of Buenos 

 Ayres, were also acquired by purchase. A model in papier 

 mache of the skeleton of Dinoceras mirabile, from the Eocene of 

 Wyoming, U.S.A., was presented by Prof. O. C. Marsh. A fine 

 last lower molar of Mastodon angustidens, from the Red Crag of 

 Foxall, Suffolk, was purchased from Mr. G. C. E. Ker. 



Additional bones of Wealden Dinosaurs from Sussex were 

 purchased through Mr. Charles Dawson. Footprints of Iguano- 

 don from Hastings (figured Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. x., 

 1854), were presented by Mr. S. H. Beckles. An imperfect 



