242 Geology. 



1889. 



The most important acquisition this year was a series of 

 Lower Pliocene Mammalia from the Island of Samos, collected 

 by Dr. C. I. Forsyth Major and sold by him to the Trustees. 

 A valuable collection of fossils from the Eocene and Jurassic of 

 Madagascar, illustrating a paper by Mr. R. B. Newton (Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xlv., 1889), was presented by Rev. R. Baron. 

 Miscellaneous collections of British fossils were presented by 

 Mr. Frederick Harford and Mr. George Clifton ; and another 

 was purchased from Mrs. Baber. 



A plaster cast of the type-specimen of Phenacodus primsevus, 

 from the Lower Eocene of Wyoming, was purchased from Prof. 

 E. D. Cope. A plaster cast of a skull and mandible of Brontops 

 robustus, from the Eocene of Wyoming, was presented by Prof. 

 O. C. Marsh. Remains of Pleistocene Mammalia from the 

 Bench Cavern, Brixham, near Torquay, were purchased from 

 Mr. W. Else. A molar of ElepJtas meridionalis from Dewlish, 

 Dorset, was presented by Mr. J. C. Mansel-Pleydell. An antler 

 of an elk from Cleveland, Yorkshire, was presented by the 

 Christy Trustees. A mandible of Elephas primigenius from 

 Siberia (Cattley Collection) and a skull of Rhytina from Behring 

 Island, were acquired by purchase. 



Additional bones of Wealden Dinosaurs from Sussex were 

 purchased through Mr. Charles Dawson. Remains of Ophthal- 

 mosaurus, Metriorhynchus, and Steneosaurus, from the Oxford 

 Clay of Peterborough, were presented by Mr. Alfred N. Leeds. 

 A specimen of Ichthyosaurus intermedius, from the Lower Lias 

 of Barrow-on-Soar, showing the integument of the paddle, was 

 presented by Mr. Montagu Browne. 



A unique group of Cephalaspis murchisoni from the Ledbury 

 Passage Beds, and Cephalaspidian remains from the same forma- 

 tion, were presented by Mr. G. H. Piper. Large specimens 

 of Rhinobatus bugesiacus and Hypsocormus insignis, from the 

 Bavarian Lithographic Stone, were purchased from Mr. B. 

 Stiirtz. Fish-teeth from the Upper Cretaceous and Eocene of 

 Belgium were presented by Mr. Houzeau de Lehaie. Three 

 specimens of Priscacara, from the Green River Shales, Wyoming, 

 were presented by Mr. T. A. Rickard. Portions of the Rhsetic 

 bone-bed from Aust, with fish-remains, were presented by Mr. 

 Spencer G. Perceval. 



Palaeozoic and Tertiary fossils from Australia and Tasmania 



