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were presented by Mr. (now Sir) C. Purdon Clarke. Some 

 Silurian fossils from the collection of the late Mr. John Gray, 

 of Hagley, were purchased from Mr. F. H. Butler. Tremadoc 

 fossils from Shineton, Shropshire, were purchased from Mr. Henry 

 Keeping. Cephalopoda from the Muschelkalk near Hallstatt 

 were purchased through Dr. E. von Mojsisovics. Paris Eocene 

 Mollusca were presented by Mr. E. de Boury, and Barton 

 Clay Mollusca by Mr. R. Etheridge. Pliocene Mollusca from 

 Florida were presented by Mr. Joseph Willcox. Marine 

 Mollusca from British Glacial deposits were presented by Mr. 

 R. D. Darbishire. Non-marine Mollusca from the Barnwell 

 Gravels, Cambridge, were presented by Rev. E. S. Dewick. 

 Scolithus and Arenicolites from the Cambrian of Durness were 

 presented by the Duke of Argyll. Fossil corals from Barbados 

 were presented by Colonel H. W. Feilden. Microscope-sections 

 of Foraminiferal and other skeletons, illustrating some of his own 

 papers, were presented by Mr. H. J. Carter. Nummulites from 

 Mentone were presented by Mr. E. B. Luxmoore. 

 Total number of acquisitions, 10,192. 



1890. 



The most important acquisitions this year were a first 

 instalment of a collection of Oxfordian Reptilia, purchased from 

 Messrs. Alfred N. and Charles E. Leeds, and a first instalment 

 of a collection of Wealden Plants purchased from Mr. P. J. 

 Rufford. The second instalment of Dr. Forsyth Major's collection 

 of Lower Pliocene Mammalia from Samos was also purchased. 

 The late Mr. Robert Damon's collection illustrating his " Geology 

 of Weymouth and the Isle of Portland," and additional British 

 fossils from the Gavey and Thomas Wright Collections, were 

 acquired by purchase. Miscellaneous British fossils were pre- 

 sented by Mrs. Leifchild. The Goldenberg Collection, chiefly 

 from the Lower Permian of Rhenish Prussia, was purchased 

 from Prof. Schenk of Leipzig. The McCormick Collection of 

 fossils from the Arctic Regions, Madeira, Kerguelen Land, the 

 Falkland Islands, and Tasmania, was received as a bequest. 

 Miscellaneous Tertiary and Post-Tertiary fossils from Barbados 

 were presented by Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne. 



Mammalian remains from a Turbary at Walthamstow were 

 presented by Mr. J. E. Greenhill. A few bones and teeth of 

 Rhinoceros and other remains from surface deposits, Sarawak, 



