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antlers of Cervus elaphus, from tufa at Alport, near Bakewell, 

 Derbyshire, described by R. Barber (Phil. Tram., 1785, p. 353), 

 and subsequently by H. Woodward (Geol. Mag., 1898, p. 49, pi. ii.), 

 were presented by Mr. Frank S. Goodwin. A skull of Titano- 

 tlierium and a skull of Hysenodon Jiorridus from the White River 

 Formation of Dakota, were acquired by purchase. 



A restored skeleton of Pachyornis robustus from New Zealand 

 was purchased. 



Important remains of Iguanodon and other Wealden Dinosaurs 

 were contained in the Beckles Collection. Another instalment 

 of the Leeds Collection of Oxfordian Reptilia was purchased. 

 The supposed reptilian eggs, Ooliihes bathonicse, from the Great 

 Oolite, described by J. Buckman (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 

 vol. xvi.), were presented by the Earl of Ducie. 



Unique Chalk fishes were contained in the Beckles and 

 Hawkins Collections. A fine slab of Portheus, two specimens of 

 Empo, and one of Ichthyodectes, from the Chalk of Kansas, were 

 acquired by purchase. The Weston Collection of fishes from the 

 North Staffordshire coalfield was purchased. A few Devonian 

 fish-remains from Spitzbergen were presented by Dr. A. S. 

 Woodward. 



Some Palaeozoic fossils from the Falkland Islands were 

 presented by Dr. H. H. Hoffert. A series of Mesozoic and 

 Palaeozoic Entomostraca was purchased from Prof. T. Rupert 

 Jones. Two Tertiary Brachyurous Crustacea from Akita, 

 N. Japan, were presented by Mr. B. Clarke Thornhill. Fossil 

 insects from the Tertiary of Wyoming and Colorado were 

 presented by Mr. R. C. Hills. Jurassic Ammonites from 

 5omaliland were presented by Mr. J. G. Nicholson. Miocene 

 Mollusca from Java were presented by Mr. Julien Debey. 

 Pleistocene non-marine Mollusca from Brentford and Kew (Belt 

 Coll.), were presented by Mrs. Belt ; from Chelmsford and 

 Portland, by Mr. B. B. Woodward; from Whitehall, by Mr. 

 W. J. Lewis Abbott. Pleistocene Mollusca from N. Italy and 

 S. France, were presented by Mr. Clement Reid. An important 

 collection of Devonian Echinoderma, especially Asteroidea and 

 Ophiuroidea, from Bundenbach, Rhenish Prussia, was purchased 

 from Mr. B. Sttirtz, who had described many of the specimens. 

 A collection of Palaeozoic Crinoidea, including type- and figured 

 specimens, was purchased from Mr. J. G. Grenfell. Cretaceous 

 Echinoids from Algeria were purchased from Mr. B. Stiirtz. 

 Some Brachiopoda from the Inferior Oolite of Dorsetshire, were 



