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presented by Mr. J. F. Walker. A collection of slides of Polyzoa 

 and other minute organisms was purchased from Mr. G. R. Vine. 

 Fossil corals from Barbados were presented by Mr. G. Firth 

 Franks ; from Antigua, by Mrs. E. Turner. 



Fx>cene plants from Florissant, Colorado, were presented by 

 Mr. R. C. Hills. A few Wealden plants from Hastings were 

 purchased from Mr. P. J. Rufford. 



Total number of acquisitions, 15,211. 



1892. 



The Widger Collection of remains of Pleistocene Mammals 

 and Birds from the Tor Bryan Caves, Torquay, was purchased 

 from Mr. F. H. Butler. A similar collection from the Heathery 

 Burn Cave, Durham, was presented by Rev. Canon Green well. 

 A piece of skin of the Mammoth from Siberia was obtained by 

 exchange with the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. 



A plaster cast of the hind limb (without the phalanges) of 

 Brontornis burmeisterl, from Lake Argentine, Patagonia, was 

 presented by Dr. F. P. Moreno. Bones of Dodo from Mauritius 

 were presented by Sir Charles Cameron Lees. 



Among Reptilia the most important acquisitions were the 

 type-skeleton of Pariasaurus baini, an incomplete skeleton of 

 Pariasaurus bombidens, and other remains obtained by Prof. 

 H. G. Seeley from the Karoo Formation of South Africa, 

 presented by the Council of the Royal Society. A unique skull 

 with shoulder-girdle of Procolophon trigoniceps, from the same 

 formation, was presented by Dr. Hugh Exton. Remains of 

 Iguanodon, from the Wealden of Sussex, were again purchased 

 through Mr. Charles Dawson. Another instalment of the Leeds 

 Collection of Oxfordian Reptilia was purchased. Two complete 

 shells and other remains of Testudo grandidieri, from caverns in 

 Madagascar, were purchased from Mr. H. Grose-Smith. 



The portion of the Leeds Collection purchased this year 

 included many important fish-remains from the Oxford Clay of 

 Peterborough. Two Jurassic fishes (Lycoptera sinensis) from 

 Shantung, China, were presented by Mr. H. M. Becher. The 

 John Plant Collection of fish-remains from the Coal Measures, 

 near Manchester, was purchased. Important fishes from the 

 Devonian of Canada, and fragments of Pteraspis comnbica 

 from the Devonian of Cornwall, all collected by Mr. Jex, were 

 purchased from Mr. R. F. Damon. Selachian teeth from the 



