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C. F. Wills and Mr. Joseph H. Fenn, and through Mr. Edward 

 Gerrard. Among these fossils was the type-skull of Megaladapis 

 madagascariensis, described by Dr. Forsyth Major. 



Middle Miocene Mammalia from La Grive-St.-Alban (Isere), 

 France, were purchased from Dr. Forsyth Major. Mammalian 

 remains (with a few Mollusca), collected by Mr. J. H. Cooke in 

 the Har Dalam caverns, Malta, were presented by the Council of 

 the Royal Society. An important series of Pleistocene Mammalia 

 from Crayford and Erith, Thames Valley, was presented by Mr. 

 F. C. J. Spurrell. A mammalian tooth from the Wealden of 

 Hastings was presented by Sir John Evans. 



A skeleton of Aptornis defossor, found by Mr. W. S. Mitchell 

 at Castle Rock, South Island, New Zealand, was purchased from 

 Mr. A. Hamilton. Remains of Dinornithidffi, including scapulo- 

 coracoids, from New Zealand, were purchased from Dr. H. O. 

 Forbes. Remains of Aphanapteryx, from the Chatham Islands, 

 were purchased from Mr. E. Gerrard. Pleistocene bird-bones 

 from Corsica and Sardinia, described by Mr. R. Lydekker (Proc. 

 Zool. Soc., 1891), were purchased from Dr. Forsyth Major. 



The type-jaws of Pariasaurus russouioi, from the Karoo 

 Formation of South Africa, obtained and described by Prof. 

 H. G. Seeley, were presented by the Council of the Royal 

 Society. The type-skull of Steneosaurus baroni, R. B. Newton, 

 from the Jurassic of N. W. Madagascar, was presented by Rev. 

 R. Baron. Plaster casts of the type-specimens of Triassic Reptilia 

 from Elgin, described by Mr. E. T. Newton (Phil Trans., 1893), 

 were purchased. More Oxfordian Reptilia from the Leeds Col- 

 lection were purchased. Wealden Reptiles, Fishes, and Plants 

 were purchased from Mr. P. J. Rufford. 



A collection of Lower Devonian Fishes, with a few Crustacean 

 and Plant-remains, from Forfarshire, was purchased from Rev. 

 Hugh Mitchell. Some Lower Carboniferous Elasmobranch teeth 

 from Mjatschkowa, Moscow, were also purchased. The largest 

 known dentition of Myliobatis (M. pentoni), from the Eocene near 

 Cairo, was presented by Surg.-Capt. R. H. Penton. 



A large series of Silurian fossils from Gotland was collected 

 and presented by Dr. F. A. Bather. Remains of Olenellus from 

 the Lower Cambrian, Caer Caradoc, were purchased from Mr. 

 R. F. Damon. Gault Ostracoda and Foraminif era were purchased 

 from Mr. F. Chapman. Some Cephalopoda from the Carboni- 

 ferous Limestone of Ireland were presented by Dr. A. H. Foord. 

 Inferior Oolite Nautili were purchased from Mr. S. S. Buckman. 



