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Eocene Mollusca from the Paris Basin, formerly in the collection of 

 Miss Etheldred Benett, were presented by Mr. J. Benett-Stanford. 

 Miocene Mollusca from N. Carolina were presented by Mr. 

 Joseph Willcox. Additional Lower Devonian Asteroids from 

 Bundenbach were purchased from Mr. B. Stiirtz. Crinoids from 

 the Trenton Limestone were purchased from Dr. H. M. Ami. 

 Specimens of Palaeozoic Crinoidal limestone from N.W. of Cabul, 

 Afghanistan, were presented by Mr. A. L. Collins. The G-. R. 

 Vine Collection of Polyzoa and the W. Gamble Collection of 

 Cretaceous Polyzoa, were purchased. Specimens of Salterella 

 from the Lower Cambrian of Sutherland, were presented by the 

 Duke of Argyll. 



Two cores of Carboniferous sandstone and Carboniferous 

 plant-remains from the Dover boring were presented by Mr. 

 Francis Brady. Plants from the Forest of Dean Coalfield 

 were purchased from Mr. T. Stock. Remains of the Glossopteris 

 Flora from South Africa were presented by Mr. David Draper. 

 Two specimens of Arihrophycus, obtained by Mr. G. E. Ferguson, 

 probably from a Palaeozoic formation in the interior of Gold 

 Coast Colony, were presented by Prof. J. W. Judd. 



Total number of acquisitions, 11,948. 



1894. 



Two important general collections were acquired this year by 

 purchase, namely : (1) that of Prof, (afterwards Sir) Joseph 

 Prestwich from the Coal Measures of Coalbrookdale, and (2) 

 that of Mr. T. Jesson from the Cambridge Green sand. Two 

 extensive collections from the Cretaceous of Bahia, Brazil, were 

 presented by Mr. Samuel Allport and Mr. Joseph Mawson 

 respectively; the former had been described in the Quarterly 

 Journal of the Geological Society, 1859 ; the latter contained 

 the first evidence of Pterodactyls from South America. 



Lower Pliocene Mammalia from Samos, including a skull of 

 Orycteropm, were purchased from Mr. B. Stiirtz. A mandibular 

 ramns of Mastodon humboldti from Brazil was included in Mr. 

 Mawson's donation already mentioned. Miscellaneous bones of 

 Mammalia and Aepyornis from Madagascar, were purchased from 

 Messrs. J. H. Fox & Co., E. Gerrard, and J. T. Last. An antler 

 of Reindeer and a skull of Bison from Thames deposits at 

 Twickenham, were presented by Dr. J. R. Leeson and Mr. G. B. 

 Laffan. 



