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microscope-sections, purchased from his executors. A unique 

 collection of remains of fossil birds from the Santa Cruz 

 formation of Patagonia, described by C. W. Andrews (Trans. 

 Zool. Sac., vol. xv., 1899), was purchased from Dr. Florentine 

 Ameghino. The residue of the late Sir Joseph Prestwich's 

 Collection, including flint implements, was presented by Lady 

 Prestwich. A large selection from the Collection of the late 

 Mr. "W. Pengelly was presented by Mrs. Pengelly. A selection 

 from the late Mr. T. J. Slatter's Collection of Jurassic fossils, 

 with a few Mammalian remains from Evesham, was purchased 

 from Miss P. Slatter. 



A valuable collection of Mammalian remains, with a few 

 lower organisms, from the White River Formation of Dakota, 

 U.S.A., was purchased through Prof. W. B. Scott. Bone-breccia, 

 with remains of Burrantys, Perameles, &c., from the Wombeyan 

 Caves, New South Wales, was presented by Dr. R. Broom. A 

 skull of Bos primifjenius from Twickenham was presented by Dr. 

 J. R. Leeson. 



A nearly complete skeleton of one individual of Dinornis 

 maximus from New Zealand was purchased from Mr. C. A. 

 Ewen. 



A few additional Reptilia from the Oxford Clay of Peter- 

 borough were purchased from Mr. Alfred N. Leeds. Remains 

 of Microsauria from the Coal Measures, South Joggins, Nova 

 Scotia, were presented by Sir J. William Dawson. Some remains 

 of Reptiles and Fishes from the Cretaceous near Bahia, Brazil, 

 were presented by Mr. Joseph Mawson. 



Specimens of Palseospondylus and other Fishes from the Old 

 Red Sandstone of Caithness, were presented by Mr. James Reid. 

 An important small collection of fish-remains from the Upper 

 Old Red Sandstone of Scaat Craig, Elgin, was purchased from 

 Major Lambart Brickenden. Three specimens of Cladoselache 

 from the Upper Devonian of Ohio (William Clark Collection), 

 were purchased from Prof. E. W. Claypole. 



Miscellaneous fossils from the Rhsetic, Aust Cliff", were pur- 

 chased from Mr. F. Ellis. Invertebrata from the Lower Lias of 

 Somersetshire were presented by Mr. Spencer G. Perceval ; 

 from the Gault of Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, by Miss Lowndes. 

 Fossils from the Salt Range, India, were presented by Mr. F. G. 

 Brook Fox ; from Somaliland, by Mrs. E. Lort Phillips. Lower 

 Carboniferous Invertebrata from Mjatschkowa, Moscow, were 

 purchased from Mr. R. F. Damon ; Miocene Invertebrata from 



