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Malta, from Mr. J. H. Cooke ; Cretaceous Invertebrata from 

 the Lebanon, from Rev. C. H. V. Gollmer. Trilobites from the 

 Culm Measures near Barnstaple were presented by Mr. J. G. 

 Handling ; from the Silurian of Mount Stephen, British Columbia, 

 by Mr. George de Wolf. Lower Pliocene Mollusca from North 

 Italy, noticed by Gwyn Jeffreys (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 

 vol. xl., 1884), were presented by Colonel God win- Austen. 

 Pleistocene Mollusca from the Rubble Drift of Portland and 

 Sangatte (France), were presented by Rev. R. Ashington Bullen. 

 Non-marine Mollusca from deposits near London, were presented 

 by Dr. Frank Corner. Tertiary Mollusca from Australia and 

 Tasmania were purchased from Mr. R. F. Damon. Jurassic and 

 Cretaceous Echinoids from France were purchased from Mr. 

 A. Michalet. The late Mr. G. W. Shrubsole's Collection of 

 Palaeozoic Polyzoa was presented by Mr. George Shrubsole. 



Plant-remains from the Miocene lignites of the Siebengebirge, 

 near Bonn, were purchased from Mr. B. Stiirtz. 



Total number of acquisitions, 16,262. 



1897. 



Mr. A. C. Savin's Collection of Vertebrata, chiefly Mammalia, 

 from the Forest Bed Series of Norfolk, was acquired by purchase. 

 A second instalment of Dr. Forsyth Major's Collection of Lower 

 Pliocene Mammalia from Olivola was also purchased. Remains 

 of pigmy elephants obtained by Dr. Hans Pohlig from the 

 caverns of Sicily, were purchased from Dr. F. Krantz. Some 

 jaws of Rodentia from the Fish River Caves, Blue Mountains, 

 New South Wales, were presented by Mr. H. Spearing. Limb- 

 bones of Genyornis newtoni from Mulligan Springs, South 

 Australia, were received in exchange from Prof. E. C. Stirling. 



Important remains of Reptilia from the Oxford Clay of 

 Peterborough, were purchased from Mr. Alfred N. Leeds. Jaws 

 of Euskelesaurus and other remains from the Karoo Formation of 

 South Africa (described in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 

 vol. xiv., 1894), were presented by Prof. H. G. Seeley. A 

 specimen of Rhamphorhynchus gemmingi, showing the palate, 

 from the Lithographic Stone of Eichstiidt, was purchased from 

 Dr. F. Krantz. 



Specimens of Atlierstonia and other Palseoniscid fishes from 

 the Karoo Formation of South Africa, were presented by Prof. 

 H. G. Seeley, Mr. T. J. Haughton, and Mr. S. Kemper. 



