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Fossils from the neighbourhood of Nagpur, Central India, 

 were bequeathed by the late Rev. Dr. John Hunter; from 

 British Honduras, were presented by the Administrator of the 

 Colony ; from the Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Tertiary of Algeria, 

 were purchased from Mr. R. F. Damon. Lower Carboniferous 

 Invertebrata from the Pennine Hills and the Isle of Man were 

 presented by Messrs. J. Barnes and W. F. Holroyd; Lower Jurassic 

 Invertebrata from Somersetshire and Dorsetshire were purchased 

 from Mr. Henry Monk. Some Bohemian Trilobites from the 

 Barrande Collection were purchased from Dr. Anton Fritsch. 

 Tertiary and Cretaceous Mollusca from Galveston, Texas, were 

 purchased from Mr. J. A. Singley. The Worthen Collection of 

 American Palaeozoic Echinoderms, chiefly Blastoideaand Crinoidea, 

 was purchased. Polyzoa from the Irish Chalk were presented 

 by Mr. Joseph Wright ; other Cretaceous Polyzoa were presented 

 by Dr. H. P. Blackmore, Mr. C. J. A. Meyer, and Mr. H. A. 

 Hinton. A specimen of Nummulitic Limestone from Singhe La, 

 Himalaya, was presented by Mr. T. D. La Touche. 



Remains of the Glossopteris Flora from South Africa, described 

 by A. C. Seward (Quart. Journ. Geol Soc., vol. liii., 1897), were 

 presented by Mr. David Draper. 



Total number of acquisitions, 7562. 



1898. 



The most important collection acquired this year was that of 

 Fossil Insects made by the late Rev. P. B. Brodie, purchased 

 from his executor. The collection of the late Mr. G. H. Piper, 

 consisting chiefly of fossils from the Upper Silurian and Passage 

 Beds at Ledbury, was also purchased from his executor. A 

 nearly similar but comparatively small collection made by the 

 late Rev. T. T. Lewis, of Aymestry, was purchased from Mr. 

 T. Bryan Ward. The Castelli Collection, chiefly Tertiary fossils 

 from N". Italy, was purchased from Mr. R. F. Damon. 



Part of a skull of Balsena australis from a river deposit at 

 Villa Constitucion, on the Parana, Argentine Republic, was 

 presented by Mr. A. C. Gostling. Jaws of cave-bear from a 

 cavern at Isturitz, Bayonne, were presented by Mr. George 

 Greenwood. A tooth of Elasmotherium from Saratov, Russia, 

 was presented by Mr. Karl Masing. 



The skull and other remains of a bird (Proplisethon shrub- 

 solei, Andrews, Proc. ZooL Soc., 1899), from the London Clay of 



