396 Minerals. 



basaltic lavas, limestones, etc., from Java : collected by Dr. 

 T. Horsfield in 1816. 



A large collection of schists, slates, granites, etc., 

 from Kumaon and southern Tibet, made by Captain 

 (afterwards Lieut.-Gen. Sir) R. Strachey, illustrating the 

 geology of part of the Himalayas. (See Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc., 1851, vol. vii, p. 292.) 



Collections of basalts (the Deccan traps), laterite, etc., 

 from Bombay, made by Colonel W. H. Sykes and by 

 Dr. G. Buist. 



A series of specimens (limestones, sandstones, slates, etc.), 

 illustrating the geology of the Punjab Salt Range and of the 

 Cashmere Hills : collected by Dr. A. Fleming about 1853. 



A series of rock-specimens collected by the brothers 

 (Hermann, Adolph and Robert von) Schlagintweit when 

 on a scientific mission to India and High Asia, between the 

 years 1854-58. 



1880. 



Total acquisitions 41, including: 



A collection of basaltic rocks from the neighbourhood of 

 Burntisland and Kinghorn, Fifeshire : presented by Mr. W. 

 Carruthers, F.R.S. 



1881. 



Total acquisitions 382, including : 



An illustrative series of the rocks constituting Dr. Hicks's 

 three divisions of his Pre-Cambrian Group of St. Davids ; and a 

 collection illustrating his papers on the Pre-Cambrian rocks of 

 Ross-shire : presented by Dr. Henry Hicks, F.R.S. [The micro- 

 scopic characters of these rocks were described by Mr. T. Davies 

 in appendices to papers by Dr. Hicks. See Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc., 1878, vol. xxxiv; 1879, vol. xxxv; and 1884, vol. xl; also 

 Geol Mag., 1880.] 



A series of specimens from the St. Gotthard Tunnel, with 

 geological tables and sections; collected by Dr. F. M. Stapff: 

 purchased. 



A collection of about 260 specimens of the basaltic and 

 trachytic lavas of Auvergne : purchased. 



A large slab of flexible sandstone from 60 miles west of 

 Delhi, India : purchased. 



