404 Minerals. 



A series of rock-specimens from the Bolivian Andes : collected 

 and presented by Sir W. Martin Conway. [Described by Prof. 

 T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., in Sir Martin Conway's The Bolivian 

 Andes, London, 1901, appendix, pp. 366-386.] 



1902. 



Total acquisitions 1155, including : 



A series of rock -specimens, including granites, basalts and 

 phonolitic rocks from Cape Adare, siliceous slates and grits 

 from Duke of York Island, and basalts from Franklin Island, 

 Mount Terror, etc. : collected by the Antarctic Expedition of 

 the Southern Cross, under Mr. C. E. Borchgrevinck : presented 

 by Sir George Newnes, Bart. [Described by Mr. G. T. Prior 

 in the Report on the Collections made by the Southern Cross 

 Antarctic Expedition, published by the Trustees of the British 

 Museum, 1902.] 



A large collection of ferruginous schists, phonolitic rocks, 

 basalts, nephelinites, etc., from the Uganda Protectorate : pre- 

 sented by Sir Harry H. Johnston, G.C.M.G. [Described by 

 Mr. G. T. Prior in Mineralogical Magazine, 1903, "vol. xiii, pp. 

 228-263.] 



Collections of rock-specimens (with microscopic sections) from 

 the Malverns, north Wales and Cornwall, illustrating papers in 

 the Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. : presented by Mr. F. Rutley. 



Microscopic sections of rocks from St. Davids, illustrating 

 papers of Dr. Henry Hicks, F.R.S. in the Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc. : presented by his widow. 



1903. 



Total acquisitions 278, including : 



A collection of rock-specimens from the Assynt district, 

 Sutherlandshire : presented by the Director of the Geological 

 Survey of Great Britain and Ireland. 



A small collection of rock-specimens from New South Wales : 

 presented by the Department of Mines and Agriculture of 

 New South Wales. 



A series of rock-specimens from Ashantee : collected and 

 presented by Mr. N. Samuel. 



A collection of 73 specimens illustrating the effects of 

 contact-metamorphism : purchased. 



