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CATALOGUES. 

 (1875-78.) 



. Catalogue of the Chiroptera. By G. E. Dobson. Pp. xxxvi., 1875-1878. 

 567, with 30 plates. 1878. 8vo. Referred to above, p. 25. 



Catalogue of Birds. Vols. 2 and 3. By R. Bowdler Sharpe. 

 Vol. 2, pp. 325, with 14 plates. 1875. Vol. 3, pp. 343, with 

 14 plates. 1877. 



While Mr. Sharpe was occupied with the preparation of the 

 fourth volume of his Catalogue, it became evident that, unless 

 additional help was obtained, the progress of the work would be 

 unduly protracted, to the injury of the collection and of 

 Ornithology. Mr. Sharpe experienced so numerous and serious 

 interruptions by having to attend to other, chiefly routine duties, 

 as well as to the claims of the increasing number of visitors, 

 that he was unable to pay attention even to the exhibition- 

 series. Therefore Dr. Giinther decided to obtain, whenever 

 possible, the assistance of such Ornithologists as had paid special 

 attention to the study of the groups to be catalogued ; and the 

 Trustees entrusted the preparation of the fifth volume to 

 Mr. Henry Seebohm, who was then engaged in work on the 

 families of Warblers and Thrushes. 



Gigantic Land-Tortoises (living and extinct). By Dr. Giinther. 

 Pp. 96, with 55 plates. 1877. 4to. 



Based entirely upon the (then) unrivalled material in the 

 Museum, which afterwards formed a conspicuous feature of the 

 Reptile Gallery in the new Museum. 



Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa. By George Busk. Part 3. 

 Pp. 39, with 38 plates. 1875. 8vo. 



This was the concluding part of Mr. Busk's work on Polyzoa, 

 commenced twenty years previously. Another twenty years 

 elapsed before the collection, on which this catalogue was based, 

 was acquired by the British Museum. 



Catalogue of British Hymenoptera. Part 1. Andrenidae and 

 Apidee. By F. Smith. Pp. 236, with 11 plates. 1876. 8vo. 



A second edition of the catalogue of which the first edition 

 appeared in 1855. 



Illustrations of Typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera 

 in the Collection of the British Museum. Parts 1 and 2. By 

 A. G. Butler. Pp. 62 and 62, with 20 plates in each part. 

 1877, 1878. 



These parts were the commencement of a new series. It 



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