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1875-1878. a poisoned arrow, the Museum lost one of its most zealous 

 contributors. 



4. The Museum was indebted to officers of the Royal Navy 

 for yet another important service. Rear- Admiral the Hon. 

 A. A. Cochrane, commanding on the Pacific Station, directed 

 Commander W. E. Cookson, of H.M.S. Petrel, to obtain, during 

 his visit to the Galapagos Islands, specimens of their Fauna, 

 especially the large Tortoises. In this Commander Cookson was 

 very successful, and the specimens were presented to the Trustees 

 by direction of Admiral Cochrane. 



5. A set of the specimens brought home by the expedition 

 of the Bremen Geographical Society to Western Siberia and 

 Turkestan was acquired by purchase. 



6. Mr. H. Batson Joyncr made valuable collections of Fishes, 

 Crustaceans and other marine animals during his residence at 

 Yokohama, and presented them to the Trustees. 



7. The second-best set of the conchological and ento- 

 mological collections, made by the late Dr. F. Welwitsch in 

 Angola, was delivered to the Trustees by the executors of the 

 collector, as from the King of Portugal, in accordance with the 

 decree of the High Court of Judicature, Nov. 17, 187o. 



8. Captain H. C. St. John, R.N., had continued his dredging 

 operations in the Japanese and Korean Seas since 1873, when his 

 first consignment of Shells was received. He presented in 1878, 

 again through Mr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, a much larger collection, 

 comprising marine animals of various classes. 



Beside specimens included in these mixed collections, further 

 consignments of Mammalia from Madagascar and Abyssinia were 

 purchased, including such valuable objects as skins and skeletons 

 of Rhinoceros keitloa, Kobus sing-sing, Lycaon, Orycteropus, etc. ; 

 44 Mammals from N.W. Borneo were obtained from Mr. (later 

 Sir) Hugh Low ; 54 from Cochin China were presented by 

 L. Pierre. Mr. C. G. Danford's Mammalia from Asia Minor, 

 Mr. Everett's from the Philippine Islands, and Mr. G. Brown's 

 from Duke of York Island, were purchased. 



For the Cetacean collection a unique series of Antarctic forms 

 (skulls or skeletons of Megaptera novse-Zealandise, male and female 

 Globiocephalus " macrorhynchus," Delphinus " fosteri," Mesoplodon 

 hectoris, Neobalsena marginata) were obtained by exchange. A 

 skeleton of Ziphius cavirostris from the Cape was purchased. 



Birds. The remainder of Mr. Sharpe's collection of African 

 Birds was purchased in several instalments, as were Dr. J. B. 

 Steere's Philippine Island Birds, which included 20 new species. 



