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1884-1885. Irrespective of a number of specimens set aside as duplicates, 

 not less than 3700, referable to 1300 species, were incorporated 

 in the National Museum, and of these more than one-third (490) 

 were new additions, if not to science, at any rate to the Museum. 

 The descriptive part of the volume consists of 684 pages and is 

 illustrated with 54 plates. 



The Catalogue of Birds made progress, two volumes being 

 published : 



Catalogue of Birds. Vol. 9. By H. Gadow. Pp. 310, with 

 10 plates. 1884. 



Catalogue of Birds. Vol. 10. By R. Bowdler Sharpe. 

 Pp. 682, with 12 plates. 1885. 



Mr. Boulenger resumed, immediately after the receipt of the 

 Reptile collection in the Spirit Building, the preparation of the 

 second edition of the Catalogue of Lizards, which he had com- 

 menced before the removal, and passed two volumes through the 

 press. This work will be referred to later (1887 : see p. 70). 



Finally, the Director, Sir W. H. Flower, prepared a " List of 

 Cetacea," pp. 36. 1885. 



GROWTH OP THE COLLECTION. 

 (1884-85.; 



The additions in these two years amounted to 168,932 

 specimens, mostly donations. The year 1885, in which 123,358 

 were received, was approached as regards number of accessions 

 by two only of the previous years, viz., 1863, memorable for 

 Mr. John Bowring's donation of his collection of Coleoptera, 

 and 1866, in which year the Trustees purchased the Cuming 

 Collection of Shells. 



Of the Challenger collections were received: 833 Shells, 

 1080 Brachyurous Crustaceans, 300 Cirripedes, 246 bottles of 

 Copepods, 486 Insects, 39 stalked Crinoids, 463 Worms, 

 53 Ceratose Sponges, 71 Calcareous Sponges, 874 slides of 

 Foraminifera, 90 slides of Orbitolites. 



The most extensive additions of these years were of Birds 

 and Insects : the collection made by Mr. Allan O. Hume, C.B., 

 comprised 63,000 Bird-skins, 19,000 eggs and nests, and 371 

 Mammals, all from the British Asian empire. During his 

 many years residence in India the donor had worked at the 

 perfecting of our knowledge of the Avifauna of British Asia 

 in a way not approached by any of his predecessors. He 

 organised a system under which numerous local observers 



