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and on his return presented the Museum not only with a pair of 1891-1892. 

 Bison, but also with specimens of the Ibex, Chamois, Stag, etc. 



Dr. J. Anderson, F.R.S., presented a complete series of 

 Mammals collected during his exploration of the Fauna of Egypt 

 (130 specimens). 



Three perfect skeletons of adult and in every respect remark- 

 able Cetaceans were purchased, viz., of the Right Whale of the 

 North Atlantic (Balsena biscayensis), the species hunted and 

 nearly exterminated by the Basques between the twelfth and 

 sixteenth centuries) for 160; of the North Pacific Grey Whale 

 (Ehachianectes glaucus), of which no specimen had previously 

 reached Europe, for 80 : and of Sibbald's Fin- Whale (Balseno- 

 ptera sibbaldii), eighty feet long, with the baleen, for 178 10s. 



The zoological specimens collected and presented by the late 

 Sir G. Baden-Powell. They were obtained by him on the occasion 

 of his visit to Bering's Sea, and include a set of skins and 

 skeletons of the Fur Seal of the Prybilow Islands. 



Further accessions of Birds from the collections of Messrs. 

 Godman and Salvin, Seebohm, and Howard Saunders numbered 

 18,045 specimens; 1042 Chilian birds were presented by Mr. 

 H. B. James shortly before his death. 



The ninth and tenth instalments of Central American Cole- 

 optera (18,935 specimens) were presented by Messrs. Godman and 

 Safai*. 



The Rev. H. S. Gorham's Collection of Endomychidse, con- 

 sisting of 790 specimens, inclusive of 91 types, was purchased 

 for 40. 



Part of Mr. F. Moore's collection of Indian Lepidoptera, 

 belonging to the groups of Limnaina and Euploeina, and con- 

 sisting of 926 specimens, inclusive of 90 types, was purchased 

 for 50. 



1498 Lepidoptera from N.W. India, selected from Major 

 H. C. Harford's collection, were presented by him. 



Mr. E. E. Green presented a selection of his collection of 

 Moths formed at Pundaloya, Ceylon ; it comprised 733 specimens, 

 all of which were desiderata to the Museum, and 225 represented 

 species hitherto undescribed. He accompanied this donation 

 with MS. notes on, and beautifully executed drawings of, the 

 metamorphoses of these insects, with the condition that a 

 comprehensive account should be given in Pt. 9 of the Illus- 

 trations of Lepidoptera Heterocera. Mr. (afterwards Sir George) 

 Hampsoii undertook this work gratuitously. 



4500 Coleoptera and 8000 Rhynchota selected from the 



