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CATALOGUES. 

 (1894-95.) 



The following Catalogues were published : 1894-1895 



Catalogue of Birds. Vol. 23. By R. Bowdler Sharpe. 



Pp. 353, with 9 plates. 1894.* 



Catalogue of Birds. Vol. 27. By T. Salvadori. Pp. 636, 

 with 19 plates. 1895. 



Catalogue of Fishes. Second edition. Vol. I. By G. A. 

 Boulenger. Pp. 394, with 15 plates. 1895. 8. 



Descriptive Catalogue of the Spiders of Burma. By T. 

 Thorell. Pp. 406. 1895. 8. 



GROWTH OF THE COLLECTION. 



(1894-95.) 



The number of specimens acquired in these two years was 

 103,557 ; of these 59,000 were received as donations, and 66,559 

 were Insects. The accessions to the Mammalia were 2212, among 

 them some 126 types, besides many others not previously repre- 

 sented in the Museum. Among the chief contributors were the 

 late Lord Lilford, who presented 142 specimens from various 

 parts of Europe ; Lieut. -Col. J. W. Yerbury, who presented 89 

 specimens from Aden ; and Surgeon-Major Jayakar, who continued 

 his previous gifts with 41 Mammalia from Muscat. In the East 

 Messrs. C. and E. Hose collected in Sarawak (72 specimens), 

 the late Mr. A. H. Everett at Balabac, Palawan, in North 

 Borneo and the -Natuna Islands (157 specimens), and the late 

 Mr. J. Whitehead in North Borneo and Luzon (71 specimens). 

 Of other collections may be mentioned : 



Another consignment from Nyassaland, presented by Sir 

 H. H. Johnston, comprising 26 Mammals, 183 Birds, 33 Reptiles, 

 50 Arachnids and 744 Insects. 



Mr. G. F. Scott-Elliot presented, besides various specimens of 

 vertebrates and invertebrates, 700 Insects, all collected by him 

 during his travels in Eastern Central Africa. 



* After Vol. 23 the sequence of the publication of the remaining 

 volumes had to be broken as Mr. Sharpe had not succeeded in completing 

 the Wading Birds, on which he had been engaged since 1891, and which 

 he had anticipated finishing in 1893. The causes of his miscalculation are 

 explained by him in his Introduction to Vol. 24. As Messrs. Howard 

 Saunders, 0. Salvin and Ogilvie-Grant had undertaken to assist in the 

 production of Vols. 25 and 26, the speedy completion of this monumental 

 work of the British Museum was not expected to offer any further 

 difficulties. 



