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of the donor's name to the description of the specimen presented. 

 A list of Donors is placed at the end of this Catalogue, amongst 

 whom the following should be specially mentioned. Henry Cline, 

 Esq., a Member of the Council of the College, early contributed a 

 choice series of the skeletons and skulls of many of our native Mam- 

 mals. The numerous and valuable donations by Sir T. Stamford 

 Raffles, P.Z.S., include skeletons and parts of skeletons of rare Mam- 

 mals and Birds from the islands of the Indian Archipelago. The 

 liberal contributions by the Admiralty of specimens collected by the 

 Officers of the Northern Expeditions, especially by Captains Sir Ed- 

 ward Parry, C.B., Sir John Franklin, C.B., Sir James Clarke Ross, 

 C.B., and Sir John Richardson, M.D., have furnished many rare 

 and instructive additions of the osteology of Arctic Mammals. To 

 Robert McCormick, Esq., F.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Antarctic Expe- 

 dition, the ; M-useum is indebted for skeletons of some rare Antarctic 

 aiHtoaisj.:, Messrs. George and Frederic D. Bennett, Members of the 

 College, have increased the Mammalian, and more especially the 

 Ornithological series by their liberal donations of skeletons of Tro- 

 pical, Australian, and Marine species, collected during voyages in the 

 years 1834, 1835, and 1836. The -Zoological Society of London have 

 liberally added to the Osteological as well as to the other depart- 

 ments of Comparative Anatomy in the Museum. Sir Joseph Banks, 

 Bart, P.R.S., the late Sir Everard Home, Bart.,V.P.R.S., Governor Sir 

 George Grey, C.B., Dr. N. Wallich, F.R.S., Dr. Henderson, Dr. Leach, 

 F.L.S., Capt. Harris, Ronald Gunn, Esq., and William Bullock, Esq., 

 have also contributed, by donation, valuable additions to the Osteolo- 

 gical collection. 



Purchases have been effected whenever suitable opportunities pre- 

 sented themselves ; and have principally accrued from the Museums 

 of Messrs. Brookes, Heaviside, Langstaff, De la Fons, South, and 



