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instalment of his private collection of eggs, to the number of 

 4013, and 4534 specimens of Neotropical birds of the great 

 Salvin-Godman collection were received. A large collection, 

 1042 of birds from Chile, was bequeathed by the late Mr. H. 

 Berkeley James. 



During this year some notable additions were made to the 

 Museum collection, viz. : many interesting species obtained by 

 Dr. C. Hose and Mr. A. H. Everett in North-western Borneo, 

 rare species from New Zealand and the Chatham Islands, 

 collected by Dr. H. O. Forbes ; 78 birds from Dammar 

 Island in the Banda Sea, and in Northern Australia, procured 

 by Dr. P. W. Bassett-Smith during the voyage of H.M.S. 

 " Penguin." 



In this year, Sir Harry Johnston, who was then H.B.M. 

 Commissioner for British Central Africa, sent the first of a 

 long series of consignments from Nyasa Land. This collection, 

 described by Captain G. E. Shelley, contained 12 types of 

 new species, and added 15 species to the National Collection. 

 A consignment of 21 birds from the Island of Anguilla, 

 W.I., collected by Mr. Ramage, was presented by the West 

 Indian Committee of the Royal Society. 



Five hundred and two specimens from Nyasa Land were 

 presented by Sir Harry Johnston in 1893, and the first series 

 of additional collections was received from Dr. F. D. Godman 

 and Mr. 0. Salvin. After the presentation of the main 

 collection of Neotropical birds associated for ever with his 

 name, Dr. Godman kept many collectors at work in various 

 parts of Central America, mainly with the view of 

 supplementing his series of skins for the purposes of his 

 great book, the ' Biologia Centrali-Americana.' As these 

 collections reached England, they were presented by Dr. 

 Godman to the British Museum. 



Mr. F. J. Jackson, C.B., presented in this year 44 types of 

 new species of birds, discovered by him in Uganda and on 

 Mount Elgon. For a series of years, this great naturalist, 

 though unable, from his official duties, to do much personal 

 collecting, has engaged a native collector, Baraka by name, 

 to whom he has taught the art of preserving specimens of 

 natural history, and by this means considerable collections 

 have been made and many new species discovered. The Museum 



