58 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



including a Somali Rhinoceros, a Hudson Bay Walrus, a recon- 

 structed model o£ a Dodo, two Darwin's Rheas (with sterna), a 

 Manchurian Leopard, and a Siberian Wolf. 



Douhleday Collection. 



The Douhleday Collection of British and European Lepidoptera, 

 which was deposited on loan in the Bethnal Green Museum in 1876, 

 has been transferred by the Board of Education to the Natural 

 History Museum (as being a more appropriate place for it). The 

 collection has been placed near the other study collections of 

 Lepidoptera in the Entomological Department, under the same 

 conditions of tenure as existed with regard to it prior to the transfer. 



Chatham Elephant. 



In the autumn of 1913, information was received from Mr. 

 Sydney Turner, of Luton, Chatham, of a discovery of fossil bones 

 in the grounds of the Royal School of Military Engineering, Upnor, 

 near Chatham. Dr. C. W. Andrews, an Assistant in the Department 

 of Geology, was sent to make an investigation on the spot, and was 

 at once able to identify the remains as those of an elephant. The 

 War Office and the Commandant gave permission to excavate the 

 skeleton and remove it to the Museum. During the dry season of 

 1914 the outbreak of war prevented the work, but in 1915 the 

 excavation was proceeded with, and the specimen was successfully 

 removed to South Kensington. The find proved to comprise the 

 greater part of a skeleton of Elephas antiquus (probably the largest 

 elephant yet discovered in Britain), though of the skull only the 

 molar teeth, one tusk, and part of the lower jaw are capable of 

 preservation. The discovery is especially important as being the 

 first occasion on which the skeleton of this species has been found 

 in England in direct association with the teeth. 



The Trustees have recorded their appreciation of the action of 

 the War Office authorities and of the Commandant of the Royal 

 School of Military Engineering, Chatham, in allowing the excava- 

 tions to be made, and of the valuable assistance rendered by the 

 officers to Dr. Andrews during the progress of the excavations. 



Presents. 



The total number of gifts received during the year by the 

 several Departments was 1,825, as compared with 2,336 in the 

 previous year. Many of these comprised large numbers of 

 individual specimens. The details of all the more important of 

 them will be found in the reports of the Keepers of Departments, 

 but the following are mentioned here also as being of special interest 

 or value : — 



From Lady Church — the valuable collection of gem-stones formed 

 by her husband, the late Sir Arthur Church, K.C.V.O., consisting 

 of 203 specimens, besides 8 diamond points and 21 diamond 

 brilliants employed in the setting of two of them. 



