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From Mr. A. L. Butler — an important collection of about 2,000 

 specimens of birds and a number of small mammals, from the 

 Upper Sudan, all admirably prepared and labelled. 



From Mr. C. Boden Kloss — an interesting collection of zoological 

 tpecimens from Siam. 



From Mr. George Lewis — a collection of about 7,000 specimens 

 of coleoptera from various localities, contained in a cabinet and seven 

 store-boxes ; also a number of papers published by Marseul and the 

 donor. 



From Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S. — a further selection of specimens 

 from his large collection of butterflies. 



From the Executors of the late Mr. William Hill, of Hitchin — 

 a cabinet containing about 2,700 slides of thin sedimentary rocks, 

 including the original preparations on which Mr. Hill's published 

 writings were based, and about 400 slides from the collection of the 

 late Mr. Jukes-Browne, F.R.S. 



From the Committee of the Middlesex Hos})ital — the collection of 

 •diatoms and literature relating thereto formed by the late Mr. John 

 Augustus Tulk, of Chertsey. 



From Mrs. Emily Owen — 78 volumes of works by her father- 

 in-law, the late Sir Richard Owen, mostly author's copies con- 

 taining his autograph notes. 



From the Zoological Society — five volumes of a MS. Catalogue 

 of the mammals formerly in the Societ3^'s old museum, many of 

 the specimens in which were transferred to the British Museum 

 about the year 1851, when the Society's museum was broken up. 



From Mr. C. D. Sherborn — Sir Richard Owen's own interleaved 

 copy of his work on " British Fossil Mammals and Birds." 



From Prof. H. F. Osborn — Four hypothetically restored busts 

 of fossil men, and restored models of the skulls and brain-casts of 

 Pithecanthropus and Eoanthropus (Piltdown). 



Purchases. 



Purchases have practically been restricted to a few transactions 

 which partook of the nature of liabilities incurred prior to the 

 outbreak of war. Among the more important of them special 

 attention may be drawn to the following : — 



The second and final instalment of the Lowe collection of West 

 Lidian Birds, comprising 1,195 skins ; the fifth instalment of the 

 Distant collection of Rhynchota ond other insects ; the first instal- 

 ment of Dr. Malcolm Burr's collection of Dermaptera (earwigs), 

 consisting of 4,500 specimens (55 being types and 390 co-types) ; a 

 collection of 1,500 fossils, from the Bala rocks of North Wales, 

 made by the late Mr. Thomas Ruddy, all labelled with localities ; 

 fossil remains of Woolly Rhinoceros and Mammoth from the frozen 

 earth of Northern Siberia ; the W. E. Cutler collection of fossils 

 from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, comprising a 

 considerable part of a large herbivorous Dinosaur, Trachodon, bones 

 of Dinosaurians, and other remains. 



