68 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



In the Bird Room the Bustards and Cranes have been arranged 

 in new cabinets. A large portion o£ the Passeres have been finally 

 arranged and spaced out. Printed labels of the contents have 

 been prepared for the drawers and the outsides of each cabinet. The 

 exact position of each species has been entered in the special 

 Reference Catalogue. 



The Report on the Collections of Birds formed by the British 

 Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition to 

 Dutch New Guinea, 1909 — 1913, has been completed and published 

 in ''The Ibis" Jubilee Supplement No. 2. The collection contained 

 3,395 skins of 312 species, of which 25 proved to be new to science 

 and 39 new to the collection, while there were also eggs of 15 

 species not previously represented. A complete account of the 

 Scientific results of the Expeditions will shortly appear in two quarto 

 volumes of about 1,200 pages, illustrated by 2 maps and 38 plates. 



Register numbers have been put on 15,151 eggs of the Seebohm 

 Collection and 2,681 eggs of the Radcliffe Saunders Collection. 



Mr. D. A. Bannerman has completed his series of Reports on the 

 Collections of the late Mr, Boyd Alexander from Annabon, Cameroon 

 Peak and the Manenguba Mountains. 



Mr. Claude H. B. Grant has continued his work on the Collec- 

 tion formed by Capt. Gordon P. Cosens in East Africa. 



Help in labelling and preparing specimens for incorporation was 

 also received from Mr. Arthur Denman, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Roy 

 Sheppard, who kindly gave up a good deal of their leisure time for 

 this purpose. 



Mr. Court Treatt is still absent at the front on Military Service. 



The more notable presents were the following : — 

 From the Bombay Natural History Society the types of three 

 new species. From Messrs, C. B. Kloss and H. C. Robinson a 

 collection of Siamese Birds, including the types of two new species. 

 From Mr. W. J, F. Williamson a collection of birds from Siam, 

 including the types of two new sub-species. From Mr, A. L. Butler a 

 large and very valuable collection from the Sudan, including species 

 new to the British Museum Collection. From the Trustees of the 

 the late James Rowland Ward, two magnificent mounted specimens 

 of Darwin's Rhea ; a fine model of the Dodo and other mounted 

 specimens for the Exhibition Gallery. 



Among the more important purchases are : — 



The remaining portion of the unique West Indian Collection 

 formed by Dr. Percy R, Lowe, 



During the year the collection has been regularly consulted by 

 a large number of visitors ; systematic work has been done on 

 various groups by Mr, W, L, Sclater, Mr, E. C, Stuart Baker, Mr. 

 C. H. B. Grant, Mr. D. A, Bannerman, Mr, G, M, Mathews, Mr. T. 

 Iredale, Dr. P, R. Lowe, Mr, H. F, Witherby, Lord Rothschild, F.R.S., 

 Dr, E. Hartert, Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, Dr. H. Langton, the 

 Marquess of Tavistock, Miss A, Jackson, Col, R. G. Ward law- 

 Ramsay, Dr, C, B. Ticehurst, Rev. J. Waterston, Mr. L. Harrison, 



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