52 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The details o£ all the more important o£ them will be found in the 

 reports o£ the Keepers o£ Departments, but the following are 

 mentioned here also as being o£ special interest or value : — 



Lady Seton-Karr — five very fine specimens o£ heads o£ Big 

 Game selected from the collection o£ her husband, the late Sir 

 Henry Seton-Karr. (^See Return, 1916, p. ^&.^ 



The Duke of Hamilton — the head of a bull from his herd of 

 " Wild " white cattle in Cadzow Forest. 



Mr. H. F. Varian — a remarkably fine pair of horns, with mask, 

 of a new sub-species of Sable Antelope from Angola. 



Lady Strathcona — two complete skeletons and a skull of Musk- 

 Ox, formerly the property of the late Lord Strathcona, her father. 



The Board of Trade — the head and paddles of a White-sided 

 Dolphin, stranded at Rathlee, Co. Sligo ; and parts of a Grrampus 

 or Killer Whale, captured on the Colvend shore, Kirkcudbrightshire. 



Captain D. McCalmont — the skeleton of the famous racehorse 

 " Isinglass," winner of the Derby of 1893. 



Mr. E. J. Brook — a selection of birds from a collection obtained 

 by Mr. Walter Goodfellow in the high mountains of Ecuador, 

 including the types and co-types of five new species. 



Mr. A. L. Butler — a series of birds, consisting of the remainder 

 of his Soudanese collection, specimens from Ceylon, India, and Europe, 

 and a number of Paradise-birds, Kingfishers, and Pittas ; in all 

 1,452 specimens, including several types. 



Mr. E. G. Herbert — a fine collection of Siamese birds, consisting 

 of 1,061 skins and 500 eggs. 



The Lords of the Admiralty — a Leathery Turtle captured in a 

 net off the Scilly Islands, a very rare specimen. 



Messrs. W. Hewlett & Sons — a large Sunfish caught off the 

 South of Ireland. 



Mr. A. 0. Walker — a collection of 657 tubes of specimens of 

 Crustacea, chiefly Amphipoda. 



Mr. C. F. Rousselet — his valuable collection of about 1,200 

 mounted slides of Rotifera and Freshwater Polyzoa. 



Mr. Henry Sidebottom — a collection of Foraminifora, of high 

 scientific value, consisting of about 18,000 specimens, including 

 numerous types. 



The Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund — the first 

 selection from a valuable collection of fossil reptiles from the 

 Cretaceous rocks of Alberta, Canada. 



Sir John Eagiesome, Director of Railways and Works in 

 Nigeria — an important collection of Eocene fossils, including part 

 of the sternum of the largest known bird of flight, and interesting 

 remains of other vertebrates, from a railway cutting in Nigeria. 



Sir W. Crookes, F.R.S. — a valuable series of mineral specimens 

 from his private collection, consisting of gold, platinum, silver, 

 diamonds (including a crystal coloured by radium), &c. 



Mr. F. N. Ashcroft — a fine series of specimens of Zeolities. 



