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Mrs. Litchfield — five sheets o£ the manuscript of her father 

 Mr. Charles Darwin's famous work " The Origin of Species," for 

 preservation with the series of specimens of handwritings of 

 naturalists. 



Mrs. McConnell — a handsomely bound copy of a work on the 

 Birds of British Guiana, published by her in memory of her late 

 husband, Mr. F. V. McConnell, a benefactor of the Museum. 



Lord Rothschild — five volumes of drawings of plants, by W. G. 

 Smith, the originals of published plates. 



Purchases. 



With the exception of the purchase for £100 of the sixth 

 instalment of the Distant collection of insects, to which the Trustees 

 were committed, and of books for the upkeep of the several libraries, 

 purchases were restricted to a few unimportant transactions. 



Exchanges and Gifts of Duplicates. 



Exchanges of duplicate specimens have been made with various 

 institutions and individuals. 



The Trustees have readily agreed to a request from the Prime 

 Minister of New Zealand that a representative set of duplicate 

 specimens from the collections of the Scott (" Terra Nova ") 

 Antarctic Expedition may be presented to the Dominion Museum at 

 Wellington, and, if numbers permit, to the three other chief Museums 

 of the Dominion at Dunedin, Christchurch, and Auckland. A first 

 set of the duplicates will accordingly be placed at the disposal of 

 the New Zealand Government in due course. 



Duplicate specimens have been presented as follows : — 



Zoological specimens (other than entomological) — to the Royal 

 Scottish Museum, Edinburgh ; Prof. G. H. F. Nuttall, f.r.s. ; Major 

 E. E. Austen ; Dr. E. Pawlowsky (Petrograd) ; Lt. Commr. A. 

 Cherry-Garrard, r.n. ; Surgeon E. L. Atkinson, r.n. ; Mr. C. S. 

 Wright ; and Prof. E. Fawcett. 



Entomological specimens — to Prof. A. Hustache ; M. Antoine 

 Grouvelle ; Mr. H. E. Andre wes ; and Mr. L. B. Prout. 



Fossils---to the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. 



(N.B. — All the individuals named have rendered services to the 

 Museum.) 



Publications. 



The following works on Natural History have been published 

 during the year : — 



British [Scott] Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910. 

 Natural History Report. Zoology. 4to : — 



Vol. i. No. 4. Larval and Post-larval Fishes. By C. Tate 



Regan, M.A. Pp.125 — 156: 5 text-figures, 10 plates. 9s. 



Vol. ii, No. 6. Myzostomida. By C. L. Boulenger, M.A., 



D.sc. Pp. 135—140 : 1 plate. Is. 

 Vol. iii, No. 2. Crustacea, Pt. I, Decapoda. By L. A. 

 Borradaile, m.a. Pp. 75 — 110 : 16 text-figures. 3^. 



