20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The following may be mentioned as being o£ special interest or 

 value, namely, from : — 



Mr. R. L. Scott — a mounted specimen o£ the Water Elephant 

 from Lake Leopold II., Belgian Congo. 



Captain H. W. Murray — the skull of a lion of specially large 

 size, and the skull and horns of a Blackfaced Highland or Scotch 

 Mountain Sheep, male, from Loch Awe, 1887. 



Mr. Guy R. G. Nevinson — the remainder of the collection of 

 Exotic Coleoptera formed by his father, the late Mr. B. G. Nevinson, 

 consisting of about 120,000 specimens contained in 19 cabinets and 

 numerous boxes. 



The Council of the Royal Microscopical Society — about 1,000 

 microscope-slides illustrating the " oozes " spread over the ocean 

 floor at great depths, forming part of the collection of the late 

 Dr. G. C. Wallich. 



Mr. E. Heron- Allen — a supplementary set of some 212 slides 

 of oozes from the same collection, with notebooks, maps and charts. 



Mrs. Hinde — the valuable collection of fossils, chiefly specimens 

 from the Silurian and Ordovician rocks of Canada, the United States, 

 and Sweden, made by the late Dr. George J. Hinde, f.r.s., 

 together with his unique series of microscopic preparations of rocks 

 and fossils. 



Mr. A. E. Kitson, Director of the Geological Survey of the 

 Gold Coast — a large collection of fossil shells and vertebrate 

 remains from the Ameki cuttings on the Port Harcourt Railway, 

 Southern Nigeria. 



Mr. James Groves — the British and European herbarium (6,000 

 specimens) formed by himself and his brother, Mr. Henry Groves. 



The Rev. E. F. Linton — his British and European herbarium of 

 2,500 specimens. 



Mrs. Ethel B. Ede — an interesting table with a top of inlaid 

 marbles removed, 1850-1853, from the ancient tombs beside the 

 Appian Way. 



The principal purchases made during the year include the eighth 

 instalment of the Distant collection of insects, comprising 5,000 

 specimens of Rhynchota and Coleoptera, and including 250 types ; 

 the second and final instalment of the Malcolm Burr collection 

 of Dermaptera (Earwigs), consisting of about 4,500 specimens, 

 and including 64 types and 406 co- types ; series of 255 and 144 

 microscope-slides of anatomical preparations of Land Mollusca, 

 mounted by Lt.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, f.r.s. ; and nine 

 volumes containing some 700 original drawings of the plates in 

 the first 18 volumes of " Curtis's Botanical Magazine," for 100/., 

 towards which sum 25/. was generously contributed by Lord 

 Rothschild. 



Exchanges and gifts of duplicate specimens have been made 

 with various institutions and persons. 



