138 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Eighty-six wind-facetted pebbles and one weathered rock-surface 

 from the Eastern Desert, Egypt. F. W. Moon, Esq., B.E., F.G.S. 



Two pitted pebbles and ten facetted wind-worn pebbles from 

 Bir Mabeuik, Sinai. Major N'. V. L. Rt/bot. 



Five specimens of soundings from Kingston, Jamaica, taken 

 after the great earthquake of Jan. 14th, 1907. Capt. John A. 

 Rupert Jones. 



B. — Bi/ Purcliase. 



Plaster casts of a fossil human skull from Talgai, Darling 

 Downs, Queensland, described by Prof. S. A. Smith, Phil. Trans., 

 1918. 



Skull of Potainotherktm and six small mammalian jaws from the 

 Miocene of France. 



Jaw of Epanorthxs and five jaws of allied genera from the 

 Santa (Vuz Formation of Patagonia. 



Skulls of the two Labyrinthodonts, Capitosaurus, from the 

 Trias of Germany, and CochJeosaurus^ivomihe Permian of Bohemia. 



Three microscope-sections of jaws of the shark, Sphenacanthvs 

 hihodoides, from the Coal Measures of Shore, Lancashire. 



About fifty fossils from the Wealden and Cretaceous of Sussex, 

 and from the Rhaetic of Linksfield, Elgin, collected by the late 

 Major Lambart Brickendcn. 



About 50 fossil Invertebrata from the Chalk Rock of Aston 

 Rowant, Oxon. 



Twenty-five fossil Corals and Brachiopods, and thirty-five micro- 

 scope-sections of fossil Corals, from the Carboniferous Limestone, 

 descr. and figd. by the late Dr. Arthur Vaughan. 



Twenty-nine vertical and sixty-nine horizontal microscope- 

 sections of the Shallow Seam of coal. South Staffordshire, with 

 sixty-scn^en micro-photographs of the same (J. Lomax). 



Vj. — By Exchange. 



A collection of about 500 Chelonian remains, with a few 

 Lacertilian remains, from superficial deposits in Mauritius, obtained 

 by Thirioux, Sauzier, and the Newtons, partly described by Giinther 

 (Gigantic Land Tortoises), Gadow (Trans. Zool. Soc), and Haddon 

 (Trans. Linn. Soc.) : University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. 



Six specimens of the crab, Dakoticancer overana, from Upper 

 Cretaceous, S. Dakota, U.S.A. 



The total accessions during 1919 are as follows : — 





Donations. 



Purchases. 



Exchanges. 



Total. 



Vertebrata 



132 



67 



500 



699 



Invertebrata 



1730 



126 



6 



1862 



Plantse 



86 



93 



— 



179 



Rocks 



189 



— 



— 



189 





2137 



286 



506 



2929 



The total number of specimens registered is 4998. 



