90 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



tions might be made, in view of the fact that this substance 

 is a reagent which had been in common use for the preserva- 

 tion of many animals which require special treatment. 



As a result of an investigation undertaken in July at the 

 request of the Royal Air Force at Halton, Buckinghamshire, 

 Major E. E. Austen, D.S.O., of the Department of Entomology, 

 found Anopheles maculipennis (a well-known malaria-carrying 

 mosquito) breeding extensively in the canal, and to a less extent 

 in Halton reservoir, and advised the medical authorities as to 

 the necessary preventive measures. 



Reports were received from Mr. L. R. Crawshay, who is con- 

 ducting investigations in connection with the sponge fishery of 

 the Bahama Islands, and the Colonial Office were informed that 

 in the opinion of the Trustees a good beginning had been made 

 with the work. 



Enquiries were received from the Colonial Office with regard 

 to fish-poisoning in the West Indies. The Museum supported the 

 proposal for an investigation, and suggested that it should not be 

 limited to a single locality, but should be one in which the whole 

 of tlie West Indies could share and that it might profitably be 

 undertaken in concert with the Ministry of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries. 



Dinosaurian Fossils in Tanganyika Territory. 

 In view of the importance of the deposits containing Dino- 

 saurian fossils in Tanganyika Territory, partially explored by 

 German geologists before the War, the Trustees considered the 

 advisabilit}'- of sending out an expert to continue the excavations 

 for the benefit of the Museum. As a preliminary. Dr. E. 0. 

 Teale, Government Geologist,- Tanganyika Territory, undertook 

 to examine the fossils left behind by the Germans; to try tO' 

 arrange for the packing of nil that were worth sending to the 

 Museum ; and to report on the present state of the excavations, 

 with suggestions as to the best method of following up the work. 



Marine Fauna of South Africa. 



The Trustees accepted an invitation to co-operate in a survey 

 of the marine fauna of South Africa which is being undertaken 

 by the Union Government, on the understanding that the 

 Museum should keep the first set of specimens collected, in return 

 for services rendered in getting the collection's worked out and in 

 distributing the material to specialists. 



Bequests. 

 An important collection of New Zealand insects was be- 

 queathed to the Museum by the late Major Thomas Broun, of 

 Auckland, but it is being allowed to remain in the Dominion for 

 a period in order to enable New Zealand entomologists to refer to 

 it and to determine their specimens as far as possible. 



The late Mrs. Emily Owen has bequeathed to the Museum a 

 marble bust, by Wagmiiller, of her father-in-law, the late Sir 

 Richard Owen, K.C.B., who was Superintendent of the Natural 

 History Departments of the British Museum from 1856 to 1884. 



