92 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Purchases. 



The Trustees authorised; the purchase of Mrs. Elizabeth 

 Gray's collection of some 38,000 Ordovician and Silurian fossils, 

 to be paid for in instalments spread over three or four years. 



Other important purchases made during the year include 248 

 birds from Cameroon; 601 birds from the United States of 

 America ; 395 birds from the Canary Islands ; the Penard Collec- 

 tion (consisting of 706 slides) of Rhizopoda and Infusoria; 5,000 

 specimens of Rhynchota and Coleoptera, including 307 types, 

 being the tenth and final instalment of the Distant collection 

 of insects; a series of about 1,000 fossil sponges, chiefly from 

 the Cretaceous and Jurassic of Hanover; 400 fossil corals and 

 molluscs from the Cretaceous of Gosau, Austria ; fossil cephalo- 

 pods and sponges from the Trias of Timor ; selections from the 

 foasils collected round Peterborough by the late Mr. A. IST. Leeds; 

 the meteoric stone which fell near Appley Bridge, Wigan, on 

 13th October, 1914, being the second largest on record that has 

 fallen in Great Britain ; a collection of fragments of 74 meteor- 

 ites; plants from China, Tasmania, and North America; a very 

 fine copy of '' Ortus Sanitatis," by Joannes de Cuba,- 1491, the 

 excessively rare first dated edition of the greatest mediseval 

 cyclopsedia of ISTatural History. 



Exchanges were made with, and gifts of duplicate specimens 

 made to, various institutions and persons. 



The skeleton of the famous racehorse " Eclipse " was received 

 from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons on " permanent 

 loan " for exhibition in the Museum. 



The Museum took charge, on behalf of the Colonial Office, of 

 a collection of negatives of photographs of Nigerian Natives 

 made by Mr. N. W. Thomas. 



Puhlications. 

 Th.e following new works on Natural History were published 

 during the year : — 



British Antarctic (" Terra Nova ") Expedition, 1910. 

 Natural History Report, 

 Zoology. Vol. II. 



No, 9. Mollusca. Pt. III. Eupteropoda (Ptero- 

 poda Thecosomata) and Pterota (Pteropoda 

 Gymnosomata). By Anne L. Massy. Pp. 203- 

 232: 9 text-figures. 4to. 7^. 6^. 

 No, 10. Mollusca. Pt. IV. — Anatomy of Pelecy- 

 poda. By R. H. Burne, M.A, Pp. 233-256: 4 

 plates. 4to. Ss. 6d. 

 Zoology. Vol. IV. 



No. 3. Echinoderma (Part II.) and Enteropneusta, 

 Larvae of Echinoderma and Enteropneusta. By 

 E. W. MacBride, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S. 

 Pp. 83-94: 2 plates (with explanations), 4to. 

 7s. U. 



