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These illustrations have been prepaiecl and mounted in 

 passes-partouts, and framed and glazed with suitable labels 

 for the Geological and recent Mammalian Galleries. 



II. — By Purchase. A. Vertebrata. 



1. Mammalioj. — A collection of Pliocene Mammalian fossils 

 from Olivola, Carrara Mountains, Italy, comprising remains of 

 Gervxis, Le'ptohos, Equus, Rhinoceros, Ursus, an imperfect 

 mandibular ramus of Mctchairodus, and twenty bones of 

 Ungulates. 



A series of teeth of Palceotherium magnum, from the 

 Eocene, Isle of Wight. 



Fifteen bones of JElej^has melitce, from the Cavern of 

 Cavini, and one of Mastodon arvernensis, Isle of Sicily. 



The " Savin Collection" of Pliocene Mammalia from the 

 Cromer " Forest bed series " comprises the following remains : — 

 3 of Talpa europcBa ; 1 Trichechus huxleyi ; 1 Phoca, sp. ; 

 1 of Felis, sp. ; 5 Hycena crocuta ; 5 Canis lupus ; 5 Canis, 

 sp. ; 1 of Canis vulpes ; 1 Mustela, sp. ; 22 of Ursus spelceus ; 

 1 of Machairodus latidens ; 2 of Hyoena, sp. ; 17 of Gervus 

 verticornis ; 13 of Gervus elaphus ; 25 of Gervus savini ; 4 

 oi Gervus sedgwickii ; 6 of G. dawkinsii; 3 of G. polignacus ; 

 8 of G. etueriarunn ; 9 of G. tetraceros ; of remains of Ger- 

 vidce not specifically determined there are 484 ; 3 Gapreolus 

 capreola ; 24 Aloes latifrons ; Bison honasus (var. prisons), 

 51 specimens ; 26 of Hippopotatnihs ma.jor ; 12 of Hippo- 

 ■potam^us amp>hibius ; 6 of Sus sorofa ; 83 specimens of 

 Rhinoceros etrusous ; 207 of Equus fossilis ; 34 specimens of 

 Elephas meridionalis ; 55 of Elephas antiquus ; 23 of E. 

 primigenius ; 80 specimens of Elephas not specifically 

 determined; 248 oi Arvioola inter me dius ; 22 of A. arvalis ; 

 16 of A. am^phihius ; 1 of A. glareolus ; 405 specimens of 

 Arvioola, not specifically determined ; 57 of Trogontheriwai 

 ouvieri ; 7 of Gastor europoius ; 2 of Baloena, sp. ; 7 

 remains of Getacea ; 1 of Delp>hinap)terus leucas ; 1 of Orca 

 gladiator ; 1 of Monodon ononooerccs ; 1 of Phocoina com- 

 munis ; about 90 mammalian remains have not been named. 

 There are upwards of 2,000 specimens, a large number of 

 which have been described and figured by Mr. E. T. Newton, 

 F.R.S., in " The Vertebrata of the Forest Bed Series of Norfolk 

 and Suff'olk," and in " The Geological Magazine/' 



2. Aves. — Eighteen bird-remains embracing the genera 

 Bubo, Anser, Anas, Spatula, and Aloa, from the Forest-bed 

 series, Cromer, Norfolk (figured and described by E. T. 

 Newton, f.r.s., in " Vert. Pliocene Deposits," pi. ix. figs. 4 a, h, o, 

 in Geol. Mag. (3), vol. iv., pi. iv., fig. 4, and in " Vert. Forest 

 Bed," pi. xvii., figs. 1, 2, 3), part of the " Savin Collection." 



3. Reptilia. — A collection of Fossil Vertebrates from the 

 Oxford Clay, Fletton, near Peterborough, viz. : — Ten Plio- 

 saurian and three new Dinosaurian teeth ; a nearly complete 



