DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. IM 



VIII. — Exchanges and Duplicates. 



The following exchanges, which were sanctioned by the 

 Trustees, have been completed during the past year, viz. : — 



1. One Mollusc and four Crinoids given to the Royal 

 College of Science, in exchange for a fine Marsupiocrinus 

 from the Wenlock Limestone, Dudley (probably a new 

 species). 



2. Forty-three duplicate English Chalk fossils given to 

 Mrs. A. D. Davidson of Indiana, U.S., for thirty specimens 

 of Corals and Brachiopods from the Devonian of Indiana ; new 

 to the Collection. 



3. Three duplicate casts of fossils given to Prof. A. Gaudry, 

 Paris Museum, for a coloured reproduction of the skull of 

 Machairodus, from Brazil. 



4. Three casts, and three duplicate leg bones of ^pyornis 

 from Madagascar, given to Prof. E. C. Stirling, F.R.S., Adelaide 

 Museum, for a series of bones and casts of the leg of Genyornis 

 neiutoni from Mulligan Springs, S. Australia, new to the 

 Museum. 



5. Duplicate Reptilian bones ; six casts of Mammal and 

 Reptilian remains, including a cast of Pariasaurus, for a 

 very large and varied collection of fossil Mammalian remains, 

 and casts of others, from the " Pampas " and older formations 

 of S. America, sent to the British Museum by Dr. F. P. 

 Moreno, Director of the La Plata Museum, Argentina. 



6. One hundred and eighty-two duplicate Tertiary shells 

 have been given to Dr. Paul Oppenheim in exchange for two 

 hundred and fifty specimens of Gasteropoda from the Upper 

 Cretaceous formation of Ajka, Hungary, and the Bouches 

 du Rhone. 



7. A duplicate copy of William Smith's Geological Map (1815) 

 of England and Wales was given to the Royal College of 

 Science, South Kensington, in exchange for photographic 

 copies (1) of William Smith's original Map of the Country 

 round Bath (geologically coloured), dated 1799 ; (2) MS. table 

 of strata, dictated and signed by William Smith, dated 1799 ; 

 (3) small, geologically coloured, map of England and Wales, 

 dated 1801. (The copies were made under Professor Judd's 

 direction from the originals in the possession of the 

 Geological Society.) 



8. A small series of duplicate fossils (224 in number) has 

 been transferred to the Trustees of the Falconer Memorial 

 Museum at Forres, near Elgin. 



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