88 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth ; the St. 

 Helen's Public Museum ; the Incorporated Thames Nautical 

 Training College, H.M.S. "Worcester" (off Greenhithe); the 

 Perth Museum, Western Australia. 



Grants of duplicate zoological specimens have been made 

 to the Warrington Museum and to Mr. J, H. Ponsonby ; and 

 of duplicate fossils to King's College, London, University 

 College, Dundee, and the University of Sydney. 



Publications 



The following new works have been issued during the 

 year:— 



Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. XXVI. 

 Catalogue of the Platalese, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygo- 

 podes, Alcje, and Impennes in the Collection of the British 

 Museum. Platalese (Ibises and Spoonbills) and Herodiones 

 (Herons and Storks), by R. Bowdler-Sharpe. Steganopodes 

 (Cormorants, Gannets, Frigate-birds, Tropic-birds, and 

 Pelicans), Pygopodes (Divers and Grebes), Alcse (Auks), and 

 Impennes (Penguins), by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. Pp. xvii, 

 687 : woodcuts, and 14 coloured plates. Svo. 25s. 



Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalsense in the British 

 Museum. Vol. I. Catalogue of the Syntomidse in the 

 Collection of the British Museum. By Sir George F. Hamp- 

 son, Bart. Pp. xxi, 559 : 285 woodcuts. 8^0. 15s. 



-— Atlas of 17 coloured plates. Svo. 15s. 



Catalogue of the African Plants collected by Dr. Friedrich 

 Welwitsch in 1853-61. Dicotyledons. By William Philip 

 Hiern : — 



Part II. Combretacete to Rubiacese. Pp. 337-510. 8-^0. 

 4s. 



Part III. Dipsaceae to Scrophulariacea?. Pp. 511-784, 

 ^vo. 5s. 



List of the Types and Figured Specimens of Fossil Cephalo- 

 poda in the British Museum (Natural History). By G. C. 

 Crick. Pp. 103. 8vo. 2s. Qd. 



Copies of these works have been sent to numerous 

 Free Libraries and other Institutions in Great Britain and 

 Ireland, to many Indian, Colonial, and Foreign Libraries, 

 Museums, and Scientific Societies, and to various individuals 

 who have either assisted in the preparation of the volumes 

 or otherwise benefited the Museum. 



The publication of Volume XXVL, though not numerically 

 the last volume, completes the Catalogue of Birds, as 

 originally projected by Dr. Giinther more than twenty-five 

 years ago. The whole work consists of twenty-seven 

 volumes, and may fairly claim to be one of the most im- 

 portant aids to the study of Systematic Ornithology ever 



