140 ACCOUNTS, Etc., OF TI±E BRITISH MUSElJM. 



C. — Plants. 



A collectrion of sixty specimens of Fossil Plants, comprising 

 Lomatopteris jurensis, Echinostrobus Sternhergii, Brachy- 

 phyllum gracile, Baieria latifolia, Cujyarissidiwm, PalcBO- 

 cyparis 'princeps, Ediinostrobus, and three fruits from the 

 Lithographic stone of Nusplingen, Bavaria. 



Twenty plants from the Passage-beds, Ledbury, 

 Eighty-three Wealden Plant- remains from Hastings and 

 twelve other fossil Plants. 



One hundred and seventy Miocene and Tertiary Plants from 

 Tuscany, &c. Part of the Castelli Collection. 



The total number of specimens acquired during the past 

 year (1898) has been as follows : — 

 A. — Vertebrata : 



By Donation - - - - 

 „ Purchase - - - - 

 „ Exchange - - - - 



B. — Invertebrata : 



By Donation - - - - 



„ Purchase - - - - 



,, Exchange - - - - 



C. — Plants : 



By Donation - - - - 



„ Purchase - - - - 



„ Exchange - - - - 



187 



780 



31 



998 



1,809 

 10,148 



385 



11,G22 



47 

 345 





. 



392 



- - 



13,012 



Total Acquisitions in 1898 



VIII. — -Exchanges and Gifts of Duplicates. 



The following exchanges and gifts of duplicates, which 

 were sanctioned by the Trustees, have been completed during 

 the past year, namely : — 



(a.) Exchanges. 



With Prof. K. A. von Zittel, of Munich Museum and 

 University, 271 duplicate fossil Mollusca and Corals and six 

 fossil fishes, in return for 89 Triassic Cephalopoda from 

 Bosnia, and remains of Mosasaurus from the Chalk of 

 Kansas. 



With the Director of the United States National Museum, 

 Washington, 180 duplicate specimens of British fossil corals, 

 for 229 Tertiary corals, and five tubes of Cretaceous Bryozoa, 

 from American localities new to this Museum. 



