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premises) in exchange for six casts of parts of skeleton of 

 Glyptodon, and skull and lower jaw of Machcerodus. 



8. With Mr. B. Stiirtz, Bonn ; forty-one duplicate speci- 

 mens of Fossil Fish and Mammalian-remains (chiefly rejecta 

 from the Beckles Collection) for fifty-four specimens of 

 Miocene Mammalia from La Grive St. Alban, Isere, France, 

 a locality not represented in the collection. 



9. With Mr. Robert F. Damon, Weymouth ; a duplicate 

 plaster cast of Glyptodon (removed from exhibition and 

 replaced by an actual specimen from South America) ex- 

 changed for one hundred and fourteen specimens of Fish and 

 Crustacea from the Lower Devonian of New Brunswick. 



10. Also with Mr. Robert F. Damon ; one hundred and fifty 

 duplicate London Clay Shells and Tertiary Leaves for eighty- 

 three specimens of Brachioj^oda, selected as desiderata for 

 the collection. 



Lectures and Demonstrations. 



Swiney Lectures on Geology : 



A course of twelve lectures on " Agents of Geological 

 Change," by Professor Henry Alleyne Nicholson, M.D., D.sc, 

 F.G.S., &c., Regius Professor in the University of Aberdeen, 

 was delivered in the Library of the Geological Department, 

 commencing on the 5th of October, and ending on the 30th 

 of that month ; they were attended by 2,565 persons, being, 

 on an average, 214 persons to each lecture. 



Dr. Woodward gave a series of demonstrations to lady 

 students in the Geological Galleries on alternate Wednesday 

 afternoons during January, February, March, and April. 



He also gave a demonstration to the Lambeth Field Club of 

 twenty-two members on 4th April. 



The number of visits from students and persons who have 

 consulted the collections and the Library for the purpose of 

 scientific work during the year, and who have received 

 assistance from members of the staif of the Department, wa^^ 

 2,961. 



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