S4 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Exchanges. 



Exchanges of duplicate specimens have been made as 

 follows : — 



Of zoological specimens. — With the Turin Museum ; the 

 National Museum, Mexico ; the Braniki Museum, Warsaw ; 

 Dr. Werner, of Vienna; Mr. Gerrit S. Miller; and Mr. E. 

 Gerrard, Junr. 



Of fossils and casts of fossils. — With the Museum of 

 Zoology and Comparative Anatomj^ of Cambridge Uni- 

 versity ; the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg ; 

 the Royal Museum of Natural History, Brussels ; the Pro- 

 vincial Museum, La Plata ; Mr. B. Sturtz ; and Mr. R. F. 

 Damon. 



Of minerals and meteorites. — With Professor J. W. Judd, 

 I'.R.s. ; Professor C. Blomstrand; and Mr. C. S. Bement. 



Of botanical specimens. — With Mrs. Tindall, of Leighton 

 Buzzard. 



Duplicates. 



Further additions have been made to the list of provincial 

 institutions to receive grants of duplicate specimens of natural 

 history. 



Segments cut from the surfaces of the section of the great 

 Sequoia trunk now set up in one of the bays of the Central 

 Hall, in preparing it for exhibition, have been presented to 

 the Royal Gardens, Kew, the Museums at Glasgow, Cambridge, 

 Manchester, and Bradford, the Royal College of Science, and 

 the University of Upsala. 



Grants of zoological specimens have been made to the 

 London Society for Teaching the Blind, the Royal College of 

 Science, the Museum of Owen's College, Manchester, the 

 Museums of Derby and Sheffield, and to University College, 

 Nottingham ; of fossils, to the Royal College of Science and 

 to the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, 

 Cardiff ; of minerals, to the Museums of Science and Art at 

 Edinburgh and Dublin ; and a collection of British woods has 

 1)een presented to the Surveyors' Institution, Westminster. 



Publications. 



The following Catalogues have been issued by the Natural 

 History Departments during the year : — 



Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum : — Vol. XXIII. 

 Catalogue of the Fulicarige (Rallidse and Heliornithides) and 

 Alectorides (Aramidse, Eurypygidse, Mesitidee, Rhinochetidse, 

 Gruidse, Psophiidae, and Otididse), by R. Bowdler Sharpe. 

 Pp. xiii. 353 : 9 coloured plates. 8vo. 20s. 



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