BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). Ill 



SpeciTTiens received on Deposit. 



Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N., has been allowed to 

 deposit in the Museum his collection of Lepidoptera during his 

 absence in India, on certain conditions, and subject to the 

 understanding that it be left by will to the Trustees. 



Mr. Willoughby Gardner having offered to supplement the 

 recently acquired Entomological collections of the late Mr. E. 

 Saunders, F.R.S., by the gift of Mr. Saunders's collection of 

 about 300 microscope slides of entomological preparations, 

 provided he (Mr. Gardner) might have, during his lifetime, a 

 right to borrow a selection of the slides occasionally for home 

 study, the Trustees have agreed to receive the collection on 

 deposit in accordance with Mr. Gardner's wishes. 



Presents. 



The total number of gifts received during the year by the 

 several Departments was 2,235, as compared with 2,295 in 1909. 

 Many of these comprised large numbers of individual specimens. 

 The details of all the more important of them will be found in the 

 reports of the Keepers of the several Departments, but the 

 following may be mentioned here as of special interest : — 



From His late Majesty King Edward VII. — The skeleton 

 of his thoroughbred horse " Persimmon," winner of the Derby 

 in 1896; presented by His Majesty as a mark of the great 

 interest which he had long taken in the British Museum. 



From Mr. C. D. Rudd.^A valuable collection of specimens 

 from British East Africa, consisting of 345 mammals (including 

 the types of 20 new species), besides some birds and insects ; 

 being the first consignment of specimens obtained from a 

 zoological exploration of British East Africa undertaken by 

 Mr. Rudd for the benefit of the Museum, in continuation of 

 his systematic survey of the fauna of our African territories. 



From the subscribers to an expedition to Lake Ngarai and 

 neighbourhood, undertaken by Mr. R. B. Woosnam and the 

 Hon. Gerald Legge. — A valuable collection of zoological speci- 

 mens, comprising 89 mammals, 168 birds, 75 reptiles, 86 fishes, 

 and 150 diptera. 



From Mr. Ivor Buxton. — The type-specimen of a new 

 Antelope, Strepsiceros buxtoni, or " Spotted Kudu," shot by 

 him in the Sahatu Mountains, N.W. Gallaland. 



From Mr. H. S. Thornicroft. — The complete skin, with skull 

 and leg-bones, of a male Giraffe of large size, belonging to the 

 small herd remaining in Petauke, N.E. Rhodesia. 



From the relatives of the late Mr. T. C. Briscoe. — An 

 exceptionally fine mounted head of an Indian Rhinoceros, 

 bearing a horn believed to be of record size. 



From Mr. F. D. Godman. — 2,650 specimens of various 

 orders of Insects added to the collection during the year 1909. 



