186 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



B. — By Purchase. 



Mammalia. — A skull, mandible and vertebral column of 

 Moeritheriu'tn, and a skull of Zeuglodon. from the Middle 

 Eocene of the Fayum, Egypt. 



Nine teeth of Stegodon and Rhinoceros, and one bovine 

 tooth, from a Pliocene deposit in Szechuen, China. 



A collection of mammalian remains { Hipi^O'potamus pent- 

 landi, Cervus, etc.) from caverns, Crete (Miss D. M. A. Bate). 



A model of the skull and mandible of Megaladapis 

 insignis. 



Casts of human skull, mandible and femur from Galley 

 Hill, Kent. 



Casts of a human skull and of its brain-cavity, from 

 Gibraltar. 



Aves, — A Wealden bird-bone, figured by Prof. H. G. 

 Seeley, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. 55 (1899). 



Twelve bones of the Dodo, collected by the late George 

 Clarke in the Mare-aux-Songes, Mauritius. 



Reptilia. — Reptiles from the Karoo Formation of S. Africa,, 

 being the final instalment of the H. G. Seeley Collection, 

 including the type skull of Diademodon entomophonus and 

 figured scutes of Fariasaurus, numerous remains of Dicy- 

 nodon, a skull of Ptychognathus and of Procolophon, and 

 remains of Erythrosuchus, Cynognathus, etc. 



A skull of Ichthyosaurus from the Lower Lias, Lyme 

 Regis. 



A skeleton of Steneosaurus, a skull and skeleton of 

 Metriorhynchus, a skull and mandible of Peloneustes, and 

 three eye-plates of Pliosaurus from the Oxford Clay of 

 Peterborough (Leeds Collection). 



Homoeosaurus from the Lithographic Stone of Bavaria. 



Geosaurus, an unique specimen, showing the triangular 

 tail-fin of this marine Crocodile, from the Lithographic Stone 

 of Bavaria. 



A skeleton of Petrosuchus and two Chelonian remains^ 

 from the Purbeck of Swanage. 



Reptilian bones from the Cambridge Greensand. 



Chelonian bones from the English Chalk. 



Portions of two skeletons of Trachodon from the Cretaceous 

 Laramie Formation of Converse County, Wyoming, U.S.A. 



Pisces. —Mesacanthus, Euthacanthus, and an Acanthodian 

 jaw, from the Lower Old Red Sandstone, Turin Hall, Forfar. 



Two scales of Ctenodus from the Coal Measures, Coseley, 

 Staff's. 



Three Triassic fishes from Hallein, Austria. 



A Caturid fish from the Lower Lias, Lyme Regis. 



