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Geological Expedition to British East Africa. 



Through the generosity of friends of the Museum, Dr. Felix 

 Oswald, F.G.S., arranged to devote four months to an 

 exploration of the newly discovered Tertiary bone-bearing 

 deposit in British East Africa, with the object of obtaining 

 fossil specimens for the Museum. Facilities in aid of this 

 mission have been promised by the Colonial Office. 



Bequest. 



The collection of Insects has been considei^ably enriched 

 by the bequest of the late Mr. G. H. Verrall of part of hi& 

 collection of British Diptera. The bequest was accompanied 

 with the condition that Mr. Verrall's labels bearing the names 

 applied by him should be permanently attached to his. 

 specimens. 



Presents. 



The total number of gifts received during the year by the 

 several Departments was 2,431, as compared with 2,235 in 1910. 

 Many of these comprised large numbers of individual specimens. 

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

 reports of the Keepers of the Departments, but the following 

 are mentioned here also, as being of special interest : — 



From the Duke of Bedford. — A very fine collection of 

 Mammals and Birds from Western China brought together by 

 His Grace's Collector, Mr. M. P. Anderson, during a systematic 

 zoological survey of Western Asia. 



From the Subscribers to the British Ornithologists' Union's 

 Expedition to Dutch New Guinea. — The whole of the zoological 

 collections obtained by the Expedition sent out in 1909 by the 

 British Ornithologists' Union, under the leadership of Mr. 

 Walter Goodfellow, to collect specimens in the unexplored 

 Hinterland of Dutch New Guinea have been received at the 

 Museum as a gift from the subscribers. The expedition was 

 due to the initiation of Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, who acted as 

 Secretary to the Committee formed to carry it out, while 

 Mr. C. E. Fagan acted as Treasurer. The total number of 

 specimens obtained is about 7,870, of which 2,750 are birds, 

 nearly 500 mammals, and 2,860 insects. 



From Mr. C. D. Eudd. — A second valuable consignment of 

 mammals and birds collected in British East Africa by Mr, 

 Robin Kemp. (The whole collection resulting from the 

 zoological exploration of British East Africa undertaken by 

 Mr. C. D. Rudd for the benefit of the Museum has amounted 

 to 1,590 mammals, including the types of 44 new species and 

 sub-species, 567 birds, and some insects, &c. — See last year's 

 Return, page 111.) 



