10& ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



From Mr. Robin Alexander. — A series of 4,798 Birds, 

 including the types of no fewer than 84 species, selected from 

 the collection obtained by the late Mr. Boyd Alexander 

 during his various expeditions to Africa, Cape Verde, and 

 Fernando Po. 



From the Board of Trade. — Two specimens of Whales which 

 were stranded on the coast during the summer : one being 

 the complete skeleton of a Pilot Whale or Blackfish ; the 

 other, the skull, with fragments of the baleen, of a Lesser 

 Rorqual. 



From Captain E. C. Hardy, R.N., of H.M.S. " Mutine."— A 

 collection of zoological specimens obtained on the West Coast 

 of Africa by Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe, during the magnetic 

 survey of that coast from the Cape to Sierra Leone. 



From Lord Walsingham. — Three valuable series of Moths, 

 viz., 700 Pterophorina or Tineina collected by him in S. France ; 

 2,533 Tineina from N. Queensland ; and 1,467 Tineina from 

 French Guinea. 



From Mr. F. D. Godman. — Further important collections 

 of Mexican and Central American insects received during the 

 year, comprising 19,444 specimens of Coleoptera, all fully 

 labelled and arranged, and 900 specimens partly determined 

 and described ; 3,425 specimens of Lepidoptera, almost all 

 being named Lycsenidse ; 2,327 specimens of Odonata (Dragon- 

 flies) inWj labelled and described; 1,178 unnamed specimens 

 of Neuroptera ; and 305 named specimens of Orthoptera. 



From Mr. Guy R. G. Nevinson. — A valuable collection of 

 6,500 beetles, of the family Cicindelidse, formerly the property 

 of the late Mr. Frederick Bates. 



From the Solar Physics Observatory Eclipse Expedition. — 

 A miscellaneous series of natural history specimens collected 

 by the Officers during the cruise of the Expedition in the Pacific. 



From the Geological Society of London. — All the non- 

 British specimens of fossils, minerals and rocks contained in 

 the Society's Museum : all type and figured specimens and all 

 material of exceptional value and importance in illustrating 

 the advance of the Science of Geology to be retained by the 

 Trustees. 



From H.I. and R.H. the Archduke Ludwig Salvator of 

 Austria. — A set of very handsome volumes describing H.I. and 

 R.H.'s various travels. 



Purchases. 



Among the more important purchases made during the 

 year, special mention may be made of the following : — 



The fourth instalment of the Rev. Canon A. M. Norman's 

 collection of Atlantic and Arctic Invertebrates, consisting 

 chiefly of Mollusca, Crustacea, Polyzoa, &c. ; the second 

 instalment of the first portion of the collection of Australian 

 Coleoptera made by the Rev. Canon Thomas Blackburn ; 

 the second instalment of the Lewis collection of Coleoptera 



