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from Japan and Ceylon ; the first instalment of Mr. W. 

 L. Distant's collection of Insects, comprising about 5,000 

 specimens of Cicadidse and Moths, including 250 types ; a 

 fine series of vertebrate animals from the Cameroons, collected 

 by Mr. G. L. Bates ; skull, with the horns, of a white Rhinoceros 

 from Southern Africa ; 560 Fishes from British Guiana, including 

 the co-types of 80 species ; a collection of fresh-water fishes 

 from Angola ; collections of birds from Portuguese East Africa, 

 Western Columbia, Palawan, etc. ; a monkey-eating Eagle from 

 the Philippines ; collections of Moths from Western Columbia, 

 Dutch New Guinea, etc. ; a selection of very rare reptilian 

 remains, in a remarkable state of preservation, from the 

 Wealden of the South Coast of the Isle of Wight ; fossil 

 reptiles from the Trias of Elgin, and fish remains from the 

 Upper Old Red Sandstone of Nairn ; 5,000 small fossils, chiefly 

 polyzoa, from the Chalk Marl of Cambridge ; about 4,500 

 foraminifera from the Oligocene of Lower Alsace ; a series 

 of remains of 9 marine' reptiles from the Oxford Clay of Peter- 

 borough ; fragments of the Borodino meteoric stone, the 

 meteoric iron found in the nitrate deposits of the Oficina 

 Angela, Tarapaca, Chile, and the meteoric stone which fell in 

 1910 at Vigarano, Ferrara, Italy ; a large and fine native 

 copper ; collections of plants from the Philippines, Mexico, 

 Angola, China, Natal, Sandwich Islands, Bulgaria, etc. 



Exchanges and Gifts of Duplicates. 



Exchanges of duplicate specimens have been made with 

 various institutions and individuals. 



The following have been added to the list of institutions 

 to receive grants of duplicate specimens, namely : — National 

 Museum of Wales, Cardiff"; Municipal Museum, Hull; Bethlem 

 Royal Hospital; Goldsmith's College (University of London) ; 

 Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum, Kimberley ; Worksop 

 Museum ; University College, Reading. 



Selections of duplicate specimens have been presented as 

 follows : — 



Of zoological specimens — to Battersea Museum ; Hudders- 

 field Museum ; St. Helens Public Museum ; Bootle Museum ; 

 S. Wilts and Blackmore Museum, Salisbury ; the Australian 

 Museum, Sydney ; the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; 

 the Municipal Mu&eum, Hull ; the Imperial College of Science 

 and Technology ; the National Museum, Dublin ; Grey Coat 

 Hospital, Westminster : Londonderry Museum ; Mr. Pierre 

 Lesne, Paris; Mr. Adolf Schmidt, Berlin: Mr. A. M. Lea; 

 Prof. G. H. F. Nuttall, F.R.S. (Cambridge University); Dr. 

 F. Ohaus, Berlin ; Dr. Hans Wagner, Berlin ; Senor R. P. 

 Longinos Navas, S. J., Saragossa ; Mr. Heinrich Prell, Dresden ; 

 Dr. Creighton Wellman, California ; Prof. O. Taschenberg, 

 Halle ; Dr. F. F. Kohl, Vienna ; Prof. J. W. Spengel, Giessen ; 

 Prof. Dr. B. Y. Sjostedt, Stockholm; Dr. K. M. Heller, 

 Dresden ; Mr. E. Olivier ; and Mr. B. Lichtwardt, Charlot- 

 tenburg. 



