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Also an interesting series of 374 birds collected by him in 

 British East Africa. 



From the Earl of Ancaster. — Series of plaster casts of 

 British and Indian Cattle and British Sheep and Pigs, modelled 

 by G. Garrard in 1800. 



From Mr. F, N. A. Fleischmann. — A valuable and interesting 

 series of 45 minerals from the Walker collection. 



From Miss Rose Fryer. — The valuable collection of British 

 Pond weeds made by her father, the late Mr. AUred Fryer, who 

 devoted many years to the critical study of the subject, on 

 which he was the recognised authority, and whose herbarium 

 contained 5,450 sheets. 



From Mr. and Mrs. P. Amaury Talbot. — An important 

 collection of 2,800 plants from South Nigeria. (A Catalogue 

 of the Plants of South Nigeria, based on this collection, is in 

 preparation.) 



Purchases. 



Among the more important purchases made during the 

 year, special attention may be drawn to the following : — 



The third instalment of the Lewis collection of Coleoptera 

 from Japan and Ceylon, consisting of about 8,000 specimens ; 

 the second instalment of the Dista.nt collection of Insects, com- 

 prising 4,970 specimens and including 250 types ; further instal- 

 ments of the late Rev. Canon Thomas Blackburn's collection 

 of Australian Coleoptera ; a fine series of fishes and reptiles, 

 from Portuguese Guinea and Chiloango, collected by Dr. W. J. 

 Ansorge ; a valuable collection of mammals and birds made by 

 Mr. D. Carruthers in Central Asia ; shells from South Africa, 

 Japan, &c., including 55 types from the Layard collection ; a 

 collection of Wood lice (some 6,500 specimens) from all parts of 

 the world, made by the late Gustav Budde-Lund ; two skulls of 

 fossil mammals (Mesatirhinus and Dolichorhinus), from the 

 Eocene of the United States, in nearly perfect preservation ; 

 coloured plaster casts of skull and mandible of Tyrannosaurus, 

 from the Laramie of Montana ; a restored skeleton of Eryops, 

 from the Permian of Texas ; a large skeleton of a Crocodilian 

 {Mystriosaurus), and skull and paddles of Ichthyosaurus, from 

 Wiirtemburg ; 600 cephalopoda from the Cretaceous of Hanover : 

 a remarkably fine specimen of the Cretaceous bony fish Portheus 

 (an ally of the Herring family), 14 feet long, from Kansas; 

 15 Anomodont reptiles from the Karoo of South Africa; a 

 complete skeleton of a short-tailed Pterodactyl ; a fine series 

 of 180 minerals from the Walker collection ; a large faceted 

 colourless topaz ; a large faceted aquamarine of unusually fine 

 bluish green colour ; fragments of meteoric stones from Cullison, 

 Kansas (1911) ; Kermichel, Morbihan (1903) ; St. Germ.ain-en- 

 Puel (1890) ; sections of meteoric irons found near Tepl, Bohemia, 

 and Kingston, New Mexico ; a series of 101 meteoric stones, 

 part of a shower which fell near Holbrook, Arizona, July 12, 

 1912; 751 Chinese plants collected by E. H. Wilson; 978 

 Philippine plants. 



