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Ufjanda Flag. 



At the request of the Secretary of State for tlie Colonies, a 

 coloured drawing of the Golden Crested Crane was prepared 

 at the Museum, to serve as a device for the badge on the flag 

 of the Uganda Protectorate. His Majesty the King has- 

 approved of the adoption of the drawing for this purpose. 

 It will also be embodied in the design of the Public Seal of 

 Us^fanda. 



Bequests. 



The late Mr. James Rowland Ward, who died on 28 December 

 1912, left a sum of money (500/. a year for ten years) out of 

 his estate to his Trustees, to be expended by them in the- 

 purchase from Messrs. Rowland Ward, Ltd., of mounted speci- 

 mens to be offered as a present to the Natural History Museum 

 for exhibition therein. 



A marble bust (by Thomas Thornycroft) of the late Brian; 

 Hodgson, a generous benefactor of the Museum, was bequeathed 

 to the Museum by his widow, thejate Mrs. Susan Hodgson. 



Presents. 



The total number of gifts received during the year by the 

 several Departments was 2,546, as compared with 2,444 in 1912, 

 Many of these comprised large numbers of individual specimens.- 

 The details of all 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 or value : — 



From His Majesty the King. — ^The skin of one of the tigers- 

 shot by His Majesty in India ; also a head of Indian Rhinoceros. 

 Both these specimens have been mounted for exhibition. Ther 

 tiger has been stuff'ed and placed in a case at the top of the- 

 stairs on the second floor in the immediate neighbourhood of 

 the Hume Collection of Indian Horns. 



From His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Sweden. — 

 An interesting series of Rhsetic plants collected by His Royal 

 Highness on his own estate in Scania. 



From Mr. George M. Maryon-Wilson. — A remarkable human 

 skull and mandible, associated with mammalian fragments and 

 flint implements, discovered by Mr. Charles Dawson in an early 

 Pleistocene gravel near Piltdown Common, Sussex. These- 

 remains are of high scientific interest, and form one of the- 

 most important gifts ever received by the Geological Depart- 

 ment of the Museum. 



From the Earl of Denbigh, C.V.O. — The Zoological, Geological' 

 and Mineral Collections made by the distinguished naturalist- 

 Thomas Pennant (172G-1798). These collections are of great- 

 historic interest, including, as they do, many types and 



