BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). Ill 



Expedition to the Sudan. 

 The Bird Eoom has been considerably enriched through an 

 expedition to the Sudan and Upper Nile, organised by Mr. Abel 

 Chapman and Capt. Hubert Lynes, R.N. This expedition 

 was undertaken by these two gentlemen principally with the 

 object of obtaining specimens for the Museum, which is indebted 

 to them for the presentation of a valuable collection of birds 

 and a smaller series of mammals. 



Bequests. 



The late Mr. G. B. Corbin bequeathed to the Museum a 

 specimen of the Needle-tailed Swift {Chcetura caudacuta), 

 killed at Ring wood, Hants, in July, 1879 — a bird of considerable 

 interest and value on accouDt of the extreme rarity of the 

 species in Britain. 



Mrs. Lena Ward, under the power contained in the will of 

 her husband, the late James Rowland Ward, has selected the 

 Natural History Museum as one of eight institutions to benefit 

 from the surplus income arising out of the estate. The 

 amount apportioned annually to the Museum from this source 

 will be expended in the purchase of mounted specimens for 

 exhibition. 



The specimens received during ]914 from the Rowland 

 Ward Trustees are as follows : — 



A magnificent Gorilla, a Malay Elephant (young), a 

 Clouded Leopard, a head of Grevy's Zebra, a Cameroon 

 Forest-hog, a White Fox, a Canadian Ruffed Grouse, and 

 64 mounted birds. 



Presents. 



The total number of gifts received during the year by the 

 several Departments was 2,336, as compared with 2,546 in the 

 preceding year. 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 Depart- 

 ments, but the following are mentioned here also, as being of 

 special interest or value : — 



From the Duke of Portland. — The skeleton of his famous 

 thoroughbred horse " St. Simon," together with the case in 

 which it was kept. 



From the Hon. Leopold de Rothschild. — The skeleton of 

 the celebrated thoroughbred racehorse " St. Frusquin," 



From Mrs. LongstafF. — A valuable collection of shells of 

 Land and Freshwater Mollusca, consisting of about 1,344 

 specimens from the Upper Nile, and including types of new 

 species and figured specimens. 



From Mr. F. D. Godman.— 8,397 specimens of Lepidoptera 

 Rhopalocera from various localities, including 362 types, all 

 fully prepared and labelled. 



From an anonymous donor (through Mr. Guy Marshall). — 

 A valuable collection of about 10,000 specimens of Siphonaptera 

 (or Fleas) formed by the Rev. James Waterston, 



