112 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



From the Lords of the Admiralty. — The rock-specimens and 

 fossils collected by Sir John Richardson on Sir John Franklin's 

 Arctic Expedition (1819-27)— transferred from the Royal Naval 

 Hospital, Haslar. 



E'rom Mr. F. N. A. Fleischmann (now Ashcroft). — A superb 

 collection of upwards of 1,000 choice specimens of minerals 

 belonging to the Zeolite group, from various localities in Europe 

 and the United States of America. 



From Mr. C. Arthur Pearson. — A very fine polished section 

 of a silicified tree-trunk, from the "petrified forest" of 

 Arizona, U.S.A. 



From Mr. and Mrs. P. Amaury Talbot. — A collection of 

 flowering plants from the Eket district of S. Nigeria. 



Purchases. 



Among the more important purchases made during the 

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



A fine series of birds from Yemen, S. Arabia, collected by 

 Mr. G. W. Bury ; fishes and reptiles from Tropical West Africa, 

 collected by Mr. G. L. Bates ; the skin and skeleton of a pygmy 

 Hippopotamus from Sierra Leone; a collection made by Mr. C. 

 H. B. Grant of 1,754 British birds, including series collected in 

 all months of the year, and 22 clutches of eggs ; a collection of 

 bird-skins from the West Indies and other localities, made by 

 Dr. Percy R. Lowe ; the second half of the Koch collection of 

 Arachnida, &c., consisting of 1,246 named species of spiders and 

 974 tubes of unnamed spiders ; 52 bottles and tubes containing 

 specimens of Prototracheata (Peripatus, &c.) from the collection 

 of the late Prof. Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S. ; a collection of about 

 10,000 specimens of Hymenoptera formed by the late Mr. Peter 

 Cameron, and including 1,500 types of species described by him ; 

 a lai-ge collection of moths, beetles, &c., from Tropical America 

 and other localities ; the second and final portion of the late 

 Canon Blackburn's collection of types of Australian Coleoptera, 

 comprising 990 specimens (961 types and 29 co-types); the fourth 

 instalment of the Distant collection of insects, consisting of 3,000 

 specimens of Rhynchota and 2,000 of Coleoptera (including 250 

 types) ; fossil reptiles from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough ; 

 an important series of reptilian remains from the Chalk of 

 Kansas ; three fossil reptiles from South Africa (Pariasaurus 

 and two new species) ; a collection of Echinoids from the 

 Inferior Oolite of the West of England ; a series of 650 

 Devonian fossil Invertebrata from the Eifel, Germany ; a fine 

 specimen of an Ichthyosaurus, from the Upper Lias of Holz- 

 maden, Wiirtemberg ; a fine example of Kunzite, the rai-e lilac- 

 coloured variety of Spodumene, and a specimen showing 

 crystals in the matrix, from the Pala Chief Mine, California ; a 

 remarkable specimen showing crystallized gold on quartz, from 

 California ; an Apatite, a remarkable crystal from Salzburg, 

 Tyrol ; two emeralds from Brazil ; a slice and a cast of the 

 meteoric iron which was found at Mount Edith, Ashburton, 

 West Australia, on April 20th 1913; a nugget, weighing 

 54 grams, of the rare mineral Iridosmine, from Tasmania ; 

 a large collection of Chinese plants ; collections of plants from 

 the South Pacific, Paraguay, Bolivia, Costa Rica Mexico, 



