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Hopfner's " Magasin fiir die Naturkiinde Helvefcieiis," 1787-89, 

 4 vols. ; " Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum," 

 4th edition, 1811 ; and Lamarck's " Recueil des Planches," 

 1823 (a perfect copy), have all been acquired by Mr. Sherborn 

 for the Library. 



The following bibliographical results have been published 

 i»y Mr. Sherborn in the "Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," viz. : — 



1°. " On the contents of the parts and dates of publication 

 " of C. W. Hahn and G. A. W. Herrich-SchaefFer, 

 '' ' Die Wanzigartigen Insecten,' 1831-53." (Annals, 

 Series VIII., vol. xiii, p. 365.) 

 2". "An attempt at a fixation of the dates of issue of the 

 " parts of the publications of the Musce d'Histoire 

 " Naturelle of Paris, 1802-1850." (Annals, Series 

 VIIL, vol. xiii, pp. 3G5-3G8.) 

 8°. " On the dates of publication of C. W. Hahn and 

 " C. L. Koch, 'Die Arachniden,' 1831-1849." 

 (Annals, Series VIIL, vol. xiv, pp. 143-144.) 



Index Museum and Morphological Collections. 



The representative series of specimens collected on the 

 British Antarctic ("Terra Nova ") Expedition, which had been 

 on exhibition in the Hal] since November 25th, 1913, was dis- 

 mounted in July ; and the two cases thus liberated were used 

 for the display of a selected series of forty skulls of extinct 

 Vertebrates showing interesting peculiarities of dentition, a 

 series of twenty human skulls illustrating ethnological pecu- 

 liarities of dentition, a collection of twenty-three skulls of 

 apes, seals, &c., showing teratological and pathological con- 

 ditions of the teeth, and seven preparations demonstrating the 

 transitory teeth of Baleen Whales and the mode of growth of 

 the whalebone. 



In the middle of the Hall has been set up a special series 

 of specimens and enlarged models illustrating the life-history 

 of the Bont Tick, Amhlyoinma hehraeum, which is responsible 

 for the spread of the disease known as " heart-water " among 

 sheep and goats in South Africa. 



A new form of public microscope for the display of five 

 slides in rotation has been designed and constructed and placed 

 in the Hall with specimens illustrating the life-history of the 

 tropical Plague-Flea, of which an enlarged model is already 

 exhibited in the middle of the Plall. 



In the Mcndelian series in Bay VI three Andalusian Fowls 

 have been mounted as an instance of a cross-bred individual 

 dift'ering from both parents. 



All the dissections exhibited in the Hall that are mounted 

 in preservative fluid have been inspected during the year j 

 forty four bottles have been resealed, and fifty-two replenished. 



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