100 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



16. The collection of recent Foraminifera, formed by the 

 late Professor W. K. Parker, consisting of about one thousand 

 seven hundred slides, and containing the types and other 

 historically important specimens, described by Professor 

 Parker and Professor Rupert Jones ; purchased. 



17. A series of one hundred and twenty-one watercolour 

 life-size drawings of British Birds and seventy-six of British 

 Fishes, prepared by the late Professor MacGillivray of Aber- 

 deen ; presented by his son, P. H. MacGillivray, Esq. of Sand- 

 hurst, Victoria. 



Mammalia. — The additions to this class during the year 

 were nine hundred and thirty-nine ; they include fifty species 

 new to the collection, and thirty-five types. The following 

 are most worthy of note : — 



A wild Boar from Waldleiningen, in the Odenwald ; shot 

 and presented by H.R.H. the late Grand Duke Louis of 

 Hesse. 



The skeleton of a Sibbald's Rorqual (Balcenoptera sihbaldi), 

 from Wexford Bay, Ireland ; purchased. 



Twenty-seven small Mammals from Magdeburg, Germany ; 

 presented by Dr. W. Woltersdorfi". 



The skin of a Yarkand Stag {Gervus yarkandensis), and 

 Sb J eran {Gazella suhgutturosa), from Kashgaria ; presented 

 by Major C. S. Cumberland. 



A skull of the Yarkand Stag (Gervus yarkandensis), from 

 Maralbashi, Turkestan ; presented by Henry Lennard, Esq. 



Twenty-five Mammals from Siberia and Tibet, mostly from 

 the Przewalski collection, including five species new to the 

 collection ; received in exchange from the St. Petersburg 

 Museum. 



A rare hornless Stag (Elaphodus cephalophus), a specimen 

 of an Asiatic Deer (Gervus thoroldi), also a Bear new to 

 the collection (Ursus pruinosus), from Eastern Tibet; pur- 

 chased. 



Eight Mammalia from the Island of Tsu-shima ; purchased. 



Twenty-seven small Mammals from Foo-chow and Swatow, 

 China ; presented by J. de la Touche, Esq. 



Ten small Mammals from Suakim ; presented by Colonel 

 Sir C. Holled Smith, k.c.m.g. 



Three pairs of Antelope horns from the Sahara, nine small 

 Mammals from East Africa, and the head of a new species of 

 Gemsbuck (Oryx callotis), from Mount Kilima-njaro ; pre- 

 sented by Rowland Ward, Esq. 



Eight Mammalia from Somali-land, including the type of 

 Buhalis swaynei ; collected by Captain H. G. C. Swayne and 

 presented by P. L. Sclater, Esq., f.r.s. 



The typical specimens of Jackson's Hartebeest (Buhalis 

 jacksoni), of the white-throated Gnu (Gonnochwtes alho- 



juhatus), 



