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as compared with 130,185 in the year 1893. 



76,011 „ 1892. 



48,771 „ 1891. 



77,658 „ 1890. 



69,270 „ 1889. 



44,087 „ 1888. 



65,199 „ 1887. 



36,358 „ 1886. 



123,358 „ 1885. 



The most important acquisitions were the following: — 



1. The specimens collected by St. George Littledale, Esq., 

 on his last expedition across Central Asia and China. They 

 include fourteen Mammals, among which are skins of spe- 

 cimens of both sexes, and the skeleton of a male, of the Camel, 

 which was discovered by General Przevaldsky to live in a wild 

 state in the mountains east of Lob Nor, in Eastern Turkestan; 

 also twelve Birds, fifteen Reptiles, and ten Fish ; presented by 

 St. George Littledale, Esq. 



2. A valuable collection from Muscat, Arabia, of forty-one 

 Mammals, including a new species of Wild Goat (Hemitragus^ 

 jayakari) and of a Hare {Lepus omanensis), nine Lizards, 

 three Turtles, one Fish, forty-one land and freshwater 

 Shells ; presented by Surgeon-Major A. S. G. Jayakar. 



3. A further collection, in two instalments, from the 

 Nyassa district of British Central Africa, comprising twenty- 

 six Mammals, among which is the type of a new Hyrax 

 (Procavia johnstoni) ; a hundred and eighty-three Birds, 

 including the type of a new Parrot (Agapornis liliance), 

 thirty-three Reptiles, five Fishes, twelve land Shells, three 

 hundred and forty-nine Coleoptera, twenty-one Hymenoptera, 

 sixty-nine Lepidoptera, two hundred and sixty Orthoptera, 

 forty -five Rhynchota, fifty Arachnida and Myriopoda ; 

 presented by H. H. Johnston, Esq., H.B.M. Commissioner 

 for Nyassaland. 



4. A full-grown specimen of Burchell's Rhinoceros (Rhi- 

 noceros simus), well mounted by Mr. Rowland Ward, and the 

 skeleton of another individual. These specimens together 

 with another were obtained, thanks to the enterprising 

 spirit of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, by Mr. R. T. Coryndon 

 in Mashona Land, where this species still lingers in small 

 and rapidly diminishing numbers ; purchased. 



5. A series of three hundred and fifty-four Ducks and 

 Geese, fifty-eight Grebes, and four Coursers, which has 

 proved to be of great assistance in the preparation of the 

 volumes of the " Catalogue " which are in course of pub- 

 lication ; presented by Henry Seebohm, Esq. 



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