148- ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 



C. — Plants : 



By Donation ----- 284 



„ Purchase ----- 572 



,, Exchange ----- — 



856 



Total Acquisitions in 1894 - - 16,305 



Vlil. — Exchanges, and Duplicates. 



The following exchanges, which were sanctioned by the 

 Trustees, have been completed in the past year, viz. : — 



1. Eighty Mollusca, Corals and Bryozoa, from the Upper 

 Silurian of Dudler (part of the " Madeley Collection") offered 

 by Mr. Robt. F. Damon, in exchange for 30 duplicate Siwalik 

 Mammalia. 



2. Twenty-two Solenhofen and other fossils, desiderated 

 by the Museum, offered by Mr. B Sturtz, of Bonn, in exchange 

 for sixteen coloured casts of figured fossils (duplicates) in the 

 Museum. 



3. A series of casts of fossil bones of Birds from the 

 Mauritius, offered by the Cambridge University Museum in 

 exchange for a cast of Archceopteryx. 



4. Six Russian fish-remains, from the Imperial Academy of 

 St. Petersburg, offered in exchange for a duplicate specimen 

 of Cephalaspis Pagei and a cast of Cephalaspis Murchisoni. 



Duplicates. — 101 Duplicate Cephalopoda were transferred 

 by the Trustees to Professor J. W. Judd, f.r.s., v.p.g.s., of 

 the Royal College of Science, to aid in his series of lecture- 

 specimens. 



796 Miscellaneous duplicate fossils were transferred by the 

 Trustees to the University College of South Wales, Cardiff, 

 for teaching purposes. 



IX. — Lectures and Demonstrations. 



Miss Goodrich Freer delivered a Lecture, and gave a De- 

 monstration in the Gallery to the Members of the " Parents 

 National Educational Union," on February 3rd to 33 Members. 



10th „ 46 

 17th „ 42 

 ., 24th „ 45 

 Miss Whitely also delivered lectures to the same Society 

 on March 2nd to 3.2 Members. 

 4th „ 17 

 „ 16th „ 15 



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