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Duplicates. 



The Whitechapel Museum, the Devon and Exeter Albert 



Memorial Museum, Exeter, and the University Extension 



College, Reading, have been placed on the list of institutions 



to receive grants of duplicate specimens of Natural History. 



A number of specimens of silks, laces, bangles, «fec., formerly 

 in the collection of the old Indian Museum broken up in 1 879, 

 have been transferred to the Imperial Institute and the Hope 

 Professor of Zoology, Oxford. 



A small series of duplicate specimens of all classes of 

 Natural History have been presented to the Governor of 

 Gibraltar, to aid him in the formation of a local Museum. 



Grants of duplicate Zoological specimens have been made to 

 the Museums of Exeter, Ipswich, and Warrington ; of dupli- 

 cate fossils, to the Museums of Exeter and Warrington; of 

 duplicate minerals, to the University Extension College, 

 Reading; of fragments of meteorites, to the Madrid Museum 

 and to Professor Ramsay (for experimental purposes) ; and of 

 duplicate botanical specimens, to the Royal Gardens, Kew, 

 the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, the Herbarium of the 

 Royal College of Science, Dublin, the Birkbeck Literary and 

 Scientific Institution, and University College, Liverpool. 



Publications. 



The following Catalogues of Natural History have been 

 published during the year : — - 



Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum : — Vol. XXIV- 

 Catalogue of the Limicolse in the collection of the British 

 Museum, by R. Bowdler Sharpe, ll.d.. Pp. xii., 794 : woodcuts 

 and 7 coloured plates. d,vo. 25s. 



Vol. XXV. Catalogue of the Gavise and Tubinares in the 

 collection of the British Museum. Gavise (Terns, Gulls, and 

 Skuas), by Howard Saunders. Tubinares (Petrels and Alba- 

 trosses), by Osbert Salvin. Pp. xv., 475 : luoodcuts and 8 

 coloured plates. 8vo. 21s. 



Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural 

 History) : — Vol. III., containing the Colubridse (Opistho- 

 glyphse and Proteroglyphae), Amblycephalidas, and Viperidse, 

 by G. A. Boulenger, f.r.s. Pp. xiv., 727 : 37 luoodcuts and 

 25 plates. Svo. 26s. 



Catalogue of Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum 

 (Natural History) : — Vol. II. The Genus Turbinaria ; the 

 Genus Astrseopora, by H. M. Bernard. Pp. iv., 106 : 30 collo- 

 type and, 3 lithographic plates. 4ito. 18s. 



Catalogue of the Fossil Bryozoa in the Department of Geo- 

 logy, British Museum (Natural History). The Jurassic 

 Bryozoa, by J. W. Gregory, D.sc. Pp. viii., 239 : 22 woodcuts 

 and 11 plates. Sw. lOs. 



0,125. F 4 Catalogue 



