4-i8 

 1,772 



38 



2,25S 



1,C02 



9,671 



328 



n,GOi 





19 



2,384 



2,403 



- - 



16,262 



DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 141 



A series of thirty-nine fossil leaves and fruit from the 

 Tertiary beds of the Sicbengebirge. 



Three Plants from the Oolitic formation of Worcestershire 

 and Gloucestershire. 



The total number of specimens acquired during the past 

 year has been as follows : — 



A. — ^Vertebrata : 



By Donation - - - - 



,, Purchase - - - - 



„ Exchange - - - - 



B. — Tnvertebrata : 



By Donation - - - - 



„ Purchase - - - - 



,, Exchange - - - - 



C. — Plants : 



By Donation - - - - 

 ,, Purchase - - - - 



Total Acquisitions in 1896 



VIII. — Exchanges and Duplicates. 



The following exchanges, which were sanctioned by the 

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



1. A series of duplicate fragmentary Mammalian remains, 

 i-epresenting the genera Cervus, Bos, Gapra, fee, sent at the 

 request of H. E. the Governor of Gibraltar, General Sir Robert 

 Biddulph, G.C.M.G., k.c.b., who is forming a Museum for the 

 Garrison ; in exchange for a bone of the extinct Vulture {Gyps 

 melitensis) from a cavern at Gibraltar. 



2. A series of nine duplicate Vertebrates, and 83 Inverte- 

 brates, for the Warrington Museum (presented by the 

 Trustees). 



3. Eighty-seven duplicate fossils were sent to Professor 

 Dr. H. Credner in exchange for a selected series of 23 speci- 

 mens of Branchiosaurus from the Permian formation of 

 Dresden. 



4. Seventy-eight duplicate English Chalk fossils (Inverte" 

 brata) have been sent to Dr. E. Stolley, of the Kiel Museum- 

 in exchange for ]22 fossils from the Chalk of Hanover received 

 from Dr. Stolley. 



5. Fifteen small casts of English fossils, prepared and sent 

 to Professor H. F. Osborn, American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York, in exchange for three important casts of 

 American fossils sent by Professor Osborn. 



0.125. 6. Exchange 



