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These illustrations have been prepared and mounted in 

 passes-partouts, and framed and glazed with suitable labels 

 for the Geological and recent Mammalian Galleries. 



II. — By Purchase. A. Vertebeata. 



1. ManfiTYicdia. — A collection of Pliocene Mammalian fossils 

 from Olivola, Carrara Mountains, Italy, comprising remains of 

 Cervus, Le]}tohos, Equus, Rhinoceros, Ursus, an imperfect 

 mandibular ramus of Machairodus, and twenty bones of 

 Ungulates. 



A series of teeth of Palceotherium magnum, from the 

 Eocene, Isle of Wight. 



Fifteen bones of Elephas melitoe, from the Cavern of 

 Cavini, and one of Mastodon arvernensis, Isle of Sicily. 



The " Savin Collection" of Pliocene Mammalia from the 

 Cromer " Forest bed series " comprises the following remains : — 

 3 of Talpa europcea ; 1 Trichechus huxleyi ; 1 Phoca, sp. ; 

 1 of Felis, sp. ; 5 Hycena crocuta ; 5 Ganis lupus ; 5 Ganis, 

 sp. ; 1 of Ganis vulpes ; 1 Mustela, sp. ; 22 of Ursus spelceus ; 

 1 of Machairodus latidens ; 2 of Hycena, sp. ; 17 of Gervus 

 verticornis ; 13 of Gervus elaphus ; 25 of Gervus savini ; 4 

 oi Gervus sedgwichii ; 6 of G. dawlcinsii; 3 of G . polignacus ; 

 8 of G. etueriarum ; 9 of G. tetraceros ; of remains of Ger- 

 vidce not specifically determined there are 484 ; 3 Gapreolus 

 capreola ; 24 Alces latifrons ; Bison bonasus (var. priscus), 

 51 specimens ; 26 of Hippopotamus major ; 12 of Hipjoo- 

 potamus amphihius ; 6 of Sus scrofa; 83 specimens of 

 Rhinoceros etruscus ; 207 of Equus fossilis ; 34 specimens of 

 Elephas meridionalis ; 55 of Elephas antiquus ; 23 of E. 

 primigenius ; 80 specimens of Elephas not specifically 

 determined; 248 oi Arvicola inter me dius ; 22 of A. arvalis ; 

 16 of A. amphihius; 1 of A. glareolus ; 405 specimens of 

 Arvicola, not specifically determined ; 57 of Trogontherium 

 cuvieri ; 7 of Gastor europceus ; 2 of Baloena, sp. ; 7 

 remains of Getacea ; 1 of Delphinapterus leucas ; 1 of Orca 

 gladiator ; 1 of Monodon monoceras ; 1 of Phocoina com- 

 munis ; about 90 mammalian remains have not been named. 

 There are upwards of 2,000 specimens, a large number of 

 which have been described and figured by Mr. E. T. Newton, 

 F.R.S., in " The Vertebrata of the Forest Bed Series of Norfolk 

 and Suffolk," and in " The Geological Magazine." 



2. Aves. — Eighteen bird-remains embracing the genera 

 Bubo, Anser, Anas, Spatula, and Alca, from the Forest-bed 

 series, Cromer, Norfolk (figured and described by E. T. 

 Newton, f.r.s,, in " Vert. Pliocene Deposits," pi. ix. figs. 4 a, b, c, 

 in Geol. Mag. (3), vol. iv., pi. iv., fig. 4, and in " Vert. Forest 

 Bed," pi. xvii., figs. 1, 2, 3), part of the " Savin Collection." 



8. Reptilia. — A collection of Fossil Vertebrates from the 

 Oxford Clay, Fletton, near Peterborough, viz. :— Ten Plio- 

 saurian and three new Dinosaurian teeth ; a nearly complete 



