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By this munificent bequest the national collection of Coleop- 

 tera has been enriched by nearly 200,000 specimens, including 

 numerous types and rarities new to the Museum. 



Another bequest made last year to the Museum was that 

 of the late Mr. Edward Cavendish Taylor, comprising a 

 collection of 1,279 birds, 868 eggs, and 33 mammals, together 

 with the cabinets containing the specimens. 



Presenta. 



The total number of presents recorded as having been 

 received during the year by the several Departments of the 

 Museum was 2,092, as against 1,933 in 1904. Many of these 

 comprised large numbers of individual specimens. The details 

 of all the more important of them will be found in the reports 

 of the Keepers of the several Departments, but the following 

 are mentioned here also as being of special interest or 

 importance : — 



From His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. — A bronze 

 statuette, modelled by Captain Adrian Jones, of " Persimmon," 

 the thoroughbred stallion belonging to His Majesty the King. 



From His Grace the Duke of Bedford, K.G. — A series of 

 mammals and birds from Japan, being a first instalment of a 

 collection which is being formed in East Asia by Mr. M. P. 

 Anderson, who has been sent out by the Duke to make a 

 systematic zoological exploration of that part of the world. 



From Mr. Andrew Carnegie. — A plaster cast of the 

 skeleton of the remarkable extinct reptile Diplodocus, 

 together with the handsome mounting of the specimen. {See 

 ante, p. 103.) 



From Dr. Alfred Eussel Wallace. — An interesting series 

 of pencil drawings of fishes of the Rio Negro, made by 

 Dr. Wallace during his travels in South America about 

 fifty years ago. 



From W. 0. B. Macdonough, Esq. — The skull and limb- 

 bones of the celebrated thoroughbred stallion " Ormonde," 

 formerly owned by the Duke of Westminster. 



From Captain H. J. Walton, I.M.S. — A collection of birds 

 made by him during the recent British expedition to Tibet. 



From F. Du Cane Godman, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S.— Further 

 consignments of Central American insects, consisting of 

 8,618 Coleoptera, 4,727 Lepidoptera, 885 Homoptera, and 196 

 Ephemeridse ; also a valuable series of about 5,000 specimens 

 of Spiders from Central America. 



From Colonel G. Rippon.— A collection of birds obtained 

 by him while exploring little known parts of Burma and 

 Western China, consisting of 335 specimens from the 

 Kauri-Kachin district, and 1,260 from Mt. Victoria in the 

 Chin Hills. 



