98 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



From Major Powell-Cotton.— The skins of an adult male 

 Okapi and a young Okapi, both from the Upper Ituri district 

 of Equatorial Africa. 



From Mr. A. 0. Walker. — A copy of Paulson's work on 

 the Crustacea of the Ked Sea, published in 1875 — an exceed- 

 ingly rare book, of which only 100 copies were printed, only 

 one other copy being known to be in England. 



From the Duke of Bedford. — A further series of natural 

 history specimens collected in the Far East by Mr. M. P. 

 Anderson, comprising mammals from Hokkaido, Saghalien, 

 and Mindanao, and birds from Saghalien, etc. 



From Professor W. A. Herdman. — A number of sponges, 

 including several type-specimens, collected by him during 

 his investigation upon the Pearl Oyster Fishery of Ceylon. 



From Mr. Henry Harvey. — A valuable series of types and 

 figured specimens of shells, selected from the collection of 

 the late Sylvanus Hanley, co-author in 1848-53 of the 

 " History of British Mollusca." 



From Mr. F. W. Styan. — A valuable collection of about 

 10,000 specimens of Chinese birds. 



From Miss Glazebrook Rylands. — The important collec- 

 tion of diatoms made by her father, the late Thomas 

 Glazebrook Bylands, consisting of about 6,000 microscope 

 slides and 900 bottles of diatom material, besides a valuable 

 correspondence. 



From Mr. R. E. Turner. — A series of 1,893 Australian 

 hymenoptera (including many type-specimens), collected and 

 mounted by himself. 



From Mr. Percy C. Tarbutt— A valuable series of minerals 

 from the new mines at Broken Hill, N.W. Rhodesia. 



The late Miss Caroline Birley has bequeathed to the 

 Museum her valuable geological and mineralogical collections. 



Purchases. 



Among the more important purchases made during the 

 year, special mention may be made of the following : — 



The skeleton of an adult male Okapi, obtained by Major 

 Powell-Cotton in the Ituri Forest ; the Goodfellow collection 

 of birds from New Guinea and Formosa ; a collection made 

 by Mr. G. S. Miller of 4,000 specimens of North American 

 mammals, containing about 400 species, many new to the 

 Museum ; models of giant squid and octopus, for exhibition ; 

 part of the late Dr. F. Moore's collection of Indian and 

 Malayan butterflies, including 119 type-specimens ; a selected 

 series of 150 remains of large extinct lemurs from a swamp 

 of pleistocene age in Madagascar, nearly all the species repre- 

 sented being new to the Museum, and several new to science ; 



