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P or if era. — Twenty-two Sponges from the Carboniferous 

 Limestone of Tournai (Piret Collection). 



One sponge from the Great Oolite of Dundry. 

 Two sponges from the English Chalk. 



Protozoa. — Three hundred and sixteen slides of Fora- 

 minifera from the Lias and Fuller's Earth of Somerset. 



Forty-five slides of Foraminifera from the Pliocene of 

 St. Erth, Cornwall. 



Various Invertebrata. — About seven hundred fossil 

 Invertebrata from India, Russia, and Britain, collected by the 

 late Prof. J. F. Blake. 



Invertebrata chiefly from the Mesozoic rocks of S.W. 

 England, selected from the Thomas Mead Collection. 



Two hundred Invertebrata from the Cretaceous of 

 Lebanon. 



Plantce. — Carboniferous plants from S.W. England, from 

 the Thomas Mead Collection. 



A polished block of Carboniferous petrified plant-remains 

 fr(im Littleborough, Lancashire. 



Fossil plants from the Culm of North and West Devon 

 (Rogers Collection). 



Oligocene plants from Tarrega, Lerida, Spain, collected by 

 Don Francisco Clua. 



The total acquisitions are as follows : — 

 A. — Vertebrata : 



By Bequest - _ - - - 180 

 ,, Donation ----- 434 

 ,, Purchase ----- 495 

 ,, Exchange ----- 240 



1,349 



B. — Invertebrata : 



By Bequest - - - . _ 3^934 

 „ Donation ----- 4,175 

 „ Purchase ----- 27,120 

 „ Exchange ----- 445 



35,724 



C— Plants : 



By Bequest ----- 69 



„ Donation ----- 30 



„ Purchase - - - - 126 



D. — Rock specimens : 



By Donation - - - - - 16 



225 



16 



Total Acquisitions for 1907 = 37,314 

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