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Vermes. — The following are based on material in the 

 collection : — 



'^ Descrizione d'una nuova Pheretima del Giappone " ; 

 *' Contributo alia conoscenza della drilofauna papuasica " ; by 

 L. Coqnetti de Martiis. 



Porifera. — " Descriptions of two new recent genera of 

 Pharetronid Sponges " ; " Notes on two species of African Fresh- 

 water Sponges " ; " Preliminary Eeport on the Monaxonellida 

 of the National Antarctic Expedition " ; by R. Kirkpatrick. 



V. — Acquisitions. 





Donations. 



Purchases. 



Exchanges. 



Total. 





'Wild 



3,339 



941 



18 



) 4,298 



Mammalia < Domesticated 



10 



1 



— 



11 



Human crania - 



3 



— 



— 



) B 



. i Various sour(;es, skins 



1 Eggs, nests, and skeletons 



1,715 



1,056 



— 



I 2,771 



150 



— 



— 



) 150 



Eeptilia - ... - 



464 



262 



10 



736 



Batrachia - . _ . 



137 



224 



8 



369 



Pisces - - . . - 



1.239 



330 



9 



1,578 



.Tunicata .... 



2 



— 







2 



MoUusca - .... 



1,429 



1,414 



3 



2,846 



In<;Poti i ^^^^^'P Collectiou - 

 Insecta j ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ _ ^ _ 



22,721 



50,000 

 13,089 







761 



i 86,571 



Myriopoda .... 



60 



35 



— 



95 



Prototracheata .... 



1 



1 







2 



Arachnida 



951 



269 







1,220 



Pycnogonida - - - - 



56 



— 







56 



Crastacea .... 



1,235 



592 







1,827 



Echinoderma .... 



33 



— 







33 



Vermes . - - - . 



98 



7 



2 



107 



Brachiopoda - - . . 



— 



— 







Polyzoa - . . - - 



31 











31 



Anthozoa - - - - - 



84 











84 



Hydrozoa - . - . 



34 



— 



_ 



34 



Porifera - - - . . 



369 



292 



224 



885 



Protozoa 



6 



— 





6 



Totals 



34,167 



68,513 



1,035 



103,715 



Mammalia. — The additions to this class during the past 

 year number four thousand three hundred and twelve, of which 

 the following are most worthy of note : — 



Europe, 



Twenty-nine mammals from Stockholm ; presented bv 

 Lord Lilford. 



Forty-two mammals from South Norway ; presented by 

 R. J. Cuninghame, Esq. 



One hundred and forty -five from France, collected by 

 M. C. Mottaz; seventy-five from the South of France, 

 T,wenty-nine from the Channel Islands ; presented by Oldfield 

 Thomas, Esq. 



Two Genets from Biarritz ; presented by the Zoological 

 Society. 



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