162 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A piece of fossil wood from West Point Island, Falkland 

 Islands. Presented by His Excellency W. L. Allardyce, C.M.G., 

 Governor of the Falkland Islands. 



Rock Specimens. — A polished section of stalagmite of 

 Carboniferous age occurring in a clay stratum in the Limestone 

 exposed within the grounds at Brentry House, Brentry Hill, 

 near Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire. Also fibrous Calcite, 

 deposited between layers of clay in Carboniferous Limestone^ 

 Brentry Hill. Presented by Spencer G. Perceval, Esq. 



Three pieces of Carboniferous Limestone, from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bristol. Presented by C. Davies Sherborn, Esq. 



A scratched stone from the Boulder Clay of Cromer. 

 Presented by J. F. Duthie, Esq. 



Miscellaneous. — A plaster copy of a bust of Sir Roderick 

 Impey Murchison, Bart., Trustee of the British Museum 

 1852-71 ; the original in the possession of the Geological 

 Society of London. Presented by Miss A. F. Yule. 



B. — By Purchase. 



Mammalia. — A skull and two jaws of Zeuglodon, a skull 

 of HyopotaQUUs, a mandibular ramus of Geniohyus and of a 

 Creodont, from the Eocene of the Fayum, Egypt. 



A tooth of Palceotherium, a tooth of Anthracotherium, 

 and remains of Paloplotherium. 



Mandible of Strongylognathus sansaniensis from the 

 Miocene, Sansan, France. 



A pair of antlers of Red Deer from submerged forest, 

 Barmouth. 



Molars of Elephas from the Pleistocene of Kansas, U.S.A. 



Eighteen micro-slides of Siwalik Mammalian teeth (H. 

 Falconer Coll.) 



Aves. — Four bones of Dinornis from a depth of 40 feet in 

 Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, New Zealand. 



Reptilia and Amphibia. — A collection of fossil Reptiles 

 from the Karoo Formation of South Africa, made by the late 

 Prof. H. G. Seeley, including : — Skeleton of Erythrosuchus 

 africanus, axial skeleton of a Dicynodont (Kannemeyeria), 

 skull of Dicynodon, three imperfect Dicynodont skulls, Dicy- 

 nodont mandible and three fragments, skull of Ptychognathus,, 

 part of a skeleton of Gynognathus, type skull of G. berryi, 

 figured part of skeleton of Microgom^phodon, skull of Gompho- 

 gnathus and portion of mandible, parts of skull of Hyorhynchus, 

 type skull of Trirhacodon berryi, skull of Tapinocephalus, 

 two new Anomodont skulls, four figured skulls ofProcolophon, 

 five Pariasaurian bones, Labyrinthodont skull, portions of 

 Labyrinthodont jaw, Labyrinthodont tooth, set of small 

 vertebrae and sacrum and eleven micro-slides. Also supposed 



