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From Mr. F. W. Styan. — Valuable collections of skins of 

 Mammals and Birds from various portions of the Chinese 

 Empire. 



From Mr. A. E. Pease, M.P. — A collection of 385 specimens 

 of Birds and 12 of Mammals, obtained by him during a recent 

 expedition into Somaliland and South Abyssinia. 



From Colonel A. E. Sloggett. C.M.G., r.a.m.c, Commandant, 

 Deelfontein Hospital, Cape Colony. — A collection of skins of 

 Mammals and Birds prepared by C. H. E. Seimund, the 

 Museum Taxidermist, while serving in Colonel Sloggett's 

 Battalion of Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa. 



From Dr. H. 0. Forbes, of Liverpool Museum. — A series of 

 enlarged photographs of types of various Races of Man. 



From the Secretary of State for the Congo Free State. — 

 Thirty-eight Fishes from the Congo and Lake Tanganyika. 



From the Government of Victoria. — The collection of 

 Birds, nests, and eggs from that Colony, exhibited at the 

 Earl's Court Exhibition in 1899. 



From the Prince of Monaco. — A copy of His Highness's 

 publication " Resultats des Campagnes scientifiques accom- 

 " plies sur son Yacht par le Prince Albert I., Prince de 

 " Monaco." 



From the Argentine Government, through Dr. F. P. Moreno. 

 — -A copy of the work, in five volumes, lately published by 

 that Government on the Argentine-Chilian boundary question, 

 entitled " Report to justify the Argentine claims for the 

 " Boundary," &c. 



From Colonel C. K. Bushe. — A " Greywether " or " Sarson- 

 stone," found in digging the foundations of the Victoria and 

 Albert Museum. 



From Lord Walsingham. — By Deed of Gift, Lord Walsing- 

 ham has placed at the disposal of the Trustees, on certain 

 conditions, his collection of nearly 200,000 specimens of 

 Micro-Lepidoptera and his library of books relating thereto ; 

 and, subject to the provision of the necessary assistance by 

 the Treasury, the Trustees have, with certain reservations, 

 gratefully accepted the gift. 



Exchanges and Gifts of Bwplicates. 



Exchanges of duplicate specimens have been made with the 

 following institutions and individuals : — 



Of Zoological Specimens. — With the University Museum, 

 Oxford ; the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge University ; 

 the Royal College of Science ; the Am.erican Museum of 

 Natural History, New York (through Dr. J. A. Allen) ; the 

 Kon. Museum fiir Naturkunde, Berlin ; Sarawak Museum ; 

 the Rev. H. S. Gorham ; Dr. E. A. Heath : Dr. A. H. Heath ; 



