90 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



well-known collection of Devonshire fossils, comprising 

 upwards of 9,800 specimens chiefly from the Cretaceous and 

 Devonian formations and from Ordovician pebbles in the^ 

 New Red Sandstone of Devonshire. 



Presents. 



The total number of presents recorded as having beeit 

 received durinor f.he year by the several Departments of the- 

 Museum was 1,997, as compared with 1,853 in 1902. Many^ 

 of these comprised large numbers of individual specimens. 

 The details of the more important of them will be found in 

 the Reports of the Keepers of Departments, but the following 

 are mentioned here also as being of special interest : — 



From His Majesty the King of Portugal. — A collection of 

 Marine Invertebrates obtained by His Majesty off the Portu- 

 guese coast with a view to improve the series in the British 

 Museum. 



From the Royal Society. — The valuable illustrative col- 

 lection formed during the investigation of the Coral Reef 

 Funafuti. 



From His Highness Kiamil Pasha, Governor-General of 

 the Province of Smyrna. — A fragment, weighing 1 grammes, 

 of a meteorite seen to fall at Caratash, near Smyrna, on 

 August 22nd, 1902. 



From His Highness the Maharaja of Cuch Behar. — A 

 specimen of the Indian Rhinoceros, procured by him on. 

 learning that one was wanted for exhibition in the Museum. 



From Mrs. John Anderson. — A series of Mammals from 

 Egypt and the Sudan, consisting of 250 skins, and the 

 skeleton of a whale from the Red Sea : the collection 

 including the types of six new species described in the late 

 Dr. John Anderson's book on the Mammals of Egypt. 



From' Colonel A. T. Sloggett, C.M.G., R.A.M.C— Further 

 large collections of Birds and Mammals from the neighbour- 

 hood of Deelfontein, Cape Colony. 



From F. D. Godman, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S.— The Janson 

 Collection of Elateridse, a family of Beetles, containing 

 24,900 specimens belonging to about 5,000 species, over 

 1,000 specimens being original types. The collection is the 

 best of the kind in the world, and is one of the most valuable 

 additions to the Insect Section of the Zoological Department 

 of the Museum made during many years. 



From Mrs. Percy Sladen. — An extensive series of Zoological 

 and Botanical specimens, many being new to the Museum 

 cabinets, collected near Cuyaba, Matto Grosso, Central Brazil, 

 b}^ Mr. Alphonse Robert. 



From the Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P. — A male Giraffe 

 (mounted for exhibition) from the Quashengerhue Plateau, in 

 British East Africa. 



