DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 145 



By Rudolf Martin. 

 1. Note on some Remains of Struthio Jcaratheodoris^ 

 Major, of the Island of Samos. Proc, Zool. Soc, 1903, vol. i.^ 

 pp. 203-210. 



By E. A. Newell ArLer, M.A., f.g.s. 



1. Notes on some Fossil Plants collected by Mr. Molyneux 

 in Rhodesia. Quart. Journ. Geol, Soc, vol. lix., pp. 288-290. 



By Miss D. M. A. Bate. 

 1. On an extinct species of Genet (Genetta idesictoides, 

 sp. n.) from the Pleistocene of Cyprus. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1903, 

 vol. ii., pp. 121-124, pi. X. 



Various fossils in the Department of Geology have also 

 been described and figured by Mr. Henry Woods, Dr. Wheeltort 

 Hind; Dr. A. H. Foord, Miss Elles, and Miss Wood, in the 

 Monographs of the Palseontographical Society, vol. Ivii. for 

 1903. 



VII. — Acquisitions. A. — By Collection. 



A series of remains of Vertebrata from the Eocene and- 

 Pleistocene formations of the Fayum, Egypt, collected by 

 Dr. C. W. Andrews. This collection includes upwards of 150 

 specimens of Mammalia and 20 of Reptilia. The principal 

 specimens are a skull and mandible of Avsinoitharium 

 zitteli, remains of a larger species of Arsinoitherixim, various 

 fragments of Hyracoids, and a skull of Pcdceomastodon 

 headnelli. 



B. — By Bequest. 

 Mr. William Vicary, of the Priory, Exeter, who died in 

 November, 1903, bequeathed to the Trustees of the British 

 Museum all the collection of Devonshire fossils formed by 

 him during a long life. 



The collection, which contains over 9,800 specimens, 

 consists mainly of the following sections : — 



Ordovician and Devonian fossils contained in pebbles from 



the Triassic beds of Budleigh Salterton. 

 Devonian fossils from Wolborough, Chudleigh, Knowles 

 Hill, and other Devonshire localities. 



. Polished slices and pebbles of Devonian rock from St. 

 Mary Church, Shaldon Beach, and other localities on 

 the south coast of De'/onshire, _ containing corals, 

 cephalopods, and other organisms. 

 Fossils from the Greensand beds of Haldon, with a few 

 from the corresponding beds of Blackdown, and from 

 other exposures of the Cretaceous rocks in Devonshire. 



