154 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Twenty-one concretions from the Champion Clays of the 

 Connecticut Valley. Presented by Mrs. J. M. Arms Sheldon, 

 in illustration of her book on the subject. 



Ten artificially prepared dendrites in silver, copper, and 

 barium chloride, also crystallized deposits of nitre upon glass. 

 Presented by Prof. William Watson, d.sc, f.r.s. 



Twenty-nine rocks and microscope-sections of organic 

 structures from the Cretaceous and later formations of 

 Turkish Armenia. Presented by Felix Oswald, Esq., B.SC, 

 and H. F. B. Lynch, Esq. 



Twenty fossiliferous limestones from the Eocene of the 

 Tochi River district, Waziristan, N.W. India. Presented by 

 Lieut. -Col. B. M. Skinner, r.a.m.c. 



" Vegetable Hedgehog " formed by the wind on the sea- 

 shore, Lossiemouth, Elgin. Presented by W. B. Potter, Esq. 



A set of twenty of Sopwith's Geological Models. Pre- 

 sented by the Executors of the late Dr. C. H. Gatty. 



A series of ten plaster casts, illustrating the formation of 

 mountains, eight being described and figured by the donor 

 in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. lix. (1903), pp. 348-353, 

 figs. 1-8. Presented by the Rt. Hon. Lord Avebury, f.r.s. 



B. — By Purchase. 



Mammcdia. — A collection of about a hundred specimens 

 of Grypotherium and associated animals from a cavern near 

 Last Hope Inlet, Patagonia, including the following : —Five 

 pieces of skin, much separate hair, six pieces of excrement, a 

 nearly complete immature skull and mandible, parts of the 

 skull and mandible of a large individual, parts of two mandi- 

 bles of young individuals, vertebrae, other bones and claws of 

 GryiDotheTium ; two nests, fourteen pellets, and twenty-one 

 hoofs of horses. 



Three jaws of LopJiiodon isselensis, from the Middle 

 Eocene of Issel, and four toe-bones of Macrotherium san- 

 saniense from the Middle Miocene of Sansan, France. 



Beptilia. — Remains of Ichthyosaurus from the White 

 Lias of Lyme Regis. 



Parts of four skeletons of fossil Reptiles from the Oxford 

 Clay of Peterborough, including (1) twenty-four vertebrae, 

 eight limb-bones, numerous dermal scutes, and various other 

 fragments of a Stegosaurian Dinosaur ; (2 and 3) parts of 

 two skeletons of Steneosaurus, one with head four and a 

 half feet in length, the other with remains of tracheal rings ; 

 (4) mandible and associated remains of Thaumatosaurus. 



Six fossils (reptiles and fishes) from the Portland Stone. 



Tooth of Folyptychodon from Cambridge Greensand. 



Pisces. — One microscope-section of fin-spine of Sphena- 

 canthus from the Yorkshire Coal-Measures. 



