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only. Accompanied by Mr. S. R. B. Pask, Major Christy was engaged 

 during the latter part of the year in a further expedition to Lake 

 Tanganyika, the results of which have not yet come to hand. 



A successful expedition to the Spanish Sierra Nevada for the collec- 

 tion of botanical specimens was made by Mr. A. J. Wilmott of the 

 Department of Botany. 



An expedition into South-west Africa by Capt. G. C. Shortridge 

 was macle possible by financial assistance from the Percy Sladen 

 Trustees ; and collecting w^ork in Peru, Patagonia, and Bolivia was 

 continued with the aid of generous contributions from Mr. J. Spedan 

 Lewis and Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., together with grants from 

 the Godman Exploration Fund. 



Expeditions were commenced during the year for the benefit of the 

 Museum to the Patagonian Andes by Mr. F. W. Edwards, and in 

 Northern Australia by Mr. A. S. Le Souef. 



Exchanges, Loans, etc. 



Specimens were exchanged wdth, and duplicate specimens presented 

 to a number of institutions and individuals. In the Department of 

 Geology especially a considerable quantity of duplicate material of 

 little value to the Museum was presented to suitable applicants, 

 with a view to releasing storage space for new acquisitions. A 

 rock- cutting machine, no longer required in the Museum, w^as presented 

 to the Geological Department of the University of Reading. 



His Majesty the King placed at the Museum on loan for exhibition 

 purposes a White Tiger, presented to His Majesty by His Highness the 

 Maharaja of Rewa, who shot the animal in the Rewa jungle in 1925. 

 This interesting specimen has been placed outside the Upper Mammal 

 Gallery, opposite the tiger shot by His Majesty in Nepal in 1911. 



In the course of a visit to the Botanical Museum, Berlin, Mr. A. W. 

 Exell, Assistant in the Department of Botany, made 280 drawings of 

 type- specimens of African plants and was allowed to select portions 

 of fifty type-specimens to be received by the Department in exchange 

 for duplicates. 



Publications. 

 The Trustees have agreed to publish a work on the insects of Samoa 

 based on the collections recently made by Dr. P. A. Buxton in that 

 group of islands. Dr. Buxton undertakes to present to the Museum 

 a first set of every species, including all types. 



The following works were published during the year : — 



Index Animalium, Sectio Secunda, 1801-1850. By C. Davies 

 Sherborn. 



Part IX. Dorsalis-Eurystomus. 

 Part X. Eurystomus-funereus. 

 Part XL Funereus-gyzehensis. 



Monograph of the Voles and Lemmings (Microtinse), Living and 



Extinct. Vol. I. By M. A. C. Hinton. 

 Monograph of Sea-Snakes. By Malcolm Smith. 



Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Lepidoptera Phalaenae 

 of the Subfamily Noctuinae. By Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart. 



