BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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The number of acquisitions in the several Departments during the 

 year, apart from specimens received too late for incorporation and from 

 books, was as follows : — 



Department- 



Purchases, 



Donations, 



Exchanges, 

 etc. 



Total. 



Zoology 



Entomology 



Geology 



Mineralogy 



Botany 



3,524 



757,461 



4,050 



909 



13,728 



31,272 



319,124 



5,656 



3,389 



14,559 



34,796 



1,076,585 



9,706 



4,298 

 28,287 





779,672 



374,000 



1,153,672 



The number of separate presents received during the year was 2,510. 

 In addition to the group of Spanish Mountain Goats presented by H.M. 

 the King of Spain, and already mentioned, the more interesting dona- 

 tions were : — 



From His Highness the Sultan of Perak : a mounted specimen of a 

 young Sumatran Rhinoceros. 



From the Government of the Union of Soutli Africa ; a skull of 

 a Sperm Whale. 



From the Government of Kenya Colony : a pair of exceptionally 

 large elephant' tusks. 



From Mrs. Ruxton : £50, in memory of her son, Commander R. E- 

 Ruxton, to be used for the Mammal Collection. 



From Miss Constance Tulk : seven autograph letters by Sir Richard 

 Owen, Alfred Tulk, and Prof. Lorenz Olsen. 



From Mr. R. St. G. Burke ; 100 heads and skulls of Indian Carnivora 

 and Ungulata. 



From Major C. H. B. Grant : 114 skulls or moimtod heads of game 

 mammals from South and East Africa. 



From Messrs. Lever Brothers : a complete skull with baleen plates of 

 the Blue Whale. 



From Mr. G. T. Bethunc-Baker : a valuable collection of 8,400 speci- 

 mens of Lepidoptera. 



From Mr. Martin E. Moseley : 477 microscopical ])reparations of 

 caddis-flies and stone-flies. 



From Mr A. C. Crowley : 73S photographic negatives and 288 

 lantern slides, mainly of birds, birds' nests, and eggs. 



A complete copy of the nature film " Chang," together \^ith gramo- 

 phone records of sound effects synchronised with the i)icture, was 

 presented to the Museum on condition that it should be placed in a 

 fire-resisting case not to be opened until 4 September, 1977. 



Important bequests to the Museum included the late Prof. Archibald 

 Liversidge's collection of about 3,000 specimens of minerals, and the 

 late Mr. George Charles Champion's collection of about 140,000 speci- 

 mens of Coleoptera and Hemiptera Heteroptera. Five mounted 



