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His Royal Highness the Duke of York placed on loan at the Museum 

 the mounted head of an Arabian Gazelle shot by him on Great Hanish 

 Island in the Red Sea, representing a new sub-species. 



Publications. 



The Museum published during the year the first four issues of a 

 quarterly, " The Natural History Magazine," the object of which is the 

 promotion of public interest in the work of the Museum and in Natural 

 History generally. 



Other works published during the year were : — 



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



Sherborn. Parts XII, XIII, and XIV. 

 Report (No. 10) on Cetacea stranded on the British Coasts from 1913 



to 1926. By Sir S. F. Harmer, K.B.E., Sc. D., F.R.S. 

 Insects of Samoa and other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda. 



Maps 1 and 2. 



Part II. (Hemiptera). Fasc. 1. 



Part III. (Lepidoptera). Fasc. 1 and 2. 



Part IV. (Coleoptera). Fasc. 1. 



Part VI. (Diptera). Fasc. 1. 



Part VII. (Other Orders of Insects). Fasc. 1. 



Part VIII. (Terrestrial Arthropoda other than Insects). Fasc. 1. 



" Terra Nova " Report, Zoology. Vol. VTI. No. 2. Polvchaeta, 



by Prof. W. B. Benham, F.R.S. 

 Catalogue of Type Specimens of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Part III. 



Nymphalidae. By A. G. Gabriel. 

 New Zealand Empididae. By J. E. Collin. 

 Guide to the Crustacea. By W. T. Caiman, D.Sc, F.R.S. 

 Appendix to Catalogue of Meteorites. By G. T. Prior, D.Sc, F.R.S. 



In addition to the above, 241 reports and descriptive papers based 

 on the collections, by members of the staff and others, wore published 

 in scientific periodicals. 



The following new picture-postcards were placed on sale : — 



British Game Birds (10) ; Exotic Butterflies and Moths (30) ; 

 Mimicry in Insects (10) ; British Orchids (20) ; Mediaeval Natural 

 History (30) ; Oceanic Angler-Fishes (10). 



C. TATE REGAN. 



Director. 



British Museum (Natural History) 

 1 April 1928. 



