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Acquisitions. 

 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 



5,012 



6,697 



567 



211 



15,993 



28,820 



180,184 



8,570 



764 



14,425 



33,832 



186,881 



9,137 



975 



30,418 





28,480 



232,763 



261,243 



The number of separate presents received during the year was 2,664, 

 among the more interesting of them being ; — 



From Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton : an important series of monkeys, 

 from the Cameroons and the Congo ; and 17 skins and skulls of West 

 African ungulates and primates, including the co-type of a new Kudu 

 and a specimen of the Western Giraffe. 



From Sir Charles Markham, Eart. : a Congo specimen of Lord Derby's 

 Eland. 



From Mrs. Cosens : 66 skins, mounted heads and skulls of African 

 and Indian game animals. 



From Mr. R. Akroyd : a collection of skins and skeletons of African 

 ungulates. 



From the Government of Greenland : a fine specimen of Beluga, or 

 White Whale, with three heads of the same species. 



From Rear-Admkal H. Lynes, C.B., C.M.G. : 1,023 African birds 

 and 50 nests of birds with 326 eggs. 



From the Colonial Office : an important collection of fishes from 

 Victoria Nyanza. 



From Mr. D. Holderness and Captain Burgess : seven specimens of 

 the giant Shipworm {Kuphus arenarius). 



From Professor A. Corti, of Turin : 150 type-specimens of sponges. 



From Mrs. Lister : the collections of the late Mr. J. J. Lister, F.R.S.; 

 consisting of 700 microscopic preparations of Foraminifera, 476 bird 

 skins, and a large Zeiss microscope stand with three high-power 

 objectives. 



From Mrs, Eustace Bankes : her husband's collection of British 

 Lepidoptera, consisting of upwards of 96,500 specimens. 



From Mr. J. J. Joicey : a collection of Lepidoptera Heterocera, con- 

 sisting of 5,926 moths, 14 larvae and 29 cocoons. 



From the Portland Cement Selling and Distributing Company : a 

 very large ichthyosaur and the skeleton of a plesiosaur from Harbury, 

 Warwickshire. 



From Mr. E. M. Venables : a series of more than 400 fossils collected 

 bed by bed from the London Clay of Bognor. 



