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Collections of minerals from the Broken Hill Mine, Northern 

 Rhodesia, and from Katanga, Belgian Congo, were deposited at the 

 Museum on loan for exhibition purposes by H.R.H. the Prince of 

 Wales, K.G., K.T., to whom they had been presented during his visit 

 to South Africa. 



Important collections of British Diptera and Lepidoptera Heterocera, 

 made by the late Dr. J. H. Wood and deposited under his Will in the 

 Public Museum at Hereford, were transferred to the Natural History 

 Museum on loan for an indefinite period, in order that they might be 

 more generally accessible to entomological students. 



A very fine pair of elephant tusks (from the British Empire Exhibi- 

 tion, Wembley) weighing together about 3 cwts., were placed in the 

 Museum on loan by the Government of Kenya Colony. 



A cabinet, of great interest as a piece of furniture, having been 

 designed by Robert Adam about 1780 for Sir Joseph Banks who 

 bequeathed it to the Trustees, was lent to the Victoria and 

 Albert Museum for exhibition purposes. 



Puhlications. 



The sum of £2,304 7s. 8d. was handed over to the Director by Col. 

 H. G. Lyons, F.R.S., on behalf of the Mansion House " Captain Scott 

 Antarctic Fund," to be used at the discretion of the Trustees for the 

 publication of Antarctic reports. 



The following works were published during the year: — 



Index Animalium, sectio secunda, 1801-1850. Parts VI (Ceyl- 

 Concolor), VII (Concolor-Czizeki) and VIII (Daakar-Dorsalis). 

 By C. Davies Sherborn, 



Report on Cetacea stranded on the British Coasts, No. 9 (1923 

 and 1924). By Sir S. F. Harmer, K.B.E., F.R.S. 



Catalogue of Type Specimens of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. 

 Part II, Danaidae. By N. D. Riley and A. G. Gabriel. 



Catalogue of Recent Sea-Urchins. By H. L. Clark. 



Monograph of Mycetozoa. Third Edition. Revised by Guhelma 

 Lister. 



Fossil Insects, No. 1. British Liassic Dragonflies. By R, J. 

 Tillyard, Sc.D., D.Sc. 



Fossil Insects, No. 2. Insects from the Coal Measures of 

 Commentry. By H. Bolton, D.Sc. 



Guide to Fossil Plants. 



Economic Series, No. 4a. British Mosquitoes and their Control. 

 By F. W. Edwards and Lt.-Col. S. P. James, M.D. 



Economic Leaflet, No. 2. The Furniture Mite, 



New editions were issued of Economic Series, No. 11. Furniture 

 Beetles (Second Edition) and of Economic Leaflet No. 1. The Danger 

 of Disease from Flies and Lice (Third Edition). 



A British Museum (Natural History) Almanac for 1926 was published 

 during the a^utumn ; and further progress was made with the pro- 

 duction of Natural History picture-postcards, the following being a 



