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From Dr. E. O. Teale : A very fine series of 5,500 Aiistralasiau 

 fossils collected by himself. 



From Dr. C. T. Trechmann : 274 fossil invertebrates collected 

 by him in New Zealand. 



From Warsaw University Library: A copy of '' Spis ptakow," 

 a catalogue of birds in the Warsaw Museum, pubhshed in 1819 by 

 F. P. Jarocki — an extremely rare pamphlet, of which only two 

 other copies are known. 



From Mr. E. Heron-Allen, F.R.S. : About 719 volumes of Natural 

 History books, including a number of rare editions not previously 

 represented in the Museum Library. 



From Mr. James Groves : 46 original drawings of British 

 Characeae . 



Valuable collections, comprising a large number of rock-specimens, 

 about 170 plants, and specimens of many groups of animals, 

 including about 300 insects, were presented to the Museum 

 by the Scientific Expeditionary Research Association, as a result 

 of the voj^age to the Pacific of the S.Y. " St. George," which had 

 collected specimens at Gorgon a, the Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas, 

 Tahiti, Easter Island, Madeira, and the West Indies. 



The Trustees accepted from Mrs. Dendy and the Delegacy of King's 

 College, London, the late Professor Dendy's important collection 

 of Porifera, together ^^ith the books and pamphlets relating to it. 



All important and valuable collection, consisting of about 2,542 

 bird skins and 11,104 birds' eggs from India ; 1,208 British birds' 

 eggs ; and about 24,000 named specimens of Lepidoptera, mainly 

 from the Indo-Malayan region, was bequeathed to the Museum by 

 the late Mr. James Davidson ; and under the Will of the late 

 Miss Lilian Suzette Gibbs the Trustees received 239 botajiical speci- 

 mens collected by her and forming the basis of her work on the 

 mountain floras of Southern Rhodesia, Fiji, New Zealand, Hawaii, 

 British North Borneo, Queensland, and Tasmania. 



A mounted specimen of a Vaal Rhebok and a Gelada Baboon and 

 skull were presented to the Museum under the terms of the Rowland 

 Ward Bequest. 



Five oil paintings of wild mammals by Wilhelm Kuhnert, and a 

 picture of the Whale-headed Stork, hj Whjanper, were bequeathed to 

 the Trustees by the late Sir W. E. Garstin. 



The principal purchases during the j^ear included ; A collection of 

 154 original zoological and botanical drawings, many of which constitute 

 the types of the species they represent, painted in Ceylon and the 

 Malay Archipelago by Pieter Cornells de Bevere during the years 1754- 

 1757 for Joan Gideon Loten, then the Dutch Governor of Ceylon ; 

 mammals, birds, reptiles and batrachians, fishes, molluscs, insects, etc., 

 collected by the Mount Everest Expedition ; mammals from Kashmir, 

 Baffin Land, and Arabia; mammals, birds, and reptiles from Madagas- 

 car ; mammals and fishes from the Amazon ; butterflies and moths from 

 the late Colonel Swinhoe's collection ; the greater part of Mr. E. A. 

 Butler's collection of British Hemiptera ; butterflies from Burma and 

 Siam ; a collection of 4,465 insects of various orders form Colombia ; 

 Jurassic cephalopods and lamellibranchs from the West of England ; 

 Mesozoic Ammonoidea and Nautiloidea. including many specimens from 



