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From Mrs. I. Geffcken : 1,914 coloured drawings of North American 

 Lepidoptera made by her father-in-law, the late Mr. W. Geflfcken. 



From Mr. F. N. Ashcroft, 1,020 Swiss minerals, in addition to 1,178 

 specimens presented from time to time since 1921 : also the whole of 

 the material obtained by him in the excursions of the International 

 Geological Congress in South Africa, 1929. 



The late Mr. Wynne E. Baxter's valuable collection of diatoms, 

 comprising about 12,500 slides, was received by bequest. 



Two mounted mammals and two mounted heads were presented 

 to the Museum during the year under the terms of the Rowland Ward 

 Bequest. 



The residvie of the estate of the late Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., 

 after the payment of legacies, was bequeathed to the Trustees of the 

 Godman Exploration Fund, who were directed to apply the income 

 therefrom for the benefit and increase of any of the Museum collections. 



Important purchases included a collection of 330 mammals from 

 Bolivia ; 136 and 107 birds from Ecuador ; a rare woodpecker from 

 Brazil; a rare squid; 812 specimens including 60 type-specimens from 

 the Edwards Collection of Homoptera ; a skeleton of Moropus, a 

 horse-like fossil mammal ; the skeleton of a fossil rhinoceros {Dicera- 

 therium cooJci) ; 500 cretaceous fossils from the collection of the late 

 Mr J. R. Farmery ; a slice of the Weekeroo meteorite ; a block of 

 Lazulite from South-West Africa ; 670 specimens and thin sections of 

 rocks from the Thiiringer Wald ; Mr. A. Bennett's herbarium of British 

 Pondweeds, and 3,300 specimens of British mosses and hepatics. 



Collecting Expeditions. 



The work of the East Africa Expedition was continued largely owing 

 to the grant of a sum of £1,000 towards the expense by the Government 

 of Tanganyika Territory, and Mr. Migeod made progress on the 

 Tendaguru site. He returned to England in December, but is resuming 

 operations in 1930 with the aid of a further grant promised by the 

 Tanganyika Government. 



Dr. E. I. White took part in the Anglo-French- American expedition 

 in Madagascar under the leadership of Monsieur J. Delacour, and made 

 a large collection of fossil fishes, birds, lemurs, crocodiles and 

 hippopotamuses . 



Miss L. E. Cheesman undertook an expedition for the collection of 

 insects in the New Hebrides. 



Publications. 

 The following new works were published : — 

 Index Animalium, Sectio Secunda. By C. Davies Sherborn. 



Parts XVIII, XIX, XX, and XXI. 

 " Terra Nova " Report, Zoology. 



Vol. V, No. 4. Turbinolidae and Eupsamidae. By Prof. J 

 Stanley Gardiner. 



Vol. VI, No. 4. Antarctic Sponges. By Maurice Burton. 

 Vol. VII, No. 3. Pelagic Polychaeta. By Dr. W. B. Benham. 

 Vol. VIII, No. 3. Copepoda, By G. P. Farran, 



