BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) 13 



The number of separate presents received during the year was 

 3,237, among the more interesting of them being : — 



From H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester, K.G. : the skin and skull of 

 a male specimen of Menelik's Bushbuck from Abyssinia. 



From Lt.-Col. J. L. F. Tweedie, D.S.O. : the skull of an exceptionally 

 fine Giant Eland from the Bahr el Ghazal Province, Sudan. 



From Mr. A. S. Vernay : a collection of South African big game 

 animals comprising 54 skins with skulls of mammals. 



From Mr. Gilbert Blaine : a very fine skin and skull of a male Bongo 

 from West Africa. 



From Captain C. R. S. Pitman : an elephant skeleton from Uganda. 



From Colonel F. Wall, C.M.G. : a collection of about 1,040 skulls 

 and skeletal preparations of snakes. 



From the Government of Greenland : a male narwhal. 



From His Highness the Maharao of Cutch : the skin and skull of an 

 unusually pale specimen of Thomson's Gazelle from Kenya Colony. 



From the Government of the Falkland Islands : the skull and lower 

 jaw of a male sperm whale, and the skull and lower jaw of a southern 

 right whale. 



From Lord Rothschild, F.R.S. : a coloured cast of an electric eel 

 which had died recently in the Aquarium at the Zoological Society's 

 Gardens, London. 



From Dr. Cyril Crossland : a collection of 200 corals from Tahiti. 



From Mr. J. J. Joicey : 13,102 South American moths of the family 

 Noctuidae, including 174 types. 



From Dr. W. Cunnington : an Ichthyosaur skeleton from Street, 

 Somerset. 



From the Hon. the Administrator of South West Africa : a most 

 valuable and finely marked mass of the Gibeon (South West Africa) 

 meteoric iron, weighing 299 lb. 



From His Majesty the Emperor of Japan : specimens of six species 

 of Mycetozoa from Japan. 



From Professor R. S. Adamson : a collection of about 6,000 British 

 flowering plants. 



From Paymaster Commander T. M. Salter, R.N. : 1,400 South 

 African plants. 



From Mrs. Pegler : the late Dr. Pegler's collection of 5,900 British 

 and Swiss plants. 



From Mr. R. Crawshay : 167 drawings of fungi of the genus Russula. 



From Mrs. H. B. Morse : a collection of 145 water-colour paintings of 

 North American wild flowers and 7 of fungi. 



From Miss Jessie Lefroy : a number of seaweeds collected on the 

 Antarctic expeditions of the " Erebus " and " Terror." 



