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From Mr, N. L. Falcon : four specimens of the primitive ichthysaur 

 Mixosaurus, collected by the donor during an expedition to Spits- 

 bergen in 1927. 



From the Proprietors of " The Times " : twelve enlargements of 

 photographs of the eastern gorilla taken by Mr. Marcuswell Maxwell. 



From the Imperial Institute of Entomology : a card-catalogue of the 

 horse flies (Tabanidae), consisting of 3,000 cards and containing 

 references to ail species described. 



From the Executors of the late Mr. R. T. Francis : a collection of 

 about 13,000 insects, chiefly Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. 



From the Trustees of the Vernay-Archbold Expedition to Madagascar 

 (1929-30) : 190 Pleistocene mammals, 235 Pleistocene birds, 6 Pleisto- 

 cene reptiles, and 300 Triassic fishes, collected by Dr. E. I. White in the 

 course of the expedition. 



From Dr. Herbert Basedow, F.G.S. : a collection of minerals from 

 Central Australia, including a piece of a meteorite of the rare pallasite 

 type. 



From H.I.M. The Emperor of Japan : five specimens of mycetozoa. 



From Mr. John Gossweiler : a unique set of 446 Angolan plants. 



From the Misses M. I. and A. W. Irving : 425 negatives of coloured 

 photographs of flowers, fungi, etc., taken by the late Mr. Plenry Irving. 



From Miss A. Lorrain Smith : 646 drawings of fungi, mycetozoa, and 

 lichens made by John Tempieton (1766-1825), and three volumes 

 containing 419 original drawings of lichens by George Massee. 



From the late Mr. R. Sherring (bequest) : a fern herbarium, com- 

 prising about 3,000 specimens, including over 1,500 from Jamaica. 



From the Tunbridge Wells Municipal Museum : 5,613 foreign and 

 British mosses, which had foimed the herbarium of the late Sir James 

 Stirling. 



From Miss M. Brown : the Henry Brown Herbarium (1824-92), 

 containing 230 localized plants. 



From the Council of the Linnean Society of London : a very rare 

 book by Carl Lucien Bonaparte, entitled " Saggio di una Distribuzione 

 Metodica degli Animali Vertebrati." 



From the Friends of the National Libraries (with the co-operation 

 of Mr. B. H. Soulsby) : eleven volumes of rare Linneana. 



From the Royal University Library, Upsala : copies of nine 

 rectorial addresses delivered by Linnaeus before the Court of Sweden 

 and the University of Upsala from 1749 to 1772, and a copy, in the 

 original binding, of " Carl von Linne's Minneefest i Upsala den 12 

 October 1829," in five parts. 



From Miss Ursula Cust : three large folio volumes of original draw- 

 ings, 207 in all, of fishes, flowers and fruits, the work of the Hon. Lady 

 Cust, the donor's grandmother, done during a West Indian tour in 

 1839, and a visit to Madeira in 1866. 



From Miss M. W. Redder : a small portrait of the late J. A. Harvie- 

 Brown, the well-known Scottish naturalist, painted by her father, the 

 late John Redder, R.I. 



From Dr. Casey A. Wood : a copy of " A Natural History of the 

 Ducks," by Dr. J. C, Phillips, in four volumes. 



