14 BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) 



Dr. W. Rushton Parker has generously undertaken to meet the cost 

 of mounting a skeleton of Moropus for the Fossil Mammal Gallery. 



His Majesty the King has graciously placed on loan in the Depart- 

 ment of Botany collections of plants from the Argentine-Chile border, 

 and from Nepal. 



Important purchases included a mounted pigmy hippopotamus 

 and a mounted gerenuk ; 233 birdw from Sierra Leone and 385 

 from the Tian Shan mountains ; a collection of North American 

 Hymenoptera, comprising 11,600 bees and 850 wasps ; a collection of 

 199 Triassic fishes, containing 18 new species, from near Sydney, New 

 South Wales ; two skeletons (almost complete) of the primitive 

 plesiosaur Fachypleurosaurus from the Alpine Trias ; a complete 

 meteoric stone weighing 300 grams from Kansas and an etched slice of 

 meteoric iron from Virginia ; a fine specimen of haematite from Elba ; 

 and plants from Asia Minor, Formosa, Brazil, and Chile. 



Collecting Expeditions. 

 Captain A. K. Totton, M.C., returned to the Museum on 1 April on 

 the completion of a cruise with the Atlantic Fleet in the West Indies. 

 The collections made amply justified the experiment of attaching a 

 Museum officer to the Fleet, and it is hoped that the cruise will form 

 a precedent for similar co-operation with the Navy in the future. 



The Trustees accepted a generous offer from Rear- Admiral H. Lynes, 

 C.B., C.M.G., to provide the sum of £1,000 for an ornithological collect- 

 ing expedition to Portuguese East Africa, and Mr. J. Vincent, the 

 collector appointed to carry out the exploration, left England in October. 



Mr. G. Tandy's visit to the Marine Laboratory of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, at Dry Tortugas, Florida, resulted in the 

 acquisition of about 1,000 mounted specimens of marine algae and a 

 large quantity of zoological material. 



Mr. A. T. Hopwood returned from his exjjedition to East Africa on 

 16 January (1932), having made valuable collections of fossils in the 

 Miocene beds of Koru (Kenya Colony) and the Lower Pleistocene of 

 Olduvai (Tanganyika Territory) as well as obtaining an extensive 

 series of recent mammals. 



As the result of a collecting tour in Northern Rhodesia by Captain 

 C. R. S. Pitman, the Museum received more than 260 mammals and a 

 large number of birds, reptiles and fishes. 



Mr. W. N. Edwards left for India on 24 December to join Professor 

 B. Sanhi in a geological (fossil plant) expedition to the Rajmahal Hills 

 and the Raniganj coalfield. 



