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From Lord Cranbrook and Captain F. Kingdon Ward : a valuable 

 collection of mammals, birds, and reptiles from Upper Burma. 



From Mrs. Leney : twenty-four mounted heads of antelopes from 

 Uganda and the Sudan. 



From the Marquess of Silgo : a Porbeagle shark, weighing 210 lb., 

 which he caught off Ac hill Island, County Mayo. 



From Officers of the Atlantic Fleet : collections of considerable value, 

 including a fine specimen of the St. Vincent parrot, and two of the very 

 rare eel Anguillichthys, obtained during a cruise to the West Indies. 



From Colonel R. Meinertzhagen : a collection of animals, comprising 

 126 mammals, 23 reptiles and amphibians, 35 scorpions, 8 centipedes, 

 and a number of spiders from the Ahaggar Mountains in the Central 

 Sahara. 



From Captain Adrian Jones : two plaster statuettes, made by him, 

 of the famous race -horses " Persimmon " and " Cloister." 



From Mr. R. E. Moreau : a collection of birds from Tanganyika 

 Territory, consisting of 350 specimens representing 178 species. 



From Colonel the Hon. M. T. Boscawen, M.C., D.S.O. : a collection 

 of 72 bird-skins, representing 47 species, obtained during a journey 

 through the Hadramaut in Southern Arabia. 



From Dr. P. A. Buxton : a collection of birds from Iraq and Persia. 



From the National Art Collections Fund : two water-colour paintings, 

 by J. G. Keulemans, of two African bee -eaters. 



From Sir J. Arthur Thomson : the whole of his very extensive 

 collection of Alcyonaria. 



From Dr. August Busck : 438 photographic drawings of insect 

 material (Microlej)idoptera). 



From Miss J. Warburg : a collection of about 19,000 insects, chiefly 

 Lepidoptera. 



From Mr. F. N. Ashcroft : a further instalment of Swiss minerals, 

 comprising 772 selected specimens from 62 localities. 



From Lieut. -Colonel P. S. Allan, D.S.O. : manuscripts on minerals 

 from the collection of his great-grandfather, Thomas Allan (1777-1833), 

 whose mineral collection was acquired by the Trustees in 1860. 



From Mrs. F. R. Wollaston : an inlaid mahogany cabinet of 10 

 drawers containing 570 models of crystals in wood, also a pocket 

 blowpipe, formerly belonging to the late Wilham Hyde Wollaston, 

 F.R.S. (1766-1828). 



From Miss K. B. Macvicar : the herbarium of the late Dr. Symers 

 M. Macvicar, containing about 17,000 specimens, including an extensive 

 series of liverworts, upon which Dr. Macvicar was the recognized 

 British authority. 



From Prof. J. Percival : 49 specimens of Aegilops. 



From Miss Elizabeth Hombersley : a collection of 882 original 

 drawings of British plants made by her great-aunt Miss Ellen Hawkins. 



From Captain F. Kingdon-Ward : a large collection of plants from 

 the Upper Irrawaddy and the Burma-Tibet frontier. 



From Mr. Frederick J. Hanbury : the British herbarium of the late 

 Dr. John Thomas Irwin Bosweil (1822-1888), comprising about 20,000 

 sheets contained in 14 mahogany cabinets. 



From the Rev. P. G. M. Rhodes : a collection of about 11,000 

 mosses. 



From Mrs. T. G. Elliott : a collection of 400 specimens of Ceylon ferns 

 made by her father, the late Rev. E. V. Freeman. 



