14 BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) 



From Mrs. A. Sutton : a collection of about 5,000 British mosses, 

 formed by her late husband, Mr. Alfred Sutton. 



From Paymaster-Commander T. M. Salter, R.N. : 247 specimens of 

 Oxalis and 345 specimens of other plants from South Africa. 



From the Council of the Royal Botanical Society : a herbarium, 

 including 400 plants from Asia Minor, 500 British plants, and collections 

 of Indian ferns and European sea-weeds. 



From H.R.H. the Princess Louise : a copy of " Explorations and 

 Adventures in Equatorial Africa," by Paul B. Du Chaillu. 



From the family of the late Colonel and Mrs. P. H. Beddome : 

 98 volumes and parts, two volumes of pamphlets of reptiles, one on 

 shells, and two volumes containing a collection of ferns and other plants. 



From the Friends of the National Libraries (with the cooperation 

 of the late Mr. B. H. Soulsby) : three valuable works and a rare 

 Linnean pamphlet, of which only two other copies are known. 



The Trustees of the British Museum were cited as defendants to a 

 summons heard in the High Court on 7 June with reference to the 

 disposal of the very important collection of Lepidoptera bequeathed 

 to the Museum by the Will of the late Mr. J. J. Joicey of the Hill, 

 Witley. As the result, the collection will not come to the Museum by 

 virtue of Mr. Joicey's Will, but it is understood that such portion of 

 it as may be selected by the Museum may be presented under a pro- 

 vision in the Will of Mr. Joicey's mother, directing that the residue of 

 her estate be allotted in certain circumstances to such charities as her 

 Trustees might select. 



The collection of fossils made by the late Mr. Robert Law, which 

 he had bequeathed to his wife during his lifetime, and after her death 

 to the Natural History Museum, has, at the request of Mr. Law's widows 

 been handed over to the Trustees. It includes 180 cephalopods, as 

 well as some duplicate molluscs, brachiopods, corals, and fish-teeth. 



His Majesty the King has graciously placed on loan in the Museum a 

 further collection of plants from Nepal. 



Important purchases include : the skull of an African elephant from 

 Tanganyika Territory ; a young specimen in spirit of the flightless rail 

 of Inaccessible Island ; a mounted specimen of a rare marsupial mouse 

 {Caenolestes obscurus) from Ecuador ; a specimen of the rare giant squid 

 Architeuthis ; Dr. R. S. Bagnall's collection of 15,000 Thysanoptera 

 (thrips) ; a collection of nearly 114,000 specimens of British Coleoptera 

 formed by the late Dr. David Sharp, F.R.S. ; a large fossil shark, 

 Hybodus hauffianus, from Wurttemberg ; 10 fossil reptiles of the genus 

 Pachypleurosaurus from Switzerland ; 3 crystals of diamond, weighing 

 10-17 carats, from the Belgian Congo ; a large mass of ruby, weighing 

 690 grams, from Burma ; and plants from British Honduras, Tanganyika 

 Territory, Spain, Brazil, and Mexico. 



Collecting Expeditions. 



The Trustees made contributions towards the expenses of an 

 entomological collecting expedition to New Guinea by Miss L. E. 

 Cheesman ; of an Oxford University expedition to Sarawak ; and of 

 expeditions to British Guiana and to the Cameroons by Dr. G. S. 

 Carter and Mr. I. T. Sanderson respectively. 



A collection of over 1,000 birds was made in Yunnan with the aid 

 of a grant from the Godman Exploration Fund, by the late 

 Mr. G. Forrest. 



