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As a result of the Cambridge University expedition to the East 

 African Lakes, the Museum received about 900 fishes, 102 reptiles and 

 amphibians, 300 to 400 molluscs, and some 3,300 insects. 



Mr. W. N. Edwards returned from his geological expedition to 

 India on 7 March, having obtained valuable specimens of fossil plants. 



Mr. J. Vincent's expedition to Portuguese East Africa, financed by 

 Rear-Admiral H. Lynes, C.B., C.M.G., resulted in the acquisition by 

 the Museum of about 2,200 birds skins, 77 birds in spirit, and 52 skins 

 and skulls of mammals, in addition to considerable collections of 

 insects, plants, and geological specimens. 



In the course of a botanical expedition to West Macedonia, Mr. 

 A. H. G. Alston made a valuable collection of plants, numbering 

 about 1,200. 



As a result of a collecting tour in Czechoslovakia and Poland by 

 Miss D. Aubertin and Miss E. Trewavas, the Museum received some 

 8,000 insects of various orders from the Tatra Mountains. 



Mr. W. H. T. Tarns and Mr. A. W. Exell, Assistant Keepers, left 

 England on 1 October on an entomological and botanical expedition to 

 the islands in the Gulf of Guinea. 



Publications. 

 The following new works were published during the year : — 



Index Animalium, Sectio Secunda. By C. Davies Sherborn. 



Parts XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, and XXXI. 

 Great Barrier Reef Report. 



Vol. I, Nos. 8-10. 



Vol. Ill, No. 6. 



Vol. IV, Nos. 7-13. 

 Insects of Samoa and other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda. 



Part VII, Fascicle 4. 

 Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile. Part V, Fascicle 3. 

 The Cephalaspids of Great Britain. By E. A. Stensio. 

 Catalogue of Rocks. Part II. By W. Campbell Smith. 

 Guide to the British Freshwater Fishes. (Second Edition.) 

 Guide to the exhibition of Game Animals of the Empire. 

 Instructions for Collectors, No. 12 — Worms. (Second Edition.) 

 Economic Series. 



No. 5— The Bed-bug. (Third Edition.) 



No. 11— Furniture Beetles. (Third Edition.) 



No. 14 — Clothes Moths and House Moths. 

 The publication of the " Natural History Magazine " was 

 continued. 



In addition to the above pubhcations, 306 reports and descriptive 

 papers, based on the collections, by members of the staff and others, 

 were published in scientific periodicals. 



C. TATE REGAN, 



Director. 



British Museum (Natural History). 

 1 April, 1933. 



