18 BRITISH MUSEUM (natural HISTORY) 



From Dr. R. J. D. Graham : 1,269 flowering plants, collected by 

 himself and others in Mesopotamia. 



From Mrs. P. Moring : the herbarium of her late husband, Mr. 

 Percy Moring, containing a representative collection of flowering 

 plants from the Dover district and collections made at Hampstead 

 during the Hampstead Regional Survey. 



From Dr. N. A. Mackintosh : the British herbarium of his grand- 

 father. Dr. Edward Ballard, F.R.S. (1820-1897), containing 669 

 specimens, including plants of special interest from Islington. 



From Mr. J. Gossweiler : a further collection of 433 specimens of 

 Angolan plants. 



From Colonel A. H. Wolley-Dod : a large collection of British Rubi 

 (brambles). 



The late Mr. James Groves bequeathed to the Museum his herbarium, 

 part of which (600 specimens) was presented to the Museum in 1918. 

 The bequest consisted of 11,000 flowering plants, 6,230 charophyta, 

 2,570 mosses and 700 algae. A cabinet, a press, and a number of 

 separates were also presented by Mrs. Groves. 



^Irs. Stephenson, widow of the late Lieut. -Colonel J. Stephenson, 

 F.R.S., who during his life-time had given to the Museum the 

 greater part of his private collection of Oligochaeta, presented the 

 remainder of the collection, consisting principally of about 1,000 

 microscope slides, the whole of Colonel Stephenson's collection of books 

 and pamphlets relating to the Oligochaeta and a binocular dissecting 

 microscope used by him in his work. 



The late Mr. C. C. Lacaita bequeathed to the Museum his herbarium, 

 a part of which had been presented to the Museum before his death. 

 •The bequest consisted of about 40,000 sheets of plants, and was 

 specially rich in Italian and Spanish material. Mrs. Windsor Clive, 

 Mr. Lacaita's daughter, also presented his herbarium cabinets. 



The late Dr. G. H. Rodman bequeathed to the Museum a series of 

 mounted photographs of animals, insects, and plants, including 

 microphotographs of fossil plants, diatoms, and plant and animal hairs. 



The Museum also received by bequest the herbarium of the late 

 Mr. Ashley Henry Maude, contained in four cabinets, and comprising 

 about 5,000 sheets of flowering plants, mainly from European localities, 

 especially the TjtoI, Switzerland, the Riviera, South Spain, and the 

 Balearic Islands. 



The Trustees accepted an ofi"er from Colonel C. Theodore Green to 

 present to the Museum at some future date his collection of coloured 

 lantern slides, consisting of 2,391 slides of British flowering plants and 

 fungi, in addition to a number of slides depicting landscapes. 



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

 a further collection of plants from Nepal. 



Important purchases included : an African elephant tusk weighing 

 214 lb. (completing a pair of record weight) ; Mr. H. F. Witherby's 

 collection of over 9,000 bird skins, representing some 1,200 to 1,300 

 forms of Palaeartic birds ; the skeleton of a sea-elephant from South 

 Georgia ; the Loddiges collection of 1 ,070 humming birds ; the families 

 Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae from the Fruhstorfer collection of 

 Lepidoptera ; Dr. Oscar John's collection of Thysanoptera, containing 

 1,436 slides and 892 tubes of specimens ; Mr. H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe's 

 collection of British beetles, ants, and myrmecophiles, together with 



