BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) 17 



Donations. 



The number of separate presents received during the year was 3,679, 

 among the more interesting of them being : — 



Zoology. 



From the Royal College of Surgeons : the skeleton of a Greenland 

 Whale, purchased by them in 1864 from Prof. Reinhardt, of Copenhagen. 



From Sir Arnold Hodson, K.C.M.G. : the skull of a young elephant, 

 and three additional skulls of a dwarf race of elephant from the Gola 

 forest. Sierra Leone. 



From the Right Honourable the Speaker of the House of Commons : 

 an excejjtionally fine specimen of a Russian bear, presented to Mr. 

 Speaker Lowther (Lord UUswater) in 1912 by the Municipality of 

 Moscow. 



From Mrs. H. C. Barnard : a mounted head of the Javan Rhinoceros 

 {Rhinoceros sondaicus), shot by the late Mr. H, C. Barnard in Perak, 

 in 1899. 



From Mrs. Soames : a pair of very fine tusks of an East African 

 elephant, shot by the late Colonel A. H. Coles, C.M.G., D.S.O. 



From Lieutenant F. Mansell, R.N. : a finless porpoise {Neomeris), 

 obtained some 550 miles up the Yangtse River. 



From Mr. W. C. Campbell : twenty-six South African mammal skins 

 and skulls. 



From Prof. Max Weber : 25 specimens and 79 microscopic prepara- 

 tions of Polyzoa collected by the Siboga Expedition. 



From the Imperial Institute of Entomology : a large collection of 

 ticks, comprising about 12,000 specimens, representing 49 species, 

 obtained by Dr. E. C. Lewis in Kenya Colony. 



Entomology. 



From Dr. G. Arnold : a very valuable collection of ants, containing 

 upwards of 7,000 specimens, comprising examples of 653 species, and 

 including 137 types of species and varieties described by Dr. Arnold. 



From Prof. H. H. Swinnerton : a valuable and unique collection of 

 seventeen Lower Cretaceous Ammonites from Lincolnshire. 



From Mr. W. Wickham King : a collection of 200 fishes from the 

 Downtonian of Worcestershire. 



From the Government of Southern Rhodesia : a meteoric stone, 

 weighing 481b. lloz., being the fifth largest stone in the Museum. 



From Mr. E. J. Dunn, F.G.S. : a unique series of 725 pebbles, collected 

 by the donor since 1856, described and (144) figured in his book 

 'Pebbles' (Melbourne, 1911), and a series of 92 specimens of croci- 

 dolite, collected by him in 1872, in Orange River District, South Africa. 



Botany. 

 From Archdeacon A. Hombersley : his herbarium of ferns, comprising 

 about 500 specimens, forming the basis of his account of the ferns of 

 Trinidad. 



