18 BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) 



From Mr. W. C. Barton : the whole of his herbarium except the 

 genus Rubus, consisting of about 20,500 sheets of British and a few 

 Alpine plants, and including the herbaria of the Rev. H. J, Riddelsdell 

 and Mrs. Foord Kelsey. 



From Captain F. Kingdon-Ward : a further valuable collection of 

 750 Tibetan plants. 



From Mr. James C. Cooper : his herbarium of about 2,000 specimens, 

 including a large number from areas in London now lauilt over, and 

 including also examples of many alien species. 



From Mr. N. Douglas Simpson : a valuable collection of 463 flowering 

 plants and cryptogams from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and 37 flower- 

 ing plants from Egypt. 



From Mr, J. D. Snowden : his herbarium of 2,300 plants, collected in 

 Uganda and the southern Sudan. 



From the Council of the Hancock Museum, Newcastle- on -Tyne : 63 

 bundles, comprising upwards of 5,000 specimens of plants, being a part 

 of the herbarium of P. S. Pallas. 



From Sir J. L. Hanham : a collection of about 500 plants from West 

 Greenland and 200 from Baffin Island, obtained on Mr. J. N. Wordie's 

 expedition. 



From Mrs. E. M. Day : a valuable collection of over 1,400 drawings 

 of fungi, made by her husband, the late Mr. E. M. Day. 



Bequests, etc. 



The late Lieut. -Colonel C. G. Nurse bequeathed to the Museum a 

 collection of 3,021 Indian insects, mainly Diptera, including type 

 specimens of 14 species. 



The Museum received by bequest 90 of the largest and choicest 

 faceted stones (to the value of about £1,500), as well as uncut material, 

 including a set of gem minerals, from the late Mr. Thomas Bryan Clarke- 

 Thornhill's collection of gemstones. 



The late Mr. C. B. Holman-Hunt left the Museum the sum of £400 to 

 purchase from his sister, Mrs. Michael Joseph, the portrait of Sir Richard 

 Owen, painted by his father, William Holman-Hunt. 



Notification was received from the Trustees of the estate of the late 

 Mrs. Mary Joicey, that the butterflies and moths selected for the 

 Museum at the time of Mr. J. J. Joicey's death, from the collection 

 formed by him, could be considered to have become the property of the 

 Museum. The gift comprises 327,610 specimens, and includes 2,958 

 types. 



Prof. A. C. Seward, F.R.S., has transferred from the Cambridge 

 University Herbarium to the Museum, on loan, several valuable collec- 

 tions of plants, including Babington's Rubi, numbering about 14,000 

 sheets. 



Purchased. 



Important purchases included : four specimens of a rare gecko, 

 Palmatogecko rangei ; a collection of about 167 mammals, 553 bird skins, 

 250 fishes, and some reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates, from the 

 Ashanti forest ; a mounted specimen of the Huchen (fish) ; 480 beetles, 

 all types and cotypes, from Tibet ; 61 Archaeocyathinae from the 

 Cambrian of Australia ; a collection of about 500 slides of fossil plants 

 in a cabinet, together with catalogue and notes and 200 uncatalogued 



