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slides ; 7 rare fossil fishes, including an unique complete ceratodont from 

 the Trias of New South Wales ; the residue of the Sowerby collection, 

 comprising 2,122 fossil invertebrates, 2 fossil plants, and 25 mineral- 

 ogical specimens ; a unique crystal of euclase from Tanganyika 

 Territory ; one faceted olivine, weighing 20"35 grams, from Burma ; a 

 water- worn crystal of clear topaz, weighing 29 lb., and 2 groups of quartz 

 crystal from Brazil ; portions of a meteoric stone from South Australia, 

 one piece weighing 3,750 grams ; and flowering plants from Turkey, 

 North and South America, Borneo, and Tanganyika Territory. 



Collecting Expeditions. 



The Trustees made contributions towards the expenses of a botanical 

 expedition to Papua by Mr, C. E, Carr ; of a botanical and general 

 collecting expedition to Bhutan and Tibet by Captain G. Sheriff and 

 Mr. F. Ludlow ; of a collecting expedition to North- West New Guinea 

 by Mr. Wilfred J. C. Frost ; of an expedition to the Siwa Oasis by 

 Mr. J. Omer Cooper ; of a collecting expedition to the Downtonian of 

 Podolia, Poland, by Dr. W. Zych ; and of expeditions to Southern 

 Morocco and to the South of France by Mr. J. W. S. Pringle and Mr. 

 M. E. Mosely respectively. They also contributed a further sum 

 towards Miss L. E. Cheesman's entomological collecting expedition to 

 Papua. 



The Percy Sladen Zoological Expedition to the British Cameroons 

 led by Mr, Ivan Sanderson resulted in the acquisition by the Museum of 

 an important collection containing a series of some 500 Podogona, a 

 very rare and interesting order of arachnids. 



A collection comprising 542 bird skins, and smaller numbers of 

 mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and arachnids was made by Mr. 

 G. L. Bates in Arabia, with assistance from the Godman Exploration 

 Fund. 



As a result of Dr. Karl Jordan's expedition to Angola and South- 

 West Africa, the Museum received a collection comprising 152 mammals, 

 9 birds, 647 reptiles, 280 fishes, 50 crustaceans, and a few other inverte- 

 brates ; as well as a collection of insects and 32 botanical specimens. 



Mr. J. W. S. Pringle's expedition to Southern Morocco resulted in the 

 acquisition by the Museum of a Barbary Macaque in spirit, 20 fishes, 

 about 170 land and freshwater shells, and a few freshwater Polyzoa, 

 leeches, oligochaetes, and coelenterates, as well as 1,300 insects. 



A collection comprising one or two mammals, and 293 birds, represent- 

 ing about 102 species, was received from Mr. W. J.C. Frost's expedition 

 to New Guinea. 



Dr. L. J. Spencer, C.B,E.,F.R,S., collected a large series of specimens 

 from the Libyan Desert, while on an expedition organized by the Survey 

 of Egypt to the Sand Sea in December. 



During a visit to Malta and Palestine, for which she was given special 

 leave. Miss D. M. A. Bate studied the material in the Malta Museum 

 and collected valuable Pleistocene vertebrate remains. She also selected 

 from the specimens collected at the Wady Mughara Caves a series very 

 acceptable to the Museum. 



A collection of 732 specimens was made by Mr. J. E. Dandy on an 

 expedition organized by Mr. C, G. T. Morison to the Sudan. While in 

 Khartoum he visited the Sudan Government Herbarium and the separate 

 Herbarium formed by the Department of Agriculture and Forests. 



