BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) 



Additions to the Collections. 



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The number of acquisitions in the several Departments during the 

 year, apart from specimens received too late for incorporation and from 

 books, \\'as as follows :— 



Department. 



Purchases. 



Donations, 



Exchanges, 



etc. 



Total. 



Zoology 



Entomology 



Geology 



Mineralogy 



Botany 



2,662 

 61,601 



9,658 



372 



39,382 



31,954 



152,023 



16,632 



1,572 



30,760 



34,616 



213,624 



26,290 



1,944 



70,142 



Totals... 



113,675 



232,941 



346,616 



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Donations. 



The number of separate presents received during the year was 3,035, 

 among the more interesting of them being : — 



Zoology. 



From His Excellency the Governor of Sierra Leone : the skull of a 

 Gola forest elephant, Loxodonta africana cyclotis. 



From Mrs. E. M. Hughes : skulls and mounted heads of African game 

 animals, including a fine series of antelopes and other ungulates from the 

 Lake Bangweolo districts, shot by the late Mr. J. E. Hughes. 



From Rear- Admiral Hubert Lynes, C.B.,C.M.G. : a collection of 2,300 

 bird skins, from Tanganjdka and the Belgian Congo. 



Entomology . 



From Dr. Andre Avinoff , Director of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, 

 U.S.A. : 83 photographs of important specimens of African Lymantriidae, 

 presented as a mark of appreciation of Mr. C. L. CoUenette's work upon 

 this family. 



From Mr. R. W. Lloyd : 850 exceptionally valuable original drawings 

 by Jacob Hiibner, from his " Sammlung europaischen SchmetterHnge " 

 with a number of additional sketches and plates. 



Geology. 



From the Trustees of the Salisbury, South Wilts, and Blackmore 

 Museum : a fine collection of 4,700 specimens, mainly invertebrates, and 

 a few reptilian and fish remains, from the zones of the chalk in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Sahsbury. 



From the Hartlepool Museum : a very valuable example of a rare 

 fish {Dorypterus hoffmanni) from the Permian of Durham. 



From the Torquay Natural History Society : a collection of 165 fossil 

 invertebrates from the Devonian of Devon. 



