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From Mr. M. H. Donald : a large collection of fossil invertebrates, 

 chiefly from the Carboniferous of Great Britain, made by the late Mrs. J. 

 Longstaff (nee Donald). 



From Miss Annette Anning : a portrait, one of two versions painted 

 after her death, of Mary Anning of Lyme Regis (1799-1847) who collected 

 many of the earliest known British fossils in the Museum. 



Mineralogy. 



From the Directors of the United Africa Company, Ltd. : a nugget 

 (weighing 1 oz. 5 dwt.) and small but well-formed crystals of platinum 

 from the Company's mines in Sierra Leone. 



From Sir Robert Wilhams & Co. : a valuable selection of minerals from 

 the Kilembi Mine on Mount Ruwenzori, chosen from the series at their 

 London office. 



From Messrs. Issacharoff Brothers : a comprehensive series of rough 

 and worked lapis lazuli, from the Badakshan district, Afghanistan. 



From Messrs. P. W. Richards and R. Ross : a collection of 870 plants, 

 made by them on the Cambridge botanical expedition to Nigeria, 1935. 



From Miss I. W. Hutchinson : a collection of 1,700 flowering plants, 

 chiefly from the Jacobschon district, West Greenland. 



From Mr. G. J. Kerrich : a series of 122 sheets of critical species of 

 Finnish plants, collected by Mr. H. Krogerus. 



From Mrs. R. Paulson : the herbarium of her husband, the late Robert 

 Paulson, a well-known amateur lichenologist, comprising over 600 

 flowering plants and 467 lichens. 



From Mrs. E.G. Wheelwright : a collection of British mosses, made by 

 the Rev. H. E. F. Garnsey (1826-1903), a well-known bryologist. 



From Miss H. S. Pollock : a Wedgwood medallion of the late Sir J. D. 

 Hooker, O.M., G.C.S.I., P.R.S., Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kew, from 1865 to 1885. 



From Miss G. Lister : a simple microscope and stand, constructed about 

 1820 and formerly belonging to her grandfather, Joseph Jackson Lister; 

 also 221 original drawings used for the plates in the Monograph of Myce- 

 tozoa, pubhshed by the Trustees, being an addition to Miss Lister's 

 many generous gifts of specimens, and her long and constant voluntary 

 attention to the Museum collection of Mycetozoa. 



Bequests, etc. 



The late Mr. E. B. A shby bequeathed to the Museum a valuable collec- 

 tion of European insects consisting of 9,935 Lepidoptera, and 3,439 

 specimens of other orders. 



The late Mr. Robert Adkin left to the Museum his entomological 

 collection, with the cabinets and store boxes in which it was kept, valued 

 at over £2,000, containing about fifty thousand specimens, and being 

 particularly rich in rare varieties of Macro-Lepidoptera, in series ex- 

 hibiting local variation, in extinct species, and in the Micro-Lepidoptera. 



The Museum also received by bequest the herbarium of the late Mr. 

 T. J. Foggitt, consisting of 4,640 sheets of British plants, of special value 

 on account of the large number of good specimens of extreme rarities which 

 it contained, and also as being the first collection wholly of Yorkshire 

 plants received by the Museum. 



