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The Trustees agreed to publish a monograph of the Erehia, a genus 

 of Palsearctic butterflies of alpine and sub-alpine distribution, prepared 

 by Mr. B. C. S. Warren, and in consideration of this Mr. Warren entered 

 into an agreement making over to the Trustees his whole collection of 

 Palaearctic butterflies, subject to his retaining the collection during his 

 lifetime. 



The Council of the Royal Asiatic Society has lent to the Museum six 

 foho volumes of original water-colour drawings, apparently the work 

 of a native artist, illustrating the fauna and flora of Malacca. The drawings 

 were presented to the Societ}' hy Lieut. -Colonel Wifliam Farquhar, who 

 died in 1839, and will remain the property of the Society, but their 

 withdrawal from the Museum is not contemplated by the Royal Asiatic 

 Society. 



The Trustees accepted an ©O'er made by Mr. Thomas Sheppard, M.Sc, 

 Director of the Municipal Museums, Hull, to present to the Museum the 

 skeleton of a young Blue Whale from the Hull Museum, on condition 

 that the Trustees would pay the cost of articulating and mounting in its 

 place the skeleton of a Southern Right Whale, presented to the Hull 

 Museum by University College, Hull. 



Purchases. 



Important purchases included : 115 skins and skulls and 25 spirit 

 specimens of mammals, 145 birds, 9 reptiles, and 500 fishes from Ashanti 

 and the northern territories of the Gold Coast ; a collection of bird skins 

 and eggs from Chile ; a collection of about 20,000 insects, chiefly Hyme- 

 noptera, from Europe ; 164 butterflies from Central Asia ; a collection of 

 Australian fossils, containing 1,100 Permian and Triassic insects, 550 

 fossil plants, 50 Triassic fishes, 105 corals and several hundred other 

 invertebrates ; fossil fishes from the Alpine Trias of Besano, Switzerland ; 

 about 450 fossil invertebrates, chiefly ammonites, from the Lias and 

 inferior Oolite of Dorset; a flne series of 98 meteoric stones, weighing 

 48,640 grams, which fell as a shower at Tenham, Queensland ; a wine- 

 coloured topaz ; a collection of hand specimens and thin-sections of rocks 

 from the Swiss Alps, prepared under the direction of Prof. P. Niggli and 

 Dr. C. Friedlaender ; a fine series of well-localized Brazilian minerals, 

 including a topaz crystal, a citrine, and a pink kunzite ; a collection of 

 2,640 phanerogams and 78 cryptogams from Siam ; a collection of 1,250 

 plants from Borneo; and plants from Spain, Morocco, Alaska, and the 

 Aleutian Islands. 



Collecting expeditions. 



The Trustees made financial contributions towards the continuance of 

 the botanical collecting expedition in Papua by Mr. C. E. Carr ; towards a 

 collecting expedition to Dutch New Guinea by Miss L. E. Cheeseman; 

 towards an expedition to Southern India for collecting insects, by Mr. G. M. 

 Henry ; for the engagement of a preparator to assist Mr. H. St. J. Philby 

 in collecting in Arabia; towards an entomological collecting expedition 

 to the south of Spain by Dr. Malcolm Burr ; and towards expeditions to 

 Morocco and Mount Kilimanjaro by Mr. K, H. Chapman and Mr. B. 

 Cooper respectively. 



Dr. F. W. Edwards and Dr. G. Taylor, the leaders of the British 

 Museum (Natural History) East Africa Expedition, returned on 30 March. 

 Collecting was mainly concentrated on the Aberdare Mountains, the 



