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Birunga Mountains, Mount Ruwenzori, and Mount Elgon, but the lower 

 country and several rivers in Kenya and Uganda were also visited, and 

 about 20,000 insects and 4,200 plants were obtained as a result of the 

 expedition. 



An expedition to Tibet and Bhutan (financed jointly by the Museum 

 and the Godman Exploration Fund), made by Captain G. Sheriff and 

 Mr. F. Ludlow, resulted in the acquisition for the Museum of botanical 

 collections comprising 523 flowering plants and 53 cryptogams, including 

 many species of horticultural interest, and 874 specimens of birds, belonging 

 to some 242 species. 



Useful botanical collections were obtained as a result of an expedition 

 to Central Albania undertaken by Mr. A. H. G. Alston, Assistant Keeper, 

 and Mr. N. Y. Sandwith of the Kew Herbarium. 



During a visit to Palestine to collect Pleistocene fossils. Miss D. M. A. 

 Bate worked chiefly at Bethlehem, in conjunction with the Wellcome 

 Archaeological Expedition to the Near East, but she also visited the 

 Jordan below Lake Huleh, where the river was being deepened. The 

 collections made by her included rhinoceros and elephant remains. 



Mr. R. B. Benson, Assistant Keeper, collected in the Swiss Alps over 

 four thousand Hymenoptera, including about 20 species of saw-flies not 

 previously found in Central Europe. 



Dr. H. D. Thomas, Assistant Keeper, attended the Field Meetings of 

 the Geologists' Association at Much Wenlock in September, where he 

 collected for the Museum over 100 fossil invertebrates, including specimens 

 of a coral previously unknown to science. 



Captain D. S. Wilkinson, a voluntary worker, visited on behalf of the 

 Museum various scientific institutions in Germany and Belgium to 

 examine type specimens of parasitic Hymenoptera, and brought back 

 for more critical examination a considerable quantity of valuable material. 



Publications. 

 The following new works were published during the year : — 

 " Terra Nova " Expedition Reports. 



Zoology, Vol. IV, No. 8. 



(This completed the Zoological series of reports.) 

 Insects of Samoa and other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda. 



Part II, Fascicle 5. 



Part III, Fascicle 4. 



Part VI, Fascicle 9. 



Part IX, Fascicle 2. 



Part IX, Fascicle 3. Addenda et Corrigenda. Index. 



Preface, Tables of Contents, Index to Contributors, Title pages, etc. 

 Great Barrier Reef Report. 



Vol. II, No. 7. 



Vol. Ill, No. 10. 



Vol. V, No. 1. 

 John Murray Expedition to the Indian Ocean, 1933-34. Scientific 



Reports. 



Vol. I, No. 1. By R. B. Seymour Sewell. 

 List of British Vertebrates. By M. A. C. Hinton, F.R.S., B. W. 



Tucker, H. W. Parker, and J. R. Norman. 



