20 BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) 



Donations. 

 The number of separate presents received during the year was 3,346, 

 among the more interesting of them being : — 



Zoology. 



From Her Majesty Queen Mary : the skull and horns of Ngami Ox 

 given to His late Majesty King George V, when Duke of York, during his 

 South African tour ; and the sldn of a crocodile and a mounted specimen 

 of a young crocodile from Kenj^a, both given to His Royal Highness the 

 Duke of Gloucester during his travels in Kenya Colony. 



From the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York : the types of fifteen sub-species of British and Irish birds from the 

 Rothschild Collection, acquired by the American Museum in 1932. The 

 Trustees stated that they felt that it would be helpful in the cause of 

 science to return these specimens for permanent deposit in the British 

 Museum. 



From Lieut.-General Sir Henry Keary, K.C.B., K.C.I.E., D.S.O. : a 

 collection of game trophies, mostly from Burma, including specimens of 

 Thamin, Bantin, and Tahr. 



From Lieut. -Colonel Sir Armine Brereton Dew, K.C.I. E. : a collection of 

 41 Kashmir game trophies, consisting mainly of skulls and horns of 

 Markhor, Sheep, and Ibex. 



From the Hon. Mrs. Louise Hunter : a collection of big game trophies 

 from Africa and India, shot by her late husband, Mr. H. C. V. Hunter. 



From Mr. Wilham Falconer : 84 new species of British spiders. 



From Mrs. Constance Thorburn : seventeen water-colour paintings by 

 her late husband, the late Archibald Thorburn, the originals of the plates 

 illustrating whales, seals, and bats, in Thorburn's " British Mammals." 



Entomology. 



From Professor G. H.E. Nuttall,F.R.S.: the whole of the material upon 

 which he based his studies on the human louse, pubhshed in " Parasit- 

 ology " (1917-1930), comprising 44 tubes and 168 microscope slides of the 

 human louse, and other Hce and insects of parasitological interest. 



Geology. 



From Dr. F. Mansfeld : 36 beautiful specimens of pohshed chalcedonized 

 wood and 234 petrified plants, from presumed Triassic beds of Cerro Alto, 

 Santa Cruz, Argentina. 



From Dr. C. T. Trechmann: 206 invertebrates from the Mesozoic and 

 1,273 from the Tertiary of the West Indies (including 208 types and 

 figured specimens). 



From Mrs. E. M. Reid : 5,000 invertebrates from the Tertiary of 

 Hampshire and Suffolk. 



Mineralogy. 



From Mr. F. N. Ashcroft : a valuable selection from his collection of 

 Swiss minerals, comprising 651 specimens from 97 localities, including 

 crystals of datohte, rutile, sphene, apatite, smoky-quartz, rock-crystal, 

 and adularia. 



