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From the Director, Geological Commission of Finland : an interesting 

 collection of Finnish rocks and minerals. 



From Mr. Arthur Champion, C.M.G. : a collection of over 200 rock 

 specimens from the Turkana district of East Afirca, including lavas and 

 " bombs " from the Teleki volcano and the south end of Lake Rudolf. 



From Towkay Yee Chee Seng and Towkay Chan Ying Tit, owners of 

 the Hup Tuck Kongsi Mine, Selangor, Federated Malay States : a valuable 

 and imusually large mass of cassiterite (tin-stone), showing numerous 

 well- developed crystals of the mineral. 



From the Earl of Ilchester, O.B.E. : an interesting series of nine lots of 

 pebbles from the Chesil Beach, with a plan showing their relative positions 

 and illustrating the probable direction in which the shingle had travelled. 



From the Director of the Geological Survey of Nigeria : a piece (1,022 

 grams) and a fragment of the meteorite (pallasite) which fell near Udei 

 Station, Benue River, Nigeria. 



From the Museum of South Austraha, Adelaide : a carefully labelled 

 series of 58 austrahtes (tektites) typically representative of the famous 

 collection made by Mr. W. H. C. Shaw. 



Botany. 



From Captain F. Kingdon Ward : a collection of 208 plants from the 

 Naga Hills, and over 1,100 well preserved flowering plants and ferns from 

 southern Tibet, including the unexplored region of Pome. 



From Lieut. -Colonel F. M. Bailey, CLE. : a collection, comprising 488 

 flowering plants and 42 vascular cryptogams, from Nepal. 



From the Dean of the Medical College, St.Bartholomew's Hospital : the 

 botanical herbarium and museum specimens belonging to the College, 

 including twelve volumes of flowering plants, collected mainly by Professors 

 G. Henslow and C. C. Babington, and Mr. R. Tuck, between 1820 and 1835. 



From Miss Nancy Lindsay and Mrs. A. FuUerton : a collection of 430 

 well preserved plants from Iran. 



From the Hon. Mrs. de Beaumont: the botanical press formerly belonging 

 to Antoine de Jussieu (1748-1836), one of the foremost systematic 

 botanists. 



From Dr. F. K. Sparrow : a collection of 37 microscopical preparations 

 of aquatic phycomycetes. including a number of co- types and first British 

 records. 



From Mrs. M. Bloor : the cryptogamic herbarium of the late WiUiam 

 Bellerby, her father, comprising 4,028 specimens, chiefly mosses and 

 liverworts. 



From Mr. C. J. Brooks : his valuable herbarium comprising about 

 2,650 ferns, coUected mainly by himself in Sarawak, Borneo, Sumatra, 

 Celebes, and Amboina ; but including also specimens obtained by exchange 

 from Professor Copeland and the late Prince Roland Bonaparte, a set of 

 Schlechter's ferns from Papua, and some from New Guinea coUected by the 

 Rev. Copland King. 



From Dr. G. N. Humphreys: a collection of 88 flowering plants, obtained 

 by him at high altitudes, while with the Mount Everest (1936) Expedition. 



