22 BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) 



Bequests, etc. 



A volume of plants formerly belonging to Dr. John Hawkins (1739- 

 1795), forming an interesting addition to eight similar volumes already in 

 the Sloane Herbarium, and in the possession of the Trustees since 1753, 

 has been accepted as a permanent loan from the Dorset County Museum. 



The Trustees accepted the remainder, consisting of some 4,000 speci- 

 mens, of the Joicey Collection of Lepidoptera, the major portion of which 

 had been presented in 1934, on the condition that they had full discretion 

 as to the disposal of the specimens. 



Purchases. 

 Important purchases included : a collection of 1,100 bird skins from 

 Central and West Africa; Major M. Connolly's collection of land and 

 freshwater mollusca representing more than 3,000 species, including 

 tjrpe specimens of 284 species; a collection of about 15,000 insects of 

 various orders from British Honduras; 362 specimens of Diptera from 

 British Columbia ; 1 ,328 specimens of Hymenoptera from Brazil ; a 

 collection of more than 6,000 fossil invertebrates, chiefly brachiopods and 

 trilobites, including forty new species, from the Ordovician of the Welsh 

 borderland and of the Lake District ; about 1,300 mammahan bones from 

 East Angha, a series specially collected to provide accurately dated 

 material from successive stages of the Pleistocene ; 195 Invertebrates, 

 mostly ammonites, from the Jurassic of Britain, including 109 holotypes ; 

 a selection of interesting minerals collected by Mr. and Mrs. P. Medawar in 

 Brazil ; collections of minerals, including a table-cut dichroic aquamarine 

 and specimens of kunzite, spodumene, tarnowitzite, and blockite ; the moss 

 herbarium of Fr. Verdoorn containing 3,500 specimens ; a collection ol 

 2,417 flowering plants and cryptogams from Albania, Austria, and Samoa ; 

 and 555 flowering plants from South West Africa. 



Collecting Expeditions. 



The Trustees made financial contributions towards an expedition to 

 Northern Rhodesia by Miss C. K. Ricardo to collect the flora and fauna of 

 Lake Shiwa Ngandu ; towards a second entomological expedition to 

 Southern India by Mr. G. M. Henry; towards a collecting expedition to 

 Western China by Captain F. Kingdon-Ward ; towards the cost of a 

 collector to assist Mr. W. H. Ingrams during a trip to the Hadramaut in 

 Arabia ; towards a further botanical and ornithological expedition to 

 Bhutan by Captain G. Sherrifl and Mr. F. Ludlow ; towards a survey of the 

 birds of Ceylon, to be undertaken by the Director of the Colombo Museum, 

 in conjunction with Captain W. A. Philhps ; towards a tour in Yugoslavia 

 by Mr. Vladimir Martino, for the purpose of collecting mammals, birds, and 

 insects ; and towards a collecting expedition to Iran by Miss N. Lindsay. 



An expedition made by Captain G. Sherriff and Mr. F. Ludlow to 

 Bhutan resulted in the acquisition for the Museum of about 900 bird skins 

 belonging to some 200 species, 600 butterflies, and 1,660 extremely well 

 preserved plants, including several new species of Prim wZa and Meconopsis 

 and the seeds of 450 varieties. 



Mr. K. H. Chapman and Mr. G. A. Bisset, Assistant Keepers, in the 

 course of an expedition to Morocco collected between three and four 

 thousand insects, 800 of which were Orthoptera and 900 Lepidoptera. 



Mr. L. R. Cox, Assistant Keeper, attended the Field Meeting of the 

 Geologists' Association in the Rhone Valley, where he collected approxi- 



