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mately 5,000 fossil invertebrates, a great number of which were new to the 

 Museum. 



Miss D. M. A. Bate again visited Palestine, where in collaboration with 

 the Wellcome Archaeological Research Expedition to the Near East she 

 continued her excavations in the Pleistocene at Bethlehem, and 

 investigated Pliocene deposits in the coastal plain south-west of Jerusalem. 

 Further remains of elephants, and of mammals new to the fauna of that 

 region, were found. 



Loans, Exchanges, etc. 

 His Majesty King Edward VIII placed on permanent loan in the 

 Museum ten elephant tusks, formerly at Buckingham Palace, one pair 

 of which was the record pair for the Indian Elephant ; a mounted specimen 

 of a rare Scarlet Breasted Parrot (Neophema splendida) formerly kept as a 

 pet by His Majesty King George V; and a collection of fossils from 

 Argentina, presented to His Majesty by Dr. Juan A. Dominguez, of the 

 Argentine Ministry of the Interior. 



The Duke of Devonshire placed on loan for one year in the Department 

 of Minerals his crystal of emerald (the largest known) for exhibition in 

 the Mineral Gallery. 



A collection of specimens of radiolarian chert from locahties in Scotland, 

 which came to the Museum with the Murray collection of deep sea deposits ; 

 and a series of sedimentary rocks from the Rhaetic and Lower Lias in the 

 west of England, Monmouthshire, and Glamorganshire, were transferred to 

 the Museum of Practical Geology. 



Specimens were exchanged with, and dupHcate specimens presented 

 to, numerous institutions and individuals. 



Publications. 



The following new works were pubHshed during the year : — 

 Index to the Catalogue of the Works of Linnaeus, 

 Great Barrier Reef Reports. 



Vol. I, No. 11. 



Vol. II, No. 8. 



Vol. IV, Title Page. 



Vol. V, Nos. 2, 3 and 4. 



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

 Vol. I, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, Title Page, and Index. 

 Vol. II, No. 1. 

 Vol. IV, Nos. 1 and 2. 



Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region by G. H. E. Hopkins. 



Monograph of the Genus Erebia by B. C. S. Warren. 



Flora of Jamaica, Volume VII, by Dr. A. B. Rendle, F.R.S. 



Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of Geology and Palaeontology (Second 



Edition). 

 The Student's Index to the Collection of Minerals (Twenty- seventh 



Edition). 

 Instructions for Collectors, No. 3. — Reptiles, Amphibians and Fishes 



(Fifth Edition). 

 Economic Series, No. 10. — Marine boring animals injurious to submerged 



structures (Second Edition). 



