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Donations. 

 The number of separate presents received during the year was 3,203, 

 among the more interesting of them being : — 



Oeneral. 



From Mr. H. St. J. B. Philby : a collection of 1,600 zoological specimens, 

 insects, plants, minerals, and rocks, from an unexplored region in South 

 West Arabia. 



From Mr. J. L. Chaworth-Musters : a collection (including 82 birds 

 and 358 well-preserved flowering plants) obtained on an expedition to 

 the Atlas Mountains. 



Zoology. 



From His Majesty the King : the skin with mounted head of a Black 

 Leopard from India. 



From His Majesty the King of Bulgaria : the skuU of an East Balkan 

 Domestic Pig. 



From the Bombay Natural History Society : 574 birds, including 

 eight types, collected during a survey of the Eastern Ghats. 



Entomology. 

 From Miss Emma Hutchinson : the Hutchinson collection of 

 Lepidoptera made in Herefordshire (1860-1936), numbering about 

 10,000 specimens, and contained in four cabinets. 



From Mrs. P. Tillyard : a collection of 500 mayflies and 700 dragon- 

 flies, mainly from Austraha and New Zealand, and including many types 

 of species described by the late Dr. R. J. Tillyard. 



Geology. 

 From Mrs. Eleanor M. Reid : fossil fruits and seeds, illustrating her 

 researches on the Pliocene flora of Castle Eden, Durham. 



From Monsieur P. Marty (in conjunction with Mrs. Reid) : 694 

 specimens of the Pliocene flora of the Pont-de-Gail, France, of which 

 he was the discoverer. 



From Miss Alice Gray and her sisters : a collection of about 20,000 

 invertebrate fossils from the Ordovician and Silurian rocks of the Girvan 

 district. 



From Mr. C. T. A. Gaster : over 14,000 fossil invertebrates, collected 

 by him from the Chalk of Sussex. 



Mineralogy. 



From Sir Ernest Oppenheimer and Mr. H. T. Dickinson : a fine 

 diamond of four carats from Alexander Bay, Namaqualand. 



From the Directors of Meru Tin, Ltd. : a massive (104 lb.) specimen 

 of cassiterite, or tinstone, from Kinta, Perak, F.M.S. 



From Mr. Fehx F. Wilson : a small sealed bottle containing alluvial 

 gold from Leadhills, Lanarkshire. 



