22 BRITISH MUSEUM (NATUBAL HISTORY) 



Botany. 



From Mr. H. E. Box : a collection of 396 plants from Antigua and 

 Barbuda. 



From Captain G. Sherriff : 656 flowering plants and ferns collected 

 on his recent expedition to Bhutan. 



From Mr. F. Ludlow : flowering plants from Kashmir. 



From Mrs. Hilda Drabble : the herbarium formed by her husband, 

 the late Dr. Eric Drabble, and herself, comprising 25,000 plants chiefly- 

 British, many being from areas hitherto poorly represented in the 

 Museum collections. 



From Mrs. G. Grattan : wash and colour drawings left by her father, 

 Dr. A. H. Church, F.R.S., including those (and some of the manuscript) 

 prepared for future volumes of his " Types of Floral Mechanisms," 

 (1908). 



From Dr. H. G. Wager : a well preserved collection of about 1,100 

 flowering plants and 50 cryptogams, made on the British East Greenland 

 Expedition (1935-6), from the southern end of Knud Rasmussen's Land. 



From Mr. N. J. Hanbury Tracy : a collection of 211 well preserved 

 flowering plants, chiefly from the Pashu district. Eastern Tibet. 



The late Mrs. Kate Murray Pontifex bequeathed to the Museum 

 twenty-nine selected mineral specimens, including a fine black opal 

 pendant and a large mass of crocoite crystals; and her husband, Mr. 

 R. D. Pontifex, presented the remainder of her collection together with 

 a twenty-drawer cabinet. 



The late Mr. E. T. Browne, a well known marine zoologist, bequeathed 

 to the Museum his collection of zoological specimens, containing a large 

 and very weU-preserved series of British and foreign Medusae, with a 

 full card index, and cases. 



Purchases. 



Important purchases included a collection of birds and mammals 

 from Greenland ; the remainder of the Fruhstorfer collection of butter- 

 flies consisting of 48,677 specimens, including 3,871 types; the Paravicini 

 collection of approximately 60,000 specimens of Microlepidoptera ; a 

 collection of over 4,000 specimens and microscopic preparations (repre- 

 senting nearly 100 forms) of South African Acanthodriline Oligochaeta ; 

 9,000 Rhopalocera, from the Near East ; a collection of Coleoptera 

 especially Cetoniid beetles comprising 11,000 specimens, including 

 200 types; the Myers collection of Hemiptera and Cicadidae, from 

 America and New Zealand ; a collection of about 800 mineral specimens 

 rich in " rare earth " and uranium minerals; a single mass of meteoric 

 iron weighing 1811b. from Box-Hole, Central Austraha; an unusually 

 fine specimen of clear blue, step- cut, flawless topaz; several pieces of 

 meteorites; a collection of 2,425 flowering plants and cryptogams from 

 the Aegean Islands; and a collection of 3,043 flowering plants from 

 Brazil. 



The skeleton of a male Sperm Whale 59 feet long, stranded at 

 Bridlington in January, was acquired for the Museum. 



