24 BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) 



Loans, Exchanges, etc. 



The Trustees accepted an offer by Mr. M. E. Mosely to lodge in the 

 Museum his very extensive collection of Trichoptera, probably the 

 finest in existence, on condition that it remained intact and under his 

 control for so long as he was able to utilize it. 



Professor F. T. Brooks, F.R.S., of the Botany Department, Cambridge 

 University, transferred to the Museum on permanent loan 1,745 specimens 

 of Ruhi, forming part of a collection made by the late Rev. W. Moyle 

 Rogers, which at his death was divided into three, one part being given 

 to the Department of Botany at Cambridge, the second to the Rev. H. J. 

 RiddelsdeU, and the third to the Trustees. Mr. Riddelsdell has promised 

 his specimens, and the herbarium when thus reassembled at the Museum 

 will be kept as a unit. 



Colonel R. S. Ingham Clark placed a large collection of fossil gums 

 and wood panels on permanent loan in the Museum. 



An attractive collection of paintings of Ceylon fishes was lent by 

 Mr. P. Deraniyagala of the Ceylon Museum, and temporarily exhibited 

 in the Fish Gallery. 



The Duke of Devonshire agreed to extend for a further three years 

 the period of the loan to the Museum of his crystal of emerald (the 

 largest known) for exhibition in the Mineral Gallery. 



Twenty- three mounted heads and skulls of game animals were sent by 

 the Trustees to the British Section of the International Hunting Exhibition, 

 Berlin, and afterwards shown in the exhibition held at the Imperial 

 Institute of the trophies returned from Berlin ; four first prizes and two 

 second prizes were awarded at Berlin to specimens from the Museum. 



Holman Hunt's portrait of Sir Richard Owen was lent to Fulham 

 Public Library for the purpose of a special exhibition of the works of 

 Fulham artists. 



The Trustees agreed to the loan of the large Otumpa meteoric iron, 

 weighing 1,400 lb., from Argentina, with an etched slice to show internal 

 structure, for exhibition in the British Government Pavilion of the 

 Glasgow Empire Exhibition. 



Publications. 

 The following new works were published during the year : — 

 Great Barrier Reef Reports. 



Vol. I, No. 12. 



Vol. V, No. 5. 

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



Vol. II, No. 2. 



Vol. Ill, No. 1. 



Vol. IV, Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. 



Vol. V, No. 1. 

 Bombyliidae of Palestine by Major E. E. Austen, D.S.O. 

 Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile, Part VII, Fascicle 3. 

 Catalogue of African Hesperiidae by Brigadier W. H. Evans, C.S.I., 



C.I.E., D.S.O, 



