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General Library. 

 During the year 279 new books, 156 volumes of periodicals and 30 

 maps were acquired by purchase or presentation, 50 of the periodicals 

 being new to the Library. The cataloguing of accessions for the whole 

 Museum was carried out in the General Library, 1,879 books and 18 maps 

 having been dealt with during 1938. 



Among the gifts received were : — • 



From Sir Douglas Mawson, F.R.S. : Reports of the British Austra- 

 lasian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-31). 



From Madame Helena Holmberg di Ambrosetti : a copy of *' El 

 Naturalista Argentino," tom. I (1878). 



From Mr. Anthony Belt : 180 autograph letters (1869-78) to Thomas 

 Belt, a-uthor of " The Naturalist in Nicaragua." 



From Mr. Hatherley Clarke : 33 letters (1920-22) from W. J. Wintle 

 to B. B. Woodward on the natural history of Caldey Island, with maps 

 and photographs. 



From Miss M. S. Johnstone : holograph letter of Hugh Miller, geologist. 



Additions to the Collections. 

 The number of acquisitions in the several Departments during the 

 year, apart from specimens received too late for incorporation and from 

 books, was as follows : — 



Department. 



Purchases. 



Donations, 

 etc. 



Total. 



Zoology 



Entomology 



Geology 



Mineralogy 



Botany 



5,537 



141,943 



1,149 



464 



18,979 



21,273 



210,382 



17,192 



1,970 



60,388 



26,810 



352,325 



18,341 



2,434 



79,367 



Totals 



168,072 



311,205 



479,277 



Donations. 

 The total number of presents received during the year was 3,178, 

 among the more interesting of them being : — 



General. 



From Lord Moyne, P.O., D.S.O. : zoological collections from various 

 localities made during a cruise of his yacht " Rosaura," comprising 

 species new to the Museum collections together with a large collection 

 of marine invertebrates likely to prove of considerable scientific 

 importance. 



From Mrs. W. Livingstone-Learmonth : four volumes of MS diaries 

 of her late husband, Mr. Walter Livingstone-Learmonth, illustrated by 

 photographs and forming a valuable record of a past phase of whaling. 



