26 BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) 



Zoology. 

 From Mr. G. H. Caton-Haigh : a valuable collection of British 

 mammals and birds. 



From Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton and Mr. Christopher Powell- 

 Cotton : a collection of skins and skeletons of mammals from South- 

 West Africa and Southern Angola. 



Entomology. 

 From Professor E. Hindle : 2,000 British Diptera from the J. J. F. W. 

 King collection. 



Geology. 



From Miss Alice Gray and her sister : four interesting MS volumes 

 relating to the Mrs. Robert Gray collection of Girvan fossils. 



From the Chairman and Directors of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company : 

 a large series of rock specimens collected by Dr. J. V. Harrison in Iran, 

 illustrating the complicated geological structure of that region. 



From Mr. A. T. Marston : the occipital and left parietal bones of a 

 human braincase, known as the Swanscombe skull, Avith other vertebrate 

 remains and invertebrate fossils from the Pleistocene of Swanscombe, 

 Kent. 



Mineralogy. 

 From Dr. E. S. Simpson : a fine set of minerals from Western 

 Australia, including large masses of petalite and its alteration product 

 from a feldspar quarry near Coolgardie ; pieces of the meteoric irons 

 kumerina and wonyulgunna; and a plaster cast of an " australite " seen 

 to fall at Cottisloe, near Perth. 



Botany. 

 From Mr. R. W. de Feachem : 382 prepared plants collected on the 

 Wordie Arctic Expedition. 



From the organisers of the Imperial College of Science (Jan Mayen) 

 Expedition; 427 well preserved plants collected by Dr. R. Scott 

 Russell. 



From the Pubhc Schools Exploring Society ; a collection of 207 plants 

 from Newfoundland. 



From Mrs. D. Lee : 426 coloured drawings, including the originals 

 of the illustrations of the " Flowers of the Engadine," by her father, 

 the late E. D. Heathcote. 



From Miss B. O. Corfe : 339 paintings of British plants. 



From Mr. H. E. Box : a further collection (supplementary to that 

 presented by him in 1937) of 400 flowering plants and ferns from Antigua 

 and the adjacent islands. 



The late Mr. Edward Mejrrick bequeathed to the Museum his im- 

 portant collection of Lepidoptera, estimated to contain some 100,000 

 specimens, including many thousands of tjrpes, particularly of Micro- 

 lepidoptera, upon which Mr. Meyrick was an authority. 



