28 BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) 



Cambridge West Greenland Expedition, 1938 ; and Mr. R. W. de Feachem 

 collected 465 plants for the Museum on the same expedition. 



The Percy Sladen Trustees have presented the large zoological and 

 botanical collections brought back by the Lake Titicaca Expedition, 1937, 

 of which Mr. G. I. Crawford, Assistant Keeper, was a member. The 

 Linnean Society of London has agreed that a volume of their transactions 

 shall be devoted to the publication of the results of the expedition. 



The Trustees undertook to bear, jointly with the Trustees of the 

 Percy Sladen Fund, the cost of the British share in a projected Swedish- 

 British -Norwegian geological collecting expedition to Spitzbergen, under 

 the leadership of Professor A. E, Stensio, of Stockholm. The resulting 

 collections will be shared between the British, the Stockholm, and the 

 Oslo Museums. 



The Trustees are co-operating in a general nutritional survey of 

 Africa, organized by the Colonial Office, by granting Dr. Ethelwynn 

 Trewavas, Assistant Keeper, who has great knowledge of the fishes of 

 the African lakes, six months' special leave to accompany an expedition 

 for the purpose of making a survey of the fishery resources of Lake 

 Nyasa. Biological and statistical investigations will be undertaken by 

 Dr. Trewavas and Miss C. K. Ricardo, with local assistance. It is ex- 

 pected that a substantial addition to the Museum collection of 

 fishes will result from the expedition, and the Trustees, made a con- 

 tribution to the expenses of the survey. 



The Trustees also made financial grants towards the expenses of the 

 survey of the birds of Ceylon ; to Mr. J. D. Macdonald, Assistant Keeper, 

 while on a collecting expedition to the Southern Sudan ; to an expedition 

 to Waigeu and Japen, New Guinea, by Miss L. E. Cheesman; to Mr. 

 A. H. G. Alston, Assistant Keeper, while on a botanical collecting. expedi- 

 tion to Trinidad, Venezuela, and Colombia ; to the collecting of insects 

 in Cyprus by Mr. G. A. Mavromoustakis ; to Dr. R. Scott Russell, who 

 is collecting for the Museum, on an expedition led by Mr. E. E. Shipton 

 to the Karakoram and Himalaya Mountains and Central Asia ; to a 

 botanical collecting expedition to the island of St. Lucia, by IVIr. H. E. 

 Box ; to Mr. O. Grebenchikoff, of Belgrade, in collecting insects for 

 the Museum in Southern Greece ; and to the last of three joint entomo- 

 logical expeditions with the Colombo Museum, to Southern India, 

 conducted by Mr. G. M. Henry. 



Exchanges, etc. 



Specimens have been exchanged with and duplicate specimens pre- 

 sented to a large number of institutions and individuals. 



Publications. 



The following new works were published during the year : — 

 Great Barrier Reef Reports. 



Vol. VI, No. 1. 

 John Murray Expedition Reports. 



Vol. IV, No. 9. 



Vol. V, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. 



