ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Many of these are scarce and valuable ; among them may be specified — 



A very large collection of Mammalia and Birds, with a few Reptiles and Fish from Nepal. 

 Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., the Resident at Nepal. 



A collection of Animals from Canada. Presented by the Hudson's Bay Company. 



A large collection of Mammalia and Birds from Australia. Presented by Captain George 

 43rey, Governor of South Australia. 



A collection of Birds from New Zealand. Presented by the Directors of the New Zealand 

 Company. 



A collection of Mammalia, Reptiles and Insects from South Africa; anOcellated Turkey, 

 from Honduras, and several Mammalia which have died at Knowsley. Presented by the 

 Earl of Derby. 



A collection of Fish from India, presented by the Honorable East India Company; 

 from Australia, presented by John Gould, Esq. ; and a large collection from the West 

 Indies. 



A collection of Insects from Albania ; presented by W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. : from 

 South America, by Charles Darwin, Esq. ; Lepidoptera from India, by Edward Doubleday, 

 Esq. ; from the Swan River and Coast of Africa, by Dr. John Kichardson, e. n. : a collec- 

 tion of Crustacea, from the West Indies ; and Collections of Lepidoptera, from Northern 

 India, Europe, South Africa, and Tropical America. 



A collection of Shells from Greenland, named by Dr. Moller; of Sphserulites, presented 

 by S. P. Piatt, Esq. ; and of Uniones, from North America, presented by Edward Double- 

 day, Esq. 



Botanical Branch. 



1. The Keeper has completed the arrangement and incorporation with the General Her- 

 barium of the natural families of Polypetalse Hypogynae. 



2. He has commenced the re-arrangement of the Class Leguminosae. 



3. He has completed the examination of the collections purchased at the sale of the 

 Museum of the late Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. 



4. He has examined generally the collections formed by the Botanical Collector, 

 Mr. George Barclay, during the surveying voyage of Her Majesty's ship Sulphur, wnder 

 the orders of Captains Beechey and Belcher. 



5. He has arranged and selected a Collection for the Museum, from an extensive Herba- 

 rium formed in Western Australia, and also from a still more extensive Herbarium of 

 South Africa ; and he has examined and laid in to the General Herbarium a collection of 

 North American Plants lately received. 



6. The greater portion of the Botanical Collections have also been removed to the apart- 

 ments in the east wins; of the new buildinsr. 



Since the last Return there have been acquired, either by presentation or by purchase : — 



I. From the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty — 203 Coloured Drawings of New 



Holland Plants, by the late Mr. Ferdinand Bauer, being a selection from the 

 finished sketches made by him during the voyage of Her Majesty's ship Inves- 

 tigator, commanded by Captain Flinders. 



II. 1,000 species of plants of Western Australia, and a second collection of 400 from 



the same country, several species of which are not in the first collection. 

 90 species from China. 

 113 specimens in spirits from the Philippines. 



.380 species of South Africa, and trunks of a Fern Tree (Hemi'telia Capensis). 

 440 species of the United States. 

 610 species of British Guiana. 

 541 species of Dutch Guiana. 

 975 species of Central America and Peru. 

 140 Mosses and Lichens of Brazil. 

 100 specimens of Woods of Brazil. 

 313 specimens, chiefly of Chih. 

 228 specimens of Finmark. 



Department of Antiquities. 



Since the last Return, some of the Egyptian objects, which were too much crowded, have 

 been removed into the adjoining room, and the expansion of this part of the Collection is 

 still in progress. 



Rooms I., IL, HI., and part of room V., have been pulled down, and the objects which 

 were exhibited in them, are for the present removed to the Central Saloon, and the Ante- 

 room to the Phigaleian Room. 



The Xanthian Marbles have been arranged for present exhibition in the Phigaleian Room 

 and the Central Saloon, till a more suitable and permanent provision can be made for the 



exhibition 



