20 ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A Collection of Insects from Victoria ; presented by Robert Bakewell, Esq. 



A Collection of Insects of Amboina, New Guinea, and other Eastern Islands; formed by 

 Mr. Wallace. 



A Selection of Insects from the Vigorsian Collection, including all the type species therein 

 described by various authors ; presented by the Zoological Society. 



A Series of rare British Curculionidee ; presented by John Walton, Esq. 



A Series of Lepidopterous Insects from Knysna, South Africa ; formed and presented by 

 Roland Trimen, Esq. 



A Series of Coleopterous Insects of Ceylon, the types described by Mr. Walker and 

 Mr. Pascoe ; presented by Dr. Templeton. 



An extensive Collection of Shells and Radiated Animals from the South Seas; formed 

 during the voyage of Her Majesty's Ships " Herald" and " Rattlesnake;" presented by the 

 Museum of Economic Geology. 



A Series of Cameos, Brooches, Buttons, Bracelets, (fee, manufactured from Shells. 



The spiral Task of an African Elephant; presented by Mr. John Soares, Mozambique. 



John Edw. Gray. 



Department of Geology. 



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The additions made to the Geological Collection during the past year have been very 

 considerable, and consist principally of Specimens selected from various Collections offered 

 to the Museum : they are either new to the Geological Gallery, or exhibit interesting 

 varieties of species already possessed, but imperfectly represented. The most important 

 of the additions is the acquisition of about 2,600 specimens from the Collection of William 

 Bean, Esq., of Scarborough ; the series selected consisting chiefly of Yorkshire Fossils, 

 Tiz. : — 



From the Bridlington Crag Formation - 



From other Teniaries - - - - - 



From the Chalk Formation - - - - 



From Speeton Clay - - - - - 



From Oolites, and Lias - _ _ _ 



From older rocks - _ _ - _ 



The Collection includes a very fine series of Oolitic Plants from the shales of Gristhorpe 

 and Haiburn, near Scarborough, amounting to 124 Specimens, some of which are the 

 original Specimens described and figured by M. Adolph Brongniart, and Messrs. Lindley 

 and Hutton, Professor Phillips and Mr. Bunbury. The Fossil Sponges from the Chalk of 

 Flamborough, the Corals and Shells from Malton, and the Ammonites from the Lias, 

 Kelloway Rock, and Speeton Clay, include many of the finest Specimens hitherto dis- 

 covered, Mr. Bean having devoted about 40 years to the formation of the very extensive 

 Collection from which the selection has been made. 



Among other acquisitions procured by purchase, the following may be noticed : — 



28 Specimens from the London Clay of Sheppy. 



105 Specimens from the Chalk and Gault formations of Dover and Folkstone. 

 20 Ciinoids from the Dudley Limestone, including Specimens of the remarkable genus 

 Pseudocrinus, not hitherto represented in the Gallery. 

 1 3 Crinoids from the Carboniferous Limestone. 



29 Crustacea and Radiata from the Upper Silurian Rocks of Ludlow, including some of 

 the Specimens figured and described in the " Decades of the Geological Survey." 



23 Upper Silurian Fossils from Kendal. A small Collection of Devonian and other 

 Fossils from Germany. 



200 Fossils from the Carboniferous Formations of Derbyshire and Yorkshire. 



83 Greensand Fossils from Cambridge. 



50 Fossils from the Chalk and Greensand of Ventnor, Isle of Wight. 



135 Fossils from New South Wales, being the Collection made by Count Strzelecki, 

 and figured and described in his work on that country. 



The Geological Collection has hkewise been enriched by numerous donations ; among 

 others may be noticed : — 



60 Fossils from the Greensand of France, presented by Thomas Davidson, Esq., f.r. s. 



Some Corals from the Carboniferous Limestone of Russia, presented by Mrs. Cattley. 



Fish and Batrachian remains from the Brown Coal of Bonn, presented by W. J. Nevill, 

 Esq. 



Five Encrinites from Richmond, Yorkshire, presented by Edward Wood, Esq. 



A series of remains of Stagonolepis from the Trias of Elgin, presented by Dr. James 

 Taylor. 



The frontal bones with the cores of the horns attached, and various other parts of the 

 Skeleton of the great Fossil Ox (Bos primigenius), presented by J. Wickham Flower, Esq. 



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