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



times will thus be enabled to study witli certainty the actual specimens on which the 

 different nuthors established their species, or founded their observations and comparisons. 

 These will afford the only certain means of identifying the species ; as the progress of 

 science is always sure to render the descriptions of animals, however carefully written, 

 insufficient in many details for the requirements of succteding naturalists, wiien other and 

 closely allied species or varieties a'e discovered. 



The following additions may be specially mentioned : — 



A Chimpanzee, that appears to be new (^Troglodytes vellerosus), fvoni the Cameroon 

 Mountains, obtained, with oiher Mammalia, from Captain Burton, Her Majesty's Consul at 

 Fernando Po. 



A collection of skins of Mammalia, and a small collection of Skulls; collected and 

 presented by J. K, Loid, Esq., of the North American Boundary Commission. 



A collection of skins of Mammalia fiom India; presented by E. Blyth, Esq., principally 

 types of species described by him. 



A collection of Mammalia from the Lao Mountains, many of them new species, collected 

 by the late M. Mouhot. 



A series of Birds from New Caledonia, embracing several types of new species. 



A series of new species of Birds collected in Upper Burmah, and presented by F. C 

 Jerdon, Esq., Surgeon Major in the Madias Army. 



A specimen oi' Agelasies meleagris (ram Elmina, West Africa. 



A collection of Birds, obtained at East Timor by Mr. Wallace. 



Fine specimens of JSpimachus a/bus from New Guinea. 



A collection of Birds from Morty Island, Gilolo, New Guinea and Salwatti, brought by 

 Mr. Wallace, 



A series of Birds from Sumatra. 



A small series of Birds, mostly new species, from the Cameroon Mountains, presented 

 by Mrs. Isabel Burton. 



A specimen oi Nasiterna pygmea, from New Guinea, obtained by Mr. Wallace. 



A large series of Birds from British Columbia and the West side of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, collected and presented by J. K. Lord, Esq. 



A series of Biitish Fish, chiefly S dmonidae and Anacanthini, 



A collection of fresh water Fish from Lapland and Sweden. 

 , A collection of marine Fish from Madeira, embracing the types of new species; collected 

 and presented by J. Y, Johnson, Esq. 



A new Viperine form, PoecUostolus Burtcni, discovered by Captain Burton, Her Majesty's 

 Consul at Fernando Po. • 



A collection of Reptiles from Port Natal, formed by Mr. T. Ayres. 



A collection of Snakes from Siam and China, formed by one of the member,'? of the 

 Prussian expedition to Japan and Siam. 



A collection of Repties from Siam, form.ed by the late M. Mouhot. 



A colleciion of Reptiles, containing several new species, from Australia, collected by 

 J. Krefft, Esq. 



A collection of Snakes from New Granada. 



A collection of Snakes from Bahia, formed by O. Wucheier, Esq., m. d. 



A large collection of Fish of the Nile obtained by J. Petherick, Esq., Her Majesty's 

 Consul at Khartoum. 



A collection of Fish from Old Calabar, presented by A. Murray, Esq. 



A series of Fish from the Gambia. 



A collection of marine and fresh water Fish from Port Natal, formed by Mr. T. Ayres. 



A very large colleciion of Fish, chiefly from Japan, formed by a member of the Prussian 

 expedition to Siam and Japan. 



A collection of the Pharyngognaths and Anacanthines from the Indian Archipelago, 

 formefl by Dr. P. van Bleeker, containing the types of descriptions of his forthcoming works 

 on the fish of those seas. 



A collection of Fish of the Island of Formosa, obtained by Robert Swinhoe, Esq., Her 

 Majesty's Consul at Formosa. 



A collection of Fish, formed by J. Krefft, Esq. 



A collection of Fish from different parts of the Pacific, obtained by Mr, Rayner of Her 

 Majesty's Ship " Herald." 



A collection of marine Fish from the Sandwich Islands. 



A series of Fish from the coast of California, presented by W. O. Ayres, Esq., M. d. 



A collection of fresh water and marine Fish from Vancouver's Island, collected and pre- 

 sented by J. K. Lord, Esq. 



A series of freshwater and marine Fish from Bahia, formed by O. Wucherer. Esq., m,d, 



A large collection of Insects of various orders, collected by Mr. Wallace in islands of the 

 Indian Archipelago. 



A collection of Formicidce, named by Dr. Mayr. 



A large collection of European Coleoptera, named by Dr. Kraatz. 



A very large collection of European Lepidoptera, named by Dr. Herrich Scheeffer. 



A large collection of British Coleoptera. 



A collection of Nilidulid(Z from the Amazon, collected by Mr, Bates, 



A specimen of Valuta deliciosa and of Valuta Roissiniana. 



A new 



