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



Five specimens of Salmonidce, from the Lake Conslance, presented by Professor Rapp 

 also specimens of Salmonidce and other Fis!), frum Ireland, presented by the Earl of 

 Enniskillen, f.r.s. 



A collection of Fish from Ceylon, presented by Sir J. Emerson Tennent, f.r.s., etc. 



A series of Fish from the Island of Formosa, collected by H. M. Consul Swiahoe ; also 

 some Fisl) from the Camaroons, presented by Dr. S. Alexander Smith. 



The collection of all tiie orders of insects is arranged and named ; but the additions that 

 have been made to the collection of late years, are so large, especially in Coleoptera and 

 Diurnal Lepidopiera, that the drawers have become crowded, so that it is difficult to follow 

 the arrangement and distinction of the species. The re-arrangement of many of the orders 

 into fresh cabinets has been finished ; and the collections of Coleoptera, Diurnal Lepid- 

 optera, and Hemiptera, are being re-arranged, to place them in the same state as tiie 

 others. Considerable additions have been mude to the ci. flection of British Insecs, espe- 

 cially to the British Coleoptera, by obtaining as many of the new species that are being 

 daily added to the list as can be procured; the inducement to such additions is, that the 

 collection of British Insects is more consulted by students and visitors than any other in the 

 Zoolo<:ical Department. 



Many specimens of Lepidopiera, from Australia, St. Marta, the Gaboon, Japan, and 

 India, etc., have been added to the collection. 



Al>o a series of specimens oi Lepidopiera of India, presented by W. S. Atkinson, Esq. 



A large series of Diptera, from the Amazon, collected by Mr. Bates. 



A collection of Lepidoptera of Panama and Guatemala, collected l)y Mr. Salvin. 



A series of Coleoptera of West Africa and Madagascar. 



Many specimens of Hemiptera of Mexico, Brazil, and Burmah, presented by Vv^. W. 

 Saunders, Esq., f.r.s., eic. 



A series of Lepidoptera, Hemiptera, etc., from the Gaboon, presented by F. Moore, Esq. 



The purchase of the Ciimingian collectiun of Shells has added to the Museum the most 

 complete series of Shells known, containing- the types of the species described by Brodenp, 

 Reeves, G. Sowerby, (father and son), Pfeiffer, and others. It consists of 82,992 specimens, 

 representing 29,676 species or varieties. They are all in the most beautiful condition, as 

 Mr. Cuming was in the habit of replacing any specimen by a better and more perfect one 

 whenever it was to be procured. This collection enables every student to judge for himself 

 if the species described is a real one or only a variety; a subject of considerable interest, 

 in the present state of choncological science, when every kind of shell has been said to have 

 on an average nine or ten different names. 



The following additions may also be noticed : 



A series of land Shells trom the Island of Trinidad, ['resented by Dr. Giippv. 



A series of Marine Shells dredged in Guernsey, the Channel Islands, and the Hebrides, 

 by J. G. Jeffervs, as part of the British Association's Fund, presented bv J. G. JefTerys, 

 Esq. 



A collection of Shells from Formosa, collected by H. M. Consul Swinhoe. 



A series of land Shells collected in Prince's Island by Mr. H. Dorhn. 



A series of specimens o{ Patella, from ihe Cape of Good Hope, presented by Lieutenant- 

 Colonel Aston. 



A series of British Aiuielides, collected by Mr. Laughrin, on Ihe coast of Cornwall. 



A collection of Models in glass of upwards of 70 species of Actiniae to show the genera 

 in the cases opened to the public. 



A series of species of Echinoderms, collected and named by Professor Lutkin. 



Some specimens of the most beautiful of the siliceous sponges, named Venus's flower- 

 basket, Euplectella speciosa, from the Phillippine Islands. This sponge is supposed by the 

 natives to be the nest woven by a crab for its protection. If it was so, the crab would be 

 the most beautiful lacemaker known. 



John Edward Gray, 



Department of Geology. 



The most important acquisitions to this department are as follows : — 



I. Ht/ Purchase. — A collection of Mammalian remains from Buenos Ayres, including 

 bonesjot species of Scelidolherium and Mylodon, and a nearly entire carapace of Glyptodon 

 (a gigantic extinct species of Armadillo), together with characteristic portions of the skeleton 

 of two or more species of the same genus. 



A leg-bone of the Mammoth {Elepfias primigenitis), and a tusk of the same species from 

 Camberwell. 



A nearly entire skeleton, with skull and lower jaw of a Beaver, found, together with 

 remains of the Otter, Wi'd Boar, and Roebuck, in the fens of Cam,bridgeshire. 



A lower jaw with some separate teeth, of a species of Rhinoceros, from Steinheim near 

 Wiirtemberg. 



Some Cetacean remains from the Red Ciag of Suffolk, 



A large and very perfect example of a new species of Plesiosaurus (PA laticeps, Owen) 



'from 



