ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 5I 



V. — Acguisitioiis. 



The principal additions to the Department during the past year are as followb : — 

 1. By Donation.— K. Vertebrata. 



(1). Mammalia. — Human and animal remains, flint implements, &c., from Quaternary 

 deposits, caves, river-valley gravels, &c, 101 chert and flint implements, and 35 other 

 relics of human workmanship, together with 800 bones and teetli of animals, and 172 

 other remains, from Kent's Cavern, Torquay, South Devon, being a selection of objects 

 obtained by means of grants from the British Association, &c., for exploring Kent's 

 Cavern, from 1865 to 1880, inclusive. 



Of the mammalian remains six are human bones, the residue consisting of remains of 

 dog, sheep, ox, badger, polecat, cave-bear, cave-lion, hyaena, Machairodus, wolf, fox, 

 glutton, mammoth, horse, rhiiioceros, reindeer, gigantic Irish deer, beaver, hare, and 

 water vole. [There are three bird bones; also remains of frog; and 96 shells {^Helices 

 and Ct/closfonia) ; some, as Littorina, Purpura, Patella, Osfrea, Cardium, and Pecten being 

 marine forms.] Presented by the Committee and the late Lord Haldon, through William 

 Pengelly, Esq., f.r.s., Secretary and Reporter to the Committee. 



Forty-two characteristic palseolithic stone implements and flakes, chiefly from Stoke 

 Newington and from Bedford, found associated with the shells of Corblcula Jliiminalis and 

 Unio tuniidus, in old river-valley gravels. Presented by Worthington Gr. Smith, Esq.,F.L.S. 



Portions of antlers of reindeer ( Cervus tarandas), and bones of other ruminants, from 

 the Thames Valley gravels at Old Brompton. Presented by Gr. J. Bpicer, Esq. 



Bone of red deer, jaws of roebuck and sheep, from the Fern Cave, Capri, Italy. Pre- 

 sented by Rev. W. L. Lawson, m.a. 



Teeth and bones of Hippopotamus Pentlandi, from the Cave of Santo Ciro, Sicily. 

 Presented by Lieutenant Colonel H. W. Vyner. 



Part of metatarsus of Anoplotherium, from the Eocene Gypsum Quarries of Montmartre, 

 Paris. Presented by Alexander Nesbitt, Esq. 



Casts of teeth of Hj/cena crocnta, var spe.lcsa, the originals from the Forest-bed Series, 

 Corton Cliff", Suffolk. (Figured and described in Geol. Mag. 1883, pi. x. p. 433.) 

 Presented by E. T. Newton, Esq., F.G.S. 



The lower jaw of Arvicola amphibia, Owen, from tlie Forest-bed Series, West Runton, 

 near Cromer. Presented by W. Barker, Esq. 



The type-specimen of Viverra Durandi, Lyd., from the Newer Miocene, Siwalik Hills. 

 Presented by George Busk, Esq., m.d., f.r.s. 



(2.) Aves. — Thirteen bones of the foat of a species of "Moa" (Dlnoriiis), from Oraaru, 

 New Zealand. Presented by Mrs. Jeanneret. 



(3.) RejM'ia. — A cast of Rhampliorhynchus phyllurus. Marsh, from the Lithographic 

 Stone, Solenhofen (original figured and described in SilUman's American Journal of 

 Science, 1882, vol. 23, p. 251, pi. iii.). 



Also reproduction of colossal thigh-bone of a huge land reptile Atkintosauru^, from the 

 Rocky Mountains, North America. Presented by Professor O. C. Marsh, m.a., f.g.5. 



One hundred and two fragments of reptilian scutes, spines, teeth, jaws, &c. (parts of 

 Telerpeton), from the Triassic strata, near Sidmouth, Devon, Presented by Henry J. 

 Carter, Esq., F.R.S. 



Counterpart of the figured specimen of upper maxilla of Megalosaurus Bucklandi, 

 Owen, from the Inferior Oolite, Sherborne, Dorset. Presented by E. Cleminshaw, Esq., 



M.A., F.G.S. 



Fragments of bones of turtle, from the Eocene Tertiary, Heme Bay. Presented by 

 S. G. Cockerell, Esq. 



Tooth of Foli/pti/chudun, from the Gault, Folkestone, Kent. Presented by A. Nesbitt, 

 Esq. 



(4.) Pisces. — Seventeen fish remains, namely : one specimen of Anadontacanlhus, five 

 Pleura cant hus, one of Compsacanthus, one of Gyr acanthus, one of Amphicentrum, three of 

 Strepsodus, and five of C'^lacanthus, from the Coal-measures of Tingley, Yorkshire. 

 Presented by the Earl of Enniskillen, D.C.L., F,R.S. 



Two slabs' with remains of four specimens of an undescribed species of a Lepidosteoid 

 fish (named in MS. Extonichthy s capensis, by Owen), in Mesozoic Sandstone, from the 

 Drackensberg, Orange Free State, South Africa. Presented by Dr. H. Exton, F.G.S. 



Twenty-one specimens offish remams, Scaphapis, Cephalaspis, &c.,from the Old Red Sand- 

 stone of Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, &c. Presented by Dr. D. M. MacCallough. 



Twenty shark's teeth, from the Lower Eocene (Reading Sands) of Chislehurst, Kent. 

 Presented by S. G. Cockerell, Esq. 



One specimen of Leptolepis, from the Purbeck of Dorsetshire, and one spine of Lophodus 

 (Hybodus), Keupcrinnus, from the Keuper of Rowington, Warwick. Presented by Rev. 

 P. B. Brodie, M.A., F.G.S. 



Fifty remains of fishes, from the Coal-measures, Old Hill, near Stourbridge. Presented 

 by Horace Pearce, Esq., f.g s., f.l.s. 



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