ACCOUNTS, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 6l 



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Fishes : — The additions number 1,569 specimens, of which the most important are the 

 following : — 



A hybrid between Abramis hrama and Leuciscits rut'dus, from the River Nen ; presented 

 by the Right Hon. Lord Lilford. 



Twenty-nine fishes from Nice and Sicily ; purchased. 



One hundred and twenty specimens from Italy and the Mediterranean ; received in 

 exchange from the Milan Museum. 



A collection of one hundred and eighty-six fishes, formed by Dr. Dickson at Constan- 

 tinople ; presented by the Zoological Society of London. 



One of the types of a new fish from the Upper Amu Daria {Exoitoma oschanmi); 

 received in exchange from the St. Petersburg Museum. 



One hundred and forty-four specimens from the Yang-tse-Kiaug ; among them the 

 types of six new species ; purchased. 



A fine specimen of ife/mo perry?", from the Ishikari River, Japan; presented by C. 

 Gould, Esq. 



A collection of two hundred and sixty-six fishes from Muscat, Arabia, including 

 examples of several new or rare species; presented by Surgeon-Major A, S. G. 

 Jayakar. 



Ninety-one specimens from the East Coast of the Madras Presidency ; purchased. 



Thirty-eight specimens from the Gulf of Martaban ; presented by E. W. Gates, Esq. 



Thirty-seven fishes from the Gaboon ; purchased. 



Nineteen specimens from Massovvah ; presented by D. Wilson-Barker, Esq. 



Nineteen new or rare fishes from Mauritius ; purchased. 



Mollusca, — The acquisitions during the past year amounted to 5,987 specimens, of 

 which the following may be particularly mentioned : — 



Four hundred and sixty-three marine shells from European seas, principally from the 

 coast of Norway, including many very interesting forms difficult to acquire ; purchased. 



Twenty -five land shells from Spain and Algeria ; presented by Dr. W. Kobelt. 



One hundred and thirty-nine land shells from the Islands of the Grecian Archipelago, 

 including a number of species new to the Museum ; purchased. 



Twenty marine shells from Hong-Kong and Japan, including the type of the largest 

 known species of Brechites {B. gigantius) and a series of specimens illustrating the varia- 

 tion in the operculum of Xenophora ; purchased. 



A collection of one hundred and thirty-three land shells from Barbadoes ; collected 

 and presented by Colonel H. W. Feilden. 



Forty-seven marine and land shells from South Africa ; presented by J. H. Ponsonby, 

 Esq. 



Two hundred and twenty-three marine shells from Madras, Comoro Islands, Bombay, 

 and South Africa; presented by A. E. Craven, Esq. 



A very fine collection of five hundred and fifty -five marine shells from Aden ; collected 

 and presented by Major Yerbury, k.a. 



Two hundred and eleven land shells from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands ; pre- 

 sented by Mrs. F. A. de Roepstorff. 



Two hundred and seven marine shells from Mauritius ; purchased. 



Two hundred and eleven marine shells from Adelaide ; presented by Mrs. G. S. 

 Bowyear. 



Twenty-nine marine shells from N.W. Australia, including two very fine specimens of 

 Cyprcea decipiens ; presented by T. H. Haynes, Esq. 



One hundred and thirteen specimens of UnionidcB and other fresh-water shells from 

 Australia ; presented by Dr. J. C. Cox. 



Three magnificent specimens of the rare Helix liochstetteri from Picton, New Zealand ; 

 presented by W. T. L. Travers, Esq. 



Ninety-four land shells from the Solomon Islands ; purchased. 



Polyzoa. — Three hundred and fifteen specimens or groups of specimens were added to 

 the collection. Besides those already mentioned the following may be referred to : — 

 Twenty-four species from South Australia ; presented by J. Bracebridge Wilson, Esq. 

 Thirty-nine specimens from the Mauritius ; purchased. 



Echinodermata and Fermes.— The numbers of additions to these classes were respec- 

 tively 978 and 91. The following may be especially noted: — 



Eleven deep-sea Echinoderms from off the Coast of Ireland; presented by the Royal 

 Irish Academy. 



A fine mass of Serpula tubes from Loch Craignish ; presented by the Hon. A. E. 

 Gathorne Hardy. 



A fine cluster of tubes of Filogranu, dredged off Yarmouth, and presented by J. J. 

 Owles, Esq. 



Thirty specimens of Comatulida from the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, col- 

 lected during the expeditions of H.ALS. " Porcupine," 1868-70, under the auspices of 

 the Royal Society ; received through Dr. Herbert Carpenter. 



One hundred and six Echinoderms from Tuticorin, thirty Echinoderms and twenty 

 marine worms from Ramesvaram, and five examples of the large earthworm of the 

 Nilgiris {Moniligaster grandis) ; presented by Edgar Thurston, Esq. 



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