ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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The total number of specimens acquired during the past year have been as follows:— 



A. Vertebrata : 



By Donation ---___ 

 „ Purchase --____ 

 „ Exchange ---___ 



B. Invertebrata : 

 By Donation - - - _ ^ _ 



„ Purchase ---___ 

 „ Exchange - - - _ _ 



C. Plants : 

 By Donation ------ 



„ Purchase ------ 



„ Exchange ------ 



Total - - - 12,576 



524 

 1,056 



182 



1,762 



5,080 

 4,119 

 1,220 



10,419 



89 

 159 

 147 



395 



Exchanges : — 



An exchange has been made between this department and Messrs. Wachsmuth and 

 Springer, of Burlington, Iowa, U.S., North America, of 83 duplicate British Crinoidea, 

 for which the Museum has received 87 specimens of American pala30zoic Crinoidea new 

 to the collection. 



A second exchange has been arninged with M. Cossmann, of Paris, by which he 

 receives 207 duplicate British Eocene shells, in return for 1,128 Paris basin Mollusca needed 

 for the collection. 



Mr. E. D. Lacoe, of Pittston, Pennsylvania, U.S., has sent 147 American palfeozolc 

 plants new to the collection, for which he has received 128 duplicate British Coal- 

 plants. 



Mr. B. Sturtz, of Bonn, has sent 122 Fossil Vertebrata, and 14 Mollusca Echinoderms, 

 &c., new to the collection, for which he has received 238 duplicates (not needed for the 

 Museum) in return. 



The Smithsonian Institution have sent a skull and lower jaw of the American Bison, 

 and have received in return three casts of Meiolania from Loi'd Howe Island. 



The Princeton University Museum have sent 32 specimens and casts of Fossil Mam- 

 maliiin remains from the Miocene and Eocene of North America, for which 59 duplicates 

 have been returned. 



Marlborough College Museum have given a good example of Dapedogloasus testis (a 

 newly described Ef)cene fish from the Green Kiver Shales, Wyoming Territory, U.S.A.), 

 in exchange for a series of 29 fossils selected from duplicates as adapted for elementary 

 teaching in Biology. 



Professor Huxley has transferred to the Museum, through Professor J. W. Judd, the 

 original skull of Dicynoddn Mtnraiji (fig'', and described by Prof. Huxley, in Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc. for 1869) in exchange for a cast of the skull of Hyperodapedon 

 Gordoni. 



Mr. H. H, Blanchet, of Ottawa, has sent two Utica Shale fossils in return for two 

 duplicate slices of Egyptian Jasper (transferred from Department of Mineralogy). 



Duplicates Distributed. 



A second series of Duplicates to the number of 103 specimens have been given to the 

 Durham College of Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Three skulls of Bos longifrons from the peat have been given to the Anatomical 

 Museum, Cambridge. 



A series of casts of Meiolania have been sent to the Sydney Museum ; and to Yale 

 College Museum, New Haven, U.S., in return for casts of various fossils received. 



Lectures and Demonstrations to Students, Local Societies, Sfc. 



Swiiiey Lectures on Geology '• — 



A course of twelve lectures on Palajobotany, by Professor W. R. McNab, m.d., f.l.s., 

 of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, were delivered in the Museum Lecture Room 

 (on the Fossil Plants of the Palaeozoic Epoch), between 25th June and 23rd July 1888 ; 

 they were attended by 668 persons, or an average of 55 persons for each lecture. 



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