Mammals. 63 



Wolterstorff (Dr. W.). [1892] 



34 Mammals from Magdeburg and other parts of Germany. Present. <3 

 and purchased. 



Besides the specimens actually presented by him, the Mil- 

 to the kindness of Dr. Wolterstorff large numbers of specimens obtained 

 by his friends in different parts of Germany and prepared by his 

 taxidermist in Magdeburg. 



Woodford (0. M.). [1887] 



73 Mammals, especially Bats, from the Solomon Islands. Purchased. 



This series formed the first important collection ever made in t la- 

 Solomon Islands, and contains the types of many new and interesting 

 forms— among others, of Pteralopex (g. n.) atrata, Pteropus woodfordi, 

 Nesonycteris (g. n.) woodfordi, Anthops (g. n.) ornatus, described by 

 0. Thomas (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1887, p. 320, and 1888, p. 470). 



Woosnam (R. B.) and Dent (R. E.). [1904] 



129 Mammals from Kuruman, South Africa. Purchased. 



Wroughton (R, C). [1896] 



An officer in the department of Woods and Forests, Bombay. 



214 Mammals, chiefly Bats, from the Bombay Presidency. Presented. 



Including the type of Ratuj u dealbata, Blanf., of Scotophilia wroughton i, 

 Thos., and of Pipistrellus chrysothrix and P. mimns, Wroughton. 



(See Wroughton, " Some Konkan Bats," Journ. Bombay N. II. S 

 1899, p. 716.) 



Also 52 specimens from Natal. 



Yerbury (Col J. W.). [1884] 



109 Mammals from Aden. Presented. 



Our knowledge of the Aden fauna is very largely due to Col. Yerbury \s 

 collections. (See Yerbury and Thomas, " The Mammals of Aden," 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1895, p. 542.) 



Zoological Society of London. [1847] 



Various animals from the Menagerie in Regent's Park, among them 

 a number of Hybrid Equidx bred at the Gardens. Presented. 



Zoological Society's Museum. [1852-60] 



The Zoological Society's deciding in 1851 to give up keeping a 

 Museum of its own, a selection of the specimens contained therein was 

 transferred, partly by purchase and partly by presentation, to the British 

 Museum. The collection thus received, numbering nearly 1500 examples, 

 forms with that of the India Museum the most important addition from 

 a historical point of view that the Museum has ever received. It 

 contained all or nearly all of the specimens described in the early days ol 

 the Society in its ' Proceedings,' and the whole collections of many i 

 founders of Zoology in Great Britain. Thus there are in it the specimens 

 obtained, and in many cases described, by Dr. Bachman, Sir John 

 Richardson, Messrs. Dickson and Ross, Sir Stamford Raffles, Sir Andrew- 

 Smith, Mr. D. Douglas, Gen. Hardwicke, Mr. Hugh Cuming, Col. S 

 Charles Darwin, Capt. P. P. King, Mr. B. II. Hodgson, Dr. Kelaart, Rajah 

 Brooke, and others, besides many types of Bpecies described by Mr. 

 Geo. R. Waterhouse (the Curator of the Museum and the author of its 



