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1903. 



Accessions, 2623. 



The chief event of this year was the commencement of the 

 important zoological exploration of South Africa, for which the 

 funds were provided by Mr. C. D. lludd. The collector, 

 Mr. C. H. B. Grant, who had hitherto been working for 

 Col. Sloggett, commenced to travel for Mr. lludd in January, 

 and successively made collections near Cape Town, in British 

 Namaqua Land, and in Zulu Land. 



Of accessions the most important were the final collections 

 from Deelfontein, Cape Colony, presented by Col. Sloggett ; 

 a collection from Uganda, presented by Col. C. Delme-Radclifte ; 

 a tine series from the Malay Peninsula obtained and presented 

 by Messrs. H. C. Robinson and N. Annandale ; mammals 

 from the Soudan, presented by Major H. N. Dunn ; a series 

 from the islands off the coast of Panama, presented by the 

 Hon. Walter Rothschild ; five considerable collections made 

 by M. Alphonse Robert in South America, from Matto Grosso 

 (presented by Mrs. Percy Sladen), from Parana (purchased), 

 from jEspirito Santo, Bahia and Pernambuco (presented by 

 Oldfield Thomas). 



1904. 



Accessions, 2461. 



The collections received from South Africa and presented by 

 Mr. C. D. Rudd formed the most important accession of the 

 year. 122 specimens were sent from British Namaqua Land, 

 204 from Zulu Land, and 109 from the Wakkerstroom district of 

 the Transvaal. 



Other notable additions were the Angolan series obtained by 

 Dr. \V. J. Ansorge, the set from Fernando Po obtained by Mr. 

 E. Seimund, and presented by the Duke of Bedford, Mrs. Percy 

 Sladen, and the Hon. Walter Rothschild, Major Dunn's mammals 

 from Somali Land, and Mr. Robert's collection from Para. 



Of individual additions attention might be drawn to the new 

 Forest Pig (Hylochoerus), discovered in British East Africa by 

 Capt. R. Meinertzhagen, which formed the most interesting 

 mammalian discovery since the Okapi. 



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* In the last three years, as in many previous ones, collections 

 were constantly being contributed by the Museum's regular 

 correspondents and benefactors, of whom the following may be 

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