714 Zoology. 



the years 1874-75 to the Island of Rodriguez and Kerguelen's 

 Land were this year received from the Royal Society. These 

 interesting collections were described by Mr. E. A. Smith in the 

 Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. 1879, vol. 168, pp. 167-192, 473-484. 



1877. 



Two hundred and fifty-five specimens collected by the 

 naturalists of the Arctic Expedition of 1875 were presented by 

 the Lords of the Treasury. The collection was described by 

 Mr. E. A. Smith in the Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History, 1877, vol. xx., pp. 131-146, and in Appendix V. to 

 Capt. Sir G. S. Nares' book entitled, " Narrative of a Voyage 

 to the Polar Sea during 1875 in H.M.S. Alert and Discovery." 



A series of duplicates of the collections made during the 

 cruise of H.M.S. Valorous in 1875 was also received this year 

 from the Lords of the Treasury. The complete series contain- 

 ing the types was retained for his private collection by Mr. 

 J. Gwyn Jeffreys, who accompanied the expedition and reported 

 upon the Mollusca. 



One hundred shells from Lake Nyassa are worthy of mention, 

 being the first collection of importance from that locality. An 

 account of it by E. A. Smith appeared in the Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1877, pp. 712-722. 



1878. 



A valuable collection made at Malta by Capt. H. W. Feilden, 

 R.A., and consisting of 1044 specimens of land and marine shells, 

 was presented by the collector. 



160 shells from the Andaman Islands were presented by 

 Capt. L. Worthington Wilmer, by whom they were also collected. 

 This important series contained many new species and formed 

 the subject of a paper by Mr. E. A. Smith in the Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, 1878, pp. 804-821. 



1879. 



A second instalment, consisting of 277 shells, from the 

 collection of the Rev. T. Lombe Taylor, was this year acquired 

 by purchase from Mr. G. B. Sowerby, into whose hands this 

 great collection was placed for disposal. Nearly all the speci- 

 mens were actual types of species or figured examples described 

 in the voyages of the Sulphur, Samarang, &c (See also 1874.) 



