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BRITISH MUSEU M.

1911.

Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed,
18 April 1911.

LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE.

To be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from
WYMAN anpD SONS, Lrp., Ferrer LANs, E.C., and 32, ABINGDON STREET, 8.W. ; or
OLIVER AND BOYD, TWEEDDALE CouURT, EDINBURGH ; or
EK. PONSONBY, Lrp, 116, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN.

Sole Wholesale Agent for places outside the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, *
T. FISHER UNWIN, 1, ADELPHI TERRACE, LONDON, W.C.

(Depots in New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Wellington, Cape Town, Calcutta,
Tokio, and Leipzig.)

PRINTED BY
EYRE anp SPOTTISWOODKH, Lrp., East HARDING STREET, E.C.,
PRINTERS TO THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

. 1911.
m1 19, Price 104d.

BRITISH MUSEUM.

RETURN to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons,
dated 23 February 1911 ;—for,

COPY “of Account of the Income and EXPENDITURE of
the British Museum (SpreciaL Trust Funps) for
the Year ending the 3lst day of March 1911; and,
RETURN of the Number of PERSONS admitted to visit
the Musrum and the British Museum (NATURAL
History) in each Year from 1905 to 1910, both Years
inclusive ; together with a STATEMENT of the PROGRESS
made in the ARRANGEMENT and DESCRIPTION of the
COLLECTIONS, and an Account of OsBJEcTS added to
them in the Year 1910.”

Treasury Chambers, } C. HOBHOUSE.

(Ser Willaam Anson.)

Ordered, by The House of Commons, to he Printed,
18 April 1911.

HON DON:
PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE.

To be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from
WYMAN anp SONS, Lrp., FETTER LANE, H.C., and 32, ABINGDON STREET, S8.W.; or
OLIVER anp BOYD, TWEEDDALE CouRT, EDINBURGH; or
E. PONSONBY, Lrp., 116, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN.

Sole Wholesale Agent for places outside the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
T. FISHER UNWIN, 1, ADELPHI TERRACE, LONDON, W.C.
(Depots in New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Wellington, Cape Town, Calcutta, Tokio,
and Leipzig.)

PRINTED BY
EYRE anvp SPOTTISWOODH, Lrp., East HARDING STREET, E.C.,
PRINTERS TO THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

1911.
119. Price 10$d.

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BRITISH MUSEUM.

ACCOUNTS (SPECIAL TRUST FUNDS, 1910-1911):
BRIDGEWATER - - - - - - = + 2 ae
FARNBORIUGH - - : - - E > = i : ard.
SWINEY - - - - - = = = = 2 A Z nd:
BIRCH - - - - =f f : : : : 2 @ ee
VINCENT STUCKEY LEAN ay > : : 2 : E so Sa
CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM - - - 2 ‘ = a(S
NUMBERS OF PERSONS ADMITTED:
BRITISH MUSEUM - - - - - = 2 = : : ae oe
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HIsToRY) - - - . - - 12
HOURS OF ADMISSION:
BRITISH MUSEUM - - - - 2 3 : i é 2 = Mo
BRITISH MuszUM (NATURAL HISTORY) - - - - 5 - 13
GENERAL STATEMENT OF PROGRESS:
EXTENSION BUILDING - ~ - = - = = z . erie!
READING ROOM AND NEWSPAPER ROOM SERVICE - - - - 14
GRANTS OF REPRODUCTIONS :
Prints and Drawings - - - - 2 = 2 : ele,
Medals - - - - - - = - z 2 z eS uly
PUBLICATIONS iSSUED- - - - = - - = z : ET
ARRANGEMENT OF COLLECTIONS, &e.:
PRINTED BOOKS - - - - - : : 2 = = = 20
Maps - - - - - = - - : = - . - 20
Music - - = - - = - - - : - - =: eal
NEWSPAPERS - - - : E : 2 : : - 99
MANUSCRIPTS - - - - - - - = = = z = 999
ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. - - E : = = Bh
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS - - - - = : = : E aya
EGYPTIAN. ANTIQUITIES - - - - - = = = = - 59
ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES - - - - - - - : = - 60
GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES - - - - - : : ng)
BRITISH AND MEDIHVAL ANTIQUITIES - - - - - - 80
CoInNs AND MEDALS - - = - - S 2 = - 92
ACQUISITIONS :
PRINTED BOOKS - P < = - 2 = = : - 22
MAPS - - - - - - - - - : - - - 22
Music - = - - - - - - - - - = - 23
NEWSPAPERS - - - a = Z z : : 3 - 93
MANUSCRIPTS - - - : = : = 8 Z x 2 = 80
ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. - - - - - - ~ 38
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS - 2 : : : = : : B - 46

EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES - 2 : = : = ss - : ~ *€il

CARB

ACQUISITIONS—continued.
ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES - - ~
GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES -

PREHISTORIC, HARLY BRITISH AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES

CERAMIC AND GLASS OBJECTS -

ORIENTAL AND HETHNOGRAPHICAL OBJECTS

ADDED TO THE CHRISTY COLLECTION) -

CoIns AND MEDALS = . es

PHOTOGRAPHING :
PRINTED BOOKS = - £ 3
MANUSCRIPTS - - a a 4

ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS.

PRINTS AND DRAWINGS - = “
BRITISH AND MEDIAVAL OBJECTS

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BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY).
GENERAL STATEMENT OF PROGRESS:

SWINEY LECTURES - 2 : 2
NEW BUILDINGS = & P a
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES, &C. -
EXPEDITIONS - : - 5 E
PUBLICATIONS ISSUED - = -

INDEX MUSEUM - - = = a
ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY - : E

ARRANGEMENT OF COLLECTIONS,
ZOOLOGY - - - - - -
GEOLOGY - : - - - :
MINERALOGY - - - - -
BOTANY - F 2 ‘ 5 2

ACQUISITIONS :
ZOOLOGY - -
GEOLOGY - 2 = 2 5
MINERALOGY - = z 2 :
BOTANY - - ss : ‘ 2

DUPLICATES AND EXCHANGES:
ZOOLUGY - - : :
GEOLOGY - 2 “ - .
MINERALOGY - - 2 = :
BOTANY - : 2 zs E :

LIBRARIES:
GENERAL @ - = = e uJ
DEPARTMENTAL = : , 2

INVESTIGATION - - “ :
LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS

&C. :

BD ykige 700" spill

=) OK
2 - - 109
= > Og
= - 110
- = - 14

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5 = - 163

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= = - 138
= = - 177
Z = - 194
= = ~ 206

= = - 128
: - - 173
: 2 - 198
= - - 209

VR Gin Ve 116
129, 173, 193, 204

ae et 99K904
- 190, 201, 209

4 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

I—AN ACCOUNT of the Rrecrerprs and EXPENDITURE of the

STOCK,
CASH. 24 °/, Consols,

mas) oh OE &. Sands
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1910 - - ey Bk el 13,598 3 11
- DIVIDENDS received on 13,5982. 5s. lid. Stock

in 23 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed

by the Earl of Bridgewater, viz. :

On the 5th April1910 - <£.84 19 9

a 5th Saly lOO ge) eee eae

+ 5th October 1910 tee Ie 9)

op 5th January 1911 = 84119); 9
339 19 -

- RENT OF A _ REAL ESTATE, Whitchurch,

bequeathed by the Har of Bridgewater (less
repairs, &c.) - 22 17 10

— PROCEEDS OF SALE OF LAND, ete of Wiieourcl
Estate (Bridgewater Bequest) : - - 50 - -

cae, £09 19M 13,598 3 11

SRE

IIl._—AN ACCOUNT of the Receiprs and EXPENDITURE of the

STOCK,
CASH. 24°], Consols.
Goss ads Se yeeed:
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1910 = 2 . 205 14 8 2,879 10° 7

- DIVIDENDS received on 2,8797. 10s. 7d. Stock
in 23 per Cent. Consols be-
queathed by Lord Farnborough,
Viz.

On the 5th April 1910 - ee Mle iS) alil
‘ 5th July 1910 - =, Lieto di
8 5th October 1910 = stele tt
fo 5th January 1911 = hie 19 1a

SS OL ID)

fe 20s 4 2,879 10 7

EE

I1l.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recerprs and ExrenpitureE of the

STOCK,
CASH. 23 °/, Consols.
£. 8. d. dee ain fe
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1910 - - - 58 11 5 5,683 1 6

— DIVIDENDS received on 5,683/. 1s. 6d. Stock in
23 per Cent. Gonsols, bequeathed by
Dr. George Swiney for Lectures on
Geology, viz.

On the 5th April 1910 - -£.35 10 4
» OSthJuly1910 - .- 3510 4
5 5th October 1910 - 85510, 4
» 5thJanuary 1911 =e omON 4:

142 1 4
£. 20012 9 5,683 1 6

SSS ee eee

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 9)

BRIDGEWATER FUND, from the 1st April 1910 to the 31st March 1911.

CASH.
BSS Ge Oh
By One Year’s SALARY of the Egerton Librarian - 175 -— -
- AMOUNT expended on purchase of Manuscripts - 5110 6
- BALANCES ON THE 31ST Marcu 1911,
= - 263 9 5

carried to Account for 1911-1912

x. 489 1904

STOCK,

24 °/, Consols,

nee hls

13,598 3 11

13,598 3 11

FARNBOROUGH FUND, from the 1st April 1910 to the 31st March 1911.

CASH.
Besa Oe
By AMOUNT expended in purchase of Manuscripts’ - 95 - -
- BALANCES ON THE 31ST MARCH 1911;
oi yylt82) 14, 4

carried to Account for 1911-1912 - é

£, 27714 4

STOCK,
23 °/, Consols.

Sei wn ibe

2,879 10 7

2,879 10 7

SWINEY FUND, from the 1st April 1910 to the 31st March 1911.

CASH,
£. & a
By AMOUNT paid to Dr, T. J. Jehu, for Lectures on
Geology in 1910 - = - - - - 140 - =
- BALANCES ON THE 38lst MarcH 1911,
carried to Account for 1911-1912 - - eu oO) TS)
£. 200 129

STOCK,
24 °/, Consols.

Sei Seed

5,683 1 6

5,683 1 6

6 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

IV.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recripts and EXPENDITURE of

STOCK,
CASH. 23 °/, Consols.
een bh Ue £. &. d.
To BALANCE on the Ist April 1910 - - - - we ers ai)
- DIVIDENDS received on 5651. 3s. 9d. Stock in
24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed
by Dr. Birch in 1766, for the three
Under Librarians of the British
Museum, viz. :
On the 5th April 1910 - = %. 3 10: °S
- 5th July 1910 - - So eLOmS
aM 5th October 1910 - 310 8
4 5th January 1911 ° 310 8
—— 14 2 8
£. 14 2 8 565) 3 9

V.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recerprs and EXPENDITURE of the bequest
and Extension of the Library and Reading Room of the British

LocAL LOANS
CASH, STOCK.

So ROR pay) cy ee

To AMOUNT of Local Leans Stock on Ist ee

1910 - - - - - - — 58 SoD)
~ DIVIDENDS received during the year - ole 9) ao
- AMOUNT of Local Loans Stock purchased with
the Dividends - - - - - - _ 1,874 14 —-
£. 1771-9.38 6O2s0ne

VIAN ACCOUNT of the Rzecrerprs and EXPENDITURE of the bequest
1st April 1910 to

METROPOLITAN
CASH. 33 °/, STOCK.
La fSs: Os 55. eee
To AMOUNT of Metropolitan 33 per cent. Stock on
Ist April 1910 - - - - - = _ 8,373 19 —
— DIVIDENDS received during the year - - 296 17 10
- AMOUNT of Metropolitan 33 per cent. ides

purchased with the Dividends - - =_ 293 2 4
£29617 10. 8.667 ae

See ee

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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

the BIRCH FUND, from the 1st April 1910 to the 31st March 1911.

STOCK,
CASH. 23°/, Consols.
£8: di) sie Saas
By LEGAcy paid to the three Under Librarians of
the British Museum, whose offices existed
in 1766, viz., the Keepers of the Departments
of Printed Books, Mauererip, and Natural
History - - - - - - 14 2 8
- BALANCE ON THE 31sT MARCH 1911,
carried to Account for 1911-1912 - - - _— 565 3 9

ein dle GS 565 3 9

of the late MR. VINCENT STUCKEY LEAN (for the Improvement
Museum) from the Ist April 1910 to the 31st March 1911.

LocaL LOANS

CASH. STOCK.
Bon ROR Bama. Sahel
By AMOUNT expended in the purchase of
1,8747. 14s. -d. Local Loans Stock, Com-
mission, &c. - - - = ila OP oe
- BALANCE OF STOCK ON THE 3187 ile 1911
carried to account for 1911-1912 - . - _ 60,230 1 5

£. iT 8 OS 60,230 1 5

of the late MR. CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM from the
the 51st March 1911.

METROPOLITAN
. 33 °/, STocK.
£..) Sy ds SS ae.
By AMOUNT expended in the _ purchase of
2931. 2s, 4d. Metropolitan 34 pee cent.
Stock, Commission, &c. - - - - 296 17 10
~ BALANCE OF STOCK ON THE 31ST Marcu 1911
carried to account for 1911-1912 - - - == 8,667 1 4

£. 296 17 10 8,667 1 4

SS

Frederic G, Kenyon,
Director and Principal Librarian.

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The British Museum, Bloomsbury (including the Depart-
ments of Printed Books and Maps, Manuscripts, Oriental
Printed Books and Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings,
Iigyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Greek and Roman
Antiquities, British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethno-
graphy, and Coins and Medals), is open to the public free
daily (except on Good Friday and Christmas Day and days
of Public Fast or Thanksgiving), as follows :—

On WEEKDAYS from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

After 4 p.m. in January, February, November, Decem-
ber, and after 5 p.m. in March, September, October, only
certain of the galleries remain open, viz. :—

On Monpays, Exhibitions of Manuscripts, Printed
Books, Prints and Drawings, Porcelain,

eae as Glass and Majolica; Prehistoric, British,
=e Anglo-Saxon, Medizval and Ethno-
FRIDAYS. graphical Collections.

On TUESDAYS, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman

THURSDAYS, Galleries; the Gold Ornament Room, the
and American Room and the Waddesdon
SATURDAYS. Room.

On SunDay AFTERNOONS :—
From 2 to4 p.m.in January, February, November,
December.
2s 5 > - 39 Moecober.
53 2 »' 0.30. 4, \4, Birch, September.
Dy 6 » », April, May, June,July, August.

Persons applying for the purposes of research and reference
are admitted to the Reading Room under certain regulations
every weekday, except the days specified below, from 9 a.m.
until 7 pm. The Newspaper Room is open, under similar
regulations, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

The Reading Room, Newspaper Room, and Students’ Rooms
in the Library and Department of Manuscripts are closed on
Sundays, Good Friday, Christmas Day, and the first four
weekdays in March and September.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 1

Other Students’ Rooms are closed on Sundays, Good Friday,
and Christmas Day, and occasionally for cleaning.

Students are admitted generally to the several Departments
on weekdays, from 10 till 4 or 5 o’clock ; and to the Sculpture
Galleries from 9 o’clock till the hour of closing.

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a April, 1911, Director and Principal Librarian.

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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 13

The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural
History), Cromwell Road, South Kensington, including the
Departments of Zoology, Geology and Paleontology, Miner-
alogy, and Botany, are open to the public, free, daily,
except Good Friday and Christmas Day, and days of Public
Fast or Thanksgiving.

The hours of Admission are as under :—

On WEEKDAYS, Bomone hors the year from 10 a.m., in

January - - - - ={ }) bol: 4s 5 (ppemn:
February 1st to 14th - - - pl PASO
February 15th to end - . - arse K
March - - - - - Ke OcaO Wy:
April to ees - - - Sp Asya c6 *,
September - - - - - Ss ior0y 4:
October - - - - - - Sto a
November and December - - - bse

3)

also, on MonDAYS and SATURDAYS only, from the beginning
of May to the middle of July, to 8 p.m., and from the middle
of July to the end of August, to 7 p.m.

On SUNDAYS, in

January - - SeNOU, 2 UO, aly OO rn
February 1st to 14th 2 = AT OE: ne: ee
February 15th to end - - eae Caan gD £
March = - = - Reus el es. as
April - - - - ee: 0 es
May to August - - - Det PEAS) RY: yi
September - - - - shad 2 send Deo Un Pe,
October - - - - het bane hi
November and December - eee 4

Persons are admitted to study in these Departments every
weekday from 10 till 4 o’clock.

British Museum (Natural History ),] L. Fletcher,
- 25 February, 1911. Director of the Natural
History Departments.

14 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

VIII.—GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MusEUM, BLOOMSBURY.

The total number of visitors to the Museum in 1910 was
739,837, a considerable increase in comparison with the total in
1909 (708,836), though not quite equal to that of 1908 (743,413),
which was the year of the Franco-British Exhibition. The
total for weekdays was 670,104 (the highest figure since
1905), and for Sundays 69,733 (the highest on record with the
exception of 1908).

The number of visits by readers to the Reading Room was
219,274, an increase of 1,300 on the previous year, and the
third highest in the records of the Museum. The daily average
was 726. In the Newspaper Room the number of readers was
19,200 (a decrease of nearly 2,000), and the daily average of
volumes of newspapers consulted was 216. The visits of
students to other Departments of the Museum amounted to
36,434, showing a decrease of about 500. Visits to the
Sculpture Galleries showed a large increase, while visits to the
Departments of Manuscripts and Oriental Printed Books and
Manuscripts showed considerable decreases, and those to the
Department of Prints and Drawings were identical with the
figure for the previous year.

Work has been in progress throughout the year on the
British Museum Extension Building. The main external
structure of the building was almost completed, and plans for
the internal furniture and fittings prepared.

Another section of the reconstruction of the roof with fire-
resisting partitions was taken in hand; and the usual work of
renovation and repair was carried out.

Special exhibitions were held in the course of the year of
the prints and water-colour drawings bequeathed to the Museum
by the late George Salting, Esq.; and of Chinese and Japanese
paintings, a large part of which were furnished by the Wegener
collection, purchased early in the year with the help of several
generous friends of the Museum.

The number of separate objects incorporated in the collec-
tions of the several Departments during the year 1910 is as
follows :-—

Department of Printed Books :

Books and Pamphlets — - - - - 26,063
Serials and Parts of Volumes~ - - - 68,811
Maps and Atlases - - - - - 2,149
Music - ~ - = = - 2086
Newspapers (single numbers) = - - - 245,605
Miscellaneous - = - - - o,f i2
Manuscripts and Seals - - - 328
Oriental Printed Books and isunaseens - - 2,545
Prints and Drawings - - - - 4,926
Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities - - 617
Greek and Roman Antiquities - - - 410
British and Medieval a - - 6,032
Coins and Medals” - = - - 1,548

Total : - = - S74 7e2

GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 15

The principal additions to the collections are noticed below
in the reports of the several Departments; but a few of the
more important may be specially mentioned here.

In the Department of Printed Books the principal purchases
have been in the category of Incunabula, in order that the
Catalogue of Early Printed Books, now in course of preparation,
may be as complete as possible. Fifty-nine books printed
in the XVth century, and 85 English books printed before
1640, have been acquired during the year. Among the latter
were 18 Year Books of the reign of Edward IV.; among the
former, a copy of the valuable Zinna Psalter, printed at the
expense of the emperors Frederick III. and Maximilian I. in
1495. Of later books may be mentioned the only work of John
Milton which was not hitherto in the Library ; and a complete
set of the bulletins of the Revolutionary Tribunal! at Paris for
1793 and 1794. The Department also received by donation a
Catalogue of the Indian collection of Arms and Armour at
Sandringham, presented by Her Majesty Queen Alexandra in
pursuance of the wishes of His late Majesty King Edward VII.;
vols. I-VI. of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana, presented by the
Harl of Crawford, K.T.; and a complete set of the publications
of the Kelmscott Press, presented by Mrs. William Morris.

The Department of Manuscripts acquired a considerable
number of historical papers (chiefly from the sale of a further
instalment of the Phillipps Library), notably the original
MS. of Sir James Melville’s Memoirs, 1559-1594; the Letter
Book of the Commissioners for Scotland in London, 1645-
1646; 61 letters of Lord Bolingbroke, 1740-1750; corre-
spondence of Lord John Russell, 1819-1860; and letters of the
Duke of Wellington to J. W. Croker, 1832-1852. The most
important acquisition of this kind, however, was the original
autograph Trafalgar Memorandum, written by Lord Nelson on
the 9th of October 1805, to explain the tactics which he
intended to adopt on meeting the allied fleets of France and
Spain; this, having been bought for a large sum by Mr. B. M.
Woollan, of Tunbridge Wells, in 1905, passed Gn accordance
with an agreement made by him with the Trustees) into the
possession of the nation as a free gift on his deathin December
1909. Another valuable gift was the original diary of George
Romney, recording sittings for portraits, 1776-1795, which was
presented by Mr. T. Humphry Ward.

The Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts
received a valuable collection of Coptic papyri (including
considerable portions of the Gospel of St. John) by gift from
Mr. Martyn Kennard. The principal purchase was a very fine
MS. of the Samaritan Pentateuch, with the Aramaic and Arabic
versions in parallel columns, written about the year 1200.

The Department of Prints and Drawings was exceptionally
fortunate in the generosity of benefactors during the year.
The bequest of Mr. George Salting included works, many of

16 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

them of the highest importance, by Diirer, Holbein, Canale,
Rembrandt and other Dutch masters, Francois Clouet and _ his
school, Gainsborough, Turner, Constable, and De Wint. The
Wegener collection of Chinese paintings, acquired largely by
the subscriptions of friends, gave the Museum a series of
admirable specimens of Eastern Art, which it would be hard to
match out of China. Eleven highly finished drawings by D. G.
Rossetti were presented by Mrs. Gillum, in pursuance of the
will of her husband, the late Col. Gillum ; and the National
Art-Collections Fund (among other benefactions) secured for
the Museum six fine designs by Alfred Stevens. Under present
conditions of prices of works of art, it is only through such:
liberality of private benefactors that the British Museum can
hope to maintain its position in the first rank of existing
collections. The most important purchase during the year
(apart from the part-purchase of the Wegener Collection) was
that of a large number of etchings by the late Sir F. Seymour

Haden.

The Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
similarly owes its most important accession to private generosity.
This was a very fine papyrus roll, 122 feet in length, containing
the Book of the Dead in hieratic characters, written about
980 B.c., and illustrated with pen and ink drawings of great
delicacy and spirit. This fine volume, which contains several
new texts, and is of considerable interest for the history of
Egyptian religion, was presented by Mrs. Greenfield. The
more important purchases of Egyptian antiquities include a
very large foundation-deposit brick of Rameses II. from
Bubastis ; a fine granite table of offerings of unusual character;
and an exceptionally good stone sarcophagus of the Ptolemaic
period, inscribed with religious texts. Among the Assyrian
antiquities acquired during the year are 73 well preserved

letters and other documents of the first dynasty of Babylon ,

(about 2000 B.c.) ; fragments of two cylinders of Sennacherib; —
and several fine seals of the Sumerian period.

The Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities has made
a considerable number of interesting acquisitions, the most
notable of which is a fine sepulchral relief of the fourth
century B.c., from Attica, the principal figure being in unusually
good preservation. A fragment of a similar relief contains a
very fine head of a girl. Among smaller objects are an ivory
sistrum, or rattle, of unusual shape; a tiny silver statuette of
a lion; an early Greco-Iberian statuette of a deer; and several
fine engraved mirror-cases. Several good examples of vases
were also added to the collections. Dr. A. J. Evans presented
some inscribed tablets and pottery from Crete; and Prof.
R. C. Bosanquet plaster casts of two important Minoan vases
and of the remarkable inscribed disc found at Phaistos.

The Department of British and Medizval Antiquities
and Ethnography has benefited, as usual, by the generosity of

GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. li

a large number of private donors, in some cases through the
agency of the National Art-Collections Fund. Among the
antiquities may be mentioned a number of objects of Gothic
workmanship from the Crimea and the Balkan Peninsula ;
Chinese pottery ; early maiolica from Orvieto; several articles
obtained by the British and Chinese troops in Tibet ; and a set
of jade tablets from the Temple of Ancestors at Pekin. Among
acquisitions more distinctly ethnographical are Japanese,
Formosan, and Korean objects from the Japan-British Exhibi-
tion ; a large collection made by the Torday expedition in
Belgian Congo, and another, from East Africa, made by Mr.
Scoresby Routledge; and a number of gold ornaments from
Colombia. From the Christy Trustees have been received a
large and very valuable ethnographical series, acquired by them
from the London Missionary Society, and representing the
collections of some of the earliest missionaries of the Society.

In the Department of Coins and Medals considerable
additions have been made to the collection of Macedonian coins,
with a view to a catalogue, now in course of preparation. In
all, 1,548 coins and medals were acquired by the Department in
the course of the year, of which 499 were received by gift.
Sixty-five coins, some of great rarity, were derived from a
hoard found in Hampshire, dating from the middle of the
second century. Another interesting group consisted of coins
struck during the revolt of Judaea in the reign of Hadrian.
Among the English coins acquired were a Bristol halfpenny of
Henry VI. and a quarter-angel of James I., both believed to be
unique ; among French coins, a series of provincial issues ; and
among Oriental coins, a very fine collection of the Gupta
dynasty, of the 4th and 5th centuries.

Gifts of Museum publications, including reproductions of
prints by Old Masters, and sets of electrotypes of British
Historical Medals, have been made to Free Libraries, Museums,
and Art Schools throughout the United Kingdom, and to
institutions in various Colonies.

The following are the publications issued by the Depart-
ments at Bloomsbury during the year :—

Facsimiles of Egyptian Hieratic Papyri in the British
Museum. With descriptions, translations, &c., by E. A. Wallis
Budge, Litt.D. Folio, 1. 10s.

Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia. Vol. V. Plates I.-
LXX. Lithographed reprint. Folio, 1l. 7s.

Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, &c., in the
British Museum. Parts XXVII—XXIX. 50 plates each.
Foolscap, 7s. 6d. each part.

The Sculptures of the Parthenon, with an Introduction and
Commentary by A. H. Smith. With 85 photogravure plates,

119. B

®

18 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

10 collotype plates, and vii + 70 pages of text, with 144 text
illustrations and diagrams. Folio portfolio, 51. 15s.

Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and
Ireland. Parts XII. and XIII. 10 plates each. Folio, 6s.
each part.

Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum: Pheenicia,
by G. F. Hill. With map and autotype plates. 8vo., 1l. 15s.

Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum, by
H. A. Grueber. In 3 volumes. With 123 autotype plates.
8vo., 71. 10s.

List of Books forming the Reference Library in the Reading
Room of the British Museum. 4th edition, revised and
enlarged. Vol. I., Authors. Vol. II., Subjects. 8vo.,1l. 11s. 6d.

Catalogue of Romances in the British Museum. Vol. III.
By J. A. Herbert. 8vo., 10. 5s.

Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts. 2nd edition.
Three series, each of 50 collotype plates. 4to. portfolio, 5s.
each series.

Coptic Homilies in the Dialect of Upper Egypt. Edited,
with translations, from the Papyrus Codex Or. 5001 in the
British Museum, by E. A. Wallis Budge, Litt.D. With 5 plates
and 7 illustrations in the text. 8vo., 12s.

Supplementary Catalogue of the Bengali Books in the
British Museum, acquired during the years 1886-1910. 4to.,
ll. 5s.

Catalogue of the Kannada, Badaga, and Kurg Books in the
Gritish Museum. 4to., 1/. 1s.

Catalogue of Early Italian Engravings in the British
Museum, by A. M. Hind. Edited by Sir Sidney Colvin, D.Litt.
8vo., 1l. 11s. 6d.

Tilustrations to the Catalogue of Early Italian Engravings.
8vo., 2l.

Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits in the British
Museum, by “Ff. M. O’Donoghue. Vol. II., D-K. 8vo.,
1l. 7s. 6d.

Reproductions of Prints. Third series. Part IV. (Speci-

mens of Etching by Flemish Masters, 1520-1650.) 25 plates.
20.

Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum
(Bloomsbury). 10th edition. With plans. 8vo., 2d.

Guide to the English Pottery and Porcelain in the Depart-
ment of British and Medieval Antiquities. 2nd edition.
With 15 plates and 161 illustrations. 8vo., 1s.

Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections in the British

Museum. With 15 plates, 275 illustrations, and 3 maps. 8vo.,
28.

GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 19.

Guide to an Exhibition of Chinese and Japanese Paintings
(4th to 19th Century A.D.) in the Prints and Drawings Gallery.
8vo., 3d.

Guide to an Exhibition of Chinese and Japanese Paintings
(4th to 19th Century A.D.) in the Prints and Drawings Gallery.
2nd edition, revised. 8vo., 3d.

British Museum, Frederic G. Kenyon,
3 April, 1911. Director and Principal] Librarian.

20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

TX.—PROGRESS made in the ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIP-
TION OF THE COLLECTIONS, AND ACCOUNT OF
OBJECTS ADDED TO THEM in the Year 1910 (Blooms-
bury).

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS.

I. Arrangement.—The works added to the collection during
the past year have, as far as possible, been placed on the
shelves of the Library according to the system of classification
adopted in the Museum.

The press-marks, indicating their respective localities, have
been marked on the inside and affixed to the back of each
volume.

The total number of these press-marks amounts to 71,542 ;
in addition to which 153,151 press-marks have been altered,
on books and in the catalogues, in consequence of changes and
re-arrangements carried out in the Library; 35,846 labels have
been affixed to books and volumes of newspapers, and 103,556
labels have been renewed.

The number of stamps impressed upon articles received is
421,750.

4,525 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in
the course of the year.

II. Catalogues.—Cataloguing.—52,172 titles have been
written for the General Catalogue and for the Catalogues of
Maps and Music.

Printing.— 32,636 titles and index-slips for the General
Catalogue, 2,022 titles for the Map Catalogue, and 14,797 for the
Music Catalogue have been prepared for printing during the
year; and 33,953 titles and index-slips for the General Cata-
logue, 4,561 titles for the Map Catalogue, and 14,797 for the Music
Catalogue, have been printed.

Reprinting.—47 columns have been revised, rearranged,
and reprinted during the year.

Incorporation.—General Catalogue.—33,244 title-slips and
index-slips have been incorporated into each of three copies of
this Catalogue. This incorporation has rendered it necessary,
in order to maintain as far as possible the alphabetical arrange-
ment, to remove and re-insert 43,698 title-slips and index-slips
in each copy and to add to each copy 684 new leaves.

The system of fortnightly incorporation of accessions to
the Library has been carried out with perfect regularity during
the year.

Map Catalogue.—2,865 titles have been written for the
Map Catalogue, and 3,164 title-slips have been incorporated

DEPARTMEN'T OF PRINTED BOOKS. 21

into each of three copies of it. This incorporation has rendered
if necessary to remove and re-insert 7,478 title-slips in each
copy and to add to each copy 154 new leaves.

Music Catalogue.—l4,940 titles have been written for
the Music Catalogue, and 13,667 title-slips have been incorpo-
rated into each of two copies of it. This incorporation has
rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 24,744 title-slips
in each copy and to add to each copy 565 new leaves.

Shelf Catalogue.—For this Catalogue, in which the title-
slips, mounted on cards, are arranged in order of press-
marks, about 32,000 have been so mounted and about 80,000
have been incorporated in their proper order.

Catalogue of Books of Reference in the Reading Room.—
This Catalogue, which is in two parts, Part I. containing an
alphabetical list of books entered under the names of the
authors, Part II., containing a subject-index, has been completed,
and is now available for the use of readers.

Catalogue of Books printed during the XVth Century.—
All the books for Part II. of this Catalogue have now been
described, and about half of the part is now in type.

Ill. Binding.—The number of volumes and sets of
pamphlets sent to be bound in the course of the year was
12,697, including 4,459 volumes of newspapers. In conse-
quence of the frequent adoption of the plan of binding two
or more volumes in one, the number of volumes returned
was 11,893. In addition to this, 377 volumes have been
repaired in the binders’ shops.

Besides this, the following binding work has been done in
the Library itself :—2,965 volumes have been repaired; 197
broadsides, &c., have been inserted in guard-books, and 5,000
volumes of reports, parts of periodicals, &c., have been bound
in a light style of binding.

The following maps, charts, &c., have also been bound or
mounted during the year:—9 atlases and 96 volumes of the
6-inch and 25-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound, and
50 Admiralty Charts have been mounted on linen; in addition,
219 general maps have been mounted on linen in 3,670 sheets,
and 206 maps have been mounted on cards in 426 sheets.
In addition to this, two atlases have been repaired.

36,179 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded
into 673 parcels, which have been tied up and labelled pre-
paratory to being bound.

Four volumes of the Blue Copy, 13 volumes of the Red
Copy, and 12 volumes of the Green Copy of the General
Catalogue, have been broken up and rebound in 38 new volumes.
Forty-four columns have been relaid, owing to the accumu-
lation of titles under certain headings, as well as 167 columns
of reprinted headings, in each of the three interleaved copies
pf the General Catalogue. In addition, one volume of the Blue

22 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Copy, four volumes of the Red Copy, and four volumes of the
Green Copy, comprising 1,059 columns and 7,990 accession-slips,
have been entirely relaid. Seventeen volumes of the Music
Catalogue have been broken up and rebound in 28 new volumes,
and one volume of the Map Catalogue has been broken up and
rebound in two volumes.

IV. Reading Room Service.—The number of volumes re-
placed in the General Library after use in the Reading Room
was 758,125; in the King’s Library, 26,400; in the Grenville
Library, 1,959; in the Map Room, 4,764; in the presses in
which books are kept from day to day for the use of readers,
678,411; and in the Oriental Department, 2,619; making a
total amount of 1,472,278 volumes supplied to readers during
the year, exclusive of those to which readers have personal
access on the shelves of the Reading Room.

The number of readers during the year was 219,274, giving
an average of 726 daily, the room having been open on
302 days; with an average of nearly seven volumes daily for
each reader.

Newspaper Room.—The number of readers during the
year was 19,200, giving a daily average of over 63, the room
having been open on 302 days. The number of volumes re-
placed after use was 65,231, giving a daily average of 216
and of over three volumes for each reader, not reckoning
volumes, chiefly Parliamentary Papers, taken from the shelves
of the Newspaper Room by the readers themselves. In
addition to the above, 1,799 country newspapers were brought
up to the Library from the Repository at Hendon for the use
of readers.

Map Room.—448 visitors were admitted to the Map Room
for the purpose of special geographical research.

Photography.—There were 476 applications for leave to
photograph from books in the Library, and 1,326 volumes
were supplied to the applicants for this purpose.

V. Accessions.—General Library.—26,063 complete books
and pamphlets have been added to the General Library in the
course of the year. Of these, 5,935 were presented ; 14,793
received by Copyright ; 438 by Colonial Copyright ; 899 by
International Exchange ; and 3,998 acquired by purchase.

_ 68,811 parts or volumes of magazines and other serial
publications and of works in progress have also been added
to the General Library. Of these, 3,370 were presented ;
43,471 received by Copyright ; 555 by Colonial Copyright ; 681
by International Exchange; and 20.734 acquired by purchase,

Maps.—72 atlases, 90 parts of atlases, and 1,987 maps in
7,112 sheets have been added to the collection during the
year. Of these, seven atlases, 41 parts of atlases,and 563 maps

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 23

were presented ; 30 atlases and 1,296 maps received by Copy-
right ; 25 atlases and 30 maps by Colonial Copyright ; and ten
atlases, 49 parts of atlases, and 98 maps acquired by purchase.

Music.—12,036 musical publications have been added to
the collection during the year. Of these, 13 pieces were pre-
sented ; 9,397 books and pieces, and 1,724 parts, received by
Copyright ; 706 pieces by Colonial Copyright; and 56 books
and 140 parts acquired by purchase.

Newspapers.—The number of newspapers published in the
United Kingdom, received under the provisions of the Copy-
right Act, during the year, was 3,453, comprising 245,605
single numbers. Of these newspapers, 1,239 were published in
London and its suburbs; 1,675 in other parts of England and
Wales and in the Channel Islands; 296 in Scotland; and 243
in Ireland. Five sets, comprising 983 single numbers, were
received by Colonial Copyright ; 242 sets, comprising 38,180
single numbers of Colonial and foreign newspapers, have been
presented ; and 81 sets, comprising 18 volumes and 14,340 single
numbers of current Colonial and foreign newspapers, have been
purchased.

Miscellaneous.—3,712 articles not included in the foregoing
paragraphs have been received in the Department. These
consist of Parliamentary papers, single sheets, and other
miscellaneous items.

The total number of articles enumerated above, as having
been received in the Department during the year, exclusive
of newspapers, is 112,771.

Acquisitions of Special Interest.—Highty-five English books
printed before 1640, and fifty-nine Incunabula (books printed
before the close of the year 1500), have been added to the
Library during the year 1910.

Among the most interesting of the English books are the
following :—

Colet, John: ‘‘A Monition concerning the ordering of a
Christian Man’s Life.” Printed by Robert Copland for John
Byddel, London, 1534.

More, Sir Thomas: “ The answere to the fyrste parte of the
poysened booke whych a nameless heretyke hath named the
Souper of the Lorde.” W. Rastall, London, 1534.

“The Offices of Sheriffs, Bailiffs of Liberties, &c.” Printed
about the year 1535 by Robert Redman at the Sign of the
George, the house of Richard Pynson, who was succeeded in his
business by Redman.

Highteen Year Books containing Law Reports of the reign
of Edward IV. Printed by R. Tottel between the years 1558
and 1572.

This acquisition raises the total number of issues and
editions of printed Year Books in the spe a to two hundred
and thirty-one,

24 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

‘““Certaine Sermons appoynted by the Queenes Maiesty to
be declared and read.” R.Jugge and J. Cawood, London, 1563.

The first volume of the Homilies: the second volume was
first issued in the same year.

Fulwell, Ulpian: “ First part of the eight liberall Sciences,
the art of Flattery.” W. Hoskins, London, 1576.

Lodge, Thomas: “ An Alarum against Usurers. Heirunto are
annexed the Historie of Forbonius, &c.” T. Este for S. Clarke,
London, 1584. An imperfect copy. Two complete copies only
are known to exist.

Boccaccio, Giovanni: “ Amorous Fiammetta.” Printed by
I. C. for Thomas Gubbin and Thomas Newman, London, 1587.

Rowlands, Samuel: “ A Payre of Spy Knaves,” 1613. The
present imperfect. book is the only copy known.

Rowlands, Samuel: “ Well met Gossip ; or, Tis merrie when
Gossips meet.” I. W. for John Deane, London, 1619. The
first edition was published in 1602. The earliest edition
hitherto in the Library is that of the year 1656.

Decker, Thomas: ‘“ Londons Tempe, or the Feild of
Happines,” 1624. Complimentary verses on the inauguration
of a Lord Mayor of London. An imperfect copy; the only
complete copy known being that in the Duke of Devonshire’s
Library.

“ Brief Notes upon a late Sermon titl’d The Fear of God
and the King; preached by Matthew Griffith. By I. M.”
London, 1660. The only prose work of John Milton of which
there has hitherto been no separate edition in the Library.

“Jesus, Maria, Joseph; or, the devout Pilgrim of the ever
Blessed Virgin Mary.” Amsterdam, 1663. Bound with the
arms of Queen Catherine of Braganza.

“Bible.” 2 vol. Oxford, 1701. From the Chapel Royal,
Windsor Castle. In a sumptuous binding, with Queen Anne’s
cipher and arms in their earlier form. This stamp is cne
of the few not already represented in the British Museum
collection of Royal armorial bindings.

Among the foreign Incunabula and later works the following
are of special interest :—

Franciscus Philelphus: ‘Epistole Familiares.” Printed
by Vindelinus de Spira, Venice, 1472 or 1473.
Johannes de Gandavo: ‘“ Questiones super tres libros de

Anima.” Printed by Franz Renner and Nicolaus of Frankfort,
Venice, 1473. |

Jerome, Saint: “Epistole.” 2tom. The first volume was
printed at Rome in 1476 by Arnold Pannartz, who with Conrad
Sweynheym introduced printing into Italy, while the second

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volume was printed 1479 after the death of Pannartz by his
successor Georg Lauer in the same city.

Luean : copharea lia.” Printed by P. Lavagna, the second
printer at Milan, in 1477.

Pantaleone de Confienza : “Summa Lacticiniorum.” Printed
by J. Fabri, Turin, 1477. The author held the post of court
physician to the Duke of Savoy. The book contains an account
of the principal kinds of cheese used in the fifteenth century.
Chapter XII. of Part II. contains a description of the English
cheeses of the period.

Thomas Aquinas: “Summa Theologie. Prima pars
secunde partis.” Printed by Franciscus de Hailbrun and
Petrus de Bartua, Venice, 1478. A very fine copy in an early
binding.

Frezzi, Frederico: ‘‘ El] Quatriregno del decursu della vita
humana.” Printed by Stephan Arndes, Perugia, 1481. Probably
the first book printed by Arndes at Perugia.

“Agenda” of the Diocese of Wurzburg. Printed by Georg
Reyser, Wurzburg, 1482. In a fine contemporary stamped
leather binding.

“Missale Moguntinum.” Printed -by Georg Reyser,
Wiirzburg, 1482.

Bartolus de Saxoferrato: “ Super Digestum Novum.”
Printed by Petrus Maufer et Socii, Venice, 1482.

Perottus, Nicolaus: ‘“ Rudimenta Grammatices.” Printed
by Henricus de Urso, Vicenza, 1482.

“Statuta Synodalia EKystettensia.” Printed by Michael
Reyser, Hichstatt, 1484. The first dated book printed at
Hichstatt.

Puteo, Paris de: “Tractatus Syndicatus.” By the printers
calling themselves “‘ Germani fidelissimi,” Naples, 1485.

Antonio de Lebrixa: “ De corruptis ignorantia Hispanorum
quarundam litterarum vocibus.” Printed at the first press
established at Salamanca, 1486.

Gaspar Veronensis: “Grammatica.” Printed by Christoph
Valdarfer, Milan, about 1486, in a type hitherto unrepresented
in the Library.

“Ordo Diuinus,” a single sheet showing the various feast
and fast days to be observed in the diocese of Speier. Printed
by the brothers J. & C. Hist, Speier, 1489.

Alphonso X., King of Castile : “ Leyes de las siete partidas.”
Printed by Meinardus Ungut and Stanislaus Polonus, Seville,
25 October, 1491. The first printed edition of this book; the
second (already in the Library) appeared two months later
from a rival press,

26 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The Moral Distichs of Dionysius Cato. The text in Latin,
with glosses and translations in Italian. Printed by Andreas
Freitag, Rome. Completed, according to the colophon, on the
8th January of an unspecified year, probably 1493 or 1494.

“Novum beate Marie virginis Psalterium,” edited by
Hermann Nitzschewitz. Printed at the press of the Cistercian
Monastery of Zinna, about 1495. This book, known as the
“Zinna Psalter,” was printed at the expense of the Emperors
Frederick III. and Maximilian I., and is a fine example of
(serman book decoration of the fifteenth century.

Juan de Mena: ‘‘Coronacion, con la glosa.”’ Printed
anonymously at Salamanca, 1499.

“Ghetyden van onser leven Vrowen.’ Printed by
Thielmann Kerver, Paris, February, 1500. On vellum. A rare
edition of the House of the Blessed Virgin, printed in Paris for
use in the Netherlands.

‘“‘Missale Speciale,” an abridged edition of the Missal for use
in the Diocese of Augsburg. Printed by Lucantonio Giunta,
Venice, at the expense of Christoph Thum of Augsburg. The
date may be read either as 5 August, 1504, or 2 August, 1500,
the later date being the more probable.

“ Hore secundum usum Romanum.” Printed by Thielmann
Kerver, Paris, 1520, A fine specimen of the later issues of
Books of Hours by Kerver, Printed in red and black, with
numerous woodcuts.

A complete set of 313 numbers of the “ Bulletins du Tribunal
criminel révolutionnaire établi au Palais, a Paris, par la loi du
10 mars, 1793, pour juger sans appel les conspirateurs.” Paris,
1793-1794. ;

Maps.—Among the more important additions to the Col-
lection of Maps are :—

“Nova hee Tabula Galliz. Ludovico XIII. Christ-
ianissimo Regi Francie et Navarre humillime dedicatur 4a
Nicolao Iohanni de Visscher.” [Amsterdam], 1633.

“Atlas .Minor, das ist: eine kurtze jedoch griindliche
Beschreibung der gantzen Weldt, etc.” Amstelodami, ex officina
Ioannis Ianssonii, 1651.

“Plan de la Ville, Cité, Université et Fauxbourgs de Paris
soa a. dressé sur les lieux; et sur les mémeires ?de
M'. Jouvin de Rochefort.” <A Paris chez N. de Fer, 1694.

“Plan of the Battle at Preston 21° Septem" 1745. By an

Officer of the Army who was present.” Christopher Seton,
Charing Cross, Decr. 21 1745.

Music.—The following are among the most interesting
additions to the Library of Music during the present year :—
“ Delitiz Music, sive Cantiones e quamplurimis nostri aevi

musicorum libris selectz, ad testudinis usum accomodate opera
Joachimi yan den Hove.” Salomon de Roy, Utrecht, 1612, A

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 27

collection of arrangements and compositions for the lute. The
book contains specimens of the work of two English musicians,
Anthony Holborne and John Dowland. Four other copies only
are known.

Philips, Peter: “Cantiones Sacre.” 8 pts. Antwerp, 16138.

A volume containing four collections of Motets printed at
Venice between the years 1645 and 1648.

Donations.—Many valuable books have been presented
to the Library during the past year. Among these are the
following :—

« Arms and Armourat Sandringham. The Indian collection
presented by the Princes of India to His Majesty King
Edward VII. when Prince of Wales, 1875-1876.” London, 1910.
Presented by order of Her Majesty Queen Alexandra.

“Catalogue of. paintings and drawings in Buckingham
Palace.” London, 1909. Presented by the Lord Chamberlain.

A complete set of the books printed by the late William
Morris at the Kelmscott Press, consisting of fifty-four works in
sixty-eight volumes. Presented by Mrs. William Morris.

Proofs of a lecture of George Meredith “On the Idea of
Comedy and of the uses of the Comic Spirit,” delivered at the
London Institution, Ist February, 1877. With MS. notes,
additions and corrections by the author. Presented by Miss
J. L. Benecke.

“Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Vols. I-IV. Catalogue of the
printed books preserved at Haigh Hall, Wigan.” 4 vol.
Aberdeen University Press, 1910, and

“ Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Vols. V., VI. A Bibliography of
Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns, 1485-
1714.” With an historical essay on their origin and use by
R. Steele. 2 vol. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1910. Presented
by the Earl of Crauford, K.T.

“ Facsimile of the Washington Manuscript of Deuteronomy
and Joshua in the Freer Collection.” With an introduction by
H. A. Sanders. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor,
1910. Presented through the Library of the University of
Michigan by Mr C. L. Freer.

“T] Codice di Leonardo da Vinci della Biblioteca di Lord
Leicester pubblicato sotto gli auspici del R. Instituto Lombardo
di Scienze e Lettere da Gerolamo Calvi.” Milan, 1909.
Presented by Mr. G. Calvi.

“ Photographs of Palace Buildings of Peking, compiled by the
Imperial Museum of Tokyo. Collotyped from the negatives by
K. Ogawa. With explanatory notes in Japanese, English and
Chinese.” Tokyo, 1906, and

“Decorations of Palace Buildings of Peking. With eighty
plates.” Tokyo, 1906, Presented by Mr. Isshiu Ogawa,

28 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

“The Kelekian Collection of Persian and analogous
Potteries.” Paris,1910. Presented by Dekran Khan Kelekian.

‘“‘Tapisseries de l’Asie Centrale faisant partie de la collection
réunie par A. Bogolukow.” Coloured plates with descriptive
letterpress in French and Russian. St. Petersburg, 1908.
Presented by the Library of the Section of Ethnography of
the Russian Museum of the Emperor Alexander ITI., St.

Petersburg.
G. K. Fortescue,

DEPARTMENT OF MSS. 29

DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS.

1. Catalogue of Additions.—The descriptions of MSS.
acquired in 1909 have been printed and have been incorporated
in the Class Catalogue kept in the Students’ Room.

All the MSS. acquired in 1910, viz. Additional 37952-38091
and Egerton 2885-2889, have been described and indexed.
The descriptions have been revised and down to 37976 are
already printed.

2. Catalogue of Greek Papyri.—Vol. IV., which includes an
Appendix of Coptic Papyri, has been completed and bound
and is ready for publication.

3. Catalogue of the Royal MSS.—Descriptions as far as 17 C.
XVI have been sent to press, and sheets X-2Z of Vol. I. (end)
and B-2 E of Vol. II. are in print.

4. Catalogue of Romances.— Vol. III. has been completed
and published. Materials have been selected, and four MSS.
have been described, for Vol. IV.

5. Catalogue of early Additional and Egerton MSS.—
Add. 4201-4390 have been described and indexed.

6. Catalogue of Irish MSS. —The continuation of this
Catalogue has been taken in hand-and fourteen MSS. have
been described.

7. Catalogue of Charters.—Additional Charters 54404—
54819, acquired in 1908, and 54820-55181, 55194-55419, acquired
in 1909, have been described and (excepting 54701-54812,
55174-55181) indexed.

The printing of Vol. II. of the General Index of Charters
has begun. Sheets B-O (pp. 1-208) extending to the end of
letter D have been revised for press and slips to the end of
letter EK are in type.

8. Catalogue of Seals. — The seals attached to Add.
Charters 46866-55425 (acquired in 1902-1909) have been
indexed.

9. Binding.—One hundred and forty-nine Additional MSS.
and seven Egerton MSS. newly acquired, and one hundred
and sixty-six MSS. of the old collections, have been bound,
repaired, or lettered, together with ninety-five papyri and one
hundred and twenty-seven Books of Reference, volumes of
Facsimiles, and Catalogues.

10. Verification.—The entire collection of MSS. has been
verified by comparison with the Shelf-Lists, and the drawers
of Seals have been checked with the Drawer-Lists.

11. Reproductions. — A second edition of the three Series
of Reproductions from Illuminated MSS., which. were issued

30 ACCOUNTS, ETGC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

907-8, has been published. Collotype plates have been
taken for a volume of reproductions from Royal MS. 2 B. vii
(Queen Mary’s Psalter).

12. Stamping, folioing, and placing. Eiger hundred and
eighteen Additional MSS., seven Egerton MSS., and one hun-
dred and eighty-four Roots of Reference have een stamped, and
one hundred and thirty-one MSS. of the old collections have
been re-stamped, with a total number of 15,188 impressions.
One hundred and seventeen numbers were impressed on
separate documents.

One hundred and seven-seven MSS. have been folio’d, with
a total of 38,232 folios.

One hundred and thirty-nine newly-acquired MSS. have
been placed, and fifty-one belonging to the old collections have
been re-placed. All have been press-marked, and entered in
Hand- and Shelf-Lists. One hundred and four Charters and
Rolls have been placed and entered in the Inventories.
Numbers have been written on 1153 Charters and Rolls.
Sixty-three Seals and Casts have been provided with boxes,
placed, and entered in the Inventory. The leaden bulle have
been measured for boxes, and a large number of seals of the
old collections have been fitted with boxes and temporarily
placed.

New Shelf-Lists have been made for MSS. in the South
Room and for the Facsimiles. The list of Exhibited MSS.
has been re-typed.

13. Books of Reference. — One hundred and eighty-eight
volumes and parts have been received, catalogued, and placed.

Nineteen volumes and parts of Facsimiles have been added
to the series now deposited in the Department and available
for the use of Readers.

14. Consultation of MSS.—31,440 MSS. and 2767 Charters
and Seals have been consulted in the Students’ Room, and
eighty-one MSS. in the Reading Room. The number of Students
was 11,256.

Magna Charta was exhibited to 14,862 visitors.

15. MSS. photographed.Seven hundred and seventy-two
MSS. (including Papyri, Charters and Seals) were allowed to be
photographed, with a total of 4,931 photographs taken.

16. Hxhibitions.— A selection of medical MSS. was on
exhibition in the Department (25 July-6 Aug.) for the British
Medical Congress ; and similar speciai exhibitions were arranged
for (a) Westminster Scholars (12 March) and (b) German
Students (27 Sept.—5 Oct.).

17. Acquisitions.—The number of Manuscripts and Docu-
ments, etc., acquired during the year has been :—

Additional MSS. - - = = = = 4)
Egerton MSS. - - - - ~ - - 5
Charters and Rolls _— - = ~ = - = as

Detached Seals and Casts - - - - - 65

DEPARTMENT OF MSS. 31

The most interesting acquisition during 1910 is the autograph ©
memorandum of Lord Nelson, 9 Oct. 1805, explaining for the
instruction of his captains his plan for attacking the French
fleet, as acted upon at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 Oct.
This was sold by auction in 1905 for a very large sum and was
shortly after purchased by the late Mr. Benjamin Minors
Woollan, who was patriotically anxious that it should not
leave the country and provided that on his death, which
happened on 5 Dec. 1909, it should come to the British
Museum. It is now exhibited in the Manuscript Saloon in
a glazed frame made of oak from the “ Victory” presented
by the Lords of the Admiralty. Another donation of con-
siderable interest was received from Mr. Roland Stuart, viz.
a volume of fifty-five original letters of “George Eliot,” the
novelist, addressed to his mother Mrs. Elma Stuart, 1872-1880,
together with others from George Henry Lewes, 1872-1878.

Among the MSS. purchased during the year at public
sales the majority came from the Blathwayt and Polwarth
collections and from the great Phillipps collection, a further
portion of which was sold on 6-9 June. They include most
of the state-papers and diplomatic correspondence and of the
other MSS., except donations, in the list which follows :—

Lives of saints, in Latin, including an unidentified Primianus
and others of rare occurrence: a large folio volume, written in
South Italian minuscules of Beneventan type, late llth or
early 12th cent.

‘wo treatises on music, in Latin, anonymous and appar-
ently otherwise unknown ; 12th cent. With curious coloured
diagrams and ornamental initials.

Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden (d. at Rome, 1372),
translated from Latin into Italian; circ. 1400.

Sermones dominicales of Jacobus de Voragine; written at
Wurm in Baden, 1421. From the monastery of St. Barbara,
Cologne.

Breviary, in Latin, of Cologne use; 1436. With a fine
contemporary stamped leather binding.

Speculum Sapientiae, a 13th cent. collection of fables in
Latin, usually attributed in MSS. to St. Cyril; 15th cent.
With initials and borders of Dutch style.

Sermons of Caesarius of Heisterbach, in Latin, including a
large number of illustrative tales and allusions to contemporary
history ; 15th cent. Bound in stamped pigskin.

Homilies on the Sunday Gospels, etc., in English octosyllabic
verse, with illustrative tales; middle of the 15th cent.

The collection of Latin Aesopic fables known as the
Anonymus Neveleti, translated into a northern dialect of
Italian ; 1449.

Rules for the conduct of a steward, marshal, usher and
other officers of a great household, in English ; late 15th cent.

32 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Life of St. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln (1186-1200), by the
monk Adam, his chaplain, in Latin, known as the Magna Vita
S. Hugonis; 1511. In a stamped leather Cologne binding.

Quire from a Missal of Toledo use; with finely illuminated
borders and initials by Spanish artists, and the arms of
Alfonso de Acuna Carillo, Archbishop of Toledo 1446-1482.

Two fine minatures cut from Italian choir-books, of Sienese
and Milanese style respectively ; 15thcent. Transferred from
the Dept. of Prints and Drawings (George Salting bequest).

Accompt of R. de Tong, treasurer of the household of
Hieanor, sister of Edward III., of her expenses on her journey
to Nijmegen to be married to Reginald, Count of Guelders ;
Apr.—June, 1332.

Covenant by Edward III. to fulfil an accord with Louis,
Count of Flanders, for postponing till 6 May the marriage of
his son Edmund, Earl of Cambridge, with Margaret, Duchess
of Burgundy, the Count’s daughter, etc. ; 8 Jan., 1364[5]. With
the King’s Privy Seal.

Covenant of Henry V. with John, Duke of Burgundy, not
to make any accord tv his prejudice with the King of France
during the truce; 16 July, 1416. With the King’s Privy Seal.

Miscellaneous official papers, letters, warrants, ete.; 1446,
1561-1718.

The original MS. of Sir James Melville’s historical memoirs,
1559-1594.

Pay-book for various work done in the Star Chamber and
Westminster Hall ; 1564.

Proceedings at a court of captains and other officers serving
on Sir Francis Drake’s last expedition to the W. Indies, held
at Porto Bello, 6 Feb. 1596, after Drake’s death, to decide on
their future action. Signed by Sir T. Baskerville and twenty-
two others.

Letter-book of the Commissioners for Scotland in London ;
15 Aug. 1645-27 Oct. 1646.

Two holograph letters of Charles Il. when in exile, on his
“straights and necessityes,” ete. ; 1652, 1654.

Correspondence of Sir R. Southwell, Secretary to the Privy
Council, Envoy to Lisbon and Berlin, and Chief Secretary for
Ireland ; 1659-1697.

Accompts of the four Tellers of the Exchequer ; 1662-1670.

Newsletters from Jean Donnelly at Brussels to W. Blathwayt,
as secretary to Sir W. Temple, Ambassador at the Hague;
1669-1671.

Diplomatic papers relating to the conference at Frankfurt
between the Empire and France; 1680-1682.

DEPARTMENT OF MSS. 33

Letters of Philip Warwick, Envoy to Sweden, to Lord
Conway and W. Blathwayt, Secretary and Under-Secretary of
State ; 1680-1683.

Letters of Sir Peter Wyche, Resident at Hamburg, etc., to
the same ; Feb. 1681—Jan. 1684.

Letters of William Carr, Consul at Amsterdam, to the same ;
Feb. 1681—Feb. 1682.

Letters of Thomas Plott, Agent at the Hague, to the same ;
Feb. 1681-Feb. 1682.

Letters of Charles, Earl of Middleton, Envoy at Vienna, to
Lord Conway and Sir L. Jenkins, Secretaries of State, Feb.—
July, 1681; and of Lord Conway to W. Blathwayt, Mar.—
May, 1683.

Letters of Edmund Poley, Envoy at Berlin, Frankfurt,
Ratisbon, etc., to Lord Conway and W. Blathwayt ; 1681-1683.
Two volumes.

Letters of Bevil Skelton, Envoy to the Hanse Towns, to the
same; 1681-1685. Two volumes.

Fourteen holograph letters of Sophia, Electress of Hanover,
the first to Sir W. D. Colt, Resident at Hanover, and the rest to
Mary, Lady Colt; 1681, 1693-1714.

Holograph letters (3) of the Electress Sophia and the
Electoral Prince George Louis, afterwards George I., to
Margaret Hughes, mistress of Prince Rupert ; 1682.

Letters of T. Chudleigh, Envoy at the Hague to Lord
Conway and W. Blathwayt; Feb. 1682—Mar. 1683,

Letters (20) of Charles and Peregrine Bertie to their half-
brother the Karl of Abingdon and his chaplain, relating to the
Duke of Monmouth’s rebellion; 17 June-15 July, 1685.

Correspondence and papers of T. Coxe, Envoy to the Swiss
cantons to negotiate a treaty for the levy of troops; 1689-
1692.

Letters of the 2nd Duke of Schomberg, commanding in
Savoy, to the Earl of Nottingham, Secretary of State, and
W. Blathwayt, 1692-1693 ; and of the 3rd Duke, in Flanders,
to the King and W. Blathwayt, 1692-1703. With an autograph
military memorandum by William III.

Register of correspondence of W. Blathwayt, as Secretary
in attendance on the King in the Netherlands, with the Earl of
Nottingham, Secretary of State; Mar.—Nov. 1692.

Register of letters of W. Blathwayt, in the same capacity,
to Secretaries of State and others; 1693-1701.

Register of letters of Alexander, Lord Polwarth, as Lord
Lieutenant of Berwickshire, relating to the Jacobite rebellion
and more especially to the raising of the local militia; Sept.
Dee: 1715:

“The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland,”
by Robert Wodrow, bk. iii, ch. 1-5 : apparently a contemporary

Ho: Cc

34 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

copy of an early draft, differing considerably from the text as
printed in 1721-2.

Letters of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, chiefly to Sir
T. Pengelly, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, relating to her will,
law-suits concerning Blenheim, etc. ; 1720-1735.

Letters (12) of Lord Carteret, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
to E. Southwell, Secretary of State; 1725-1730.

Sixty-one letters of Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke,
to Hugh, Earl of Marchmont, on political and other subjects ;
1740-1750.

Correspondence of G, Bubb Dodington with H. Fox and
Sir Horace Mann; 1754-1759.

Correspondence of Lord John Russell, including letters of
William IV., Lords Grey, Melbourne, Brougham, Aberdeen and
Macaulay, Richard Cobden and others, together with letters
from him to T. Moore ; 1819-1860.

Letters of Arthur, lst Duke of Wellington, to J. W. Croker,
on political and other subjects; 1832-1852. With autograph
memoranda of the Duke on the Catholic Question, the
Corporation Commission, and Thiers’ account of the battles of
Rolica and Vimeiro.

Minute-book of “The Society for the Diffusion of Political
Knowledge” from its foundation by Lord Brougham in June,
1834, to its dissolution 15 Aug. 1836. Presented by Lord
Avebury.

Transcripts of French state letters and papers, 16th-17th
centt. Eight volumes, with the arms of President Gabriel
Bernard de Rieux on the covers.

History of the revolution in the island of San Domingo,
1799-1803, by M. Périés, Treasurer of the French Government
there, 1799-1801.

Autograph summary by Napoleon Bonaparte of ch. xvii of
the Campagne d’Italie; 1816. Sent by Comte de las Cases to
“M. Louzada” in 1827. Bequeathed by Emanuel, Duque de
Losada y Losada.

Petition, nnmerously signed, of the Catholics of Brussels to
William, Prince of Orange, to be allowed the free exercise of
their religion, 11 Aug. 1582; with letters and papers, official
and private, relating to the Netherlands, 1507-1610.

Grant by Gian Galeazzo Sforza-Visconti, Duke of Milan, to
Gian Angelo dei Talenti of certain dues from Rosata, 1481.
Signed by the Duke and Ludovico il Moro his uncle; with
joint seal of the Duke and his mother Bona of Savoy, regent.

Vita di Chiappino Vitelli, Marchese di Petriolo, ambassador
to England in 1569, etc., by Lorenzo Borghese ; 17th cent.

Diary of the Rev. M. D. Babington at Messina during the
abortive insurrection against the Neapolitan Government ;

DEPARTMENT OF MSS. 35

Jan.—Sept. 1848. Presented by Mrs. H. Wright (formerly Mrs.
C. Babington).

Original dispatches from Alfonso VI. of Portugal and his
ministers,to Francisco de Mello, Portuguese ambassador to
England ; 1662-1666.

Volume of legal tracts and official establishment-lists of
various dates ; 14th-17th centt.

Index to the repertories of the “ Originalia” of the Court
of Exchequer, 1509-1577, by the Rev. Edward Cookson.
Presented by the compiler.

Papers of Sir Edward Walker, Garter King of arms,
relating to the Order of the Garter; 1523-1677.

Collection of medical recipes; 17th and 18th centt.
Presented by J. Macnamara, Esq.

Autograph eclogues, elegies and other poems by Sir Robert
Howard, the dramatist (d. 1698).

Diploma of the University of Oxford conferring the degree
of Master of Arts on Samuel Johnson; 1755. With seal.

Vocabulary of the English dialect of Romany, in the
autograph of Charles Godfrey Leland (d. 1903). Two volumes.
Presented by Messrs. Whittaker and Oo., publishers.

Correspondence of John Martin relative to his Catalogue
of Books privately printed (1834) ; 1828-1855. Presented by
J. W. Martin, Esq.

Letters of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to Nikolai
F. Daniel’son, of St. Petersburg, on economic and _ social
questions; 1868-1895. Presented by N. F. Daniel’son.

Two letters of f. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy to W. Bartholomew,
relating to his ‘“‘ Hlijah”; 1846. Presented by Mrs. L. Jessie
Edwards.

Correspondence, etc., of W. R. O’Byrne relative to his
Naval Biographical Dictionary (1849) ; 1843-1849.

Letters of Prof. Richard Owen and others to Dr. W.
Buckland, chiefly on the discovery in New Zealand of bones of
Dinornis Maximus ; 1835-1845.

Diaries of George Romney, the portrait-painter, recording
about nine thousand sittings, 1776-1795 ; with rough lists of
pictures, etc., 1776-1789. Presented by T. Humphry Ward,
Esq.

Original MS. of a portion of John Ruskin’s Laws of Fésole,
a treatise on drawing and painting, published in 1879.

Letters of Joseph Strutt, engraver, etc., and his family;
1771-1780. Presented by William Strutt, Esq.

History of the family of Melbourne or Milbourne, by
Thomas Milbourn. Presented by the compiler.

c 2

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Survey of Toddington manor, co. Bedford, by Ralph Agas,
1581: an elaborate and valuable plan in sixteen sheets,
illustrating the communal tenure of land in strips.

Court-book of the manor of Markeyate al. Market Street,
cos. Bedf. and Hertf.; 1591-1662.

Grant by Henry VIII. to John Cary of the site, church
and possessions of the dissolved Priory of Thremhall, co.
Essex; 1536. With an Inspeximus, under the Great Seal,
1595, of depositions in a suit as to a right of way in Thremhall.

Plans of ancient earthworks in Hampshire and the Isle
of Wight, surveyed and drawn to scale by E. A. Downman,
1876-1908.

Similar plans of ancient earthworks in Kent, Middlesex
and Surrey, and in Northamptonshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, by
the same, 1892-1910. Two volumes.

Rubbings of indents of despoiled monumental brasses in
Canterbury and Rochester cathedrals. Presented by T. E.
Sedgwick, Esq.

Book of accompts of the Guild of St. Mary in St. Botolph’s
church, Boston, co. Line.; 1514-1525.

Collection of London customs, etc., relating especially to
fishmongers; cvre. 1395.

Charters (27) relating chiefly to lands in London and
Essex; temp. Edw. I.-1602. Presented in part (9) by J. L.
Glasscock, Esq.

Collection of arms in colours, chiefly of families of co.
Somerset; early 18th cent.

Rubbings of inscriptions on church-bells in co. Warwick.
Presented by Henry B. Walters, Esq.

Portions of a chartulary or chartularies of Malmesbury
Abbey, co. Wilts, in Latin ; late 13th cent.

Charters (13) relating to lands in cos. Worcester, Stafford,
etc., 1275-1305; including a grant (with seal of arms) by
Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III., of a fishery at
‘Uttoxeter, 1283.

Charters (34) chiefly relating to lands in Seamer and
elsewhere, co. York; 1343-1632. Presented by the Duke of
Leeds.

Pedigrees and arms of Yorkshire families to 1613, in the
hand of Sir W. Dugdale, Norroy.

Pedigrees of Irish families, in the hand of Sir W. Betham,
Ulster, some brought down to 1852.

Arms of the archbishops and bishops of France to 1900,
collected by G. A. Bouvier, 1887-1900.

Register of the Contrada or quarter of S. Romano at

Ferrara, 1317-1525 recording transactions of the syndics with
respect to leases of lands and houses, law-suits, ete.

DEPARTMENT OF MSS. af

Census of Rome, cire. 1517-1527; divided into the 13
“regioni,’ the names of all householders being given, with the
number of “bocche” in each house, those of the Pope’s
household amounting to 700.

“T’Olimpia vendicata,” opera by Alessandro Scarlatti, in
score; 17th-18th centt.

Cantatas by various Italian composers ; 1706.

“Admeto”: opera by Handel, 1726, in the hand of his
amanuensis John Christopher Smith.

Collection of MS. music, including autographs of J. 8. Bach,
Beethoven and others, and of letters, etc., of musicians, artists
and others; 18th-19th centt. Five volumes. Presented by
Mrs. Clara Morten in accordance with the wishes of her late
husband Alfred Morten, Esq.

Symphony, in full score, by George Onslow (d. 1853).

“O salutaris hostia,” for solo, chorus and orchestra, in score,
in the autograph of Charles Gounod ; 1856.

Original scores of ‘‘ Nitocris,” an opera, ‘“ Joash,” a sacred
drama, and other works, by Edouard Silas; 1856-1873. |
Nine volumes. Bequeathed by the composer.

George F. Warner.

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DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED Books AND MSS.

Cataloguing and Arrangement.—The numbers of the
sheets of the various Oriental Catalogues and other Publica-
tions of the Department sent to press in 1910 are :—Bengali
Books, 14; Index to Chinese Encyclopedia, 14; Hebrew MSS.,
5; Coptic Texts, 55; Kanarese Books, 19; Telugu Books, 2.

The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are :—
Arabic, 722; Assamese, 30; Avestan, 14; Babylonian, 1;
Bengali, 264; Berber, 1; Brahui, 2; Burmese, 92; Chin, 6;
Chinese, 828 ; Coptic, 12; Ethiopic, 20; Gujarati, 41; Hebrew,
120; Hindi, 453; Hindustani, 394; Javanese, 14; Kannada,
679; Karen, 4; Kashmiri, 25 ; Kurdish, 5; laos, 3; Lepcha, 2;
Lushai, 3; Malay, 5; Malayalam, 34; Marathi, 120; Mongolian,
5; Oriya, 24; Pahlavi, 3; Pali, 171; Panjabi, 48; Persian, 919 ;
Prakrit, 2; Pushtu, 15; Sanskrit, 1,063 ; Santali, 7; Siamese, 16 ;
Sindhi, 8; Sinhalese, 187; Syriac, 42; Talaing, 2; Tamil, 345;
Telugu, 830; Tibetan, 21; Tulu, 12; Turkish, 47.

Seventy-three Armenian MSS. and 58 Hebrew MSS. have
been fully catalogued.

One hundred and nine short descriptions of MSS. have been
entered in the Descriptive List, the Register, and the Classed
Inventory.

One hundred and fourteen MSS. (21,261 ff.) and 5 Printed
Books (1,051 ff.) have been folioed.

Publications.—Volume i. of the Coptic Texts (Coptic
Homilies in the Dialect of Upper Egypt), a Supplementary
Catalogue of Bengali Books, and a Catalogue of Kannada
Books, have been issued.

Binding.—The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to
the binders are:—Arabic Books, 97; Chinese Books, 152;
Hebrew Books, 20; Persian and Turkish Books, 54; Sanskrit
and Pali Books, 181; Tibetan Books, 16; MSS., 271.

Students.—The number of visits of Students working in the
Students’ Room attached to the Department during the year is
2,218. The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted in
the Department is 6,640 (3,992 issued once only, and 2,648
reserved), and of those used in the Reading Room, 2,619.
The number of Oriental MSS. consulted in the Students’ Room
is 5,060.

Photography.— One hundred and twenty-seven applications
have been made to photograph books and MSS.

Additions.—The number of volumes and pamphlets added
to the Department during the year is 2,545, of which 2,339 are
Printed Books and 206 are MSS.

Of the Printed Books, 642 were bought; 1,343 were received
under the India Copyright Act; 220 were received under the

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 39

Colonial Copyright Act ; and 134 were presented. Of the MSS.,
70 were bought and the rest presented.

The MSS. are :—

Arabic - - - ~ ~ = 5G
Arabie and Persian ~ = = 2
Arabic and Turkish - - - 4
Coptic - - - - - 100 (approximately).
Hebrew = = - ~ - 2
Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic = 1
Hindustani - ~ - - - iy
Manipuri - - - - - 1
Persian - - - - : = 16
Persian and Turkish - - - 3
Siamese ~ - - ~ - 2
Syriac - - - - - - 1
Turkish = = : : =r i yllyg
206

The most important acquisitions are :—-

Arabic MSS.—(1) Minhaj al-bayan, a dictionary of simple
and compound medicines, by Yahya b. ‘Isa ibn Jazlah. Finely
written and carefully collated. Copied A.H. 489 (A.D. 1095-6).
4°,

(2) Kitab al-gharibin, a lexicon of difficult words used in
the Traditions, by Abu ‘Ubaid al-Harawi. Copied A.H. 506
(A.D, 1112-3). 8°.

(3) Mujmil al-lughah, a lexicon, by Ahmad b. al-Faris
Zakariya al-Razi. Copied A.H. 589 (A.D. 1193). 4°.

(4) Vol. iii. of the Tabakat of Ibn Sa‘d, biographies of the
Companions of Muhammad and their followers. xiith century.
3°.

(5) Mukhtasar al-isti‘ab, an abridgment of Ibn ‘Abd al-Barv’s
Biographies of the Companions of Muhammad, purporting to
have been prepared by Abu Tayy Yahya b. Khamidah.
xilith century. 12°.

(6) Al-tarikh al-mukhtasar, a history of Islam, by Jirjis b.
al-‘Amid (b. Abi al-Yasir), extending to A.H. 658. Copied
e. 1280 A.D. 8°.

(7) Kawa’id al-ahkam fi ma‘rifat al-halal wa’l-haram, a
treatise on Shiah law by Jamal al-Din Hasan b. Yusuf b. ‘Ali
b. al-Mutahhar al-Hilli; with copious marginal notes, probably
from the Idah, a commentary on the Kawa id by a son of
al-Hilli. Copied A.H. 712 (A.D. 1312-3). 8°.

(8) Sharh al-khutab al-Nubatiyah, a commentary by ‘Abd
al-Rahim b. Ibrahim al-Barizi on the homilies of Ibn Nubatah
(died A.H. 374), and on some homilies of the latter’s son Abu
Tahir and grandson Abu al-Kasim. Copied A.H. 716 (A.D. 1316-7).
8°.

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(9) Kitab al-ustl, a manual of the principles of jurisprudence,
by Muhyi al-Din al-Nawawi. Copied A.H. 724 (A,D. 1323-4). 8°.

(10) Jami‘ al-ustl, an exhaustive alphabetically arranged
collections of the Traditions, by Ibn al-Athir, in 5 volumes.
Volumes 1-3 and 5, copied A.H. 725-31 (A.D. 1324-31); vol. 4,
A.H. 1242 (a.p. 1826-7). 4°.

(11) Al-takrib fi al-tafsir, an abridgment, by Muhammad b.
Mas‘td al-Shirafi al-Kali al-Shukkar, of Zamakhshari’s com-
mentary on the Koran. Vol. iv. Copied a.H. 742 (4.D. 1341-2).
om

(12) An extensive commentary on Zamakhshari’s Mufassal,
with copious marginal and other glosses, redacted and probably
copied by Muh. b. Muh. al-Khatib (Fakhr al-Fasarhani).
A.H. 772 (A.D. 1870-1). 4°.

(13) A commentary on the verses occurring in Zamakhshari’s
Kashshaf. xivth century. 8°.

(14) Al-Ihtimam, a selection by ‘Abd al-Karim b. ‘Abd
al-Nur b. Munaizir from Muh. b. ‘Ali b. Wahb al-Kushairi’s
collection of traditions bearing on legal decisions. Copied
A.H. 855 (A.D. 1451-2). 4°.

(15) Kitab al-taisir fi kira’at, a work on the early readings
of the Koran, by Abu Amr ‘Uthman b. Sa‘id al-Dani al-Mukni.
xiv-xvth century. 12°.

(16) Kitab al-shifa, the encyclopedia of philosophy by Ibn
Sina (Avicenna). Elegantly written, and almost complete.
vith century. (8°

(17) A supercommentary by Al-Tayyibi upon Zamakhshari’s
Kashshaf, with marginal excerpts from other commentators.
In 2 vols., extending from Surah 26 to the end. xvith century.
On.

(18) Miftah al-arwah fi imtidah al-rah, a collection of
bacchanalian songs, compiled by Amin al-Din ‘Abd al-Muhsin
b. Mahmud b. al-Halabi. Copied a.H. 1006 (A.D. 1597-8). 12°.

(19) Asma al-rijal, a biographical account of persons who
handed down traditions from Muhammad, the Caliphs, and
the Imams. Copied a.H. 1046 (A.D. 1636-7). 8°.

(20) Kitab i‘lam al-wara bi’l-i‘lam al-huda, lives of Muham-
mad, ‘Ali, and the Imams. Copied A.H. 1049 (A.D. 1639-40).
Si

(21) Lum‘at al-taftih, a commentary by ‘Abd al-Hakk b.
Saif al-Din b. Sa‘d Allah al-Dihlawi al-Bukhari upon the
Mishkat al-masabih (an enlarged edition of the Masabih
al-sunnah or collection of traditions) of Abu Muh. al-Husain
al-Baghawi. Vol.i. Copied a.u. 1078 (A.D. 1667-8). 8°.

(22) Tafsir asma allah al-husna, a treatise on the names
of God, by ‘Abd al-Kahir b. Tahir al-Baghdadi al-Kurshi
al-Tanimi (died A.H. 429). Copied A.H. 1093 (A.D. 1682-3),
from the author’s autograph. 4°.

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND Mss. 41

(23) Al-jawahir al-thaminah, a description of Medina and
its neighbourhood, by Muh. Kibrit al-Madani. xviith century.
S.

(24) A ms. ee REPS four Druze religious works. xviith
century. 8°.

(25) Thkak al-hakk,a Shiah work in answer to the [btal
al-nahj of Fadl b. Razbahan, a criticism upon the Shiah book
Kashf al-hakk wa nahj al-sidk wa sawab of Al-Hilli; by Nur
Allah Shushtari. Together with the text of Al- Hilli’s work.
Copied A.H. 1103 (A.D. 1691-2). 4°.

(26) Lulu ata’i al-bahrain, lives of learned Shiahs, by Yusuf
b. Ahmad al-Bahrani. xviith century. 8°.

(27) Sabaik al-‘asjad, a biography of Ahmad b. Muh. Nahl
Rizk al-As‘ad and other contemporary poets, etc., by ‘Uthman
b. Sanad al-Basri. xixth century. 8°.

Arabic and Persian MSS.—(1) A Persian commentary on
portions of the Koran, by Abu Bakr b. ‘Umar b. Abu al-Fadl.
Copied A.H. 867 (A.D. 1462-3). 16°.

(2) A volume containing various religious works, chiefly
by Al-Ghazzali. xviith century. 16°.

Coptic MSS.—(1) A collection of fragments of Coptic
papyri, about 150 in number, containing portions of the Bible
(chiefly from the Gospel of John) and miscellaneous patristic
works, with some documents. Presented by Henry Martyn
Kennard, Esq.

Hebrew MS.—(1) The commentary upon the Jewish
Prayer-book by David b. Joseph Abudraham, in a North
African hand. Copied A.M. 5237 (A.D. 1477). 4°.

Hebrew Books.—(1) Sepher Misvoth Gadol, a treatise on
religious duties by Moses b. Jacob of Coucy. Apparently
printed at Rome, before 1840. Fol.

(2) The Former Prophets (Joshua to Kings), with com-
mentaries. 3 vols. Leiria, 1494. 4°.

(3) Tur Orah Hayyim, a digest of religious law. Leiria,
1495. 4°.

(4) Abudraham’s Commentary on the Prayer-book. Fez,
1516. 4°.

Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic MS.—(1) The Samaritan

Pentateuch, with the Aramaic and Arabic versions in parallel
columns. Finely written on vellum, about A.D. 1200. Fol.

Manipurr MS.—(1) A ms. written on thin plates of wood,
in the archaic Manipuri character. xviith or xvilith century.

Persian MSS.—(1) Zij-namah, a calendar computed in the
second quarter of the 7th century of the Hijra, at the observa-
tory of Maragha. Copied a.H. 676 (A.D. 1277-8) 4°.

42, ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

(2) Tabakat khwajahgian i Nakshbandiyah, an account of
the chief dervishes of the Nakshbandi order, by Husain Va‘iz
Kashifi. Copied A.H. 961 (A D. 1553-4). 8°.

(3) An anthology of poetry from various poets. Exquisitely
written in a small nastalik hand. xviith or xviiith century.
8°. Presented by Robert R. Steele, Esq.

(4) Divan i Hatifi, a collection of the minor poems of Hatifi.
xvuith century. 8°.

Persian and Turkish MS.—(1) The Divan or poetical
works of Bairam Khan (died 1561), with miniatures. xviith
century. 4°.

Turkish MSS.-(1) Mihr u Mah, an allegorical poem by
‘Ali. Copied a.H. 1018 (A.D. 1609-10). 8°.

(2) Kitab i Manakib i Maulana Jalal al-Din Rimi, a life
of the poet Jalal al-Din Rumi, compiled by Shaikh ‘Abd
al-Latif Sinan Dede, chiefly from the sayings and traditions
of Al-Rtmi’s son Sultan Valad. Copied A.H. 1030 (A.D. 1620-1).
8°.

(3) Tavarikh i al i ‘Usman, a history of the Ottomans
from the rise of ‘Usman in a.H.687 to Bayazid IL, a.n. 896,

attributed to Kamal Pasha Zadah. Copied a.u. 1039 (A.D.
1629-30). 8°.

(4) A ms. containing the Zafar-namah of Nabi Efendi,
letters by Vaisi, Halati, and ‘Abd al-Karim Efendi, letters
from Mir ‘Ali Shir Nava’i to Jami, Futih i Misr by Fuzuli
Baghdadi, accounts of the conquest of Crete, etc., compiled
and written out by Darvish Ibrahim b. Sulaiman. Copied
A.H. 1090-1103 (A.D. 1679-92). 8°.

(5) Kabts-namah, translated by Nazmi-zadah Murtazah
from the Persian ethical treatise of the same name. Copied
A.H. 1139 (1726-7). 8°.

(6) Viladat-namah i Humayun (Ruz-namah, or Ruz-numai
i Humayin), prose works of Muh. Raghib Pasha, with some
verses. Copied A.H. 1198 (A.D. 1783-4). 8°.

(7) Sulaiman-namah, or Tarikh i Sultan Sulaiman, a history
of Sulaiman I (reigned A.H. 926-74) and of the eminent men
of his age, by ‘Abd al-‘Aziz Efendi (Kara Chelebi Zadah).
Copied a.H. 1201 (a.D. 1786-7). 8°.

(8) A volume containing letters, etc., by Vaisi. xviith
century. 8°.

(9) Durrat al-taj fi sirat i sahib al-mi‘raj, a life of
Muhammad down to the first battle of Badr, by Vaisi. xviith
century. 8°.

(10) A volume of biographies of the Sultans, Viziers, and
Shaikhs of the Ottoman Empire. xviiith century. 8°.

11) A’inah i zurafa, an account of the life and works of
the chief Turkish historians, by Muh. Jamal al-Din. xviiith
century. 8°.

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND Mss, 43

(12) Tarajim 1 ahali i fatwa, lives of eminent muftis.
Xvillth century. 12°.

(13) Tarikh i wazi‘at, a treatise on the ancient Turkish
system of military fiefs, by ‘Ali. xviiith century. 8°.

(14) Damigh al-nusairiyah, an account of the tenets of the
Nusairi sect, by Mustafa b. Abi Bakr al-Kaisari. Copied
A.H. 1272 (A.D. 1855-6). 8°.

L. D. Barnett.

4A ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS.

1.—Arrangement and Cataloguing, ete.

An exhibition of the drawings bequeathed by the late
Mr. George Salting was arranged in the public gallery of the
Department in March, replacing the exhibition of works by
Diirer. In May these drawings were removed, and a selection
of them has since been shown on screens in the King’s Library.
From one screen the Salting drawings were removed in De-
cember, in order to give place to eleven drawings by Dante
Gabriel Rossetti, the bequest of the late Col. William James
Gillum.

In June an exhibition of Chinese and Japanese paintings,
forty-seven of the most important of the Chinese series being
from the collection acquired early in the year from Frau Olga-
Julia Wegener, was opened in the public gallery of the
Department. A guide to the exhibition has been printed and
put on sale.

The etchings and engravings in the Salting Collection have
been examined and compared in detail with the impressions
already in the Department. Those immediately wanted for the
main Museum Collection have been incorporated with it; and
the duplicates thus displaced have been included in a new list
of additional duplicates available for exchange.

The prints from the Salting and Malcolm Collections not
immediately wanted for the main Museum Collection have been
arranged in a new reserve Series.

The engraved work of Albrecht Diirer has been rearranged
in chronclogical order and placed in four solander cases, instead
of the three formerly occupied.

The lithographs of H. Daumier have been rearranged in the
order of Delteil’s catalogue, one hundred and fifty-four new
specimens being incorporated with the collection.

The collection of etchings by Sir F. Seymour Haden,
acquired from the artist’s executors, has been arranged in three
portfolios.

Fifty-four drawings and one thousand four hundred and
forty-six prints have been incorporated with the divisions of
the collection to which they severally belong.

All books of prints and books of reference recently acquired
have been catalogued, labelled, and placed.

Fifty-six pamphlets have been arranged for binding in
volumes.

The Catalogue of Early Italian Prints, in two volumes, one of
text, the other of illustrations, has been published.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 45

Vol. II. of the Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits has
been published.

The preparation of a critical and descriptive catalogue of the
collection of Japanese Woodcuts has been continued.

Vol. Il. of the Catalogue of Early German and Flemish
Woodcuts has been completed and, with the exception of the
Appendix of supplementary notes, printed off.

The preparation of a complete classified index of the works
of English artists represented in the Department has been
continued.

The preparation of a card-index to articles in periodicals
has been begun.

The work of writing slips for the titles of prints after
English Masters, with a view to the preparation of a subject
index to that division of the collection, has been continued.

The work of examining the Franks Collection of trade-cards,
admission tickets, etc., and removing those of which there are
duplicates in the Banks Collection has been continued.

The work of writing and arranging slip-titles of the Books
of Prints and Books of Reference has been taken in hand as
the first step towards the preparation of a complete shelf-list
or index to the contents of presses.

The work of compiling a typographical slip-index to the
English drawings in the Department has been begun.

The preparation of slips for an index to the collection of
photographs presented by the National Photographic Record
has been continued.

The work of inserting additions and corrections to Chaloner
Smith’s Catalogue of British Mezzotinto Portraits in a second
copy, interleaved, has been begun.

The typewriting for press of the Catalogue of Japanese
Woodcuts has been continued.

Additions and corrections to the indexes of artists, rendered
necessary by recent acquisitions and re-arrangements, have
been carried out.

The compilation of a second working copy of the register of
the Cheylesmore Collection has been begun.

Registration.—F our thousand and sixty-six items have been
entered in the Register of Acquisitions.

Stamping and Mounting.—Five thousand eight hundred
and eighty-one prints, drawings, etc., recently acquired, have
been impressed with the departmental stamp and references to
the Register.

One hundred and thirty-five miscellaneous deawihes have
been prepared and mounted on sunk mounts, and five hundred
and thirty-nine prints have been whe GG, either in sunk
mounts or in the ordinary manner.

46 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The prints by Urs Graf have been guarded and mounted in
a volume.

Seventy-four prints from the Lanna Collection have been
mounted in the volumes containing the works of the Little
Masters.

One hundred and forty-three duplicate prints selected for
exchange have been mounted and stamped with a special
stamp.

The work of stamping the foreign book-plates in the Franks
Collection has been begun.

Five drawings by Michelangelo have been protected with
gelatine and mounted in special mounts.

Seven Chinese paintings, four Japanese paintings, one
hundred and forty-five Japnese Woodcuts, requiring special
treatment, have been repaired and cleaned.

Students.—The total number of visitors admitted to the
Print Room during the year ending 31 December 1910 was
9,343.

Photographing.— Four hundred and five applications were
made for leave to photograph, and 2,418 photographs were
taken.

Il.— Acquisitions.

The year 1910 has been marked in the history of the
Department by an unusual number of important acquisitions,
some made by bequest, some by gift, some by purchase, and
some by gift and purchase combined. The bequest of the late
Mr. George Salting, received in January, included two huncred
and twenty-seven drawings and two hundred and eight
engravings of various schools, many of them of the highest
value and importance. In February the chief part of the
collection of ancient Chinese paintings formed by Frau Olga-
Julia Wegener, to the number of a hundred and forty-seven
pieces in all, was acquired partly by purchase and partly by
a fund privately subscribed. In April a large and represen-
tative collection of the etchings of Sir Francis Seymour Haden,
formed expressly for the Museum by the artist, was purchased.
About the same time Mrs. Robert Low presented fifty-nine
drawings by various foreign and English masters, from the
collection of her Jate husband. Lady Layard gave a hundred
and ninety-two engraved portraits, chiefly French and Italian.
The National Art Collections Fund presented six of the finest
designs made by Alfred Stevens for ceramic and goldsmith’s—
ware, and an impression of the excessively rare Japanese colour
print “the Awabi fishers,’ by Utamaro. In November
Messrs. Agnew presented forty-two proofs of modern engravings,
including the most important of their publications of recent
years. In December eleven drawings by Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, bequeathed to the Museum by the late Col. Gilium,

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 47

subject to his widow’s life interest, were generously handed
over by Mrs. Gillum at the sacrifice of her own interest.

The total number of prints, drawings, etc., acquired during
the year was 4,926, of which the following are the most
important.

Collections and sets are placed first, miscellaneous acquisi-
tions follow.

COLLECTIONS AND SETS.

Salting Bequest.

Drawincs.—Two hundred and ninety-one in all, divided
among the various schools as follows :—

ITALIAN SCHOOL.

Abbate, Niccolo dell’, one; Fra Bartolommeo and _ school,
three; Barocci, Federigo, one; Buonarroti, Michelangelo, one
(attributed) ; Campagnola, Domenico, three ; Canale, Antonio,
ten, including some of the finest and most important known
examples; Carracci, Annibale, one; Castiglione, Benedetto,
one; Correggio, one (attributed); Credi, Lorenzo di, one;
Guardi, Francesco, one; Guercino, seven, including several of
exceptional quality; Mantegna, school of, one; Parmegiano,
two; Perugino, schoo! of, one; Romano, Guilio, one; Sarto,
Andrea del, one; Tintoretto, one, and another attributed ;
Venetian school, one.

SPANISH SCHOOL.
Cano, Alonso, three; Murillo, B. E., two.

FRENCH SCHOOL.

Boissieu, J. J. de, one; Clouet, Jean and Francois, and other
contemporary artists of their school. a series of thirty-two
portraits collected by Ignatius Hugford.

Duplessis-Bertaux, Jean, four ; Gellée, Claude, six ; Lancret,
Nicholas, one ; Poussin, Nicholas, one; Saint-Aubin, Augustin
de, one; Silvestre, Israel, three ; Watteau, Antoine, five; Wille,
Jean Georges, one.

GERMAN SCHOOL.

Diirer, Albrecht, two; Elsheimer, Adam, one; Holbein,
Hans II., one, a portrait-head, unsurpassed in its kind among
the ar bist’ 8 saoules

SCHOOL OF THE NETHERLANDS.

Avercamp, H. van, one; Bakhuysen, Ludolf, three; Berchem,
C. P., five ; Bol, Hans, one; Both, Jan, two ; Brouwer, Adriaen,
one; Brueghel, Pieter I., one; Brueghel, Jan, two; Cappelle,
Jan van de, one; Cats, Jacob, three; Cuyp, Aelbert, five ;

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Dusart, Cornelis, one ; Everdingen, A. van, four; Goyen, Jan
van, three; Huysum, Jacob van, six; Huysum Jan van, two;
Jardin Carel du, one; Leeuwen, G. J. van, two ; Lievens, Jan,
two; Molyn, Pieter I.,four ; Momper, Joos de, one; Moucheron,
Isaak de, one; Ostade, Adriaen van, six; Potter, Paulus, six ;
Rembrandt, sixteen, and one attributed; Rubens, P. P., two;
Ruysdael, Jacob van, two; Snyders, Frans, two; Swaneveldt,
Herman van, one; Terborch, Gerard, one (attributed) ; Velde,
Adriaen van de, three; Visscher, Cornelis, one; Weyden,
Rogier van der, after, one; Wouwerman, Philips, one; Zeeman,
Reinier, one.

ARTISTS OF FOREIGN SCHOOLS WORKING IN ENGLAND.

Gravelot, Hubert, three; Hollar, Wenzel, two; Van de
Velde, William II., seven; Van Dyck, Anthony, eight; Zucca-
relli, Francesco, one.

ENGLISH SCHOOL.

Bonington, R. P., two; Calcott, Sir A. W., R.A., two;
Constable, John, R.A., twelve ; Cox, David, three ; Cozens, J. R.,
one; De Wint, Peter, five; Fielding, Copley, one; Haxman,
John, R.A., one; Gainsborough, Thomas, R.A., eleven, including
one of the finest figure-studies of the master ; Holland, James,
two; Landseer, Sir Edwin, R.A., three; Stothard, Thomas, R.A.,
six; Turner, J. M. W., R.A., eighteen, including the ‘“ Vale of
Ashburnham,” “ Vale of Heathfield,” “‘ Heysham,” “ Lancaster
Sands,” and other important water-colours; Ward, James,
R.A, one; Wilkie, Sir David, R.A., one.

ENGRAVINGS.—One hundred and fifty-three in all, divided
among the various schools, as follows :—

ITALIAN SCHOOL.

Campagnola, Domenico, one; Nicoletto da Modena, one;
Marco da Ravenna, one; Raimondi, Marcantonio, twenty-four ;
Marcantonio, school of, one; Robetta, one.

GERMAN SCHOOL.

Aldegrever, Heinrich, one; Beham, Barthel, one; Beham,
Hans Sebald, three ; Diirer, Albrecht, fifteen, including excep-
tionally fine impressions of the Crucifixion (B. 24), St. George
standing (B. 53), and the portrait of Pirkheimer (B. 106) ;
Schongauer, Martin, two.

SCHOOLS OF THE NETHERLANDS.

Leyden, Lucas van, three; Ostade, Adriaen van, six ;
Rembrandt, forty-nine, nearly all brilliant or fine impressions,
including the ‘‘ Christ at Emmaus ” (Rov. 17) in an undescribed
state, and the “‘ Landscape with a square Tower” (Rov. 218) in
a state hitherto unrepresented in the collection ; Waterloo,
Antonie, eighteen.

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FRENCH SCHOOL.
Gellée, Claude, three; Soterlet, L. H., one.

ARTISTS OF FOREIGN SCHOOLS WORKING IN ENGLAND,
Hollar, Wenzel, eight.

ENGLISH SCHOOL.
Turner, J. M. W., R.A., two proofs of the Liber Studiorum.

JAPANESE SCHOOL.

Hokusai, one; Kiyonaga, one; Kiyomitsu, one; Kiyonobu,
one ; Masanobu, Okumura, one; Shuncho, one; Shunman, one ;
Shunzan, one; Utamaro I.,one; Utamaro II., one; Yeisho,
one.

Wegener Collection.—One hundred and forty-seven paint-
ings collected in China by Frau Olga-Julia Wegener. The
collection includes two paintings attributed to masters of the
T’ang dynasty (618-905 A.D.); ten to masters of the Sung
and Yuan dynasties (960-1368 A.D.) ; sixty-nine to masters of
Ming dynasty (1368-1644), and sixty-six to masters of the
present Ch’ing dynasty. Among the more important and
beautiful examples may be mentioned:—Han Kan (T’ang
dynasty), A pony; Anonymous master (Sung dynasty),
Geese; Chao Chang (Sung dynasty), Peonies and Magnolia
(attributed) ; Chao Meng-fu (Sung and Yiian dynasties) Two
Horses, and Landscape with a sage in a boat; Anonymous
master (Ytian dynasty), The Goddess of Mercy.

Lu Chi (Ming dynasty) Fowls and Flowering trees;
Anonymous Masters of the Ming dynasty, The Earthly Paradise,
Phoenixes, Portrait of a Lady; Wu Wei (Ming dynasty) Man
carrying faggots; Chia Pin (Ming dynasty) Eagle attacking a
Bear; Ch’en Chii-Chung (Ming dynasty) Tiger; Lii-hsiieh
(Ching dynasty). The Demon-queller; Hsii Mei (Ch’ing
dynasty), Fairy scattering flowers ; Ying-Pao(Ch’ing dynasty),
Hawk ; the late Dowager-Empress, study of flowers.

Robert Low Collection. — Fifty-nine drawings of the
Italian, Dutch, Flemish, French, and English Schools, selected
from the Robert Low Collection and including examples of
¢. -P. Pannini, Aelbert Cuyp, G. van den KHeckhout,
A. G. Decamps, Eugéne Delacroix, L. G E. Isabey, Henri
Regnault, Charles Keene (eight studies for ‘““Punch”’), Sir
Godfrey Kneller (study for portrait of Alexander Pope),
pamuel lover, C. H. Poingdestre, and C. W. Wyllie.
Presented by Mrs. Robert Low.

Seymour Haden Collection.—Two hundred and seventy-
six etchings, dry-points and mezzotints by Sir Francis Seymour
Haden, P.R.E., representing ninety subjects ; a series specially
brought together by the Artist and destined -for the British
Museum. Purchased.

Gift of Lady Layard.—One hundred and ninety-two
engraved portraits, chiefly French and Italian, including a

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select number of fine examples by Jean Audran, J. J. Baléchou,
J. Beauvarlet, J. Daullé, Pierre Drevet, N. de Launay and
other French eighteenth-century masters of line-engraving.
Presented by Lady Layard.

Gift of Messrs. Agnew.—A set of forty-two proofs of
modern engravings and etchings published by Messrs. Agnew,
chiefly after English Masters, including a number of mezzotints
by Norman Hirst, J. B. Pratt, H. Scott Bridgwater and Richard
Smythe. Presented by Messrs. Thos. Agnew and Sons.

Gift of Mr. Leggatt. — Two hundred and twenty-one
engraved portraits, including a set of twenty-four portraits of
Ladies of the Court of Queen Victoria and one hundred and
eighty modern and contemporary portraits from *‘ The Cabinet
Portrait Gallery,” 1890-1894. Presented by EL. LE. Leggatt, Esq.

Gift of the Medici Society.—Fifty-two coloured repro-
ductions of paintings by Old Masters, being the publications
of the Medici Society for the year 1910. Presented by the
Medici Society, Ltd.

Gift of the National Survey and Record.—Two hundred
and thirty-two platinotype photographs of ancient or interesting
buildings and monuments in various parts of the United
Kingdom ; in continuation of the National Survey and Record.
Presented by the Secretary on behalf of the contributors to the
Survey and Record.

MISCELLANEOUS ACQUISITIONS.
ITALIAN SCHOOL.
Drawings.

Bazzi, Giovanni Antonio. Pieta; pen and ink. From the
Cosway, Robinson, and Richter Collections.

Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto. Shepherd and_ flock ;
body colour. From the Champernowne Collection. Cardi,
Lodovico. Martyrdom of St. Sebastian; pen and _ bistre.
From the Reynolds and Champernowne Collections.

Credi, Lorenzo, school of. Madonna and child; silver-point
on brown prepared paper, heightened with white.

Guardi, Francesco. Study of a Virgin; black chalk on
blue-gray paper, heightened with white. Presented by
G. A. Simonson, E'sq., through the National Art Collections
Fund.

Pannini, Giovanni Paolo. Landscape with antique sculpture
and figures; pen and bistre, with Indian ink wash. From the
Spencer and Champernowne Collections.

Pontormo, Jacopo. Nude figures; black chalk. From the
Spencer and Champernowne Collections.

Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico. Fortezza; pen and bistre
with yellow wash. From the Reynolds and Champernowne
Collections.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 51

Engravings.
Anon. Niello print. Virgin and Child, with kneeling figure

of young man (Duch. 64, Dut. 165). From the Lanna
Collection.

Brescia, Giovanni Antonio da. Panel of ornament
(Hind, 32).

Campagnola, Giulio. St. John the Baptist (B. 3). From
the Alfred Morrison Collection. |

Ghisi, Giorgio. Thetis; after P. del Vaga (B. 33). From
the Tetlow Collection. Presented by Prof. Selwyn Image.

Rota, Martin. Portrait of Andreas Gaill (B. 70).

Etchings.

Bracelli, Giovanni Battista. Set of twelve grotesques.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista. Six etchings. Presented by
B. T. Batsford, Esq. “J Carceri”; fourteen of the plates of
this series in the excessively rare first state.

GERMAN SCHOOL.
Drawings.

Altdorfer, Albrecht. A wild man of the woods; pen and
ink on reddish-brown ground heightened with white. Dated
1508.

Brosamer, Hans, attributed to. Christ seated in a landscape ;
pen and ink, dated 1533. St. Jerome in penitence; pen and
ink. From the Ferstel Collection. Three Roman warriors
climbing round the base of a statue; pen and Indian ink,
heightened with white, on purple ground. Signed with
monogram and dated 1552.

Durer, Albrecht, school of. Assumption and coronation of
the Virgin; pen and ink partially tinted with water-colours.

Huber, Wolfgang. Man waving a banner; pen and ink,
dated 1515. From the W. Koller Collection. Head of a
peasant; black chalk and brush. From the Hudson, Bouverie,
and Roupell Collections. Presented by Max Rosenheim, Esq.
FSA.

Master of the Legend of St. Benedict. St. Benedict giving
to a crow the poisoned bread offered him by Florentius.

Engravings.

Altdorfer, Albrecht. Capital and base of a column, after
G. A. da Brescia. Undescribed; the only other impression
known is at Weimar. From the Lanna Collection:

Beham, Barthel. Virgin and Child. (B. 6.)

Flindt, Paul. Design for a chalice. From the Lanna
Collection.

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52 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Woodcuts.

Anon. XV. century. The Virgin in embroidered robe.
Coloured. Undescribed.

Anon. Portrait of Martin Luther. From the Mitchell and
Theobald Collections.

Breu, Jorg II., after. Dives and Lazarus. Rare contem-
porary copy from the unique original in the British Museum.
From the Santarelli and Lanna Collections. Presented by the
National Art Collections Fund.

Burgkmair, Hans I. Alboin and Athanaric (B. 63); proof
before the lettering on the shield. Presented by Prof. H.
Helferich. Three subjects from the Weiss-konig series.

Cranach, Lucas II. Portrait of Melancthon (Heller 304).
From the Lanna Collection.

Diirer, Albrecht. Portrait of Ulrich Varnbiler (B. 155).
Chiaroscuro, in brown. From the Durazzo and Lanna
Collections.

Monogrammist A. The conversion of Saul (B. VII. 473 I.)
From the Lanna Collection.

Weiditz, Hans. Medallion portraits of Erasmus and Ulrich
von Hutten. From the Lanna Collection.

SCHOOLS OF THE NETHERLANDS.

Drawings.

Breughel, Jan. Wooded landscape with animals; pen and
sepia. From the Sandby and Champernowne Collections.

Jordaens, Jacob, or school. Apollo and Marsyas; black
chalk and body-colour. From the Champernowne Collection.
The Adoration of the Magi; pen and bistre with water-colours
and body-colours. From the Lanckrink and Champernowne
Collections.

Neer, Eglon van der. Portrait of the minature painter
Maria du Chatel; pastel. From the de Visser, Van der
Willigen, and Lanna Collections.

Quellinus, Erasmus. Two designs for emblematic portraits ;
pen and bistre and bistre wash, heightened with white.

Engravings.

Gheyn, Jacobde I. Portrait of Tycho Brahe. Undescribed.
From the Lanna Collection.

Goltzius, Hendrik. Ceres, Bacchus and Amor (B. 155).
Impression from the silver print in the K. K. Hofmuseum,
Vienna. From the Lanna Collection.

Hameel, Alart du. St. Christopher (P. 10). From the
Lanna Collection.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 53

Wierix, Hieronymus. The Mocking of Christ (Alvin, 1762).
Faith, Hope and Charity (Alvin, 1390). Presented by Sydney
Vacher, E'sq.

Wierix, Jan. Hloquence (Alvin 1396). Presented by
Sydney Vacher, Esq.
Woodcuts,
Negker, Jost de. St. Christopher.

FRENCH SCHOOL.

Drawings.

Duvet, Jean, attributed to. The Patriarchs in Limbo
listening to the preaching of Christ; pen and ink. From the
Lanna Collection.

Rodin, Auguste. Study from the bust of J. P. Laurens.

Hichings.

Rodin, Auguste. Allégorie du Printemps (Delteil 4); Head
of Victor Hugo full face (D. 7 II.); Head of Victor Hugo,
three-quarter face (D. 6 II.).

Engravings.
Debucourt, P. L. Portrait of Louis XIII., after J. B. Isabey.

Isac, Jasper. The Holy Family; Themistodes; The
Resurrection ; All Saints. Presented by Sydney Vacher, Esq.

Lithographs.

Daumier, Honoré. One hundred and fifty-five prints.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.

Isabey, Jean Baptiste. Opening of a dock at Cherbourg;
aquatint by B. Piringer. Soldier smoking ; Mother and Child
walking ; aquatint by F. Aubertin.

ARTISTS OF FOREIGN SCHOOLS WORKING IN ENGLAND.

Drawings.
Hondius, Abraham. Four studies of dogs; black chalk or
pen andink. Presented by LE. V. Lucas, Esq.

Legros, Alphonse. Procession in a Spanish Church ; early
state, undescribed, and a later state, also undescribed. Presented
by the National Art Collections Fund.

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ENGLISH SCHOOL.

Drawings.

Belcher, George. Two studies, one in pencil, the other in
chalks and water-colours. Presented by the Artist.

Beverley, William Roxby. Three studies of boats ; pencil,
pencil and water-colours, pen and wash.

Herald, J. W. Venetian Fete. On the Sands, Arbroath.
Presented by A. E. Anderson, Esq.

Knight, John Baverstock. Glenarm Bay, Antrim. View
in Borrowdale. View in Cumberland. Three water-colours.
Presented by the National Art Collections Fund.

May, Phil. Figure study. Presented by Otto Gutekwnst,
Esq.

O’Connor, John. Interior of a church at Caen; water-
colours.

Palmer, Samuel. Tintagel; water-colours. From _ the
J. C. Hook Collection.

Penley, Aaron Edwin. Mountain scenery ; water-colours.
Presented by HE. HL. Leggatt, Esq.

Ross, Sir William. Portrait of Isaac Disraeli; red and
black chalk.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. ‘‘ Found”; pen and ink. Dated
1853. Hamlet and Ophelia; pen and ink. Cassandra; pen
andink. The Sangrael; pen and sepia; design for decoration
of the Oxford Union. La Belle Dame sans Merci; pencil.
pen and ink, and wash; unfinished. Two portraits of Miss
Siddal; pencil. Head of an Irish girl, Kittie Macsie; pencil
and Indian-ink wash. Orpheus and Eurydice; pencil,
unfinished. Dante relating his dream; black chalk. Dante
and Love; pencil. <All bequeathed by the late Col. William
James Gillum.

Sandys, Frederick. Miss Herbert, full-length study; black
chalk, heightened with white. Study of a woman’s head in
profile. ‘‘Phryne”; pencil. Sheet with two studies for the
woman’s head in “Amor Mundi”; pencil. Study for the same
head; pencil. Sheet of studies of a woman’s head for the
woodcut “ Manoli”; pencil.

Stevens, Alfred. Design for covered vase on a base orna-
mented with swans; pen and ink tinted with water-colours and
gold. Black and white covered vase; pen and ink, washed
with ink, heightened with gold. Blue and white covered vase ;
pen and ink with water-colour wash. Blue and yellow covered
vase ; water-colours. Cup, surmounted by a tigure of Neptune;
design for plate; pencil. Architectural design for the decora-
tion of an interior ; pencil, pen and ink, and Indian-ink wash.
All presented by the National Art Collections Fund.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 55

Wilson, Richard, R.A. Rome from Ponte Mola; black
chalk. From the Rogers and Champernowne Collections. San
Stefano Rotondo, the Claudian Aqueduct and the Lateran ;
black chalk. From the Champernowne Collection.

Etchings.

Brangwyn, Frank, A.R.A. Mr. Singer’s book-plate. Signed
proof before the name. Presented by Miss HE. P. McGhee.

Cameron, D. Y. Four etchings of Egyptian subjects. Pre-
sented by the Artvst.

Dodd, Francis. Portrait of Jacob Epstein. Drama at a
Fair; touched proof. Presented by the Artist.

Lumsden, Ernest Stephen. Thirty-seven etchings, chietly
of scenes in Scotland or in Paris. Presented by the Artist.

Palmer, Samuel. The Early Ploughman (in two states).
Christmas, or Folding the Last Sheep. Sunset, or The Herds-
man’s Cottage. The Lonely Tower.

Robinson, Sir J. C., C.B. Space and Light, Sierra de
Almaden. The Agglestone. Poole Harbour from Covingdon
Heath. Corfe Castle. Sunlight and Mist, Swanage Downs.
Apollo and Python. Wareham. All presented by the Artist.

Engravings.

Campbell, Charles William. Thirteen mezzotints (three in
two or more states), including the Virgin of the Rocks, after
Leonardo, the portrait of G. F. Watts, after his own painting,
and Pan and Psyche, after Sir E. Burne-Jones.

Reynolds, Samuel William. Portrait of George III.; proof,
with pencil corrections by the Prince Regent.

Woodcuts.

Moore, T. Sturge. Design for a book-binding for “A Con-
flict.” Presented by the Artist.

Pissarro, Lucien. La Cour de Soliman-ben-David ; printed
in colours. Presented by the Artist on behalf of the Societe de
VEstampe Nouvelle.

Ricketts, Charles. Three illustrations to “Danaé,” a poem
by T. S. Moore. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Lithographs.

Conder, Charles. Invitation card for Mr. and Mrs. Edmund
Davis. Presented by Mrs. Davis.

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Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.
New, Edmund Hort. Magdalen College, Oxford. Presented
by the Artist.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, P.R.A. The Banished Lord. Mezzo-
tint by W. Say ; undescribed.

CHINESE SCHOOL.
Paintings.
Wén Chéng-ming. The Hundred Stags.
Wén T’ung. Bamboos by a stream.
Both presented by George T. Veitch, Esq.

JAPANESE SCHOOL.
Paintings.
Sotan, Oguri, school of. Aneagle. Presented by Charles
Ricketts, Hsq.

Woodcuts.

Harunobu, Pheasants on a river-bank. Woman hanging
clothes. Maid drying her mistress’s feet. Young fisherman in
a boat. Girl playing biwa.

Hiroshige. Moonlight on Kanazawa bay. Kisoji no Yama
Kawa; mountains in snow. The two most famous triptychs by
the artist.

Hokusai. Six prints (one in two impressions) from the
rare set of ten entitled Shika Sha-shin-kyo. The complete set,
ten in all, of the small ‘‘ Flowers and Birds,” in exceptionally
fine impressions.

Kiyohiro. Three groups of two actors each : uncut triptych.

Kiyonaga. Two girls carrying pails of salt water. Two
girls and a man with a pipe. Women and children hanging
poems on blossoming boughs. Shishi-dancers.

Kiyonobu. Gods of Good Luck fishing; hand-coloured.
Two actors in a tableau.

Koriusai. One of Twenty-four Examples of Filial Piety ;
ink prink. Hashirakake.

Kunimasa. Actor in female part.
Kuniyoshi. Coolies in rain on a river bank.
Kwaigetsudo. A beauty; ink print. Kakemono-ye.

Masanobu, Okumura. Two girls walking, attended by a boy
carrying a box. Beni-yeé.

Shuncho. Group of girls under bamboo; diptych.

Shunman. Night-scene, people with lanterns passing a
house ; triptych. A rare and important print.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 57

Shunsho. Combat by a castle-moat; triptych.

Shunyei. Street-scene with procession; triptych.

Shuncho and Shunyei. Girl reading a poem.

Torin, Shunman and Rinsho. Jurojin and Fukurokujiu
playing “ go.”

Toyokuni. Lady in a bath. Two women in a bamboo
grove. Lady alighting from a litter; triptych. Girls hanging
poems on trees on a windy day; triptych. Picnic party on the
sea-shore ; triptych.

Utamaro. The Awabi Fishers; triptych. From the Burty
Collection. The rarest and most famous of the artist’s works.
Presented by the National Art Collections Fund. Girl with
a wine-glass (Kurth, 258). Pleasure boat and fishing-boat on
a moonlit river; triptych.

Yeiri. Benten, Hotei, and Daikoku. Hashirakake.

Yoshimaru. Interior of a theatre.

PORTRAITS.

Foreign.

Frederick William, Prince Hohenlohe. Mezzotint by J.
Jacobe, after Fuger, 1794. From the Lanna Collection.

Leopold I., King of the Belgians. Engraved by H. Meyer,
after A. E. Chalon, Presented by EL. EL. Leggatt, Esq.

Napoleon J. Bust in an oval; stipple print by Mecou,

after Isabey. Whole-length; by the same engraver, also after
Isabey.

Marie Louise, Empress. Mixed stipple-print by Mecoun, after
Isabey.

English.

H.R.H. George, Duke of Cambridge. Engraving in a mixed
manner by T. O. Barlow, after John Lucas. Presented by
LE. E. Leggatt, Esq.

James II., when Duke of York. Engraving by Edward Le
Davis.

Pitt, William. Mezzotint by S. Cousins, after the statue by
Chantray. Presented by E. EL. Leggatt, Esq.

BooK-PLATES.

Plate (in two states) of the Shakespeare Memorial Library,
Stratford-on-Avon, by C. W. Sherborn. Presented by W. SN.
Bassington, Esq.

Plate of the Salters’ Company. By R. Anning Bell. Pre-
sented by Sydney Vacher, Esq.

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Books OF PRINTS AND Books OF REFERENCE.

Basily-Callimaki, Madam de. J. B. Isabey, sa vie, son
temps. 1909.

Bode, Wilhelm. ‘“ Die Sammlung Oscar Huldschinsky.”
11909:

Briquet, C. M. Les Filigranes. 4 vol. 1907.

Finberg, A. J. Inventory of the Turner Drawings in the
National Gallery. 2 vol. Presented by the Keeper and
Secretary, National Gallery.

Japanese Art, Selected Relics of. Edited by S. Tajima.
Vols. XII.-XIV. and XVI.-XX. 1906-1908.

Koechlin, Raymond. Estampes japonaises primitives. 1909.

Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und Kritischer Katalog des Kup-

. ferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert.

Mackay, W., and Roberts, W. John Hoppner, R.A. 1909.

Maruyama School, Masterpieces selected from the. Edited
by S. Tajima. 2 vols. 1909.

Piranesi, G. B. I. Carceri.

Prout, Samuel. Rudiments of Landscape, in progressive
studies.

Radnor Collection of Pictures. Catalogue, by Helen
Matilda, Countess of Radnor, and W. Barclay Squire. 2 vol.
1909;

Thucydides. German translation by Hieronymus Boner,
with woodcuts by Schaufelein, J. Breu I. and II., and Weiditz.
1533. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Sidney Colvin.

EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 59

DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES.

I.—Arrangement, Cataloguing, ete.

EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES :—

The general re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collections
has been continued and all the important objects acquired
during the year have been incorporated and exhibited.

The labelling of the exhibits has been continued.

The sub-plinths of many stele, etc. in the Vestibule have
been faced with granite, and several of the larger objects have
been provided with granite bases and pedestals.

The washing and cleaning of several monuments in hard
stone have been carefully continued.

The remounting and repair of the Sekhet statues in the
Northern Egyptian Gallery have been completed.

Ninety-eight Caen stone plinths and pedestals have been
worked and prepared; fourteen granite plinths and facings
have been fitted and fixed; one hundred and twenty-six white
alabaster plinths have been prepared and polished, and bronze
figures of gods, pendants, amulets, etc., have been mounted
upon them ; six hundred and fifty-two plaques, plinths, pedestal,
mounts of various kinds, stands for vases, ete., have been made,
and objects mounted on them.

The Collections in the Wall-Cases and Standard Cases in
the Fourth Egyptian Room have been removed temporarily
to allow the cases to be rebuilt in their former positions, and
the work of rebuilding has begun. A papyrus frame has been
made.

Forty-two wooden labels have been prepared, painted and
fixed, and two hundred and forty pin numbers have been fixed ;
two boxes for students have been made.

Thirteen stele frames have been made and stele fixed in
them ; seven oi these stele were repaired and washed. Three
hundred and seventy-five numbers have been attached to
mounted objects.

One mummy case has been carefully cleaned, and fifty-seven
miscellaneous objects have been repaired.

978 scarabs, plaques, amulets, etc., have been mounted on
cloth-covered plinths. This number includes the scarabs which
were removed from their plinths for casting purposes and were
remounted.

532 labels have been drafted and painted, and numbers have
been painted on 2,978 objects.

1,065 casts of scarabs for photographic purposes have been
made, and fastened in groups to cardboard.

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About 1,850 printed impressions of scarabs have been
attached to catalogue slips for the printer.

The Greenfield papyrus has been unrolled, laid down on
paper, and cut into lengths and mounted.

About 919 miscellaneous objects have been registered or
re-registered, and about 724 objects, from which the numbers
had disappeared, have been identified, re-numbered, and noted
in the Registers. 2,184 slips of Register Numbers have been
written.

The Murch Collection has been carefully examined, and
checked with the lists, packed in boxes and despatched to
America.

Works in Progress.

1. Papyrv.—The translation of a Book of Moral Precepts
has been begun, and 35 collotype plates have been printed off.
Descriptions of papyri have been written and printed.

2. Coptic MSS.—The copying of two MSS. has been com-
pleted, and the copies collated for publication.

3. Catalogue of Scarabs.—Catalogue slips for 837 scarabs
have been written, and about 3,000 slips have been revised.
The printing of the Catalogue has begun, and four sheets are
in type. A slip list has been made.

4. Hgyptian Texts.—56 plates have been prepared and
printed off, and the Introduction to Part I. is in type. 35
stele: have been copied for Part IT.

ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES :—

The general re-arrangement of the unexhibited section of
the Babylonian and Assyrian Collections has been continued,
and the cleaning of the bas-reliefs has been continued.

Several of the large royal Memorial Tablets have been
repaired and remounted on granite.

The cases in the Nimrid Gallery have been cleaned, and
their contents repaired where necessary. The cases containing
the ‘Daily Telegraph,’ Kuyunjik and other Collections,
arranged temporarily in the Basement, have been numbered.
Sixteen boxes for negatives have been made.

About 312 tablets have been cleaned and repaired, and a
number of “case-tablets” have been opened ; the boxing of the
collection has been continued ; casts of 13 seal-cylinders have
been made and mounted with their casts on blocks; 13 fragments
of tablets have been rejoined; 83 engraved gems have been
mounted ; and 1.586 registration numbers have been painted on
objects. |

About 253 tablets, seal-cylinders, ete., have been registered,
and a slip Index to Parts 26-29 of Cuneiform Texts has been
prepared.

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196 tablets and fragments have been copied; 2 Boundary
Stones have been copied; and many copies of texts have been
collated, and a large number of fragments have been examined
with a view to publication.

Works im Progress.

1. Babylonian Boundary Stones.—About 106 plates of texts
have been translated and transliterated. Six additiona! plates
have been prepared.

2. Cuneiform Texts.—A number of Omen Texts have been
copied and collated with a view to publication in “ Cuneiform
Texts,” and a number of Old Babylonian Letters have also been
examined and copied.

Publications.

1. “Egyptian Hieratic Papyri,” with descriptions, transla-
tions, ete.

2. “Coptic Homilies in the Dialect of Upper Egypt.”

3. “Cuneiform Inscriptions in Western Asia,” Vol. V.
Reprint.

4. “Cuneiform Texts” (Creation Series), Part XIII.
Reprint.

5. “Cuneiform Texts” (Omen Series). Parts XXVII.
and XXVIII.

6. “Cuneiform Texts” (Old Babylonian Letters, etc.).
Part XXIX.

Students.—About 3,020 visits have been made to the
Department by students and others; and 13,980 objects have
been issued for use by students.

Personally conducted Partres.—Fifty-eight parties have
been personally conducted through the Department by members
of the staff, the number of persons being about 1,268, including
pupil-teachers and others from schools.

II.— Acquisitions.
1.— EGYPTIAN :—

iil. A fine foundation deposit brick in blue glazed porce-
lafn. On each side are the royal names and
prenomens of Rameses II., King of Egypt, about
1350, and round the sides run the king’s titles or
“strong names.’ This is the largest and finest
brick of the kind hitherto discovered. From
the temple of Rameses II. at Bubastis. XIXth
dynasty.

2. A small brick from the same deposit and place
inscribed with a text which states that the temple
was built for Rameses II. by one of his sons, called
Kha-em-Uast, the famous magician, whose statue
is already in the Museum (Southern Egyptian
Gallery, No. 615), XIXth dynasty.

3.

A.

u.—l.

Or

‘ol.

ipa

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A large and very fine granite table of offerings and
altar, which was made for Nes-Ptah, a tribal prince
and “Ha” or “Chief,” and fourth prophet of
Amen-Ra at Thebes, and was dedicated by him to
this god. The table of offerings is attached to a
solid block of granite, and the monument thus
becomes an altar, of the kind of which very few
examples are known. No other specimen exists
in the British Museum. XVIIIth or XIXth
dynasty.

A bronze beard from a statue, or decorated
mummy, inlaid with biue and orange opaque
glass. XXIInd dynasty.

Rectangular limestone slab from the tomb of the
high official of Memphis, Benu-sen, sculptured
with figures of the deceased and his family.
Traces of colour still remain in the hieroglyphics.
The formula is unusual, and resembles that of the
tombs at Aswan. From Sakkarah. Vth or VIth
dynasty.

. Sepulchral monument, with two seated figures, of

a priest and his wife. From Memphis. XIXth
dynasty.
Rectangular limestone libation tank inscribed with

a dedication on behalf of the artizan Sebu.
IVtn or Vth dynasty.

. Rectangular limestone libation tank inscribed with

a prayer for offerings on behalf of a scribe and
superintendent of the priests of the Ka, or
“double.” IVth or Vth dynasty.

. Upper portion of a stone coffin of a man, with wig,

and the figure of a vulture over the brow. Good
work. Style unusual. XIXth dynasty.

. Sepulchral stele of John, a monk.

. Sepulchral stele recording the deaths of Isaac,

Colluthus, and Djol, and other monks.

. Sepulchral stele recording the deaths of Apa Her-

mand and other monks.

. Painted sepulchral stele of a nun.

Painted sepulchral stele recording the deaths of
Phoibammon and other monks.

Sepulchral stele récording the deaths of Sarapion
and Apollo, and other monks.

Sepulchral stele of a monk.

Nos. 6-12 form a very interesting group of

Coptic sepulchral stele, all of which are inscribed
in the dialect of Upper Egypt. A few of the

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monks can be identified. The spellings of many
names are unusual. From Upper Egypt. VIIth
to IXth century A.D.

13. Upper portion of a stone shrine from a church in
Upper Egypt, dedicated to Saints Michael and
Gabriel. On the edge is a leaf-design in relief.
IXth century A.D.

14. Memorial slab of Apa Taho and his brethren, with
leaf-design, a Coptic cross, and rosette. IXth or
Xth century.

15. Sepulchral stele, with rounded top, on which is
sculptured the figure of a woman. Inscribed in
Greek and Demotiec. Greco-Roman Period.

16. Sepulchral stele, sculptured with the figure of a man
wearing Roman dress. Roman Period.

17. Small Apis Bull stele. From the Serapeum at
Sakkarah. Ptolemaic Period (?’.

18. Marble slab inscribed with magical Gnostic characters
and symbols, and the seven vowels arranged in
the form of an inverted triangle. This object
was used as an amulet for a house. LEarly
Christian Period.

19. Rectangular board, inscribed with a funerary (?)
text; it was probably used as a tombstone.
Period uncertain.

20, 21. Two blue glazed porcelain arms and hands which
were probably laid on the dead as amulets.
XX VIth dynasty.

22. Portion of a porcelain ankh, or cross. Late Period.

23. Bronze kneeling figure of a priest, with inscribed
plinth. Very fine work. XXVIth dynasty.

24. Bronze figure of the Goddess Neith, with silver eyes
inlaid. Very fine work. XXVIth dynasty.

25. Bronze figure of Bast, holding a figure of her son
Nefer-Temu, and wearing an egis. Probably
unique. Very fine work. XXVIth dynasty.

26. Bronze figure of an animal, with raised tail. Pro-
bably unique. XXIInd dynasty.

27, 28. Two large wooden plasterers’ tools. Late Period.

29, 30. Two wooden pillars from a sepulchral chest. Late
Period.

ili—1. Stone ushahti figure of Ptah-nefer-her, inscribed with
the “ Suten ta” formula instead of the version
of the VIth Chapter of the Book of the Dead
which is usually found on such figures. XXIInd
dynasty.

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2,3. Two fine green porcelain ushabtiu figures, with whip,
hoe, and socket. XXVIth dynasty.

4. A small green ushabti figure, which was cast in a
mould. XXVIth dynasty, or later.

5, 6. Two blue glazed ushabtiu figures, on which is cut a
version of the VIth Chapter of the Book of the
Dead. Very fine colour. XXVIth dynasty.

iv.—l. Wooden ease for a mummied ibis, made in the form
of the bird, with vronze head andclaws. XXIInd
dynasty.

v.—l. A bronze serpent, probably intended to represent
the species of serpent which was sacred to the
goddess Mer-Sekert. From Thebes(?). XXth-
XXIInd dynasty.

vi.—l, Massive stone sarcophagus of Qem-Ptah, a man of
very high rank who filled several offices, both
ecclesiastical and civil, at Memphis, and flourished
about the middle of the Ptolemaic Period, B.c. 200.
The cover is inscribed with a series of religious
texts and prayers which are based on certain
Chapters of the Book of the Dead. The inside
of the sarcophagus is decorated with figures of
all the gods which were regarded as gods of the
dead at that period, and with figures of several
of the Thirty-Six (or, Thirty-Nine) Dekans.
These are arranged in panels, and by the side of
each god is a short text which explains his duties
in connection with the dead.

The whole of the outside is occupied with the
scenes and texts of the famous Guide to the Other
World, which the Egyptians called ‘‘Am-Tuat.”
This Book is based upon ancient works, such as
the ‘“‘Book of the Two Ways,” and contains
ideas and beliefs which are as old as the earliest
dynasties.

According to these the Other World was divided
into ten portions, which originally represented
the underworlds of Heliopolis, Kher Aha, Bubastis,
Sais, Memphis, Busiris, Herakleopolis, Abydos,
Thebes, ete. At each end of the group was a vesti-
bule, which communicated directly with this world.
The Book “ Am-Tuat ” was intended to make the
spirits of the dead acquainted with the various
regions through which they had to pass, and to
supply them with pictures of the beings which
dwelt in them, and generally to guide them to the
Fields of Peace. It taught that the righteous
were rewarded by Osiris, and that the wicked
were slaughtered by his executioner Shesmu, who
hacked their bodies in pieces and cast them into
pits of fire.

EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 65

This sarcophagus contains many sections of
the Book *‘ Am-Tuat” which are not found on
the sarcophagus of king Nekht-neb-f which is
exhibited near it. From Sakkarah. Ptolemaic
Period.

1i.—ASSYRIAN :—

il.

Or

10.

TES:

A fine series of 73 nearly complete, well preserved
letters of the period of the First Dynasty of
Babylon. These letters are of special importance
for the study of the grammar of the Old Babylonian
language, and for the light which they throw
on the social condition of the period. About
B.C. 2000.

. Fourteen fragments of similar letters, which the

Arabs have attempted to make up into whole
tablets.

. Thirty-seven contracts, account-lists, commercial

tablets, and memorandum tablets, some of which
are dated in the reigns of Samsu-iluna and
Ammiditana. All are of fair size, and belong to
the period of the First Dynasty of Babylon.
About B.c. 2000.

. Eleven smaller tablets of the same class and

period.

. Eight small tablets inscribed with texts of a

commercial character, of the period of the Dynasty
of Ur. About B.c. 2400.

. Fragment of a stone tablet recording the sale of

an estate situated on the bank of the Takhiru
canal, in the neighbourhood of Babylon or Sippar.
On the obverse is preserved part of a plan of the
estate showing the canal bounding the property
on its western side. About B.c. 900.

. A contract tablet of the Kassite period. About

B.c. 1500.

. Three contract tablets of the Neo-Babylonian

Period ; one of these is dated in the reign of
Darius.

. Fragment of a cylinder inscribed with the Annals

of Sennacherib giving a list of the Gates of
Nineveh in somewhat different order from that
found on the cylinder recently purchased by the

Trustees (No. 103,000). From Nineveh. About
B.C. 700.

Twenty-two fragments of a cylinder, or cylinders,
inscribed with the Annals of Sennacherib. One of

the fragments appears to belong to a cylinder
which was made B.c. 698.

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iil. Green stone cylinder-seal on which is cut a scene
representing a priest or worshipper standing
before the water-god Ea. Fish are seen in the
water flowing from the god’s vase. Under the
feet of the god is the Goat-fish, or Capricornus.
This early appearance of Capricornus is of
considerable interest. Sumerian Period. About
B.C. 2300.

2. Green stone cylinder-seal on which is cut a scene
representing a goddess leading a worshipper into
the presence of the Moon-god. Sumerian Period.

3. Seal of Idgida, the son of Ur-gu. The scene
represents Gilgamesh and Eabani in conflict with
lions. Late Sumerian Period.

4. Seal engraved with a mythological scene repre-
senting a battle of the gods; from the body of
one of these (Sun-god?) flames ascend. Early
Period.

5. Black stone cylinder-seal engraved with several
emblems, among them being Capricornus, the
Goat-fish.

6. Hematite cylinder-seal of Apilshunu, the son
Zangilum, the servant of the god Martu.

7. Heematite cylinder-seal of Nannar-iddina, the son
of Ibni-Shamash, the servant of the Moon-god.
On it is cut a scene of adoration.

8. Hematite cylinder-seal of Ibik-Ishtar, engraved
with a scene representing him offering a kid to
the Sun-god.

9,10. Two hematite cylinders engraved with figures of
gods and scenes of worship.

11. Lapis-lazuli cylinder-seal engraved, in two registers,
with scenes representing heroes in conflict with
lions and ibexes, and with figures of an eagle,
two ibexes, and the gate of a shrine.

12,13. Two seals engraved with scenes representing the
worship of the crescent moon, and with figures of
a sacred tree, a winged disk, and other religious
emblems. Persian (Achemenian) Period.

14. Small figure of a bird in steatite, chamfered flat at
the back and perforated for suspension.

15. A gold figure of a Babylonian king or priest
standing in prayer. From Susa. B.c. 2000.

16. An inscribed clay amulet. The smallest known.
17. A bronze bull-lamp. From Northern Babylonia.
18-22. A group of small terra-cotta reliefs on which are

represented :
An early Babylonian god, wearing a conical
horned headdress.

EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 67

A mythological being, in the form of Eabani,
holding a standard.
A nude goddess, with a babe at her breast.

A broken stamped plaque, and a mould for

figures of an early Babylonian goddess Ninni

are included in this group.
ili. — HIMYARITIC :—

A collection of nine inscriptions, in bold letters,
cut in limestone, of a votive character, which illus-
trate the ceremonies that were performed at the
dedication of temples, fortresses, wells, ete. They
were obtained from various sites in the Hinterland
of Aden, which are far from ordinary trade-routes,
and exhibit local peculiarities of spelling, etc.
About B.c. 1000—700.

Ill.—Presents.

1. A large, handsome roll of papyrus inscribed with
a series of the compositions, %.e., spells, prayers,
hymns, etc., which form the Chapters of the
great funerary work of the Egyptians called
“ Per-em-hru,” or the “ Book of Coming Forth by
Day,” now generally known as the “ Book of the
Dead.” The texts are written in the hieratic
character, and the script. is remarkable for its
clearness and freedom from contractions. Like
all hieratic papyri of the period, the copying of
the papyrus was begun at the right-hand end,
and not at the left, as is the case with hiero-
glyphic papyri. The Chapters are accompanied
by Vignettes, which are beautifully drawn in
black outline and are usually placed at the top
of the text, as near to the Chapters to which they
refer as possible. Some large Vignettes, e.g., the
Judgment Scene, are given in duplicate. The
length of the papyrus is about 122 feet, and its
width 1 ft. 84 in. It is the longest roll of the
Book of the Dead hitherto discovered, and with
the exception of the Harris Papyrus (No. 9900)
is the longest papyrus known.

The papyrus was made forjPrincess Nestaneb-
asher, the daughter of Nesi-Khensu, the wife of
Painetchem II., a high priest king at Thebes,
about B.c. 980, and was buried with her in her
tomb. During the troubles which came upon
Thebes soon after her death, her-mummy, her
papyrus, and all her funerary furniture were
removed with the mummies of the kings and
queens to a tomb at Dér al-Bahari, where they
remained hidden until they were discovered by
the natives of Kurnah (Thebes) some time before
1870. The papyrus reflects the religious opinions

2

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of the Priests of Amen-Ra, and the selection of
Chapters, Litanies and Hymns, which it contains,
represents the attempt which they made to fuse
the cult of Amen with that of Osiris, and to make
Amen, the personification of the “ hidden ” power
in Nature, to be the overlord of Osiris in the
Other World. From this point of view the
papyrus is of unique interest. It contains
copies of these Chapters of the Theban Recension
of the Book of the Dead, in the following order :
T,X Vio XMes SOV o ACV Dy ey ey a,
XXVIII, XXVIT aX RV LT Xs eee ey
XXXVII., LVI, LXI., XXXB., XXXIX., XXVIL.,
XXVIII, Xi EV koe Ley tay ey.
CIIL (2), CIV. ae Vage ACY ii OCT ere,
XXXVI, LV... CRA CAVIN,, Soe,
CXXIL, XXX. X., XCSCXXAI, Cheeni,
CXXXIV., XCiX. CVITES CXL Cx it.
CVITL, (COX, CXIVS CRY. CXV iC seo
LXXX., LXXXVIL LAXMI LAX VEG,
XCL, XLIV., XCTIT, LB CLXXXY Mier,
CXLIT., "CXXIV., ‘CXXV:, XXVin Caaavili,
CXLVIT., CXLVE, ‘CLXXIMT. CXLV Sex x.,
CL., CXLVIII. Among the new texts which are
specially connected with the cult of Amen may
be mentioned a set of Addresses by Thoth,
Fourteen Addresses to Ra, Four Praises of Ra,
Hymn to the Forms of Ra, Hymns to Aten, a
Series of Utennu, or invocations of Temu, Lists
of the Forms of the Gods, and many prayers
which were to be recited at intervals during the
day and night.
Presented by Mrs. Mary Greenfield.

. Fragment of a crystal bowl with inscriptions of

kings Semti and Nekht, the latter over an
inscription of Merpeba.

. Broken flint object of uncertain use and shape.

. End of a flat alabaster vessel.

. Four fragments of stone bowls.

. Five fragments of large pots with incised

inscriptions.

. Fragment of blue glazed pottery.

Nos. 1-13 belong to the Ist dynasty.

. A series of six pots, one vase, four cups, two vase

stands, and three stoppers, in rough pottery ware.
Ist and IInd dynasties.

. Portion of a stone bracelet and a flint flake. From

the tomb of Perabsen. IInd dynasty.

. Unbaked mud votive figure of Osiris, painted and

with a bead necklace. XIXth—XXIInd dynasty.

18.

IY
20.

21,

40.

41,

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A group of four pots and one large jar. XXIInd
dynasty.

Part of a lip of a blue glass bottle. Uncertain
Period.

Fragment of Roman pottery.
Nos. 1-20 are from Umm al-Qa’ab at Abydos.

A predynastic tomb-group, including a slate with
grinding pebble, pieces of malachite and antimony
for eye-paint, ivory pin, ivory scoop, obsidian
flake, three flint flakes, limestone mace-head,

carnelian and porcelain beads. Predynastic
Period.

. Marble peg. Predynastic Period.

. Two vases (one painted). Predynastic Period.
. Red ware vase.
. Head rest.

. Burnished ware, hole-spout vase and bowl.

Nos. 24-26 are of IVth-VIth dynasty.

. A group of beads, amulets, and button-seals. From

a burial of the VIth dynasty.

. Ivory button-seal and toggle. VIth dynasty.
. Rough alabaster cup. VIth dynasty.
. Two red-ware vases. XIIth dynasty.

. Stele of Senbi, with an early representation of

Amen-Ra, god of Thebes. XIIth dynasty.

. Stone ushabti of Rensenb. XIIIth dynasty.

. Black vase, with incised and punctuated ornament,

filled in with white. XIIIth dynasty.

. A group of four bowls, three vases, one cup, four

pots, one vase-stand, etc., in red ware.

. “Blind” vase in red ware, with both ends closed.
. Red and black pot of ‘“ predynastic” type.
. Alabaster stibium pot, with porcelain lid.

Nos. 34-37 are of the XVIIIth dynasty.

. Piece of flint inscribed in hieratic. XXIst dynasty.
. Three ostraka (one Demotic and two Greek).

Roman Period.
Fragment of a blue and white glass cup. Roman
Period.
Nos. 21-40 are from the Necropolis at Abydos.
Part of a pot used for the burial of an ibis, with

inscription. XXth dynasty. From Shunat az-
LZabib.

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42,

43.

AA,

Red ware vase. XIIth dynasty.
Drab ware vase. XIIth dynasty.
Wavy lipped cup. XIIth dynasty.

Blue, gilded cartonnage head-covering of mummy.
Ptolemaic Period.

Four ostraka (three Greek, one Demotic). Roman
Period.

Nos. 42-44 are from Sedment.

. A series of fragments of bows, arrows, staves, etc.

XIth dynasty.

. Bones and fragments of a skull.
. A group of model vases, tools, ete. From the tomb

of Menthu-hetep at Dér al-Bahari.

. Funerary Cone.

. A group of Roman terra-cottas.

. Ivory stylus.

. Carved plaque.

. Wooden comb.

. Glass crocodile.

. Two pieces of Coptic embroidery.
. Five Greek and Coptic ostraka.

Nos. 48-55 are from Behnesa.
Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund.

. Three sandstone stele, with Meroitic inscriptions.
. A piece of a blue and black tile.
. Two fragments of blue glazed, cross-hatched tiles.

From the Temple of Amen.

. Triple atef crown in blue glazed porcelain.

Two large bulbous gourd-shaped pots, hand-made.

. Eight small pots in black or red ware.

. Seven black burnished ware bowls.

. One cup of the same material.

. Four bowls in red burnished ware.

. One cup of the same material.

. Three burnished red ware vase stands, with white-

painted geometric decoration.

. Vase stand, of similar material, unpainted.
. Red ware vase and bowl.
. Stone celt.

All the above are of the Ptolemaic or Roman
Period. From Merde.

Presented by H. Martyn Kennard, Esq.

Aor WY

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. Six predynastic vases, three of which are painted.
. Slate object in the form of a fish.

. Slate object in the form of an animal(?).

. Flake of flint.

. Nine horn bangles.

. Bronze mirror, without a handle.

Presented by F, Legge, Esq.

. Sepulchral limestone stele sculptured with a scene

representing Anubis leading two deceased persons
into the presence of Osiris, behind whom stands
Isis. Below is an inscription of four lines in
Demotic. Roman Period.

Presented by W. L. Nash, Esq., M.D. M.R.C.S.
[Eng.].

. Large two-handled jar.
. Red bottle.

Presented by F. S. Phillips, Esq.

. Limestone table for offerings, or altar, of an unusual

design, made for Teta-ki. XI[th-X VIIth dynasty.
Presented by the Earl of Carnarvon.

. Upper portion of a limestone obelisk, on each side

of which is the symbol of the wind from one of
the four cardinal points. From Sais. Ptolemaic
Period.

Presented by EH. Meyer, Esq.

. Small shell panel engraved with the figures of an

early Sumerian hero and an ibex.
Presented by G. H. Judd, Esq.

. Fifteen fragments of tablets inscribed with texts in

the Khatti language. From Boghaz-Keui. About
B.C. 1300.

. Two flint hammer heads. From Boghaz-Keui.
. Three stone implements. From Uzal.

Presented by R. Campbell Thompson, Esq.

. Six brown and blue glazed scarabs, mounted in

modern work.
Blue porcelain ushabti figure.

. The left hand of a mummy.

Presented anonymously.

HE. A. Wallis Budge.

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DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.

I.—Arrangement.

The Sculpture Galleries.—The remounting of the central
group from the West Pediment of the Parthenon, designed and
begun last year, has been completed; the torsos have been
raised to their proper heights, in relation to the base line, on
shafts of Istrian marble, the poses of the fragments have been
restudied and corrected, and the figures are set on pivots so
that they can be turned about their vertical axes. The figure
hitherto known as Victory has been transferred from the East
Pediment to its original place in this group. A colossal head
of Athena, which is thought to represent a Pheidian type, has
been moved from the Grzco-Roman Gallery to a place in the
Elgin Room.

In the Mausoleum Room Annexe steel stands have been
fixed, on which a considerable number of the minor Greek and
Roman reliefs are exhibited in a fair light. Examples of the
Roman reliefs have been fixed on the walls of the Roman
Gallery. A reconstruction of the order of the Nereid Monument
is in progress.

The Vase Rooms and Upper Galleries.—The general
rearrangement of the collection of vases has been continued.
Cases in the First and Second Rooms have been refitted and
repainted or recovered, and the kylikes in two table-cases in
the Second Room have been remounted. In the Third Room
the wall-cases have been refitted and the vases contained in
them have been rearranged so as to give a better chronological
sequence; the kylikes have also been rearranged, the finest
being set up in standard cases so that both sides may be seen,
and the rest mounted in the table-cases with mirrors to reflect
the interior designs, which were previously concealed. Glass-
topped drawers have been fitted in these galleries and in the
Bronze Room and the Room of Greek and Roman Life for the
exhibition of fragments of pottery, fibule, weights, and similar
small objects. Broken panes of glassin the skylights and cases
have been replaced, and the skylights have been cleaned. A
rearrangement of the unexhibited antiquities is in progress.
The central case of gems in the Gold Ornament Room has
been raised to a more convenient height.

The publication of the Sculptures of the Parthenon, photo-
gravure plates and text in folio, was completed. The Catalogue
of Jewellery was printed and revised in proof. The Minoan,
Mycenean, and Cypriote sections of the first volume of the
Catalogue of Vases were set up in type, and the manuscript of
most of the remainder was prepared for press. Progress was
made with the second part of Volume IV, of the Greek
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New moulds have been made of six slabs of the Frieze of
the Parthenon, and of two marble heads. Twenty pieces of
sculpture were mounted on stone pedestals ; an ivory sistrum,
10 gems, 112 bronzes, 97 terra-cottas, and 87 vases were mounted
on wooden stands; 410 objects were registered, 1,388 were
numbered, and 241 labels were written.

The Departmental Library and Students’ Room was
repainted. The number of visits for purposes of research was
418, there were 1,056 other visits to the Staff for purposes of
enquiry or departmental business, and 1,848 attendances of art
students in the Sculpture Galleries.

II.— Acquisitions.
I.—Sculpture in Stone and Marble.

1. Marble relief :-a gravestone with a group of three persons.
A woman, Aristeis, standing, clasps the hand of another woman
who is seated ona chair with footstool; between these two
figures stands a bearded man looking to the front. The women
are turned in profile though both heads are worked in the round.
The stone is in good preservation, the lower right-hand corner
being the only considerable piece that has been restored. ‘The
relief is bordered by lateral pilasters, surmounted by a low
pediment with acroteria. On the architrave is an inscription :

APIZTHIZ EMIXAPOYZ ©YFATHP.. .... FYNH.

Height 44 in., width 29 in. From Attica. Rather hasty
work, but fresh and of good period (Fourth Century B.c.).

2. Fragment of marble relief: the top of a gravestone
bearing the head of a girl. Fine style; the head, which is in
profile, is slightly bowed ; the hair is waved and is bound on
the neck. Above is a low pediment, and on the central
acroterion is a relief of a mourning Seiren. Inscribed
KAEAPETH.

Height 143 in. width 17} in.

3. Marble Head of Pan. A small terminal bust, flat
behind. The features and hair are worked in a fine free style ;
the beard talls in long tresses, and the head is crowned with a
wreath of pine-cones. The ears are pointed; over the forehead
are two goat’s horns.

Height 74 in. Greco-Roman work.

4. Limestone head of Dionysos, of colossal scale, with long
hair, beard and drooping moustache. Over the forehead is tied
a broad fillet, with bunches of ivy leaves. Shallow work,
almost in relief; the back is cut off flat. The surface is much
worn, and only the main lines of the modelling remain. A
dignified piecé of decorative work in a large style.

Height 345 in. From Lefka in Cyprus,

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5. A series of limestone figures from Tamassos in Cyprus,
collected by the late Colonel Falkland Warren. These include
four statuettes of men in Oriental costume, one of whom is
carrying a calf; two statuettes of men wearing loincloths, and
the upper part of a similar figure ; the upper part of a statuette
of a flute player ; a horseman mounted on a horse of which the
harness is very clearly represented; and two female heads
crowned with leaves and berries. They are all of the early
Cypriote style. With the same collection were acquired some
terra-cottas of similar type ; two large bearded heads of Assyrian
style, and two without beards; the bust of a nude youth
wearing a diadem; a nude woman wearing a nose ring; a small
horse’s head ; and two four-horse chariots painted with stripes
of red, yellow and black; in one chariot are two men, in the
other three.

6. Stone stamp or seal in the form of a thick dise engraved
in intaglio on both sides. Obv: Gryphon of Nemesis seated
with paw raised on a wheel, and the legend NEMEZIZ ZIKEA.
Rev: A draped female figure holding a cornucopia and a fillet ;
she stands on tiptoe and holds her skirts in the archaistic
manner of Spes on the coins of Titus, but the style is bar-
barous ; in the field are a branch and wreath, and inscription
EXQ EANIAAZ KAAAZ. The lettering belongs to the
Roman Imperial period. Diameter 43 in.

7. Marble head: apparently a modern portrait of Gaius
Julius Cesar. Life size. Presented by G. N. Bankes, Esq.

II.—Ivory.

8. Sistrum of unusual type: a semicircular bow with ends
joined by a bronze rod on which are five ivory discs forming the
rattle ; the central disc is fixed, the others, which diminish in
size from the centre, are loose. A long straight handle is attached
to the middle of the bow. Each of the curved arms is flat in
section, and is carved as a reeded shaft, terminating in a palm-
leaf capital from which issues a lion’s head; the heads face
inwards and the bronze rod passes from mouth to mouth. The
handle, which is round, ends in a similar capital and lion’s head.
Archaic Etruscan work. From Orvieto.

9. Fragment of relief with a figure of Ganymede among
vine-branches.

From Behnesa (Oxyrhyncus); late Roman period. Pre-
sented by the Egypt Exploration Fund. |

IlI.— Gems.

10. Chalcedony intaglio: the head of a bearded man of
barbaric aspect, wearing a low pointed cap; apparently a
portrait of an Oriental prince. Strong Greek work. Said to
have been sent from Constantinople. Exhibited at the
Burlington Fine Arts Club in 19038 (Catalogue, pl, 112,
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There is a replica of this gem (Collection Tyszkiewicz,
pl. 24, fig. 12) which is more finished but less vigorous (see
A. 8S. Murray in the Quarterly Review, vol. 194, p.434.). Length
lin. Presented by Mrs. M. Zarvfi.

11. Agate lenticular intaglio with lioness seizing a deer;
the landscape is indicated by a tree and wavy lines representing
water. Mycenzan period. The size (diam. 14 in.) is remarkable.

IV .—Silver.

12. Statuette of a lion, apparently the handle of a seal.
The beast is crouching with open jaws as if at bay. Fine
modelling; bones strongly indicated. The mane and tip of
tail are gilt. Early Greek work; in remarkable condition.
Length ?in. From Argos.

13. Pin with head formed by a figure of Aphrodite, with
arms raised, each hand holding a tress of hair. Drapery is
held between the thighs, and passes behind over the left
shoulder. Roman work.

V.— Bronze.

14, Relief from mirror-case. Dionysos and Ariadne seated
on a rock; Ariadne caresses a panther, Dionysos holds
a thyrsos. Below, in the space between the feet of the pair,
sits a small shaggy Papposeilenos holding a bunch of grapes.
Greek work, Fourth Century B.c.

Formerly in the Somzée Collection. Furtwaengler,
Sammlung Somzee, pl. XXXVI, 93.

15. Relief from mirror-case. A young warrior steps back,
dragging in his left arm and sheltering with his shield a
wounded comrade; behind the shield an attacking figure
strikes backwards with a sword at the two. All three men
are nude. Very fine vigorous style, but mutilated. From
AKtolia.

16. Relief from mirror-case. Victory driving a two-horse
chariot. The horses and car are curiously drawn in
perspective.

17. Statuette of Aphrodite. The goddess stands with feet
set close together; the left hand is raised, and may be
supposed to have held a mirror, towards which the eyes were
directed ; the head is slightly inclined to one side and looks
downwards. -Ihe drapery, supported in front of the thighs by
the right hand, passes across the back and hangs in a short
loop over the left shoulder. The navel is gilded. Fine style,
rather heavy forms.

Height 10? in. Said to have been sent from Constantinople.
Presented by Mrs. M. Zarifi.

18. Statuette of a deer, probably Graeco-Iberian of early date.
The modelling is crude, with elongated proportions ; the length
2 the ears is especially exaggerated. Height 12 in, From

pain,

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19. Foot of a vase terminating below in a lion’s paw and
above in a bust of a beardless Heracles issuing from a floral
calix; he holds in the left arm a knotted club, his right hand
is raised to his head. Height 4in. Graco-Roman work.

20. (a) Statuette of an ox, of primitive Italian style. Height
4in. (b) Small ladle: the handle terminates in a cup which
is perforated asa strainer. Height 44 in. (c) Fibula, heavy
leech type with long foot on which is a movable ring to secure
the clasp. (d) Fibula, thin leech type with coils at ends,
ornamented with moulded rings. (e) Fibula, horned serpentine
type.

Formerly in the Hasselmann Collection. Kunstbesitz eines
norddeutschen Sammlers (Muenchen, 1910), Nos. 638 (pl. 13),
35 (pl. 10), 316, 326 (?), 330.

21. Fibula, leech type with engraved geometric decoration.

22 Fibula, a development of the Laténe type. The foot
rises vertically and ends in a heavy square knob, which is
ornamented with fine dotted designs ; the bow is deeply ribbed.

A Spanish type: see Paris, L’Art de ’Espagne primitive,
II., p. 266, fig. 396-399.

23. Pestle in the shape of a leg. Presented by R. H. Benson,
Esq.

V1I.—Iron and Lead.

24. Iron finger-ring: intaglio design of an athlete binding
his head with a fillet (Diadumenos) beside a laver. Presented
by W. R. Hubbard, Esq.

25. Lead weight: 10,863 grains. Relief design of two
crossed cornucopias and the legend ETOYZ AAX AHMOZIA
MNA. The date is probably 78 B.c., by the Seleucid era.

26. Lead seal or stamp with inscription IEPA. Presented
by J. B. Caldecott, Esq.

VII. — Wood, etc.

27. Two wooden toilet-boxes, turned on the lathe. Found
in a Roman tomb in Bulgaria.

28. (a) Turned wooden fragment, part of a chair or similar
piece of furniture, excavated at Behnesa. (b) Reed pen, from
Behnesa. (c) Brush, wooden back with bristles of grass.
From Sedment el Gebel. (d) Sewn leather case containing
bronze tweezers, awl and knife hung together on a chain;
probably a set of instruments for trimming lamps. From
Sedment el Gebel.

Presented by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration
Fund.
VIII. Terra-cotta, etc.

29. Statuette of a youth wearing chiton, cuirass, chlamys,
cap and laced sandals, 2 7

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30. Two primitive Beotian figures from Lake Copais. One
has the face modelled in the archaic style and wears a high
ealathos with wreath and earrings; in the other the features
are crudely indicated. On the forehead of each is a large curl ;
the bodies are flat and painted with geometrical patterns.

31. A dog carrying a hare in his mouth, and a grasshopper :
both roughly modelled toys. Presented by M. Costs A.
Lembessis.

32. (a) Head from the handle of a brazier, painted white,
yellow and red. Excavated at Behnesa. (b) Model of a
lantern: cylindrical shape with an arched opening for the
light and slits for ventilation. Excavated at Sedment el
Gebel. (c) Plaster jar-sealing stamped ITAAOY. From
Sedment el Gebel.

Presented by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund.

33. Two inscribed clay tablets from the Minoan Palace at
Knossos. Presented by Dr. A. J. Hvans, FBS.

One has three lines of characters and is probably an
inventory of cereal crops: a certain sign, which appears several
times in conjunction with numerals, being taken to mean
corn.

The other is inscribed in two rows; tbe characters are
mostly numerals. It is apparently a reckoning by centuries :—
20 is added to 72 and the deficieney 8 from the complete
century is noted.

The shape of the tablets is roughly oblong. The lettering
is described by Dr. Evans as Class B of the Linear Script.

34. Plaster casts of two Minoan vases from Hagia Triada,
known as the Boxer Vase and the Chieftain Cup (Burrows,
Discoveries in Crete, p. 34, pl. I.; p. 38), and of a clay disc
inscribed with pictographic characters, found in the Palace at
Phaistos (Evans, Seripta Minoa, pp. 22, 273). Presented by
Professor R. C. Bosanquet.

IX.— Pottery.
35. Two pieces of Cretan ware: a shallow cup painted with
a stippled pattern, and a fragment with design of four-petalled
flowers reserved. Late Minoan II. period.

From the Palace at Knossos. Presented by Dr. A.J. Kvans,
F.R.S.

36. Two Geometric kylikes: flat bowls on hollow cylindrical
stands which are divided by vertical slits into two rows of
panels. The decoration consists of linear designs and animal
figures: two Gryphons guarding a sacred tree, birds, horses,
Centaurs, deer, and other creatures.

37. Flat bowl with Geometric linear patterns.

38. Geometric pyxis, the body decorated with fringed
wheels in square panels, the lid surmounted by four statuettes
of horses. Diameter 14 in.

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39. Two Geometric lids, conical shape with linear patterns,
and a lid of similar form in the Phaleron style, painted with a
frieze of goats.

40. Cantharos in the Bceotian Geometric style. Very fine
thin fabric; hemispherical body with high flat handles. On
one side are a man and three dogs hunting a boar or other
large quadruped ; on the other, two men with sword and spear,
in panels framed by zig-zags, ete. From Thebes.

41. Lekythos, black-figure on white ground. The subject
represented is the capture of Seilenos at the fountain Inna for
Midas king of Phrygia. Seilenos is lying down, drinking the
wine from the fountain, which is built between two trees;
on its roof kneels a man who carries a cord to bind Seilenos
when captured. On either side is a man holding a sceptre
and seated on a throne: one is distinguished by the name
Midas (MIAEZ); other inscriptions are illegible. From Sicily.
Presented by Edwin Barclay, Esq.

42. Lekythos, black-figure on white ground. The design
consists of a young warrior advancing with levelled spear.
The armour and drapery are drawn in outline, the face and
nude limbs in silhouette. From Thebes.

43. Two Lekythoi painted in red and white on black with
outlines and details incised.

i.— Eos bearing the body of Memnon.

ii—A menad dancing, her sleeves extended like wings ;
over her chiton is tied a fawn-skin, and her hair is bound with
snakes. In front of her is a fox; behind, a thyrsos.

The flesh of the women and some details of dress and
ornament are painted white; the body of Memnon, thyrsos
and fox are red ; the draperies are heavily incised.

44, Alabastron, black outline drawing on white ground:
a girl, draped in a long chiton, playing the flutes; a youth,
with chlamys on extended left arm, throwing an oil-bottle
(aryballos). Between them on one side is a flute-case ; on
the other, the legend O NAIZ KAAOZ. The two may be
supposed to be excerpted from a larger group representing
a revel. The drawing is somewhat in the style of Euphronios
(compare Hartwig, Meisterschalen, plate XLIX.).

45, Pelike, late Attic red-figure style. The obverse subject
is a musical contest between two flute-players, who are clad
in long embroidered robes; one stands on a platform of two
steps, the other has his foot on the lower plinth as if in the
act of ascending. A Victory flies towards the group from
either side, one carrying two bowls, the other a long white
fillet. In the field are inscriptions, KAAOZ, KAAH. On the
reverse, three draped youths.

46. Oinochoe, red-figure with white paint. ‘'wo Victories,
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hands; the tripod stands on a double base on which is inscribed
ATH EMEAOS APIPIAOQZ TOZ OIAOZ (’ aaah aici
"Apipirog rode Pidove or the like). From near the Olym-
pieion, Athens.

47. Oinochoe, Attic red- figure style. In a panel, a woman
seated at a low table on which are dishes; on the other side
of the table stands a boy holding a cup.

48. Oinochoe, as last: a baby seated in a high turret-like
chair, his legs protruding (cf. Freehner, van Branteghem Coll.,
pl. 38) ; he holds a toy ; on the floor are a miniature oinochoe
and a hobby-horse.

49. Oinochoe, as before: two boys dragging a go-cart in
which rides a third child, driving the others with a stick.
Nos. 48 and 49 are from Attica.

50. Lekythos with figure of a boy modelled in terra-cotta
and painted with a thick lustrous slip or enamel. He holds
an oinochoe in his right hand, a flower in his left, and is
surrounded by flowers. From Eretria.

51. Loutrophoros, of Attic red-figure ware, in miniature—
evidently a toy. The designs are marriage scenes: obv. Eros
flying towards a seated woman, while a girl on either side
brings a casket; rev. bride and bridegroom joining hands.
On the foot is a winged nymph flying with a casket in her
hands towards a girl who runs away.

52. Crater, Boeotian red-figure style, of the Fourth Century.
Obv. Athena driving a four-horse chariot ; rev. Victory flying
with a tray and wreath. Said to have been found in Eubeea.

53. Cypriote Geometric vase, red ware painted with circles
in black. Globular body with strainer in spout and funnel
under the base.

From the collection of Colonel Falkland Warren (see No. 5
above).

54. A collection of eight Italian vases from various sites.
Presented by R. Sneade Brown, Esq.

55. Bowl, Gaulish red ware decorated with stamped designs :
panels and medallions containing animals and a boy with birds,
and floral patterns. For the type of the fowler cf. Déchelette,
Vases de la Gaule romaine, II., p. 93, No. 568.

56. Five bowls from Cologne, Roman red ware, some of them
bearing potters’ stamps: ABVSFE, LRPIS, FELICI - OF.
Presented by the Library Committee of the Corporation of the
City of London.

A. H. Smith.

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DEPARTMENT OF BRITISH AND MEDIAZVAL ANTIQUITIES AND
ETHNOGRAPHY.

I.—Arrangement, Cataloguing, ete.

Prehistoric Section.—A series from the Belgian caves has
been arranged and labelled, to be exhibited in drawers accessible
to the public in this room; and the drawers of three table-cases
cleared for re-construction. In the south wing several large
dishes of the Hallstatt period have been placed in glazed cases.
The labelling of the Greenwell Collection has been continued.

Romano-British Section. — The collection exhibited in
drawers has been periodically overhauled.

Medieval Room.—Permanent labels have been provided
for the Limoges and other painted enamels; and several cases
have been cleaned.

Gold Ornament Room.—The Franks Collection of cups has
been permanently labelled, and the cases cleaned.

Glass and Ceramic Room.—Cases have been cleared and a
new standard case and screens provided for the Falcke Collection
of Wedgwood ware which has been arranged and permanently
labelled. The Dutch and German glass has been re-arranged.

Asiatic Saloon.—Several sections of Chinese pottery and
three standard cases have been cleaned and re-arranged ; and
the Brooke Collection of Chinese pottery from Szechuan
exhibited in wall-cases 92,93. A large frame of embroidery
from Turkestan (Stein Collection) has been exhibited in cases
98-100 which have been cleared for the purpose.

Gallery of Religions.—The Buddhist room has been closed
during the year owing to alterations in connection with the
new buildings; and the Gandhara sculptures have been twice
moved.

Ethnographical Gallery. — 'Vhe north-west and Arctic
American sections have been cleaned and re-arranged with new
labels in wall-cases 68-33; and five table-cases re-arranged in
the same section. In the Oceanic section the Torres Straits
Collection has been overhauled and the case cleaned ; and two
standard cases have been cleared for alteration of locks. In
the African section, the Congo textiles have been sorted and
stored ; the standard-case Q has been re-arranged with new
fittings; and case T containing Benin ivories has been
re-arranged with permanent labels. In the Asiatic section an
exhibition of composite bows has been arranged with explana-
tory sections. The glass throughout the Gallery has been
cleaned inside, and four sets of drawers accessible to the public
arranged for exhibition.

American Room.—Three wall-cases and one standard-case
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collection of Peruvian pottery ; and sculptures removed from
above the wall-cases for structural alterations.

Registration, etc.—The registration of current acquisitions
has been continued, and 2,815 objects have been added,
including ethnographical specimens.

Photographs to the number of 107 have been taken in
the Department for purposes of illustration and reference, 9
lantern-slides made, and 32 extra prints prepared. Typewritten
labels to the number of 623 have been cut and bordered, and
14 labels and 158 wood-blocks printed on the hand-press ;
16 boards papered, and 318 objects mounted. There have been
prepared 452 blocks, labels, frames, plinths and miscellaneous
fittings.

A number of ethnographical, archeological and ceramic
documents and pamphlets have been sorted and catalogued,
and seal-electrotypes arranged and labelled. A collection from
lake-dwellings in Yorkshire and a selection from the London
Missionary Society’s Collection have been packed and
transferred to the Museum.

Registration numbers have been painted on 4,508 specimens,
and 652 permanent labels written.

Publications.—The second edition of the Ceramic Guide was
published in March and the Ethnographical Handbook in April.
The slip catalogue of Oriental wares has been brought up to
date; and progress has been made with a catalogue of rings,
the plates and drawings being in preparation. The Stone
Age Guide has been revised, and a second edition sent to press.
A slip catalogue of the Stein Collection of pottery and stone
implements from Turkestan has been prepared.

Students. — Three thousand six hundred and sixty-five
students and visitors have been received in the Department.
Three parties have been conducted through the Ethnographical
and Anglo-Saxon galleries by members of the staff, and the
York meeting of the Museums Association was attended.

II.—Acquisitions.
(1.) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities :—
(a.) Stone Age.—Paleolithic implements found at Kennet,
near Newmarket. Presented by C. R. Jennings, Esq.

Replaced flint flakes, found in North Cray gravel pit, Kent.
Presented by Arnold B. Vansittart, Esq.

Series of worked flints from a raised beach at Larne,
described in Man, 1909, no. 54. Presented by Miss Layard.

Specimens of striated and doubly patinated neolithic flints
found at Icklingham, Suffolk. Presented by Dr. Allen Sturge.

A large series of neolithic flint arrow-heads, scrapers and
implement from a small area in Oxfordshire.

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Flint knife found near Sittingbourne. Presented by
S. Clinch, Esq.

Worked flakes found near Bridlington, E.R. Yorks. Pre-
sented by Miss Lee (John Edward Lee Collection).

Flint arrow-head and stone implement found near Alfriston,
Sussex.

Hammer of deer-antler with one end decorated with a
lozenge pattern, from the Thames at Teddington.

Flint scrapers, arrow-heads and flakes from various sites in
England. Presented by the Library Committee of the City
of London.

(b.) Bronze Age.—Bronze palstave found with others in
gravel, Union Field, Leytonstone. Presented by the Council
of the Linnean Society.

Bronze socketed gouge found at Alfriston, Sussex.

Bronze tore and socketed spear-head found in the Thames
near Battersea.

Two Irish ‘‘ food-vessels”” of the Bronze Age, and a rapier-
blade from the Isle of Ely. Presented by the Library
Committee of the Crty of London.

(c.) Early Iron Age.—Bronze bridle-bit, once enamelled,
found in London.

Part of an enamelled “terret.’ found at Weston-under-
Penyard, Herefordshire. Presented by Dr. C. H. Read, P.S.A.

Cinerary urn found in the Alkham valley near Dover.
Presented by Messrs. G. and A. Clark, Ltd.

Urn found in a pit-dwelling near Chichester. Presented
by Mrs. Heron-Allen.

Iron spear-head with central groove, from the Thames at
Old Windsor.

(d.) Foreign.—F lint implements from the Swiss Lake-
dwellings at Robenhausen, Cortaillod, Estavayer, Wangen,
Schaffis (Chavannes), and Corcelette; also from the Thayingen
cavern at Schaffhausén, and neolithic sites at Spiennes and
Hastedon-lez-Namur, Belgium. Presented by Miss Lee (John
Edward Lee Collection).

Quartz flakes from a cave at Broken Hill, N.E. Rhodesia.
Presented by T. Codrington, Esq.

Flints from the gravels of the Zambesi. Collected and
presented by G. W. Lamplugh, Esq.

Bronze spear-head 3} ft. long from Beth Dagin, near Gaza,
Palestine. .

Fragments of large pottery vessels from a cave in the
Ronda Mts., Spain. Presented by Col. Willoughby Verner.

Early Anatolian jug from the district of Nigdeh, Cappadocia.
Presented by F. W. Hasluck, Esq.

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Remains of a mummy from a mastaba of late 3rd dynasty
at Meydum, glazed pottery fragments, replaced flint flakes and
a bracelet. Presented by the British School of Archeology m
Egypt.

A series of bronze and iron specimens from graves in
Eastern Siberia.

(2.) Romano-British :—

A marble group of Bacchus with panther, found in a grave
with two swords at Spoonley Wood, near Winchcombe,
Gloucs.

Roofing-tile with stamp of the 20th legion, found at Holt,
Denbigh. Presented by T’. A. Acton, Esq.

Gold ring with niccolo intaglio of Roma with Palladium,
found at Colchester.

Bronze cheek-piece of a helmet, from the Thames at Kew.

Mortarium, found in Birchin Lane, City of London. Pre-
sented by Dr. C. H. Read, P.S.A.

Three red-ware dishes dredged from Pudding-pan Rock,
Herne Bay, Kent. Presented by the Library Committee of
the City of London.

Two leaden seals, with names and characters.

Two earthenware kiln-rests from Corbridge (Corstopitum),
Northumberland. Presented by Prof. Haverfield.

Two bronze bracelets found in a pit at West Thurrock, Essex.
Presented by the Northfleet Coal and Ballast Co., Ltd.

Stone coffin found at Old Ford Station. Presented by the
Directors of the North London Railway.

(3.) Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic :—

Bronze brooches and glass beads found at Icklingham,
Suffolk.

A “long” brooch of iron plated with silver and partly gilt,
found at Hoxne, Suffolk; illustrated in the Proceedings of
the Suffolk Institute of Archeology and Natural History,
vol. xiv. Presented by Dr. C. W. Low.

Glass cup found in a mound at Wheathampstead, with a
bronze ewer already in the Museum; figured in Proceedings of
the Society of Antiquaries of London, xviii. 112. Presented
by Arthur Griffith, Esq.

Brooches, finger-rings, toilet implements and other bronzes
of the early Goths from Kertch, Crimea.

Gothic jewellery, brooches, buckles, weapons aud a pene
cross, from graves in the Crimea and Caucasus.

A silver belt with garnet cell-work and a buckle embossed
with a boar and eagle; a jug, cup and four-limbed silver-gilt
ornament, all from Sofia, Bulgaria.

F.2

84 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

A “long” brooch of bronze, from a grave-mound, Hardanger,
Norway. Presented by C. O. Skilbeck, Esq.

Frankish vases with stamped ornament from Amiens and
Oise, France.

A gold filigree ear-ring inlaid with garnets, Visigothic,
ploughed up on the east coast of Italy. Presented by C.
Fairfax Murray, Esq.

(4.) Medieval and Later :—

(a.) British.—Woollen textile found in a bog at Bogtown,
Kinnegad, co. Meath.

Leaden coffin-lid ornamented with a cross and rosettes,
belonging to one of three coffins found in 1909 on the site of
Torkington Priory, near Arundel, late 12thcentury. Presented
by the Duke of Norfolk, K.G.

Matrices of seals of Peter Le Neve, Norroy King of Arms;
and Kuseby Cleaver, Bishop of Cork and Ross. Presented by
Maz Rosenherm, Esq., F.S.A.

Bronze weight with the arms of Richard, Duke of Cornwall,
found at Clipstone, Northants.

Leaden ampulla for use by pilgrims, found at Bury St.
Edmund’s. Presented by Dr. C. H. Read, P.S.A.

Cover of a bronze censer, early 15th century.

Bronze ewer dating about 1400.

Two alabaster carvings of the early 15thcentury. Presented
through the National Art Collections Fund by Max Rosenheim,
Esq., FSA.

Stone mould for a heart-shaped brooch, found at Eriswell,
Suffolk, 15th century. Presented by Dr. Allen Sturge.

A brass spoon-mould with bust of Queen Anne, found near
Bideford. Presented by T. Charbonnier, Esq.

Bronze stirrup found at Framshall Park, near Stroud,
Gloucs., 16th century, figured in Proc. Soc. Antig., xxii. 355.
Presented by Chas. Dawson, Esq., F.S.A.

Gold finger-ring once enamelled, with figure of St. John, 15th
century. Presented by John C. Rose, Esq.

A series of leaden cloth-marks, mostly of the 17th and 18th
centuries. Presented by J. B. Caldecott, Esq.

An English repeating watch dated 1701.

Four gold serjeants’ rings of the late 18th century.

Brass snuff-box with bust of Charles James Fox (d. 1806).
Presented by C. R. Jennings, Esq. :

Two cameos, mounted as pin and finger-ring. Presented by

H. C. Henderson, Esq.

(b.) Foreagn :—

A morse-ivory draughtsman of the 12th century. Presented
by M. Stora.

BRITISH AND MEDIZAVAL ANTIQUITIES. 85

Ivory carving of the 10th century, with the raising of
Lazarus. Presented through the National Art Collections
Fund by Col. Fearon Tipping.

Bronze water-jug with bearded head and lizard handle.

Six matrices of seals. Presented by Max Rosenheim, Esq.,
S.A.

Three seal-matrices. Presented by Mrs. Way.

Steel spit with nielloed handle, Italian, 15th century.
Presented by C. Fairfax Murray, Hsq.

Brass quill-pen cutter with original folding case, early 18th
century.

Leather étui for knife, fork and spoon, obtained in
Switzerland, 18th century. Presented by A. W. F. Fuller,
E'sq.

Two wooden carvings from Lamu, HE. Africa Protectorate,
probably Portuguese. Presented by H. H. Horne, Esq.

Two belts ornamented with niello and filigree from
Daghestan.

(5.) Ceramic and Glass Collections :—

(a.) Orvental Wares.—Pottery funeral jar and figures of
men and animals, glazed and coloured, early Chinese, probably
of the T‘ang dynasty. Presented by G. Humorfopoulos, Esq.

Series of pottery vessels and figures of men and animals
with traces of colour, from graves in Shansi of the Han and
T‘ang dy nasties.

Inscribed earthenware tile of the Han dynasty. Presented
by J. 8S. T. Audley, Esq.

White porcelain bowl and saucer in form of flower, of the
Sung dynasty. Presented by M. Henri Rollet.

Figure of a lion in glazed pottery, Chinese, 16th century.

Two pottery head-rests, glazed, Ming dynasty.

Stoneware conical vase imitating a bell with anold inscription
copied, dated 1812. Presented by W. C. Alexander, Esq.

Glazed pottery jar with lid, and incense-burner with
turquoise glaze, Chinese: Presented by J. A. Holms, Esq.

Chinese porcelain plate with arms of Manning. Presented
by Herbert Salt, Esq.

Three stoneware jars, Chinese porcelain punch-bowl, and
Corean porcelain ewer.

Nine pieces of Corean pottery.

Porcelain dish decorated in gold and colours, Japanese (Kaga)
ware. Presented by H. Van den Bergh, Esq.

Painted saucer-dish of Satsuma ware. Presented by Henry
Hadlow, Esq.

Japanese bowl with dragon-skin glaze. Presented through
the National. Art Collections Fund by Kenneth Dingwall, Esq.

86 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Ornamented bases of Persian bowls, 13th—-14th century.

Ewer with turquoise glaze and bottle with landscape and
figures in black and blue, Persian ware.

(b.) Contenental.—Glazed pottery fragments of the 12th-
13th century, from Volo and Constantinople. Presented by
W.S. George, Esq.

Series of mezza-maiolica jugs, some with coats of arms, from
Orvieto.

Specimens of the mosaic tesserz used in the decoration of
St. Mark’s, Venice. Presented by Sir Henry Howorth,
KCL.

Rhenish stoneware jug dated 1599, dredged up in the North
Sea. Presented by Col. A. J. Copeland.

Cologne-ware tankard with figures of the Apostles, dated
1682 in later silver mount. Presented by J. B. Carrington,
Esq.

Five groups of Meissen porcelain figures. Presented by
J. OC. J. Drucker, Esq.

(c.) Hnglish.—Medieval moulded bricks from Pleshey
Castle, Essex. Presented by Col. Tufnell.

Glazed pottery jugs found at Sutton Courtney Abbey,
Abingdon. Presented by Col. H. N. B. Good.

Bow! of Worcester porcelain, about 1760. Presented by
C. B. Farmer, Esq.

Dish of English delft.

Delft bow] with portrait of Wilkes (d. 1797).

Coffee-cup of Lowestoft porcelain. Presented by Norman
MacGregor, Esq.

Plate of Staffordshire cream-ware with landscape and mark,
E. WOOD. Presented by A. E. Clarke, Esq.

Cream-ware jug, printed and signed JOSH. JOHNSON,
Liverpool. Presented by Sir Henry Howorth, K.CI.E.

A number of clay pitcher-moulds for stamping cameos,
marked TURNER and WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY. Presented
by Col. A. J. Copeland and Richard P. Copeland, Esq.

(d.) Glass—Roman dish from Cyprus. Presented by the
Library Committee of the City of London.

Dish of the Roman period from Italy.

Long bottle from Palestine, Roman period.

Arab beakers found at Kertch, one inscribed, another
containing coins of the 14th century.

Wine-bottle of the 17th century, a shield with three swans,
from site of new County Hall, Westminster Bridge. Presented
by £. L. Gruning, Esq.

Spout-pot about 1675, described in Proc. Soc. Antigq., xxiii.
267. Presented by Albert Hartshorne, Esq, FSA,

BRITISH AND MEDIAZAVAL ANTIQUITIKS. 87

Scent-bottle in form of negro’s head, 18th century.
Presented by Lt.-Col. Croft Lyons, FP.S.A.

Jug of Nailsea mottled glass. Presented by T. Charbonnier,
Esq.

A large block of aventurine glass made at Venice.
Presented by Comm. Salvatore Arbib.

(6.) Collection illustrating various Religions :—
(a.) Christianity:—Two pottery lamps with palm-branch,
birds and fishes, from Tyre.

Brass icon with figure of St. Nicholas and Russian
inscription. Presented by Mrs. Way.

(b.) Buddhism.—Two wooden figures, gilt and lacquered, of
a Japanese tutelary deity. Presented by F. E. Warren, Esq.

Bronze tablet on pedestal, with Buddhist figures in relief,
dated a.D. 981; and Lamaistic prayer-wheel in model temple,
brass incense-burner and copper trumpet with monster’s head,
all obtained by Chinese troops in Lhasa. Presented through
the National Art Collections Fund by R. H. Benson, Esq.

Seven Lamaistic pictures on rollers for temple decorations.

Presented by Mrs. Gull.

Bronze figure of a deity and other objects obtained in
Tibet. Shrine containing “Shari.” Presented by Charles
Lund, Esq.

(7.) Oriental and Ethnographical :—

Asia.—Series illustrating the arts and industries of Korea,
comprising specimens of iron and silver work, pottery, vessels
in marble and stone, cabinets of wood and bamboo, a model
house, a sword, bow and arrows, and two figures in Korean
costume. This series formed part of the Korean exhibit at the
Japan-British Exhibition in 1910. Presented by the Imperial
Cho-sen Government. :

Collection illustrating the ethnography of the primitive
tribes of Formosa, including costumes, ornaments and weapons ;
also life-size figures in Chinese costume, and a series of photo-
graphs of Formosan natives. These objects formed part of the
Formosan exhibit at the Japan-British Exhibition in 1910.
Presented by the Formosan Administration.

A series of ethnographical objects collected from the Ainu
installed in a village at the Japan-British Exhibition in 1910,
including weapons, ornaments, appliances for fishing, domestic
utensils, objects connected with religious ceremonial, and
models of huts.

Two chatelaines worn by the Hill-men of Kumaon on the
Tibet border. Presented by Mrs. Rivett-Carnac.

Serpentine brush-pot said to be from the Summer palace at
Pekin. Presented by A. Wynne Corrie, Esq.

88 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THF BRITISH MUSEUM.

Two Indo-Persian axeheads, iron inlaid with silver. Pre-
sented by the Library Committee of the City of London.

The dress of an Angami Naga warrior and several head-
ornaments, from Assam. Presented by C. L. Hardcastle, Esq.

Oval medallion of Pertabghar enamel with animals inlaid
in gold. Presented by Mrs. Knox Johnson.

A series of chalcedony and other neolithic flakes found near
Poona, India. Presented by G. F. Keatinge, Esq., I.C.8.

A ceremonial sword, archer’s glove, bronze door-plates and
other objects from Japan, and a porcelain pillow, candlesticks,
paint-brush cleaner and cosmetic vase from China. Presented

by C. Lund, Esq.

Three carved ivory panels from the throne of the Maharajah
of Tanjore; 15th century. Presented by C. Farrfax Murray,
Esq.

A pack of Japanese playing cards and an Indian grain
rubber. Presented by Dr. C. H. Read, P.S.A.

A model to one-tenth scale of the house of a Chinese of the
commercial class, made by a native carpenter, Hwei-an district,
near Amoy. Presented by Dr. G. Reynolds Turner.

Two finger-rings from the “ Miri,” or mound, in Quetta
arsenal. Presented by Capt. W. B. Walker.

An ethnographical series from 8.W. China.

A Chinese compass-face of brass, an iron brazier and a jade
hair-ornament.

A series of objects collected in Tibet during the recent
British Expedition.

A sandal-wood grinding-stone from Ceylon.

Set of nine inscribed jade tablets, one dated a.pD. 1649, from
the Temple of Ancestors, Pekin.

Africa.—A large and very important collection illustrative
of the ethnography and art of the Bashilele, Bakongo, Bapende,
Babunda and Badjok tribes of the S.W. Belgian Congo. This
collection, which is part of the material acquired by the recent
ethnographical expedition under the leadership of Mr. E. Torday,
includes the series of objects acquired in that section of the
country which had not before heen crossed by Europeans.

A large and valuable series illustrative of the ethnography
of the Akikuyu of the East Africa Protectorate. Most of the
objects have been fully described and illustrated in the donor’s
recent book. Presented by W. Scoresby Routledge, Esq.

An interesting ethnographical series collected in South
Africa and Abyssinia by the late Sir Bartle Frere. Presented
by Sir Bartle Frere, Bart.

Five ivory carvings from Benin, three of which exhibit
unusual perfection of workmanship. (Illustrated in Man,
1910, No. 29.)

BRITISH AND MEDIAVAL ANTIQUITIES. 89

A number of quartz flakes from Broken Hill, Rhodesia.
Presented by T. Codrington, Esq.

Two celts and a number of stone arrowheads from West
Mauretania. Presented by Lieutenant Dangelzer.

An ethnographical series, including several sets of divining-
bones, from South Africa. Presented by H. W. Garbutt, Esq.

Two wooden carvings from Lamu, East Africa; probably
Portuguese. Presented by H. H. Horne, Esq.

A series of ethnographical objects from Madagascar. Pvre-
sented by Neville Jones, Esq.

Twelve flints from the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi River.
Presented by G. W. Lamplugh, Esq.

A large series of stone celts from Zaria province, N. Nigeria.
Presented by Montague P. Porch, Esq.

A stone arm-ring from Sokoto. Presented by Dr. C. H.
Read, P.S.A.

An ivory pestle and a carved tusk from Benin. Presented
by Max Rosenhewrm, Esq., F.S.A.

A Mzabite shirt and a Kabyle brooch from Algeria.
Presented by Mrs. Hustace Smith.

An ethnographical series from the Bageshu, Turkana and
Basoga, of the Uganda Protectorate. Presented by F. Spire,
Esq.

An ethnographical series from the Lower Congo.

An ethnographical series from the Tefoke of the Lomami
River, Belgian Congo.

Oceania.—A club from the Marquesas Islands of unusual
size ; formerly used as the “mace” of the Noviomagians Club.
Presented by F. Dillon Croker, Ksq.

Three mere from New Zealand, of jade, basalt and whale’s
bone respectively ; with other stone implements from Oceania.
Presented by the Library Committee of the City of London.

A wooden idol of exceedingly rare type from Rarotonga.
Presented by Dr. C. H. Read, P.S.A.

Two mortars of volcanic tufa and a basalt pestle from
Hawaii, found buried in Clements Inn. Presented by E.
Harrow Ryde, Esq.

A collection of churinga from Central Australia.

A mask and head-ornament from New Guinea.

Model canoe from New Zealand.

America.—An old copper mask from Vancouver Islands,
and specimens of Nicaraguan pottery. Presented by H. J.
Gardiner, Esq.

Two mummies, together with other objects from graves near
Acariin Peru. Presented by Capt. J. H. Gronow,

90 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

A series of objects from ancient sites in Greenland.
A wooden mask from the North-west coast of America.

A gold mask, helmet, two vessels and a number of ornaments
from the Republic of Colombia.

Indian canoe of birch bark from North Ameriea.

CHRISTY COLLECTION.

During the year 103 objects have been entered in the
Registration Catalogue. The Christy Trustees have acquired
by donation and purchase the following objects, which they
have transferred to the Trustees of the British Museum :-—

l.—Lthnography of Africa :—
A fetish figure from the Ibibio of 8. Nigeria. Presented by
EL. Dayrell, Esq.

A series of musical instruments from Nigeria. Presented
by Dr. Foy.

Three hide shields from the Sudan, two flasks from Abyssinia,
and a spearhead and dagger from N.W. Africa. Presented by
A. W. F. Fuller, Esq.

A carved nut from the Zappo-zapp of the Belgian Congo.
Presented by G. S. Holmes, Esq.

A feather headdress from the Lango of the Uganda Pro-
tectorate. Presented by G. P. V. Jervoise, Esq.

Three school reading boards inscribed with Arabic characters,
from a mosque in a Mandingo village; obtained during the
Gambia expedition in 1894. Presented by Lt.-Col. O. L.
Josling.

A number of stone flakes and a stone pestle from Sokoto
province, N. Nigeria. Presented by Capt. D. H. Macdonnell,
D.S.O.

A leather belt and fittings from the Gold Coast. Presented
by G. Cunningham Scott, E'sq.

An inlaid wooden armlet from Kano, and a perforated stone
hammer found near. Lagos. JLPresented by J. B. Travers Solly,
Esq.

Four arrows and three pieces of native currency, from the
Egede Country, 8. Nigeria. Presented by D. Hay Thorburn,
Esq.

Four wooden figures from the club-house of the Amarikpo
Society, Ogoni Country, S. Nigeria. Presented by J. B.
Tombleson, Esq. |

Two hats worn by Masarwa Bushmen and a lump of native
soap, from Lake Ngami; two knives and a doll from the
Mampakush of the Ngami marshes. Presented by R. B.
Woosnam, Esq.

BRITISH AND MEDIZVAL ANTIQUITIES. 9]

IIl.—L£thnography of Asia :—
An ethnographical series from the Malay Peninsula, collected
by the late Archibald Campbell of Kuala Kangsar, Perak.
Presented by H. Campbell, Esq.

A Chinese hat. Presented by A. W. F. Fuller, Esq.

A series of dresses, ornaments, pipes, musical instruments
and obsolete currency from Siam. Presented by H. B. Garrett,
Esq.

Ethnography of Oceania :—

A large mat from the Pacific. Presented by A. W. F.
Fuller, Esq.

A necklace of jade beads from New Caledonia. Presented
by Mrs. Hadfield.

A nose-ring of turtle-shell from Santa Cruz, an armlet of
clam-shell from Rubiana, and a comb from Ulaua, Solomon
Islands. Presented by Mrs. T. Harding.

A skull mask from the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain.
Presented by Dr. Arthur Willey.

Antiquities and Ethnography of America :—

A series from ruined sites in the Canon de Chelly, Arizona,
and an elk-horn dagger carried by a Pomo “ bear-man.”
Presented by Stewart Culin, Esq.

Pottery vase, wooden bottle and cup, and silver spoon from
graves in Peru. Presented by Alec. Ferguson, Esq.

A bark baler from N.W. America and a large decorated
gourd from Paraquay. Presented by A. W. F. Fuller, Esq.

A series of stone arrowheads from Maryland. Presented

by Dr. Lloyd Witham.

In addition to the above donations the Christy Trustees have
acquired by purchase a large and very important ethnographical
series, being the greater part of the collection of the London
Missionary Society other than that already on deposit at the
British Museum. This series comprises objects from Africa,
America, China, India and Oceania, and nearly all the specimens
date from the days of the early Missionaries, notably Robert
Moffat, Robert Morrison and John Williams.

Charles H. Read.

92 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS.

1.—Registration and Arrangement.

1. Greek Series :-—

389 coins, of various parts of the Greek world, recently
acquired, have been registered and incorporated.

26 coins hitherto unattributed have been identified and
incorporated.

The coins of the later Macedonian Kings (from Philip II.)
and those of Lysimachus have been expanded from five to eight
cabinets, in order to facilitate re-arrangement and future
incorporations.

New heading-cards and labels have been inserted throughout
the Phcenician series.
The series of forgeries of Greek coins has been expanded.

The following collections have been examined, with a view
to making selections for the Museum :—Two large collections
of coins of Philip II., Alexander the Great, and later Macedonian
Kings, and three smaller series of the same class; a large
collection of coins of Lysimachus; two series of coins from
Cappadocia, and a large collection from Makri in Lycia.

The MS. bibliography of numismatics has been continued
and brought up to date.

A card-index of the types of Greek coins has been begun,
by mounting on cards photggraphs of the coins illustrated in
the Greek Coin Catalogues and other publications, and arranging
them under types.

2. Roman and Byzantine Series :—

37 coins recently acquired have been registered and
incorporated.

12 coins hitherto unattributed have been identified and
incorporated.

The following collections have been examined :—A series of
Roman coins from Silchester ; a hoard of silver silique of the
fourth century A.D., found many years ago between Bath and
Bristol; two collections belonging to the Museums of Lincoln
and Wells.

19 Imperial denarii, Titus—Antoninus Pius and M. Aurelius
Cesar, found at Nottingham and sent as Treasure Trove to
H.M. Treasury, have been examined and reported. upon.

3. British and Colonial Series :-—
121 coins, medals, tokens and tickets, recently acquired,
have been registered and incorporated.
3 coins hitherto unattributed have been identified and
incorporated.

DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 93

The “ Short-Cross ” series has been expanded by the addition
of another cabinet, and various rectifications have been made.
Several records and chronicles bearing on this coinage have
been examined. The coins of Henry V. and Henry VI. have
been re-arranged and heading-cards added.

The English money-changers’ weights for English, Irish and
Portuguese coins have been brought together and arranged.

A bibliography has been begun of monographs and articles
in the periodicals relating to English coins.

A collection of ancient British coins belonging to a private
owner has been examined, and casts from the specimens have
been incorporated in the Museum collection of casts.

A find of 676 ancient British and Roman coins has been
classified and a selection made of specimens desirable for the
Museum.

Two selections of early English and Scottish coins and two
series of coins of William I. and William II. offered for purchase
by dealers have been examined.

4, Mediaeval and Modern Series :—

507 coins, medals and jetons, recently acquired, have been
registered and incorporated.

3 coins hitherto unattributed have been identified and
incorporated.

The series of the coins of America has been expanded from
three to four cabinets.

The series of German historical medals has been expanded
from two to three cabinets, and the French artistic medals,
previously included in the same cabinet, have been placed in a
separate one.

Rectifications have been made in the Russian coin-series
and in the series of the medals of Pope Paul II.

A collection of coins and medals of Europe and America,
offered for presentation, and a small collection of early coins of
Wallachia and Moldavia have been examined.

A MS. subject-list (230 pages, folio) of works on coins and
tokens has been compiled for use in the Department.

Proof-sheets of the Corpus of Italian Coins, in preparation
by H.M. the King of Italy, have been read and collated with
the coins in the British Museum.

5. Oriental Series : —
451 coins, recently acquired, have been registered and
incorporated.

68 coins, hitherto unattributed, have been identified and
incorporated.

94 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

35 uncertain coins in the local issues of Central India have
been identified.

36 coins of Kuch Behar, hitherto unclassified, have been
identified and attributed to nine kings, eight of whom are new
to the Museum series.

The Persian series has been expanded, and the larins have
been classified.

The Corean coin-charms and amulets have been removed
from the Chinese series and arranged separately.

Rectifications have been made in the following series :—
Coinage of the Sultans of Bengal and Delhi; Mughal series ;
coins of Manipur; local series of Northern India; minor
coinages of North-East India.

Two collections of Indian coins offered for presentation, and
a large collection of Muhammadan coins of India have been
examined.

Two collections of coins from Khotan (Stein expedition)
have been examined and identified.

Four collections of Gupta coins belonging to private owners
have been examined and important varieties noted.

A representative selection (with an accompanying Catalogue)
has been made of the coins current at various periods in the
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, for reproduction in
electrotype for the Allahabad Exhibition. The selection will
be subsequently presented by the Trustees of the British
Museum to the Lucknow Museum.

II.— Catalogues.

1. CATALOGUES OF GREEK COINS.

Coins of Philip If., Alexander the Great, and later
Macedonian Kings, by Warwick Wroth.

In preparation for this work, which is expected to extend
to two volumes, and in which the coinage of Lysimachus, King
of Thrace, will be included, a numismatiec and historical biblio-
graphy has been compiled. 600 coins have been weighed,
and 543 verified with the registration-books. The coins of
Cassander, King of Macedon, have been arranged and described.

Coins of Phenicia, by G. F. Hill.

The Indexes have been compiled and a map prepared. The
text (from signature E onwards), and the whole of the Indexes
and Introduction have been passed for press and the volume
published.

Coins of Palestine (Galilea, Samaritis and Judea), by
Gr JH atid

The coins of Diocesarea and Tiberias have been arranged
and described and the historical introductions to these towns

DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 95

and to Sycaminum and Dabora have been written. 1,705 coins
have been weighed.

2. CATALOGUES OF ROMAN AND BYZANTINE COINS.

Coins of the Roman Republic (3 vols.), by H. A. Grueber.

The preparation of the Indexes has been completed. Signa-
tures B-HH (Vol. III.) have been sent to press and the whole
work issued to the public.

Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths and Lombards, and of the
Empires of Nicea and Trebizond, by Warwick Wroth.

The coins of the Empire of Trebizond (from Manuel I.)
have been arranged and described, and the manuscript of the
whole text of the volume has been revised and placed in the
printers’ hands. Signatures B to Dd (pp. 1-208) have been
passed for press, and pp. 1-192 have been indexed. The whole
introduction to the nine sections of the Catalogue has been
written. Plaster casts of the coins have been arranged in
43 plates for the photographer, and all the proofs of the plates
have been passed for press.

3. CATALOGUES OF BRITISH COINS AND MEDALS.

Catalogue of English Coins: Norman Series, by G. C, Brooke.

891 coins of William I. and William II. have been described
and 634 coins have been weighed.

Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and
Ireland (illustrated ed.) by Hawkins, Franks and Grueber.
The compilation of Part XII. has been completed and this
part has been published. Parts XIII. and XIV. have also been
compiled and published. The compilation of Part XV. has been
begun. Indexes to this publication have been begun and
completed as far as Plate XXX.

4, CATALOGUES OF ORIENTAL COINS.

Catalogue of Indian Coins: Coins of the Guptas, by J. Allan.

Descriptions have been written of 731 specimens and 133
have been weighed.

III.— Acquisitions.

The total number of coins and medals added to the
Department during the year 1910 was 1,548, of which 212 were
of gold, 882 of silver, 345 of bronze and 109 of other metals.

96 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The following table shows the numbers of the new acqui-
sitions, classified according to the several series to which they
belong :—

: Other

Class. Gold. | Silver. | Bronze. ‘Wetule, Total.

Greek - - - = 14 210 156 4 384
Roman - . - : il 36 17 — 54
British and Colonial - = 3) 71 27 ye 119
Medizeval and Modern - - 67 367 49 67 550
Oriental = - - . al 198 96 26 441
Total - < 212 882 345 109 1,548

Of the above, 499 have been presented, viz., 69 of gold,
266 of silver, 122 of bronze and 42 of other metals.

The following is a lst of benefactors to the Department
of Coins and Medals during the past year :—

The Royal Geographical Society; the Deputy Master of the
Mint; the Worshipful Company of Musicians; the National
Battlefields Commission of Canada; the Government of the
United Provinces of India; the Government Museum, Madras ;
the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society ; the Superin-
tendent of the Western Circle, Archaeological Survey, Poona ;
J. Allan, Esq.; Professor F. P. Barnard; A. Birtwhistle, Esq. ;
G. A. Black, Esq. ; J. Stephens Blackett, Esq.; Dr. A. E. Bridger ;
A. W. Brown, Esq.; Miss Close; G. W. Daniels, Esq.; Charles
Dawson, Esq.; A. J. Evans, Esq., F.R.S.; Miss Helen Farquhar ;
G. Flowers, Esq.; E. Grant Duff, Esq., c.p.; H. A. Grueber,
Esq., F.S.A.; Rev. A.W. Hands; F. D. Harford, Esq.; F. W.
Hasluck, Esq.; P. Hemingway, Esq.; J. A. Herbert, Esq. ;
Frank C. Higgins, Esq. ; Herbert Hill, Esq.; W. R. Hubbard,
Esq.; Signor Stefano Johnson; Sir A. W. Lawrence, Bart. ;
L. A. Lawrence, Esq.; Alexander Mann, Esq.; J. R. McClean,
Esq.; Mrs. Hester Moggridge; Maung Po Mya, Esq.: W. R.
Nevill, Esq.; J. Edge Partington, Esq.; Dr. T. L. Pennell ;
Professor Harvey Porter; W. T. Ready, Esq.; Edward G. Roe,
Esq.; Max Rosenheim, Hsq., F.S.A.; H. Collingwood Selby, Esq. ;
R. Sutcliffe, Esq.; E. O. Swallow, Esq.; Major P. M. Sykes,
c.m.a.; W. H. Valentine, Esq.; Mrs. Way; F. Parkes Weber,
Esq., M.D.; W. B. Wildman, Esq.'; Howland Wood, Esq. ; Major
Wyndham Wood; A. M. Woodward, Esq.; Dr. 8. Woolf.

IV.—kemarkable Coins and Medals.

1. Greek Series :—-
(a) Burope :—

I taly.—Bruttium.—Caulonia.—A silver stater of the tran-
sitional period; obv. KAV Apollo to r., and stag on basis; rev.
Stag to r. Wt. 121°9 grs,

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Thrace.—Byzantium.—A rare silver denarius, with the
head of Augustus on the obv., and that of Rhcemetalces L.,
king of Thrace, on the rev.; monograms representing KAIZAP

and BAZIAEQ2 POIMHTAAKOY. Wt. 49:4 ers.

Philippopolis.—A bronze coin of Elagabalus; rev. Asklepios.
Presented by W. Rk. Hubbard, Esq.

Mesia.—Istrus.—A silver drachm (4th cent. B.c.); obv.
Two heads facing, side by side, one upside down; rev. IZTPI
Sea-eagle on dolphin; below OY. 76:4 ers.

Presented by E. O. Swallow, Esq.

Thraco-Macedonian. —Lete (?).—A rare stater, of the early
5th century B.c.; obv. Satyr and nymph, and three pellets (as
mark of value?); rev. Male head, with long moustache, facing,
in incuse square. Wt, 141-2 gers.

Macedon.—Kings.-- A large number of coins, including
2 gold, 125 silver and 45 bronze, of Philip II., Alexander ITT.
and his successors, and Lysimachus, king of Thrace.

A silver tetradrachm of Alexander’s types, struck at
Aspendus, with beardless Zeus. Wt. 258°3 grs.
Presented by HE. O. Swallow, Esq.

Locri Opuntit.—A bronze coin of Galba; rev. Male figure
holding phiale, and name of magistrate M. Aur. Serapion.
Presented by A. M. Woodward, Esq.

Acarnania.—Argos Amphilochicum.—A silver coin of the
4th century B.c.; obv. Pegasus flying; below, caduceus; rev.
Female head tol. Wt. 27:1 grs.

Corinth.—A bronze coin of Agrippina Junior ; rev. Figures
of Nero and Britannicus standing.

Corinthian Colony, wneertarn.— A silver coin of the
4th century B.c.; obv. Pegasus flying; below, ear of corn; rev.
Head of Apollo io r.; monogram. Wt. 24°4 grs.

Argolis.—E pidaurus.—A rare silver drachm (of the period
323-240 B.c.); obv. Head of Apollo r.; rev. Asklepios seated,
caressing a serpent; below his throne, a dog. Wt. 71:4 ers.
The reverse type is a reproduction of the famous statue of the
god by Thrasymedes of Paros. From the Philipsen Collection.

Celts of the Rhine District.—A gold stater (“ Regenbogen-
schusselchen”’) ; obv. Dragon coiled in the form of a penannular
bracelet; rev. Six pellets in a semi-circular torque. Wt.
114:1 grs. From the Streehlin Collection.

Gaul.—Twenty-six silver and bronze coins of various mints,
including 11 of Massilia.

Britain.—Hight gold and 4 silver coins, including 1 gold
stater of Addedomarus (84°4 grs.).
A silver coin of the Southern District (as Evans, Pl. F. 7).
Presented by Rev. A. W. Hands.
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A representative selection of 65 silver, base silver, and
bronze coins, from a very important hoard, buried about the
middle of the 2nd century, and found in South Hampshire,
comprising Roman silver and bronze coins, Gaulish imitations
of Roman silver and bronze coins, and native British and
Gaulish coins in silver and bronze. The selection includes
six silver pieces of the S.W. district and of the Channel Islands,
and two (probably Gaulish) imitations of denarii of Julius
Cesar and of Vitellius, both made at the same time; bronze
imitations (probably Gaulish) of coins of Claudius I.; and a
hitherto quite unknown series of cast bronze pieces, repre-
senting the final degradation of the Macedonian head and biga
types from which the British were derived.

(b) Asia and Africa :—

Pontus.—Amasia.—A bronze coin (1st century B.c.) ; obv.
Head of Zeus; rev. AMMAZZEIAZ Eagle on thunderbolt.

Paphlagonia.—Sinope.—A bronze coin with the head of
Julius Cesar; rev. EX:D'D.Cornucopie and globe.

Bithynia.—Apamera (Myrlea)—A bronze coin of the
5rd century B.c.; obv. Head of Athena; rev. Bunch of grapes.

Chalcedon.—A rare silver tetradrachm of the period and
types of Lysimachus, king of Thrace, but with the inscription
KAAXAAONIQN instead of the king’s name. Wt. 256°7 ers.
A product of the autonomous mint granted by Lysimachus to
this city.

Mysia.— Cyzicus.—- A bronze “ medallion” of Severus
Alexander; vev. Laureate bearded bust to right, with the
name of the strategos Aur. Aristeides.

Tonia.—Ephesus.—A bronze coin of Domitian ; rev. Cultus-
statue of the Ephesian Artemis.

Presented by A. M. Woodward, Esq.

Phrygia.—Evriza.— A bronze coin of the 2nd-Ist century
B.c.; obv. Head of Zeus or Poseidon r.; rev. Kagle r,

Phrygia.—Hadrianopolis.—A finely preserved bronze coin
of Gordian ; rev. Apollo as archer.

Lycia.—Dynast Kuprlli (Kubernis).—Cvrre. 480-450 B.c.
A silver coin; obv. Lion, winged and horned, standing; rev.
Triskeles and the inscription KOTT. Wt. 8-2 grs.

Telmessus.—A bronze coin of the 3rd century B.c.; obv.
Radiate head of Helios, facing; rev. Apollo seated 1. on
omphalos.

Cilicia._-Anazarbus.—A bronze coin of Caracalla; rev.
The Koinoboulion seated, holding three statuettes (representing
the three eparchies). ;

Tarsus.—A bronze coin of Caracalla; rev. Crown of the
priest of the imperial cult, set with busts of Emperors.

Presented by F. W. Hasluck, Esq.

Another, of Gordian ; vev. The river god Kydnos.

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Cyprus.—A rare silver stater (mint uncertain; period late
6th century B.c.); obv. Head and fore-foot of lion, jaws open ;
rey. Irregular incuse square. Wt. 126°2 grs. From the
Philipsen Collection.

Cyprus (?).—A silver 4 stater (probably unique) of the
dynast Baana, circ. 450 B.c.; oby. Persian king slaying a lion ;
rev. Bull standing to left; above, Hebrew letters (for Baana).
Wt. 53°8 ors. The only other coins of this dynast known are
staters in the Paris and Glasgow cabinets, usually attributed
to Pheenicia. From the Philipsen Collection.

Syria.—A silver coin, perhaps a Yueh-ti imitation of
Antiochus I. Wt. 9°7 gers.
Presented by Gilbert A. Black, Esq.

Syria.—Antioch.—A specimen of the very rare silver
tetradrachm of Augustus, with rev. Zeus seated. This type,
which continues that used by the later Seleucidze, was super-
seded on the commoner series issued by Augustus, with the
Tyche of Antioch. Wt. 213-9 grs.

Heliopolis.—A bronze coin of Valerian; rev. Athlete
crowning himself with wreath and holding long palm-branch.

Phoenicia.—Tyre.—A silver didrachm (circ. 332-275 B.C.) ;
oby. Tyrian Melkarth riding on hippocamp; rev. Owl with
crook and flail, and date 3. Wt. 136 ers.

Samaria.—N ysa-Scythopolis.—A bronze coin of Marcus
Aurelius ; rev. Dionysos and panther.

Judaea. — Second revolt (A.D. 133-135) under Simon
Barcochab. (a) A silver tetradrachm; obv. Temple; rev.
Citron and bunch of twigs; struck over an Antiochene
tetradrachm of Nerva or Trajan. (0b) Five silver denarii, struck
over older silver coins, one a Cesarean denarius of Trajan ;
remains of the original types or inscriptions are visible.
(c) Five bronze coins; obv. Vine-leaf ; rev. Palm-tree. (d) An
unusually fine and legible specimen of the rare variety of the
largest bronze coin of the same period, apparently re-struck on
a coin of Alexandria; obv. Vase, with Hebrew inscription
“Second year of the deliverance of Israel”; rev. Inscription
“Jerusalem” in wreath. On the commoner variety of this
coin the inscription on the reverse is “Simon Nasi Israel.”

Parthia.—A silver tetradrachm of Phraates IV., dated in
the month Hyperberetaios; rev. Tyche of city presenting a
crown to the King. Wt. 209 grs.

Arabia.—Esbus.—A rare bronze coin of Antoninus Pius;
rev. Zeus seated.

Arabia.—Himyarites.—Two rare silver coins from the
hinterland of Aden (from the Morib side of the frontier):
(a) obv. Male head |., with two Himyarite signs; rev. Bull’s
head facing ; on l., a monogram, 55°2 grs. (b) obv. Male head
r., with curly hair; rev. Bearded head r., and Himyarite sign,
27°5 ors. °

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A silver coin: obv. Head of Apollo (imitated from a Roman
denarius of about 80 B.c.); rev. Owl on amphora between two
Himyarite signs (imitated from Athenian tetradrachms of the
New Style). 83-4 grs.

Abyssinia.—A rare gold. coin of the Kingdom of Axum,
with the busts and names (blundered) of the kings Chaleb and
(his father?) Thezena. Wt. 24°8 grs.

Zeugitana. - Curthage.—Three silver tetradrachms struck
in Sicily, civc. 410-310 B.c.: (a) Nike flying, crowning forepart
of horse; rev. Palm-tree, 269°2 grs. (b) obv. Head of young
Heracles in lion-skin; rev. Head of horse; behind, palm-tree.
261°9 grs. (c) Similar to preceding, but on rev., symbol,
thunderbolt, and traces of Phoenician inscription, 260°9 grs.

Forgeries.—A silver coin of Pisa in Elis, by a Pirzus
forger ; types: head of Zeus and thunderbolt.

Presented by A. M. Woodward, Esq.

Four small silver coins, types: (a) obv. Bull’s head; rev.
Amphora (with Lycian letters). (b) obv. Bull’s head; rev.
Star. (c) obv, Lion’s head; rev. Star (2 varieties). The origin
of these coins, of which numbers have recently been put upon
the market, has been traced to Czesarea Mazaca.

Presented by F. W. Hasluck, Esq.

2. Roman and Byzantine Series :—

Octavian.—Silver denarius struck during 36-29 B.c.; rev.
Shield.

35 silver silique of the second half of the 4th century,
being a selection from a hoard found many years ago at
some place between Bath and Bristol; and a bronze follis of
Constantius Chlorus.

Presented by A. J. Evans, E'sq., F.BR.S.

Libius Severus.—A gold solidus (Gallo-Visigothic imitation),
found near Sittingbourne ; rev. Emperor standing with his foot
on the head of a dragon, holding labarum and Victory ;
mint-mark of Ravenna. Wt. 65°8 gers.

14 small copper coins of the 12th century, attributed to
Manuel] I. and Isaac IT.

Presented by F. W. Hasluck, Esq.
3. British and Colonial Series :—
(a) Coins :—

Pennies of William IT. struck at Chester and Salisbury in
very fine condition, and other rare coins of this reign.

A Leopard and Guiennois of Edward III. and a Pavilion
(Bordeaux) and Hardi d’or (Rochelle) of Edward the Black
Prince.

A London groat of the light coinage of Henry IV. having
the late portrait with aged features, of which only one other

example is at present known.
Presented by A. Birtwhistle, Esq.

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A Bristol halfpenny of Henry VI. struck by Bartholomew
Goldbeter under an indenture of 16 February 1422 which
ordered the issue of groats, half-groats, pennies, halfpennies
and farthings from the York and Bristol mints. This half-
penny is probably unique and the only other denomination at
present known of the Bristoi mint is the groat.

Presented by Alexander Mann, Esq.

A quarter-angel of James I. belonging to his first issue.
This coin is believed to be unique. By an indenture of
21 May 1603, Sir Richard Martyn was ordered to issue the
angel and its parts in accordance with an Order of the 43rd year
of Elizabeth, with the addition of the Scottish title. This
quarter-angel is the only coin at present known which
illustrates this issue ; on it the king is entitled AN.SC.FR.ET
H!.REX, the titles AN.SC. were not used after October 1604,
when a proclamation ordered MAG.BRIT. to be substituted for
them. The reverse bears the royal shield instead of the usual
ship.

Presented by Alexander Mann, Esq.

A pewter farthing of Charies IJ., with the edge inscribed,
NVMMORVM * FAMVLVS # 1685.

A Dorchester token of 1656 issued by Thomas Hall.

Presented by H. Collingwood Selby, Esq.
(b) Medals :—

A memorial badge in silver of Charles I. with his bust in
armour on the obverse and on the reverse the royal cypher ;
this piece is of great rarity, only one other specimen being
known.

Presented by Miss Helen Farquhar.

A silver portrait medal of Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and
Princess Mary, children of Charles i. This portrait of Princess
Mary occurs on other medals by Van Abeele which have on the
reverse the portrait of her son, afterwards King William III.
No other instance of a medallic portrait of Henry, Duke of
Gloucester, is known.

A bronze badge, probably unique, made in 1745 to be worn
by the followers of Prince Charles Edward; it shows within a
floriate border a half-length figure of the Prince in Highland
dress, and around it is the inscription, EN TIBI ME
SCVLPTVM: SCVLPTVM IT POSEAS (sic) IN ARE
(sic): INSCVLPAS CORDI PRECO VERE TVO.

An 18th century Election Ticket in lead, inscribed on the
obverse K. GEORGE FOR EVER, on the reverse LIBERTY
AND PROSPERITY VOTE FOR [DIXON ?] 1755.

Presented by W. B. Wildman, Esq.

A bronze centenary medal of Charles Darwin, by K. Goetz.

Specimens in gold and silver of the Court and Livery Badge
of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Presented by the Master and Livery of the Worshipful
Company of Musicians.

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A bronze medal commemorating the tercentenary of the
Foundation of Quebec.
Presented by the National Battlefields
Commission of Canada.

A specimen in bronze of the gold medal recently presented to
Commander Peary.

Presented by the Royal Geographical Society.

The gold Championship Badge of the Billiard Association of
Great Britain; also one gold and one silver badge for spot-
barred scores, all won by Mr. Charles Dawson.

Presented by Charles Dawson, Esq.

4, Mediaeval and Modern Series :—
(a) Coins :—

An important series of coins, mainly European and North
and South American, including many of considerable rarity of
which the following may be mentioned :——

Europe - - Austria.—Thaler of Leopold I. struck for
the Tyrol.

Burgundy.—A gold noble of Philip le Hardi,
an imitation of the English noble.

France. — 2 francs-a-pied in gold of
Charles V.,]le Sage; another of Jeanne
de Naples struck for Provence.

Germany.—A thaler of Paris, archbishop of
Salzburg.

Spain.—A scudo di oro of Joanna and
Charles I. of Castille; a gold piece of
eight of Charles III.

Portugal.— A half-dobra of Maria and
Peter IIT,

Holland.—A thaler of West Friesland.

North America - United States—A twenty-dollar piece of
1853 ; five dollar pieces of 1798, 1805 and
1845 ; a three-dollar piece of 1854 and a
gold dollar of 1856.
Mexico.—An onza of eight scudos of
Augustin I., 1822-1823, and a _ gold
quarter-onza of the republic, 1849,

Central America Honduras.—A dollar, half- and quarter-

dollar commemorating the foundation of
the republic, 1821.

Guatemala.—A piece of sixteen pesos of
1869 with the head of Carrera, fcunder
ot the republic.

Costa Rica.----A five-peso piece of 1869.

San Salvador.—A ten-peso piece of 1892.

Venezuela. — A twenty-peso piece with
portrait of Bolivar.

DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS, 103

South America - Gold onzas of Chili (1833 and 1851), Ecuador
(1838, 1840 and 1845), Bolivia (1836) and
Argentina (1828).
Presented by Alexander Mann, Esq.

A double bourgeois of Philip IV. of France.
Presented by H. A. Grueber, Hsq, F.8.A.

Some rare French provincial coins, including gold florins of
Jean Costi, Bishop of S. Paul-trois-Chateaux, and Humbert IT.
of Provence; a ducat of Dombes struck by Pierre II. de
Bourbon ; a double écu of Louis II. de Bourbon Montpensier ;
two écus d’or of Gaston, souverain of Dombes; a quadruple
pistole and a double pistole of Besangon under the emperor
Charles V.

Death-thalers of Anhalt, of Prince Rudolf (1621) and Prince
John, his son and successor (1667): a quadruple thaler of
Friedrich Ulrich of Brunswick; a double thaler of Ferdinand
Charles, Archduke of Austria, struck for Tyrol, others of ©
Breslau and Nuremberg; a very rare thaler of Sigismund
Ludwig of Dietrichstein, and other interesting European coins.

From the Holzmann Collection.

Gold coins of Frederick, Emperor of Germany, the first
French Republic, Napoleon I. and Louis XVIII.
Presented by G. W. Daniels, Esq.

Nine silver and five bronze coins of the Portuguese colony
of Goa, struck in the reigns of Jose I., Pedro III. and Maria L.,
Pedro IV., Maria II., Pedro V.
Presented by H. Grant Duff, l'sq., C.B.
Seven copper coins of Cyprus struck by Jacques IJ., and

two Turkish copper pieces counterstruck for Greek churches.
Presented by F. W. Hasluck, Esq.

(b) Medals :—

A German portrait medal of Sebastian Unterholzer and his
wife, of the 16th century, artist unknown.

Three religious medals of the 16th century, probably
executed by a member of the Reinhardt family.

A medal of the emperor Charles V., dated 1550, attributed
with great probability to Hans Reinhardt, the artist who made
the famous Trinity Medal of Duke Moritz of Saxony in 1554.
On the obverse is the Emperor and on the reverse Christ
enthroned.

A silver portrait medal of Christopher Andreas Im Hof.
Bronze Italian medals of Ferdinand IJ. and John Gaston,

Grand Dukes of Treasury, by I. Veber.
Presented by Max Rosenheim, Esq., ¥F.S8.A.

A gold medal of the emperor Frederick IV., and his son
Maximilian I.; one of a series issued by some Prague goldsmiths
in the 16th century.

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A silver medal belonging to the same series as the preceding,
representing Leonora of Portugal, wife of the emperor
Frederick IV.

A bronze medal of Louis XIV. of France struck by the
community of Languedoc to commemorate the peace of Utrecht
in 1713.

A bronze medal of Louis XV. of France struck in 1718,
and other medals. Presented by L. A. Lawrence, Esq.

A bronze medal commemorating the tercentenary of the
canonisation of 8. Charles Borromeo.

Presented by Signor Stefano Johnson.

A German silver medal commemorating the appearance of
Halley’s comet.

A Peruvian gold medal of the Trans-Andine Railway of
1870. Only one other specimen was struck in gold.

Presented by Alexander Mann, Esq.

Four 19th century medals of the Argentine Republic.

Presented by F. D. Harford, Esq.

A portrait medal in silver of the donor as first president of
the New York Numismatic Club.

Presented by Frank C. Higgins, Esq.

5. Oriental Series :-—

A dinar of the Omayyad Khalif Hisham of the year 106 A.H.
Presented by Major Wyndham Wood.

A dirhem of the ‘Abbasid Khalif al-Mamin struck at Faris
204 A.H.

A dirhem of the Buwayhid Amir al-Umara struck at Madinat
as-Salam 333 a.H. Presented by Professor Harvey Porter.

Highteen glass weights of the ‘Abbasid and Fatimid
dynasties.

A silver coin of Nishirwan, the last of the Mongols of Persia,
struck at Hamadhan 750 A.H.

Nine silver coins of the Shaybanids, including coins of Abu
Sa‘id, struck at Bukhara, Tabriz, and Samarkand, and of
Kéchkiinji struck at Bukhara, Isfaram and Meshhed.

A copper coin of the Shirwan Shahs struck at Shirwan
763 A.H. Presented by Major P. Molesworth Sykes, C.M.G.

A silver coin of al-Manstr, Imam of San‘a, of the year
1156 A.H., of an unpublished type.

Presented by EB. G. Roe, Esq.

A gold coin of the Mangit Haidar Tora struck at Bukhara
1218 A.H. and another of Sayyid Sultan of Khokand 1289 a.H.

A bronze coin of Fezzul bin Turki, Imam of Muscat, 1513 A.H.

Presented by F. W. Hasluck, Esq.

A series of silver coins of Isma‘il I[. of Persia of the
mints Ardabil, Astarabad, Timajan, Sabzwar, Ganjah, Lahijan,

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Nakchuvan, Nishapur and Herat, and of Tahmasp I. of
Astarabad, Isfarain, Tabriz, Tui, Ja‘farabad, Sabzwar, Lahijan,
Meshhed, Nishapur and Herat.

A very rare gold coin of Sulaiman I. of Persia struck at
Isfahan 1095 a.H. Wt. 53°4 ors.

A silver coin of Fath ‘Aili Shah of Persia struck at Kazwin
1241 A.H.

A series of silver and bronze coins of recent Shahs of Persia,
of Muhammad, Nasir-ad-din, Muzaftfar-ad-din, Muhammad ‘Ali
and Ahmad, a 3 kran piece commemorating Nasir-ad-din’s visit
to Europe anda specimen of the silver medal distributed by
Muhammad Ali among the troops on the occasion of the
bombardment of Parliament in 1908.

A muhur of Ahmad Shah of Afghanistan struck at
Ahmadshahi in the year 11 of his reign.

A gold coin of Sher ‘Ali struck at Herat 1284 a.H. and a
rupee of Kabul 1295 a.H.

A muhur of Sher ‘Ali struck at Kabul] 1285 4.u.

Presented by the Superintendent of the Archaeological
Survey, Western Crrcle, Poona.

Five Afghan rupees of Shuja-‘al-Mulk (1219: 2 and 1222: 3
A.H.), of Qaisar Shah (year 1), of Ayyub Shah (1234: 1 A.uH.),
and of Nur-ad-din (1227: 5 a.H.), and two copper coins of
Shuja-‘al-Mulk, all of the Kashmir mint.

Presented by Robert Sutcliffe, Esq.

A silver medal of Habib Allah Khan, reigning Amur of
Afghanistan, dated 1323 A.H.

An unpublished silver coin of Muhammad bin Sam.
Presented by Dr. T. L. Pennell.

Two copper coins struck at Lahore in 938 and 939 4A.H.,
probably by Babar before his conquest of India.
Presented by Sir Alexander W. Lawrence, Bart.
A rare rupee of Akbar struck at Lahore: [ahi 39, month
Shahrewar. Presented by Robert Sutcliffe, Esq.
A muhur of the Mughal Emperor Ahmad Shah struck at
Lahore 1164; 4 A.H.
A rupee of the E.1.C. struck at Benares and two of
‘Alamgir II. struck at Bareilly in 1171 and 1172 a.uH.
Presented by the Government of the United Provinces.
Three muhurs of Jaipur in name of Akbar II. (year 7),
Bahadur II. (year 15), and Victoria (1862: 25 a.u.).
A half muhur of Nasr-ad-din of Oudh (1246: 5 a.H.).
A rupee of Jodhpur of Victoria and Takhat Singh.
Presented by G. Flowers, Esq.
A series of modern silver and copper coins of local Indian
states, including Alwar, Bhartpur, Bundi, Gwalior, Jaipur,
Jodhpur, Junagarh and Kacch, and four silver ‘“‘ Ramatankas’”’
and coin amulets. . Presented by F. W. Hasluck, Esq.

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avis Indian rupees, local issues of Jaisalmer, Radhanpur,

and Sind:

A series of 14 gold, silver and copper coins of Indore.
Presented by the Superintendent of the Archaeological
Survey, Western Circle, Poona.

A muhur of Afdal-ad-daulah of Haidarabad, 1277 a.n.
Presented by Alexander Mann, Esq.

A very fine collection of 57 gold, 9 silver and 7 copper coins
of the Gupta dynasty, including a unique variety of the
“ Tiger’ type, two new varieties of the “ Battle Axe” type and
specimens of the “ Asvamedha” and “Lyrist” types of
Samudragupta I., 326-375 -a.D. ; three unpublished varieties of
the “ Archer” type, two new varieties of “ Horseman” type
and three of the “ Lion” type of Candragupta I., 375-414 a.H.;
a new variety of the “Archer” type, a new variety of the
“Lion” type and two unpublished varieties of the “ Lion’’ type
of Kumaragupta I., 414-455 a.D.; a specimen of the rare
“ King and Queen” type of Skandagupta, 455-480 a.D., and a
fine specimen of the gold coinage of Prakas‘aditya c. 480-
490 A.D.

A new variety of the “Lion” type of Candragupta IL.,
giving a new title “ Sinhacandra,” and another on which the
goddess on the reverse holds a cornucopie in place of the usual
lotus.

A fine specimen of the rare variety of the “ Lion” type of
Kumaragupta I., giving the title Paradhasinhavikrama.

Five silver mohars of Cakravartindra and Vira Mahindra of
Kathmandi, of Rana Bahadur and Girvana Yuddha of Nepal,
two rare gold coins of Queen Suvarnadevi of Nepal and a rare
silver rupee of Nara Narayana of Kuch-Behavr.

Presented by Sir Alexander W. Lawrence, Burt.

Thirteen gold and ten silver coins of Nepal, including every
denomination issued by Surenda Vikrama and Prthvi Vira
Vikrama, and rare gold and silver coins of the Queens Trailokya
Laksmi and Sura Laksmi from the collection of the late Sir
Maurice Holzmann.

Five lead coins of the Andhra dynasty found in the
Anantapur district:
Presented by the Government Museum, Madras.

Two rare lead coins of the Andhra kings, Dhutukalananda
and Mulananda, from a find in the Karwar district.
Presented by the Bombay Branch of the
Royal Asiatie Socrety.

An early gold uninscribed coin of globular fabric of South
India.

Hight gold pagodas and half pagodas of Harihara I., Deva
Raya II., Krsna Raya and Acyuta Raya of Vijayanagara from
a find at Basim, Akula district.

Presented by the Government of the Central Provinces.

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South Indian imitation in gold of a sequin of the Doge
Alviso Mocenigo III.
A gold pagoda of Krsna Raya, two of Acyuta Raya of
Vijayanagara and a gold coin of the Cera dynasty.
A gold pagoda of the Cera dynasty found in the Malabar
district. Presented by the Government Museum, Madras.
- A rare gold coin of Jayakesideva of the Kadamba dynasty.
Two copper coins of Muhammad ‘Ali, Nawab of the
Carnatic. Presented by J. Stephens Blackett, Esq.
A series of 43 gold, silver, and copper XVIIIth century
local issues of South India
Presented by the Government Museum, Madras.
Twenty-two copper coins of the Maldive Islands from 1750
to the present day of ‘Imad-ad-din, ‘Izz-ad-din, Muiz-ad-din,
Nur-ad-din, Muin-ad-din and Imad-ad-din.
A rare large lead coin of Tenasserim. |
Presented by Maung Po Mya, Esq.

6. Chinese Series :— | oes)

A silver rupee struck by the late Chinese Emperor Kuang
Hsii for the Province of Ssu-Chuan, having a bust of the
Kmperor on the obverse.

A quarter dollar of the Emperor Kuang Hsii struck at
Mukden. Presented by Herbert Hill, Esq.

V.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits made to the Department of Coins
and Medals by students and others during the year 1910
was 4,228.

H, A. Grueber,

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British Museum (NaTuRAL History).

STATEMENT of PRoGRESS made in the ARRANGEMENT and
DESCRIPTION of the COLLECTIONS, and Account of OBJECTS
added to them, in the Year 1910.

GENERAL PROGRESS.

Visitors:

The total number of visits made by the public to the
Natural History Museum during 1910 was 515,562, as compared
with 535,116 in 1909. The number of visits on week days was
457,804, and on Sunday afternoons 57,758; both these figures
are less than those of the previous two years.

The average daily attendance for all open days was 1,424;
for week days only, 1,477; and for Sunday afternoons, 1,111.

Swiney Lectures.

Dr. T. J. Jehu gave his second course of Swiney Lectures
during November, the subject for the year being “The Coasts
of Great Britain and Ireland.”

The lectures, twelve in number, were delivered in the
lecture theatre of the Victoria and Albert Museum by permis-
sion of the Board of Education, and the total attendance for
the course was 2,321 persons, or an average of 193 per Jecture.

The Trustees have re-appointed Dr. Jehu to the Swiney
Lectureship for a further period of two years (191i-12). The
subject of the lectures in 1911 will be “ Rocks: their origin
and natural history.”

Destructive Action of Light.

In connection with the question of the deterioration of
exhibited specimens caused by the action of light, tests by the
National Physical Laboratory are in progress with a view to _
ascertain (a) the effect of exposure of skins of animals (from
the duplicate series) to full sunlight, and (b) the light-filtering
properties of certain kinds of glass.

Interim reports on the subject have heen received, and
further experiments are in progress at the Laboratory with a
view to determining this very important question.

In the meanwhile the windows of the Lower Mammal
Gallery are being fitted with opaque blinds to exclude all light
during the hours when the Museum is not open.

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New Buildings.

The new room on the second flcor, over the east corridor, to
provide much needed accommodation for the Herbarium of
British Plants, and the new offices on the same floor on the

west side, have been completed by His Majesty’s Office of
Works.

Northern Boundary and Spirit Building.

Correspondence has passed between the Trustees and the
First Commissioner of His Majesty’s Works, &c., relative to
the land on the northern boundary of the Museum, and to a
proposal made by the First Commissioner to remove the Spirit
Building to another site on the western side of the Museum
grounds.

International Shooting and Field Sports Exhibition,
Vienna.

His Majesty’s Government having decided to be represented
officially at the International Shooting and Field Sports Exhi-
bition, which was held in Vienna in the summer of 1910, the
Trustees agreed, at the request of the President of the Board
of Trade, to assist Lord Desborough, Chairman of the Exhibi-
tion Committee appointed by that Department, in the formation
of a collection of the big game animals of the British Empire
for the British Section at the Vienna Exhibition; and the
organization and arrangements for getting together the speci-
mens, their reception at the Museum, and transmission to
Vienna, were carried out under the supervision of Mr. C. E.
Fagan, the Assistant Secretary of the Museum.

International Congresses.

The Hon. L. Walter Rothschild represented the Natural
History Museum at the Eighth International Zoological Con-
gress, held at Graz in August, the First International Congress
of Entomology, held at Brussels in the same month, and at
the Fifth International Ornithological Congress, held at Berlin
from 30th May to 4th June. Dr. Harmer, Keeper of the
Zoological Department, also represented the Museum at the
Congress at Graz; whilst Dr. Rendle, Keeper of Botany, acted
as delegate from the Museum at the Third International
Congress of Botany, held at Brussels in May, and Dr. Bather,
Assistant-Keeper, Department of Geology, attended, as the
Museum delegate, the Eleventh International Geological Con-
gress, held at Stockholm in August.

Destruction of Plumage Birds.

On the invitation of Lord Crewe, Secretary of State for the
Colonies, the Trustees appointed Dr. Harmer, Mr. Fagan, and
Mr. Ogilvie-Grant to represent the Museum at a conference

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with representatives of the Colonial Office and other Depart-
ments as to the possibility of securing effective legislation on
the subject of the destruction of plumage birds.

Board of Agriculture Advisory Committee.

On the invitation of Lord Carrington, Dr. Harmer has been
allowed to join an Advisory Committee of the Board of Agri-
culture and Fisheries for the consideration of various questions
with which the Board are from time to time required to deal in
connection with scientific research in relation to agriculture.

Expedition to Christmas Island.

Mr. R. Kirkpatrick, an Assistant in the Zoological Depart-
ment, was granted a period of extra leave to enable him to go
on a mission to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, with the
object of obtaining for the Museum specimens of a certain rare
and valuable sponge known to exist in those regions.

Mr. Kirkpatrick, who received considerable assistance from
the Christmas Island Phosphate Company, was successful in
attaining the object of his mission, and the Museum has thereby
secured several specimens of this interesting sponge.

Mv. F.C. Selous: Eaupedition to Central Africa.

The Trustees have accepted an offer by Mr. F. C. Selous to
go early in 1911 on a mission to the Bahr-el-Ghazal and the
Lado district of Central Africa, with the special object of
obtaining for the Museum specimens of the Sudan eland
and certain other large mammals; and have agreed to assist
Mr. Selous by making a small grant towards the expenses of
his expedition.

Lord Walsingham’s Collection of Micro-Lepidoptera.

Lord Walsingham’s collection of Micro-Lepidoptera and
Entomological Library have been safely received at the
Museum, and accommodated in the room aliotted to them.

The increase of staff necessary for the proper management
of this large collection has been provided.

(See last year’s Return, p. 102.)

Bequest.

The Museum has received a valuable bequest of mineral
specimens from the late Frederic Tendron, F.G.S., for many
years Chairman of the St. John del Rey Mines, Brazil, by
whose will the Keeper of the Mineral Department was
requested to select from his collection any specimens con-
sidered worthy to be placed in the Museum. Altogether
54 specimens were selected, including rich examples of gold
and a remarkable group of crystals of Pyrrhotite.

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Specimens received on Deposit.

Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N., has been allowed to
deposit in the Museum his collection of Lepidoptera during his
absence in India, on certain conditions, and subject to the
understanding that it be left by will to the Trustees.

_ Mr. Willoughby Gardner having offered to supplement the
recently acquired Entomological collections of the late Mr. E.
Saunders, F.R.S., by the gift of Mr. Saunders’s collection of
about 300 microscope slides of entomological preparations,
provided he (Mr. Gardner) might have, during his lifetime, a
right to borrow a selection of the slides occasionally for home
study, the Trustees have agreed to receive the collection on
deposit in accordance with Mr. Gardner’s wishes.

Presents.

The total number of gifts received during the year by the
several Departments was 2,235, as compared with 2,295 in 1909.
Many of these comprised large numbers of individual] specimens.
The details of all the more important of them will be found in the
reports of the Keepers of the several Departments, but the
following may be mentioned here as of special interest :—

From His late Majesty King Edward VII.—The skeleton
of his thoroughbred horse “ Persimmon,” winner of the Derby
in 1896; presented by His Majesty as a mark of the great
interest which he had long taken in the British Museum.

From Mr. C. D. Rudd.—A valuable collection of specimens
from British East Africa, consisting of 345 mammals (including
the types of 20 new species), hesides some birds and insects ;
being the first consignment of specimens obtained from a
zoological exploration of British Hast Africa undertaken by
Mr. Rudd for the benefit of the Museum, in continuation of
his systematic survey of the fauna of our African territories.

From the subscribers to an expedition to Lake Ngami and
neighbourhood, undertaken by Mr. R. B. Woosnam and the
Hon. Gerald Legge.—A valuable collection of zoological speci-
mens, comprising 89 mammals, 168 birds, 75 reptiles, 86 fishes,
and 150 diptera.

From Mr. Ivor Buxton.—The type-specimen of a new
Antelope, Strepsiceros buatoni, or “ Spotted Kudu,” shot by
him in the Sahatu Mountains, N.W. Gallaland.

From Mr. H. 8. Thornicroft.—The complete skin, with skull
and leg-bones, of a male Giraffe of large size, belonging to the
small herd remaining in Petauke, N.E. Rhodesia.

From the relatives of the late Mr. T. C. Briscoe-—An
exceptionally fine mounted head of an Indian Rhinoceros,
bearing a horn believed to be of record size.

From Mr. F. D. Godman.—2,650 specimens of various
orders of Insects added to the collection during the year 1909.

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From the Rev. F. D. Morice.—The collection of British
Hymenoptera formed by the late Mr. Edward Saunders, F.R.S.

From an anonymous donor (through Mr. Guy A. K.
Marshall).—The specimens of palzarctic Rhynchota which
formed part of the entomological collection of the late Edward
Saunders, F.R.S.

From the Premier (Transvaal) Diamond Mining Co., Ltd.—
An interesting series of specimens from the Premier Mine.

From the Directors of the De Beers Consolidated Mines
Ltd., Kimberley.—A comprehensive and carefully selected
series of 66 specimens of rocks and minerals from the De
Beers and associated diamond mines.

From Prof. K. Oebbeke, of Munich.—An interesting series
of minerals from Epprechtstein, Bavaria.

From Sir Joseph D. Hooker.—A bust of his father, Sir
William Hooker, and portraits of several well known botanists
and collectors of the earlier part of the last century.

From Mrs. A. J. Godden.—A collection of British plants,
dried in sand, for exhibition in the Botanical Gallery.

From Mr. J. 8. Shenstone, F.L.S.—His collection of 1,000
photographic slides of British wild plants.

Purchases.

Among the more important purchases made during the
year, special mention may be made of the following :--

The third instalment of Canon Norman’s collection of
Atlantic and Arctic Invertebrates, other than insects, con-
sisting of about 3,290 specimens of sponges (including 195 types
and 184 co-types) and of a number of specimens of Hydrozoa,
Anthozoa, Crustacea, ete.

The third and last portion of the Jacoby collection of
phytophagous coleoptera, consisting of 3,981 specimens and
including 934 types.

The first instalment of the collection of coleoptera from
Japan and Ceylon formed by Mr. G. Lewis, of Tunbridge Wells,
including about 400 species from Japan and about 1,600 species
from Ceylon.

The collection of Palearctic Hymenoptera formed by the
late Mr. Edward Saunders, F.R.S.

A mounted head of the Northern White Rhinoceros, killed
by Major Powell Cotton.

A collection of specimens illustrating the rate of growth
and the food of certain fishes.

The second and final instalment of the Seeley collection
of fossil reptiles, chiefly from the Karoo formation of South
Africa.

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 113

Large portions of two skeletons of the Iguanodont
Dinosaur Trachodon, from the Cretaceous Laramie formation
of Wyoming.

Remains of Hippopotamus and Cervus, collected by Miss
D. M. A. Bate from caverns of Crete.

Fossil marine reptiles from the Oxford Clay of Peter-
borough, including a skeleton of Steneosaurus.

A series of 26 selected diamonds typical of the products
of the De Beers, Kimberley, Bultfontein, Dutoitspan, and
Wesselton mines, South Africa. (The purchase price for
these diamonds represented about half the market value of
the stones.)

A magnificent crystal of the rare mineral Hambergite,
unique in size, from Madagascar.

A fragment of the meteoric stone found at Lampa, Sierra
de Chicauma, Chile.

A slice of the meteoric iron found at Shrewsbury, York Co.,
Fennsylvania.

ELachanges and Gifts of Duplicates.

Exchanges of duplicate specimens have been made with
various institutions and individuals.

The following have been added to the list of institutions
to receive grants of duplicate specimens, namely :—The Museum
of the North Staffordshire Field Club, Hanley ; the Borough
Museum, Battersea; the Louth Naturalists’ Antiquarian and
Literary Society; the Botanical Department of Sheffield
University ; the L.C.C. Training College, Avery Hill, Eltham,
Kent; and Shrewsbury School Museum.

Selections of duplicate specimens have been presented as
follows :—

Of zoological specimens—to the Museum of the Training
Ship “ Worcester”; the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh ;
Oxford University Museum; Manchester Museum; the North
Staffordshire Field Club Museum, Hanley; the Indian Museum,
Calcutta ; the South African Museum, Cape Town; Canterbury
Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand; Auckland Museum,
New Zealand; the American Museum of Natural History,
New York; Mr. C. Sternberg; Dr. Max Bernhauer; Mr. Adolf
Schmidt ; Dr. Roemer ; Senor Longinos Navas; Mr. H. Wagner ;
Mr. W. H. Whitelock ; Mr. A. Grouvelle; Dr. H. W. van der
Weele; Mr. W. Schaus; Mr. Isaac B. Ericson; Prof. J. J.
Gillet ; Mr. C. L. Boulenger; Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell; Prof.
Dr. J. J. Kieffer: and Prof. C. Aurivillius.

Of fossils and casts of fossils—-to the University of St.
Andrews; University College, London; Bristol Museum;
Radcliffe Museum ; Mr. G. G. Dixon: and Prof. W. J. Sollas.

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Of mineral specimens and casts—Kelvingrove Museum,
Glasgow; Prof. Joly, Dublin University; Messrs. Wernher,
Beit & Co.; Mr. Alexander Knaus; Dr. D. Mawson; and
Mr. J. S. Neil.

Of botanical specimens—to Bristol Museum.

(N.B.— All the endividuals named have presented specimens
or otherwise benefited the Museum. )

Publications.

The following works on Natural History have been pub-
lished during the year :—

Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Drawings
in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. III., L-O.
Pp. 1039-1494. 4to. £1.

National Antarctic (Discovery) Expedition, 1901-4.
Natural History. Vol. V. Zoology and Botany. Six memoirs
by various authors. Pp. ix., 212; 28 plates, 19 text-figures.
4to. £1 10s.

Monograph of the Okapi. By Sir E. Ray Lankester, K.c.B.,
&c. Atlas, compiled with the assistance of W. G. Ridewood,
p.sc. 48 plates, with xxii. pp. of Explanations, &c. 4to.
£1 5s.

Catalogue of the Marine Reptiles of the Oxford Clay.
Based on the Leeds Collection in the British Museum (Natural
History). Part I. By C. W. Andrews, D.sc., F.R.S. Pp. xxiii.
205 ; 94 text-figures, 11 plates. 4to. £1 5s.

Monograph of the Culicide, or Mosquitoes. Vol. V. By
Fred V. Theobald, m.a. Pp. xv., 646; 6 plates, 261 text-figures.
8vo. £1 5s.

Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalzeneze (Moths) in the British
Museum. By Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart. :—
Vol. IX. Catalogue of the Noctuide (Acronyctine, III.).
Pp. xv., 552; 247 text-figures. 8vo. 15s.
——— Atlas of 11 coloured plates. 8vo. 12s.

Vol. X. Catalogue of the Noctuide (Erastriane). Pp. xix.,
829 ; 214 text-figures. Svo. £1.

Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. By W. F. Kirby.
Vol. III. Orthoptera Saltatoria, Part II. (Locustile vel
Acridiide.) Pp. vii., 674. 8vo. £1.

Catalogue of British Hymenoptera of the Family Chalcidide.
By G. Morley. Pp. 74. 8yvo. 3s. 6d.

Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the Flowering
Plants known from theIsland. By W. Fawcett, B.sc., F.L.S., and
A. B. Rendle; p.se:, F.n.s. .Vol. I. Orchidaces. “Pp? xx peua0.
32 plates. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

Guide to the British Vertebrates exhibited in the Depart-
ment of Zoology. By “i P. Pyeraft. Pp. iv., 122; 26 text-
figures, 1 plan. 8vo.

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Guide to the Crustacea, Arachnida, Onychophora, and
Myriopoda exhibited in the Department of Zoology. By W. T.
Calman, D.sc., A. S. Hirst, and F. J. Bell. Pp. 133. 90 text-
figures. 8vo. Ils.

Guide to Mr. W.G. Smith’s Drawings of Field and Culti-
vated Mushrooms, and Poisonous or Worthless Fungi often
mistaken for Mushrooms, exhibited in the Department of
Botany. Pp. 24; 2 plates, containing 28 coloured figures ;
4 text-figures. Svo. ls.

New editions have been issued of the following Guide-
Books :—

Guide to the Gallery of Birds in the Department of Zoology.
By W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. Second edition. Pp. iv., 228;
25 plates, and 7 text-figures. 4vo. 2s. 6d.

Guide to the Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fishes in the
Department of Geology and Paleontology. Ninthedition. By
A. S. Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S. Pp. xviil., 110; 8 plates and
116 text-figures. 8vo. 9d.

Introduction to the Study of Minerals, with a Guide to the
Mineral Gallery. By L. Fletcher, m.a., F.R.s. Thirteenth
Edition. Pp. 123; 41 woodcuts, 1 plan. S8vo. 6d.

Special Guide, No. 4.—Memorials of Charles Darwin.
Second edition. By W. G. Ridewood, D.se. Pp. vi. 50;
2 plates. 8vo. 6d.

Selections of the natural history publications of the Museum
have been sent to Free Libraries and other institutions in
Great Britain and Ireland, to Colonial, Indian, and foreign
Museums, Libraries, and Scientific Societies, and to a number
of persons who have benefited the Museum by helping in the
preparation of the volumes, or in other ways; and additions
have been made to the publications-exchange list.

The undermentioned works are in preparation :—

Catalogue of the Library, Vol. VI.

National Antarctic (Discovery) Expedition, 1901-4. Natural
History, Vol. VI.

Catalogue of Bats, by Dr. Knud Andersen.

Catalogue of Birds’ Eggs, Vol. V., by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant.

Catalogue of Mammals of Western Europe, by Gerrit S.
Miller.

Catalogue of the Fresh-water Fishes of Africa, Vol. III., by
G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S.

Illustrations of Asiatic Blood-sucking Flies, with text by
i. E. Austen.

Handbook of the Tsetse-Flies, by E. E. Austen, with plates
by A. J. Engel Terzi.

Catalogue of Moths, Vol. XI., by Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart.

Catalogue of Polychzte Worms, by Dr. J. H. Ashworth.

Catalogue of Marine Reptiles of the Oxford Clay, Part IT.,
by Dr. C. W. Andrews, F.R.S.

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Catalogue of Fossil Fishes, Part V., by Dr. A. S.
Woodward, F.R.S.

Monograph of Mycetozoa, by A. Lister, F.R.s. New edition,
revised and enlarged.

Flora of Jamaica, by W. Fawcett, Vol. IT.
Catalogue of the Sloane Herbarium, by J. Britten.

GENERAL LIBRARY.

The additions to the General Library during the past year
have been :—

By purchase - - - 318 volumes.
By transfer from other
Departments - - - 15 volumes.
By donation - - - 625 volumes, 22 maps, and

46 photographs.
TOTAL - “ 958 volumes, 22 maps, and
46 photographs.

All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press-
marked, and put in their places; 575 volumes have been
bound in 332, and none have been repaired.

The extent of the collection on the 3lst of December was
39,954 volumes, 5,699 maps, and 525 photographs (not including
those in the Owen Collection of Drawings, &c.).

The accessions to the Departmental Libraries have also been
catalogued as they came in, and duplicate ane of the
titles have been returned with the books.

Altogether 2,580 title-slips have been written, 447 re-
written, and 5,602 revised Gndependently of those prepared for
printing).

There are now, on a rough estimate, 87,932 volumes (ex-
elusive of continuations and minor separate items) and 6,031
maps in the whole building.

The printing of the Catalogue was proceeded with, Vol. III.
(L-O) was issued, and the work at the end of the year stood as
follows :—

No. of sheets jneee for press (A—Penn) - ~ (193
No. of title-slips set up in type (A—Popp) - - 45,496

A list of ‘‘ Place-Numbers of the Societies and other Corporate
Bodies issuing Serial Publications, and of the independent
Periodical Publications, with an alphabetical Index of the
Places of Publication,” was prepared, printed, and issued for
the use of the staff of the Museum.

The number of visits paid to the Library during the year
by students and others (irrespective of the staff and persons to
whom the use of a key is granted) was 2,177.

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). qa

INDEX MUSEUM AND MORPHOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS.

All the dissections exhibited in the Central Hal! have been
examined during the course of the year; 17 glass vessels have
been refilled with alcohol, and 14 dissections and 7 dry prepara-
tions have been remounted, and 8 new preparations have been
added, including dissections of parts of Manatee, Porpoise and
Whale.

A model of the Common House Fly (Musca domestica),
enlarged to the same extent (28 diameters) as those of the
Tsetse Fly and Mosquitoes already exhibited, has been made
and placed on a special table in the middle of the Hall, together
with actual specimens of the four species of Fly commonly
found in houses. Models of the larva and pupa of Musca
domestica will be added in due course.

The series of 153 Insects exhibiting Mimetic Resemblance
has been revised and listed.

In consequence of the continued interest taken by the
public in the series of 251 specimens and groups of specimens
brought together in 1909 in commemoration of the centenary
of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 50th anniversary of the
publication of “The Origin of Species,” this series, known as
the ‘‘ Darwin Exhibition,” has been allowed to remain intact
during the year. A second edition of the Special Guide Book
“ Memorials of Charles Darwin” was published on March 3rd
1910.

A set of some 150 animals and parts of animals has been
selected and arranged as a preliminary or trial series for an
“Index Case,” to explain the general classification of the
animal kingdom, and to indicate in what part of the Museum
a visitor may find any particular group of animals he may
wish to study. The series, being but a tentative one, is not yet
on exhibition.

In the Economic Series in the North Hall 6 additions have
been made, 108 specimens have been remounted in alcohol, and
129 labels have been redrafted and typewritten.

In the Arthropod Gallery one new dissection has been
introduced, and 6 specimens in alcohol have been remounted.

Two new preparations in alcohol have been added in the
Shell Gallery.

In the Whale Gallery a model of the ear of Balenoptera
has been added.

L. Fletcher,
Director.

British Museum (Natural History),
25 February, 1911.

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DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY.
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.

MAMMALIA.

Among the additions noted below, attention may be directed
to the gift by Mr. Ivor Buxton of the type-specimen of a new
species of Antelope from the Mountains of Galialand. The
remounting of the large male Orang-utan is also a noteworthy
feature.

New cases fitted in the first bay on the right of the Upper
Mammal Gallery have entailed a re-arrangement of the Bats ;
and further changes in this Gallery are now in progress in
order to relieve the congestion in the gallery below. The
Rodents have already been moved to the Upper Gallery; while
in the Lower Gallery the Edentates have been transferred to
one of the cases formerly occupied by the Rodents, and the
Tapirs and the Rhinoceros heads and skulls have been shifted
from the west end of the Gallery to a case further east. This
has liberated a case at the West end for the expansion of the
series of Oxen; and has also given additional room for the
Carnivora on the South, and for the Deer on the North side.
The descriptive and other labels in the galleries have been
revised as occasion required, and many new ones added.

The additions to the exhibition series by presentation
include the following specimens :—Three large photographs of
Red Indian Chiefs, presented by the Southern Pacific Company.
An Orang-utan, presented by Dr. Charles Hose. A Mona
Monkey from the Zoological Society’s Gardens. A White-
fronted Langur, presented by O. Thomas, Esq. A Javan
Tupai, or Tree-Shrew, presented by W. HE. Balston, Esq. An
African Hunting-Dog, the gift of the Hon. Gerald Legge. <A
Malay Tiger, the gift of D. Hay, Esq. A young Leopard-Seal,
presented by Sir Ernest Shackleton. A Monk-Seal, from the
Zoological Society’s Menagerie. A Black Scaly-tailed Squirrel,
presented by Rowland Ward, Esq. Two Pigmy Squirrels, the
gift of O. Thomas, Esq., F.R.S. Two Canadian Beavers, presented
by A. P. Leeston Smith, Esq. A Striped Mouse, a Crest-tailed
Mouse, and two African Bamboo-Rats, the gift of C. D. Rudd,
Esq. Head of Kenia Buffalo, presented by D. O. Roberts, Esq.
Head of Kwilu Buffalo, presented by M. W. Hilton-Simpson,
Esq. Horns of a Buffalo from Lake Chad district, presented
by Dr. H. K. W. Kumm. Skull and horns of Siamese Tsaine,
presented by A. A. Porter, Esq. Two skulls and horns of
Burmese Tsaine, presented by H. R. Cook, Esq. Head of Sable
Antelope, presented by G. J. Muir, Esq. A Kennion’s and
a Seistan Gazelle, the gift of Major R. L. Kennion. A
Mongolian Gazelle, presented by Robert Hayne, Esq. A new
Gazelle, presented by M. V. Hay, Esq. Head of White Bighorn

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Sheep, presented by Staff-Surgeon C. R. Rickard. Horns of
Waterbuck and Reedbuck, presented by Rowland Ward, Ksq.
The type-specimen of the Mountain Nyala (Spotted Kudu) and
a Menelik’s Bushbuck, presented by Ivor Buxton, Esq. Type
antlers of the Tibetan Wapiti, presented by Rowland Ward,
Esq. A Caucasian Red Deer, presented by the Duke of
Bedford, K.G. A Bridgeman’s Muntjac, presented by Lieut.
the Hon. R. O. B. Bridgeman, R.N. Hornof a Black Rhinoceros
from a well in Cape Colony, presented by S. Nicholson, Esq. A
Cuscus, presented by Dr. E. Alves.

One or two preparations, illustrating the structure of
Sirenia, have been prepared from a Manatee, presented by
E. Salis Schwabe, Esq.; and have been placed in the Central
Hall.

The only specimen of any importance acquired by purchase
is the mounted head-skin, with the horns, of the type-specimen
of the Northern race of the White Rhinoceros.

Whale-Room.—The work of replacing the stuffed skins of
Dolphins by coloured plaster models has been continued as
opportunity occurred; and several such models have been
prepared and installed. Some specimens of ear-bones of Fin-
Whales caught off the Coast of Mayo, and presented by D. G.
Lillie, Esq., have been added to the case devoted to this part of
the skeleton ; and a model of the internal ear of a Rorqual has
‘likewise been prepared and placed in the same case. A miniature
model of an explosive whaling harpoon has been placed on
exhibition on the East wall of the Gallery. A new case for
Dolphin and other skulls has been erected at the South end.

The replacement of the above-mentioned Dolphin skins by
models has set at liberty several table-cases, which have been
utilised in the North Hall.

Specimens illustrating the food of Rorquals off the Coast of
Mayo have been placed on the East wall, and a new explanatory
label has been printed; the specimens were presented by
Mr. Lillie. Plates of whalebone (belonging to two species of
Whales), presented by the Oriental Whaling Co., Osaka, Japan,
have been affixed to the wall on the opposite side of the room ;
while another specimen (pertaining to the Common Rorqual),
presented by the same Company, has been placed in a case on
the same side.

One or two dissections, illustrating the structure of Porpoises
and Whales, have been placed in the Central Hall.

Study Series :—

The usual work of labelling, registering, and incorporating
the mammals added to the collection has been continued.

Fifteen cabinets for storing medium-sized Mammal skins
and two cabinets for the skins of small Mammals have been
added, and placed in the New Mammal Room; the entire
collection of Rodents (excepting the Hares and Rabbits) has
been transferred into the new Room, and the collection, for the

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most part, rearranged. A block of six new cabinets for storing
medium-sized Mammal skins has been placed in the Upper
Mammal Gallery.

The Department is again much indebted to volunteer helpers
for valuable assistance in working out new forms of Mammals.
The following gentlemen should be specially mentioned in this
eonnection:—Mr. R. C. Wroughton, Dr. Knud Andersen,
Mr. Wilfred Osgood, Mr. H. C. Robinson, Mr. Gerrit S. Miller,
Major G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, and Mr. Ernst Schwarz.

A series of 48 Plates, with the necessary explanations, has
been published as the Atlas to a Monograph of the Okapi. The
Plates, which had been prepared for Sir E. Ray Lankester,
K.C.B., F.R.S., at the time when he was Director of the Natural
History Departments, were arranged for publication under his
supervision, with the assistance of Dr. W. G. Ridewood.

The services of Dr. Knud Andersen have been continued
for the preparation of the new Catalogue of Chiroptera.

Mr. Gerrit S. Miller has completed the manuscript of the
Catalogue of the Mammals of Western Europe and the work is
now in the printer’s hands. The thanks of the Department
are due to Mrs. Oldfield Thomas and Mr. R. C. Wroughton for
assistance in preparing the lists of the specimens for this
Catalogue.

A Guide to the British Vertebrates is noticed below, under
Se Atviess«

The re-arrangement of the skeleton collection in the Osteo-
logical Room (old Whale-Room) has made great progress. All
the larger groups of the Mammalia are now disposed of so as to
permit of quick reference to any specimens that may be required.
The vertebrz of several Whales have been suspended from the
ceiling, thus economising the floor-space; while such portions
of the skeletons as could not be suspended have been arranged
in large drawers. These have been constructed in such a way
as to utilise the space under a large platform set up near the
windows in order to carry tables for the use of students.

The work of arranging the Anthropological Collections has
been commenced.

DOMESTICATED ANIMALS.

The additions to the series in the North Hall include the
following :—A Cocker Spaniel, presented by R. de C. Peele,
Esq. A Pyrenean Guard-Dog, the gift of S. Mason, Esq.
Skeleton of a Schipperke Dog, presented by Rowland Ward,
Esq. An Irish Terrier, presented by H. E. Smith, Hsq. Skull
of Patagonian Dog, presented by J. A. Wolffsohn, Esq. A
Skye Terrier, presented by Miss McCheane. Head of a King
Charles Spaniel, the gift.of Mrs. Pinto Leite. Skeleton of
Thoroughbred Stallion ‘“ Persimmon,” presented by H.M. King
Edward VII. Skeleton of Thoroughbred Stallion ‘‘ Ayrshire,”
presented by the Duke of Portland, K.G. Chartley Bull,
presented by Colonel W. N. Congreve, V.C. Skulland horns of
Hungarian Cow, presented by the Royal Hungarian Minister of

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Agriculture. Skull and horns of Ngami Ox, presented by
R. A. Bailey, Esq.

A Runner Drake, presented by J. W.Walton, Esq.

In order to make room for the new Chartley Bull, a
re-arrangement of many of the cases was undertaken; while
the release of several table-cases from the Whale-Room
enabled the Sheep and the Models of Horses to be displayed to
better advantage.

AVES.

The remounting of the series of Birds in the General Gallery
has been continued and the old and faded specimens of the
Families Conopophagide and Formicariide have been replaced
by finely mounted examples, the work of Messrs. Rowland
Ward.

The mounted series of Birds in the British Saloon has now
been fully labelled; and species recently added to the British
List have been represented.

The re-arrangement and re-labelling of the Gould collection
of Humming-Birds has been continued during the year, and is
nearing completion.

A “Guide to the British Vertebrates Exhibited in the
Department of Zoology ” has been published.

The preparation of the fifth volume of the “ Catalogue of
the Collection of Birds’ Eggs”’ is now well advanced.

A series of lists of Birds needing protection in various
British Colonies and Protectorates has been prepared.

A list of all the species of Birds has been arranged in three
large volumes. It is intended to insert the number of the
cabinet, drawer, etc., containing each species opposite the
appropriate entry in one of these volumes. When this
arrangement has been completed the exact position of any
Bird in the study collection will be readily ascertainable, and
much time will thus be saved.

All the large collections of eggs received during recent
years have, with one exception, been registered and incorpo-
rated.

All the cabinets containing the study series have been
re-numbered. Metal card-holders have also been fixed on the
doors, showing at a glance the contents of each cabinet.

Great assistance has been received from Mr. David A.
Bannerman, who has been engaged in working out Mr. A. B.
Percival’s collection from British East Africa and a very large
collection from Southern Abyssinia formed by Mr. P. Zaphiro
on behalf of Mr. W. H. Macmillan.

The whole of the Collection of Birds’ Skeletons has been
transferred to an ante-room in the basement, leading into the
old Whale-Room, now the Osteological Room; this has

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greatly increased their accessibility. JT he most important
addition to this collection was the skeleton of the rare
monkey-eating Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) from the Philip-
pines, the skin of which has been mounted and placed in the
Bird Gallery.

REPTILIA, BATRACHIA, PISCES.

The additions have been entered in the register and put
away in the collection, so far as the crowded condition of the
Spirit Building has permitted. A part of the Collection of
Lizards has been rearranged and the second volume of the
Catalogue of African Fresh-water Fishes has been completed.
A partial rearrangement of the skins and skeletons of Reptiles
and Fishes has been started.

The additions during the year to the exhibited series of
Reptiles include the following:—A Smooth Snake, presented
by G. B. Corbin, Esq. Three Indian Snakes, presented by
Major Wall. Models of Common and Natterjack Toads,
presented by Rowland Ward, Esq.

In the Fish Gallery, thirty-five additions have been made
to the exhibited series, comprising thirty fishes, which have
been mounted and tinted in their natural colours and five
morphological preparations. Fifty-seven fishes have been
re-varnished and eight have been repaired.

Sixty-five printed labels have been substituted for the
temporary manuscript labels previously shown ; and forty-six
additions have been made to the card-catalogue of exhibited
specimens.

A Guide to the British Vertebrates is noticed above, under
“Aves.

MOLLUSCA.

The large collection of Mollusca obtained by Professor
J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., in the Islands of the Indian Ocean
has been examined and compared with the Report upon it by
Mr. J. C. Melvill; and a selection has been made from it of
828 specimens. These have all been mounted, labelled and
incorporated.

Another series from South Africa has been worked out and
a report prepared for publication. The specimens belonging to
the genus Vulsella have been critically examined and a paper
written upon the subject. A selection has been made from a
collection made at Bermuda by Major A. J. Peile; it has been
partly determined and a list of the fauna has been in preparation.
Collections of Marine shells from Queensland, Physa from
South Australia, and specimens from Travancore received from
the Trivandrum Museum, also some species of Olivella, Fusus,
Bulimus, Clausilia and other genera have been identified.
The specimens obtained by the late Mr. Stalker of the New
Guinea Expedition at the Aru and Goram Islands have been
named. The study collections of Chitonide and Nassa have

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been partly re-arranged, the models of Nudibranchs have been
remounted, and printed labels have been provided for some of
the exhibited Jand shells in place of written ones. The work
of the mounting, labelling, registration and incorporation of the
numerous accessions to the collection has been performed as
usual.

Part of the valuable collection of Indian Mollusca bequeathed
by the late Dr. W. T. Blanford and that presented by Lieut.-
Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., have been examined by the
latter, the identifications have been verified, the types marked,
and the Museum series which have been selected have been
placed in glass-topped boxes. Owing to the extent of these
collections, the nature of the work connected with them, and the
limited time at Colonel Godwin-Austen’s disposal, it will be
long before the arrangement can be completed.

INSECTA.

In the Insect Gallery the exhibited series of Coleoptera and
Lepidoptera have been completed, and progre¥s has been
made with the Rhynchota and Diptera for exhibition in the
Table-Cases.

An enlarged mode] of the Common House-Fly has been
prepared and placed in the Central Hall.

The books and _ periodicals dealing with Economic
Entomology have been placed together in a book-case in the
corridor, with the result that they are more conveniently
situated for reference than for merly.

Slight structural alterations have been made in order to
give access to Room J,* without having to pass through
Room K,* the accommodation for cabinets in the latter room
being thereby increased.

The rearrangement of the General Collection, for which
additional accommodation had become necessary, has now been
completed.

The most important event in the Insect Section has been the
acquisition of the Walsingham Collection of Microlepidoptera
(the smaller Moths), to which reference was made in the last
Return. This collection, presented by Lord Walsingham,
F.R.S., was transferred from Merton Hall to Cromwell Road
on April Ist, and was placed in Room A. The collection
consists of over 260,000 specimens contained in 16 cabinets,
582 large store-boxes, and several smaller ones. In addition
to the collection, a large and very valuable library of
Entomological books was presented, for which book-cases have
been provided i in the same room. |

The COLEOPTERA have received an important addition

during the vear by the purchase of a portion of the Lewis
Collection of Japanese and Ceylonese beetles. A small part

* The designations of these two rooms have been transposed during
the year.

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of the latter has already been labelled and incorporated. A
re-arrangement of the Lucanide and Elateride has been
proceeded with, and all accessions incorporated so far as the
work has gone, including those contained in the Godman-Salvin,
Fry and Sharp Collections. The Rhipicerid# have been revised
and fresh material from the Fry and Sharp Collections added ;
various small collections of Coleoptera: have been incorporated
in the General Collection. A large number of Aphodiine have
been determined or described by Herr A. Schmidt of Berlin,
and the group has been expanded and re-arranged. Series of
undermined species of other groups have been similarly dealt
with by Mr. I. B. Ericson (Trichopterygide), Mr. A. M. Lea
(Curculionide) and Pref. J. J. Gillet (Copride), and have been
re-incorporated. Others have been sent to, and are in process
of determination by, Dr. Creighton Wellman (Meloide),
Dr. Bernhauer (Staphylinide) and Dr. Fritz Ohaus (Ruteline).
Lieut.-Colonel F. Winn Sampson has given a considerable
amount of time to naming and arranging the collection of
Scolytidze in the Museum, and has also voluntarily undertaken
to work out at his home some small and obscure species of
special economic importance.

In the HYMENOPTERA the rearrangement of the
Diploptera has been completed, and a commencement has been
made with the Apidee (bees); all accessions, including the
numerous additions in the E. Saunders Collection, have been
incorporated so far as progress has been made. ‘The arrange-
ment of the Ichneumonide (British Collection) has been
completed, and that of the Generaj Collection commenced.
Large consignments of some Families have been sent on loan
to specialists for determination, including Apide (Prof. T. D. A.
Cockerell) and Evaniide (Prof. J. J. Kieffer). These have
been properly labelled and re-incorporated on their return.
Mr. R. E. Turner has generously continued to devote much of
his time to the arrangement of the Sphegidze (Sand Wasps),
and has done much valuable work on the Family, as well as
on other groups of the Order. Mr. Claude Morley has finished
a Catalogue of British Chalcidide, which was published during
the year. |

The third and final volume of the Catalogue of
ORTHOPTERA has been published, and the entire collection
has now been indexed in accordance with the Catalogue.

In the NEUROPTERA, the Nemopteride, which had been
sent on loan to Senor Longinos Navas, have been returned and
re-incorporated, and the Osmylide and Myrmeleonide (part)
have been sent to the same specialist for identification.

In the RHYNCHOTA much work has been done at the
Pentatomide and the Homoptera, Sub-families Acanaloniine
and Flatine; the large collection presented by Mr. C.S. Banks
has been worked out.

In the LEPIDOPTERA, an enormous addition has been
made by Lord Walsingham’s gift of his collection of Micro-
lepidoptera, referred to above.

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Further progress has been made with the transference of
the Butterfly Collection to the glass-bottomed drawer cabinets,
the following have been so dealt with, and accessions were
incorporated at the same time :—

In the Papilionide : Papilio (part).
Pieride : Teracolus, Tervas, Leuceronia, Nepheronia,

Mylothris, Catopsilia, Belenois, and some smaller
genera.

The arrangement of the groups Argynnidi and Melitezidi
was proceeded with, and that of the Pierine begun.

During the year, Vol. IX. of the Catalogue of Moths has.
been published ; and the text of Vol. X., dealing with the
Noctuid Sub-family Erastrianz, has been passed through the
press and published. The plates belonging to Vol. X. are not.
quite complete and will appear in February or March 1911.

The Noctuid Sub-family Erastrianze has been re-arranged ;
while the greater part of the Pyralid Sub-family Pyraustine
and some other portions of the collection have been expanded
and partially re-arranged and all accessions incorporated.

In the Microlepidoptera the Lavernide and Gelechiadee
have been re-arranged in connection with work on the
Neotropical representatives of these Families now in progress.
The whole of the Walsingham Collection has been carefully
examined, and it has been found that no injury whatever has.
been sustained in transit.

In the DIPTERA the Neave Collection of Tabanidz from
the Congo Free State (Katanga District) and N.E. Rhodesia.
was worked out, and the portion of this collection belonging
to the Sub-family Pangonine was described in a paper which
was seen through the press.

The African Trypetide belonging to the Ceratitis-group
were worked out, and a new genus described.

A large number of small collections of Blood-sucking and
other Diptera, forwarded for identification from various parts
of the world, especially Tropical Africa, were determined and
incorporated, and a report on the collection was in each case
furnished to the sender.

The preparation of a supplement to “ A Monograph of the
Tsetse-Flies”’ was commenced.

The completion of a model of the Common House-Fly
(Musca domestica, L.) for exhibition in the Central Hall, was
supervised, and a suitable explanatory label was drawn up for
this exhibit. Supervision was given to the -preparation of
coloured drawings for publication in “ Illustrations of Oriental
Blood-Sucking Flies.”

Vol. V. of the “ Monograph of Mosquitoes” was completed
by Mr. F. V. Theobald, and has been published during the
year.

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ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE.

Assistance in the determination of species and in other
ways has been given by the members of the Staff to the
Scientific Secretary of the Entomological Research Committee
of the Colonial Office during the past year. When the work
of this Committee had been well started and in progress for
some time, it was found that the room originally provided for
the accommodation of the Secretary was no longer adequate
for the purpose. Two somewhat larger rooms, instead of this
one, have now been given over for the use of the Secretary and
Assistants. From the list of additions to the collection, it will
be seen that the Museum has already benefited largely by its
co-operation with the Research Committee ; and it is anticipated
that the benefits will become increasingly great as the work
of the Committee progresses.

PROTOTRACHEATA.

The exhibited specimens of Peripatus have been placed in a
special wall-case; and in spite of the increasing congestion of
specimens in the Spirit-building, the study collection has been
re-arranged. The MS. catalogue of the specimens has been
completed.

A. Guide which refers partly to the Prototracheata
(Onychophora) is noticed below, in the succeeding Section.

MYRIOPODA AND ARACHNIDA.

Nearly all the unnamed Scorpions and Pedipalpi have been
determined, and the species which are new, or otherwise of
interest, have been noted.

A large collection of Arachnida from the Seychelles has
been worked out and incorporated in the collection; the report
on this collection is ready for publication.

The undetermined specimens of the sub-order Palpatores
have been sent to Dr. C. Fr. Roewer, of Bremen, who has
described and figured many of them in the first part of his
monograph.

The bottles containing the spirit collection of Arachnida
have been cleaned and refilled with spirit, and progress has
been made with the arrangement of the dry specimens of
Arachnida.

Attention has also been paid to the collection of Myriopoda ;
and a number of centipedes and millipedes (chiefly belonging
to the family Spirostreptidz) have been determined.

A Guide to the Crustacea, Arachnida, Onychophora, and
Myriopoda, exhibited in the Department of Zoology, was
published during 1910.

CRUSTACEA AND PYCNOGONIDA.

Some important additions have been made to the exhibited
series of Crustacea, including a fine specimen of the large

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Antarctic Crab, Lithodes antarcticus, presented by Mr. G. M.
Hall, and a set of the larval stages of the Common Lobster,
completing the exhibited series of its life-history. ‘The number
of acquisitions being considerably less than in 1909, it was
possible to find space for them in the Crustacea Room by putting
up a second temporary cupboard, without greatly disturbing the
order of the collection. During the year a considerable part of
the dry collection has been re-pinned and the specimens cleaned
and repaired.

Lt.-Col. A. Alcock, F.R.S., has been good enough to revise the
collection of Indian River-crabs, and the specimens have been
re-labelled and arranged according to his determinations.

The working out of the collection of Cumacea belonging to
the Copenhagen Museum has been completed, and the collection
returned after selection of a very valuable series of duplicates,
chiefly co-types of new species.

A Guide which refers partly to the Crustacea and
Pycnogonida is noticed under the preceding heading.

ECHINODERMA.™*

Opportunity has been taken from time to time to re-spirit
parts of the collection.

Most of the specimens obtained during the year have been
determined.

The exhibited specimens of Béches-de-Mer have been
completely re-arranged and fresh descriptive lahels have been
prepared.

The dried study collection of Echinoderms is being entirely
re-arranged, and it is hoped that space sufficient for ten years’
additions will be obtained by this means.

WORMS.

Dr. J. H. Ashworth has continued his preparation of the
Catalogue of Arenicolide.

The exhibited series of Gephyrea have had their naimes
brought up to date; and a MS. Catalogue of the described
species and of the specimens in the collection has been prepared.

A fine Nemertean worm (Lineus corrugatus) has been
mounted and exhibited.

The systematic re-arrangement of the collection of micro-
scopic slides has made some progress.

* The Assistant in charge of this and other groups has the responsibility
of editing the “ Discovery” Reports. Of this series, Vol. V. appeared
during the year; while Vol. VI., which is expected to complete the
publication, is in preparation,

128 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

ANTHOZOA, HYDROZOA AND PORIFERA.

A MS. Catalogue of Pennatulids, including the described
species and the specimens in the collection, is in course of
preparation.

Collections of Hydrozoa from the Mediterranean and the
West Indies have been examined and sorted. Mr. J. Ritchie
has described thirteen specimens of Hydroids, collected at
Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, by Dr. C. W. Andrews.

Collections of Sponges from the Mediterranean, West
Indies, and Antarctic Ocean have been examined and sorted.

Much progress has been made with the conserving, labelling
and incorporating of the Norman Collection of Sponges.

A detailed report (with 7 plates) on Merlia normani, a
Sponge with a siliceous and calcareous skeleton, has been
completed.

A report on a remarkable Pharetronid Sponge (Murrayona
phanolepis), collected by Dr. C. W. Andrews at Christmas
Island, has been published in the “ Proc. Roy. Soc. London.”

The Trustees granted 45 days’ leave to Mr. Kirkpatrick for
the purpose of dredging off Christmas Island. Many sponges
were obtained, including examples of Murrayona phanolepis
and Astrosclera willeyana.

I.—Duplicates and Kachanges.
(a) Duplicates.

Duplicates have been distributed amongst museums,
scientific institutions, &c., as follows :—

Mammalia.—Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zea-
land ; South African Museum, Cape Town; American Museum
of Natural History, New York ; University Museum, Oxford.

Aves.—North Staffordshire Field Club Museum, Hanley;
Manchester Museum; University Museum, Oxford; South
African Museum, Cape Town; Canterbury Museum, Christ-
church, New Zealand; American Museum of Natural History,
New York.

Pisces.—-Indian Museum, Calcutta; Museum of the Training
Ship “ Worcester.”

Mollusca.—Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh (with other
duplicates); Mr. W. H. Whitelock.

Insecta.— Duplicates have been sent to the following
gentlemen who have assisted in naming specimens :—Professor
Ch. Aurivillius, Dr. Max Bernhauer, Professor T. D. A.
Cockerell, Mr. Isaac B. Ericson, Professor J. J. Gillet, M. A.
Grouvelle, Professor J. J. Kietter, Senor R. P. Longinos Navas,
S.J., Herr. Adolf Schmidt, Herr C. Sternberg, Herr Hans
Wagner, Herr H. W. van de Weele.

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Arachnida.—A few duplicates have been given to Dr. P.
C, F. Roewer, in return for his services in naming specimens.

(b) Hachanges.

Exchanges have been made with the following institutions
and individuals :—

Mammalia.—-With the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy,
Harvard College, Boston, Mass.; the Berlin Museum; and
Dr. Lyster Jameson.

Aves.—With the Kuala Lumpur Museum, Straits Settle-
ments; Mr. H. K. Coale; Mr. G. M. Mathews; and Lt.-Com-
mander R. E. Vaughan, R.N.

Insecta.—With the Indian Museum, Caleutta; the Auck-
land Museum, New Zealand; the College of Agriculture,
Tohoku Imperial University, Sapporo, Japan; and with Dr. M.
Cameron, Herr C. Felsche, Professor H. Kolbe, Mr. A. M. Lea
(Government Entomologist, Hobart, Tasmania), and Mr. W.
Schaus.

Myriopoda.—With Professor F. Silvestri.

Crustacea.—With the Indian Museum, Calcutta; and with
Professor E. Bouvier.

Porifera.—An exchange of Antarctic specimens was made
with the late Professor E. van Beneden, in addition to that
recorded in the last Report.

Ill.— Departmental Library.

The additions to the Library, acquired during the year by
purchase, presentation, and exchange, consist of 93 separate
works in 110 volumes, and 1,612 parts of periodicals and works
in progress.

Two hundred and twenty-six volumes have been bound, but
of these only 140 are now added to the total number of volumes
in the Library, the rest being merely bound for the first time
or re-bound and already included in totals of previous years.

The work of collating, stamping, press-marking and entering
in the Catalogue all acquisitions has-been performed as usual.

The Attendant in the Library, with the aid and supervision
of an Assistant, has checked the zoological works in the proofs
of that portion of the General Catalogue of Books which has
been printed during the year.

Among the donations two are specially worthy of mention :—
One hundred and forty-six folios of drawings of Chinese
Fishes made by native artists under the direction of John
Reeves, Esq., in the early part of last century. Upon these
drawings Dr. John Richardson founded his report on the
Ichthyology of the Seas of China and Japan; presented by
Dr, A, Ginther, F.R.S.

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150 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Thirty-nine volumes of the Proceedings of the Zoological
Society and three volumes of Indexes; presented by Oldfield
Thomas, Esq., F.R.S.

The following is a list of Donors to the Departmental
Library during 1910 :—

Agricultural Experiment Station, Formosa.

Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, Bengal.

Australian Museum, Sydney.

Avicultural Society, London.

Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, London.

Board of Fisheries, New South Wales.

Botanic Gardens, Singapore.

British Ornithologists’ Club, London.

Colombo Museum, Ceylon.

Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Conseil permanent International pour lExploration de la
Mer.

Crick, G. C.

Département de |’ Agriculture, Buitenzorg.

Department of Agriculture, Alberta, Canada.

Department of Agriculture, Cape of Good Hope.

Department of Agriculture, New South Wales.

Department of Agriculture, New Zealand.

Department of Agriculture, Victoria.

Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction,
Ireland.

Department of Commerce and Labor, Washington.

Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft, Leipzig.

Dominion Museum, Wellington, New Zealand.

Entomological Research Committee, London.

Entomological Society, London.

Fisheries Bureau, Madras.

Fishery Board for Scotland.

Forbes, W. T. M.

Foreign Bird Club, Ashborne.

Froggatt, W. W.

Gahan, C. J.

Goette, Prof. Dr. A.

Gude, G. K. :

Giinther, Dr. A.

Hampson, Sir. G. F., Bart.

Harmer, Dr. S. F.

Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association.

Imperial Department of Agriculture, West Indies.

India, Secretary of State for.

Indian Museum, Calcutta.

James, S. P.

Kommissionen for Havundersogelser, Kjobenhavn.

Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola
Superiore d’Agricoltura in Portici.

Linnean Society, London.

Marelli, C. A.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. or

Meek, Prof. A.

Montana Agricultural Experiment Station.

Musée Zoologique.. . de St.-Pétersbourg.

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova.

Museu Goeldi, Para, Brazil.

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College.
National Association of Audubon Societies, New York.
Nederlindische Entomologische Vereeniging.

New Mexico College of Agriculture, &c., Santa Fé.
Norman, Rev. Canon A. M.

Pace, S.

Pennsylvania, University of.

Poulton, Prof. E. B.

Provincial Museum, Victoria, B. C.

Ridley, H. N.

Roewer, Dr. C. F.

Sars, Prof. G. O.

Sasaki, Prof. C.

Schuster, G.

Sherborn, C. D.

Silvestri, Prof. F.

Smith, J. B.

Société Entomologique de Belgique.

Société Entomologique de France.

Société Entomologique de Russie.

South African Central Locust Bureau, Pretoria.
Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, India.
Thomas, O.

Tufts College, Mass.

Ungarische Ornithologische Centrale, Budapest.
United States Department of Agriculture, Washington.
Ward, Rowland

Wistar Institute, Philadelphia.

Zoological Gardens, Giza, Egypt.

Zoological Museum, Copenhagen.

Zoological Society, Ireland.

Zoological Soziety, London.

Zoological Society, New York.

Zoological Society, Tokyo, Japan.

Zoologischer Garten, Frankfurt a. Main.
Zoologisches Museum, Berlin.

Zoologische Staatssamlung, Miinchen.

1V.— Publications.

In addition to the official Catalogues and other volumes
published by the Trustees (see pp. 114, 115), various reports
and descriptive papers have been prepared in connection with
the different branches of the collection ; and have been published
for the most part in scientific journals.

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132 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

For ‘convenience of reference the following list is
appended :—

Mammalia.
By OLDFIELD THomAS, F.R.S. :—
“New African Mammals.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) v., p. 83.
“Further New African Mammals.” Toxapalgl.
“A Collection of Mammals from Eastern Buenos Ayres,
with Descriptions of related new Mammals from other

Localities.” 16., p.239.
“ Further new African Mammalia.” Ib., p. 282.
“A new Chinese Mole of the Genus Scaptochirus.”
Ib., p. 350.
“Three new West African Mammals.” I Op. |.
“ New Mammals from the E. Indian Archipelago.”
Ib., p. 383.
“Three new African Rodents.” 1b., p. 419.
“Two new Mammals from the Malay Peninsula.”
Ib., p. 424.
“Three new Asiatic Mammals.” Ib., p. 534.
“A new Genus of Fruit-Bats, and two new Shrews from
Africa.” I Dig: Walegutie Seb,

““Mammals from the River Supinam, Demerara, presented
by Mr. F. V. McConnell to the British Museum.”
Ib., p. 184.
“ Notes on African Rodents.” 1b,, p21.
“List of Mammals from Mt. Kilimanjaro, obtained by
Mr. Robin Kemp and presented to the British Museum
by Mr. C. D. Rudd.” Ib., p. 308.
“ A new Potto from British East Africa.”
Proc. Zool]. Soe., 1910, p-. 536.
“ New African Mammals in the British Museum.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi., p. 426.
“ A new Monkey from the Malay Peninsula.”
Proce. Zool. Soc., 1910, p. 634.
“ A collection of small Mammals from China.”
Tb 5 spe 685,
“On Mammals collected in Cearaé, N.E. Brazil, by
Fraulein Dr. Snethlage.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi., p. 500.

“ Four New South African Rodents.” Ib., p. 503.
“New Genera of Australasian Muride.” iis p. 506.
“The Generic Arrangement of the Australian Murines
hitherto referred to ‘ Mus.’”’ Ib., p. 603.

“New Australian Muride of the Genus Pseudomys.”
Tb., ps 607:

“A new Genus for Dactylopsila palpator.” Ib., p. 610.

By OLDFIELD THomAS and R. C. WRoUGHTON :—

“ Ruwenzori Expedition Reports—17 Mammalia.”
Trans. Zool. Soc., xix., Part v., March 1910.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 133

MAMMALIA—continued.

By Guy DoLLMAN :—-
“ New African Mammals.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) v., p. 92.
“ On a Collection of Mammals made by Mr. S. A. Neave,
during his Expedition in Northern Rhodesia.”

Tb.,.p: 173.

“Descriptions of new Forms of Cer copithecus and
Graphiurus from British East Africa.’ Mbp 202,
“Two new Species of African Dormice belonging to the
genus Graphiurus.” HOW pp. 285:
«Two New African Mammals.” Toy, vi, p- 226.

“A List of the Mammals obtained by Mr. R. B. Woosnam
during the Expedition to Lake Ngami, with Field-
Notes by the Collector.” Ib., p. 388.

“A Note on Alowatta discolor of Spix.” Ib., p. 422.

By R. C. WRoUGHTON :—

“New African Mammals of the Genera Cricetomys and
Procavia.” Bde ve op. O06.

‘Some Servals and an Otomys from Hast Africa.”
ib. pp. 205.
“Two new Duikers related to Cephalophus abyssinicus
and a new Dendromus froin Mt. Elgon.” 1b D. 2io.

“ African Gerbils of the Genera Tatera and Taterillus.”

PG. opin py OU,

“On the Nomenclature of the Indian Hedgehogs.”
Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., June 1910, p. 80.

By R. LypDEKKeER, F.R.S. :—
“ Hornless Okapis.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi., p. 224.
“ On a Wapiti and a Muntjac.”
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1910, p. 987.
“On Three African Buffaloes.” 1b., p. 992.

By Dr. KNub ANDERSEN :—
‘* Preliminary Deseription of a New Genus of Epomo-
phorine Bats.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) v., p. 97.
“On some Species of the Genus LH pomops.” Ib., p. 99.
“Ten New Fruit Bats of the Genera NVyctimene, Cynop-
terus and Honycteris.” HO va, aO2 L.

By WILFRED H. OsGcoop :—
“Hight New African Rodents.” Ab.x0p. 216.

By A. CABRERA :—
* On Two new Carnivora from. North-East Africa.”
TD; Vi., pe 461:

By Dr. Einar LoNNBERG :—
“The British Roedeer (Capreolus Ee et, thottr), a
preliminary Diagnosis.” GOs pa29 0

By Major G. E. H. BARRETT-HAMILTON :—
“Descriptions of a new Species and a new Sub-Species
‘of European Bats.” Ete, V5 pe zoe

134 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MAMMALIA— continued.

By Ernst SCHWARZ :—
“On the Wallabies usually referred to Macropus agilis,

Gould.” Ib., p. 164.
“Two new Oriental Viverride.” Ib., vi., p. 230.
“Die Grossen Kanguruhs und ihre Geographischen

Formen.” Novitates Zoolog., xvii., Mar. 1910, p. 85.

Aves.

By W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT :—
“On arare Weaver Bird (Othyphantes batesi).”
Ibis, 1910, p. 435.
“Remarks on the Natural History of British Game-
Binds, British Birds, ili., p. 347.
“Boyd Alexander and his Ornithological Work.”
! Ibis, 1910, p. 716:
“A List of British Birds.” Witherby & Co., 1910.
“The late Richard Bowdler Sharpe.”
Bull. B. O. C., xxv., p. 43.
“On the impossibility of distinguishing the sex of the

Woodcock by external characters.” Tb., p. 34.
“The breeding of the Slavonian Grebe in Scotland.”
Ib., p. 75.
“A new species of Weaver-Finch (Ortygospiza ansorget).”
Ib., p. 84.
“Four new species of Birds from Ceram collected by the
late Mr. W. Stalker.” Ib., p. 90.
“ Two new species (Turdinulus davisoni and Sibia wrayt)
from the Malay Peninsula.” 16.7 p. 97.
“On certain species of Hremomela, with a description of
a new species from South Africa.” Ib., p. 120.
“A new species of Fan-Tail Warbler (Cistecola kalahar+)
from British Bechuanaland.” fos, p, V2.
“On the seasonal changes of plumage in the Red Grouse
(Lagopus scoticus).” Jb.5.ip. 122,
“Description of the male of Francolinus camerunensis,
Alexander.” Lb.,. p< 125.

“On a collection of Birds from Western Australia, with
field-notes by G. C. Shortridge, Part IT.”
| Ibis, 1910, p. 156.
“Texpedition of the British Ornithologists’ Union to the
Snow Mountains of New Guinea, Parts I.—-VII.”
Country Life, Pt. I., 26th March, 1910; Pt. IIL., 16th
April; Pt. IIJ., 30th April; Pt. IV., 4th June; Pt. V.,
20th August; Pt. VI., 5th November; Pt. VII.,
17th December.
“A new species of Crombec (Sylviella chubbi), from
N.W. Rhodesia.” Bull, BVO. C.; xxvin,sp. 10:
“On the stages of plumage in the Cormorants.” Jb., p. 22.
“A new species of Flycatcher (Stizorhina grandis) from
British East Africa collected by Mr. Robin Kemp.”
Ib., xxv., p. 30.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 135

AvEs—continued.
«A new species of Coal Titmouse (Parus hibernicus)

from Ireland.” 1b.;-p. 36.
‘‘On the eclipse plumage of the Harlequin Duck ( Cosmo-
netta histrionica).” LOS ps 38.

“Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, Volumes
XXV., XXVI. (Report of the immigrations of our
Summer Residents), and XX VII. (edited).

By W. P. PvoRaFtT :—

“The late Richard Bowdler Sharpe.”

Proc. Linn: Soc, NO10y p. 98.

“The Larks.” The British Bird Book, p. 205.

“A History of Birds.” Methuen & Co.

“The Natural History Museum.”

Wells, Gardner Danton & Co.
By C. CHUBB :-—
“On the Birds of Paraguay.”
Ibis, part i, p. 53; part ii, p. 263; part iii, p. 517;
part iv, p. 571.
Reptilia and Batrachia.
By G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. :—

‘Remarks on Prof. lL. von Méhely’s recent contribution
to the knowledge of the Lizards allied to Lacerta
muralis.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) v., p. 247.

“Descriptions of four new African Snakes.” Ib., 512.

‘On the Ophidian Genus Grayia.”

Proc. Zool. Soc., 1909, p. 944.

“A revised list of the South African Reptiles and
Batrachians.” Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. v., p. 455.

Pisces.

By G. A. BoULENGER, F.R.S. :—
‘Descriptions of three new Freshwater Fishes from West
Africa.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi., p. 424.
“On a large collection of Fishes made by Dr. W. J.
Ansorge in the Quanza and Bengo Rivers, Angola.”
1b., p. 537.
By C. TATE REGAN :—
“The Asiatic Fishes of the Family Anabantide.”
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 767.
“The Caudal Fin of the Elopide.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) v., p. 354.
“Qn the Caudal Fin of the Clupeide and the Teleostean

Urostyle.” HOE ap Ook
“The Anatomy and Classification of the Teleostean Fishes
of the Order Zeomorphi.” PLO Ni. Da aoe
“The Origin and Evolution of the Teleostean Fishes of
the Order Heterosomata.” Ib., p. 484.
Mollusca.

By E. A. Surg, 1.8.0. :-—-
“Note on an abnormal specimen of Nautilus pompilius.”
Proc. Malac. Soc., ix., p. 4.

136 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MoLiusca—-continued.

“Note on the egg-capsules of Melo.” LO, Po:
“Notes on the Genus Erato, with a list of the known
recent species.” Lb pe l3:
“Note on the very young stage of the Genus Hum-
phreyia.” Lbs p: 23.
“ Description of Thersites (Glyptorhagada) hilliert, n.
sp., from South Central Australia.” Ib., p. 26.
Insecta.

By C. J. GAHAN :—
‘Notes on Cleridze and descriptions of some new Genera
and Species.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) v., p. 55.
By GILBERT J. ARROW :—
“On a few new Bornean Beetles of the Rutelid Genera
Mimela and Anomala.” Ib., vi., p. 64.
Descriptions of numerous new species of Cetoniinze and
Dynastine. (‘ Fauna of British India.”)
By Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart. :—
“Moths of India. Supplement.”
Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., 1910, p. 83.
“ Zoological Collections from Northern Rhodesia and
adjacent Territories.” ‘ Moths.”
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1910, p. 388.
‘New African Moths.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. one v. 2 PP. 430, 465 ;
, pple, 145,
By GEOFFREY MEADE-WALDO :—
“New Species of Diploptera in the Collection of the
British Museum.” Part I. and Part II.
Lb.) (8) v5 p. 305: wits pe 200:
By RowLanD E. TURNER :—
“Notes on Fossorial ee aA EE”
Tb: Vic, fo. 2.
“Beitrage zur Kenntniss ner Hymenopterenfauna von
Paraguay. II.”
Zoolog. Jahrb. Abt. Syst., xxix., p. 179.
“ Additions to.our Knowledge of the Fossorial Wasps of
Australia.” Proc. Zool. Soc., 1910, p. 253.

By E. E. AUSTEN :-—
‘“A new Indian Species of Musca.”

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) v., p. 114.

“Some Dipterous Insects which cause Myiasis in Man.”
Trans. Soc. Trop. Med. and Hygiene, iii., p. 215.
“A new Genus and two new Species of African Fruit
Flies.” Bull. Ent. Research, I., p. 71.
“A new Species of Cordylobia, a genus of African Diptera
(Family Tachinide, sub-family Calliphorine), the
Larve of which are subcutaneous parasites in Man and
other Animals.” 16.5 pero:

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 137

InsEcTA—continued.

“ New African Phlebotomic Diptera in the British Museum
(Natural History), Part VII. Tabanide (continued).”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi., p. 337.

By W. L. Distant :—
“ Rhynchota Philippinensia, I.”
Phil. Journ. Sci. V., p. 57.
“ Rhynchotal Notes L.” :—“ Sub-families Acanaloniine and
Flatine.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) v., p. 297.
“LI. African Pentatomide.” Tbt; Vin pp: Cay 22.
“LIT. Australasian Pentatomide.”
Ib., pp. 369, 465, 485.
“Rhynchota Maiayana.”
Records Indian Museum, v., p. 313.

Arachnida.
By A. 8. Hirst :—
“On a new Genus and Species of the Order Solifuge
from Algeria.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi., p. 367.

By A. 8. Hirst and L. F. Hirst :—
“Descriptions of five new Species of Ticks (Ixodidz).”
0. Be 200:

The following papers are based, to a. large extent, on British
Museum material :—

By Dr. C. Fr. ROEWER :—
“Revision der Opiliones Plagiostethi. I Teil ; Familie der
Phalangiide.”’
Abh. Gebiete Naturwiss, Hamburg, xix., p. 1.

By H. R. Hoge :—
“Some New Zealand and Tasmanian Arachnide.”
Trans. New Zealand Inst., xlii., p. 275.

Crustacea.

By Dr. W. T. CALMAN :—
“On two new Species of Wood-boring Crustacea from
Christmas Island.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) v., p. 181.
“ Note on two Species of the Genus Pandalus.”
Ib., p. 525.
“Les Cumacés des Expéditions du Travailleur et du
Talisman.” Bull. Mus. d/hist. nat., Paris, 1910, p. 180.
“On Heterocuma sarsi, Miers.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi., p. 613.

Anthozoa.

The following Memoir is largely based on material in the
British Museum :—

By Miss R. HARRISON :—

“On some new Aleyonaria from the Indian and Pacific
Oceans.” Trans. Linn. Soe. (2) xi., p. 17.

138 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Hydrozoa aud Porifera.

By JAMES RITCHIE, M.A., B.Sc.
“ Hydroids from Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, collected
by C. W. Andrews, D.8e., F.R.S.’
Proc. Zool. Soe., 1910, p. 826.
By R. KIrnKPaTRICK :—

“The Hydrozoa and Porifera of St. Helena.”
Lb.4p./127.
“On Hexactinellid Sponge Spicuies and their names,”

Part I. and Part II.”

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) v., pp. 208, ae
“ Further Notes on Merlia normani.’ * p. 2
ot “On the Affinities of Astrosclera willeyana, Lister.”
Ib., p. 380.
“A Sponge with a Siliceous and Calcareous Skeleton.”
Nature, May 19, 1910, p. 338.
“On a remarkable Pharetronid Sponge from Christmas

Island.” Proc. Roy. Soc., B. lxxxiii., p. 124.
“Preliminary notice on MHexactinellida of the Gauss
Expedition.” Zool. Anz., Xxxv., p. 293.

By F. E. ScHuuzeE and R. KIRKPATRICK :—
“Die Hexactinelliden der deutschen sidpolar-Expedition,
1901-1903.”

V.—Acquisitions.*
MAMMALIA.

The additions to this class during the past year number
three thousand two hundred and fifty-nine, of which the
following are most worthy of note :—

Special attention may be directed to the Rudd Collection
from British East Africa, the Duke of Bedford’s Collection
from China, Mr. McConnell’s Collection from British Guiana,
the Mammals from Ngamiland presented by the Subscribers to
the Lake Ngami Expedition Fund, the Collection from the Kei
and Aru Islands presented by the Subscribers to the British
Ornithologists’ Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, and
the remarkable new Antelope (Tragelaphus buxtont) presented
by Mr. Ivor Buxton. Further particulars of these specimens
will be found below, under the respective Geographical sub-
headings.

Europe.

Three Field Mice from Fair Island, Shetland Islands ;
presented by Her Grace the Duchess of Bedford.

Three Orkney Voles from Stromness, Orkney Islands;
presented by G. Ellison, Esq.

Fifteen mammals from France, Roumania. and Portugal ;
presented by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild.

* A table showing the number of specimens added during the year is
given on page 156.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 139

MAMMALIA—continued.
Fifteen mammals from Switzerland ; presented by Oldfield
Thomas, Esq., F.B.S.

Fifty-four mammals from Hungary; presented by the Hon.
Mrs. Charles Rothschild.

Asia.

Three Wild Asses from Persia; presented by R. C. Barker,
Esq., and E. J. Blackman, Esq.

Six mammals from Seistan; presented by Major R. L.
Kennion.

Two Gazelles from Seistan; presented by Capt. C. T.
Daukes.

Ninety mammals from 8. E. Shensi, China, collected by
Mr. M. P. Anderson; presented by His Grace the Duke of
Bedford, K.G., F.R.S.

One hundred and eleven mammals from Hainan and
Mantchuria.

Forty-one mammals from Japan and the Kuriles; presented
by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild.

Sixty-seven mammals from Kashmir and the Punjab;
presented by Major H. N. Dunn.

Eleven mammals from Gilgit, Kashmir ; presented by Capt.
R. McCarrison.

A Takin from Assam ; presented by Noel Williamson, Esq.

Seven mammals from India; presented by the Government
of Bombay.

Forty-one mammals from Northern India; presented by
Capt. C. H. T. Whitehead. :

A Monkey from Trivandrum; presented by ILveut.-Col.
F. W. Dawson.

Five mammals from Upper Burma; presented by C. H.
Hobart, Esq.

Two Burmese Tsaine skulls; presented by H. R. Cook,
Esq.

A new sub-species of Tsaine from Siam; presented by
A. A. Porter, Hsq.

Two Monkeys from Ataran; presented by G. F. B. R.
Thurling, Esq.

Seven mammals from Annam, collected by Dr. J. J. Vassal.
One hundred and seven mammals from the Malay Penin-
sula.

The type of a new Pen-tailed Tree Shrew from Kuala
Lumpur; presented by the Selangor Museum.

Two hundred and thirty mammals from South Central
Borneo and Kangean Island; presented by Oldfield Thomas,
Eisq., F.BS.

An Orang-utan from Borneo ; presented by Dr. C. Hose.

140 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MAMMALIA—continued.
Africa.

Ten mammals from Egypt and the Sudan; presented by
the Egyptian Government Zoological Gardens.

The head of a Giant Eland from Bahr-el-Ghazal ; presented
by Prince Elim Demidoff,as Executor of Prince Paul Demidoff.

Two mammals from Gallaland, including the type of a
new Antelope (Tragelaphus buatoni); presented by Ivor
Buxton, Esq.

Kighty-five mammals from Somaliland; presented by Dr.
Rh. E. Drake-Brockman.

Three mammals from Uganda, including the type of a new
species of Giant Shrew ; presented by Dr. R. Van Someren.

One thousand and thirty-four mammals from British East
Africa, collected by Mr. Robin Kemp; presented by C. D.
Rudd, Esq.

Nine mammals from Mumias, British East Africa; pre-
sented by the Hon. Kenneth R. Dundas.

Six mammals from British East Africa; presented by S. L.
Hinde, Esq.

Two Waterbucks from the Lorian Swamp, British East
Africa; presented by Lord Gifford.

The type of anew species of Potto from British East Africa ;
presented by Messrs. Maturin and Brett.

Hight mammals from East Africa; presented by G. J. Muir,
Esq.

A Fruit-Bat from Pemba Island; presented by the late
A. Gunning, Esq.

Twenty-three mammals from Nyasaland; presented by
kh. L, Harger, Esq.

Fifteen mammals from Nyasaland, collected by Mr. S. A.
Neave; presented by the Entomological Research Committee.

Ninety-three mammals from Ngamiland, collected by Mr.
R. B. Woosnam; presented by the Subscribers to the Lake
Ngami Expedition Fund.

Twenty mammals from Rhodesia; presented by F. H.
Melland, Esq.

Thirteen mammals from South Africa; presented by C. W.
Turner, Esq.

Seven mammals from South Africa, received in. exchange
from Dr. Lyster Jameson.

Sixty-three mammals from Angola and Portuguese Guinea,
collected by Dr. W. J. Ansorge.

Thirty-one mammals from the Gold Coast; presented by
Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell.

Forty-nine mammals from Southern Nigeria, collected by
P. A. Talbot, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 141

MAMMALIA—continued.

Four mammals, including the types of two new species, from
Nigeria ; presented by P. A. Talbot, Esq.

America, North.

A Reindeer (skull and horns) from North America; pre-
sented by Sir Robert Harvey, Bart.

Two Canadian Beavers ; presented by A. P. Leeston Smith,
Esq.

A Sheep from Klondike ; presented by H. Pinkert, Esq.
America, South.

One hundred and seventy-six mammals from British Guiana ;
presented by F. V. McConnell, Esq.

Five Bats from Rio de Janeiro; presented by D. A. Banner-
man, Esq. |

Skeleton, etc. of a Manatee (Manatus inunguis), from the
Amazon; presented by EL. Salis Schwabe, Ksq.

A rare Armadillo from San Luis, Argentine Republic ; pre-
sented by Mrs. Oyler.

Six mammals from San Rafael, Argentine; presented by
W. M. Bayne, Esq.

Twenty-one mammals from Chili, collected by Mr. D.S.
Bullock.

Australasia.

Three hundred and one mammals from the Kei and Aru
Islands, collected by the late Mr. W. Stalker ; presented by the
Subscribers to the British Ornithologists Union New Guinea
Eapedition Fund.

The type of a new species of Bat from Buru, collected by
Mr. A. Everett ; presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild.

Six mammals from the Arfak mountains, Dutch New Guinea,
collected by Mr. A. E. Pratt.

Thirty-five mammals from Amboina and Queensland ; pre-
sented by F. Muir, Esq.

Two mammals from the Montebello Islands, N.W. Australia ;
presented by T. H. Haynes, Esq.

Seven mammals from Western Australia ; presented by the
West Australian Museum and Art Gallery, Perth.

Skeletons of Macropus robustus and M. parma, from the
Blue Hills, Australia.

AVES.

The acquisitions number nine thousand three hundred
and seventy-seven. Of these the most noteworthy are as
follows :—

Europe.

Six Harlequin Ducks (Cosmonetia histrionica) in eclipse
plumage.

142 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

AvES—continued.

Sixteen birds from Co. Sligo, Ireland, including the type of
the newly described Irish Coal Tit (Parus hibernicus); pre-
sented by Collingwood Ingram, Esq.

The first British killed specimen of the Carolina Crake
(Porzana carolina); presented by H. 8. W. Eyre, Esq.

Asia.

Six hundred and seventy-six birds from 8. China; received
in exchange from Lt.-Commander R. E. Vaughan, R.N.

One hundred and eight birds from 8S. China; presented by
Staff-Surgeon C. £. C. Stanford, RN.

One hundred and sixty-six birds from the Highlands of
Formosa; presented by A. H. Wileman, Esq.

Four birds from Formosa, including the type of a new
species (Nucifraga owstoni); presented by Collingwood
Ingram, Esq.

Sixty-one birds from the N.W. Provinces of India ; presented
by Capt. C. H. T. Whitehead.

One hundred and sixty-two Kalij Pheasants from Burma,
including six species new to the Collection, and seven type-
specimens (E. W. Oates Collection).

Four birds from Upper Burma, including the types of three
new sub-species ; presented by Major H. H. Harington.

One hundred and forty-one birds from Annam, including the
type of a new species of Pigeon (Crocopus annamensis).
Collected by Dr. J. J. Vassal.

One hundred and fifteen birds from Borneo ; presented by
the Subscribers to the Hxpedition sent by the British Ornith-
ologists’ Union to New Guinea.

Africa.

Four birds, including two specimens of a Chaflinch (Frin-
gilla polatzeki) new to the Collection, from Grand Canary ;
presented by D, A. Bannerman, Esq.

A Whale-headed Stork (Balwniceps rex), from the Bahr-el-
Ghazal; presented by Lt.-General Sir Francis Wingate, K.C.B.,
K.CMG., DS.O.

Forty-five birds from Somaliland and 8S. Abyssinia ; pre-
sented by Dr. R. LE. Drake-Brockman.

Four hundred and twenty-nine birds from British East
Africa, and from the Kilimanjaro district, collected by Mr. Robin
Kemp; presented by C. D. Rudd, Hsq.

Two hundred and nineteen birds, from various localities in
British East Africa; presented by S. L. Hinde, Esq.

Two hundred and eighty-three birds from the Mabira Forest,
British East Africa; presented by L. M. Seth-Smith, Esq.

The type-specimens of Stiphrornis mabire, Alethe kiku-
yuensis, and five other species recently described, from British
Kast Africa; presented by F. J. Jackson, Esq., C.B., C.M.G.

One hundred and fifty-nine birds and three eggs from Lake
Ngami, collected by Mr. R. B. Woosnam and the Hon. Gerald
Legge; presented by the subscribers to the Lake Ngam
ELapedition Fund.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 143

AVES—continued.

One thousand three hundred and forty-six birds, nests, and
eggs, from Angola, Portuguese Guinea, and the Cape Verde
Islands, including one species, Dryoscopus turatr, new to the
Collection, and the type of a new species of Weaver-bird
(Ortygospiza ansorget), collected by Dr. W. J. Ansorge.

Twenty-nine birds from Nigeria; presented by P. A.
Talbot, Esq.

America, South.

A Darwin’s Rhea (Rhea darwini) from the Woburn
Aviaries ; presented by His Grace the Duke of Bedford, K.G.

One hundred and fifty birds collected in Guatemala by
Mr. G. C. Shortridge; presented by the Zoological Society.

Ninety-five birds collected on the Rio Paraguay; presented
by Geoffrey W. Tudor, Esq.

Six hundred and forty-seven birds, six hundred and two
egos, and forty nests from Buenos Aires, collected by Mr. C. H.
B. Grant; presented by Hrnest Gibson, Esq.

Australasia.

One hundred and sixty-one birds from the Owen Stanley
Mountains, New Guinea; presented by EH. J. Brooke, Esq.

Four hundred and two birds and twenty-nine eggs, from
Aru, Kei, Ceram, and Amboina; presented by the Subscribers
to the Hapedition sent by the British Ornithologists’ Union to
New Guinea.

One hundred and fifty-three birds from Australia ; presented
by Miss Audrey Chirnside.

REPTILIA.

The additions number six hundred and eight, of which five
hundred and fifty-two were acquired by presentation and
fifty-six by purchase. The following are worthy of note :—

Europe.

Fifteen Lizards from Portugal; presented by Dr. H.
Gadow, F.R.S.

Nine Reptiles from Malta.

Asia.

An Amphisbenid Lizard new to the Collection (Pachy-
calamus zarudyt), from the Island of Manama in the Persian
Gulf; presented by Dr. G. K. Monami.

Seventeen Snakes from Southern Fokien, China; presented
by J. Preston Maxwell, Esq.

Seventeen Reptiles from various parts of India, including
types of two new Snakes (Lycodon mackinnoni and Tropido-
notus venningi) ; presented by Major F. Wall, I.M.S,

144 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

REPTILIA—continued.

A new Snake (7'ropidonotus venningi) from the Chin Hills ;
presented by Capt. J. HE. W. Venning.

Thirty-four Reptiles from Ceylon; presented by T.
Bainbrigge Fletcher, Esq., R.N.

Highteen Reptiles from Central Borneo, collected by
Mr. J. C. Shortridge; presented by the Subscribers to the
British Ornithologists’ Union New Guinea Eapedition Fund.
Afriea.

Fifty-two specimens from the Seychelles and other Islands
in the Indian Ocean ; presented by Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner,
IPEI TSS

Twelve Reptiles from Egypt and the Sudan; presented by
the Director of the Giza Zoological Gardens.

A Lizard (Lygosoma sphenopsiforme) from Somaliland, new
to the Collection; presented by the Director of the Museo
Civico, Genoa.

Five Snakes from Uganda; presented by Col. Sir David
Bruce, C.B., F.RS.

Thirteen Reptiles from British East Africa; presented by
F. J. Jackson, E'sq., C.B., C.M.G.

Ten Reptiles from British East Africa, collected by
Mr. R. Kemp; presented by C. D. Rudd, Esq.

Fifty-nine Reptiles from Bechuanaland, collected by
Mr. R. B. Woosnam; presented by the Subscribers to the Lake
Ngami Expedition Fund.

HKighty-eight Reptiles from various parts of South Africa,
among which are examples of several species new to the
Collection, and co-types of three new species (Pachydactylus
purcelli, Monopeltis colobura, Glauconia longior) ; presented
by the Trustees of the South African Museum.

A Sea Snake (Hydrus platurus) from Port Elizabeth ;
presented by F. W. Fitz Simons, Esq.

HKighteen Reptiles from Oban, Calabar ; presented by P. A.
Talbot, Esq.

America, South.

Forty-one specimens from Western Colombia, collected by
Mr. G. Palmer, including types. of several new species (Anolis
macrolepis, A. ventrimaculatus, Echinosaura palmer,
Leptognathus sancti-joannis).

Sixteen specimens from near Rio Janeiro; presented by
D. A. Bannerman, Esq.

Thirteen Lizards from Uruguay and Chili; presented by
Dr. Arechavelata.

Australasia.

Sixty-nine Reptiles from the Moluccas, collected by the
late Mr. W. Stalker; presented by the Subscribers to the
British Ornithologists’ Union New Guinea Haupedition Fund.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 145

REPTILIA—continued.
Thirty-one Reptiles from Central Australia, among them
examples of two lizards new to the Collection (Lygosoma

ocelliferum and Ablepharus teniopleurus); presented by
H.S. Hillier, Esq.

BATRACHIA.

The additions number two hundred and nine, of which one
hundred and sixty-six were acquired by presentation and forty-
three by purchase. The principal additions are :—

Africa.

Thirty-eight specimens from the Seychelles, among which are
anew Frog (Nectophryne gardineri) and two new Cecilians
(Dermophis sechellensis and Hypogeophis brevis) ; presented
by Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S.

Thirteen specimens from British Hast Africa; presented by
F. J. Jackson, E'sq., C.B., C.M.G.

Thirteen Frogs from Bechuanaland, collected by Mr. R. B.
Woosnam; presented by the Subscribers to the Lake Ngami
Expedition Fund.

Seven Frogs from South Africa; presented by the Trustees
of the South African Museum.

Hight Frogs from Oban, Calabar; presented by P. A.
Talbot, Esq.

America, South.

Thirty-three specimens from Southern Colombia (M. G.
Palmer Collection), including a Frog (Ceratohyla proboscidea)
new to the Collection, and examples of several new species.

Twenty specimens from near Rio Janeiro; presented by
D. A. Bannerman, Esq.

Ten Frogs from Santa Catharina, Brazil, collected by
Mr. W. Ehrhardt.

Australasia.

Fourteen specimens from the Moluccas, collected by the
late Mr. W. Stalker; presented by the Subscribers to the
British Ornithologists Union New Guinea Haupedition Fund.

PISCES.

Of the nine hundred and seventy-two additions, six hundred
and sixteen were acquired by presentation, three hundred and
fifty-four by purchase, and two by exchange. The following
are the most important :—

Europe.

A Fish (Lycodes eudipleurostictus) new to the Collection,
from the Faroe Channel; presented by Dr. N. Wolfenden.

119. K

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Pisces—continued.

Examples of the Powan (Coregonus clupeordes) of Loch
Lomond; presented by H. Lamard, Esq.

An albino Plaice from Grimsby ; presented by the Fish-
mongers’ Company.

An albino Haddock from the North Sea ; presented by W. J.
Howlett, Esq.

A rare Scombroid Fish (Thyrsites pretiosus), from the
London Market; presented by C. W. Edwards, Esq.

A File-fish (Balistes capriscus) from Dartmouth ; presented
by F. J. B. Beckford, Esq.

A hybrid Rudd x Bream, from Norfolk; presented by A. J.
Rudd, Esq.

Nineteen deep-sea Fishes from off the West Coast of Ireland,
including a Chimera (Harriotta raleighana) new to the
Collection and the types of two new species (Cyttosoma helge
and Grammatostoma flagellibarbis) ; presented by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture and Fisheries for Ireland.

A remarkable Trout from Lough Carra, Co. Mayo ; pre-
sented by Col. R. F. Meysey Thompson.

Examples of a rare Skate (Rava undulata), from Brittany ;
presented by G. A. Boulenger, Esq., F.RS.

Asia.

A rare Sturgeon (Acipenser orientalis), from the Amur ;
presented by the Fishmongers’ Company.

Seventy-three Fishes from Japan ; presented by R. Gordon-
Smith, Esq.

Twenty-four Fishes from the Persian Gulf and the Mekran
Coast; presented by F. W. Townsend, Esq.

Co-types of Oreinus baileyi, from Tibet, and Triacanthus
weberi, from Madras; received in exchange from the Indian
Museum, Calcutta.

Africa. |
Twenty specimens from British East Africa, among them

examples of the Trout introduced in Nairobi; presented by
oJ. Jackson, Li sq.,C.B. GalG.

Twenty-seven specimens collected in German East Africa
by Dr. E. J. Baxter.

Highty-seven specimens from the Lake Ngami district,
Bechuanaland, including examples of several new species,
collected by Mr. R. B. Woosnam; presented by the Royal
Society.

Twenty-one specimens from Rhodesia, a a new
Barbel (Barbus rogersi); presented by the Rev. F. A. Rogers
and EL. C. Chubb, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 147

Pisces—continued.

A new Bariliws from the Transvaal; presented by the —
Trustees of the South African Museum.

Co-types of Clinus mus and Cl. pavo, from False Bay ;
presented by Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist.

A collection of thirty-seven Fishes made by Dr. J. T.
Cunningham in St. Helena, including the types of two new
species (Lirus moseliv and Pimelepterus gallveri) ; presented
by Alfred Moseley, E'sq., C.M.G.

Forty specimens from Angola, including types of many new
species, being part of a large Collection made by Dr. W. J.
Ansorge. .

A new Fish (Haplochilus ferranti) from the Lower Congo ;
presented by the Luxemburg Museum.

Highteen specimens collected in Portuguese Guinea by
Dr. W. J. Ansorge.

A new Polypterus (P. ansorgiv), from Portuguese Guinea ;
presented by Dr. W. J. Ansorge.

Five specimens from the Upper Niger; presented by C. H.
Firmin, Esq.

One hundred and thirty-two specimens from Southern
Nigeria, including a new Barbel (Barbus chlorotenia) ; pre-
sented by Major G. EL. Bruce.

Nine specimens from Southern Nigeria; presented by
P. A. Talbot, Esq,

America, South.

One hundred and forty specimens collected by Mr. M. G.
Palmer in South Western Colombia, among which are types of
several new species (Curimatus lineopunctatus, Lebiasina
multimaculata, Luciocharax striatus, Nematabrycon palmert).

Thirty-three specimens from Sta Catherina, Brazil, collected
by Mr. W. Ehrhardt.

The co-type of a new Fish (Corydoras ehrhardti), from
Brazil; presented by Dr. F. Stecndachner.

A very large specimen of Leporinus obtusirostris, from
Buenos Aires.

Australasia.

Ten specimens from Central Australia, among which is a
Fish (Gobius eremius), new to the Collection; presented by
HS. Hillier, Esq.

TUNICATA.

The sixty-three additions are almost all Antarctic specimens,
which have been described by Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S.,
from the collection made during the National Antarctic
(“ Discovery ”) Expedition in 1901-1904.

Kee

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MOLLUSCA.

Two thousand nine hundred and fifty-two specimens were
acquired during the year. The following are the most important
series :—

Miscellaneous.

Forty-seven land, freshwater and marine shells from
several localities, including the types of four new species and
co-types of twelve others.

A specimen of Strombus gigas with abnormal] lip, the type
of Pseudoliva ancilla, and twelve figured specimens from the
Hanley Collection ; presented by Henry Harvey, Esq.

Thirty-five land and marine shells from various localities,
including types of nine African species from Dr. Gibbons’
Collection.

One hundred and ninety-four land, freshwater and marine
shells, mostly new to the Collection, and including the types
of six recently described species.

One hundred and seventy-nine land, freshwater and marine
shells from many localities, including seven types and numerous
rare and recently described species.

Ninety-four shells from various places, including eleven
co-types and many species new to the Collection.

Ninety-eight land shells from various localities, nearly all
new to the Collection, and many of them extremely rare.

Europe.
Fifty-seven marine shells from Jersey, fine specimens in
fresh condition ; presented by H. Spurrier, Esq.

Asia.

Seventy-four land shells from Tonkin, representing thirty
species new to the Collection.

Eleven land and freshwater shells from N.E. China, including
the types of four new species; presented by Staff-Surgeon
K. H. Jones, R.N.

Ninety-three Mollusca from Travancore; presented by the
Trivandrum Museum.

Two hundred and eleven shells from Goram, lei Islands,
collected by the late Mr. W. Stalker; presented by the
Subscribers to the British Ornithologists’ Union New Guinea
Ezpedition Fund.

Africa

Eight hundred and twenty-eight shells from the Seychelles
and other neighbouring groups of Islands in the Indian Ocean,
including the types described by J. C. Melvill and E. R. Sykes
in their reports upon this Collection; presented by Prof.
J. Stanley Gardiner, FBS.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 149

Mo.Liusca—continued.

The types of thirteen new species of land shells from South
Africa: presented by J. H. Ponsonby, Esq.

Australasia.

Forty-nine marine shells from Queensland ; presented by
J. Shirley, Esq.

Thirty-four marine shells from North Queensland, repre-
senting species nearly all new to the Collection; presented by
C. J. Gabriel, sq.

Highty specimens of Chitons from the Coast of New South
Wales, valuable on account of their fine condition and exact
localities ; presented by A. F. B. Hull, Esq.

One hundred and seven marine shells from South Australia,
all new to the Collection, and many of the species represented
by co-types ; presented by Dr. J. C. Verco.

INSECTA.

Including the Walsingham Collection of Micro-lepidoptera,
estimated to contain over 260,000 specimens, the number of
specimens added to this part of the Collection during the year
is three hundred and sixty-nine thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three, made up as follows :—

Coleoptera = = = = 2 = - $1,670
Lepidoptera - - - - - - - 271,530
Hymenoptera - ~ i i - - 47,655
Diptera - - - - - - - - 6,404
Rhynchota = - - - ~ - - 9,510
Orthoptera = - - - - - - - 1,008
Neuroptera - - - - - - - 2,060
Nests, ete. - - - - - . - 36

Total = - - 369,873

The most important of these accessions are the following :—

From various Localities.

Two hundred and sixty thousand Micro - Lepidoptera ;
presented by the Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, F.R.S.

Three thousand nine hundred and eighty-one Coleoptera
(Phytophaga), including nine hundred and thirty-four types,
being the third and final instalment of the Jacoby Collection.

Two thousand Coleoptera (Clavicornia); presented by
George Lewis, Esq.

The Collection of Palearctic Hymenoptera formed by the
late Edward Saunders, F.R.S., containing thirty thousand
specimens.

Two thousand nine hundred Hymenoptera, including many
types ; presented by Rowland E. Turner, Esq.

150 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

INSECT A—-continued.

The Collection of Palearctic Hemiptera formed by the late
E. Saunders, F.R.S., and containing six thousand one hundred
and twenty specimens; presented by an anonymous donor.

Seven hundred and fifteen Diptera (Culicide), together with
three hundred and one microscopic slides and one hundred
and thirty-nine photographic negatives; presented by F. V.
Theobald, Esq.

One thousand six hundred and ninety-six microscopic slides,
mostly of Diptera, prepared by the late Walter Wesché,
F.R.M.S.; presented by Mrs. Wesche.

Eight hundred and eighty-three Neuroptera (Psocide),
including fifty-six types and four co-types, from the Collection
made by Dr, Giinther Enderlein.

Europe.

Six hundred and fifteen British Neuroptera (Psocide) and
eighty British Diptera (Pulicidee), from the Collection formed by
the late E. Saunders, F.R.S.

The Collection of British Hymenoptera, numbering over
ten thousand specimens, formed by the late E. Saunders, F.R.S. ;
presented by the Rev. F. D. Morice.

Three hundred and forty-one named British Hymenoptera
(Ichneumonide) ; presented by G. C. Champion, Ksq.

Asia.

Nine thousand four hundred Coleoptera from Japan and
Ceylon, forming part of the Collections made there by G. Lewis,
Tisq., and containing many types.

Fourteen hundred Coleoptera and seventy-two insects of
other Orders from Borneo and Japan; presented by J. E. A.
Lewis, Esq.

Two hundred and thirty Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, and a
series of bark-beetles (Scolytidz) with specimens of the
different woods attacked by them, from Japan and Formosa;
by exchange from the College of Agriculture, Imperial
University of Tohoku, Sapporo, Japan.

Two hundred and twee: -five insects of various Orders,
from Chengtu, China.

Five hundred Lepidoptera from Afghanistan; presented by
W. Anning, Esq.

Two thousand one hundred and seven Lepidoptera Phalenze
from Sikhim; presented by M. F. Moller, Esq.

Two hundred and twenty-two Diptera; by exchange from
the Indian Museum, Calcutta.

Africa.
Fourteen thousand one hundred and fifty-five African

insects of various Orders; presented by the Hntomological
Research Committee.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 151

INSECTA—continued.

America.
Six hundred and seventy-eight named Coleoptera (Staphy-
linidz) from the United States ; presented by Dr. A. Fenyes.

One thousand and twenty-eight named Coleoptera (Staphy-
linide) from Central America; presented by F. D. Godman,
fieg.).C.L., HBS,

Six hundred and twenty-eight Lepidoptera Phaleenz from
Costa Rica, including many co-types of species described by the
donor; presented by W. Schaus, Ksq.

Two hundred and fifty-six Hymenoptera Aculeata from
Brazil, including many types; presented by the Director of the
Museum Goeldi, Para.

Australasia.

Seven hundred insects of various Orders collected by the
late Mr. W. Stalker on the expedition to New Guinea;
presented by the Subscribers to the British Ornithologists’
Union New Guinea Haupedition Fund.

Six hundred and ninety-eight Coleoptera, mostly type
specimens, from the Rev. Canon T. Blackburn’s Collection.

One hundred and seventy-four Coleoptera, chiefly co-types,
from Australia; by exchange, from A. M. Lea, Esq., Govern-
ment Entomologist, Hobart.

PROTOTRACHEATA.

Two specimens of his new species, Peripatus papuensis,
were purchased from Professor A. Sedgwick, F.R.S.; and an
example of the rare P. woodwardi was presented by Dr. W.
Michaelsen.

MYRIOPODA.

The accessions number one hundred and sixty-four. The
more important are :—

Thirty-nine specimens from various localities, including the
co-types of nineteen species; received in exchange from Prof.
F. Silvestri.

Sixty-five specimens from Uganda and German East Africa,
including co-types of twenty-three species.

Seventeen specimens from the Aru and Goram Islands ;
presented by the Subscribers to the British Ornithologists’
Union New Guinea Expedition Fund.

ARACHNIDA.
The accessions number one thousand four hundred and five ;
the following deserve special mention :—
Asia.

Thirty-nine Arachnida from China and Ceylon; presented
by T. Bainbiigge Fletcher, Hsq., RN.

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ARACHNIDA—continued.
Africa.
Seven hundred and _ seventy-five Arachnida from the

Seychelles and other islands of the Indian Ocean; presented
by Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.RS.

Forty Arachnida from Biskra, Algeria, including the type
of Burrella walsinghami, a new genus and species of Solifuge ;
presented by Lord Walsingham, F.R.S.

Six specimens (co-types) of an interesting South African
Harvestman (Purcellia illustrans); presented by Dr. F. W.
Purcell.

Two hundred and fifty Arachnida from Angola.

Thirty Arachnida from South Nigeria, including the types
of Gurura talboti, Roewer; presented by P. A. Talbot, Esq.

Australasia.

Thirty-nine Arachnida from the Aru and Goram Islands ;
presented by the Subscribers to the British Ornithologists’
Union New Guinea Haupedition Fund.

Twenty-one Arachnida, including several undescribed
species of Scorpions and Spiders, from Central Australia ;
presented by H. J. Hillier, Esq.

CRUSTACEA.

The additions number one thousand six hundred and
forty-one, of which the following are the most important :—

Miscellaneous.

One hundred and fifty-one specimens of Isopoda, including
types of twelve new species, from Antarctic Seas; from the
“Discovery ” Expedition.

One specimen of a rare Copepod from Antarctic Seas ;
presented by Dr. W. S. Bruce.

Two co-types of Cumacea from South Georgia; received in
exchange from Dr. C. Zimmer, Breslau.

One specimen of a rare Isopod from the South Orkney
Islands; presented by T. V. Hodason, Esq.

Thirty specimens of Whale-parasites from the South
Shetlands; presented by Herr J. A. Mérch.

One hundred and sixteen microscopic preparations of

Apodide, prepared by the late Mr. H. M. Bernard; presented
by Mrs. Bernard.

Two hundred and eighty-nine specimens of Crustacea from
the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the North Pacific
Oceans; from the collection of the Rev. Canon A. M. Norman,
E.R.S.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 158

CRUSTACEA— continued.

One hundred and sixty-eight specimens of Cumacea,
including co-types and twenty-six new species, from various
localities ; presented by the Musewm of Zoology, Copenhagen.

Europe.

Thirty-four specimens of Crustacea from Plymouth and the
Bay of Biscay.

Forty-three specimens of Isopods and their “nests,” from
Plymouth and the Bay of Biscay; presented by Mrs. E. W.
Seaton.

A specimen of a Well-shrimp from Hampshire; presented
by Lady Jenkins.

A specimen of Dromia vulgaris from Cornwall: presented
by EL. Wright, Esq.

A specimen of Squilla desmarestii from the coast of Sussex ;
presented by Mr. P. Stammwrtz.

Five specimens of the Norway Lobster showing abnormalities,
from Scotland ; presented by Dr. J. H. Ashworth,

Forty-one specimens of Schizopoda and Cumacea from the
coasts of Ireland ; presented by the Depurtment of Agriculture
and Technical Instruction for Ireland.

A red specimen of the common Lobster, from treland:
presented by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.

A type specimen of an Isopod and a specimen of a rare
Amphipod, from the Bay of Biscay; pvesented by A. O.
Walker, Esq.

A Cumacean from the Bay of Biscay ; received in exchange
from the Paris Museum.

One hundred and eighty specimens of Ostracoda from the
“Research ” Expedition in the Bay of Biscay; presented by
Dro G. H. Fowler.

A Woodlouse from the South of France; presented by the
Hon. N. C. Rothschild.

Twenty specimens of subterranean and other Isopoda from
France and Corsica; presented by Dr. G. Racovitza.

Asia.

Four specimens of Apus from Northern China; presented
by EL. B. Howell, Esq.

A specimen of a rare Stomatopod, new to the collection,
from Japan ; presented by the Zoological Museum of Munich.

Fifty-three specimens of Cirripedia, including co-types of
three species and varieties, and twelve specimens (co-types)
of Stomatopods, from Indian Seas; received in exchange from
the Indian Museum, Calcutta.

Fourteen specimens of Deep-sea Crustacea from the Indian
Ocean; presented by the Eastern and Associated Telegraph
Companies.

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CRUSTACEA—continued,

Hight specimens of Crabs from Travancore; presented by
the Government Museum, Travancore.

Ten specimens of a Prawn from the Gulf of Oman;
presented by F. W. Townsend, Esq.

Two specimens of the Blind Prawn of the Sea of Galilee.
Africa. ,

One hundred and twenty-five specimens of Ostracods,
including types of twenty-seven new species, from the Great
Lakes of Africa; presented by the Tanganyika Haplovration
Committee.

Ten specimens of MRiver-prawns from Lake Negami ;
presented by the Subscribers to the Lake Ngami Eapedition
Fund

Two specimens of a River-crab from Uganda.

Four specimens of a River-crab from Nigeria; presented by
P. A. Talbot, Esq.

A. River-prawn from the Upper Niger; presented by C. H.
Firmin, Esq.

Hight secimens (co-types) of Copepods from Northern
Nigeria; presented by Dr. J. H. Ashworth.

Fifty-one specimens of River-crabs and River-prawns from
Angola and the Camaroons.

Three specimens of a _ River-crab from the Fayum;
presented by Capt. S. S. Flower.

Seven specimens of subterranean Isopoda from Algeria ;
presented by Dr. G. Racovitza.

A co-type of a species of River-crab from Madagascar ;
received in exchange from the Paris Museum.
America.

Ten specimens of Crustacea from the West Indies;
presented by the West India and Panama Telegraph
Company.

Fifteen specimens of rare River-prawns from Havana;
received in exchange from the Paris Museum.

Fifty-two specimens of freshwater Crustacea from Brazil.

A River-crab from Brazil; presented by D. A. Bannerman,
Esq.

Eleven specimens of River-crabs and River-prawns from
Colombia.

Two specimens of large Crabs from the Straits of Magellan ;
presented by G. M. Hall, Esq.

Eighty-seven specimens of Crustacea from Amboina, Ceram,
and adjacent Islands; presented by the Subscribers to the
British Ornithologists Union New Guinea Eapedition Fund.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 155

PYCNOGONIDA.

Ten specimens of Pycnogonida from Harwich; presented by
H. Whitehead, Esq.

ECHINODERMA.

The most extensive set was contained in a new instalment
of the Norman collection; among these may be mentioned
Ophiothria luetkeni, Solaster furcifer, Hchinocucumis
hispida and Antedon quadrata. A specimen of Sigsbera
murrhina was presented by the West Indian and Panama
Telegraph Company.

WORMS.

Here, again, the largest contingent is from the collection of
Canon Norman; of his specimens the following may be
specially mentioned :—Acholoe astericola, Tomopteris helgo-
landica, Marphysa belli, and Ctenodrilus pardalis. A
specimen of Spherosyllis with ova was presented by Myr.
H. J. Waddington. A specimen of Ascaris spiculigera was
determined by Mr. A. E. Shipley, F.R.S. An example of the
lately described Hreunetes sicariws was obtained by exchange
from the Indian Museum, Calcutta.

POLYZOA.

The most important additions were as follows :—

Portions of types and co-types of ten species of Polyzoa
from Queensland, described by Professor W. A. Haswell in
1881; presented by the Trustees of the Australian Museum,
Sydney.

ANTHOZOA.

Of the few specimens of this group obtained during the
year were some from the Norman Collection, of which may be
cited the type of Rhizoxenia albicolor.

Prof. J. P. Hill has presented the types of four species of
Zoanthids from Queensland and New Hebrides.

HYDROZOA.

The most important additions were ;—

Kleven specimens of Hydroida from a cable at a depth
of 49 fathoms off Puerto Rico, West Indies; collected and
presented by Captain A. Morrell (West India and Panama
Telegraph Company).

Five specimens of Hydrozoa from the Mediterranean and
Atlantic; presented by the Hastern and Associated Telegraph
Companies, .

156 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

PORIFERA.

The following were the more noteworthy additions :—

Thirty-two specimens of Astrosclera willeyana and nineteen
specimens of Murrayona phanolepis from 50 fathoms off
Christmas Island, Indian Ocean ; collected and presented by
R. Kirkpatrick, Esq.

Seventeen Sponges from Puerto Rico, detached from a cable

in 49 fathoms; presented by Captain A. Morrell (West India
and Panama Telegraph Company).

Eighty-seven bottles of Sponges from the Antarctic,
collected by the ‘ Nimrod” Expedition ; presented by Sir
Ernest Shackleton.

Sixteen specimens and twenty-four microscopic preparations
of Hexactinellid Sponges, obtained by the “ Gauss” German
Antarctic Expedition ; presented by the Berlin Museum.

Fifteen specimens (a second consignment) of Sponges
collected by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition; received in
exchange from the late Professor E. van Beneden.

Summary of the Acquisitions in the Department of Zoology
during 1910.

—_—— | Donations. | Purchases.|Exchanges.| Total.
( Wild - - - 2,862 374 10 3,246
Mammalia 1 Domesticated’ - - 11 _ — 11
' Human - - - 2 — — 2
Rane j Skins - : - = 3,505 2,983 1,019 7,507
| Eggs, nests, and skeletons’ - 893 977 — 1,870
Reptilia - 2 - - - 552 56 — 608
Batrachia - - - - 166 43 — 209
Pisces - - - - - 616 354 2 a7
Tunicata - - . 2 63 — — 63
Mollusca - - - - 2,150 802 — 2,952
Walsingham Collection - | 260,000 — — (| eq er:
Insecta Other sources - = 61,591 47,558 724 f ee ety
Prototracheata - = - 1 2 — 3
Myriopoda - - sa - 7 OBA 71 39 164
Arachnida - - - - 1,146 259 — 1,405
Crustacea - - - - 1.111 441 89 1.641
Pycnogonida_ - - - - 10 _ -- 10
Echinoderma - = - - 18 195 — 213
Worms - - - - 40 77 1 118
Brachiopoda_ - - - = — —- _ a
Polyzoa_ - z e : x 30 ae. = 30
Anthozoa - - - . 17 16 — 33
Hydrozoa - - = 3 19 a aS) 19
Porifera c : = 5 203, —_— 15 218
Protozoa = - 5 2 a =e eas | =
Totals - : - | 335,060 54,208 1,899 | 391,167

AREER NERS RN te SS NP PE

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY.

157

The following Donors* have presented specimens to the
Department of Zoology during the past year :—

H.M. King Edward VII.

Addison, W.

Adkin, R.

Affalo, F. G.

Agar, W. E.
Agassiz, The late Prof. A.
Aiken, Rev. J.
Aitchinson, Dr.
Albany Museum.
Aldworth, T. P.
Alves, Dr. E.
Ancaster, Earl of
Anderson, Dr. J.
Andrewes, H. E.
Andrewes, H. L.
Anning, W.
Ansorge, Dr. W. J.
Arbuckle, Dr. H. E.
Archer, M. E.
Arechavelata, Dr.
Arnold, J. P.
Ashford, E. J.
Ashworth, Dr. J. H.
Australian Museum, Sydney.

Bagnall, Dr. R. L.
Bagshaw, Dr. A. G.
Bailey, Capt.
Bailey, R. A.

Baird, T.

Balston, W. E.
ibancroit, Dr. T: L.
Banks, C. 8.
Bannerman, D. A.
Barker, R. C.
Barnby-Smith, C.
Barrett-Hamilton, Maj.G. E. H.
Bartlett, A. W.
Bate, Miss D. M. A.
Bateman, Capt. H. R.
Batten, H. G.
Battye, A. Trevor.
Bavay, A.

Bayne, W. M.
Bayon, Dr. H.
Beckford, F. J. B.

Bedford, Her
Duchess of

Bedford, His Grace the Duke
of

Belcher, T. E.

Berlin Museum.

Bernard, Mrs. H. M.

Berthoud, G. F.

Bertoni, A. de W.

Bird, H.

Blackman, E. J.

Blaine, G.

Board of Agriculture, London.

Boettger, Prof. Dr. O.

Bombay Government.

Bombay Nat. Hist. Society.

Bose, Dr.

Boulenger, E. G.

Boulenger, G. A.

Brabant, M.

Brady, Prof. G. 8.

Braine, W.

Brett, —.

Brice-Smith, H. M. S.

Bridgeman, Hon. R. O. B.

Bridgman, F. G.

Briscoe, T. C.

British Ornithologists’ Union

Britten, E.

Broad, P. G.

Brokenshire, F. A.

Brooke, E. J.

Broom, Dr. R.

Browne, R.

Bruce, Col. Sir D., C.B.

Bruce, Dr. W. S.

Bruce, Maj. G. EK.

Brune, Capt.

Bryant, C.

Bryant, G. E.

Bucknill, Hon. J. A.

Builles, V.

Bunbury, Rev. G.

Burden, H. M.

Burnett, C. S.

Bury,.G. W.

Grace the

* A list of Donors of books, etc., is given on pp. 130, 131, under the

heading ‘“‘ Departmental Library.”

158

Butler, Dr. A. G.
Buxton, Ivor.
Buxton, P. A.
Buysson, R. du.

Cambridge University Museum
of Zoology.

Cameron, P.

Campbell, Capt. D.

Cape Town Government
Entomologist.

Carter, H. J.

Champion, A.

Champion, G. C.

Chapman, A.
Chapman, Dr. T. D. A.
Chapman, 8. C.

Chaves, Maj. F.
Chirnside, Miss A.
Chittenden, F. H.
Christy, Dr. C.

Chubb, E. C.

Clarke, Col. S. R.
Clark, Miss.

Cleland, Dr. J. B:
Cockayne, A. H.
Cockburn, Maj. W. A. C.
Cockburn, N. C.
Cockerell, Prof. f. D. A.
Coke, R.

Coleman, —.
Collingridge, Dr. W.
Collyns, Mrs. L. E.
Colombo Museum.
Comber, E.

Congreve, Col. W.N., V.C.
Coningham, Capt. H.-
Connolly, Major M.
Cook, H. R.

Cooke, Rev. A. H.
Cooke, th Se

Cooksey, J. G.
Copeman, KE. A.
Copenhagen Museum.
Corbin, G. B.

Cornford, C. E.

Cowan, Lieut., R.N.
Crane, Capt. 6. PY DS.0,
Craven, A. E.
Crawshay, Rev. G. A.
Crease, H. H.

Cremer, J. A.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Crosby, Prof. C. R.
Cumberland, Maj. C. 8.
Cunningham, J. T.
Curtis, W. P.

D’Abren, E. A.
Dalgliesh, G.

Dalton, G. G.

Dalton, L. V.

Danford, C. G.
Darling, C. A.

Darling, J.

Daukes, Capt. C. T.
Davey, W. J.

Davis, W.

Dawe, M. T.

Dawson, C.

Dawson, Lt.-Col. F. W.
Dayrell, E.

Demidoff, Prince E.
Derrick, G. T.

Dick, W.

Distant, W. L.

Dixon, Capt. H. B.
Doeg, T. E.

Dollman, G.

Dollman, H. C.
Donisthorpe, H. St. J.
Douglas, Capt. H. E. M.
Downing, Capt. A. K. W.
Drake-Brockman, Dr. R. E.
Druce, H.

Dublin Royal Society.
Dudgeon, G. C.
Dundas, Hon. K.
Dundas, Hon. Mrs. K.
Dunn, May... IN.
Durrantse. HH.

Duthie, J. F.

Dutton, J. F.

Eastern and Associated Tele-
graph Companies.
Eaton, Rev. A. E.
Edie, A. G.
Edmunds, G. J.
Edwardes, H. W.
Edwards, C. W.
Ellacombe, Dr.
Elliott, Rev. D.
Elliott, E. A.
Ellison, G.
English, T. M. 8.

DEPARTMENT

Entomological Research Com-
mittee.

Ericson, T. B.

Eyles, Mrs. C. H.

Eyre, H. 8. W.

Facaiba, C. C.

Fairbairn, K. B.

Federated Malay States
Government.

Fejirvary, Baron G.

Fenyes, Dr. A.

Ferguson, A.

Fient, H. G.

Firmin, C. H.

Fishmongers’ Company.

Fitch, Miss.
Fitz Simons, F. W.
Fleming, J. H.

Fletcher, T. Bainbrigge, R.N.
Floersheim, C.
Flower, Capt. S. S.
Forester, Lord.
Forrest, H. E.
Fountaine, Miss M. E.
Fowler, Dr. G. H.
Foy, Dr. H. A.

lox, W. EF.

French, C.

Froggatt, W. W.
Frohawk, F. W.
Fuller, Rev. A.
Furneaux, A. W.

Gabriel, C. J.

Gadeau de Kerville, H.

Gadow, Dr. H.

Gardiner, Prof. J. S.

Gardner, Lieut. R. D.

Genoa, Museo Civico, Director
of

Gestro, Dr. R.

Ghidini, Dr. A.

Giacomelli, Dr. E.

Gibson, E.

Gifford, Lord

Galehrist, Dr. J. D. F.

Gillies, Rev. R.

Giza Zoological Gardens.

Godman, F. D.

Goeldi Museum.

Goodall, T. B.

OF ZOOLOGY.

Goodchild, H.
Gordon-Smith, R.
Gounelle, E.
Gourlay, W. B.
Gowdey, C. C.
Graham, Dr. W. M.
Grant, C. H. B.
Gray, Dr.

Greaves, Lieut. H. M.
Green, E. E.
Green, U.
Grouvelle, A.
Gude, G. K.,

Gunn, D.

Gunning, A.
Giinther, Dr. A.

Haas, A. B.

Halls G. MM:

Hamerton, Capt. A. E.
Hamilton, Maj. Stevenson.
Hampton, H.

Hanitsch, Dr. R.
Hannay, H.

Hardy, G. S.

Harger, R. L.

Harington, Maj. H. H.
Harman, A. C.

Harvey, H.

Harvey, Sir Robert, Bart.
Hay, D.

Haynes, T. H.
Healey, E.

Heller, Dr. K. M.
Hewitt, J.

Hewitt, N. C.
Hickson, Prof. 8. J
Ba ASW,

Hall Prof, J.P.
Hill, R.

Hillier, H. J.
Hillier, H. S.
Hinde, S. L.
Hobart, C: H.
Hocknell, R.
Hodgson, the Jate G. G.
Hodgson, T. V.
Holden, G.

Hollis, Capt. R. N.
Hopkinson, Dr. EH,

159

160 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Hopwood, C. Kirkpatrick, R.
Horsburgh, Maj. R. B. Knox, Capt. G. 8.
Horsley, Rev. Canon J. W. Kumm, Dr. K.-W:
Hose, Dr. C. Laing, Miss E.
Howard, H. E. Lamard, H.
Howell, E. B. Large, Lieut. E. R.
Howell, G. B. Latham, J.
Howes, G. La Touche, J. D.
Howlett, W. J. Laurence, Capt.
Huddy, H. P. Lea, A. M.
Ball A. 8B. Legge, Hon. G.
Hungarian Minister of Agri- | Leighton, Sir B.
culture. Leite, Mrs. Pinto
Huntley-Smith, C. E. Lewis, G.
Hurrell, H. E. Lewis, J. E. A.
Lillie, D. G.
Lindley, Dr.
Ihering, Dr. R. von Lloyd, L. H.
Indian Museum, Calcutta. Lloyd, T. H.
Ingram, C. Longstaff, Dr. G, B.
Ingram, Dr. A. Longstaff, Dr. T. G.
Ingram, Sir W. Lonnberg, Dr. Einar
Iredale, T. Lounsbury, C. P.
Iredell, Lieut. §. M. L. Lueas, Dr. T. P.
Iveland, Department of Agvi- | Lumley, Fleet-Surgeon F. D.
culture and Fisheries. Lundstrom, Prof. C.

Luxemburg Museum.

Jackson, F. J., C.B., C.M.G.

Jackson, H. McCarrison, Capt. R.
Janse, A. T. McCheane, Miss.
Jenkins, Lady. McConnell, F. V.
Jepson, F. P. McGregor, G. Laird
Joannis, L Abbé J. de Mackwood, F. M.
Johnson, W. H. Maclean, Miss.
Johnston, Sir H. H., G.C.M.G. | Maplestone, C. M.
Jones, B. H. Marshall, G. A. K.
Jones, Dr. S. H. Marston, R. B.
Jones, Staff-Surgecn K. H., | Mason, S.
R.N. Maturin, D.
Jourdain, Rev. F. C. R. Maw, W. A.
Joyce, T. A. Maxwell, J. P.
Jukes-Browne, A.J. - Maxwell-Lefroy, H.
Meade-Waldo, E. G. B.
Melland, F. H.
Kearfolt, W. M. Melvill, Dr. J. C.
Keen, Rev. J. H. Michaelsen, Dr. W.
Kennion, Major R. L. Michell, R. L.
Kerr, A. F. G. -| Millar, Rev. E.
Kershaw, G. B. Mitchell, J. R.
King, W. J. H. Moller, F.
Kirby, W. F. Molyneux, Rev. H. J
Kirkpatrick, Mrs. K. Monami, Dr. G. K.

DEPARTMENT

Moore, Dr. J. J.
Morch, J. A.
Morrell, Capt. A.
Morice, Rev. F. D.
Morris, Mrs. C.
Mosely, A., C.M.G.
Moulton, J. C.
Mourgue, M.

Muir, F.

Muir, G. J.
Miinchen Museum.
Munt, H.
Murdoch, G. W.
Mure, W. I.
Murie, Dr. J.
Murphy, Dr. J. O.

Natara, Medical Officer.

Navas, R. P. L.

Neale, Dr. E.

Neal, H. V.

Neave, S. A.

Neish, Dr. W. D.

New Guinea, Subscribers to
B. O. U. Expedition to

Newstead, R.

Ngami, Subscribers to Expedi-
tion to Lake

Nichols, Dr. J. T.

Nichols, Lieut.-Col. C. E.

Nicholson, Dr. G. W.

Nicholson, 8S.

Noble, H.

- Norris, Dr. 8. K.

Nurse, Lieut.-Col. C. G.

Oakes, Rev. B. P.
Ogilvie-Grant, W. R.
O’Gorman, M.

Old, Dry ti eS.
Oriental Whaling Co.
Osburn, P. J.
Osmaston, B. B.
Oyler, Mrs.

Parish, H. M.

Parker, Mr. Justice F. H.
Patteson, Mrs.

Pearce, Miss.

‘Peele, R. de C.

Pegler, Miss A.

Peracca, Count M. G.

PES

OF ZOOLOGY, 161

Percy, Lord W.

-| Perrens, T.

Perth Museum.

| Phillips, E. L.

Phillips, Re A.
Philpott, Miss.
Pickup, J.

‘| Pinkiert, H.

Pole, J.

Ponsonby, J. H.

Pool @. J. C!

Porritt, G. FT.

Porter, A. A.

Portland, His;\Gracethe Duke of
Preston, H. B.

Prout; lL; B.

Purcell, F. W.

Pycraft, W. P.

Quelch, J. J.

Racovitza, G.

Rae, Capt.

Rattigan, W. F.

Reed, Capt. A.

Reid, Capt. A. W.

Reid, Lieut.-Col. A., D.S.O.
Render, E. J.

Reynolds, E. D.

Rhodesia, Dept. of Agriculture.
Rickard, Staff-Surgeon C. R.
Ridewood, Dr. W. G.

Ridley, H. N.

Ridsdale, C.

Ritchie, J.

Roberts, D. O.

Roberts, J.

Robinson, H. C.

Rodriguez, Don J.

Rodway, G.

Rogers, Rev. F. A.
Rohn, J.

Rosenberg, W. F. H.
Rose, W.

Rothschild, Hon. L. W.
Rothschild, Hon. N. C.
Rothschild, Hon. Mrs. N. C.
Rowland, C. E. R.

Royal Society.

Rudd, C. D.

Ruddock, O. T.

162

Salis Schwabe, E.
Sambon, Dr. L. W.

Sampson, Col. F. W.

Sarawak Museum.

Sasaki, Dr. C.

Schaus, W.

Schmassmann, W.

Schrottky, C.
Schulthess-Schindler, Dr. A. v.

Sclater, Dr. P. L.

Scott, Surgeon G. B., R.N.

Selangor Museum.

Selkirk, T.

Selous, F. C.

Seth-Smith, L. M.

Sexton, Mrs. E. W.

Shackleton, Sir E.

Sharpe, Sir A.

Sharpe-Youngs, Miss E.

Shirley, J.

Shortridge, G. C.

Shull, Prot. C.A.

Sicard, Med.-Maj. A.

Simpson, M. W. Hilton

Skorikoff, Dr. A. 8.

Sladen, F. W. L.

Sladen, Percy, Research Fund
Committee.

Smith, A. P. Leeston

Smith, Maj. F.

Smith, Rev. Canon F. C.

Smith, G.

Smith, Dr. G. A.

Smivh, H.-H:

Smith, R. G.

Smith, R. S., jun.

Smith, W. C.

Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D. C.

Someren, Dr. R. Van

Someren, V. G. Van >

South African Museum.

Southern Pacifie Co.

Sowerby and Fulton, Messrs.

Sparrow, Major R.

Spumcell Or EG. hy

Spurrier, H.

Stammwitz, P.

Stanford, Staff-Surgeon

Stanton, Dr. A. T.

Steindachner, Dr.

Stenton, R.

es

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Storey, C. B. C.
St. Quintin, W. H.
Strickland, T. A. G.

Swale, Dr. H.
Sweetlove, Miss A.
Swinhoe, R. C. J.
Talbot, P. A.

Tanganyika Exploration Com-
mittee.

Tate, H. IN.

Taylor, J.

Taylor, Dr. J. C.

Teesdale, J. H.

Tellalian, O. A.

Theobald, F. V.

Thomas, O.

Thompson, J. L.

Thompson, P. E.

Thompson, R. C.

Thompson, Col. R. F. M.

Thompson, W. R.

Thornicroft, H.

Thurgood, J. A.

Thurling, G. F, R. B.

Tomlin, J. R. Le B.

Toppin, Capt. H. 5S.

Townsend, F. W.

Towse, J. W.

Travancore Museum.

Trevelyan Major Herbert.

Trevor, Ka(Ceak.

Trickett, WD.

Trivandrum Museum.

Tudor, W. G.

Turner, C. W.

iumner, Dr cA. J,

Turner, H. J. A.

Turner, R. E.

Tuson, Maj. G. E.

Tytler, Maj. H. C.

United States National

Museum.

Ussher; CyB:

Varian, Ee FE.

Vaucher, H.

Verco, Dr. J. C.
Venning, Capt. F. E. W.
Victoria League.
Villiers, Mrs. F.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 163

Waddington, H. J. White, H.

Wakeling, Dr. T. G. Wickham, H. A.
Walker, A. O. Wickwar, O. 8.
Walker, Commr. J. J. Wileman, A. E.

Wall, Maj. F. Wilks, W.
Walsingham, Lord Williams, Dr. R. F.
Walton, J. W. Williamson, Dr. G. A.
Ward, Dr. F. Williamson, N.

_ Ward, Rowland Wilmer, Lieut.-Col. L. W.
Warrand, H. M. Wingate, lLieut.-General Sir
Waterhouse, F. H. F. R., K.C.M.G.
Waterhouse, G. A. Wilson, A.

Watson, J. H. Wolcott, A. B.
Watson, Maj. J. W. Wolfenden, Dr. R. N.
Watson, L. Wolffsohn, J. A.
Wellington, Dominion Museum. | Woodforde, F. C.
Werner, Miss A. Woosnam, R. B.
Wesché, Mrs. Wright, E.
West India and Panama Tele-| Wright, G. A.

graph Company. Wright, G. W.
Whitaker, G. C. Wroughton, R. C.
Whitaker, J. I. S.
Whitehead, Capt. C. H. T. Yerbury, Col. J. W.
Whitehead, H.
White, G. F. Zoological Society of London.

VI.—Lconomic Zoology.

In the exhibited series the chief alteration has been the
arrangement of a collection of specimens to illustrate the
schedule attached to the “ Destructive Insects and Pests Order
of 1910.”

The services of Mr. G. H. Grosvenor, of New College,
Oxford, were secured, early in the year, in order to facilitate
the work of the Department in matters relating to Economic
Entomology. Some of the re-arrangements mentioned below
have been carried out by Mr. Grosvenor, who has also assisted
in giving information to inquirers.

A considerable quantity of unarranged material has been
incorporated in the Economic series, parts of which have been
entirely re-arranged to allow for expansion and to facilitate
reference to the collection. In this respect special attention
has been paid to the insects injuring cotton and other crops of
importance in Africa.

A start has been made with the formation of a subject
index of the books, pamphlets, etc. in the Economic Library.

Apart from specimens accompanying inquiries, the chief
accessions to the Economic collections are a series of speci-
mens of Sawfly (Nematus erichsonvi, Hartig.), with para-
sites, and larch shoots damaged by the larve, presented by

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164 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Prof. S. J. Hickson, F.r.s., and Mr. J. Mangan of the Victoria
University, Manchester ; and anumber of African Scale-insects
(Coccidee) with portions of plants attacked, presented by the
Scientific Secretary of the Entomological Research Committee.

In addition to information and assistance furnished through-
out the year to the Scientific Secretary of the Entomological
Research Committee, determinations of species (often entailing
the expenditure of a large amount of time) and other informa-
tion were supplied in response to some eighty inquiries with
reference to the Diptera alone. The economic importance of
these insects as carriers of disease renders their investigation
of special urgency and interest.

The following were among the more interesting and
important inquiries with respect to the Diptera :—

1. A horse-fly (Tabanus edentulus, Macq.), a nuisance to
children in Schools in Tasmania. (Specimens and
inquiry received trom the Chief Health Officer,
Department of Public Health, Hobart, Tasmania.)

2. Larvee of a small fly (Aphiochweta ferruginea, Brun.),
discharged from the human intestine in Trinidad
B.W.I.; also specimens of the perfect insect of the
same species bred from larve voided in a similar
manner by a patient in the Military Hospital, Manila.
(Specimens forwarded for identification and informa-
tion by the Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippine
Islands. )

3. Larvee of two species belonging to the genus Sarcophaga
causing cutaneous myiasis in man at Belize, British
Honduras. (Specimens and inquiry received from
the Principal Medical Officer, Belize.)

4, Flies infesting the kitchen of a house at Leeds. (Speci-
mens and inquiries received on several occasions

from the Medical Officer of Health, Leeds.)

5. Polietes lardaria, Fabr., a pest in a house in Warwick-
shire.

6. Fles in the vicinity of Sydney, New South Wales,
regarded with suspicion as possible disease-carriers.
(Collection and request for names received from
the Principal Assistant Microbiologist, Government
Bureau of Microbiology, Sydney.)

7. Simulium lineatum, Mg., causing ulceration in the
ears of army horses in the Southern Command,
England. (Specimens and request for identification
received from the Principal Veterinary Officer,
Southern Command.)

8. “Plague of Flies” (all Musca domestica, L.) at Post-
wick, near Norwich. (Specimens, with request for
identification, received from Dr. S. Monckton Cope-
man, F.R.S., Local Government Board.)

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9. Larvee of a species of Sarcophaga removed at Bhavnagar
Para, India, from the palate and nose of a human
being. (Specimens, with request for identification
and information, forwarded by the Chief Medical
Officer, Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Rail-
way, Bhavnagar Para.)

10. Dipterous larve said to have been drawn with milk
from a cow’s udder. (Specimens received for identi-
fication from Prof. G. H. Carpenter, Royal College of
Science for Ireland, Dublin.)

11. Glossina palpalis, Rob.-Desv. (the disseminator of
Sleeping Sickness) and other species of Tsetse-flies
in various portions of the British dominions in Africa.
(Numerous inquiries received from the Director of the
Sleeping Sickness Bureau.)

12. Small flies (A phiocheta ferruginea, Brun., and Hippe-
lates bilineatus, de Meijere) bred from larvze vomited
by an Indian patient in the Civil Hospital, Hong
Kong. (Specimens forwarded for identification by
the Government Bacteriologist, Hong Kong.)

13. A species of mosquito (Pyretophorus cinereus, Theob.),
possibly the disseminating agent in an epidemic
of malaria, which occurred in 1909 in the district of
Gordonia, Province of the Cape of Good Hope, and
caused over 400 deaths. (Specimens sent, with
request for identification and information, by Dr.
E. H. Phillips, District Surgeon, Gordonia, Province
of the Cape of Good Hope.)

14. A blow-fly infesting certain districts in Queensland.
(Request for information received from Mr. P. G.
Mylne Mitchel], Royal Mail Steam Packet Company.)

15. Mosquitoes (Culicide); inquiry how to rid house
of them.
The following are some of the objects of inquiry, among

the other Orders, upon which information and advice have
been sought, and as far as possible given :—

1. Pests in houses—
(a) Bed bug (Comex) and flea (Pulex) ; inquiry
as to life-histories.
(b) Furniture mites (Glycyphagus).

(c) Ticks (Ornithodorus moubata) infesting
native nuts in Transvaal.

(d) “ Wood-worms” or Beetle larvee (Anobiwm
domesticwm) in furniture.

(e) Beetle (Anobiwm panicewm) infesting room,
supposed to have been introduced in stuffing of
pincushion.

(f) Mealworm beetle (Lenebir0 molitor) in house.

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(g) Oak, in-roof of church, much damaged by
larvee of beetles (Anobium tessellatum).

(h) Beetles in house (Niptus hololewcus), several
inquiries.

. Inquiry from War Office as to Army Biscuit damaged

by moth and beetle. (Report on the subject drawn
up.)

. North American Hickory injured by beetles ( Longicornia

and Scolytide).

, Sugar-cane in Guatemala injured by beetles (Podischnus

agenor and Heterogomphus schoenherr%).
Shade trees injured by the beetle Oncideres
putator.

. Cigar beetle (Lasioderma serricorne) infesting Turmeric

and invading houses; sent for identification and
reference to its life-history by the Medical Officer of
Health, City of London.

. Beetles, in flour from North America, known as

“Weevils” (Calandra granaria, Ptinus tectus,
Tenebrioides mauritanicus).

Beetles injurious to mangolds (Plectroscelis concinna
and Atomaria linearis).

Beetle (Rhynchites ruber) very injurious to Olives in
Italy.

. Beetle (Xyleborus morigerus) injuring Orchids.
10.

Bamboos, used for man-lifting kites; inquiries relating
to injuries caused by beetles (Caloclytus annularis
and Lyctus brunnews), received from the Superin-
tendent of the Balloon Factory, South Farnborough.

(1) Sycamore panelling for railway-carriages, (2) Aus-
trian Oak, and (3) ash furniture injured by borings
of beetle larvee (Lyctus brunneus).

. Larch injured by a beetle (Curculio abietis) and an

aphis (Chermes laricis).

. Apple infested by the Bud-moth (Hedya (TI'metocera)

ocellana). |

. Bananas infested by a mealy bug (Dactylopius citrt).
. Blood-sucking bug (Conorhinus infestans) from Chile.
. Inquiry from the Board of Agricu!ture as to Turkestan

Lucerne infested by a parasitic Hymenopteron
(Bruchophagus sp.).

. Beam in house bored by the sawfly Sirex gigas.

Many specimens of this insect were sent for deter-
mination during the year.

Hemipteron (Anthocoris nemoralis) and larve of
Diptera (Syrphidee), feeding on Hop aphis.

Newly moulted cockroach (Blatta orientalis) in kitchen.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 167

20. Rhododendron Flies (Stephanitis rhododendrt) sent for
identification from Fulham.

21. Gall-mites, causing injury to black currant bushes and
to hazel (Hriophyes rabis and Hriophyes sp.).

22. Mites(Lelaps agilis and Lelaps sp.), parasitic on sewer
and house rats, some of which were believed to be
infected with the plague bacillus.

VIil.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits paid during the year to the three
sections of the Department by Students and other persons
requiring assistance or information amounted to 12,443. In the
ten previous years the numbers were :—

11,461 in the year 1909.

1220. 5 1908.
11,043 5 1907.
10,813 . 1906.
11,811 5 1905.
We S94 al a 1904.
Wegle ho 1903.
W633 7. 1902.
AS eae, 1901.
Hil G2 3eeke 1900.

Sidney F. Harmer.

168 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY.
L—Arrangement and Conservation.

Mammalia (Galleries 1 and 2).—A plaster cast of the Galley
Hill skull has been added to the series of Human remains in
table-case 1.

A new model of the skull and mandible of Megaladapis
insignis has been mounted in pier-case 3.

The skeleton of Mastodon americanus on stand B, which
had begun to show signs of decay, has been completely renovated
and hardened.

A new skull and mandible of Moeritherium has been
mounted in wall-case 43.

Numerous new labels have been printed for exhibited
Proboscidea, and new descriptive label: have been prepared for
the wall-cases of Mastodon, Stegodon, and Diprotodon.

Wall-case 27, containing the skeleton and other remains of
Diprotodon, has been re-fitted, arranged, and labelled, and plaster
casts of the skulls of Diprotodon and Nototherium have been
placed on the top of the case.

Number of specimens of Mammalia registered, 344.

Aves (Gallery 2).—A plaster cast of the manus of Didus
ineptus (original in the Zoological Museum, Cambridge) has
been prepared for addition to the exhibited skeleton.

Number of specimens of Aves registered, 16.

Reptilia and Batrachia (Galleries 3, 4, 5, 11).— The
exhibited modei of Colossochelys atlas has been renovated and
re-painted.

Some specimens of Plewrosternwm in wall-case 19 have

been extricated from the matrix and re-mounted with new
labels.

A mandible of Trachodon, from the Laramie Formation of
Wyoming, U.S.A., has been mounted in wall-case 8.

Wall-case ‘7 ee been partially re-arranged and re-fitted ‘to
admit a new sacrum and pelvis of Jguanodon recently obtained
from the Wealden of Hastings.

A plaster cast of a skeleton of Nothosaurus from the German
Muschelkalk (original in the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt)
has been framed and mounted on the wall above wall-case 6.

The naming and arrangement of the Leeds Collection of
Oxfordian Plesiosauria in cases in the Basement have been
continued, and a new case for the unexhibited catalogued
specimens has been provided.

The store-cases for fossil reptiles in the N.E. Basement have
been cleaned and made dust-proof.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 169

Number of specimens of Reptilia and Batrachia registered,
341,

Pisces (Gallery 6).—Wall-case 7 has been cleaned, re-painted,
and partly re-fitted to admit some recent acquisitions ; and new
labels have been prepared for the Coelacanths and Crossoptery-
gians contained in it.

A new skull of Porthews, from the Chalk of Kansas, U.S.A.,
has been framed and exhibited in wall-case 16.

Wall-cases 17-18 have been re-fitted for an exhibition of the
higher Teleostean fishes.

The revision of the English Cretaceous fishes has been
continued, and new printed labels have been prepared for some
of the Chimeroid fishes exhibited in table-case 9.

Number of specimens of Pisces registered, 142.

Mollusca (Galleries 7 and 8, and Workroom).—The Cepha-
lopoda registered, labelled, and incorporated during the year
include :—An extensive series of Ammonoids from the Devonian
and Lower Trias (ex Devonian) of South Devon (Vicary collec-
tion) ; Carboniferous specimens from Belgium; a series from
the Trias of Austria; Jurassic specimens from Yorkshire,
Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Dorset; a large
series from the Jurassic rocks of the north of Scotland (Marcus
Gunn collection) ; Toarcian Ammonites from Italy ; an exten-
sive series of Jurassic Ammonites from France and Germany
(Michalet and Charpy collections) ; Lower Cretaceous Ammonites
from Mexico; Wealden Ammonites from Westphalia; Aptian
specimens from Kent; Albian Ammonites from Folkestone
(Hilton Price collection); Cenomanian Ammonites from Leba-
non; British Cenomanian specimens (chiefly from the Cockburn
bequest) ; Cretaceous specimens from Norfolk, Kent, Isle of
Wight, and Dorset; Cretaceous Belemnites from the Salt
Range, India ; Senomian Ammonoids from Yorkshire ; Senonian
Belennitelle from Trimingham, Norfolk; and an extensive
series of Senonian Ammonoids from Wyoming, Gosia:

Sixty-nine Ammonites, mounted on blocks and exhibited in
the wall-cases, have been re-labelled with printed labels, while
eighty-five Ammonoids and one Belemnite in the table-cases
have also been re-labelled with printed labels.

The naming of part of the unexhibited series of Austrian
Trias Ammonites, occupying ten drawers under table-case 12,
has been revised.

The unexhibited series of British Liassic Ammonites is in
course of re-arrangement.

The unexhibited series of British Callovian Ammonites has
been named and arranged in five drawers beneath table-case 7.

The naming of the unexhibited series of British Liassic
Belemnites has been revised and the series arranged in ten
drawers under table-case 2.

The * List of types, figured, and historical specimens of Fossil
Cephalopoda” has been continued. These now number 1,618.

170 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The Paizozoic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia registered,
labelled, and incorporated during the year include :—Specimens
from the Ordovician of North Wales; Upper Devonian Gastro-
poda from France; large series of Devonian Lamellibranchia
from. Germany; and an extensive series of Carboniferous
Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia, chiefly from the Isle of Man
and Northumberland (Caroline Birley Bequest).

The Devonian Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia from
Germany have been named and arranged in two drawers under
table-case A 5, and in five drawers under table-case A 6
respectively, in Gallery 8.

The exhibited series of British Cambrian, Ordovician and
Silurian Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia is in course of
re-arrangement.

The Mesozoic and Tertiary Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia
registered, labelled, and incorporated during the year include :—
Specimens from the Alpine Trias received in exchange from the
Munich Museum; Jurassic and Cretaceous shells from France
(Michalet and Charpy collections); Cretaceous shells from
Zululand, collected and presented by William Anderson, Esq.,
described in Trans. Roy. Soc., S. Africa, 1909 ; specimens from
the Trimingham Chalk and Weybourn Crag (Savin collection) ;
Belgian Tertiary shells; and a large miscellaneous collection
from the Caroline Birlev Bequest.

Progress has been made with the revision of the Tertiary
and Post-Tertiary non-marine Gastropoda, which are being
arranged and labelled in drawers.

Among the most important additions to the exhibited
collection are Oligocene Mollusca from Creechbarrow, Dorset,
and the type-specimens of Anodonta becklesi from the Wealden
of Sussex.

Number of specimens of Mollusca registered : Cephalopoda,
995 ; Gastropoda, 2,804; Lamellibranchia, 3,859.

Arthropoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—Attention has
chiefly been paid to the British Cretaceous Cirripedes, and a
number of specimens have been registered and incorporated
from the recently acquired collections of Gen. Cockburn,
F. Méckler, W. Vicary, and others. Those from the older
collections of C. Darwin, J. S. Bowerbank, J. S. Gardner,
J. Sowerby, F. Dixon and others have also been worked through,
determined, re-arranged, and the specimens of historic import-
ance identified. Foreign Cirripedes of the Maestricht Chalk
(Bosquet collection) have been registered.

Among the other Arthropods registered and incorporated,
are Cambrian Trilobites described by E. S. Cobbold, Ordovician
and Silurian Trilobites from the Northern Shan States, Burma
(Geol. Survey India), Trilobites from Christiania, the Bosphorus,
and Sardinia, and a number of miscellaneous acquisitions from
various parts of the world.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. Let

The slip-catalogue of recently described Arthropods from
the Miocene beds of Florissant (many of which are being
acquired for the Museum) is kept up to date. A slip-catalogue
has been made of the species of the Trilobite Harpes, and the
specimens in the Museum duly entered therein.

The exhibited series of British Cretaceous Cirripedes has
been re-labelled, re-mounted, and re-arranged. The recently
presented type-specimen of the Trilobite Bronteus halla from
the Middle Devonian near Gerolstein | I. 13,645], and a plaster
cast of its counterpart already in the Museum, have been
provided with printed labels and placed on exhibition. A cast
and coloured drawing of Oxyuropoda ligioides, an lsopod from
the Upper Devonian of Kiltorcan, have been exhibited with
explanatory labels.

Number of specimens of Arthropoda registered, 303.

Echinoderma (Gallery 8).—-The acquisitions registered,
labelled, and incorporated during the year include :—Palzeozoic
Echinoderms, chiefly Pelmatozoa, from Canada (W. A. Parks,
W. R. Smith), from Britain (G. H. Morton), from Northern
Shan States, Burma (Geol. Surv., India), from Russia
(F. A. Bather); Triassic Echinoderms, chiefly Crinoidea and
Echinoidea, from the Raibl and Kossen beds (Munich Museum),
from Germany (H. Maséke); Echinoids from the Cornbrash
(J. F. Blake); Echinoids and Crinoids from the Corallian of
Mexico (C. G. Rickards) ; Jurassic Echinoids, Scotland (Marcus
Gunn); Jurassic Crinoids, France (A. Michalet); Crinoids and
Echinoids from the Chalk of Devonshire (F. A, Bather), of
Kent (Col. Cockburn), of Trimingham (A. C. Savin); Echinoids
in Chalk flints, Aberdeen (A. M. Insch) ; Cretaceous Echinoids
of France (De Luc, Caziot, A. Michalet) and of Asia Minor ;
Senonian Crinoids of Rugen (A. Laur).

The Clypeasters from Mediterranean localities have been
revised, and specimens from Sardinia (D. Lovisato) have been
registered and incorporated.

Progress has been made with the sorting and determination
of the Wright collection of foreign Echinoidea.

Cystidea and other Echinoderms specially collected from
the Paleozoic rocks of Sweden have been sorted and partly
labelled. The slip-catalogue of Blastoidea has been kept up
to date. Slip-catalogues are also in progress for the other
classes of Echinoderma.

Number of specimens of Echinoderma registered:
Echinoidea, 746; Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea, 47; Crinoidea,
411; Blastoidea, 18; Cystidea, 92. Total, 1,314.

Annelida (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—-The acquisitions
registered, labelled, and incorporated during the year include
Annelids from the Chalk of Trimingham, Norfolk (Savin
collection), and of Devonshire (Bather collection), from the
Corallian of France (Charpy collection), and from the Palzozoic
rocks of Britain (Morton collection).

172 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Three exhibited series of special interest have been arranged :
Annelids commensal with sponges, from the Chalk; rocks and
shells bored in Tertiary times by Polydora ; tubes built of
Fish-debris, Coniferous leaflets, or Echinoderm fragments, and
other tubes, all supposed to have been formed by Terebelloid
worms. These complete the labelling and re-arrangement of
the exhibited Annelids from the Cretaceous rocks of Britain.

The unexhibited collection of foreign Annelids has been
transferred to drawers in the Workroom.

Number of specimens of Annelida registered, 161.

Brachvopoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—Progress has
been made with the registration of the Walker collection.

The principal smaller collections registered, labelled, and
incorporated during the year include :— Paleozoic Brachiopods
from Burma (Geol. Surv., India); a Jurassic collection from
France (L. Charpy); and specimens from the Chalk near Dover
(Cockburn Bequest).

Number of specimens of Brachiopoda registered, 10,012.

Polyzoa (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The collection of
Cretaceous Cheilostome Polvzoa (about 5,000 specimens), from
Riigen, Denmark, Holland, and North America, has been
registered, mounted, and sorted as a preliminary to the pre-
paration of Vol. III. of the catalogue of the Cretaceous forms.
Recently acquired specimens of Polyzoa have been registered,
labelled, and incorporated, and include the Méckler collection
from the Chalk of Wiltshire, Sussex, and Germany, the Savin
collection from the Chalk of Trimingham, Norfolk, and the
Charpy collection from the Jurassic of the Jura district.

Number of specimens of Polyzoa registered, 5,874.

Anthozoa and Hydrozoa (Gallery 10).—An exhibition of
Jurassic Medusee has been arranged, with explanatory diagrams
and labels, in a special case between wall-cases 7 and 8.

Specimens have been registered, labelled and incorporated
from the Chalk of England (Cockburn bequest) and of Rugen
(Laur collection), the Trias of the Tyrol, the Silurian of New
South Wales (Shearsby collection), and the Ordovician of
S. Wales.

Number of specimens of Anthozoa and Hydrozoa registered,
469.

Porifera (Gallery 10).—Specimens of the problematical
group Archzocyathinae (T. G. Taylor collection) have been
registered and labelled. Chalk sponges from Devon and Dorset
(Bather collection) and Corallian and Bathonian specimens from
Northern France and the Jura district (Charpy collection) have
been registered, labelled, and incorporated.

Number of specimens of Porifera registered, 165.

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Protozoa (Gallery 10).—Many samples of rock in the collec-
tion of the late J. F. Blake have been washed and the contained
fossils extracted, mounted, registered, and labelled. These
include specimens from the Cretaceous and Tertiary of Galicia,
Cretaceous and Jurassic of various localities in Russia, the
phosphatic Chalk of Berkshire, the Margate Chalk, the Corallian
of Weymouth, and the Middle and Upper Lias of North-
amptonshire,

The specimens registered, labelled, and incorporated include:
the Lowe collection from the Tertiary of Swan Island, off
Honduras; and the Mockler collection from the Crag, the
London Clay, Tertiary Beds of the Philippines, the Chalk of
Hanover, the Lower Chalk of Wiltshire, the Chalk Marl, Gault,
Kimmeridge Clay and Oxford Clay of various English localities.

Number of specimens of Protozoa registered, 3,582.

Plante (Gallery 10).—Progress has been made with the
identification, labelling, and arrangement of the Cretaceous
plant-remains. Numerous sections of fossil wood have been
prepared in connection with this work.

The exhibited specimens of Pachytheca have been tableted
and labelled in table-case 32.

Number of specimens of Plantz registered, 481.

Tracks and Rock Specimens (Gallery 11).—A few small
additions have been made to the exhibited collection.

Number of specimens registered, 1.

I1.— Duplicates and Eachanges.

Duplicate fossils have been presented to Oxford University
Museum ; St. Andrews University Museum ; University College,
London ; Bristol Museum ; and Radcliffe Museum.

Exchanges of duplicate fossils have been made with the
Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge; Imperial College of Science,
London; University College, London; Geological Museum,
University of Lemberg; and the Senckenberg Museum,
Frankfurt.

IIl.—Departmental Library.

The additions to the Library, which have been registered,
stamped, catalogued, and press-marked, comprise 301 new
works and pamphlets, of which 73 were purchased and
228 presented ; 703 parts of serials in progress, of which 354
were purchased and 349 presented ; 231 sheets of maps, of which
69 were purchased and 162 presented. 30 photographs and 26
original drawings were presented. 219 volumes were bound
during the year. 1,840 visits were paid to the Library.

174 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The following is an alphabetical list of personal donors to
the Library during the year :—

Ameghino, Dr. Florentino. Lowerison, Bellerby, Esq.
Andrews, Dr. Charles W. | Maidwell, F. T., Esq.
Bather, Dr. Francis A. Maplestone, C. M., Esq.
Beasley, Henry C., Esq. Mawson, Joseph, Esq.
Bosea, Prof. E. Newton, R. Bullen, Esq.
Canu, Prof. F. Nowak, Dr. Jan.

Caziot, Commdt. E. Oswald, Dr. Felix.

Crick, George C., Esq. Outes, Dr. Felix F.
Daley, Chas., Esq. Pavlow, Madame M.
Dautzenberg, Dr. Ph. Rigg, Herbert A., Esq.
Delhaes, Dr. W. Rogala, Dr. W.

Dunlop, Robert, Esq. Sandeman, Edward, Esq.
Fox, Samuel, Esq. Scott, Dr. D. H.

George, James, Esq. Seward, Prof. A. C.
Harmer, F. W., Esq. Shelford, R., Esq.
Henriksen, Dr. G. Sherborn, C. Davies, Esq.
Horwood, A. R., Esq. Steinmann, Prof. G.
Hovey, Dr. E. O. Stopes, Dr. Marie
Jackson, J. Wilfrid, Esq. Stuart-Menteath, P. W., Esq.
Jaekel, Prof. O. Thomson, F. Ross, Esq.
Jongmans, Dr. W. J. Wiman, Dr. Carl.
Kershaw, Miss E. M. Woodward, Dr. A. Smith.
Kilian, Prof. W. Woodward, Bernard B., Esq.
Lewin, Joseph, Esq. Woodward, Dr. Henry.

Liversidge, Dr. A.

IV.—-Publications.

The first part of the Catalogue of Marine Reptiles of the
Oxford Clay has been published.

A new edition of the Guide Book to Fossil Reptiles,
Amphibians, and Fishes has been prepared and published.

The MSS. of the second part of the Catalogue of Marine
Reptiles of the Oxford Clay, and of Fossil Fishes (Supplement),
have made progress.

Apart from the official publications issued by the Trustees,
the following descriptive papers dealing with different parts of
the collection, chiefly recent acquisitions, have been contributed
to scientific journals during 1910 :—

By Dr. Woodward.
1. On some Permo-Carboniferous Fishes from Madagascar.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [8], vol. v., pp. 1-6, pl. i., figs. 1-5.

2. Note on a Chelonian Skull from the Purbeck Beds of
Swanage. Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. Field Club, vol. xxx.,
pp. 143, 144, with plate.

3. On Dipteronotus cyphus, Egerton. Proc. Geol. Assoc.,
vol. xxi. pp. 322, 323.

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4. On a Skull of Megalosaurus from the Great Oolite
of Minchinhampton. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. Ixvi.,
pp. 111-114, pl. xii.

5. On a Fossil ‘Sole and a Fossil Eel from the EKocene of
Egypt. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. vii., pp. 402-405, pl. xxxiil.

6. The Fossil Fishes of the English Chalk, Part VI.
Mon. Palzont. Soe.

By Dr. Bather.

1. Har pes bucco, a new Silurian Trilobite from the Carnic
Alps. Rivist. Ital. Paleont., vol. xv., pp. 116-120.

2. Some fossil Annelid burrows. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. vii.,
pp. 114-116.

3. Ordovician Cystidea from the Carnic Alps. Rivist. Ital.
Paleont., vol. xvi., pp. 388-54, pl. 1.

4, Eine vermiuthliche Echinodermenwurzel. Centralbl. f.
Min, 1910, pi556.

By Mr. Newton.

1. Notes on some Upper Paleozoic Shells from Madagascar.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [8], vol. v., pp. 6-10, pl. i, figs. 6-11.

2. Notes on some Fossil non-Marine Mollusca and a Bivalved
Crustacean (Hstheriella) from Nyasaland. Quart. Journ. Geol.
Soc., vol. Ixvi., pp. 239-248, pls. xviil., xix.

3. On an undescribed Anodonta from the English Wealden
Formation, with remarks on the other Unionide of the same
Period. Proc. Malae. Soc., vol. ix., pp. 114-117, pl. i.

By Dr. Andrews.

1. Note on a Mounted Skeleton of a Small Pliosauar,
Peloneustes philarchus. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. vii., pp. 110-112,
pu. Xi.

By Mr. Crick.

1. On Belemnocamax boweri,n.g. et sp. Proce Geol. Assoc.,
vol. xxi., pp. 360-365, pl. xxviii.

2. Note on two Cephalopods from the Chalk of Lincolnshire.
Geol. Mag. [5], vol. vil., pp. 345-348, pl. xxvii.

3. Note on the Type-specimens of Ammonites cordatus and
Ammonites exacavatus, J. Sowerby. Tom. cit., pp. 503-505.

4, Snakestones. The Naturalist, 1910, pp. 145, 146.

By Mr. T. H. Withers.

1. Some New Species of the Cirripede genus Scalpellum
from British Cretaceous Rocks. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. vii,
pp. 151-159. |

2. The Cretaceous Cirripede Pollocapes levis, J. de C.
Sowerby. Tom. cit., pp. 495-501

176 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

By Mr. C. Forster Cooper.

1. Microcherus erinaceus (Wood) Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist.
[8], vol. vi., pp. 39-43, pl. iil.

By Baron F. von Huene.

1. Ueber einen echten Rhynchocephalen aus der Trias von
Elgin, Brachyrhinodon taylori. Neues Jahrb., 1910, vol. u.,
pp. 29-61.

By Dr. R. Broom.

1. Observations on some Specimens of South African Fossil
Reptiles preserved in the British Museum. Trans. Roy. Soce.,
S. Africa, vol. ii., pp. 19-25.

By Dr. R. H. Traquair.

1. Notes on Fossil Fish-remains from Nyasaland. Quart.
Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lxvi., pp. 249-251, pl. xix.

By Mr. E. S. Cobbold.

1. On some small Trilobites from the Cambrian Rocks of
Comley (Shropshire). Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. Ixvi.,
pp. 19-50, pls. 111,-viii.

By Dr. H. Woodward.

1. Supposed Pholas-borings from the Fayum, Egypt.
Geol. Mag. [5], vol. vii., pp. 8398-402.

2. On a Pygidium of Bronteus from the Devonian of
Gerolstein, Kifel. Tom. cit., pp. 407-410.

3. A fragment of a Fossil in a Chalk Flint-pebble from the -
Sherringham Beach, Norfolk. Tom. cit., pp. 483-488.

By Dr. F. Schondorf.

1. Ueber einige Ophiuriden und Asteriden des englischen
Silur. Jahrb. Nassau. Ver. f. Naturk., vol. lxiii., pp. 206-256.

By Mr. H. L. Hawkins. :
1. Some Ambulacral Structures in the MHolectypoida.
Geol. Mag. [5], vol. vii., pp. 349-353.
2, Jaw-apparatus of Discoidea. Tom. cit., p. 141.

By Mr. HE. A. N. Arber.

1. Note on a Collection of Fossil Plants from the Neigh-
bourhood of Lake Nyasa. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soce., vol. lxvi.,
pp. 237-239.

Various fossils in the Department of Geology have also
been described and figured by Dr. R. H. Traquair, Mr. H. Woods,
Mr. R. TI. Pocock, Mrs. Shakespear, and Miss Elles, in the
Monographs of the Paleontographical Society, vol. lxiv. for
1910.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. |

V.— Acquisitions.

A.—By Donation.

Mammalia.—Maxilla of Triconodon from the Purbeck
Beds, Swanage. Presented by John Newton, Esq.

Mandibular ramus and teeth of Adapis, and teeth of
Paloplotherrum, from the Oligocene of Hordwell, Hants.
Presented by Dr. W. M. Jeffreys.

Mandibular ramus of Microcherus and teeth of Adapis,
from the Oligocene of Hordwell. Presented by C. Forster
Cooper, E'sq.

Mandibular ramus of a Rodent from the Oligocene of
Tarrega, Spain. Presented by Senor Don Francisco Clua.

Molar of Stegodon insignis, two molars of Rhinoceros
sinensis, and lower molars of Bos, from a Pliocene formation,
Wan-Hsien, Szechuen, China. Presented by F. R. Feather-
stone, Esq.

Nineteen teeth and bones (of Stegodon, Rhinoceros, Hip-
popotamus, Cervus, and Bos), from the Kendeng Beds, Madioen
Residency, Java. Presented by Prof. Dr. W. Deecke.

Proboscidean femur from the Siwalik Formation, Singu,
near Mandalay, Upper Burma. Presented by Captain A. W.
Grevg.

Portion of molar of Hlephas namadicus from a cavern,
Belait district, Brunei, North Borneo. Presented by H. C.
Robinson, Esq.

Remains of Rhinoceros from a freshwater deposit near
Lake Victoria Nyanza, near Karungu. Presented by C. W.
Hobley, E'sq.

Piece of skin and hair of Mammoth from Great Ljachow,
New Siberian Islands. Presented by Dr. C. Wollossowitch.

Hight bones of a small goat-like Artiodactyl from a cavern
near Ronda, Spain. Presented by Col. Willoughby Verner.

A malformed antler of Cervus found under a gateway of
old Newgate jail. Presented by the Countess Albuquerque.

Mastodon and other mammalian remains from the State of
Oaxaca, Mexico. Presented by Constantine J. Rickards, Esq.

Remains of Mastodon, Megatherium, ete., from Punta
S. Elena, Ecuador. Presented by H. T. Burls, Esq., and
Charles van Isschot, Esq.

Skulls and mandibles of Rodents from a cavern, Last Hope
Inlet, Patagonia. Presented by J. A. Wolffsohn, Esq.

Bones of Marsupials from Pleistocene deposits at Chinchilla,
Condamine River, Queensland. Presented by —. Bishop, Esq.

Tooth of Macropus from Rockhampton, Queensland. ae
sented by G. HE. Blundell, Esq.

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178 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Aves.—Three bones of Petrels from Bermuda. Presented
by Major A. J. Pevle.

Fragments of egg-shell of Ostrich from Nulla, Ken River,
Barda, United Provinces, Central India. Presented by E.
Bidwell, Hsq., M.B.O.U.

Reptilia.—Vertebre and scutes of Steneosawrus from Great
Oolite, Chedworth, Gloucestershire. Presented by Miss Boyer-
Brown.

Plaster cast of footprint (? Iguanodon) from Wealden,
Jarvis Brook, Sussex. Presented by Arthur F. Griffith,
Esq.

Vertebre of Paleryx from Oligocene, Hordwell, Hants.
Presented by Dr. W. M. Jeffreys and C. Forster Cooper, Esq.

Bones of Crocodile and Lizard from Pleistocene deposits at
Chinchilla, Condamine River, Queensland. Presented by —.
Bishop, Esq.

A collection of Recent limestones from Aldabra containing
Chelonian bones. Presented by Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner,
RS.

Vertebra of large Lizard from a freshwater deposit near
Lake Victoria Nyanza, near Karungu. Presented by C. W.
Hobley, Esq.

Batrachia.—Fragment of Labyrinthodont jaw from the
‘Eeca Shales, near Ladysmith, Natal. Presented by Dr. F. H.
Hatch.

Humerus of Frog from Oligocene, Hordwell, Hants. Pre-
sented by C. Forster Cooper, Esq.

Pisces.—Fish-remains collected by Messrs. A. R. Andrew
and T. E. G. Bailey from the Permo-Carboniferous of Nyasaland
(described and figured in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. Ixvi.,
pp. 2387-251). Presented by the Director of the Imperial
Institute.

Scales of Acrolepis from the Ecca Shales, near Ladysmith,
Natal. Presented by Dr. F. H. Hatch.

Fish-remains from the Karoo Formation of Rhodesia.
Presented by A. J.-C. Molyneua, Esq., F.G.S.

Vomerine dentition of Ganodus from the Stonesfield Slate.
Presented by John Alstone, Esq.

Eight Fishes from the Upper Jurassic of Montsech, Lérida,
Spain. Presented by Dr. A. 8S. Woodward, F.R.S.

Fish-remains from the Middle Barton Clay, Barton, Hants.
Presented by Allan E. Mahood, Esq., M.B.

Tooth of Notidanus from the Coralline Crag, Boyton.
Presented by Alfred Bell, Esq.

Fish and other vertebrate remains from the Pliocene of
‘Tegelen-sur-Meuse, Belgium, described by E. T. Newton, Bull.
Soc. Belge Géol., vol. xxi. (1907), p. 591, and vol. xxiv. (1910),
p. 231. Presented by Clement Reid, Hsq., F.RS., and
Mrs. Reid, B.Sc.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 179

Mollusca —Actinoceras and six Gastropods from an Ordo-
vician formation 60 miles 8.W. of Hermannsburg, South
Australia. Presented by Henry T. Hillier, Esq.

A Lamellibranch from the Ordovician of Ohio, U.S.A.
Presented by Miss HE. C. Buckler.

A Cephalopod, two Gastropods, and three Lamellibranchs

from the Devonian of Ruppachthal, Nassau, and of Singhofen.
Presented by Upfield Green, Esq., F.G.S.

A Pteropod and three Lamellibranchs from the Devonian
Slates of San Roque, Bolivia. Presented by William A.
Rumbold, Esq.

A portion of Solenocheilus pentagonum from the Carboni-
ferous Limestone on the North Shore of Lower Lough Erne,
near Leggs, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland. Presented by Major
Herbert Trevelyan.

Four specimens of Huomphalus from the Upper Carboni-
ferous of Yampupata, canton Copacabana, province of
Omasuyos, dept. of La Paz, Bolivia. Presented by Alexander
L. Dun, Esq.

Forty Mollusca, being part of a collection made by Messrs.
A. R. Andrew and T. EK. G. Bailey from the Quaternary and
Permo-Carboniferous rocks of Nyasaland, described and tigured
by R. B. Newton in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soce., vol. Ixvi. (1910),
pp. 237-251, pls. xviil., xix. Presented by the Director of the
Imperial Institute.

Two specimens of Plewromya from the Lower Lias of
Puriton, Somerset. Presented by F. Mockler, Esq.

Fourteen Ammonites from the Upper liars of Perugia,
Umbria, Italy. Presented by R. N. C. Hunt, Esq.

One Pecten from the Stonesfield Slate. Presented by
John Alstone, Esq.

One Pholadomya cequalis from the Kimmeridge Clay,
Swindon. Presented by C. H. Gore, Esq.

Nineteen Belemnites from the Kimmeridge Clay and others
from the Sponge-gravel of Faringdon. Presented by Ll.
Treacher, Esq., F.G.S.

Upper Jurassic Cephalopoda, Gastropoda and Lamelli-
branchia, Lower Cretaceous Lamellibranchia and freshwater
shells of doubtful age from the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Col-
lected and presented by Constantine J. Rickards, Esq.

Four Gastropods and eight Lamellibranchs from the Lower
Cretaceous of the I. of Wight. Presented by Colonel Wor-
thington Wilmer.

Four Belemnites from Hundleby, near Spilsby, Lincolnshire.
Presented by Arthur Burnet, Esq.

The type-specimen of Belemnocamaxz boweri (Crick, Proc.
Geol. Assoc., vol. xxi., 1910, pl. xxviii., fig. 1), from the Tot-
ternhoe Stone, Welton Vale, near Louth. Presented °y Rev.
CU. R. Bower.

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180 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Four specimens of Actinocamaz granulatus from the Upper
Chalk of Beverley, and a fragment of Belemnitella mucronata.
from the drift of Hornsea, Yorkshire. Presented by J. W.
Stather, Esq.

One Cephalopod and- thirty Lamellibranchs in flint-pebbles.
from Peterhead. Presented by A. M.Insch, Esq.

A portion of a large shell of Imoceramus from the Upper
Chalk, Grays, Essex. Presented by Col. C. EL. Shepherd.

Five Cephalopods and one Lamellibranch from the Upper
Cretaceous of Seaton, Devon, and of Studland, Dorset. Col-
lected and presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.RS.

Hippurites and other Mollusca from the Upper Cretaceous.
of Lérida, Spain. Collected and presented by Dr. A. S. Wood-
ward, F.R.S.

Five Lamellibranchs and one Gastropod from Lower Oligo-
cene (Magellanian formation), Punta Arenas, Patagonia. Pre-
sented by G. M. Hall, Esq.

Ten Lamellibranchs from the Miocene of Oran province,
Algeria. Presented by Lt.-Col. Thomas English, F.G.S8.

A hundred and forty Pliocene Mollusca obtained by the
donor from Petroleum Wells in Roumania. Presented by
Harold Dabell, Esq.

Twenty-four Lamellibranchs from the Pliocene deposits near
Nicosia, Cyprus. Presented by General Sir Robert Biddulph,
G.C.B.

Thirty-one Mollusca, collected by the donor from an old
beach deposit near Cape Coast Castle, W. Africa. Presented by
A. Ffoulkes, Esq.

Twenty marine Mollusca from a Pleistocene deposit, North
British Borneo. Presented by I. A. Stigand, Esq., F.G.S.

_ Anatural cast of Cardiwm from the Tertiary of Loanda,
Angola, West Africa. Presented by Dr. W. J. Ansorge.

A hundred and twenty-three Gastropods and twenty-nine
Lamellibranchs from Post-tertiary deposits in Bermuda. Pre-
sented by Major A. J. Peile.

Arthropoda.—Two Trilobites from the Ordovician of Llan-
drindod Wells. Presented by Miss E. C. Buckler.

One Trilobite from an Ordovician formation, 60 miles S.W.
of Hermannsburg, South Australia. Presented by Henry T.
Hillier, Esq.

One Leperditia from the Paleozoic of New South Wales.
Presented by A. J. Shearsby, Esq., F.R.M.S.

A Trilobite from the Lower Devonian of the Bosphorus.
Presented by Dr. Henry M. Amz.
A Trilobite (Phacops latufrons) of Devonian age from the

Triassic drift of Silverton, near Exeter. Presented by Rev. J.
Heald Ward.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 181

A pygidium of Bronteus halli from the Devonian of Gerol-
stein, Kifel; the type-specimen, described and figured by H.
Woodward, Geol. Mag., 1910, pp. 407-10. Presented by the
Directors of the North Devon Atheneum, Barnstaple.

Two Dalmanites from the Devonian Slates of San Roque,
Bolivia. Presented by William R. Rumbold, Esq.

One Griffithides globiceps from the Lower Carboniferous
Limestone, Portishead. Presented by N. G. Heaven, Esq.

A portion of an Arthropod obtained by the donor from the
Carboniferous Limestone, Llawnt, near Oswestry. Presented
by EB. LE. Lowe, Esq., F.LS.

Six Arthropoda in nodules from the Coal Measures, Coseley,
near Dudley. Prexented by J. 8. Neil, Esq.

Four Crustacea collected by Messrs. A. R. Andrew ana
T. E. G. Bailey from the Permo-Carboniferous rocks of Nyasa-
land; described by R. B. Newton, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,
vol. Ixvi (1910). Presented by the Director of the Imperial
Institute.

Two Crustacean remains from the Karoo formation of
Rhodesia. Presented by A.J. C. Molyneua, Esq., F.G.S.

One Crustacean from the Stonesfield Slate. Presented by
John Alstone, Esq.

The chela of a Crustacean from the Portland Stone (“ Shrimp
bed”), Dancing Ledge Quarry, near Swanage. Presented by
Horace W. Monckton, Esq., V.P.L.S.

A Crustacean claw from the Upper Cretaceous, Denniston
Coal Mine, New Zealand. Presented by Prof. Charles P.
Chilton.

Crustacean remains from the Middle Barton Clay, Barton,
Hants. Presented by Allan E. Mahood, Esq., M.B.

Five Pliocene Ostracods, obtained by the donor from Petro-
leum Wells in Roumania. Presented by Harold Dabell, Esq.

Four Crustaceans from Post-tertiary deposits in Bermuda.
Presented by Major A. J. Peile.

Two specimens of gum-opal dredged off Sierra Leone, con-
taining (1) a larva of a Hemipteron, and (2) an egg-capsule of a
Mantid. Presented by R. \. C. Hunt, Esq.

Echinoderma.—tThree specimens of Pisocrinus from the
Silurian, New South Wales. Presented by A. J. Shearsby,
Eisq., F.R.M.S. °

Three gutta-percha squeezes of Ludlow Asteroids. Pre-
sented by Dr. Fr. Schondorf.

Asteroid from the Devonian, Pilton Beds, Downend, near
Saunton, N. Devon. Presented by Miss Rachel Workman.

Three Lower Carboniferous Echinoids from Missouri and
Indiana. Presented by Dr. R. T. Jackson.

182 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Nineteen Blastoids from the Carboniferous of Kentucky and
Tennessee. Presented by Miss E. C. Buckler.

Ten radioles of Cidaris poculiformis from the Upper Trias,
Kotel, Bulgaria. Presented by Dr. P. Bakalow.

One Jsocrinus from the Lower Lias of Charmouth, Dorset.
Presented by W. D. Lang, Esq.

Nine specimens of Jsocrinus from the Great Oolite and Lias
of Gloucestershire and Warwickshire. Presented by Linsdall
Richardson, Esq., F.G.S.

Upper Jurassic Echinoderma from the State of Oaxaca,
Mexico. Collected and presented by Constantine J. Rickards,
Esq.

HKighteen Echinoderma in flint pebbles from Peterhead.
Presented by A. M. Insch, Esq.

HKighty-two Echinoderma from the Upper Cretaceous, Seaton,
Devon, and Studiand, Dorset. Collected and presented by Dr.
F. A. Bather, F.RS.

One cup-plate and seven brachials of Uintacrinus, col-
lected by the donor in the Chalk of Oiséme, near Chartres,
Eure-et-Loire. Presented by Monsieur Marius Filliozat.

Two specimens of Hchinolampas ovum-serpentis from the
Hocene (?) of Naparima, Trinidad. Presented by R. J.
Lechmere Guppy, Esq.

Three specimens of Clypeaster lovisatoi and allies, and a
plaster cast of the type-specimen of Clypeaster pillai from the
Miocene of Sardinia. Presented by Prof. Domenico Lovisato.

Annelida.—An Annelid tube from the Upper Greensand
of Betchworth, Surrey, noticed as “ large Baculite” in Proce.
Geol. Assoc., vol. xxi., p. 485. Presented by G. E. Dibley,
isq., G8.

Five Annelids from the Upper Cretaceous of Seaton, Devon,
and of Studland, Dorset. Collected and presented by Dr. F.
A. Bather, F.R.S.

An Annelid from the Totternhoe Stone of Welton Vale,
Louth. Presented by C. Davies Sherborn, Esq., F.G.S.

Brachiopoda.—Six Brachiopods from an Ordovician forma-
tion sixty miles S.W. of Hermannsburg, South Australia.
Presented by Henry T. Hillier, Esq.

Twenty-eight Brachiopods from the Ordovician and Silurian
of Ohio and Tennessee. Presented by Miss E. C. Buckler.

Two Orthotetes from the Upper Silurian, and two Spirifer
yassensis from the Middle Devonian of New South Wales.
Presented by A. J. Shearsby, Esq., F:-R.MS.

Twenty-five Brachiopods from the Lower Devonian of the
Bosphorus. Presented by Dr. Henry M. Ami.

Two Brachiopods from the Lower Devonian of Singhofen,
Germany. Presented by Upfield Green, Esq., F.G.S.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 183

Twelve Brachiopods from the Devonian of Szechuen, Chima.
Presented by Rev. W. N. Fergusson.

Four Brachiopods from the Devonian Slates of San Roque,
Bolivia. Presented by William R. Rumbold, Esq.

Thirty-seven Brachiopods from the Upper Carboniferous of
Yampapata, canton Copacabana, province of Omasuyos, <lept.
of La Paz, Bolivia. Presented by Alexander L. Dun, Esq.

One interior dorsal valve of Productus horridus from the
Permian of Rainsley Hill, North Durham. Presented by H.
Eliot Walton, Esq.

Upper Jurassic Brachiopods from the State of Oaxaca,
’ Mexico. Collected and presented by Constantine J. Rickards,
Esq.

Six Brachiopods from the Upper Cretaceous of Seaton,
Devon, and Studland, Dorset. Collected and presented by
Vere. A. Bather -F RS.

Six Brachiopods in flint pebbles from Peterhead. Presented
by A. M. Insch, Esq.

Polyzoa.—A piece of Polyzoa-bearing shale of Wenlock age,
from near Wisby, I. of Gotland. Presented by Dr. F. A.
Bather, F.R.S.

One Polyzoan from the Lower Devonian of the Bosphorus.
Presented by Dr. Henry M. Ami.

Four Polyzoa from the Lower Greensand of the,I. of
Wight, and one from the Lower Greensand of Faringdon,
Berks. Presented by Llewellyn Treacher, E'sq., F.G.S.

Ten Polyzoa from the Upper Cretaceous of Seaton, Devon,
and of Studland, Dorset. Collected and presented by Dr. F.
A. Bather, F.R.S.

Six Polyzoa in flint pebbles from Peterhead. Presented by
A. M. Insch, Esq.

A new species of Polyzoan from the Chalk of S. Elkington,
W. of Louth, Lines. Presented by Charles S. Carter, Esq.

Two specimens of Cribrilina from the English Chalk.
Presented by H. J. Osborne White, E'sq., F.G.S.

Thirty-seven Polyzoafrom the Upper Cretaceous of Lérida,
Spain. Collected and presented by Dr. A. 8S. Woodward,
F.R.S.

Anthozoa and Hydrozoa.—A specimen of Didymograptus
nitidus from the Skiddaw Slate, near Keswick. Presented.
by J. Postlethwaite, E'sq., F.G.S.

Four specimens of Graptolitic Slate from the eee Gold
Mine, Llanpump-saint, Caermarthenshire. Presented by H. T.
Burls, E'sq.

Twelve Upper Silurian Corals from New South Wales.
Presented by A. J. Shearsby, Esq., F.R.M.S.

184 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Five Corals from the Lower Devonian of the Bosphorus.
Presented by Dr. Henry M. Amz.

Four pieces of Devonian Stromatoporoid from Devonshire.
Presented by A. J. Jukes-Browne, Esq., F.B.S.

A piece of Carboniferous Limestone containing Corals from
Dunbar, Scotland. Presented by James Galloway, Esq., M.D

A Coral from the Carboniferous of Kentucky. Presented
by Miss E. C. Buckler.

Two Corals from the Lower Greensand, I. of Wight.
Presented by Lieut.-Col. L. Worthington Wilmer.

Two Corals from the Upper Cretaceous of the S.W. of
England. Collected and presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, °
Toes:

Seventy-nine Corals from the Upper Cretaceous ot Lérida,
Spain. Collected and presented by Dr. A. 8. Woodward,
TS:

A Coral in a flint pebble from Peterhead. Presented by
A. M. Insch, Esq.

Porifera.—Ten specimens of Archwocyathus and allied
fossils from the Paleozoic of S. Australia. Presented by T.
Grifith Taylor, Esq., B.Sc.

Pieces of Neocomian Sponge-gravel from Faringdon, Berks.
Presented by Ll. Treacher, Esq., F.G.S.

Six Sponges from the Upper Cretaceous of Seaton, Devon,
and of Studland, Dorset. Collected and presented by Dr.
TA. Bather, FR.

Two Upper Chalk sponges from gravel, Kempston, Beds.
Presented by G. C. Crick, E'sq., A.R.S.M.

Three sponges in flint pebbles from Peterhead. Presented
by A. M. Insch, Esq.

Protozoa.—One Webbina from the Lower Lias, Charmouth,
Dorset. Presented by W. D. Lang, Esq.

Alveolina-limestone from the provinces Lérida and San-
tander, Spain. Collected and presented by Dr. A. SB.
Woodward, F.R.S.

Three Eocene rocks with shell-fragments and Foraminifera
from Borneo. Presented by I. A. Stugand, Esq., F.GS.

Fourteen Foraminifera from the Eocene (?) of Trinidad.
Presented by R. J. Lechmere Guppy, Esq.

Plante.—Five specimens of Pachytheca from the Lower
Old Red Sandstone, Sandy Hole, 8. Pembrokeshire. Pvre-
sented by A. L. Leach, Esq., F.G.S.

Nine plants from the Carboniferous, Rockwood, Tennessee.
Presented by Miss E. C. Buckler.

A fossil fruit from the Coal Measures, Barnsley, Yorkshire.
Presented by Mrs. Ricardo.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 185

Sixty-eight plants collected by Messrs. A. R. Andrew and
‘T. E. G. Bailey from the Permo-Carboniferous rocks of
Nyasaland; described by E. A. N. Arber in Quart. Journ.
Geol. Soc., vol. Ixvi. (1910). Presented by the Director of
the Imperial Institute.

Hight fossil plants from the Karoo Formation of Rhodesia.
Presented by A. J. C. Molyneux, E'sq., F.GS.

Nucules of Chara levigata from clay in the Forest Marble,
‘Tarlton, Gloucestershire. Presented by C. Upton, Esq.

One plant from the Stonesfield Slate. Presented by John
Alstone, E'sq.

Three pieces of fossil wood from the Neocomian of Woburn
Sands, Beds. Presented by Rev. F. F. Hort, M.A.

A piece of wood, bored apparently by Mollusca, from the
Gault of Dinton, near Salisbury. Presented by Rev. Cecil
N. Goddard, M.A.

Twenty-seven microscope-slides of Japanese Cretaceous
Plants, being the original specimens described and figured by
the donor and Prof. K. Fuji, Phil. Trans., 1910. Presented
by Miss Marie C. Stopes, D.Sc.

Eocene or Cretaceous Plant-remains from Lataband, near
Kabul, Afghanistan. Presented by Dr. Walter Saise.

Thirty-four Cretaceo-tertiary plant-remains collected by
the donor in Northern Japan. Presented by Miss Marie C.
Stopes, D.Sc.

Twelve Pliocene plants (Chara, &c.) from Petroleum-wells
in Roumania, collected by the donor. Presented by Harold
Dabell, Esq.

Post-pliocene plant-remains collected by the donor from
the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. Presented by Constantine J.
Rickards, Esq.

Pieces of fossil wood found with Hlephas primigenius in
Pleistocene mud, Selsey Bill. Presented by Edward Heron-
Allen, Esq., F.L.S.

Plant-seeds from the Forest-Bed peat, West Runton, and
from a Recent deposit, County Hall, Waterloo. Presented
by A. Santer Kennard, Esq., F.G.S.

Rocks.—Two specimens of a recent Gastropod shell en-
erusted with a calcareous structure, from a river-bed near
Palenque, State of Chiapas, Mexico. Presented by C. J.
Rickards, Esq.

Portion of a Glaciated pavement found by the donor
below Dwyka Conglomerate at Mooiklip, Vryheid district,
Natal. Presented by Dr. F. H. Hatch, F.G.S.

Two Chalk flints simulating Mammalian bones. Presented

by W. Carter, Esq.

186 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

B.—By Purchase.

Mammalia.—A skull, mandible and vertebral column of
Moeritherium, and a skull of Zeuglodon, from the Middle
HKocene of the Fayum, Egypt.

Nine teeth of Stegodon and Rhinoceros, and one bovine
tooth, from a Pliocene deposit in Szechuen, China.

A collection of mammalian remains (Hippopotamus pent-
landi, Cervus, etc.) from caverns, Crete (Miss D. M. A. Bate).

A model of the skull and mandible of Megaladapis
Insignis.

Casts of human skull, mandible and femur from Galley
Hill, Kent.

Casts of a human skull and of its brain-cavity, from
Gibraltar.

Aves.—A Wealden bird-bone, figured by Prof. H. G.
Seeley, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. 55 (1899).

Twelve bones of the Dodo, collected by the late George
Clarke in the Mare-aux-Songes, Mauritius.

Reptilia.—Reptiles from the Karoo Formation of 8. Africa,,
being the final instalment of the H. G. Seeley Collection,
including the type skull of Diademodon entomophonus and
figured scutes of Pariasawrus, numerous remains of Dicy-
nodon, a skull of Ptychognathus and of Procolophon, and.
remains of Hrythrosuchus, Cynognathus, ete.

A skull of Ichthyosaurus from the Lower Lias, Lyme
Regis. .

A skeleton of Steneosaurus, a skull and skeleton of
Metriorhynchus, a skull and mandible of Peloneustes, and
three eye-plates of Pliosaurus from the Oxford Clay of
Peterborough (Leeds Collection).

Homeosaurus from the Lithographic Stone of Bavaria.

Geosaurus, an unique specimen, showing the triangular
tail-fin of this marine Crocodile, from the Lithographic Stone
of Bavaria:

A skeleton of Petrosuchus and two Chelonian remains.
from the Purbeck of Swanage. .

Reptilian bones from the Cambridge Greensand.
Chelonian bones from the English Chalk.

Portions of two skeletons of Trachodon from the Cretaceous.
Laramie Formation of Converse County, Wyoming, U.S.A.

Pisces. —Mesacanthus, Euthacanthus, and an Acanthodian
jaw, from the Lower Old Red Sandstone, Turin Hall, Forfar.

Two scales of Ctenodus from the Coal Measures, Coseley,
Staffs.

Three Triassic fishes from Hallein, Austria.
A Caturid fish from the Lower Lias, Lyme Regis.

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A caudal scute of Gyrosteus from the Upper Lias, Whitby.

Associated teeth of Asteracanthus and bones and scales of
Lepidotus from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough (Leeds
Collection).

Ischyodus, Aspidorhynchus, Undina, and three other
fishes from the Lithographic Stone, Bavaria.

A mandibular tooth of Jschyodus from the Faringdon
Greensand.

Leptotrachelus from the Lower Cretaceous, Comen, Istria.

Macropoma precursor, a maxilla of Portheus and ten
other fish-remains from the English Chalk.

Fish-fragments from the Middle Eocene of the Fayum,
Egypt.

Mollusca.—Two Orthoceras from the Bala Limestone,
Keisley.

Two Nautilus from the Middle Devonian, Eifel.
Three Devonian Goniatites from Brilon.

Nine Cephalopcds from the Carboniferous Limestone of
Belgium.

Seventy-four species of Triassic Mollusca from the Bos-
phorus.

Thirty-five species of Triassic Cephalopoda.

A hundred and twenty-eight species of Trias Mollusca
from Austria.

A hundred and forty-one Mesozoic Mollusca from the S..
of France.

Twenty Cephalopods of twelve species from the Dogger of
Unterwalden, Switzerland.

A Nautilus from the Oolite, N. Germany.

Plesioteuthis from the Lithographic Stone, Bavaria.

Thirteen Ammonites from the Wealden, Gronau, West-
phalia.

Twenty Mollusca from the Lower Greensand of Kent.

Six Lamellibranchs, one Gastropod, seven Nautilus, seven

Ammonites, three Macroscaphites and three Belemnites, from
the Hythe Beds, Bensted’s Quarry, Aylesford, Kent.

Three Mollusca from the Faringdon Greensand.
A hundred and seventy miscellaneous English fossils,

chiefly Cephalopods (Hilton Price Collection) from the Gault.
Also Exogyra canaliculata and Hamites sp. from the Gault.

Fifteen Ammonites and one Nautilus from the English
Chalk; and one Heteroceras from the Chalk of Cuxton,
Kent.

A fossil shell in a Chalk flint from the bank of the
R. Colne, near Watford.

188 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Twenty Scaphites and Hamites and one Belemnite from
the Yorkshire Chalk.

Fifteen Lamellibranchia from the Cretaceous of France.

A block of shell-limestone and five Mollusca from the
‘Cretaceous of the Lebanon.

Five Lamellibranchs from the Cretaceous of Waels, Bel-
gium.

Two Heterotissotia and two Buchioceras from the Senonian
of Peru.

Highteen non-marine Gastropoda from the Oligocene,
‘Creechbarrow, Dorset.

Sixteen Pliocene Mollusca from Vienna.
Thirty-two Pleistocene non-marine Mollusca from Madeira.
Twenty-four species of Quaternary Mollusca from Weimar.

Arthropoda.—Twenty-four Trilobites from the Ordovician
of Portugal and Norway, Devonian of Turkey, and Cambrian
-of Italy.

Cheirurus from the Silurian, Malvern.

About a hundred and fifty specimens of Arthropods from
the Coal Measures, Coseley, Staffs.

A Limulus from the Lithographic Stone of Bavaria.

Seventeen plates of Cirripedia from the Cretaceous of
‘Westphalia and Belgium.

Xanthopsis bispinosus, from the Eocene of Highgate.

Forty-eight Entomostraca from the Tertiary of the
Philippines.

Echinoderma.—One Silurian Crinoid from Kentucky.

Three Cystids from the Lower Silurian of Thuringia.

Nine Cystids from Bohemia.

Thirteen Devonian Asteroids from Bundenbach.

An Echinoid and two Crinoids from the Carboniferous
Limestone of Belgium.

A slab of Muschelkalk with Ophioderma from Scharley,
near Beuthen, Upper Silesia.

Three Solanocrinus from the Cenomanian, Bohemia.
Hight Cretaceous Crinoids from Peru, and one from France.

A hundred and forty-five Mesozoic Echinoderma a
SS. France (Charpy Coll.).

The type-specimen of Millericrinus charpyr, from the
‘Corallian of Andelot, near St. Amour (Jura).

Polyzoa.—Highty-two Polyzoa from the Chalk, Seaford.
Four hundred Polyzoa from the Upper Chalk, Luneburg.

Anthozoa.—A hundred and forty-three Trias Corals from
the Tyrol.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 189

Six Mesozoie Corals from the South of France.
Four Meduse from the Lithographic Stone, Bavaria.

Porifera. — Two Receptaculites from the Silurian of
Tennessee.

Protozoa.—A hundred and eighty-two slides of Foraminifera
from the Lias of Wurtemberg, including about three hundred
and eighty specimens described and figured by A. Issler,
Paleontographica, vol. 55 (1908).

Twenty-five Mesozoic Foraminifera from the South of
France.

Three hundred and seventy-three Foraminifera from the
English Oolite.

A hundred and fifty-seven Foraminifera from the Chalk of
Liineburg.

Two hundred and forty-three Foraminifera from the
Coralline Crag.

Sixty-seven Foraminifera from the Tertiary of the
Philippines.

Plante.—Psilophyton from the Old Red Sandstone, Turin
Hill, Forfar.

Paleoxyris and various plants from the Coal Measures of
Coseley, Staffs.

Nine micro-slides of plants from the Coal Measures of
Germany.

Hight Glossopteris-remains from the Klip River, Cape
Colony.

Eleven Rheetic plants from Bayreuth.

The Marcus Gunn Collection of about two hundred specimens.
of Jurassic plants from Sutherland.

A fossil plant from the Purbeck Beds.
A fruit from the Gault of Folkestone.

Twenty-four plant-remains from the Cretaceous of Europe
and Asia.

C.—-By Eachange.
The type skull of Dicynodon curvatus, Owen, from the:
Karoo Formation of Cradock, Cape Colony.

Three fishes (Meletta, Amphisyle) and one Crustacean
(Celoma), from the Oligocene of Hesse Darmstadt.

Three specimens of Inoceramus and two Scaphites from the
Senonian of Galicia, Austria.

An abnormal specimen of Scaphiocrinus multiplex from.
the Carboniferous of Mjatschkowa, Moscow.

Twenty-nine plant-remains from the Lower Keuper of
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, collected by L. J. Wills, Esq.

190 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The total accessions during 1910 are as follows :—
A.—VERTEBRATA:

By Donation - ~ - - 6” MOD,
,, Purchase - - - - - «210
, Exchange - 2 - = és 4
—— 406
B.—INVERTEBRATA :
By Donation - - - - - 1,485
, Purchase - = = = = 07S
, Exchange = 2 - a i ue
—— 6,570
©.—PLANTA : re
By Donation ~ - = ~ = cA
» Purchase - - - - = - 26K
,, Exchange - - - - - 29
—-— 464
D.—Rock SPECIMENS :
By Donation - - - - - 5
5
TOTAL - 7,445

VI.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits paid to the Department by students
and other persons for the purr. of consultation or study
during 1910 was 4,996.

VII.— Demonstrations.

Six parties were received in the Galleries of the Department
of Geology, and demonstrations were given as follows :—

January 29th. — Polytechnic Natural History Society
(16 members); Dr. Andrews.

February 26th.—The City of London College (7 memhers) ;
Dr. Andrews.

March 5th—Home Counties Archeological Society (31
members); Dr. Woodward.

March 12th.—Trinity Rambling Club (8 members); Dr.
Woodward.

May 25th.— Bournemouth Natural Science Society (10
members); Dr. Woodward.

December 17th.—The Battersea Field Club (21 members) ;
Dr. Andrews.

Arthur Smith Woodward.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 191

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY.

IL—Arrangement.

Ten new cubes, each containing five drawers, have been
fitted beneath the table-cases in the Gallery ; and have been
utilised for the reception of reserve specimens belonging to the
‘species analcite, cassiterite, and marcasite.

The models of the *‘ Cullinan ” diamond temporarily exhibited
in the Central Hall,and the models of famous diamonds hitherto
exhibited in a special case in the Mineral Gallery have all been
re-arranged in a table-case of the General Collection.

The mineral collection bequeathed by the late Mr. Frederick
Tendron, of Tunbridge Wells, has been sorted and examined ;
-ot the specimens selected, part have been labelled and exhibited
‘in the General Collection, and part have been used for the
formation of a series available for students.

A collection of minerals from Epprechtstein, Bavaria, pre-
-sented by Professor Konrad Oebbeke, has been examined, and
selected specimens have been labelled and exhibited in the
‘General Collection.

One hundred and twenty-three boxes of mineral specimens
have been received, unpacked, and examined; 116 boxes have
-been packed and despatched.

II.— Registration, Indexing, and Cataloguing.

All the specimens acquired during the year have been
wegistered, numbered, labelled, and incorporated with the
Collection.

The preparation of the slip-catalogues of the mineral-
‘Specimens in the collection has been continued for the Sulphides
and Oxides. In the Sulphide Division slips have now been
written for all the species, and all specimens referred to only
in old catalogues have been entered in the General Register ;
jpermanent labels have been written, checked, and placed with
the specimens of tennantite, bournonite, pyrargyrite, ete. ; and
faded register-numbers have been re-written. In the Oxide
Division the slip-catalogue has been completed for Corundum.
In the course of this work the exhibited specimens have been
re-arranged on renovated trays, the reserve specimens have been
re-arranged in the drawers, and most of the cut-stones have
‘been placed in two large glazed boxes specially made for them.
In the Division of the Silicates slips have been written for all
specimens belonging to the species willemite to- anthophyllite
which have not been entered in the General Register.

The preparation of a separate slip-catalogue of the cut-stones
iin the Collection has been in progress.

The lists of apparatus and of mineral-sections have been
put in.slip form.

192 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

All the thin-slices of rocks prepared during the year and
those belonging to the Phillips Collection have been micro--
scopically examined, and have been entered in the slip-
catalogue.

IlI.—Preparation.

Two hundred and thirty-one thin-slices of rocks have been.
prepared.

IV.—Investigation.

The erystallographic and chemical investigation of the
green fluo-arsenate from the manganese-ore deposits of India
has been completed, with the result that its identity with the
rare mineral tilasite occurring at Langban, Sweden, has been.
established. Fermorite, a new arseno-phosphate of lime and
strontia, from the same deposits has also been examined, and’
its optical characters and chemical composition have been for
the first time determined.

The rare mineral schwartzembergite has been optically
and chemically investigated, and has been shown to be a
complex iodate and chloride of lead.

Crystallized products from tin-furnaces have been examined:
crystallographically and analysed.

Various sets of carat-weights have been compared, and an.
inquiry has been made into the history of the larger diamonds
from South Africa, in order to ascertain the true weight of the:
“Cullinan ” and other large diamonds. For this purpose also,
new models of famous diamonds have been acquired and their
volumes have been determined.

Crystals of the rare minerals phenakite and bertrandite-
from Cornish localities have been measured and determined.

Egyptian scarabs in the Collection at Bloomsbury, and
stone implements collected by Dr. C. G. Seligmann in the
Sudan and by Dr. M. A. Stein in Central Asia, have been.
examined, and the materials of which they consist have been.
determined.

Crystals of whewellite, presenting a new habit, from Burgk,,.
Saxony, have been measured.

The “light-figures ” displayed by crystals of phacolite from:
Co. Antrim have been studied.

In the chemical laboratory, quantitative analyses have been:
made of tilasite, fermorite, schwartzembergite and crystallized
products from tin-furnaces, and many doubtful minerals have:
been qualitatively analysed.

V.—Donations of Duplicates.

Duplicate specimens of minerals have been given to the
Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, and to Mr. J. S. Neil, of
Wolverhampton.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 193

VI.— Departmental Lrbrary.

Arrangement.—Letters relating to the business of the
Department have been arranged in order.

Cataloguing and Press-marking.—Proofs of the Library
Catalogue have been read and checked against the slip-catalogue
in the Department.

919 volumes and 952 title-slips have been press-marked.
All the accessions, including 816 plates, have been registered,
catalogued, and stamped.

Accessions.—68 volumes of separate works, 31 periodicals
(in 405 volumes and parts), 32 mining reports, 3 maps, 1 volume
of photographs, and 3 portraits have been added to the
Library. ‘These were acquired as follows :--

By presentation.—10 volumes of separate works, 11
periodicals (in 135 volumes and parts), 34 pamphlets,
31 mining reports, 1 volume of photographs, and
3 portraits.

By purchase. — 52 volumes of separate works, 20
periodicals (in 270 volumes and parts), 17 parts of
works, and 2 maps.

By transfer.—6 volumes of separate works, 5 parts of
works, 1 mining report, and 1 map.

Binding.—92 volumes have been bound.

Vil.— Publications.

A new edition (lith) of the Introduction to the Study of
Minerals has been issued.

The following papers, relating to specimens in the collection,
have been published in the “ Mineralogical Magazine and
Journal of the Mineralogical Society,” 1910, vol. 15 :—

“On a Meteoric Stone from Simondium, Cape Colony”: by
DireG. ly Prior (p. 312).

“On an Analcite-basalt from Rathjordan, Co. Limerick ”’ :
byir.G. T..Prior (p. 315).

“Analyses of Seligmannite, zinciferous Tennantite
(‘Binnite’), and Fuchsite from the lLengenbach quarry,
Binnenthal”: by Dr. G. T. Prior (p. 385).

“ On the occurrence of Alstonite and Ullmannite (a species
new to Britain) in a Barytes-witherite vein at the New Brance-
peth Colliery, near Durham”: by L. J. Spencer (p. 302).

“ Notes on the weight of tlie ‘ Cullinan’ diamond, and on the
value of the carat-weight”: by L. J. Spencer (p. 318).

“A (fifth) list of new mineral names, with an index of
authors”: by L. J. Spencer (p. 415).

“A camera lucida attachment for the goniometer”: by
Dr. G. F. Herbert Smith (p. 387.)
119. Mes

194 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

VITL.— Acquisitions.

1,105 specimens have been acquired, namely :—

733 minerals, 366 recks, and 6 meteorites.

Iixchanges of specimens have been made with the Hun-
garian National Museum, Budapest; Field Museum of Natural
History, Chicago (through Prof. O. C. Farrington); Col.
Washington A. Roebling, of Trenton, New Jersey ; Signor L.
Magistretti, of Milan; and Mr. A. J. Williamson, of Rushworth,
Victoria, Australia.

The specimens acquired by presentation (arranged alpha-
betically according to donors), by bequest, and by exchange,
and the more important of those obtained by purchase are
as follows :—

Minerals.

By Presentation :

Apatite and fluor from the ruby mines at Mogok, Upper
Burma: by Frank Atlay, Esq.

Magnetite from Vembanad, Travancore, India: by Miss
Annie Baker.

Melanterite from Bournemouth : by W. H. Barnes, Esq.

New occurrences of Portuguese minerals, viz., Gold from
Fisga, pyrrhotite from Montemor, and cupro-uranite from
Sabugal: by Antonio Maria d’ Oliveira Bello, Esq.

Cassiterite (“ wood-tin”) from Bolivia: by R. H. Bray, Esq.

Scheelite from Jardine, Montana: by Wilton G. Brown, Esq.

Tourmaline, a faceted stone of a rich crimson colour: by
Sour Arthur H. Church, K.C.V.0O., F.B.S.

Limonite, pseudomorphous after iron-pyrites, from Sabinas,
Coahuila, Mexico: by W. Brodrick Cloete, Esq.

Tourmaline from Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, Cornwall: by
J. H. Collins, Esq.

A set.of minerals to illustrate the occurrence of china-clay
in the St. Austell district, Cornwall ; also a set of trade samples
of the prepared china-clay: by J. M. Coon, Esq.

Moonstone from Ceylon: by M. Danapala, Esq.

Wood-opal and turgite from New Guinea: by C. A. Darling,
Esq.

Quartz crystals and bitumen lining a cavity in chalk, from
Burham, Kent: by G. H. Dibley, Esq.

Fragments from three samples of vanadium ore (patronite,
ete.) from Cerro de Pasco, Peru: by the Director, Commercial
Intelligence Branch, Board of Trade.

Zeolites (apophyllite and natrolite), from the South African
diamond mines: by the Directors, De Beers Consolidated
Mines, Ltd.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 195

Specimens of tilasite and fermorite (a new species named in
the department), from the manganese-ore deposits of India: by
the Director, Geological Survey of India.

Datolite from Mullion, Cornwall: by the Director, H.M.
Geological Survey.

Telluride ores from Kalgoorlie, Western Australia: by the
Directors, Kalgurli Gold Mines, Ltd.

Model of a gold nugget weighing 22 oz. and found in 1795
at Croghan Kinshelagh, Co. Wicklow: by the Director, National
Museum of Ireland.

A valuable set of 18 isolated crystals of diamond (total
weight 5°§51 grams, about 29 carats) and one unusual specimen
showing a crystal of diamond embedded in the matrix
of “blue ground”; also samples of the “blue ground” from
different depths in the mine, and samples of concentrates,
including pyrope washed from the “blue ground”; from the
Premier diamond mine, near Pretoria, Transvaal: by the
Directors, Premier (Transvaal) Diamond Mining Co., Ltd.

Pitchblende, two specimens from Trenwith mine, St. Ives,
Cornwall: by the Directors, St. Ives Consolidated Mines.

Fluor, white and powdery, from Stanhope, Weardale, Co.
Durham: by W. M. Egglestone, Esq.

Precious opal from borate deposits at Death Valley, Cali-
fornia: by W. Feldenheimer, Esq.

A magnificent group of sulphur crystals from Girgenti,
Sicily ; a large mass of prehnite with harmotome crystals, from
Oberstein, Oldenburg, Germany: by F. N. A. Fleischmann, Esq.

Cobaltite with erythrite, from Cobalt, Ontario: by the Foote
Mineral Co.

Mica and asbestos from Southern Manchuria: by L. Fukano,
Esq.

Pinite, a large crystal, from Sellrain, Tyrol: by the Rev.
J. M. Gordon.

A series of specimens (barytes, calcite, dolomite, quartz
and hematite) from the iron mines of west Cumberland: by
J. Graves, Esq.

Plaster model of a large faceted diamond: by Messrs. J. R.
Gregory & Co.

Arsenic, crystallized nodules, from Akatani, Japan: by
Messrs. Hamel & Horley.

Quartz twins and agalmatolite from Japan: by R. Hattor,
Esq. ;

Doughtyite (a new species deseribed by the donor) from

Colorado; crystallized stannous sulphide from a Cornish tin
furnace: by Dr. William P. Headden.
Opal, enclosing small crystals of iron-pyrites, from Great
Mercury Island, New Zealand: by Thomas Hick, Esq.
119. fo)

196 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Five faceted tourmalines, of various colours; one uncut and
five faceted corundums, of artificial origin and of various
colours, including a rich sapphire-blue ; a yellow faceted zircon:
by L. Hopkins, Esq.

Enargite, crystallized, from Formosa: by T. Kawada, Esq.

Diamond, two isolated crystals, one twinned and the other
an irregular intergrowth, from Kimberley: by Alexander
Knaus, Esq.

Fergusonite and agalmatolite from Japan: by J. Kumazawa,
Esq.

Four cut and polished specimens of a massive variety of
idocrase (‘‘californite”) from California: by Dr. George F.
Kunz.

Marcasite nodules from chalk at Langrish, Hants: by
Colonel J. F. 8S. Mackenzve.

Meerschaum, samples of various trade qualities and of partly
manufactured articles, from Asia Minor: by Daniel Magnus,
Esq.

Anatase and rock-crystal from Switzerland: by F. R. Mallet,
Esq.

Various Australian minerals (davidite, amorphous zine
sulphide, stannite, and howdenite): by Dr. Douglas Mawson.

Limonite nodules from Wagna, British East Africa: by
G. J. Muir, Esq.

Phosphorite and rock phosphates, collected by Dr. C. W.
Andrews, F.R.S., from Christmas Island, Indian Ocean: by
Sir John Murray, K.C.B., ERS.

A set of 22 specimens selected from a collection of minerals
(including apatite, albite, fluor, tourmaline, topaz, etc.) from
Epprechtstein, Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria; an occurrence of
interest on account of its remarkable similarity to that at
Luxulyan, Cornwall: by Prof. Konrad Oebbeke.

Polished jaspers and rhodonite from the Urals: by Vassily
Pavlovsky, Esq.

Olivenite, erinite, tyrolite, mixite and pharmacosiderite
from the. Tuintic district, Utah; cassiterite from Mexico;
pitchblende from Dolcoath mine, Cornwall: by Dr. Richard
Pearce.

Quartz crystals embedded in granular calcite, and fibrous
barytes, from near Bristol: by Spencer G. Perceval, Esq.

Gold in quartz from Kahajan, Dutch Borneo ; cuprite from
Mexico: by Frederick M. Perkins, Esq.

Asbolite (cobalt ore) from Scar Crags, near Keswick,
Cumberland: by John Postlethwaite, Esq.

Hutchinsonite and quartz from Switzerland: by Dr. G. T.
Prior. 7

Fulgurite (“lightning tube”) from Maldonado, Uruguay :
by C. H.R. Rowland, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY, 197

Andorite and tin ores (cassiterite) from various localities in
Bolivia: by William R. Rumbold, Esq.

British minerals, collected by the donor, of which the
occurrences have not been previously represented in the
Collection, namely :—witherite from Llanidloes, Montgomery-
shire ; dolomite from Newport, Co. Tipperary; garnet from
Perranzabuloe, Cornwall; carminite from Hingston Down,
Cornwall; bitumen from Snailbeach mine, Shropshire; calamine
from Sheshodonnell, Co. Clare; chabazite from Ramsley mine,
Devonshire; heulandite from St. Ives, Cornwall: by Arthur
Russell, E'sq.

Corundum (ruby), graphite, etc., in crystalline limestone,
from the Amir’s ruby mines, Jagdalak, Afghanistan: by Dr.
Walter Saise.

Olivine nodules in basalt, from Main Range, Rockhampton,
Queensland: by Major J. R. Sankey.

A series of crystals of tourmaline from Mesa Grande, San
Diego Co., California; beryl and idocrase from American
localities : by Ernest Schernikow, Esq.

Calamine, and calamine pseudomorphous after calcite, from
Scordale mines, Appleby, Westmorland ; biende from Brownley
Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumberland: by L. J. Spencer, Esq.

Calcite pseudomorph from Grant Land (collected during
Commander R. EH. Peary’s Polar Expedition 1908-9): by Mrs.
L. M. Squarey.

_Chlorastrolite, two polished stones and two rough pebbles,
from Isle Royale, Lake Superior: by F. McMillan Stanton,
Esq.

Calco-uranite and other uranium ores from Sabugal,
Portugal: by Messrs. Percy Tarbutt & Co.

Crude and refined saltpetre from Bengal: by F. J. Walker,
Esq.

Plasma, and quartz crystals enclosing goethite, from
Forfarshire: by the Rev. Dr. J. P. Way.

Ambrite and sulphur from New Zealand: by M. Whitehead,
Esq.

Millerite and marcasite from Fifeshire: by Jas. Wright,
Jun., Esq.

Garnets in pegmatite from Labrador: by A. B. Wylde, Esq.

By Bequest:

Thirty-nine choice specimens selected from the collection of
the late Frederick Tendron, including :— several crystals of
pyrrhotite, one a unique crystal measuring 53 inches across, a
specimen of the rare mineral chalinersite, crystallized albite,
dolomite, quartz, etc., from the gold mines of Morro Velho,
Brazil; several fine crystallized specimens of native gold
probably from Australia; and diamond in matrix from Brazil ;
43 typical specimens from the same collection were also selected
for the series available for students.

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198 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

By Exchange:

Artinite (a new species), hydromagnesite, and titanolivine, ,
from Val Malenco, Lombardy.

Vashegyite (a new species) and variscite, from Vashegy,
Hungary.

Cassinite from Pennsylvania; ionite from Ione Valley,
California; grahamite from West Virginia; hartleyite from
Hartley, New South Wales.

Selwynite from Victoria, Australia.

By Purchase :

Two faceted pink beryls, and two tourmaline cat’s-eyes,
one pink and the other green, from Mesa Grande, San Diego Co.,
California.

Beryl (deeply corroded, rose-coloured crystals), tourmaline,
and lepidolite, from the gem-mines of San Diego Co., California.

Barytes, groups of large crystals, and a fine group of twinned
crystals of calcite, from the iron mines of west Cumberland.

Sartorite, hutchinsonite, and lengenbachite, from the
Lengenbach quarry, Binnenthal, Switzerland.

A large polished mass of quartz pseudomorphous after
crocidolite (“ tiger-eye ” and “ hawk’s-eye”’) from the Asbestos
Mountains, Griqualand West, South Africa.

Tourmaline (rubellite), two isolated crystals, one weighing
2,693 grams, from Antsirabe, Madagascar.

Slices cut perpendicularly to the vertical axis of crystals of
tourmaline, transparent with a beautiful zonal arrangement
of different colours, from Madagascar.

Hambergite, two large crystals, a new occurrence from
Madagascar.

Pink beryl, a faceted stone and uncut fragments, spodumene
(kunzite), cordierite, and amazon-stone ; from Madagascar.

Topaz, fine large isolated crystal, from Mason Co., Texas.

Uvarovite from Makri, Asia Minor.

Sagenite nets of rutile on calcite and on quartz from Tauern,
Tyrol.

Argentite, a group of interpenetrating twinned cubes, and
small dendritic groups, from Chaiarcillo, Chili.

Hessite, large distorted crystals, with native gold, from
Botes, Transylvania.

Spangolite in minute crystals, a new occurrence, from
Sardinia.

Tremolite, a iarge group of bladed crystals, and large
crystals of augite and scapolite, from Sebastopol, Renfrew Co.,
Ontario.

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Various Japanese minerals, including fine crystals of
blende.

Samsonite (a new species), a group of crystals on the matrix
and an isolated crystal, from the Samson mine, Andreasberg,
Harz.

Herderite, a large crystal, with cassiterite, etc, a rare
specimen from the original locality in Saxony.

Proustite, a small group of crystals on calcite, from
Chafarcillo, Chili.

Fluor, polished slabs of massive purple and green material,
from the Belgian Ardennes.

EKuclase, an isolated crystal rich in faces and a crystal in
the matrix, from Boa Vista, Brazil.

Tourmaline, topaz and beryl, fine isolated crystals of gem-
quality, from Minas Geraes, Brazil.

Bismuth, bismuthinite, wolframite, scheelite, molybdenite,
cassiterite, etc., from the mining districts of northern Queens-
land.

Covellite, platy crystals (2$ inches across) with a brilliant
brassy tarnish, from Butte, Montana.

Whewellite, beautifully developed twinned crystals, from
Schlan, Bohemia, and from Burgk, Saxony.

Hemimorphite, a magnificent group of sheaf-like crystals,
twinned groups of calcite crystals, and mimetite, from Santa
Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Twenty-six isolated crystals of diamond from the various
mines at Kimberley, South Africa; total weight 9°442 grams.

Almandine, a polished ball showing “ light-circles.”

Lazurite (lapis-lazuli), portion of a large crystal, from
Badakshan, Afghanistan.

The following mineral names added to the Museum
List were previously not represented by specimens in the
Collection :—

Adipite, alamosite, artinite, brugnatellite, calafatite, cassinite,
ceruleite, cossyrite, doughtyite, fermorite, grahamite, ham-
bergite, hartleyite, hoeferite, hégtveitite, howdenite, ionite,
joaquinite, maldonite, risorite, samsonite, tantalum, taramellite,
vashegyite, vorbyevite.

Rocks.

By Presentation :

Stones dredged from the Atlantic by the repairing ship of
the Anglo-American Telegraph Co., Ltd.: by F. A. Bevan Esq.

A set of 49 chips of alkaline rocks from various localities
in New South Wales: by the Department of Mines, Sydney,
New South Wales

200 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

A collection of 61 rock-specimens from the various diamond
mines at Kimberley and from that of Jagersfontein, South
Africa: by the Directors, De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd.

Voleanic dust which fell on the deck of H.M.S. “ Irresistible,”

in the Bay of Naples during the eruption of Vesuvius, April
1906: by Geo. Gadson, Esq.

A collection of 106 rock-specimens, with thin sections, from
the island of Vanua Levu, Fiji Islands: by Dr. H. B. Guppy.

Four rock-specimens from Antigua, West Indies: by R. J.
Lechmere Guppy, Esq.

A set of 12 rock-specimens collected on a journey between
Lake Chad and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: by Dr. H. Karl
W. kumm.

Porphyry and slate from Bitter Creek, Stewart, British
Columbia: by C. Maitland, Esq.

A set of 12 rock-specimens to illustrate the occurrence of
petroleum at Franzhoek, near Ficksburg, Orange River Colony :
by Dr. Julius Noth.

A set of specimens of the rocks associated with tin ores in
Bolivia: by William R. Rumbold, Esq.

Crystalline limestone and gneiss from Jagdalak, Afghan-
istan: by Dr. Walter Saise.

A set of 39 specimens collected in the Antarctic during
Sir Hrnest Shackleton’s Expedition on the “ Nimrod,” 1907-9:
by Sir Ernest Shackleton, C.V.O.

Two rock-specimens showing peculiar structures from Corn-
wall: by C. Davies Sherborn, Esq.

Trachytic rock from Ayrshire: by John Smith, Esq.

A small lot of specimens collected near Angora, Asia Minor :
by kh. Campbell Thompson, Esq.

Dolerite from bore-hole near De Villiers Kop, Orange River
Colony: by M. T. Wigham, Esq.

Deposits from bed of Lake Ngami, Bechuanaland, South
Africa: by Kk. 6. Woosnam, Esq.

By Purchase:

A large polished slab of granite penetrated by a faulted
dyke of basalt from St. Cloud, Minnesota.

Nepheline-syenite with corundum, anorthosite, amphibolite,
and various other rocks, from Ontario.

Fifteen miscellaneous rocks from various localities in Pem-
brokeshire, Cumberland, and Westmorland.

Sixteen rock-specimens from various localities in North

Wales.

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Meteorites.
By Presentation:

Mokoia, Taranaki province, North Island, New Zealand ;
fragments, weighing 196°3 grams, of the stone which fell on
November 26,1908: by the Curator of the Public Museum,
Wanganui, New Zealand.

By Hachange:
Leighton, Alabama; a slice, weighing 91°4 grams, of the
stone which fell on January 12, 1907.

South Bend, Indiana; a slice, weighing 181 grams, of the
iron found in 1904.

By Purchase:

Lampa, Sierra de Chicauma, Chili; a fragment weighing
220 grams.

Shewsbury, York Co., Pennsylvania, an etched slice,
weighing 938 grams, of the iron found in 1907.

Goamus Farm, near Gibeon, German South-West Africa,
an etched slice weighing 6,610 grams.

Ali these Meteorites belong to falls hitherto unrepresented
in the Museum Collection.

1X.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits recorded as made to the Department
for the purposes of consultation or study is 850.

The Gallery being no longer reserved on particular days of
the week for use by students, and study-series having been so
arranged as to be directly accessible to the public, and so
labelled as to render reference to the staff for information
thereon almost completely unnecessary, it has become difficult
to distinguish, for statistical purposes, “ Students ” of minerals
from ordinary “ Visitors,” and stress can no longer be laid on
the distinction.

X.—Demonstrations.

Demonstrations on the physical characters of minerals were
given to the members of the Battersea Field Club on March 5,
and to the members of the Croydon Natural History and
Scientific Society on April 16.

G. T. Prior,

202 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY.

I.—Arrangement and Conservation.

During the past year 26,925 specimens have been incor-
porated with the Herbarium. This number includes 18,875
Flowering Plants, 142 Vascular Cryptogams, 81 Mosses,
563 Hepatics, 752 Lichens, 87 Algz, and 6,425 Fungi.

Flowering Plants.—Collections have been mounted and
incorporated wholly or in part as follows:—Various small
British collections from various donors, including Hieracia from
Rev. A Ley, Europe (Herb. Normale, Dorfler ; European Rubi,
Sudre), Stiria (Hayek), Sikkim (Botanic Gardens, Calcutta),
Mandshuria (Komarov), Japan (Takeda), Malaya (Ridley), Sudan
(A. F. Broun), Uganda (Scheffler), Congo Region (Kassner),
Cameroons (Zenker), Gazaland (Swynnerton), South Africa
(Dummer, Schlechter), Kentani District (Pegler), North America
(principally from Marcus Jones), Bolivia and Paraguay
(Fiebrig), Tobago (Broadway), Mexico (Purpus). Progress has
been made with the selection, determination, and incorporation
of the early Australian collections ; and with the selection and
incorporation of the herbarium of the late R. P. Murray
(European and Canary Islands) so far as concerns the following
families :—Crassulacez, Caprifoliacee, Valerianacez, Dipsacez,
Rubiaceze, Compositz, Solanacez, Scrophulariacez. Various
collections of the families Violaceze and Sterculiacez have
been mounted and incorporated; and also all unincorporated
extra-European named specimens of the following families :—
Rubiaceee, Verbenacee, Selaginez, Plantaginez, Labiate,
Caprifoliacee, Apocynacee, Luganiacez, and Valerianacez ; and
the number of unincorporated Composite has been considerably
reduced. Work of revision and rearrangement has been done
chiefly in the orders Piperacee, Umbellifere, Rubiacez,
Graminee, and in the genus Grewia (African species).

Ferns:—The principal additions have been made by incor-
poration in the family Lomariez. Collections of ferns from
Kast Africa, Japan, and elsewhere have been determined.

Bryophyta.—Additions have been made by incorporation of
portions of the Jungermanniacee and Marchantiacee from
Stephani’s herbarium and from G. Davies’s herbarium, and of
moss-types from W. Mitten’s herbarium. Work of revision has
been done in several genera. Small collections, chiefly British,
Japanese, and West Indian, have been determined.

Algew.—Additions have been made by incorporation of North
American marine Algz, and of figures and tracings in the
collection of Peridinee. Work of revision has been done on
the Udotez, the Flabellariez, the genus Liagora ; and several
collections of marine Alge from the West Indies, Falkland

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 203

Islands, Indian Ocean, Singapore, Borneo, Australia, Kermadec
Islands, Hawaii, and the British coasts have been investigated
and determined.

Fungi.—Considerable additions have been made by incor-
poration in most of the large groups, both British and exotic,
principally from W. Phillips’s herbarium; the Uredinez have
also been augmented from other sources; a large series of
drawings from W. Phillips’s herbarium, illustrative of specimens
in the general collection, has been mounted and incorporated.
The British Basidiomycetes have been revised and rearranged
according to Mr. Worthington G. Smith’s Catalogue. Numerous
British specimens and a collection from Africa have been
investigated and determined.

Lichens.—Progress has been made with the incorporation
of British Lichens. The principal group which has heen under
revision is the Pyrenocarpei. Numerous British specimens and
collections from the West of Ireland, tropical America and
Africa, Hawaii and New Zealand have been investigated and
determined.

The cabinets in the Cryptogamic herbarium have been
relabelled so as to facilitate reference to the plants.

Sloane Herbariwm.—The volumes have been carefully gone
through and specimens repaired or mounted where necessary.

Kahibition Series.—Various specimens have been added
to the general series in the public gallery ;, and to the exhibi-
tion illustrating epiphytic plants. A series of British plants
beautifully preserved by drying in sand, prepared and presented
by Mrs. F. J. Godden, has been placed on exhibition ; and two
sheets of coloured drawings by Mr. Worthington G. Smith
illustrating edible and poisonous fungi have been added to the
fine exhibited series of drawings of fungi by the same artist.
Progress has been made with the exhibition of a series of
British Lichens and with the selection and preparation of
specimens and drawings for an exhibition of British Hepatics.
Progress has also been made with the general morphological
exhibition in the Central Hall; the illustration of the general
characters of Seed-plants has been almost completed and some
work has been done towards the preparation of a similar
exhibition illustrating the Cryptogams which will be placed in
the adjoining bay. Some new models and specimens have been

added to the Tree-Case. —

Catalogues.—The Monograph of the Orchids of Jamaica
by Mr. Fawcett and Dr. Rendle, and the second part of the
Catalogue of British Lichens by Miss Annie Lorrain Smith,
have been completed. Progress has been made with the
preparation of a Catalogue of the Sloane Herbarium by Mr.
James Britten and of the second edition of Lister’s Monograph
of the Mycetozoa by Miss Gulielma Lister. A Guide has been
prepared to the series of coloured drawings by Mr. Worthington
G. Smith of edible and poisonous mushrooms.

204 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Il.— Investigation.

Collections have been determined, either wholly or in part,
from the following localities and collectors :—-Gazaland (Swyn-
nerton), Rhodesia (Monro), Nigeria (Talbot, Kitson), British
North Borneo (Gibbs); the British species of the genera
Hieracium and Rubus have been investigated and determined
by specialists in the two genera, Rev. Augustin Ley and Rev.
W. Moyle Rogers, and research work has been carried on in the
genus Crotalaria (by Mr. Baker, who, in connection with this
work has also studied the collections at Berlin and Brussels),
on the tribe Hameliez and the genus Canephora (by Mr.
Wernham), and on various genera of Algz (by Mr. and Mrs.
Gepp). The undetermined material from Tropical Africa of the
orders Euphorbiacee, Santalacez and Loranthacee has been lent
to the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and determined
by members of his staff in connection with the preparation
of the “Flora of Tropical Africa”; specimens of the genus
Impatiens from China have been lent to and determined by
Sir J. D. Hooker, similarly specimens of the order Leguminosz
by Mr. 8S. T. Dunn, and of the Algal genus Liagora by Dr. Pilger,
ot the Royal Botanic Museum, Berlin. Work of investigation
has been continued on various genera and species of the British
Flora, especially the genera Rubus, Fumaria, Ulmus, Quercus
and others, by various workers at British Botany, and work of
investigation by numerous British and foreign Botanists has
been carried out in many different orders and genera. In
connection with work done in the Department specimens have
been lent by the Government of Jamaica, the Royal Botanic
Museum, Berlin, the Royal Botanic Museum, Munich, the
Botanic Museum, Ziirich, and Dr. G. Nichols, of Yale Uni-
versity, U.S.A.

IIIl.—Departmental Library.

1. Arrangement.—A number of works which are out of
date and seldom used have been removed from their former
places to some supplementary shelves, thus making room for
books in general use. Progress has been made with the work
of mounting and incorporation in the plate collections of
flowering plants and ferns and the rearrangement of those of
the latter; 5,900 plates have been mounted during the year. A
number of autograph letters have been incorporated with the
collection.

2. Cataloguing and Press-marking.—The accessions have
been registered, stamped, catalogued and press-marked, and
the necessary alterations in press-marking of volumes removed
to supplementary shelves have been made.

3. Accessions.—The additions during the past year have
been, by donation, 51 volumes, 114 pamphlets; by purchase
189 volumes, 3 pamp hlets—in all, 240 volumes, 117 pamphlets

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These include 17 periodicals in 97 parts, presented, and
98 periodicals in 746 parts, purchased—in all, 115 periodicals
in 843 parts.

The following is a list of the principal donors :—Her Grace
the Duchess of Northumberland ; J. G. Baker, F.R.S.; Senor
Francisco do las Barras de Aragén ; Signor Odoardo Beceari ;
Director, Botanic Gardens and Museums, Berlin; Rev. E.
Blatter, $.J.; Dr. F. C. E. Bergesen; T. S. Brandegee, B.S. ;
Dr. J. Briquet; Secretaire de |’Etat Independant du Congo,
Bruxelles; Dept. de lAgriculture aux Indes Néerlandaises,
Buitenzorg; Dr. William Carruthers, F.R.S.; Director, Royal
Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon; G. C. Crick, F.G.8.;
the Regius Keeper, Roya] Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; Prof.
Sees wart: W..Fawcett, B.Se./; Prof. C. Flahault; G.
Goode, M.A.; Director, Gray Herbarium of Harvard University ;
Miss C. C. Haynes; Miss R. Hensman; Dr. W. Herter; Sir
Joseph D. Hooker, O.M.,G.CS.I.; Dr. J. Huber; Secretary of
State for India; Director, Dept. of Agriculture in India ; Prof.
T. Johnson, D.Se.; Dr. N. Késanin ; Prof. Henri Lecomte ; Prof.
C. A. M. Lindman; C. G. Lloyd, Esq.; Linnean Society of
London ; Royal Botanic Society, London ; Royal Horticultural
Society of London; Signor Ugolino Martelli; The Hon. the
Secretary for Agriculture, New South Wales; Nederlandsche
Botanische Vereeniging, Nijmegen ; Director-General, Ordnance
Survey ; Prof. Francis Ramaley, M.S.; Clement Reid, F.R.S. ;
Mrs. Eleanor M. Reid; Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell, M.A.; H. N.
Ridley, F.R.S.; W. W. Robbins, Esq.; W. E. Safford, Esq. ;
Director, Missouri Botanic Gardens, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.A. ;
Director, Botanical Museum of the Imperial Academy of
Science, St. Petersburg ; Prof. C.S. Sargent; Prof. C. Schroter;
Dr. Hermon G. Simmons; Director, Botanic Gardens, Sydney,
N.S.W.; Tokyo Botanical Society, Tokyo, Japan; United
States National Museum, Washington, U.S.A.; Prof. Josef
Velenovsky; Madame A. Weber van Bosse; Carlos Wercklé,
Ksq.; Jean White, D.Sc.; J. Medley Wood, A.L.S. ; Director,
Botanic Garden and Museum, Ziirich.

The following presentations other than books have been
received :—20 maps of England and Wales and 1 of East
Central Queensland; and 66 photographs of various botanists.
The donors of these are included in the above list.

Sir Joseph Hooker has presented a bust of his father the
late Sir William Jackson Hooker.

4. Binding——152 volumes have been bound ; these include
five volumes of manuscript descriptions of plants by Dr.
Solander (see Report for the year 1909). Several volumes
have been repaired.

1V.— Publications.

(1) Issued by the Trustees.—A Monograph of the Orchids
of Jamaica. By Mr. W. Fawcett and Dr. Rendle.

206 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Guide to Mr. Worthington G. Smith’s drawings of edible
and poisonous mushrooms.

(2) Issued by permission of the Trustees—Some New
Jamaica Orchids. PartIV. By Dr. Rendle and Mr. W. Fawcett.
(Journal of Botany.)

A new Musa from Uganda. By Dr. Rendle and Miss S.
Greves. (Journal of Botany.)

Alabastra diversa. Part XIX. By Mr. Spencer Moore.
(Journal of Botany.)

Contributions to R. M. Laing’s account of Marine Algze in
Chilton’s “Sub-antarctic Islands of New Zealand.” By Mr. A.
Gepp.

. (5) By Students of the Collections other than Members of
the Staff——(1) Fungal Parasites of Lichens; (2) New or Rare

Microfungi. By Miss A.Lorrain Smith. (Transactions, British

Mycological Society.) ;

The British Roses (excluding Eu-canine). By Major A. H.
Wolley-Dod. (Journal of Botany.)

Notes on British Elms. By the late Rev. A. Ley. (Journal
of Botany.)

The genus Huclea in Australia. By Mr. W. P. Hiern.
(Journal of Botany.)

A Ceterach génusz iij faja. (Species nova generis Ceterach. )
By J. B. Kiimmerle. (Beiblatt zu den Botanikai Ko6zlemények.)

V. Acquisitions.

(1) By Donation.

Additions to the British Herbarium have been received from
the following donors :—W. Barclay, Esq., 6 specimens of Roses ;
Rev. E. N. Bloomfield, 44 Old Suffolk Muscinee from T. G.
Cullum’s Herbarium ; Miss Bray, 3 specimens; H. H. Knight
Esq., 2 rare Hepatice; Rev. Augustin Ley, 213 specimens of
British Hieracia; Rev. E. S. Marshall, 115 specimens; Rev.
H. J. Riddelsdell, 150 specimens; C. E. Salmon, Esq., 26
specimens; J. C. Shenstone, Esq., 1,000 photographs and
negatives'.of British plants; H. Stuart Thompson, Esq., 3
photographs of habitat of Spartina Tounsendi and 14 speci-
mens; Prof. J. W. H. Trail, 2 specimens of varieties of
Rubus Ideus; C. Waterfall, Ksq., 3 specimens from York-
shire ; and single specimens from Miss R. E. Higgins, Messrs.
A. Hall, C. G. Lloyd, W. R. Sherrin, P. Thompson and F. N.
Williams.

The following donations have been made to the General
Herbarium :—
Europe.

Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies, 2 deep-water

marine Algze from the Straits of Gibraltar; W. Fawcett Ksq.,
7 specimens from North of Spain; F. Seymour Haden, Esq.

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a collection of plants principally from Dauphine; Mrs. Hort,
a collection of Alpine and European plants by the late Prof.
Hort; C. C..Lacaita, Esq., 13 specimens ; Hon. N. C. Rothschild,
specimens of Anemone from South of France; and single
specimens from Messrs. E. A. Bowles and F. J. Duthie.

Asia.

H. N. Dixon, Esq., 6 Lichens from Kumaon; 8S. T. Dunn,
Esq., 15 Phanerogams and 3 Cryptogams from China; C. H.
Hobart, specimen of Orchid from Upper Burmah; Dr. H. Takeda,
70 specimens from Japan; T. Kawada, 23 specimens of
Formosan woods; Miss Lilian Lyle, 3 Ferns and 4 Muscinez
from Japan; the Kwantung Government through Mr. Yamawaki,
specimens of fruits and seeds, including 2 panel pictures.

Australia.

Miss D. M. Higgins, 150 specimens from South Australia
collected by Miss Hussey ; R. M. Laing, Esq., 50 marine Algze
collected in the Kermadec Islands by R. B. Oliver; A. H.S.
Lucas, 5 marine Alow from New South Wales and Tasmania.

Africa.

A. F. Broun, Esq., 200 Phanerogams and 2 Cryptogams from
Sudan; E. Brown, Esq, 3 specimens from Uganda; Liberian
Rubber Corporation, 136 Phanerogams and 13 Cryptogams
from Liberia, collected by R. H. Bunting; F. Eyles, Esq.,
25 Phanerogams and 3 Cryptogams from Rhodesia; R. Kemp,
Esq., 2 Fungi from Kilimanjaro district; Dr. Karl Kumm,
8 specimens from Centrai Africa; C. F. M. Swynnerton,
Esq., 1,758 Phanerogams and 26 Cryptogams from Gazaland ;
P. A. Talbot, Esq., 113 Phanerogams, 70 Cryptogams and
15 Fruits from South Nigeria; and single specimens from
Messrs. N. E. Brown, W. Ledger and R. B. Woosnam.

America.

F. O’Driscoll, Esq., 124 specimens of Woods from Northern
Argentina ; Southern Pacific Railway Co,,3 framed photographs
ot Sequoia gigantea and Oregon Pine; W. R. Maxon, Esq.,
4 specimens and 5 photographs of American ferns ; Capt. J. F.
Parry, 356 specimens of Arctic plants from Parry’s Expedition ;
West India and Panama Telegraph Co., 5 marine Algz from
near Puerto Rico and Grenada; and single specimens from
Messrs. H. Pittier and P. B. Whelpley.

Cultivated Plants.

W. E. Balston, Esa., 11 specimens of cultivated Orchids ;
E. A. Bowles, Esq., 8 specimens of cultivated Galanthus ;
Chelsea Garden, 68 specimens for exhibition purposes ; J. T.
Clifton, Esq., 3 specimens of cultivated Orchids ; Director,
Royal Gardens, Kew, 19 specimens of cultivated plants for
exhibition purposes; James O’Brien, Esq., 11 specimens of
cultivated Orchids.

208 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

General.

Rev. D. Lillie, 56 Lichens and 12 Mosses, mostly tropical.

(2) By Purchase.
British Isles.

E. M. Holmes, 37 rare British marine Alge; A. Chatwin,
20 marine Aloe of Jersey; Rev. W. Jonnson, 40 North of
England Licheus; Miss A. Lorrain Smith, 22 microscope slides
and 54 dried specimens of new or rare Microfungi.

Ewrope.

A. Kneucker, 90 specimens Graminez and Cyperacere ;
A. Hayek, 200 specimens Flora Stiriaca; O. Weigel, 500
specimens Flora Italica and 40 micro-sections of woods; Dulau
and Co., Herb. Normale Dorfler, Cent. LI. and LII.; H. Sudre,
50 specimens Batotheca Europea ; Toepffer, 60 specimens Sali-
cetum exsiccatum; Kabat and Bubak, 50 Fungi Imperfecti ;
A. Elenkin, 50 Russian Lichens; V. F. Brotherus, 100 Mosses
of Finland; A. Luisier, 25 Lusitanian Mosses; V. Schifiner,
150 European Hepatics, with descriptive pamphlet; O. Jaap,
50 Fungi selecti; Sydow, 100 German Fungi; L. Lhomme, 404
Algues marines du Finistére, prepared by P. L. and H. M.
Crouan ; L. Lhomme, 147 collotype photographs—Cladoniarum
Icones herbariorum Fleerke, Wallroth, Negeli et Flotow,
prepared by F. Arnold ; Fleischer and Warnstorf, 100 Mosses of
South Europe.

Africa.
R. Dummer, 52 specimens from South Africa; Schettler,
147 specimens from Uganda; Zenker, 155 specimens from

Cameroons; A. Pegler, 150 specimens from Kentani district ;
Dinter, 247 specimens from 8.W. Africa.

Asia.

R Schlechter, 175 Phanerogams and 76 Cryptogams from
New Guinea; A. D. Elmer, 275 Phanerogams and 125 Crypto-
gams from Philippine Islands; E. Levier, 480 Cryptogams
collected in the Schen-si Province of China by J. Giraldi.

Australasia. .

J. K. Tilden, 85 Phanerogams and 84 Cryptogams from New
Zealand.

America.

W. Broadway, 19 specimens of Orchids from Grenada and
205 specimens from Tobago; Reineck, 415 Phanerogams and
21 Cryptogams mostly.from America; Purpus, 519 specimens
from Mexico; Marcus E. Jones, 1,245 Phanerogams and 40
Cryptogams from North Mexico, Eastern California and
Montana; Hassler, 1,073 specimens from Paraguay; Fiebrig,
1,088 specimens from Bolivia; Baron von Tiirekheim, 195
Phanerogams and 53 Vascular Cryptogams from Santo Domingo ;

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W. Harris, 22 specimens of Cyperaceze and Graminez from
Jamaica; Collins, Hclden and Setchell, 100 North American
Alge; G. W. Wilson and F. J. Seaver, 50 Ascomycetes and
Lower Fungi; C. G. Pringle, 100 Mexican Mosses ; E. Bartholo-
mew, 200 Fungi Columbiani; A. Brinkman, 125 Mosses and
52 Hepatics of British Columbia; G. K. Merrill, 75 Lichens,
mostly North American.

General.

V. Schroeder, 104 tropical Ferns determined by E. Rosenstock ;
H. Rehm, 60 Ascomycetes; Sydow, 50 Uredineze and 25
Ustilaginez ; A. Zahlbruckner, 20 Lichenes rariores.

(3) By Hachange of Duplicates.

Director, Botanic Gardens, Singapore, 1,452 specimens of
Malayan plants; Dr. De Wildemann, 30 specimens from the
Congo; Director, National Herbarium, Sydney, 50 specimens
and 5 fruits from Western Australia and 15 specimens from
N.S. Wales; the Government Botanist, Victoria, Australia, 32
specimens from Western Australia; Director, Botanic Gardens
Zurich, 158 Phanerogams and 3 Vascular Cryptogams from
South Africa collected by R. Schlechter; Director, Royal
Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, 54 specimens of Sikkim plants;
Dr. R. Schlechter, 61 specimens of Orchids from Sumatra;
the Imperial Botanic Gardens, St. Petersburg, 930 Phanerogams
and 36 Cryptogams from Mandschuria and Korea, collected by
Komarov.

V1I.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits to the Department for consultation
and research during the year was 3,009, as compared with 2,712
mm 1909, 2.315 in 1908, 2,245 in 1907, and 2,065 in 1906.
Numerous specimens and small collections have been named
for visitors and correspondents ; in this, the Staff have received
valuable help from Miss A. Lorrain Smith (Fungi and Lichens),
and Mrs. Gepp (Algee).

VII.—Demonstrations.

A demonstration on the Collections was given to Members
of the Haling Scientific and Microscopical Society on April 9th
by Dr. Rendle.

A.B. Rendle.

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RETURN to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons,
dated 22 February 1912 ;—for,

COPY “of Account of the INCOME and EXPENDITURE of
the British Museum (SpeciAL Trust Funps) for
the Year ending the 3lst day of March 1912; and,
RETURN of the Number of PERSONS admitted to visit
the MusrEum and the BritisH Musrtum (NATURAL
HisTory) in each Year from 1906 to 1911, both Years
inclusive ; together with a STATEMENT of the PROGRESS
made in the ARRANGEMENT and DESCRIPTION of the
COLLECTIONS, and an ACCOUNT of OBJECTS added to
them in the Year 1911.”

Treasury Chambers, )
22 April 1912. f Cc. F. G. MASTERMAN.

(Sir William Anson.)

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22 April 1912.

LONDON:
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BRITISH MUSEUM.
ACCOUNTS (SPECIAL TRUST HES 1StO=19H):

BRIDGEWATER - - .

FARNBOROUGH - - - - -
SWINEY - - - - - - -
BIRCH - - = - -
VINCENT Sirona ae - 3 i
CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM -
CARCHEMISH EXCAVATIONS - = =

NUMBERS OF PERSONS ADMITTED:
BRITISH MUSEUM - - - -
BRITISH MusEUM (NATURAL History)

HOURS OF ADMISSION:
BRITISH MUSEUM - - - -
BRITISH MusEUM (NATURAL HISTORY}

GENERAL STATEMENT OF PROGRESS:
VISITORS - - - - - =
READING ROOM AND New ene Room
EXTENSION BUILDING - ~ = =
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS - = = =
OFFICIAL GUIDE = - = 2 ss
EXCAVATIONS - - - = 2 3
PRINCIPAL ACQUISITIONS - = =
GRANTS OF REPRODUCTIONS :

Prints = = - = = 2
Medals - - - = : =
PUBLICATIONS - - - - = =

ARRANGHMENT OF COLE IONE: &Oue
PRINTED BOOKS - - - =
MAPS - = - - - = -
MUvUsICc - - - - - - =
NEWSPAPERS - - - - - -
MANUSCRIPTS - - - - = =
ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS.
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS - = = &
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES - = = =
ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES - - - =
GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES - -
BRITISH AND MEDI@VAL ANTIQUITIES
Coins AND MEDALS = : = =

ACQUISITIONS :

PRINTED BOOKS - 4 2 be g
MAPS - - - - - - -
Music ° - - - - - - -
NEWSPAPERS - - - - - -
MANUSCRIPTS - - - - - -
ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. -
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS - - - -
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES - - - -
ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES - - - -
GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES - -
PREHISTORIC, HARLY BRITISH AND OTHER
CERAMIC AND GLASS OBJECTS -

ORIENTAL AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL OBsECTS

ADDED TO THE CHRISTY COLLECTION) -
CoINS AND MEDALS - : b

PHOTOGRAPHING :
PRINTED BOOKS - - = - -
MANUSCRIPTS - - - -
ORIENTAL PRINTED BooKs AND MSS. =
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS - - - -
BRITISH AND MEDIZVAL OBJECTS <

ANTIQUITIES

(INCLUDING

9
2)

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY).

GENERAL pre Mae i PROGRESS: Page
VISITORS - - - - - - : = TO
SWINEY LECTURES - - - - > 2 zl 2 RO
EXHIBITION OF NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIBLE - - - - 101
SouTH KENSINGTON SITE - - - - : = = 2 - 102
SPIRIT BUILDING - - - - = - 2 f E 3 - 102
PHOTOGRAPHIC ROOM - - - - - - - - 2 - 103
ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE - - - 2 E = 11083
DESTRUCTIVE ACTION OF LIGHT - - : e 5 2 ‘ = ie
PROTECTION OF WHALES AND BIRDS - - = - : 3 - 104
EXPEDITIONS - - - - - - - - = é - 104-5
PRINCIPAL PRESENTS) - - - - - : : 3 : Os
LEADING PURCHASES - - - - - : : F E = OR
DUPLICATES, EXCHANGES AND GIFTS OF ” - = - - - 107
PUBLICATIONS -~— - - - - - 3 : = E z 108

INDEX MUSEUM - - - - = - = = ; 2 aes 1alal

ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY - - - - = z 3 = - 163

ARRANGEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF fer thee
ZOOLOGY - - - - 2 c = c x Sony
GEOLOGY - - - - - = - = : 2 = = - 168
MINERALS - - - - - - - - - - - - 190
BOTANY - = = = - = - = = : = a - 199

ACQUISITIONS :

ZOOLOGY - - - - - = 2 E : s = 5 5 18%
GEOLOGY - - - = - © = : e 2 i 78
MINERALS - - - - - - : 4 2 - 192
BOTANY - - - - - - - - - - - 204

DUPLICATES AND EXCHANGES:

ZOOLUGY - - : 2 : P 3 ? z - 124
GEOLOGY - - - - 2 : : 2 ’ 5 4 - 174
MINERALS - - - = = = 5 E 2 : - 192
LIBRARIKS :
GENERAL - - - : - : 2 : 4 L _ 110
ZOOLOGICAL - - - - - - - = = = = 125
GEOLOGICAL - - - - = = - = = = = O74
MINERALOGICAL - - - - - - - - - - 192
BOTANICAL - ~ - - - - - - - - 201

PUBLICATIONS, me PARTM Ly che
ZOOLOGY - - - 2 = : - 2 z - 197
GEOLOGY - - - - - - - - - - - - 175
MINERALS - - - - - - - - - - - = ey
BOTANY - - - - = - - = - = = 202,

STUDENTS :

ZOOLOGY - - - - - - - - - - - 167
GEOLOGY - - - - - - - - - - - 189
MINERALS - - - - - - - - - - - - - 198
_ BOTANY - - - - - - - - - - - - - 207

INVESTIGATION :.

MINERALS - - - - - - - - - - . - - 191
BOTANY - - “ - - - : - - - - - - 200

DEMONSTRATIONS:

GEOLOGY - - - - - - - - - - - - 189
BOTANY - - - - - - - - - - - - - 207

(1)0.91 700 7/12 A 2

4 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

I—AN ACCOUNT of the REecEIPts and EXPENDITURE of the

STOCK,
CASH. 23 °/, Consols.
Leas as £. Syd.
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1911 - - - 9263 9 5 13,598 3 11
- DIVIDENDS received on 13,6597. 3s. 2d. |Stock
in 24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed
by the Earl of Bridgewater, viz.:
On the 5th April 1911 - £.84 19 9
i 5th July 1911 stg Bsa et) 4
» bth October 1911 Sun8be va
sf 5th January 1912 De hy ee
Bt se)
- RENT OF A REAL ESTATE, Whitchurch,
bequeathed by the Earl of Bridgewater (less
repairs, &c.) - - - - - - 22 18 11
— STock purchased as per contra - : - - — 60 19 3

£ 62710 1 13,659 3 2

“QEEee SC

II.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recrrprs and EXPENDITURE of the

STOCK,

CASH. 24 °/, Consols.

ea Std. £5 ss d:

To BALANCES on the Ist April 1911 = hee jae MaRS EAE 2,879 10 7
— DIVIDENDS received on 2,879/. 10s. 7d. Stock in
2% per Cent. Consols bequeathed by

Lord Farnborough, viz.:
On the 5th April 1911 - Align tl
i 5th July 1911 - - Wao 11
S 5th October 1911 = ee 9
¥ 5th January 1912 = llirg sy al
—— 7119 8
£. 25414 - 2,879 10 7

ITI.—AN ACCOUNT of the Receipts and ExrenpitureE of the

STOCK,
CASH. 23 °/, Consols.
35 OS We Ege hb
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1911 - - - - 60 12 9 5,683 1 6
— DIVIDENDS received on 5,744/. — 8d. Stock in
23 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed by
Dr. George Swiney for Lectures on
Geology, viz.:
On the 5th April 1911 - -£.35 10 4
seth ily Otte = We 85 18. vs
a0 5th October 1911 - 8518 —-
rr 5th January1912 - - 3518 -
143 4 4
~ Stock purchased as per contra - = = : _ 60 19 2

£. 208317 1 5,744 — 8

i ee}

or

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

BRIDGEWATER FUND, from the 1st April 1911 to the 31st March 1912

STOCK,

CASH. 24 °/, Consols,

£1 Ss) a. eso Gh Cb
By One Year’s SALARY of the EgertonLibrarian - 175 - -
— AMOUNT expended on purchase of Manuscripts - . 394 1 —-
— PURCHASE of 60/. 19s. 3d, Stock Consols_— - - 50 -- -

- BALANCES ON THE 31ST MARCH 1912,
- - Sek Ona 13,659 3 2

carried to Account for 1912-1913

£1 62% LO 13,659 3 2

FARNBOROUGH FUND), from the 1st April 1911 to the 31st March 1912

STOCK,
CASH. 24 °/, Consols.
£. 3. d. £.. 8, ad.
By AMOUNT expended in purchase of Manuscripts - 200 - —
- BALANCES ON THE 31sT MARCH 1912,
carried to Account for 1912-1913 - c So) RSA ess 2,879 10 7
£. 25414 - 2,879 10 7

SWINEY FUND, from the 1st April 1911 to the 31st March 1912
STockK,

24 °/, Consols.

CASH.
££. & a pach Cb
By Amount paid to Dr. T. J. debt, for Lectures on
Geology in 1911 - - = 140 Sense
= f 5 pile 2

PURCHASE of 602. 19s. 2d. Stock Gnnsels

- BALANCES ON THE 31st Marcu 1912,
carried to Account for 1912-1913 - - ited [3a Eau 5,744 - 8

£. 203 17 1 5,744 - 8

6 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

IV.—AN ACCOUNT of the ReEcrEIPTs and ExPpenDITURE of

STOCK,
CASH. 24 °/, Consols.
£, Ss. ds £. 8 d.
To BALANCE on the Ist April 1911 - - - : = 565 3 9

— DIVIDENDS received on 565/. 3s. 9d. Stock in

24 per Cent.. Consols, bequeathed

by Dr. Birch in 1766, for the three

Under iiibrarians of the British

Museum, viz. :

On the 5th April 1911. - - £310 8

» . Sbthdulyagil: .- GS TO We

5th October 1911 - 310 8

Sth January 1912 - 3.10 8
—— 14 2 8

£. T4248 565 3 9

V.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recerprs and ExPENDITURE of the bequest
and Extension of the Library and Reading Room of the British

LocAL LOANS
CASH. STOCK.

ee s, d. £. & a,
To AMOUNT of Local Loans Stock on Ist peril
1911 - - : - - — 60,230 1 5
- DIVIDENDS received during the year - = Listas) 2
- AmooNT of Local Loans Stock purchased with
the Dividends - —_— L939 7s 1G
~ NET PROCEEDS of sale of 22 2601. 1s, 1d. Local
Loans Stock as per contra - - - - 20,000 11 6

Eg PUL exe US) fe 62,169 8 11

Se

VI.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recrirrs and EXPENDITURE of the bequest
1st April 1911 to

METROPOLITAN
CASH. 33 °/, STOCK.
PAs 8). ds Si ad,

To AMOUNT of Metropolitan 3} per cent. Stock on
Ist April 1911 - - - - - — 8,667 1 4

— DIVIDENDS received during the year - =) (30%. Gi rb

- AMOUNT of Metropolitan 34 per cent. Stock

purchased with the Dividends - ae ae = 306 3 5

£. 307 6 5 8973 4 9

VII—AN ACCOUNT of the Recerrrs and ExpeNnpDITURE of the
1st April 1911 to

To DONATION (contributed anonymously) - - - - - - 500

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 7

the BIRCH FUND, from the ist April 1911 to the 31st March 1912.

STOCK,
CASH. 23°/, Consols.
ie Sam Oe Sono aes
By LEGAcy paid to the three Under Librarians of
the British Museum, whose offices existed
in 1766, viz., the Keepers of the Departments
of Printed Books, eyepeea tt and Natural
History - - - ° - - - 14 2 8
—- BALANCE ON THE 31sT MARCH 1912,
carried to Account for 1912-1913 - - - = 565 3 9
fe, 14.2 8 565 3° 9

of the late MR. VINCENT STUCKEY LEAN (for the Improvement
Museum) from the 1st April 1911 to the 31st March 1912.

LocaL LOANS

CASH. STOCK.
Si 8. ae ie sed.
_By AMOUNT expended in the purchase of
1,9397. 7s. 6d. Local Loans Stock, Com-
mission, &c. - - - - - =) Se On 2
~ Cost of Power of Attorney - —1l 6

- AMOUNT transferred to H.M. Office of tions for
expenditure on British Museum Extension - 20,000 -— -—

- STooK sold as per contra - - - - - — 22,260 1 1
- BALANCE OF STOCK ON THE 31sT MARCH 1912,
carried to Account for 1912-1913 - - - _— 39,909 7 10

£. 21,787( 19 8 62,169 8 11

of the late MR. CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM from the
the 31st March 1912.

METROPOLITAN
Pagan 34 °/, Stock.
£. 8. Gi ped:
By AMOUNT expended in the _ purchase of
3067. 3s. 5d. Metropolitan 33 per cent.
Stock, Commission, &c. - - - - = S807 Ca.6
- BALANCE OF STOCK ON THE 31ST MARCH 1912,
carried to Account for 1912-1913 - - & ae 8,973 4 9

£307 6 5. 8978 49

Se, 0 Ee

CARCHEMISH EXCAVATIONS FUND Frou the
the 3lst March 1912.

CASH.

£. ss. a.
By BALANCE on the 3lst March 1912, carried to Account for 1912-1913 - 500 — —

Frederic G. Kenyon,
Director and Principal Librarian.

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10 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The British Museum, Bloomsbury (including the Depart-
ments of Printed Books and Maps, Manuscripts, Oriental
Printed Books and Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings,
Iigyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Greek and Roman
Antiquities, British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethno-
graphy, and Coins and Medals), is open to the public free
daily (except on Good Friday and Christmas Day and days
of Public Fast or Thanksgiving), as follows :—

On WEEKDAYS from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

After 4 p.m. in January, February, November, Decem-
ber, and after 5 p.m. in March, September, October, only
certain of the galleries remain open, viz. :—

On Monpays, Exhibitions of Manuscripts, Printed
WEDNESDAYS Books, Prints and Drawings, Porcelain,
4 ; Glass and Majolica; Prehistoric, British,

Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Ethno-

FRIDAYS. graphical Collections.

On TUESDAYS, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman

THURSDAYS, Galleries; the Gold Ornament Room, the
and American Room and the Waddesdon
SATURDAYS. Room.

On SunDay AFTERNOONS :—

From 2 to4 p.m.in January, February, November,

December.
3 Ral ae » 9 October.
» 2 » 5-80 ,, 4, March, September:
hee 0 » », April, May, June, July, August.

Persons applying for the purposes of research and reference
are admitted to the Reading Room under certain regulations
every weekday, except the days specified below, from 9 a.m.
until 7 pm. The Newspaper Room is open, under similar
regulations, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

The Reading Room, Newspaper Room, and Students’ Rooms
in the Library and Department of Manuscripts are closed on
Sundays, Good Friday, Christmas Day, and the first four
weekdays in March and September.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. (il

Other Students’ Rooms are closed on Sundays, Good Friday,
and Christmas Day, and occasionally for cleaning.

Students are admitted generally to the several Departments
on weekdays, from 10 till 4 or 5 o’clock ; and to the Sculpture
Galleries from 9 o’clock till the hour of closing.

British Museum, | Frederic G. Kenyon,
10 April, 1912. J Director and Principal Librarian.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 13

The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural
History), Cromwell Road, South Kensington, including the
Departments of Zoology, Geology and Paleontology, Miner-
alogy, and Botany, are open to the public, free, daily,
except Good Friday and Christmas Day, and days of Public
Fast or Thanksgiving.

The hours of Admission are as under :—

On WEEKDAYS, panOUBEQHE the year from 10 a.m., in

January - - - - - to 4 p.m.
February lst to 14th = - = bo) Si OO My
February 15th to end = : = hh i DD up
March - - - 2 - = he en ee Ola.
April to August = - - = eae. 5 ”
September - = = = = 0 ee De Ol is
October - - = = £ - 5

November and December

oP)

also, on MONDAYS and SATURDAYS only, from the beginning
of May to the middle of July, to 8 p.m., and from the middle
of July to the end of August, to 7 p.m.

On SUNDAYS, in

January - - =o ¢from? 2) tor! 4)? pum
February 1st to 14th = - ee, oy mtARSO yo

February 15th to end - - aang a ‘A

March - - ~ - Bebe) 5) 3" 0) Aes

April - - - - = gti AG i.

May to August - ~ - Fe PSO aE re

September - - - - £02) gy ida0: 43

October - - - - } ee: ie v

November and December_~ - Jani ane 4

Persons are admitted to study in these Departments every
weekday from 10 till 4 o’clock.

British Museum (Natural By L. Fletcher,
24 February, 1912. Director of the Natural
History Departments.

14 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

IX.—GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM, BLOOMSBURY.

The total number of visitors to the Museum in 1911 was
723,571, a decrease of 16,266 in comparison with 1910. The
decrease is more than accounted for by the excessive heat of
July and August, which discouraged visitors to the extent of
nearly 26,000, in comparison with the previous year. The
total for weekdays was 659,786 (a falling off of about 10,000),
and for Sundays 63,785 (a falling off of about 6,000).

The number of visits by readers to the Reading Room was
223,404, an increase of over 4,000 on the figures for 1910, but still
below the totals for 1904 and 1908. The daily average was 745,
and the total number of volumes supplied during the year was
just under a million and a half, exclusive of the twenty
thousand volumes to which readers have free access in the
Reading Room itself. In the Newspaper Room the number of
readers was 19,212, almost identical with that of the preceding
year, and the daily average of volumes of newspapers consulted
was 223 (between 3 and 4 for each reader). In addition,
2,555 volumes of country newspapers were brought from the
Repository at Hendon for the use of students.

The visits of students to other Departments of the Museum
amounted to 37,911, an increase of nearly 1,500 on the previous
year, and the highest total yet recorded. There were increases
in every Department except those of British and Medizval
Antiquities and Coins and Medals. In particular, there was
again a marked increase in the number of students engaged in
copying in the Sculpture Galleries.

_ Progress has been made in the British Museum Extension
Building, which should be handed over by the contractor in
the course of 1912. Plans for the internal furniture and
fittings have been prepared, and invitations to tender have
been or shortly will be issued.

Only a small section of the work of reconstructing the roof
with fire-resisting partitions was completed during 1911. The
usual work of renovation and repair, within and without the
building, was carried out; but it was again found necessary to
postpone the re-decoration of the Mausoleum Room.

The chief special exhibition held during the year was that
in connection with the celebration of the Tercentenary of the
Authorized Version of the English Bible. To illustrate the
history of the English Bible up to the year 1611 a large number
of manuscripts, printed editions, and documents were put on
view in the Manuscript Saloon and the King’s Library, and a
special illustrated guide-book was prepared. The exhibition
proved exceptionally attractive, and a very large number of
copies of the guide-book were sold.

The Chinese and Japanese paintings set out in the Prints
Exhibition Gallery in 1910 remained on view throughout 1911;
and a selection of the drawings acquired by the Salting Bequest,
together with a number of drawings by D. G. Rossetti (pre-

GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 15

sented by Mrs. Gillum) and by J. M. Swan (presented by the
Swan Memorial Fund) were exhibited on screens in the King’s
Library.

A new departure was made during the year by the engage-
ment of an Official Guide to conduct parties round the Museum
and to point out and explain the most interesting objects. The
experiment was tried provisionally for the six months from
May to October, and, having proved very successful, was
placed on a permanent footing in December. The Guide makes
two regular tours each day, taking different parts of the
Museum in accordance with a printed time-table; and he is
also at liberty to take round special parties by arrangement at
other hours. No charge is made to the public in either case.
It is impossible to give exact figures of the number of persons
accompanying the Guide, since the parties usually grow during
the progress of the lecture; but it was estimated that not less
than 9,000 persons availed themselves of his services during
the six months of the provisional institution of the service.
There is ample evidence to show that the public greatly
appreciate the assistance thus given to them.

During the year excavations were conducted on behalf of
the Museum at Jerablus, on the Euphrates, the site of the
ancient Hittite town of Carchemish. Sculptures and inscrip-
tions of considerable interest were found, together with a large
amount of pottery, which will be of great assistance in fixing
the dates of other Hittite sites. The excavations, which
promise to be of considerable importance for ancient history,
will be continued in 1912.

The number of separate objects incorporated in the collec-
tions of the several Departments during the year 1911 is as
follows :—

Department of Printed Books:

Books and Pamphlets’ - - - - 28,022
Serials and Parts of Volumes~ - . - 0,309
Maps and Atlases - - - - - 2,005
Music = = - = - Shee, 2
Newspapers (single numbers) = - - - 247,116
Miscellaneous - - = - = 4,214
Manuscripts and Seals - - - 1,512
Oriental Printed Books and Menueer ipts - - 2,388
Prints and Drawings - - - - 2,890
Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities - - 1,740
Greek and Roman Antiquities - = - 155
British and Medieval 2H - - 3,213
Coins and Medals’ - - - - 4,458
Total - - - - 379,294

The principal additions to the collections are described
below in the detailed reports of the several Departments ; but
some of the more important may be selected for special mention
here.

16 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to deposit
in the British Museum the collection of Music hitherto
preserved in Buckingham Palace. It consists of about 1,000
manuscripts and 3,000 printed books. The main feature of the
collection is the set of eighty-one volumes in the autograph of
Handel, with forty-one more in the hands of his amanuenses.
These were presented to King George III. by John Christopher
Smith, Handel’s principal amanuensis, to whom they had been
bequeathed by the author, and they form the basis of all
scientific study of Handel’s music. Another volume contains
fourteen anthems and forty-six secular compositions in the
autograph of the greatest native English musician, Henry
Purcell. The collection (which remains the property of the
Crown) is of the greatest interest to musicians, to whom it will
now, by the King’s wish, become accessible on the same terms
as the other collections of the Museum. It is proposed to
house it eventually in a special room in the King Edward
Galleries, now in process of construction.

By the will of the late Mr. Alfred Huth, the Department of
Printed Books received the most valuable gift that has come
to it since the bequest of the Grenville Library in 1847.
Mr. Huth directed that, in the event of his library being
sold, the Trustees of the British Museum should be allowed to
select, before the sale, fifty volumes at their free choice. This
admirable form of bequest, which secured for the Museum the
volumes which it most needed, while leaving the bulk of the
great library intact, gave the Museum thirty-seven printed
books of exceptional importance and rarity and thirteen fine
illuminated manuscripts. The details of the volumes thus
acquired are set out in the reports of the Keepers of the
Departments concerned. In addition, at the sale of the first
portion of the Huth Library, the Museum was able to acquire
twenty-eight printed books which were much needed for the
collection. In accordance with the terms of Mr. Huth’s will, a
special catalogue, fully illustrated, has been prepared of the
fifty volumes constituting his bequest.

Besides the thirteen manuscripts received under the Huth
Bequest (one of which, since its interest consists in its inserted
woodcuts, has been transferred to the Department of Prints
and Drawings), the Department of Manuscripts received a
valuable collection of historical papers in the correspondence of
the Earls of Liverpool, presented by the Hon. H. B. Portman.
This is naturally of considerable political and historical im-
portance for the reigns of George III. and George IV. The
Department is also indebted to the generosity of private donors
for some interesting literary MSS. Mr. Thomas Hardy has pre-
sented the autograph MSS. of his epic drama, “ The Dynasts”
(which finds a fitting home among so many records of the
national history), and of one of the best of his novels, “ Tess of
the Durbervilles.” Mrs. W. E. H. Lecky has presented the
autograph MS. of her late husband’s work, “The History of
European Morals”; and a leaf of “The Pickwick Papers,” in

GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 17

the handwriting of Charles Dickens, has been presented by
’ Mr. W. A. White, of New York.

The Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts
has acquired two volumes of exceptional interest during the
year. One is a Coptic MS. of the first half of the fourth
century, containing the books of Deuteronomy, Jonah, and the
Acts of the Apostles, in the Sahidic dialect, which is one of the
earliest Biblical MSS. of any considerable size in existence.
The other is an illuminated copy of the “ Divan” of the Persian
poet Hafiz, containing seven beautiful full-page miniatures of
the best Indo-Persian school, and one in the classical Persian
style. Another interesting accession (due to the gift of Mr. G.
M. H. Playfair) consists of two of the few surviving parts of
the great manuscript Chinese Encyclopedia, nearly the whole
of which was destroyed by the Chinese insurgents in Pekin
during the siege of the legations in 1900.

The principal purchases of the Department of Prints and
Drawings were made at the sale of the late Mr. Alfred Huth’s
printsin June, at which a considerable number of rare German
woodeuts and engravings were acquired. A very valuable
volume of woodcuts by Lucas Cranach, from the same sale, was
presented by Mr. Campbell Dodgson. The Department also
received many other accessions from private liberality, notably
a collection of studies of birds and animals by Mrs. Blackburn,
presented by the executors of the late Prof. Hugh Blackburn
in accordance with his wishes ; seventeen drawings by the late
J. M. Swan, R.A., presented by the John M. Swan Memorial
Fund through Mr. J. 8. J. Drucker; four portfolios of etchings
by Col. R. C. Goff, presented (in continuation of previous gifts)
by the artist; and a large number of engraved portraits,
presented by Mr. E. E. Leggatt. Particulars of many other
donations will be found in the Keeper’s report below.

The accessions of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian
Antiquities include a large collection of scarabs of the Hyksos
period ; a mastabah door bearing the very rare cartouche of
Psarometichus III. ; a very fine seated statue of a scribe and
architect named Sen-Mut, about B.c. 1550; and thirty three
Babylonian cylinder-seals in lapis lazuli, chalcedony, sard, and
similar stones. Some interesting Coptic and Himyaritic
antiquities have also been acquired.

The Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities has been
unusually fortunate, having obtained at least three accessions
which may be counted as of first-rate importance. One of these
1s a very fine sepulchral relief of the fourth century B.c., of
exceptional size, which (with the somewhat smaller example
acquired in 1910) greatly strengthens the collections of the
Museum in this class of sculpture. Another is a bronze head,
probably of the Emperor Augustus, of more than life size, with
eyes inlaid with glass and alabaster, which was discovered on
the site of the ancient Meroé, in Nubia, during the excavations

0.91 B

18 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

conducted by Prof.:Garstang on behalf of: the Liverpool
University Sudan Excavations Committee. The Committee
generously allowed the head to be acquired by the Museum at
a sum considerably below its probable market value, and this
sum, was provided by the liberality of the National Art-Collec-
tions Fund, which has proved itself this year, as often previously,
a most valuable aud enlightened benefactor of the Museum.
The third important acquisition of the Department is a bronze
chariot of the sixth century B.c., found near Orvieto and now
restored on a modern core of wood; an object of a very rare
class, in a good state of preservation.

The Department of British and Medizval Antiquities
has, as so often before, owed a very large number of its
accessions, including some of the most important, to the
generosity of private benefactors. A beautiful set of church
plate from the Hospital de la Vera Cruz, near Burgos, in Spain,
was presented by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. A very important
collection of Late-Keltic antiquities, of about the first century
B.C., found at Welwyn, Herts, and acquired by the late Mr. G. E.
Dering, was presented by his daughter, Mrs. A. J. Neall. In
the category of Ethnography, the principal accession consisted of
the collections of the London Missionary Society, which have
been for many years on deposit in the Museum, and have now
been acquired (partly through the Christy Trustees) at a cost
very much below their market value. Another valuable
ethnographic collection, from the neighbourhood of Lake Chad,
was presented by Miss Macleod.

The Department of Coins and Medals similarly owes its
most important single accession of the year, as well as many
smaller ones, to private generosity. This is the Bleazby
Collection of the Mohammedan Coins of India, originally
formed in India by Mr. George Bleazby, but purchased and
presented to the Museum by Mr. Henry Van den Bergh (a
previous large benefactor) in commemoration of the Imperial
Durbar at Delhi. The collection consists of over 2,600 coins
(173 in gold) and forms an unequalled numismatic record of
Mohammedan rule in India from 1166 to 1857. The
association of the Mohammedan emperors with Delhi gives
special appropriateness to a gift which commemorates the
occasion on which Delhi once more became the capital of India.
Another source from which the Department derived some
valuable acquisitions was that of Treasure Trove. Coins of
Henry III. from a hoard at Palmer’s Green; of Edward I.
and II. from Kirkeudbrightshire ; and of Edward III. from
East Raynham were received in this way during the year, and
proved of great value for determining the true numismatic
history of these periods.

In concluding this summary of the principal acquisitions of
the year, it is worth while to point out what a large proportion
of them is due to the munificence of private benefactors. It
would be impossible for the Museum to maintain the position

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which general opinion, both at home and abroad, assigns to it,
if the purchase grant voted by Parliament were not largely
supplemented by the enlightened liberality of many benefactors,
great and small. The number of desirable objects which come
into the market annually is so large, and the money value of
the more important specimens has risen so greatly, that no
Parliamentary grant could be expected to suttice to meet all
demands; and it is therefore all the more satisfactory to
recognise that private individuals, rich and poor, are more and
more recognising the claims of this form of national service.

Gifts of Museum publications, including reproductions of
prints by Old Masters, and sets of electrotypes of British
Historical Medals, have been made to many Free Libraries,
Museums, and Art Schools throughout the United Kingdom,
and to certain libraries and institutions in the overseas
Dominions and in foreign countries ; and similar gifts have been
received in return.

The following are the publications issued by the Depart-
ments at Bloomsbury during the year :—

Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stele, &c.in the British
Museum. Part I. 56 plates. Folio, 7s. 6d.

Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, &c. in the
British Museum. Parts XXX. and XXXI. 50 plates each.
Folio, 7s. 6d. each part.

Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, in
the British Museum. By F. H. Marshall. With 73 plates.
4to., 1l. 15s.

Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and
Ireland. Parts XIV.-XVII. 10 plates each. Folio, 6s. each
part.

Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and
Ireland. Part XVIII. 13 plates. Folio, 8s.

Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and
Ireland. Part XIX. Indexes, General Title, and Preface.
Folio, 10s,

Catalogue of the Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths and
Lombards, and of the Empires of Thessalonica, Nicwa and
Trebizond in the British Museum. By Warwick Wroth. With
43 autotype plates. 8vo., 1l. 2s. 6d.

Subject Index of the Modern Works added to the Library of
the British Museum in the years 1906-1910. S8vo., 2U.

Catalogue of Greek Papyri in the British Museum; with
Texts. Vol. IV., The Aphrodito Papyri. 4to., Al.

An Alphabetical Index to the Chinese Encyclopedia in the
British Museum. Compiled by Lionel Giles. 4to., 15s.

13)

20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts. By
C. Dodgson. Vol. Il. 8vo., 1l. 1s.

Reproductions of Prints. Third Series. Part V. (Speci-
mens of Etching hy Dutch Masters, 1615-1650.) 25 plates. 20.

Guide to the Antiquities of the Stone Age in the Depart-
ment of British and Medizval Antiquities. With 10 plates
and 161 illustrations. 2nd edition. 8vo., ls.

Guide to the Department of Coins and Medals in the British
Museum. 2nd edition. With 45 illustrations. S8vo., 6d.

Guide to the Manuscripts and Printed Books exhibited in
celebration of the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version of
the Bible. With 8 plates. 4to., 6d.

British Museum, Frederic G. Kenyon,
10 April, 1912. Director and Principal Librarian.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS, 21

X.—-PROGRESS made in the ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION
OF THE COLLECTIONS, AND ACCOUNT OF OBJECTS
ADDED TO THEM in the Year 1911 (Bloomsbury).

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS.

I, Arrangement.—The works added to the collection during
the past year have, as far as possible, been placed on the
shelves of the Library, according to the system of classification
adopted in the Museum.

The press-marks, indicating their respective localities, have
been marked on the inside and affixed to the back of each
volume.

The total number of these press-marks amounts to 77,510;
in addition to which 153,598 press-marks have been altered,
on books and in the catalogues, in consequence of changes and
re-arrangements carried out in the Library; 37,051 labels have
been affixed to books and volumes of newspapers, and 116,187
obliterated labels have been renewed.

The number of stamps impressed upon articles received is
531,310.

4,694 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in
the course of the year.

II. Catalogues.—Cataloguing.—44,366 titles have been
written for the General Catalogue and for the Catalogues of
Maps and Music.

Printing.—36,392 titles and index-slips for the General
Cataiogue, 2,533 for the Map Catalogue, and 12,726 for the
Music Catalogue have been prepared for printing during the
year; and 36,200 titles and index-slips for the General Cata-
logue, 2,533 for the Map Catalogue, and 2,188 for the Music
Catalogue, have been printed.

Reprinting. — 101 columns, including the headings Beau-
marchais (12 columns), Cellini (6 columns), Disraeli(20 columns),
Goncourt (6 columns), and Quevedo (13 columns), have been
revised, rearranged, and reprinted during the year.

Incorporation.—General Catalogwe.—35,543 title-slips and
index-slips have been incorporated into each of the three copies
of this Catalogue. This incorporation has rendered it necessary,
in order to maintain as far as possible the alphabetical arrange-
ment, to remove and re-insert 44,904 title-slips and index-slips
in each copy and to add to each copy 670 new leaves.

The system of fortnightly incorporation of accessions to
the Library has been carried out with perfect regularity during
the year. |

Map Catalogue.—2,491 titles have been written for this
Catalogue, and 2,804 title-slips have been incorporated into
each of three copies of it. This incorporation has rendered
it necessary to remove and re-insert 7,310 title-slips in each
copy and to add to each copy 258 new leaves.

Saad ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Music Catalogue. —9,367 titles have been written for
the Music Catalogue, and 13,394 title-slips have been incorpo-
rated into each of two copies of it. This incorporation has
rendered, it necessary to remove and re-insert 23,312 title-slips
in each copy and to add to each copy 568 new leaves.

Shelf Catalogue.—For this Catalogue, in which the title-
slips, mounted on cards, are arranged in order of press-
marks, 32,200 have been so mounted and 55,400 have been
incorporated in their proper order.

Catalogue of Books printed during the XVth Century.—
Part II. of this Catalogue, containing the descriptions of the
books printed at Eltvil, Augsburg, Nuremberg, and twenty
other German towns will shortly be issued.

Subject Index.— The “ Subject Index of the Modern Works
added to the Library of the British Museum in the years 1906—-
1910” was published by the Trustees in November, 1911.

Ill. Binding.—The number of ‘volumes and sets of
pamphlets sent to be bound in the course of the year was
15,226, including 3,308 volumes of newspapers. In conse-
quence of the frequent adoption of the plan of binding two
or more volumes in one, the number of volumes returned
was 10,822. In addition to this, 465 volumes have been
repaired in the binders’ shops.

Besides this, the following binding work has been done in
the Library itself: — 3,374 volumes have been repaired, 97
broadsides, &c. have been inserted in guard-books, and 5,640
volumes of reports, parts of periodicals, &c. have been bound
in a light style of binding.

The following maps, charts, &c. have also been bound or
mounted during the year :—7 atlases and 172 volumes of the
6-inch and 25-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound, and
8 Admiralty Charts have been mounted on linen ; in addition,
243 general maps have been mounted on linen in 1,528 sheets,
and 292 maps have been mounted on cards in 393 sheets.

32,858 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded
into 659 parcels, and 527 parcels have been tied up and labelled.

13 volumes of the Blue Copy, 18 volumes of the Red
Copy, and 9 volumes of the Green Copy of the General
Catalogue, have been broken up and re-bound in 61 new volumes.
264 paler have been re-laid, owing to the accumulation of
titles under certain headings, as well as 124 columns of
reprinted headings, in each of the three interleaved copies of
the General Catalogue. 10 volumes of the Music Catalogue
have been re-bound in 19 new volumes.

IV. Reading Room Ser vice.—The number of volumes re-
placed in the General Library after use in the Reading Room
was 766,000; in the King’s Library, 24,165; in the Grenville
Library, 2.011 ; in the Map Room, 7,335; in the presses in
which books are kept from day to day for the use.of readers,
662,691; and in the Oriental Department, 2,547; making a

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DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS.

total amount. of 1,464,749 volumes supplied to readers during
the year, exclusive of those to which the readers have personal
access on the shelves of the Reading Room.

The number of readers during the year was 223,404, giving
an average of 744°68 daily, the room having been open
300 days; with an average of nearly 7 volumes daily for each
reader.

Newspaper Room.—The number of readers during the
year was 19,212, giving a daily average of over 64, the room
having been open on 300 days. The number of volumes
replaced after use was 67,055, giving a daily average of
223 and of over 3 volumes for each reader, not reckoning
volumes, chiefly Parliamentary Papers, taken from the shelves
of the Newspaper Room by the readers themselves. In
addition 2,555 country newspapers were brought up to the
Library from the Repository at Hendon for the use of readers.

Map Room.—584 visitors were admitted to the Map Room
for the purpose of special geographical research.

Photography.—There were 459 applications for leave to
photograph from books in the Library, and 1,635 volumes
were supplied to the applicants for this purpose.

V. Aecessions.—General Library.—28,922 complete volumes
and pamphlets have been added to the General Library in the
course of the year. Of these, 7,295 were presented ; 15,293
were received by Copyright ; 459 by Colonial Copyright ; 998
by International Exchange ; and 3,977 acquired by purchase.

70,309 parts or volumes of magazines and other serial
publications and of works in progress have been added to
the General Library. Of these, 4,658 were presented ; 45,893
received by Copyright ; 456 by Colonial Copyright ; 1,178 by
International Exchange; and 18,124 acquired by purchase.

Maps.—43 atlases, 97 parts of atlases, and 1,865 maps in
7,108 sheets have been added to the collection during the
year. Of these, 3 atlases, 24 parts of atlases, and 447 maps
were presented ; 14 atlases and 642 maps received by Copy-
right ; 12 atlases and 28 maps by Colonial Copyright; and 14
atlases, 73 parts of atlases, and 748 maps acquired by purchase.

Music.—11,272 musical publications have been added to
the collection during the year. Of these, 22 pieces were pre-
sented ; 9,018 books and pieces, and 1,400 parts, received by
Copyright ; 669 pieces by Colonial Copyright; and 31 books
and 132 parts acquired by purchase. .

Newspapers.—The number of newspapers published in the
United Kingdom, received under the provisions of the Copy-
right Act, during the year, was 3,470, comprising 247,116
single numbers. Of these newspapers, 1,241 were published in
London and its suburbs; 1,693 in other parts of England and
Wales and in the Channel Islands; 299 in Scotland ; and 237
in Ireland. Two sets, comprising 444 single numbers, were

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received by Colonial Copyright; 256 sets, comprising 38,776
single numbers of colonial and foreign newspapers, have been
presented ; and 82 sets, comprising 18 volumes and 14,510 single
numbers of current colonial and foreign newspapers, have been
purchased.

Miscellaneous.—4,214 articles not included in the foregoing
paragraphs have been received in the Department. These
consist of Parliamentary Papers, single sheets, and other
miscellaneous items.

The total number of articles enumerated above, as having
been received in the Department during the year, exclusive
of newspapers, is 115,822.

Acquisitions of Special Interest.—During the course of the
year 1911 the Library has keen enriched by two acquisitions
of the highest importance and value. These are :—

I. The Royal Library of Music from Buckingham Palace.—
His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to deposit
on loan at the British Museum the Royal Musical Library,
consisting of about 1,000 Manuscripts and 3,000 printed books
and musical pieces, hitherto preserved in Buckingham Palace.

As soon as the King Edward Wing is completed, this
magnificent collection will be housed in a room specially fitted
for the purpose, and the contents will be available to readers
on the same conditions as those which now apply to the more
valuable works in the Departments of Manuscripts and Printed
Books.

Among the many treasures contained in this collection are
the following :—

Highty-one volumes of Manuscript Music in the handwriting
of Handel.

Of these, thirty-two volumes consist of Operas, twenty-one
of Oratorios, twelve of miscellaneous sacred music, eleven of
Cantatas and Sketches, and five of instrumental musie.

These holograph volumes are suppiemented by seventeen
volumes .of copies by John Christopher Smith, Handel’s
amanuensis, and twenty-four volumes, partly in the hand-
writing of Smith and partly in that of another copyist.

A manuscript volume written by John Baldwine, towards
the close of the sixteenth century, containing compositions
by English musicians of the sixteenth century including
Henry VIII.

Two manuscript “ Virginal Books,” one by Benjamin Cosin,
written in the earlier years of the seventeenth century; the
other by William Forster, dated 1624.

A manuscript volume of ‘‘ Aires and Phantasies,” by
Giovanni Coperario (Anglice John Cooper), which belonged to
Charles I.

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°

A Manuscript Volume containing forty-six odes, songs and
other secular compositions and fourteen anthems, almost all of
which are in the handwriting of Henry Purcell. The book
forms Purcell’s own record of his work in chronological order
from about 1682, when he was appointed Organist and Composer
to the Chapel Royal, to about 1690 when he definitely entered

upon his final career as a writer for the stage.

Il. The Huth Bequest.—The late Mr. Alfred Henry Huth in
his Will directed his Executors, in case the sale of the Huth
Library should be decided upon, to “deliver to the Trustees of the
British Museum before such sale actually takes place such fifty
volumes as the Trustees shall in their uncontrolled discretion
select from the Huth Library, provided that such Trustees
shall not select any duplicate or more perfect copy of any
volume which may be already in the British Museum Library,
except by way of exchange of such duplicate with the Huth
Library, and every copy sc exchanged is to count as one volume
out of the said fifty.”

This legacy, which accrued to the Trustees in the course of
_the year, is the most valuable gift which has been bestowed
upon the Library since the bequest of the Grenville Library in
1847. Fifty manuscripts and printed books have been selected
in accordance with the terms of Mr. Huth’s Will. A full
description ef these, with Ulustrations and facsimiles, will be
found in the “ Catalogue of the fifty Manuscripts and Printed
Books bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfred H. Huth,”
published by the Trustees of the British Museum, 1912.

The following is a list of the Printed Books selected :—

“Ars Memorandi per figuras Evangelistarum.” A German
block-book ec. 1470 consisting of thirty leaves printed in brown
ink on one side only, in such a manner that of each pair of
printed pages one is occupied by text, the other by an illustra-
tion.

Boccaccio, Giovanni: “Decamerone.” A German translation.
Printed by Johann Zainer, Ulm, ec. 1473.

Jacobus de Voragine: “La Légende dorée.” Printed by
Guillaume Le Roy for Barthélemy Buyer, Lyons, 1476.

“Le Viel Testament de la Bible.” Printed by Guillaume Le
Roy, Lyons, ec. 1477.

“ Dicts or Sayings of the Philosophers.” Printed by William
Caxton, Westminster, 1477. <A tall and beautiful copy of the
first dated book printed in England, exchanged for a very
inferior copy formerly in the British Museum.

“Spiegel menschlicher Behaltnis.” Printed by Anton Sorg,
Augsburg, c. 1478. With 192 woodcuts.

“Geschiedenis van het heylighe Cruys.” Printed by Jan
Veldener, Kuilenburg, 1483. With 64 woodcuts.

“Le Livre des Kneydes compilé par Virgile.” Printed by
Guillaume Le Roy, Lyons, 1483. With 61 woodcuts.

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The Romance of ‘ Fierabras.” Printed by Guillaume Le
Roy, Lyons, c. 1485. With 48 woodcuts.

“Meditatione sopra la Passione del Nostro Signore.’
Printed by Hieronymus de Sanctis, Venice, 1487. With 11
woodcuts.

“Danse Macabre.” Printed by Gui Marchant, Paris, c. 1494.
In three parts: Part 1. “La Danse des Hommes.” Part 2,
“La Danse des Femmes.” Part 3, “Les trois mors et les trois
vifz.’ With numerous and beautiful woodcuts and large
capitals.

“Danse Macabre.” Printed by Matthias Huss, Lyons, 1499.
With numerous woodcuts, for the most part copied from the
Paris editions of Couteau and Ménart and of Gui Marchant.

“The Castell of Laboure.” Translated from the French
of Pierre Gringore by Alexander Barclay. Printed by Richard
Pynson, London, c. 1505. With 29 woodcuts and ornamental
capitals. The only perfect copy known.

“Flower of the Commandments.” Translated from the
French by Andrew Chertsey. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde,
London, 1510. With woodcut illustrations and capitals.

“ Hundred Merry Tales.” Printed by John Rastell, London,
ce. 1526. The ouly known copy of this edition. A copy of
another edition is in the University Library at Gottingen. The
book is quoted in “ Much Ado akout Nothing,” Act II., Scene L.,
where Beatrice says “that I had my good wit out of the
Hundred Merry Tales.”

“The Summoning of Everyman.” Printed by John Skot,
London, ¢c. 1530. The only known copy of this edition.

“ Interrogatories to Churchwardens, Anno 1558.” Printed
by Robert Caly, London, 6 April, 1558.

A volume of ballads, consisting of 74 sheets, a few of which
contain more than one ballad. The earliest of these ballads is
dated 1559; the great majority are printed between 1559 and
1572, a few belong to the period between 1572 and 1600, while
one bears the date 1615. The volume forms one half of the
collection of ballads acquired by George Daniel, the other half
of which is in the Library at Britwell Court.

Broke, Arthur: “The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and
Juliet, written first in Italian by Bandell and now in Englishe
by Ar. Br.” Printed by Richard Tottell, London, 1562.

Two other copies only are known, one in the Bodleian
Library, the other, which is imperfect, in the Library of aeceee
College, Cambridge.

Googe, Barnabe: ‘“ Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes.”
Printed by Thomas, Colwell for Rudolph Newbery, London,
1568.

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Two other copies only known, one in the Library of
Trinity College, Cambridge, the other in the Library at Britwell
Court.

Cervantes: “Primera parte de la Galatea.” Printed by
Juan Gracian for Blas de Robles, Aleala, 1585. The first edition
of the first work of Cervantes.

‘“Daphnis and Chloe, by Angell Daye.” Printed by Robert
Waldegrave, London, 1587. The only” copy known.

Munday, Anthony: “A Banquet of Daintie Conceits.
Written by A. M. Servaunt to the Queenes most excellent
Majestie.” Printed by John Charlwood for Edward White,
London, 1588. The only copy known.

Colonna, Francesco: ‘ Hypnerotomachia, The Strife of
Love in a Dreame.” Printed by John Charlwood for Simon
Waterson, London, 1592.

An abridged translation of the Italian Romance written at
Treviso by F. Colonna in 1467, with some of the Italian
woodcuts of the Aldine edition imitated on a reduced scale.

Lodge, Thomas: ‘‘Rosalynde, Euphues golden Legacie found
after his death in his Cell at Silexedra.” Printed by A. Jeffes for
Thomas Gubbin and John Busby, London, 1592. The only
other known copy of this edition is in the Bodleian Library.

Fletcher, Giles : “ Licia, or Poemes of Love, in honour of the
admirable and singular vertues of his Lady.” John Legate,
Cambridge, c. 1593. The only other known copy is in the
Bodleian Library.

“The Phenix Nest. Built up with the most rare and refined
workes of Noblemen, woorthy Knights, gallant Gentlemen, ete.
Set foorth by R.S. of the Inner Temple Gentleman.” J. Jackson,
London, 15938. An anthology of poems by Nicholas Breton,
Sir William Herbert, Thomas Lodge, Edward de Vere, Earl of
Oxford, George Peele, Matthew Roydon, Thomas Watson and

others.

“The Patterne of painefull Adventures containing the
Historie of the strange accidents that befell unto Prince
Apollonius, the Lady Lucina his wife and Tharsia his daughter
gathered into English by Laurence Twine Gentleman.” Valentine
Sims for the Widow Newman, London, ec. 1594.

Griffin, Bartholomew: “ Fidessa, more chaste than kinde.”
Printed by the Widow Orwin for Matthew Lownes, London,
1596. Two other copies known, one in the Bodleian Library, the
other in the Library at Britwell Coutt.

Smith, William : ‘‘ Chloris, or the complaint of the passionate
despised Shepheard.” Edmund Bollifant, London, 1596. Only
one other copy known, in the Bodleian Library.

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Shakespeare : “The Tragedie of King Richard the second.”
Printed by Valentine Simmes for Andrew Wise, London, 1597.
This is the first of the four quarto editions of Richard IL,
printed before the Folio of 1623. Only one other copy known,
which is preserved in the Capell Collection at Trinity College,
Cambridge.

Shakespeare: “The Tragedy of King Richard the third.”
Printed by Valentine Sims for Andrew Wise, London, 1597.
This is the first of the six quarto editions published before
1623. Other copies are in the Bodleian Library, and the
Library of the Duke of Devonshire. A third copy was among
the Shakespeare Quartos of Earl Howe sold in 1907.

Shakespeare: “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” Printed
by Thomas Creed for Arthur Johnson, London, 1602.

Rich, Richard: ‘‘Newes from Virginia, The lost Flocke
Triumphant.” Printed by Edward Allde, sold by John Wright,
London, 1610.

In November 1911 the first portion of the Huth Library
was sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and
Hodge. The following printed books, twenty-eight in number,
were purchased by the Trustees :—

Andreas, Joannes: “ Arbor Consanguinitatis et Affinitatis.”
Printed by Johann Winterberg, Vienna, 1500.

Brunus, L.: ‘“‘Cronica summaria Hispaniarum Regine (Isabella
of Castille).” Richard Pynson, London, ec. 1505. The only copy
known.

‘“‘Almanacke for XV yeres.” Nine printed leaves, preceded
by a full-page woodcut. Wynkyn de Worde, London, 1522.

“Interlocucyon betwixt Man and Woman.” Wynkyn de
Worde, London. ec. 1525. A translation from the French of
“Le Debat de homme et de la femme,” by Guillaume, Prior
de Bucy. The only copy known.

A Breviary according to the revision of Cardinal Quignon.
Antoine Goin, Antwerp, 1537.

Askew, Anne: “ First Examination of Maistres Anne
Askew. lLattre Examination, etc., 1546. Wanting the title-
page. The only copy known. An edition of this book by
John Bale was printed at Marburg in 1546. The present
version was probably printed in England earlier than the
Marburg edition, from which it differs in many details.

Brooke, T.: Certeyn Meditations and thinges to be had in
remembrance by every Christian before he receive the Sacra-
ment of the body and bloude of Christ.” John Day and
William Seres, London, 1548.

Bale, John: ‘The Image of both Churches.” Richard
Jugge, London, c. 1550.

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Bullein, William: “A newe Boke of Phisicke, called the
Government of Health.” John Day, 1558.

Bradford, John: ‘‘The Complaynt of Veritie, made by John
Bradford, etc., 1559.” The only copy known.

f4ineas Sylvius (Pope Pius II.): “The Goodly History of
the most noble and beautiful Lady Lucres of Scene in Tuskan.”
John Kynge, London, 1560. The only copy known.

Breton, Nicholas: “ A Floorish upon Fancie. As gallant a
glose upon so trifiing a text as ever was written.” Richard
Jhones, London, 1582.

_ Breton, Nicholas: “ Melancholike Humours, in verses of
divers Natures.” Richard Bradock, London, 1600.

- Breton, Nicholas: “1 would and I would not.” Printed by
Thomas Creede for Thomas Bushell, London, 1614.

_ Baldwin, William: “A Marvellous History, intituled,
Beware the Cat.” Edward Allde, London, 1584. Wanting
the title-page. ‘The only copy known.

>

Bucke, J.: ‘Instructions for the use of the _ beades.’
Louvain, 1589.

“The Honour of Chivalrie. Set downe in the most famous
historie of the magnanimous Prince Don Bellianis. Englished
out of Italian by L. A.” Thomas Creede, London, 1598.

Bas, William: “Sword and Buckler, or Serving Mans
Defence.” 1602. Wanting the title-page. The only other
copy known is in the Bodleian Library.

Allen Robert: ‘The Oderifferous Garden of Charitie.”
Imprinted at London, 1603.

“The new Prophetical King of Barbary, Or, the last newes
from thence in a Letter written of late from a Merchant there,
etc.” Arthur Jonson, London, 1613.

Bellarmine, Cardinal: ‘A Shorte Catechisme of Card.
Bellarmine, illustrated with the Images.” (Translated by
G. Mayr.) Augsburg, 1614.

“The Historie of Sir Bevis of South-Hampton.” Printed
by Edward Raban for David Melvill, Aberdeen, 1630. The only
copy known.

Bancroft, Thomas : “ The Glutton’s Feaver.” Printed by
John Norton for William Cooke, London, 1633.

Bancroft, Thomas: ‘“ The Heroical Lover, or Anthea and
Fidelta.” Printed by W. G., sold by Isaac Pridmore, London,
1658.

Brathwait, Richard: ‘ Anniversaries upon his Panarete
continued : with her Contemplations, penned in the languishing
time of her Sicknesse.” Printed by Felix Kingston, sold by
Robert Bostock, London, 1635.

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| Ballard, George; The History of Susanna.” Printed by
Thomas Harper for William Hope, London, 1638. 7

Barford, John: “ Paraphrastical Meditations upon Isaiah 55
and Psalm 51.” Thomas Euster, London, 1649.

Bassani, Giovanni Battista: ‘‘ Resi armonici in motetti a
voce sola con violini.” Henrico Aertssens, Antwerp, 1691.

Two of these books are imperfect, wanting their title-pages.
All the others are perfect, in excellent condition and, for the
most part, in fine modern bindings. One is bound by Roger
Payne, thirteen by F. Bedford and the remainder by Lewis,
Riviere and other well-known binders.

In addition to the books acquired by Mr. Huth’sb quest and
the purchases at the sale of his Library, many valuable
Incunabula and English books of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries have been added to the Library. Among these are
the following :—

Incunabula.

Perottus, Nicolaus: “ Rudimenta grammatices.” Printed
by Arnold Pannartz, Rome, 1474.

A collection of eight law-tracts by Baldus de Ubaldis and
Bartolus de Saxoferrato, bound together. Printed by Pasquier
Bonhomme, Paris, 1475. Pasquier Bonhomme printed only a
small number of books; his work has been hitherto unre-
presented in the Library.

“ Plenarium,” «¢., The Epistles and Gospels for the
ecclesiastical year in German, with numerous woodcuts.
Printed by Anton Sorg, Augsburg, 1478.

“Vita e transito del Sancto Hieronimo.” Printed by
Michele Manzolo, Treviso, 1480.

“ Die newe Passionel von Jhesu und Marie.” Printed by
Hans Schoensperger and Thomas Rtiger, Augsburg, 1482.

There has been hitherto no book in the Library printed by
Schoensperger and Riiger in partnership.

Thomas Aquinas: ‘ Expositio super Aristotelis Libros de
Generatione.” Printed by Martinus de Lavalle, Pavia, 1488.

‘“Ghetijden-boek.” Hours of the Blessed Virgin in Dutch.
Printed by Peregrinus Barmentlo, Hasselt, 1490. An unknown
book. Hight works only by this printer have been hitherto
described ; the present book is the ninth.

Aisop: Fables in Italian. Printed by E. de Sella, Aquila,
1493. Two books only are known to have been produced by
this printer. The present copy is imperfect, but contains the
greater portion of the text, and twenty-four woodcuts.

Sallust: “Obras.” Printed by Juan de Burgos, Valladolid,
1500. A press hitherto unrepresented in the Library.

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Ricoldus de. Montecrucis : ‘ Improbatio Alcorani.” Printed
by Stanislaus Polonus, Seville, 1500.

English Books printed before 1640.

Hours of the Virgin according to the Sarum Use. Printed
by Wynkyn de Worde, London, 1519. In a contemporary
binding. The only copy known.

Fewterer, John: “The Myrrour or Glasse of Christes
Passion.” R. Redman, London, 1534.

“The Castell of Love. Translated out of Spanish (of
Diego de San Pedro) into Englyshe by John Bowrchier,
Knyght, Lorde Bernes.” John Turke, ec. 1540.

An edition hitherto unknown.

“The Boke for a Justice of Peace” and five other law- books
bound together, John Waley, London, 1546.

Twenty-nine “ Year Books” containing law reports of the
reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III. Printed by
R. Tottell, London, between the years 1559 and 1587. This
acquisition raises the total number of printed “ Year Books”
in the Library to 242 separate editions.

Hall, John: “The Courte of Virtue.” Thomas Marshe,
Tiondon, 1565.

Garter, Bernard; “The tragicall and true Historie which
happened betweene two English Lovers.” _R. Tottell, London,
1568. The only other copy known is in the Library of Britwell
Court.

Nash, Thomas: ‘“‘The Unfortunate Traveller.” Printed. by
' Thomas Searlet for Cuthbert Burby, London, 1594.

Wanting the title-page. The only other copy known of
this second edition is in the Bodleian Library.

Rowlands, Samuel: ‘“ Democritus, or Doctor Merryman.”
John Deane, London, 1607.

Greene, Robert: ‘“Ciceronis Amor. Tullie’s Love.” J.
Smethwicke, London, 1608.

Quarles, Francis: ‘‘Divine Poems.” J. Marriott, London,
1630.

Parker, Martin: “The Nightingale warbling forth his own
Disaster, or the Rape of Philomela.” W. Cooke, London, 1637.

The total number of Incunabula added to the Library during
the year is 33. The number of English books printed before
1640 is 192.

Donations.—The Loan of the Roya] Library of Music by
His Majesty the King, and the bequest of the late Mr. Alfred
H. Huth are described above.

In addition to these the Library has been enriched by many
valuable donations and legacies during the course of the year.
Among these are :—

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A collection of books and pamphlets, bound in 361 volumes,
relating to the ‘Catholic Apostolic Church,” dating from about
1835 to the present time, among which are forty books and
pamphlets by Edward Irving. Bequeathed to the British
Musewm by the late Mr. Clement Boase.

A volume of pamphlets relating to Rugby School, which
contains, among other matter, ‘“‘ Alaric at Rome.” A prize
poem, 1840. By Matthew Arnold. ‘The Longest Day.” A
poem written at Rugby School, 1836. By A. H. Clough. And
prize poems by G. J. Goschen, afterwards Viscount Goschen,
R. Congreve, J. Conington, G. A. Lawrence, and others.
Presented by W. F. H. Blandford, Esq.

“The Benedictional of Saint Aithelwold, Bishop of Win-
chester, 963-984.” Reproduced in facsimile from the Manuscript
in the Library of the Duke of Devonshire. Edited by Sir G.
F. Warner and H. A. Wilson. Printed for the Roxburghe
Club, 1910. Presented by His Grace the Duke of Devonshire.

A copy of the second edition of “ Notitia Monastica. By
Thomas Tanner,” 1744, with numerous MS. notes and corrections
by John Tanner, editor of this edition. Presented by Messrs.
Hodgson & Co.

“The Golden Latin Gospels in the Library of J. Pierpont
Morgan, Edited by H. C. Hoskier.” Privately printed, New
York, 1910; and “Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan. Bronzes
of the Renaissance and subsequent Periods. Introduction and
descriptions by Wilhelm Bode.” 2 vol. Privately printed at
the Imprimérie Nationale, Paris, 1910. Presented by J.
Pierpont Morgan, Esq.

“ Cornbury and the Forest of Wychwood. By Vernon J.
Watney.” Privately printed, 1910. Presented by Vernon
J. Watney, Esq.

A collection of files of Newspapers published in the British
Colonies during the year 1910. In continuation of the files
presented in former years.

Maps.—The following are among the most important
additions to the collection of Maps during the year 1911 :—

“La magnifica citta de Brescia, per Donato Rascicotti.”
Venice, 1599.

“Veue du Chasteau de Fontainebleau du coste du jardin.
A. F. Bouduin sculpsit.” Paris, 1680.

“ Nuova pianta di Roma presente, disegnata et intagliata da
Matteo Gregoria di Rossi.” Rome, 1773.

Music.—The loan of the Royal Library of Music formerly
in Buckingham Palace, by His Majesty the King, has been

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described above. Other accessions of special value have
been :—

“Musikalische Werke von Prinz Louis Ferdinand von
Preussen.” Leipzig, 1911. Presented by H.I.M. the German
LHmperor.

“Liber Cantus triginta-novem motetos habet.” 4 pts.
Ferrara, 1538. A collection of Motets chiefly by Flemish
composers. One other copy only'is known, in the Royal
Library, Munich.

“Onziesme Livre contenant XVIII. Chansons. P. Attaing-
nant and H. Gallet, Paris, 1541.

“Chansons a quattre parties, composéz par M. Benedictus.”
H. Loys et J. de Buys, Antwerp, 1542. A work hitherto
unknown. .

“Quatuor Vocum Musicze Modulationes.” J. Vissenacus,
Antwerp, 1542. The only other copy known is in the Imperial
Library, Vienna.

Lattre, Claude Jean de: ‘“‘ Lamentationes aliquot Jeremie
musicae harmoniae noviter adaptatae.” 5 pts. Maestricht,
1554.

Peu d’Argent, Martin: ‘Sacre Cantiones quinque vocum.”
5 pts. Diisseldorf, 1555.

Le Blanc, Didier: “ Airs de pluseurs Musiciens.” Paris,
1582.

Bassani, Giovanni Battista: ‘‘Resi armonici in motetti a
voce sola con violini.” Henrico Aertssens, Antwerp, 1691,

G. K. Fortescue.

0.91 C

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DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS.

1. Catalogue of Additions.—The descriptions of MSS., etc.
acquired in 1910 have been printed and have been incorporated
in the Class Catalogue.

The following MSS. acquired in 1911 have been described
and indexed: Additional 38092-38135, 38137-38138, 38142-
38146, 38158-38160, 38162-38166, 38186, 38188, 38189, 38197-
38202, 38219, 38237-38240, and Egerton 2895-2898.

The revision of the Index to the Quinquennial Catalogue
for 1906-1910 has been completed, and the Index for letters A,
B has been printed.

Descriptions of the thirteen MSS. acquired under the Huth
bequest have been prepared for the special Catalogue of the
Bequest, which has since been published.

2. Catalogue of Greek Papyri.—Vol. IV. has been issued
and some fragments have been arranged and numbered.

3. Catalogue of the Royal MSS.—Descriptions as far as 19 B.
XVI have been sent to press, and Royal Appendix 12-64, 74, 75
have been described and indexed. Sheets as far as 2 T of
Vol. II. (to 19 B. xii1) are in print.

4. Catalogue of Romances.—Two MSS. (Add. 25487 and
Harl. 3716) containing Tales from the Decameron have been
described for Vol. IV.

5. Catalogue of early Additional and Egerton MSS.—
Add. 4391-4421 have been described and indexed.

6. Catalogue of Irish MSS.—Seventeen MSS. and portions
of fifteen others have been described.

7. Catalogue of Charters—Additional Charters 54701-
54812, acquired in 1908, and 55195-55426, acquired in 1909, have
been indexed ; Add. 55182-55193, acquired in 1909, and 55427—
55464, 55471-55487, acquired in 1910, have been described and
indexed.

The printing of Vol. II. of the General Index of Charters
has been continued. Sheets O-2 K (pp. 209-512) to letter M
have been revised for press, and slips to letter N (Newburgh)
are in type. .

8. Catalogue of Seals.—Index-slips have been written for
Detached Seals CLIV. 88-116, and the index-slips to Seals of
Additional Charters have been revised and pasted down as far
as letter H.

9. Binding. — Seventy-four Additional MSS. and four
Egerton MSS. newly acquired, and one hundred and forty-eight
MSS. of the old collections, have been bound, repaired, or
lettered, together with one hundred and twenty-four pieces of
Papyri and ninety Books of Reference, volumes of Facsimiles,
and Catalogues.

DEPARTMENT OF MSS. 35

10. Verification.—The entire collection of MSS. has been
verified by comparison with the Shelf-Lists, and the special
quinquennial verification of the separate items of unbound
MSS. hasbeen made. About athousand charters have also been
verified.

11. Reproductions. — The introduction by Sir George
Warner to the plates taken last year of Royal MS. 2 B. vit.
(Queen Mary’s Psalter) is nearly ready for the press.

12. Stamping, folioing, and placing.—Ninety-two Addi-
tional MSS., three Egerton MSS., and two hundred and thirty
Books of Reference (all newly acquired) {have been stamped ;
three MSS. of the old collections have been re-stamped, and
3,493 Charters of the old collections have been examined and
stamped where necessary. The total of impressions made
was 10,920. Two hundred and three numbers were also
impressed on MSS.

One hundred and thirty-seven MSS. have been folioed, with
a total of 32,216 folios. 30,276 slips have been numbered.
Seventy-five MSS. returned from Binders have been examined.

One hundred and thirty-three newly acquired MSS. have
been placed, and thirty MSS. of the old collections have been
re-placed. All have been press-marked and entered in Hand-
and Shelf-Lists. Seven hundred and thirteen Charters and
Rolls have been placed and entered in the MHand-Lists.
Numbers have been written on 654 newly acquired Charters,
and, generally, numbers have been written on Rolls returned
from the Binders. Fifty-nine Seals and Casts have been
provided with boxes, placed, and entered in the Hand-Lists.
The fitting with boxes and temporary replacing of Seals.
selected from the old collections have been continued.

New Hand-Lists have been made for Cotton MSS., for-
Egerton MSS., for Egerton Charters, and for Facsimiles; and.
new Shelf-Lists for Add. MSS. in Saloon Gallery and for Sloane
MSS.

13. Books of Reference. — Two hundred and twenty-eight.
volumes and parts have been received, catalogued, and placed.

Twenty-seven volumes and parts of Facsimiles were added
to the series now deposited in the Department and available-
for the use of Readers.

14. Consultation of MSS.—32,794 MSS. and 2,733 Charters
and Seals have been consulted in the Students’ Room, and
forty-eight MSS., four Facsimiles, and one Charter in the
Reading Room. The number of Students was 11,731.

Magna Charta was exhibited to 16,455 visitors,

15. MSS. photographed.—Kight hundred and twenty-seven
MSS. (including Papyri, Charters and Rolls) were allowed to be
photographed, with a total of 5,949 photoeraphs taken.

16. Hxhibitions.—A special exhibition of MSS. illustrating
the history of the Bible has been arranged in connection with

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the celebration of the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version,
and a Guide has been prepared.

The MSS. acquired under the Huth bequest were tem-
porarily exhibited ; and a special selection of MSS. was set out
in October for a visit by German Students.

The General Collection of MSS. exhibited to the public is in
process of re-arrangement and a new Guide is being prepared.

17. Acquisttions.—The number of Manuscripts and Docu-
ments, etc., acquired during the year has been :—

Additional MSS. - = . = = - 419
Egerton MSS. - - - - - - - 9
Charters and Rolls’ - - - = = Pra si |
Papyri - - - - - - - about 150
Detached Seals and Casts - = = - 2 a Ales

The most interesting acquisition during 1911 are the thirteen
MSS. which form part of the fifty books selected from the
Huth Library under the terms of Mr. Arthur Huth’s will.
These important MSS., which are described in The Huth
Bequest published by order of the Trustees, 1912, are briefly as
follows :—

Bible, in Latin, illuminated in France; 13th cent. Two
vols.

Psalter, in Latin, Uluminated in England ; end of the 13th
cent.

Mevlin, the prose romance in French: unique MS. of the
version used by Sir T. Malory ; beginning of the 14th cent.

Apocalypse, in French, well illuminated ; beginning of the
14th cent.

Speculum Humanae Salvationis, etc., in 134 scenes ; late
14th cent.

G. de Deguileville, Les Trois Pélerinages, with numerous
drawings; 14th—15th cent.

Apocalypse, in Latin, executed in the Netherlands; early
15th cent.

Bible History, in Flemish ; middle of the 15th cent.
Book of Hours, in Dutch ; 15th cent. Engraved illustrations.

Book of Hours; end of 15th cent. Miniatures, etc., in
Milanese style.

Petrarch, Trionfi, etc.; end of 15th cent. Miniatures, etc.,
in Milanese style.

Book of Hours; circ. 1500. Miniatures, ete.,in the finest
Flemish style.

Another most important donation is a large coliection of
state papers, forming three hundred volumes, etc., from the
family collections of the Earls of Liverpool; including original
letters of George III., George IV., Newcastle, Bute, Chatham,
William Pitt and others. Presented by the Hon. Henry
Berkeley Portman.

DEPARTMENT OF MSS. 3¢

A considerable collection of Greek papyri, chiefly of the
Ist-3rd centt., has been purchased, including large portions of
the Iliad, book ii; two rolls containing official correspondence
on the preservation of the public records, A.D. 124; some long
land-registers, A.D. 198; and about 130 other documents in
excellent condition, besides fragments, largely of an official
character.

Another notable purchase is that of a collection of MSS. of
Mexican picture-writing, including a skin codex in colours and
a number of pieces of aloe-paper with drawings relating
probably to local history. Of a date prior to the Spanish
conquest.

Of the MSS. purchased at public sales during the year the
majority came from the Phillipps collection, a further portion
of which was sold on 24-28 April, and from the Townshend
heirlooms, sold 18, 19 Dec. The most important are included,
with others acquired by purchase or donation, in the list which
follows :— .

Vita S. Neoti, Bedae Historia Ecclesiastica; 12th cent.

J. Belet, Summa de ecclesiasticis beneficiis, ete. ; J2th-13th
cent.

Odo of Cheriton, Sermons; 13th cent.

Chronique de 8. Denys; 13th cent.

Latin dictionary, written in Italy ; 13th cent.

Lives of saints in English verse ; 14th cent.

William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum, etc.; late 14th cent.

R. Rotherham, De pluralitate beneficiorum; late 15th cent..
In the original English stamped leather binding.

Statuta Angliae, Liber custumarum London; 14th-15th
cent.

Ordinances for services at Court, ete., temp. Hen. VII. ;
16th cent.

Book of diet-expenses of the Lords of the Council, 1545-
ool:

Wardrobe-book of Qu. Mary, 1554-1555.

Letter-book of Sir H. Unton, Ambassador to France; 1591-—
1592.

Papers of Sir Julius Cesar, Judge of the Admiralty Court,
ete.; 1582-1619.

Letter-book of T. Parry, ambassador to France; 1602-1603.

Report of Sir R. Southwell on treason able a ig
of E. Colman, 1674-5

Correspondence of Sir R. Southwell and E. Southwell as
vice-admirals of Munster; 1677-1749. Six vols.

Accompt of Sir G. Wharton, Treasurer of the Ordnance ;
1679-1680.

38 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Book of Irish revenue receipts and payments; 1683-1684.

Letter-books of the Polish ambassador at the Hague, 1686—
1689. Four vols.

Correspondence of Sir R, Case, Lord Chancellor of Ireland,
with Sir R. Southwell and E. Southwell; 1687-1726.

Correspondence of James II. with Pope Alexander VIIL.,
etc.; 1689. Contemporary copies.

Letters of R. Talbot, Earl of Tyreconnel to Mary of Modena;
1689-1690. Contemporary copies.

Register of letters, etc. of William III., Lord Nottingham
and Sir R. Southwell when the king was in Ireland ; 1690.

Report to William III. on forfeited estates in Ireland; with
other Irish papers, 1768-1783.

Journal of the Duke of Ormonde’s expedition to Spain,
1702.

Register of letters of E. Southwell as Sec. to the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland; 1703-1707.

Entry-book of letters of the Duke of Marlborough and
Viscount Townshend to the Secretaries of State; also drafts
and copies of despatches to and from them; 1709-1711.

Correspondence of Horatio Walpole, secretary to
Townshend’s embassy ; 1709-1711.

Register of petitions to the Irish Government ; 1711-1713.

Narrative by Roger Acherley of his correspondence to secure
‘tthe Hanoverian succession ; 1712-1714.

Letters concerning the Scottish rising and English riots in
1715, with other Jacobite papers, including reports of Petkum,
a secret agent abroad.

Original letters to Viscount Townshend from Horatio
Walpole and others, 1725-1726. 3 vols.

Autograph memoranda of George IJ. on despatches sub-
mitted by Viscount Townshend, 1728-1729.

Notes of debates in the House of Lords, by Lord Chancellor
Hardwicke, ete. ; 1740-1763.

Papers relating to the settlement of Nova Scotia, 1765, ete.

Letters and copies of documents relating to Irish affairs
chiefly in the Marquis of Wellcesley’s administration ; 1782-
1835.

Narrative of the battle of Enniscorthy, 1798, by T. Handcock.
Presented by Mrs. Sarah Disney.

Register of letters of R. Pio, cardinal of Carpi, nuncio in
France, 1528-1544.

Transcripts of Swedish despatches relating to England,
1655-1656; made for S. R. Gardiner, the Mego eaieah Pr esonted
by Pr ofessor Crt Farth.

DEPARTMENT OF MSS. 39

Essai historique de la Vendée, par M. de Solignac, core.
1795.

Roll of arms of knights supposed to have been quartered on
Ely Abbey by William the Conqueror; early 15th cent.
Visitation of the see of Derry by Archbishop Cotton; 1397.

Vellum roll.
J. Leland; monastic collections; temp. Henry VIII. Auto-

graph fragment.
Forms of warrants, etc.; middle of 16th cent,
_ Genealogical and historical collections ; middle of 16th cent.
Sir P. Manwood, historical collections ; circ. 1605.
Correspondence of Sir Sackville Crow, Bart., and others ;
1633-1726.

Sir W. Dugdale, papers, partly autograph, relating to the
Order of the Garter, etc. ; temp. Chas. II. 2 vols.

Catalogue of the Arundel cabinet of gems, 1731.

Letters of Egyptologists to R. Hay, 1826-1862. Presented
by Robert Hay, Esq. (the son).

Glossary of the dialect of Cornwall by W. F. P. Jago;
19th cent.

Album of signatures of visitors to the British section of the
Vienna -Field Sports Exhibition, 1910. Presented by the
President of the Board of Trade.

J. Urry and others, collections for an edition of Chaucer
(publ. 1721). Four vols. Presented by Sir W. S. McCormick.

Ledger-book of “The Public Advertiser,” 1765-1771.
Bequeathed by Sir OC. W. Dilke, Bart.

Correspondence (with several autograph works) of James
Henry Leigh Hunt; 1807-1859. Seven vols.

One leaf of Charles Dickens’ autograph MS. of the “ Pickwick
Papers.” Presented by Mr. W. A. White, of New York.

“History of European Morals,” by W. E. H. Lecky: the
author’s autograph MS. Two vols. Presented by Mrs. Lecky.

E. von Hartmann, “ Die deutsche Asthetik seit Kant”:
the author’s autograph MS. Presented by Frau Alma von
Hartmann.

Thomas Hardy, “Tess” and “The Dynasts”: the auto-
graph MSS. Presented by the author through Mr. 8. C.
Cockerell.

Plan of Ebury manor, co. Midd., circ. 1665.

Charter-roll of the manor of Great Sampford, co. Essex
belonging to the De Ros family ; 16th cent. Presented by’
S.J. Wilde, Esq.

40 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Charters (420) relating to Little Chart and Pluckley, co.
Kent; 1282-1686.

Roll of inquisitions of knights’ fees, cos. Oxon. and Berks ;
1354, 1357.

Court-rolls (13) of Morden manor, co. Surrey ; temp. Rie. II.
—1655.

Charter of William, Earl of Gloucester; temp. Hen. II.

Court-rolls (50) of Goring, co. Sussex. Presented by EL.
Carleton Holmes, Esq.

Genealogy of Cotton, 1638; continued to 1722.

Pedigrees of Cruickshank, Gordon and Stewart. Three
paper rolls. Presented by General William Gordon.

Suffolk collections by J. J. Muskett. 3 vols.

Indices to parish registers of Hornby and Leeds, co. York,
by Rev. E. Cookson. Presented by the compiler.

Plans of ancient earthworks in cos. Bucks., Cambs., Derby
and Hertf., by E. A. Downman. |

“Narcissus,” a dramatic cantata, and “ Ulysses,” a dramatic
oratorio, by Samuel Butler and H. F. Jones. Presented by
H, Festing Jones, Esq.

Colleetion of songs and dance-tunes ; early 18th cent.

Collection of rare and early airs, Welsh melodies, etc. ; early
18th cent.

J. P. Gilson.

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 41

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED Books AND MSS.

Cataloguing and Arrangement.—The numbers of the
sheets of the various Oriental Catalogues and other publica-
tions of the Department sent to press in 1911 are :—Armenian
MSS. Catalogue, 25; Index to Chinese Encyclopedia, 111 ;
Coptic Texts, 14; Hebrew MSS. Catalogue, 11; Telugu Printed
Books Catalogue, 19;

The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are :—
Arabic, 209; Armenian, 4; Assamese, 29; Avestan, 25;
Baluchi, 5; Bengali, 441; Brahui, 2; Burmese, 308; Chinese,
766; Ethiopic, 8; Gujarati, 151; Hebrew, 72; Hindi, 718;
Hindustani, 504; Kannada, 143; Karen, 5; Kashmiri, 4 ;
Khassi, 2; Khond, 2; laos, 1; Lushai, 20; Malay, 4; Mala-
yalam, 79; Manipuri, 20; Marathi, 195; Mon (Talaing), 7
Naga, 2; Oriya, 78; Pali, 134; Panjabi, 53; Persian, 933;
Prakrit, 18; Sanskrit, 865; Santali, 9; Siamese, 25; Sindhi, 29;
Sinhalese, 68; Sunda, 8; Syriac, 19; Tamil, 480; Telugu, 673;
Mincpam, 17> Toda, 2; Tulu, 7; Turkish, 39. Total, 7,183.

Twenty-nine Hebrew MSS. have been fully catalogued.

One hundred and fifteen short descriptions of MSS. have
been entered in the Descriptive List, the Register, and the
Classed Inventory.

Fifty-three MSS. (9,109 ff.) have been folioed.

Two Exhibition-cases in the King’s Library have been
cleared of their former contents, the place of which has been
taken by a number of select miniatures of the best Persian and
Indo-Persian schools, which have been duly arranged and
furnished with brief descriptions.

Publications.—An Index to the Chinese Encyclopedia (T’u
Shu) has been issued.

Binding.—The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to
the binders are:—Arabic and Persian Books, 158; Chinese
Books, 181; Hebrew Books, 1; Mongolian Books, 11; Books in
Sanskrit and other Indian languages, 273; Tibetan Books, 16 ;
OSS., J 11.

Students.—The number of visits of Students working in the
Students’ Room attached to the Department during the year is
2,617. The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted in
the Department is 7,096 (4,392 being issued once only, and
2,704 reserved), and of those used in the Reading Room, 2,507.
The number of Oriental MSS. consulted in the Students’ Room
is 6,671.

Photography.— Ninety-six applications have been made to
photograph books and MSS. in this Department.

Additions.—The number of volumes and pamphlets added
to the Department during the year is 2,388, of which 2,273 are
Printed Books and 115 are MSS.

42 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Of the Printed Books, 275 were bought; 1,683 were received
under the India Copyright Act; 95 were received under the
Colonial Copyright Acts from Ceylon and Hongkong; and 220
were presented. Of the MSS., 31 were bought and the rest
presented.

The MSS. are as follows :—
Arabie -- u a
Arabic and Tackiab = = =
Armenian o z = 2
Chinese - a 2 _
Coptic - - - “ 2
Gujarati - = 3 E
Hebrew - = a A a
Hindi = & b =
Hindustani = 2 rm 2
Kashmiri - é “ Pa ‘
Persian - z a rs p
Persian and Turkish = - -
Pralkrit 7- . “ id
Prakrit and Cijaratt = Z %
Sanskrit - = . 5 £
Sinhalese - 2 = z z
Turkish - = 2 = .

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The most important acquisitions are as follows :—

Arabic MSS.—(1) Kitab al-durrah al-mudiyah, a treatise
on the differences between the Hanafi and Shafi schools of
jurisprudence, by Abu al-Ma ‘ali ‘Abd al-Malik al-Juwaini (Imam
al-Haramain). Copied for the library of Abu al-Mahasin ‘Abd
al-Razzak ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Ali ibn Ishak by Abu al-Hasan
‘All ibn Muhammad al-Abiwardi in A.H. 482 (A.D. 1039). 8"
No other copy is known to exist.

(2) Ahkam al-sultaniyah, a treatise on polity, by Mawardi.
Copied a.H. 540 (A.D. 1145). 8°. Presented by H. F. Amedroz,
Esq.

(3) Tafsir sittat ayyam al-khalikah, the first part of a
homiletic commentary on Genesis by John Chrysostom. This
volume treats mainly of the Creation, two homilies dealing
with the following chapters. Copied A.H. 637 (A.D. 1240). 4°.
Only a fragment of this work has hitherto been known to
exist.

(4) Zuhrat al-riyad wa-nuzhat al-kulub al-marad, a treatise
on ethics, by Sulaiman ibn Datd al-Suwari, originally written
in Persian under the title Bahjat ul-anvar min khafiyat ul-asrar,
and later amplified and translated into Arabic. Copied A.H. 809
(A.D. 1407). 8°. No other copy is known.

(5) Al-najm al-wahhaj, a commentary by Muhammad ibn
Misa al-Damiri on Al-Nawawi’s Minhaj, a summary of Shafii
law. Vol. 1, copied A.H. 858 (A.D. 1454); vol. 4, copied a.H. 898
(a.v. 1494), 4°.

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS, 43

(6) Makarim al-akhlak, a work on ethics by Abu Bakr ibn
‘Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Dunya. Copied A.H. 966
(A.D. 1558). 12°.

(7) Taisir al-wusul, a work on the Traditions, compiled by
‘Abd al-Rahman ibn ‘AJi al-Diba‘ from the Jami‘ al-usul li-ahadith
al-rasul. Copied a.H. 993 (A.D. 1585). 4°.

(8) Sharh al-shama’il, a commentary by ‘Abd al-Ra’uf al-
Munawi on Muhammad ibn ‘Isa al-Tirmidi’s Shama’il, traditions
of the Prophets. xvilith century. 4°.

(9) Sahifat al-ausa‘iyah, Najamat al-ruh, Tadli‘ al-kuds,
Kitab al-aksa, and Jawami‘ al-hayakil, works on Babi theology
by Subhi Azal. Copied A.p. 1911. 8°.

Arabic and Turkish MS.—(1) Nuzhat al-abrar fim anakib,
al-akhyar, biographies of the jurist Abu Hanifah and some of
his earlier followers ; in Arabic, with marginal glosses, ete., in
Turkish. Copied A.H. 867 (A.D. 1462), by Ahmad ibn Ahmad
al-Bastami. 4°. No other copy is known to exist.

Armenian MS.—The Key of Truth, a manual of the
Paulician Church of Armenia. Copied A.D. 1782. 8°. Presented
by F. C. Conybeare, Esq.

Chinese MS.—(1) Parts 11903-4 of the Yung-lo ta teen, the
great Imperial Encyclopzedia compiled in 1408, and originally
comprising 22,877 parts and an index of 60 parts, the whole
being bound in 11,100 volumes. Only one copy of the complete
work survived to the nineteenth century, and this was almost
entirely destroyed in the burning of the Uan-lin College at
Peking during the Boxer disturbances in 1900, only a few
volumes being saved. Fol. Presented by G. M. H. Playfair,
fisq.

Coptic MSS.—(1) A papyrus volume containing 109 ff.,
comprising a Sahidic version of Deuteronomy, the Book of
Jonah, and the Acts of the Apostles. Probably early ivth
century.

(2) A volume of discourses by Bishop Psote and Severus of
Antioch. Vellum; xthcentury. 4°.

Hebrew MSS.—(1) Séepher Mésharim, a digest of religious
law, by Yeruham. xiv—xvth century. 4°.

(2) Sépher Sédah Ladderekh, a similar work, by Menahém
ben Aharén. CO. xvthcentury. 4°.

Hindi MS.—(1) A history of the Rajas of Jodhpur.
Copied A.D. 1825. Presented by Colonel S. R. Miles.

Hindustani MSS.—(1) Haidar-namah, an account of the
fall of Tippu Sultan and the capture of Seringapatam. 8°.
Presented by Frederick Jones, Esq.

(2) A poem on the coronation of His late Majesty King
Edward VII., composed and written in a calligraphic hand by
Kunwar Durga Prasad, Talukdar, of Sandila, Hardoi District,
Oudh. 4°. Presented by L. H. Turner, Esq.

44 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Kashmiri MSS.—(1) Miscellaneous odes, written in Persian
script on a long roll. Presented by Dr. A. K. Coomaraswamy.

(2) A volume of poems on Moslem themes, in Persian script.
12°, Presented by Dr. A. K. Coomaraswamy.

Persian MSS.—(1) Hada#ik ul-anvar, the encyclopedic
problems of Fakhr ul-Din Razi, in the enlarged recension.
C. xilith century. 8°.

(2) Divan of the poet Ahi. C. xvith century. 8°.

(3) Divan of the poet Hafiz, with eight exceptionally
beautiful full-page miniatures, of which seven are in the finest
style of the Indian-Persian school, while the eighth is in the
best classical Persian manner. The paragraphs are adorned
with delicate paintings of various kinds of birds. C. A.p. 1600.

(4) A ms. containing 16 tracts on MHurufi mysticism,
including the Shirab-namah of Saiyid Ishak and a Sharh i
khutbah ul-bayan. Copied A.H. 1007 (A.D. 1598). 16°.

(5) Divans of the poets Hindi, Suhaili, Riyazi, and Hubbi.
C. xviith century. 12°.

(6) Poems of Bakir (Maulana Muhammad Bakir of Kashan.
C. xviith century. 12°.

(7) Lamahat, a commentary by Shaikh Yar ‘Ali Shirazi on
the Sufic tract Lama‘at of Fakhr ul-Din ‘Iraki. C. xviith
century. 2".

(8) Mahshar-namah, a work on Hurufi mysticism by Abu
ul-Fazl va 1-‘Alam Amir ‘Ali ‘Ali ‘Ala. Copied a.m. 1120
CA spha ie yey lee

Persian and Turkish MS.—(1) A ms. containing four
works on Hurufi mysticism. C. xvilith century. 12°.

Prakrit MS.—(1) The Pannavaia, a Jain scripture, C.
xvith century. Presented by Colonel 8. R. Mules.

Sinhalese MSS.—(1) A coilection of 58 Sinhalese mss.,
chiefly treating of the folklore, magic, and local cults of Ceylon.
Presented by Dr. A. K. Coomaraswamy.

L. D. Barnett.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 45

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS.

1.—Arrangement and Cataloguing, ete.

Nineteen drawings from the Salting Collection were removed
in February from one of the screens in the King’s Library, in
order to give place to fifteen drawings by the late J. M. Swan,
R.A., the gift of the John M. Swan Memorial Fund.

The woodcuts described in Vol. II. of the Catalogue of
Early German and jFlemish Woodcuts, but not yet mounted,
have been re-arranged in two portfolios.

The etchings by Goya, and the German book-plates in the
Franks Collection (T—Z), have been placed in order for
mounting.

One hundred and ninety-one drawings and one thousand
and sixty-two prints have been incorporated with the divisions
of the Collection to which they severally belong.

All books of prints and books of reference recently acquired
have been catalogued, labelled and placed.

Vol. II. of the Catalogue of Early German and Flemish
Woodcuts has been published.

The preparation of the Catalogue of Japanese Woodcuts has
been continued, and the main body of it completed.

The preparation of a complete classified index of the works
of English artists represented in the Department has been
continued.

The card index to periodicals has been completed and
brought up to date.

The preparation of a critical and descriptive Catalogue of
the Dutch and Flemish Drawings has been begun.

The work of taking stock of the prints after Italian Masters,
and making cross-references from these to the various indexes,
has been continued.

The work of writing slips for the titles of prints after
English Masters with a view to the preparation of a subject-
index of that division of the collection has been continued.

The work of compiling a topographical slip-index of the
English Drawings in the Department has been continued.

Slips have been written for a chronological list of the
artists represented in the Catalogue of English Drawings and
for an index of the portraits in the same catalogue.

A slip-index of the American Portraits has been made.

The preparation of an index to the Catalogue of the Crace
Collection of London Views has been begun.

The preparation of an index of the presses containing the
Books of Prints and Books of Reference has been completed.

46 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

A list of the contents of the cases in the Department has
been prepared, and the work of verifying the contents from
the case-list and inserting the case-number in the various
portfolios, ete. has been taken in hand.

The Cheylesmore Collection of sale-catalogues has been
examined ; such numbers as were not required for the Museum
Collection have been eliminated ; and the work of indexing
those required has been carried out.

A duplicate set of slips for the Index of Foreign Portraits
has been begun.

The preparation of a second working copy of the register of
the Cheylesmore Collection has been completed.

The type-writing for press of the Catalogue of Japanese
Woodeuts has been continued.

The work of copying the slips of the Catalogue of Engraved
British Portraits has been continued.

All additions and corrections to the indexes of artists made
necessary by recent acquisitions and re-arrangements have been
carried out.

Registration.—One thousand eight hundred and eighty-six |
items have been entered in the Register of Acquisitions.

Stamping and Mounting.—Three thousand eight hundred
and fifty-two prints, drawings, etc., recently acquired, have
been impressed with the departmental stamp and references to
the Register. .

One hundred and fifty-nine miscellaneous drawings have
been prepared and mounted on sunk mounts, and one hundred
and sixty-seven prints have been mounted either on sunk
mounts or in the ordinary manner.

Two hundred and twenty-five prints have been lettered with
the artists’ names and references to the Register.

The work of stamping the Franks Collection of admission
and invitation cards has been begun.

Six drawings by Michelangelo have been protected with
gelatine and mounted in special mounts.

Twenty-six Japanese woodcuts requiring special treatment
have been repaired and cleaned.

Two important Japanese paintings, one by Sesshiu, the
other by an anonymous master of the Tosa school, have been
framed, glazed and mounted on six-fold screens.

Forty-nine Chinese Buddhist paintings on silk, and one on
paper, from the collection formed in Turkestan by Dr. Stein,
were mounted in a complete manner by the chief mounter for
exhibition during the summer months in the Indian section of
the Festival of Empire at the Crystal Palace.

Two hundred and fifty-seven Chinese Buddhist paintings on
silk, and sixty seven prints, portions of banners, brocades, and

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 47
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other fragments from the collection discovered by Dr. Stein
have been pieced, cleaned, and provisionally mounted under the
supervision of the chief mounter.

A complete stock-taking and re-arrangement of the contents
of the Mounters’ Room has been carried out.

Students.—The total number of visitors admitted to the
Print Room during the year ending 31 December 1911 was
9,649.

Photographing.—Five hundred and eight applications were
made for leave to photograph, and 3,012 photographs were
taken.

Il.— Acquisitions.

The total number of prints, drawings, etc. acquired during
the year was 2,890, of which the following are the most
important :—

ITALIAN SCHOOL.
Drawings.

Brescia, Giovanni Antonio da. Group from a relief on the
Arch of Constantine ; pen and bistre wash.

Carriera, Rosalba. A girl’s head; pastel on blue-grey
paper.

Caula, Sigismondo. Christ healing the paralytic; pen and
sepia, with sepia wash. From the Reynoids Collection.

Farinati, Paolo. A miracle of the Holy Cross; pen and
bistre wash, heightened with white. From the Lely Collection.

Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi). Christ taking leave of his
Mother ; sepia wash.

Weodcuts.

Anonymous, 16th century. The Good Samaritan. Presented
by Rk. Ranshaw, Esq.

Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.

Raphael. Paul and Barnabas at Lystra; engraved from the
Cartoon by T. Holloway, R. Slann, and T. 8S. Webb.

GERMAN SCHOOL.

Drawings.
Altdorfer, Albrecht. Death of a warrior in the forest, his
head resting on a woman’s lap; pen and Indian ink on olive-
green prepared ground, heightened with white; dated 1513.

Anonymous, 16th century. Caritas Romana; a woman
giving the breast to her aged father; pen and ink, partly
tinted. From the Reynolds, Thane, and Esdaile Collections.

Etchings.

Liebermann, Max. Thirty-three etchings, eleven of which
are not described in the Catalogue by Schiefler; mostly scenes
in Holland. Presented by the artist, jointly with Herr Bruno
Cassirer, the publisher.

48 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Engravings.
Berlin Passion, the Master of the. The Visitation (Lehrs, 5).

Only one other impression known. From the Arthur Champer-
nowne Collection.

E.S., the Master. Panel of leaf ornament, with six birds.
(Lehrs, 314 B). Only one other impression known.

Meckenem, Israhel van. Christ andthe Woman of Samaria
(Bartsch, 13; Geisberg, 45); first state. Christ driving out
the Money-Changers (Bartsch, 16; Geisberg, 50); first state.
The Last Supper (Bartsch, 18 ; Geisberg, 51); first state. The
Agony in the Garden (Bartsch, 19; Geisberg, 56); first state.
The Betrayal (Geisberg, 60); first state ; the only impression
described. Pilate washing his hands (Geisberg, 79) ; first state.
Christ descending into Hell (Geisberg, 110); first state. The
Last Judgment (Geisberg, 126); first state. Christ before
Annas (Geisberg, 63); first state. All from the Huth
Collection.

Meckenem, attributed to, Head of an Oriental, probably
after a drawing by Schongauer. (Pass. II., 146, 1.) Only two
other impressions known. From the Champernowne Collection.

Playing Cards, the Master of the. A Stag. From the
Huth Collection.

Woodcuts.

Anonymous, 15th century. St. Andrew (Schreiber, 1189) ;
The Martyrdom of St. Catherine (Schr. 1348); St. Dorothea
(Schr. 1402). These three formerly in the Weigel Collection.
St. Jerome extracting a thorn from the lion’s foot (Schr.
1551). The Martyrdom of St. Ursula and her Companions
(Schr. 1710). St. Veronica (Schr. 1721). St. Christina (Schr.
2589); Maniére Criblée ; coloured; in fine preservation. All
from the Huth Collection.

Baldung, Hans. The Nativity (Pass. 61; unknown to
Bartsch). The Two mothers (B. 46). The Assumption of
St. Mary Magdalen (Pass. 71). All from the Huth Collection.

Beck, Leonhard. Thirty-two illustrations to Pfinzing’s
“Theuerdank.” Proofs with a fourfold border to each subject ;
the only impressions known in this state. From the Huth
Collection.

Beham, Hans Sebald, after. Set of twelve copies, with
Italian text, from the engravings by Beham of the Twelve
Apostles; with a frontispiece of Christ Blessing, not after
Beham. No other impressions have been described. From the
Huth Collection. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Burgkmair, Hans. Seven illustrations to ‘“ Theurdank.”
Proofs with fourfold border ; the only impressions known in
this state. From the Huth Collection.

Cranach, Lucas I. The Wittenberg Heiligthumsbuch, 1509,
with an engraving and numerous woodcuts by L. C. From the
Huth Collection; a great rarity. Presented by Campbell

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS, 49

Dodgson, Esq. The Last Judgment (Schuchardt, 109). Pre-
sented by David Keppel, Esq. Set of Twelve Apostles, with
Christ and St. Paul (B. 23-36 ; Sch. 46-59). From the Huth
Collection.

Cranach, Lucas II. Portrait of Melanchthon, 1548. Un-
described. From the Huth Collection.

Cranach, Hans. Christian II., King of Denmark. From
the Huth Collection.

Diirer, Albrecht. The Holy Trinity (B. 122); a very fine
impression. From the Theobald Collection. Presented by the
National Art-Collections Fund.

Diirer, Albrecht (?) Christ on the cross between the Virgin
and St. John. From the Elischer Collection.

Diirer, School of. The Conversion of Saul (B. app. 17);
early impression with Latin and German verses below. From
the Aylesford and J. S. Burra Collections. .

Endell, Fritz. Frontispiece to a catalogue of original wood-
cuts. Book-plate of the King of Wtirtemberg, printed in black,
green, and gold. Design for a menu, printed in gold. Fischer.
Das Ende. Pont Neuf, Paris. Miihselig und Beladen. Luft-
ballon. Treppe in Sévres. Gefangen; chiaroscuro print.
Pessimismus ist vom Teufel. Das Neue Jhar. Biiste. Am
Brunnen. All presented by the Artist. Cabaret. Rauch.
New Year’s Card. Ornament. The wood engraver at work.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Gerung, Matthias. Volume of forty-seven woodcuts.
From the Huth Collection.

Huber, Wolfgang. Three Landskneckts; dated 1515; the
only impression known. From the Herryns and Huth Collec-
tions. Presented by Henry Oppenheimer, Esq,

Schaufelein, Hans Leonhard. Three illustrations to
“Theuerdank.” Proofs with fourfold border; the only
impressions known in this state. From the Huth Collection.
The Raising of Lazarus (B. 17).

Schon, Erhard. Theuerdank hunting; illustration to.
“Theuerdank ”; proof. From the Huth Collection. _

Solis, Virgilius. Biblische Figuren. Frankfurt a. M. 1560:
the first edition. From the Huth Collection.

Wechtlin, Hans, attributed to. St. John in Patmos
(B. VII. 484. 1). From the Huth Collection.

Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.

Diirer, Albrecht. Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher ;
etching by Charles Bourgeat. Presented by Charles Bourgeat.

ScHOOLS OF THE NETHERLANDS.
Drawings.

Anonymous, Dutch School, early 16th century. Biblical
subject. Pen and ink.

0.91 w

50 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Woodcuts.

Cornelisz, Jacob. The Last Supper. Christ on the Mount
of Olives. The Mocking of Christ. Christ presented to the
people. The Lamentation for Christ. The Resurrection.
From the round Passion series. (B.1, 2, 5, 8, 11, 12). All from
the Huth Collection.

FRENCH SCHOOL.

Drawings.

Bourgeois, Constant. Italian landscape with a waterfall,
dated 1790. Alpine landscape, dated 1791; sepia wash.

Guys, Constantin. A military review; pen and ink with
colour wash.

Etchings.

Gillot, Claude. A Bacchanalian subject.
Guérard, H. Head of Thiers after death,

Engravings.
Gaillard, Ferdinand. Prince Bibesco. Presented by
Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Jourd’heuil, Francois. La Faiseuse de Choux-Crotte ; after
‘G. Dou. Presented by R. C. Wilson, Esq.

Woodcuts.

Anonymous, early 17th century. <A hunting party. Pre-
sented by Sydney Vacher, Esq.

Lithographs.
Daumier, Honoré. Six portrait caricatures of Guizot and
others. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Delacroix, Eugéne. Sixteen illustrations to Hamlet.
Second edition, Paris, 1864.

Prints arranged to wllustrate the Works of Masters.

Daumier, Honoré. L’Amateur; etching by Charles
Bourgeat. Presented by M. Bowrgeat.

David, J. L. Portrait of M. Sériziat; etching by Charles
Bourgeat. Presented by M. Bowrgeat.

La Hire, L.de. 'Title-page to “ Les Caracteres des Passions” ;
engraving by M. Lasne.

RUSSIAN SCHOOL.

Drawings.

Anonymous. Two women ; pen and bistre. Combat of nude
men, and other studies. Presented by Dr. J. Law Adam.

.DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 51

FOREIGN ARTISTS WORKING IN ENGLAND.

Drawings.

Rebecca, Biagio, A.R.A. Pomona and Cupids. Apollo and
Cupids. Meleager and Atalanta. Design for decoration for
ceiling, Design for ceiling, with Apollo and Minerva. Pen
and ink and water-colours. Presented by C. F. Bell, Esq.,

PSA.

Etchings.

Rischgitz, Edouard. Portrait of Sir Henry Irving; dry-
point. Round Tower, Windsor Castle. Eton College. Hight
illustrations to the Fables of La Fontaine. Presented by

Augustin Rischgitz, Esq.
Engravings.
Gribelin ; Simon. The Conversion of St. Paul. Virgil and
Horace. Christ praying. A Pope or bishop despatching
missionaries ; counterproof. Presented by Sydney Vacher, Esq.

W oodcuts.

Pissarro, Lucien. Nine proofs of illustrations to Judith
Gauthier’s “Livre de Jade” printed at the Eragny Press.
Printed in colours and gold. Presented by Lucien Pissarro,

Esq.
ENGLISH SCHOGCL.

Drawings.

Blackburn, Jemima (Mrs.). Thirty-six studies of birds and
animals, some of them engraved in “ Birds drawn from Nature,”
Edinburgh, 1862 ; water-colours. Presented by the executors
of the late Professor Hugh Blackburn, of Roshven.

Cundell, Henry. The Horse Guards at Whitehall, dated
1832 ; water-colours. Presented by Wilfred M. Cundell, Esq.

Evelyn, John. Prospect from the side of Mount Vesuvius,
1646; preliminary drawing for an etching ; black and red chalk.

Gregory, Edward John, R.A. Study for the picture
“ Boulter’s Lock”; water-colours. Two other studies for the
same picture ; pencil and Indian ink wash.

Hoppner, John, R.A. Two studies for the picture of the
Lambton family ; sepia wash.

Pearce, ©. Maresco. Fishing Quarters, Mentone; water-
colours. Presented by the Artist.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, P.R.A. Achild holding a veil in both
hands ; sketch in black chalk, heightened with white. Three
studies of a child; black chalk.

Stark, James. Yarmouth Bridge; pencil. Cromer; pencil,
heightened. with white. Cottage and trees; water-colours.
Sunset; water-colours. Field and distant trees ; water-colours.

D 2

52 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Boats and trees ; water-colours. Sandhills and heather ; water-
colours. Sandhills and crescent moon; water-colours on grey
paper. Heath and windmill; water-colours on grey paper.
Boat in dock; water-colours. [el-traps; pencil and water-
colours.

Stark, Arthur James. Interior of windmill, Reigate, fitted
up as a chapel; water-colours. Windmill and cottage; water-
colours. Heath-scene ; water-colours.

Strang, William, A.R.A. Portrait of Sergius Stepniak ;
gold point. Presented by Robert Steele, Hsq., through the
National Art-Collections Fund.

Swan, John Macallan, R.A. Design for Christmas Card ;
pen and ink and blue wash. Group of Egyptians; water-
colours. Nude Study (“Siren”) with arms raised ; black chalk
on blue paper. Back of a woman, nudestudy ; black and white
chalk on dark blue paper. Study of a nude woman in bonds
(“ Maldonada’”’) ; black chalk with crayons on light blue paper.
Study for picture of a boatman catching a siren in his net ;
black chalk. The Victoria Falls, S. Africa; crayons. A snake
coiled ; black chalk. Back of a puma; black and white chalk
on brown paper. A lioness carrying her cub; pen and ink,
black and coloured chalk. A leopard walking; black, white
and yellow chalk on brown paper. Head of a seal; black and
white chalk on dark brown paper. Lion and lioness drinking ;
charcoal on brown paper, heightened with white. Two studies
of a leopard’s head; charcoal on brown paper, heightened with
white. Wounded puma licking itself; coloured chalks on dark
blue paper. Black leopardess walking; charcoal. Seated
lioness ; black and coloured chalks on buff paper. Presented
by the John M. Swan Memorial Fund.

Thornhill, Sir James. Head, inscribed “Jack Sheppard” ;
pen and sepia wash.

Turner, Charles. Oxford Races; water-colours.

Walker, Frederick, A.R.A. Portrait of Frank Nowlan,
drawn in 1858; pencil. Presented by Frank Nowlan, Esq.

Watson, John, P.S.A. Portrait sketch of a gentleman in
uniform, 1792; black chalk, heightened with white.

Etchings.

Charlton, Edward William, R.E. Street corner, Lymington.
The Thunder Cloud. Rochester Castle. The Pilot’s Pier,
Gravesend. The Broken Boat. The White Barque. At the
Tide Gate. Much Merchandise. Presented by the Artist.

Crawford, Susan Fletcher, A.R.E. La Grande Place,
Bruxelles. Golf Links, St. Andrew’s. Rue Ingartenne, Mar-
seille. Presented by the Artist.

Dalgliesh, Theodore Irving. Mercery Lane, Canterbury.
Dawn. Easter Procession, Northern Spain. The Wirdswept
Moor. Portrait. Sketch of Model.. Campo Santo, Avila.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 53

Jack. The Stream. Portrait. The Hillside. Barrio de
Pescadores, Fuentarabia. Abbot's Cliff, Folkestone. The
Card Trick. On the Dunes.

Gillray, James. Shakespeare sacrificed; 1789. Presented
by EL. E. Leggatt, Esq.

Goff, Col. Robert C. One hundred and four etchings of
subjects from English, Italian, Egyptian and other scenery and
architecture, studies of flowers, leaves, etc., including three index
plates, in four portfolios; being volumes V.-VIII. of the
etched work of the artist. Presented by the Artist.

Haden, Sir Francis Seymour, P.R.E. The Pillar of Salt
(H. 246); first state. Presented by the executors of the Artist.

Livens, Horace Mann. The Old Fowler; first and third
states. Treble notes. Cock and Hen. White Hens. “ Imme-
diately the Cock Crew.” Hen and Chicks. Chrysanthemums ;
hand-coloured. Portrait of alady ; secondstate. Old London
wall-papers; fourth state. Head of a man; second state. A
London passage ; second state. Who?; hand-coloured. Dry-
points. Presented by the Artist.

Spence, Robert. Twenty-five illustrations to George Fox’s
Journal. A Dance of Death. Archimedes. The Mastmaker’s
Shop. Penn’s Treaty with the Indians. Breton Beggar.
Michelangelo. Vanderdecken. The Hanseatic Museum,
Bergen. The Carpet Seller. The Block-maker’s Wife. The
Valkyrie. Cromwell. Tycho Brahe. The Rhine Maidens.
Rye; two states. Rye; boat building yard. Mr. Pepys at
Gravesend. The Fire of London. Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth.
Izaak Walton. The End of the Play. Charlemagne. Pepys
and King Charles. Sketches; test plate for biting. Presented
by the Artist. Two additional subjects from Fox’s Journal.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Engravings.

Cousins, Samuel. J. W. Croker, after Lawrence ; mezzotint.
Proof before letters (Whitman, 48).

Gribelin, Samuel. Nymphs clipping the wings of Love,
after Albano. Presented by Sydney Vacher, Esq.

Hodgetts, T. Rev. T. F. Dibdin, after Phillips. Proof before
letters.

Holl, W. J. M. W. Turner, R.A. Proof before letters.

Lupton, T. Lord Brougham, after J. Lonsdale ; mezzotint ;
early state with signature.

Reynolds, 8. W. Pius VI. receiving the officers of the 12th
Light Dragoons in 1794; after Northcote (Whitman, 467).
Joseph Bonaparte ; open letters proof (Whitman, 33). Mary,
Duchess of Gloucester ; after L. Gérard (Whitman, 115). Hon.
Edward Legge, Bishop of Oxford, after W. Owen (Whit-
man, 174),

54 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Turner, Charles. William Morgan, F.R.S.; proof before all
letters (Whitman, 384). John Randolph (Whitman, 489) ;
earlier than the first state described. Charles Manners Sutton
(Whitman, 549); proof before all letters. Captain John
Woolmore (Whitman, 626); proof before all letters.

Walker, William. Lord Campbell; after T. A. Woolnoth ;
unique proof before allletters. The same, with alterations, and ~
line of publication only. Lord John Manners, after R. Buckner ;
before all letters.

Ward, William James. Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., after
W. Owen ; proof before letters. Presented by EL. L. Leggatt, Esq.

Woodcuts.

Pissarro, Esther. Frontispiece to “‘ The Descent of Ishtar,
after Diana White; proof in blue. Three women in an oval;
after Diana White; unpublished. Presented by Miss Diana
White. Frontispiece to “The Descent of Ishtar”; proof in
black. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Swain, Joseph. Eleven proofs of various subjects after
Holman Hunt, Keene, Leech, Millais, Sandys and Tenniel.

97

Lithographs.

Nash, Joseph. Four subjects from the Great Exhibition,
viz.:—Waiting for the Queen; proof in black. Russia; un-
finished proof in colours. India, No. 7; unfinished proof in
colours. Agriculture ; proof before letters. Landscape (attri-
buted). Presented by Henry Van der Bergh, Esq.

Strang, William, A.R.A. Portrait of E. S. Prior, 1907.
Presented by the Artist.

Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.
Barker, T. J. Garibaldi at Caprera; engraving by W. Holl.
Presented by H. E. Leggatt, Esq.
Davis, R. B. The Royal Cortege in Windsor Park; en-
graving by F. Bromley, 1840. Presented by HL. £. Leggatt, E'sq.

Stanfield, Clarkson, R.A. Thirty-four engravings of Swiss,
French, ‘German and Italian scenery by E. Goodall, R. Wallis,
J. T. Willemore, T. Jeavons, R. Brandard, C. Heath, W. Millar
and others. Presented by E. EH. Leggatt, Esq.

Turner: Jai. W.,, nae The Wreck Jot-the Minobaan®
mezzotint by T. O. Barlow ; India proof.

Watts, G. F., R.A. Fifteen colour-printed Photogravures
from pictures by. Presented by Mrs. Watts,

AMERICAN SCHOOL.

Etchings.
Bicknell, W. H. W. Benjamin Franklin, after Grundmann ;
private plate ; remarque proof on vellum.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS, 55

Hoffman, Gustave Adolph. Connecticut River. Loggia of
St. Augustine Library, Florida; first state. Passing of day;
third state. St. Augustine City Gate, Florida. Nocturn. Old
saw-mill. Wood interior, Norwich, Conn. Old Bridge with oak
trees. Clearing after storm. The White Cloud. A rye-field.
Study of a rye-field. Twilight. Home of Porter, the floral
painter, Rockville. Presented by G. A. Hoffman, Esq.

Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.

Sargent, John Singer, R.A. Santa Maria della Salute ;
reproduction in colours.

JAPANESE SCHOOL.

Woodcuts.

Utamaro. Three women laughing at a man; one sheet of
the five-sheet print “New Year’s House-Cleaning,” the other
four being already in the Department. Presented by Knighton
Baker, Esq.

Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.

Sesshiu. Landscape roll; reproduction.

Toba Sojo. Three rolls of caricatures and other subjects:
reproductions.

PORTRAITS.

Forevgn.

Andrews, William Loring. Etching by T. Johnson. Pre-
sented by Howard Mansfield, Esq.

Avery, Samuel P. Etching by T. Johnson. Presented by
Howard Mansfield, Esq.

Bergerac, Cyrano de. Copy of engraving by Le Doyen.
Presented by Sydney Vacher, Esq.

Blucher, Marshal. Mezzotint after a bust by Bosio.

Buquoy, Charles de Longeval, Comte de. By L. Spirinx.
Presented by Sydney Vacher, Esq.

Chew, Beverley. Etching by T. Johnson. Presented by
A. Mansfield, Esq.

Chrystin, N. Engraving by J. Morin after Van Dyck.

Frederick Henry (or Charles Louis?) son of Frederick V.
Elector Palatine and Elizabeth of England, as an infant.
Engraving by Jacques Granthomme.

Henri IJ. Anonymous engraving. Presented by Sydney
Vacher, Esq.

Hoe, Robert. Etching by T. Johnson. Presented by
H. Mansfield, Esq.

Hutten, Ulrich von. Anonymous woodcut. From the
Huth Collection.

56 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The Emperor Leopold. Engraving by Jacoby after Lauch.

Le Camus, J.P., bishop of Belley. Engraving by J. Morin
after P. Champaigne.

Louis, Dauphin, son of Louis XIV. Engraving by Landry,
1696. Presented by Sydney Vacher, Esq.

Luther, Martin. Engraving by W. Overb after L. Cranach.

Mallet, Alain. By P. Landry, 1683. Presented by Sydney
Vacher, Esq.

Mistral, Frédéric. Engraving by F. Gaillard. Presented
by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Ronsard, Pierre. Engraved by L. Gauthier. Presented by
Sydney Vacher, Esq.

Rossini, on his deathbed. Etching by G. Doreé.

Tolstoi, Leo. Two portraits, one with two grandchildren
Photogravures from photographs by V. Tchertkoff. Presented
by M. Viadimir Tchertkoff.

Wagner, Richard. Lithograph by Henry de Groux. Pre-
sented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

English.
Acton, Sir John Francis Edward. Stipple engraving by
F. Bartolozzi. Presented by H. EL. Leggatt, Esq.

Ainsworth, W. Harrison. Mezzotint by 8. W. Reynolds,
jun., after D. Maclise.

Argyll, Col. John Campbell, afterwards Duke of. Engraving
by J. Basire after J. Richardson.

Ashurst, W. H. Mezzotint by T. Lupton; proof before all
letters.

Ashworth, Henry. Mezzotint by S. W. Reynolds after
-C. A. Duval. Presented by E. E. Leggatt, Esq.

Bromby, Rev. J. H. Mezzotint by T. Lupton after
'T. Brooks.

Cardigan, the Harl of. Mezzotint by G. Zobel after
H. W. Phillips. Presented by HL. E. Leggatt, Esq.

Charlotte, Princess. Anonymous stipple engraving. Pre-
sented by EH. EL. Leggatt, Esq.

Clerk, Sir George, Bart. Mezzotint by T. Lupton after
‘W. Dyce.

Cottenham, Lord. Mezzotint by T. Lupton after H. P.
Briggs, R.A.

Crabbe, Rev. George. Mezzotint by S. W. Reynolds after
‘'T.. Phillips.

Cromwell, Oliver. Woodeut by J. Linton. Presented by
EL. HB. Leggatt, Hsq.

Gillies, Adam. Mezzotint by T. Lupton after Colvin Smith.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 57

Grey, the Karl. Engraving by J. Brown after R. Scanlan.
Presented by H. HE. Leggatt, Esq.

Hardinge, General the Hon. Sir Arthur Edward. Photo-
gravure. Presented by the Officer Commanding the Coldstream
Guards.

Kemble, C., as Othello. Coloured lithograph by <A. de
Valmont.

Marlow, the Rev. Michael. Mezzotint by 8. W. Reynolds
after T. Phillips.

Mary, Princess. Stipple engraving by T. Cheesman, 1866.

Melville, Viscount. Engraving by H. Meyer after Sir T.
Lawrence. The last four presented by H. EL. Leggatt, Esq.

Paske, Major-Gen. William. Lithograph by C. Walton.
Presented by Major A. J. Paske.

Peninsula, Heroes of the. Group by C. G. Lewis after
J.P. Knight. Coloured.

Rochester, Lawrence Hyde, Earl of. Engraving by Golder
after Kneller. The last two presented by E. H. Leggatt, Esq.

Rosenheim, Max. Reproduction of a drawing by J.
Oppenheimer. Presented by Maurice Rosenheim, Esq.

Rothschild, Nathan Mayer. Mezzotint by W. Walker.

Rutland, the Duke of. Mezzotint by W. Walker after
R. Buckner. Presented by EL. EF. Leggatt, Esq.

Sandwich, John, Earl of. Engraving by J. K. Sherwin after
T. Gainsborough, R.A.

Schreiber, Lady Charlotte. Mezzotint by W. Walker after
B. Buckner.

Steele, Gen. the Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas, G.C.B. Photogravure.
Presented by the Officer Commanding the Coldstream Guards.

Victoria, Queen. Mezzotint by H. Wallis after H. Andrews.
Presented by kL. L. Leggatt, Esq.

Warner, Sir George Frederick. Photogravure. Presented
by Emery Walker, Esq.

Waterloo, Heroes of. Group by F. Bromley after J. P.
Knight. Coloured. Presented by E. E. Leggatt, E'sq.

Wellington, the Duke of. Engraving by F. Forster after
F. Gerard, 1818.

History.

View of the battle-field of Waterloo, 1815. Coloured
etching. Presented by HE. HE. Leggatt, Esq.

BooK-PLATES.

Plates of the Buffalo Library; the Middlesex County
Historical Society, New Haven Colony Historical Society, and
F. W. Davis, three woodcuts by W.F. Hopson; Eleanor W. Plaw;

58 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

E. J. Ward; William Shaw Ward. All presented by Miss
Dorothy Furman.

Piate of J. Pierpont Morgan ; two impressions, one in red.
Presented by C. H. Read, Esq., P.S.A.

Seven plates designed and engraved on wood by Fritz
Endell, including plates of Amelia G. Chatillon, Annunziata
Cortesi, Mary Endell (two impressions, one in colours), Carl
Hammelehle, and J. Kirkman. Presented by Campbell
Dodgson, E'sq.

COLLECTIONS AND SETS.

Twenty-five coloured reproductions of paintings by Old
Masters. Presented by the Medici Society, Ltd.

Forty-five photogravures from pictures in the Royal
Gallery, Dresden.

Forty-seven proofs, many of them touched by the artists,
of line-engravings on steel after Birket Foster and others
by E. S. Brandard, 8. Bradshaw, J. J. Crew, J. Godfrey,
T. Heawood, J. Saddler, J. Stephenson, A. Willmore, and
F. Joubert.

Twenty-nine photographs of old buildings in Leicestershire.
Presented by George M. Henton, Esq.

Books OF PRINTS AND Books OF REFERENCE.

American Painting, Masterpieces of.

Apuleius. Ain Schon Lieblich Gedichte Lucii Apuleii von
ainem gulden Esel. Augsburg, 1538. With woodcuts by
Schaufelein and another master. Presented by Campbell
Dodgson, Esq.

Bassermann-Jordan, E. Die Gemilde-Galerie im Klg.
Schlosse, Schleissheim.

Baur, J.W. Iconographia; Augsburg, 1670. With etchings
by Melchior Kusell.

Bone, Muirhead. Fifty drawings of Glasgow. Special
edition, with three extra plates. Presented by Campbell
Dodgson, Esq.

Conder, Josiah. Paintings and studies by Kawanabe
Kyosao. Presented by Lawrence Binyon, Hsq.

Delteil, Loys. Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré; tome septiéme.
Presented by M. Loys Delteil.

Dessins de Maitres, Société de Reproduction des. 2me
année.

Einzel-Holzschnitte in der Staatsbibliothek zu Munchen.
Band II.

_ Farquhar, Helen. The Portraiture of our Stuart Monarchs
on Coins and Medals. Part II. Presented by Miss Helen
Farquhar.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 59

Franzosische Kunst des 18 Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1910.

Groot, C. Hofstede de. Jan Vermeer and Karel Fabritius.

Guérin, Marcel. J. L. Forain, Lithographe. Catalogue
raisonné.

Guiffrey, J. La Collection Chauchard.

Handzeichnungen Alter Meister im Stadelschen Kunst-
institut zu Frankfurt-a-M.

Harunobu, Koriusai, Shunsho. Estampes Japonaises
exposées en 1910.

Incunabeln des Formschnitts zu Eichstitt.

Lawrence, Sir Thomas, P.R.A. Engravings from the choicest
works of.

Lawrence, H. V.,and Dighton, B.L. French line-engravings
of the eighteenth century.

Rembrandt, Original drawings by. Fourth series, Nos. 1-
100.

Rembrandt, Les Cuivres originaux de. Modern impressions ;
special edition on Japanese paper. Presented by M. Alvin
Beaumont.

Ricci, Corrado. Piero della Francesca.

Richter, J. P. The Mond Collection 2 vol., with portfolio
of plates.

Sanders, Harry. The Art Examplar, 1860; large paper
copy, extra-illustrated.

Schreiber, W. L. Christusam Kreuz. 51 facsimiles.

Solis, Virgilius. Biblische Figuren. Frankfurt am Main,
1560: the first edition. From the Huth Collection.

Stryienski, Casimir. Charles Landelle. Presented by the
Author.

Tajima, S. Masterpieces selected from the fine arts of the
Far East. 9 vol,. with a history of Japanese pictorial art by
Seigai Omura in separate volume. Masterpieces selected from
the Ukiyoyé school. Vols. IV. and V.

Tarocchi, Die. 2nd extraordinary publication of the
Graphische Gesellschaft.

Thames, Panorama from London to Richmond. Coloured
aquatint.

Sidney Colvin.

60 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES.
I.—Arrangement, Cataloguing, ete.

EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES :—

The general re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collections
has been continued, and all the important objects acquired
during the year have been incorporated and exhibited.

The washing of the hard stone monuments, and the careful
cleaning of those in limestone and sandstone, have been
continued.

The labelling of the exhibits, and the restoration of the old
collection numbers, which are important for purposes of
identification, have been continued.

The sarcophagus of Qem-Ptah has been fixed on a brick
base faced with granite.

A number of stele have been treated for efflorescence of
salt, and dried and re-framed.

Seventy-four Caen stone plinths, pedestals, and other mounts
have been worked and prepared; eleven granite plinths have
been fitted and fixed; one hundred and sixty-nine plinths in
alabaster, or marble, have been prepared and polished, and stone
and bronze figures of gods, plaques, etc., have been mounted upon
them ; five hundred and eighty-six plaques, tablets, plinths,
pedestals, and mounts of various kinds, stands for vases, ete.,
have been made, and objects mounted upon them.

The collections of alabaster vessels, glazed pottery and
porcelain, stone vessels, ete., which had to be withdrawn in
connection with the work on the new building, have been
washed, cleaned, and replaced in the Wall-Cases in the Fourth
Egyptian Room.

Thirty-six frames for Egyptian and Coptic stele have been
made, and glazed, and stele fixed in them. Twelve mahogany
labels have been prepared, painted and fixed.

Seventy-one figures in stone and bronze, stele, earthenware
vessels, etc., have been cleaned and repaired ; and four inscribed
papyri have been mounted in glazed frames.

Eleven hundred and seventy casts of the bases of scarabs
have been made in connection with the Catalogue of the
Scarabs which is now being prepared, and the scarabs from
which they were made have been cleaned and remounted.

Two hundred and forty miscellaneous objects in porcelain,
wood, etc., have been mounted on cloth-covered mounts.

450 labels have been drafted and painted on plinths, frames,
etc., and numbers have been painted on 2,170 objects.

EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 61

560 objects of the old collections have been identified with
the Registers, and broken and missing numbers have been
restored.

The Greenfield Papyrus has been arranged and _ photo-
graphed ; and the fragments of the Medical Papyrus have been
arranged, and re-framed.

About 1,763 miscellaneous objects have been registered, or
re-registered, and about 3,000 slips of Register Numbers have
been written.

Seventy-two stele and other objects have been copied for
publication, and drawings of the sculptured portions of them
have been made ready for the insertion of the texts.

Works in Progress.

1. Coptic MSS.—Papyrus Or. 6783 has been copied, 14 sheets
have been passed for press, and 16 sheets have been read in
proof.

2. Catalogue of Scarabs.—Catalogue slips for 680 scarabs
have been written, and 13 sheets have been read and passed
for press. :

3. Egyptian Teaxts.—Material sufficient for about 40 plates
has been copied, and Part IT. is being prepared for publication.

ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES :—

The general re-arrangement of the unexhibited section of
the Babylonian and Assyrian Collections has been continued,
and the washing and cleaning of the bas-reliefs has been
continued. The replacing of the glass in the Galleries is in
progress.

The verification of several collections arranged temporarily
in the Basement has been completed, the contents of the boxes
have been checked, and worn or broken numbers restored.
The checking of the tablets of the Ktyfnjik Collection with
the Registers is in progress.

About 669 tablets and fragments have been cleaned and
repaired, and several “case-tablets” have been opened; 1,960
tablets have been placed in wool-lined boxes ; 119 fragments of
tablets have been re-joined; 15 cylinder-seals and two
Boundary Stones have been mounted ; casts of 61 ey linder-seals,
cones, etc., have been made; 1,890 registration numbers have
been painted on tablets and other objects, ete.

About 263 tablets, etc., have been registered, and the slip
index to published Texts has been continued.

About 130 texts from tablets, Boundary Stones, etc., have
been copied and collated, a large number of tablets have been
examined, and selections made for publication.

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Works in Progress.

1. Babylonian Boundary Stones.—26 plates of texts have
been lithographed. About 150 pages of translations, descriptive
matter, etc., have been read in proof.

2. Cuneiform Teats.—Material for two new Parts is being
collected and copied.

3. Kuyunjik Catalogue (Supplement).—About 1,225 Cata-
logue slips have been written.

Publications.

1. “Egyptian Texts” (Early Empire). Part I.

2. “Cuneiform Texts.” Part XVI. (Reprint.)

3. “Cuneiform Texts” (Omen Series). Parts XXX. and
XXXII.

Students.—About 3,110 visits have been made to. the
Department by students and others; and 18,027 objects have
been issued for the use of students.

Personally conducted Parties. — Fifty-two parties have
been personally conducted through the Department by members
of the staff, the number of persons being about 1,493, including
pupil-teachers and others from schools.

Il.— Acquisitions.
i— EGYPTIAN :—

iil. A quartzite sandstone seated figure of Sen-Mut,
scribe and architect who flourished at Thebes
under the reign of Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt,
about B.c. 1550. Very fine work, and a fine
example of the best class of commemorative
statues. Sen-Mut was the builder of the temple
‘“‘Tcheser-Tcheseru”’ (7.¢., “Most. Holy”), at Dér
al-Bahari. From Thebes.

2. A hard brown stone figure of Pes-shu-per, an official
of very high rank, who flourished at Thebes under
the reign of one of the Queens Amenaritas, about
B.c. 630. He was employed in carrying out the

. restorations of temples at Thebes, and was a temple
functionary of great importance. This figure is
valuable artistically because of its archaistic
characteristics. From Thebes.

3. A painted limestone stele of Tuu, an officer of very
high rank, who flourished in the reign of
Thothmes IV., King of Egypt, about B.c. 1500.
The relief work is very delicate. This is a good
example of a rare class of sepulchral monument,
and the period to which it belongs, which is
indicated by the royal name on it, adds to its
importance. From Thebes. XVIIIth dynasty.

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4, A stone stele on which is a representation of the
worship of Amen-hetep I., king of Egypt, about
B.c. 1600, and his Queen Aahmes-nefert-ari,
Fine example. Stele of this reign are uncommon.
From Thebes. XVIIIth dynasty.

iii—l. A massive stone bowl, with ears, which originally
stood on a pedestai in the great hall of the
Temple of Ptah at Memphis, and contained the
wine for use during festivals commemorative of
the dead. XXth dynasty. B.c. 1100.

2,3. Two bronze kneeling figures of a king; they were
found in a building which was restored by
Tirhakah, and they probably represent this king.
XXVth dynasty. About B.c. 670. From Thebes.

4. Bronze figure of the god Harpokrates, wearing the
triple crown. XXVIth dynasty. From Thebes.

5. Three small bronze figures of mythological beings,
which probably formed the ornaments of a toilet
box. Ptolemaic Period.

6. A glazed and painted earthenware vase, or bottle,
of very unusual shape and texture. 3rd century
A.D.(?) From Lower Nubia.

iiii—l. A massive limestone door of a mastabah tomb of
an official who flourished in the reign of
Psammetichus III., king of Egypt about B.c. 528.
This object is of considerable interest, for it is
one of the very few monuments bearing the
cartouches of this king which are known to
exist, and on it are sculptured the figure and
cartouche of Queen Ankhnes-neferabra. The
reion of Psammetichus III. was short (six
months), and this door proves that in Memphis,
at least, he was regarded as a lawful occupant
of the throne of Egypt. XXVIth dynasty.
From Gizah.

2—301. An important collection of three hundred scarabs,
made of white glazed steatite, on the bases of
which are cut representations of hunting scenes,
and symbols and devices, probably of a magical
character. They were all found in the Eastern
Delta, and date from the period of the occupation
of Egypt by the Hyksos, whose peculiar treat-
ment of the scarab they well illustrate. About

B.C. 1800-1600.

302. A fine bronze figure of the god Harpokrates, wearing
the triple crown, with plumes, horns, urei, ete.
From Bubastis. XXIInd dynasty.

303. A figure of the Jackal god Anpu (Anubis), in bronze,
with small figures of the two jackal gods of the
South and North. XXVIth dynasty.

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308,

304.

305.

306.

307.
309.
310.

311.

312.

313.
314.

315.

316.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

A bronze figure of a king (Tirhakah ?) kneeling, and
presenting a figure of Maat (7.e., Truth) to some
god or goddess. Rare. XXVIth dynasty.

A bronze figure of the goddess Hat-mehit, in the
form of a woman, and wearing on her head the
fish which was the sacred symbol of the nome
of Mendes. She was the female counterpart of
Ba-neb--Tet, the chief god of Mendes, and was, in
the late period, identified with Isis; she was the
“ Mother” of Mendes, and in the local cult she
appears as the mother of Harpokrates. XXIInd
dynasty.

Bronze disk of a mirror on which are cut in outline
figures of the god Bes, the deceased adoring the
goddess Mut, and the Eye of Ra, or of Horus.
Disks of mirrors ornamented in this manner are
very uncommon. XXth dynasty.

A stone vase in the form of an ape. Predynastic
Period.

Two large draughtsmen, in glazed porcelain. Said
to come from Lower-Nubia, Period doubtful.

A large porcelain symbol of “life” (ankh), inscribed
with the titles and cartouches of Tirhakah, king
of Egypt and Nubia, about B.c. 665. This object
is probably unique. From Thebes.

A two-headed sandstone sepulchral monument, of a
very rare class; it was probably used as a term.
Period doubtful. From Erment.

A massive black granite ushabti figure of Heh.
Fine example. XVIIIth dynasty. From Thebes.

A stone with several facets, on each of which is cut
a letter. Probably used in games of chance.
From Thebes.

A long flint instrument or tool, the exact use of
which is unknown. Predynastic or Archaic
Period. From Nakadah.

A stone cippus of Horus, found in a tomb of the late
period at Thebes. It was placed there to prevent,
by means of the magical powers which it was
believed to possess, insects and reptiles from
attacking the dead. After the XX VIth dynasty.

Rectangular painted stone shrine of the god Seker.
On the front of it are sculptured a figure of the
Hawk-god Seker, mummified, two winged disks,
representing forms of the Sun-god, the serpents
of the South and North, ete. Within the shrine
is a mummified hawk, enveloped in a painted
cartonnage case. XXIInd dynasty. From Sak-
karah.

318, 319.

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7. A group of four wooden soldiers, each carrying a bag

of food on his back and a long, flat spear-head
and cudgel in his hand. XIth dynasty. From
Asytt.

Two large fragments of the alabaster coffin of
Rameses IV, on which are cut scenes and texts
from the Guide to the Other World called ‘“ Am-
Tuat.” From the king’s tomb in Biban al-Mulik.
XXth dynasty.

. Portion of a large painted slab, either from the wall

of a tomb, or from the side of a sarcophagus, on
which are cut in low relief figures of ducks, and
other water-fowl, the teb bird, the lizard, ete.
The scene represented is a part of a papyrus
swamp. XVIIIth dynasty.

. Stone sepulchral stele, on which is cut in relief the

model of an ancient mastabah door, with frame-
work, etc.

. Limestone capital of a pillar in an ancient Egyptian

temple, which was hollowed out and used as a
‘font in a Coptic church. From Sakkarah. VIth
century A.D.

. Limestone Coptic gravestone ornamented with a

cross, flower, and a leaf-work border.

. Limestone Coptic gravestone, on which is sculptured

a figure of a man. within a leaf-work border. The
name of the deceased appears to have been
erased.

. Limestone Coptic gravestone ornamented with a dove,

a pediment, a wreath, crosses, etc. Inscribed

EIC GEOC.

. Limestone Coptic gravestone made for Apa Dérdthe,

and ornamented with a wreath, a cross within a
circle, etc. There is onit also a roughly sculptured
figure of the deceased.

. Limestone Coptic gravestone of Isaac, an official in

the Monastery of Saint Jeremiah at Sakk4rah,
ornamented with an elaborate foliated design.

, Limestone Coptic gravestone of Victor, a monk,

ornamented with a pediment, cross, ete.

. Limestone Coptic gravestone of Eulogius, a priest,

with an inscription in Greek.

. Limestone Coptic gravestone, with a Greek inscrip-

tion, and ornamented with doves, etc., sculptured
in relief.

. Limestone Coptic gravestone, sculptured with linear

designs and a foliated border; a space for an
inscription is left blank.

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332. Limestone Coptic gravestone, ornamented with a
pediment, palm branches, crosses, ete. On it
appear the letters Alpha and Omega, and it was
set up in memory of Orion, a monk.

333. Limestone Coptic gravestone of Tahdm, a monk,
sculptured with the figure of a man, and with a
border of vine leaves, ete.

334. Limestone Coptic gravestone, sculptured with figures
of doves, pillars, foliated border, ete.

335. Limestone capital of a pillar, carved and decorated
with wreaths, vine-leaves, etc.

336. Architectural fragment, in limestone, on which is
sculptured the figure of a woman reclining on a
dolphin beneath a pediment.

337. Architectural fragment, in limestone, on which are
sculptured figures of Sarapis and Isis, with human
heads and bodies of serpents.

338. A group of architectural fragments, on which are
sculptured grapes, vine-leaves, crosses, foliated
patterns, etc.

Nos. 326-338 were found among the ruins of
the famous Monastery of Saint Jeremiah at.
Sakkarah, which has been excavated during the
last few years by the Egyptian Government.
They all belong to the period which lies between
700 and 1100 a.p., and they illustrate Coptic
funerary Art in one of its most interesting forms,
and show the influence of Byzantine artists and
sculptors.

iv.

1. A limestone aitar inscribed in the Meroitic character
with the name of Qeren-akréré-Malewitar, an
“envoy of Rome,” who flourished in the reign of
Queen Candace, about B.c. 25. From the Island
of Faras. in Nubia.

11.—ASSY RIAN :—

il. A portion of a gate-socket, or boulder, bearing an
inscription of Ur-gur, King of Ur, about B.c. 2500,
on which is cut, in archaic characters, a record of
the dedication of a temple to the goddess Ninlil.
From Nippur.

9, Gate-socket of Gimil-Sin, King of Ur. About
B.C. 2400.

3, Portion of a Jimestone slab on which is cut an
inscription of Gimil-Sin, King of Ur, about
p.c. 2500. The text records the dedication of
a temple at the time when he built the Wall, or
Fortification of the West, called “ Murik-Tidnim,”
in the fourth year of his reign. It is unusual to

6-38.

43.

44,

45.

46.

AY.

48.

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find votive inscriptions of this kind containing
references to events by which they may be dated.

. Green jasper cylinder-seal of a high official, who

flourished in the reign of Bur-Sin, King of Ur.
About B.c. 2400.

. Flat agate seal, perforated, on which is cut a

dedicatory text to Adad, the Weather-god, by Kuri-
galzu, King of Babylon. About B.c. 1400.

A collection of thirty-three cylinder-seals made of
lapis-lazuli, crystal, chalcedony, sard, hematite,
etc., and dating from the Early Babylonian Period
to the Persian Period. Of special interest among
these are: two seals in lapis-lazuli, on which are
cut scenes representing heroes in conflict with
animals; a seal on which is cut a scene repre-
senting a worshipper pouring out a libation before
his god ; and a seal made of serpentine stone, on
which is cut a scene representing a bird-like deity
being led captive into the presence of the River-
god.

. An early Babylonian clay plaque stamped with

a scene representing the mythical hero Gilgamesh
in conflict with a lion. About B.c. 2400.

. An early Babylonian clay plaque stamped with the

figure of a horned dragon. About B.c. 2400.

. Clay plaque stamped with figures of two oxen.

From Abt Habbah.

. Clay plaque stamped with the representation of a

hunting scene. From Abu Habbah.

Archaic votive figure of a nude goddess, holding
her breasts in her hands. Perhaps the prototype
of the ‘Syrian Goddess.” From Abt Habbah.

Upper portion of a Babylonian votive clay figure
of a goddess, wearing a low headdress, necklaces,
and earrings. From Abt Habbah.

A very early Sumerian votive figure in bronze ; the
upper part is in the form of the bust of a goddess,
and the lower part is conical, or nail-shaped.
It was found in the lowest stratum of the founda-
tions of the buildings at Tell L6 (Lagash), and
formed part of a foundation deposit.

Head of a bronze adze, or perhaps of a battle axe.
Not later, probably, than B.c. 2000. From Lower
Babylonia.

Bronze cover of a vessel for unguents(?), surmounted
by the figure of aram. From Lower Babylonia.
Smail bronze pendant, in the form of some horned

animal (ibex ?).
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49,

50.

dl.
52-99.
100-104.
105-829.

.830-1059.
u.—l.
2

Clay head of a demon, which was probably worn as
a pendant on a necklace. From Abia Habbah.

A stone bowl, on the outside of which a bold leaf-
pattern is cut, in high relief.

A portion of a clay bowl, on the outside of which is
inscribed a text in archaic Babylonian characters ;
only the ends of a few lines are preserved.

A collection of forty-eight very fine tablets inscribed
with accounts and temple-records of the period
of the Dynasty of Ur; these tablets represent
a selection made from many hundreds recently
discovered at Drehem, near Nippur. About
B.C. 2400.

A group of five tablets inscribed with accounts
referring to business connected with the temples
in Babylonia. From Tell Lo. About B.c. 2400.

A fine collection of Babylonian tablets. The greater
number of these are inscribed with accounts,
copies of business documents, agreements, etc., but
the collection also includes an important group of
letters of the period of the First Dynasty of
Babylon, and also several interesting Neo-Baby-
lonian texts. About B.c. 2500. From Abi
Habbah. 7

A collection of tablets, inscribed with lists of
produce, contracts, business documents, ete.
Neo-Babylonian Period. From Abu Habbah.

Fragment of an early Assyrian tablet, inscribed
with a text arranged in sections, and referring
most probably to offerings.

. Fine Assyrian tablet, nearly complete, inscribed

with a series of incantations and medical prescrip-
tions for the sick.

. Upper part of a large Assyrian tablet inscribed with

prayers and incantations.

. Nine Assyrian letters and contract tablets.

. A miscellaneous collection of small objects, Greek,

Egyptian, Phcenician, etc., which were found at
Babylon. These are:

A brown glazed porcelain figure of Osiris, of
the Ptolemaic Period.

A small bronze seated figure of Zeus, of the
Greeco-Roman Period.

Ten small glass bottles, for holding scents and
unguents.

A gold earring. Period uncertain.
A gold frog, which formed part of an earring,
with bead-work decoration. |

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27. Terra-cotta bowl, on the outside of which are
drawings in outline of two human beings and an
animal. Close to these are legends in the dialect
of the Mandaites, who lived near the Tigris.
From Tell Ibrahim.

28-32. Five terra-cotta bowls, on the insides of which are
written, in black ink, series of incantations and
magical formulas, in Mandaitic, which were
intended to drive away sicknesses and evil spirits
from those who drank from them. From Tell
Ibrahim.

33. Terra-cotta bowl on the inside of which is drawn, in
black ink, the magical emblem formed by a six-
rayed star and seven small circles. The inside
portion round this emblem is divided into three
parts ; in one of these is a figure, in outline, of
one of the Patriarchs, and in the other two are
written magical formulas in the Hebrew square
character. From Tell Ibrahim.

34. Terra-cotta bowl inscribed on the inside with the
text of a series of magical formulas and prayers
for protection against evil spirits in the Hebrew
square character. From Tell Ibrahim.

35. A large terra-cotta bowl (diameter 124 in.), which
was probably used for ceremonial purposes in
public worship. On the upper portion of the
inside are drawn, in black ink, figures of two
kings, or royal personages, or priests, wearing
wigs and tunics similar to those worn by priests
in ancient Egypt. By the sides of these tigures
are series of magical prayers, etc., in the Hebrew
square character. From Tell Ibrahim.

1i.—l. A Babylonian letter, of the late Assyrian Period.
From Kiyunjik.

2. A contract tablet, written in the Neo-Babylonian
character, and dealiug with the transfer of a piece:
of land. On the edge are some peculiar markings,
the meaning of which is not known. From
Kityunjik.

1i1.— HIMYARITIC :—

1. A gold ring, with an amber bezel, on which are cut as
an amulet four hands.

2. Bronze ring, on the bezel of which is cut a Himyaritic
name. About B.c. 400.

3. Silver ring, with a head in sunk relief, and a portion of
a name. |

4. A circular, pointed, oval seal, on the base of which is
cut a gryphon.

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5. A circular seal, on the base of which is cut a represen-

tation of a hunting scene, with ostriches, ete.

These five objects were found at Sanaa, in Southern

258.

259, 260.

Arabia, and belong to the period B.c. 500-300.

I11.— Presents.

. A pair of grey granite pedestals.

Presented by the Rev. Bromley Moore.

. A green glazed ushabti figure, on which is inscribed

a version of the Sixth Chapter of the Book of the
Dead, according to the Saite Recension. XXVIth
dynasty.

Presented by BE. Towry Whyte, M.A., F.S.A.

. Limestone slab, with a coloured relief of a prince.

XIth dynasty.

. A series of fragments of bas-reliefs, some bearing

hieratic grafitti. XIth dynasty.

. Portion of a sandstone figure of a goddess. XIth

dynasty.

. A. group of wooden figures from a Royal tomb.

XIth dynasty.

. A group of votive inscriptions. XVIIIth dynasty.
. A group of specimens of blue glazed ware, and black

painted pottery. XVIIIth dynasty.

. A collection of hieratic, demotic, and Coptic

ostraka. |
Nos. 1-250 are from Dér al-Bahari.

. Portion of a figure of Nekhen, an official, holding

an inscribed tablet. From Pithom. XVIIIth
dynasty.

. A collection of specimen fragments of blue glazed

pottery. From Sinai.

3. A collection of blue glazed fragments and votive

heads, human and animal. From Naucratis.

. Portion of a figure of Baal, horned. About B.c,

600. From Behnesa.

. A group of lamps, comb, fragments, ete., of various

periods. From Atfiyah.

. A stone mould for making earthenware ushabtiu

figures.

Gilt cartonnage head from the casing of a mummy
of the Greco-Roman Period.

Two earthenware pots whereon inscriptions have

been written in demotic, in black ink. Roman
Period.

EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 71

261-263. Three alabaster vases. Period doubtful.

264
265-282

. A scarab. XIIth dynasty.
. A collection of eighteen miscellaneous ushabtiw

figures, belonging chiefly to the XXth and XXIst
dynasties.

* Nos. 256-282 were obtained from various sites
in the Delta.
Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund.

iv.—l. Two pan-pots, black and red. From Abydos.

Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund.

. Earthenware lamp and stand. From Carthage.

Presented by W. Barclay Squire, M.A., F.S.A.

vii—l. “ Historical Studies,” 4to.

vili.— 1.

Presented by Prof. Flinders Petrie.

. A large fragment of a scarab made by order of

Amen-hetep III., King of Egypt, about B.c. 1450,
to record the arrival in Egypt of the Princess
Gilukhipa, together with her escort of three
hundred and seventeen persons. XVIIIth
dynasty. Presented by Monsieur A. de Pass.

A piece of blue bead-work from the covering of a

mummy. XXVIth dynasty.
Presented by Miss E. M. Baker.

ix.—l. Upper portion of a funerary cippus bearing parts of

two lines of a Palmyrene inscription.
Presented by Dr. Frank Corner.

E. A. Wallis Budge.

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DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.

I.— Arrangement.

The Sculpture Galleries.—The reconstruction of the order of
the Nereid Monument, begun last year, has been completed ;
the tiles and coffers of the roof have been restored and are
now re-mounted in their proper positions with fragments of
the cornice and lions’ heads previously unexhibited.

The re-arrangement of the Mausoleum Room has been
continued ; the exhibits from Priene and Halicarnassus have |
been concentrated to leave the bays on each side of the
staircase vacant for the exhibition of architectural fragments,
and one of the marble lions has been re-mounted. Three
large sarcophagi have been brought out from the Mausoleum
Annexe and mounted between the colossal busts at the
ee of the staircase, at the North end of the Mausoleum

oom.

The grave relief of Archagora has been restored and set
up in the Phigaleian Room ; the newly-acquired bronze chariot.
has been placed in a glass case in the Archaic Room. A series
of the votive sculptures from the temenos of Demeter at
Cnidos, have been arranged on shelves in the Ephesus Ante-
Room, on each side of the statue of Demeter.

The Vase Rooms and Upper Galleries.—The arrangement
of the unexhibited portion of the Vase Collections has been
undertaken, the vases being arranged by groups and shapes
in the cupboards of the various rooms. In the Second Room,
a complete re-arrangement of the Proto-Corinthian and Rhodian
sections has been made; and in all the rooms the vases have
been sponged over and the cases cleaned internally.

In the Bronze Room, the kead from Meroe has been set up,
the archaic Greek bronzes have been re-arranged, and cupboards
have been fitted with shelves on which unexhibited specimens
have been arranged. The fittings of several cases in the Room
of Greek and Roman Life have been modified; in the Gold
Ornament Room, a re-arrangement has been made in accordance
with the Catalogue of Jewellery, and many fittings have been
re-covered with velvet; in the Terra-cotta Room, the contents
of the drawers beneath the cases have been arranged according
to catalogue or registration numbers.

The publication of the Catalogue of Jewellery was com-
pleted. Of the first volume of the Catalogue of Vases, the
Cypriote section was corrected in page, and the Italic section
set up in type ; the manuscript of the Corinthian, Rhodian, and
Naucratite sections was completed. Progress was made with
the Catalogue of Lamps, with the second part of Volume IV.
of the Greek Inscriptions, and with the revision of the
Departmental Guide. A beginning was made with a supple-
mentary volume of the Catalogue of Vases, and with a Guide
to the Gallery of Casts.

GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. le

Moulds have been made of the bronze head from Meroe ;
of five slabs of the Frieze of the Parthenon, and of the head and
legs of the “ Theseus,” and of two marble heads. Nine pieces
of sculpture, two Lycian inscriptions and 34 cinerary urns
were mounted on stone pedestals; one silver object, 177 bronzes,
17 alabastra, 9 terra-cottas, 24 lamps and 47 vases were mounted.
155 objects were registered, 2,764 were numbered, and 368
labels written.

The number of visits to the Departmental Library and
Students’ Room for purposes of research was 609; there were
916 other visits to the Staff for enquiry or on departmental
business, and 2,301 attendances of students of art and
architecture in the Sculpture Galleries.

II.— Acquisitions.

I.— Sculpture in Stone and Mar le.

1. Marble Relief: a gravestone with a group © a seated
woman, Archagora, clasping the hand of a bearded man standing
on the left; between the two a second woman stands in the
background, looking to the front. ‘The relief is bordered by
pilasters, with a low pediment surmounted by a Sphinx
seated to the front and showing both flanks. The right-hand
corner of the pediment, the lower drapery with one foot of the
man, and one foot and the nose of the woman are restored.
On the architrave is an inscription: APXAFOPAI......
OYTATHP.

Height 67 in., width 364 in. From Attica. Somewhat
hasty in execution, but of good period and unusual size.
Fourth Century B.c.

2. Marble Relief from a Roman sarcophagus, representing
a marriage ceremony. The bride and bridegroom join hands
before the pronuba; behind the bride stand her father and
Mars resting on a spear; on the right are Victory crowning
the bridegroom and Fortuna. Length 194 in.

3. Upper part cf a Marble Stele with a relief in the usual
architectonic frame ; a beardless head with draped bust. Late
and rough style. On the shaft below is inscribed: NEIKEIC.

Height 143 in.

4. Marble fragment of egg-and-tongue moulding. Length
31in. From the Acropolis, Athens. Presented by Mrs. Robert
Chadwick.

5. Limestone head of a female statuette, wearing a peaked
cap; Cypriote style. From Naucratis. Presented by the Egypt
Exploration Fund.

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II.—Ivory.

6. Relief of Athena with helmet, spear, shield, and serpent.
A characteristic example of late Graeco-Roman work. Height
54 in.

III.—Gems.

7. Sard scarabaeoid: on the base an intaglio of a seated
hound ; good Greek work of the late Sixth Century B.c. The
convex surface has been used later for a Grzeco-Persian design
of a mounted Persian pursuing a biga, in which are two other
Persians, one an archer. From Mesopotamia.

IV .—Gold.

8. Plaque stamped with bees, concentric circles, and rows
of bars, and showing affinity with the plaques of Ephesus and
Cameiros. From Rhodes. Length 1 in. Seventh Century B.c.

9. Crescent earring, with blue glass beads around the
outer margin. From Cyprus.

V.— Silver.

10. Model, probably votive, of a temple-key, of the primitive
type inserted through the door to push back the ,bolt on the
inside. Such models seem hitherto not to be known, though
one actual key has been found (see Berliner Akad. Sitzungs-
berichte, 1908, pl. 1). Formerly in the Cesnola Collection.
Length 43 in.

VI.— Bronze.

11. Colossal head of Augustus in the early prime of life,
from a portrait statue. There can be no doubt that the bronze
represents a member of the Julio-Claudian house, and the name
of Germanicus was one of the first to be suggested. It is now,
however, generally agreed that the subject is Augustus. In
perfect preservation; the eye-brows fringed, the eyes inlaid
with glass and alabaster.

Height 183 in. Liverpool Annals of Archeology, IV..,
pp. 66-71, pl. 12-16. Found at Meroé in the Sudan by Prof.
John Garstang, 1910. Acquired through the generosity of the
Sudan Eacavations Comnvittee, in consideration of a gift of
one thousand guineas towards the Committee's further exca-
vations made by the National Art-Collections Fund.

12. (a) Bronze-plated Chariot with decoration of bands of
palmettes. The plates have been mounted on a modern core
of wood; some parts of the plating and the tyres of the wheels
are restored. Length 52 in. Also the terminal of the chariot
pole in the form of a fragmentary lion’s head. Sixth Cen-
tury B.c. (b) Whip-handle found near the chariot. Length
11 in. |

Found near Orvieto.

GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 75

13. Fragment from a sacrificial relief, representing an
attendant, almost in the round, wreathed and girded, bending
forward as if. holding the victim. A remarkable Roman work
of the late First Century a.p. Height 6 in.

14. Statuette of a dwarf undergoing the punishment of the
eangue. Height 1? in. Style somewhat rough; cf. Babelon
and Blanchet, No. 510.

15. Circular Stamp with the inscription ANEZSANAPOY-+
between flanged edges, and a central pivot which probably
fitted into a handle; used apparently for marking an irregular
surface, such as a loaf. Examples of this form are rare; cf.
C.I.L., TX, 6083 (107) and X,, 8059 (61) and p. 915.

16. Helmet of an early Italic shape, well preserved. From
Ancona.

17. Strainer with two handles terminating in dogs’ heads.

18. Fibula of Hallstadt period, with four spirals and the
central boss.

19. Fibula with broad knob in centre of bow and incised
geometric design.

20. Fibula, leech type, end of bow terminating in swan’s
head.

21. Fibula as last, with broad disk below swan’s head.

22. (a) Oval implement with tang and rivet; length 5 in.
(b) Spike; length 4 in. {From Orete. Presented by H. R.
Hall, Esq. | uth

VII.—IJ ron.

23. Two Stili, the upper ends plated with copper, the stems
bound with copper bands. Length 43 and 44 in.

VIII.—Terra-cotta.

24. Statuette of an aged nurse holding a young boy in her
arms; a good example of the type (cf. Winter, 7’ypen, II.,
p- 461, No. 7).

25. Statuette of an enthroned goddess, wearing a calathos
and holding a young boy in her arms: his body is tightly
swaddled, his head separately inserted and moveable.

From Thebes. Height 134 in.

26. (a) Horseman decorated with stripes of bright red and
black paint; Cypriote style. (b) Fragment of group of Satyr
carrying Eros on his back. Height 12 in. (c) Stag’s head,
fragmentary. From Naueratis. Presented by the Egypt
Exploration Fund.

IX.— Pottery.

27. Geometric Pyxis; the body covered with fringed wheels,
zigzags, and rectangles, the lid surmounted by four statuettes
of horses. Diam. 12? in.

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28. Geometric Pyxis as last; two horses on lid. Diam. 93 in.

29. Black-figured Oinochoe, with design in a panel of a
Maenad riding on a bull and carrying a panther. An unusual
combination of two Dionysiac types.

30. Vase in form of cock, with wreath round its neck.
From Acarnania. Height 63 in.

31. Two Lamps with erotic reliefs. Presented by 8S. B.
Burton, Esq.

32. (a) Beaked jug with band of incised decoration and a
small vase of similar style (Early Minoan period, third division).
(b) A series of fragments of various fabrics. (¢) Steatite Pyxis
with lid, a similar lid, and a fragment of a stone rim. (d) Four
obsidian flakes.

From Crete. Presented by H. R. Hall, Esq.

33. (a) Bowl of Roman period decorated internally with
painted geometric patterns, externally with moulded festoons.
(b) Fragments of various early fabrics, and a series of inscribed
sherds.

From Naucratis. Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund.

X.— Wood.

34. Two Combs from Oxyrhynchus. Presented by the Egypt @
Exploration Fund.

XI.— Plaster.
35. Cast of relief at Dresden, representing a butcher’s shop.

A. H. Smith.

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BRITISH AND MEDIAVAL ANTIQUITIES.

DEPARTMENT OF BRITISH AND MEDIAVAL ANTIQUITIES AND
ETHNOGRAPHY.

I.—Arrangement, Cataloguing, ete.

Prehistoric Section.—Highty-four glazed drawers accessible
to the public have been fitted below three table-cases in the
Prehistoric Room, and several have been filled with palolithic
and neolithic specimens from England, and series of French
and Belgian cave specimens of the later paleolithie period.
The labelling of the Greenwell Collection in the Central Saloon
has been continued. Two wall-cases have been cleared and
painted.

Romano-British Section. — The collection exhibited in
drawers accessible to the public has been periodically over-
hauled.

Medieval Room.—Minor re-arrangements have been neces-
sitated by additions to the series of church-plate and alabaster
carvings ; and permanent labels added.

Gold Ornament Room.—The Franks Collection of finger-
rings has been re-arranged in accordance with the Catalogue.

Asiatic Saloon.—Progress has been made with the perma-
nent labelling of the Chinese porcelain; sections of porcelain
have been re-arranged ; anda new table-case filled with Corean
pottery and Japanese porcelain.

Ethnographical Gallery.—Vhe North American Indian
dresses have been cleaned and progress made with the labelling
and re-arrangement of the North-west Coast Collection. Eskimo
specimens have been exhibited in six drawers accessible to the
public, and Abyssinian and Sudanese in two wall-cases. The
series of East African pottery has been re-arranged, West
African ornaments and gold weights exhibited on tablets, and
permanent labels added in the African section. The Borneo
section and the case of Japanese armour have been cleaned.

American Room.—Structural alterations have been com-
pleted and the exhibits largely re-arranged and labelled, in
accordance with the slip-catalogue. The Ecuador stone series,
Peruvian pottery and bronzes and the Antilles Collection have
been moved, and Peruvian pottery, textiles and mummies
exhibited in a new standard case.

Registration, etc.—The registration of current acquisitions
has been continued, and 3,213 objects have been added,
including ethnographical specimens.

Photographs to the number of 33 have been taken in
the Department for purposes of illustration and reference, and
54 extra prints prepared. Typewritten labels to the number of
323 have been cut and bordered, and 386 labels for drawers

78 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

printed on the hand-press; 149 boards papered, and 2,009
objects mounted. There have been prepared 366 trays, plinths,
stands, tablets, frames, and cases of various kinds, mainly for
the exhibition galleries.

Six prehistoric urns and one Roman amphora have been
restored, one table-case lined with cloth, the Easter Island
sculptures and the busts in the Hall cleaned, as well as the
Thruxton mosaic pavement on the north-east staircase, where a
scaffold has been erected for fixing the Hemsworth pavement,
which has been restored. The Ethnographical casts from
Egypt have been fixed in another position. A North American
Indian bowl and carvings, an Eskimo canoe and fly-whisk have
been repaired, and wooden models made of early British iron-
work from Welwyn, and blocks of Peruvian masonry.

Antiquities have been examined at Chingford, Westminster,
and at the offices of the Metropolitan Water Board; and
collections packed at Stowmarket and Welwyn and brought to
the Museum.

Publications.—A second edition of the Stone Age Guide
was published in February ; and the bulk of the Catalogue of
Medieval Finger-rings is in print. The slip-catalogue of
-Oriental wares has been kept up to date, and a series of stone
implements collected by Dr. Stein in Chinese Turkestan has
been described and illustrated.

Students.—Three thousand two hundred and sixty students
and visitors have been received in the Department. Three
parties have been conducted through the Stone Age and Ethno-
graphical Galleries by members of the staff, and the Brighton ©
meeting of the Museums Association was attended.

I].— Acquisitions.
(1.) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities :—

(a.) Stone Age.—Flint implements of eolithic and paleo-
lithic types from the summit of Hackpen Hill, Wilts. Presented
by Rev. H. G. O. Kendall.

Seventy palewolithic implements from Kennet pit, near
Newmarket, and neolithic flints from north-west Suffolk.
Presented by C. R. Jennings, Esq.

Polished celt from Dorset and one partly polished from the
Lea, opposite Temple Mills. Presented by Dr. C. H. Read,
PSA

Polished celt from Firle Beacon, Sussex. Presented by
Mr. Moore.

Bone adze-heads, various stone tools and worked flakes,
from the site of ancient lake-dwellings at Ulrome, E.R. Yorks,
discovered in 1880-1 and described in Archcologia, |xii. 593.
Eacavated and presented by Thos. Boynton, Hsq., F.S.A.

BRITISH AND MEDIEVAL ANTIQUITIES. 79

Axe-hammer of millstone grit found at Corbridge-on-Tyne,
1869 ; and flat stone with a shallow pit on each face found near
the Roman bridge at Riding Mill, on the Tyne, 1874.

Flint specimens of neolithic date showing double patination,
found in Wigtonshire. Presented by Ludovic Mann, Esq.

(b.) Bronze Age.—Five “ drinking-cups ” (beakers) and two
“ food-vessels”’ found in Scotland, from the collection of the
late Mr. H. W. Young.

Six palstaves found together at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex,
from the same mould.

Socketed spear-head from the upper layer of West Furze
lake-dwelling, E.R. Yorks, illustrated in Archcologia, Ixii. 603.
Presented by Thos. Boynton, Ksq., F.S.A.

Specimens of bone and shale from Heather Burn cave,
Stanhope, co. Durham. Presented by Rev. Wm. Greenwell,
BS. A.

Bronze ornaments and weapons, mould for socketed celts,
bronze and bone pins, and various bone implements with
pottery fragments found in Heather Burn cave, co. Durham.

(c.) Early Iron Age.—An important series of late Keltic
antiquities found at Welwyn, Herts, in 1906, and collected by
the late Mr. G. E. Dering. The bronzes are nearly all of
Italian origin, probably made at Capua, and include fragments
of a patella of frying-pan form, two jugs and the mounts of
a tankard all closely resembling those found at Aylesford,
Kent ; and in addition a pair of silver cups. An iron trame
of oblong plan with four broad uprights ornamented with
twisted columns, and three large fire-dogs with bull’s-head
terminals are of native work, as are also the pear-shaped
“nedestal” urns and other pottery vessels, some of which
were in separate burials after cremation and others in two
large vaults which contained the iron and bronze objects. All
date from about the middle of the Ist century B.c., and may be
referred to the Belgic population: described in Archeologia,
Ixiii. 1. Presented by Mrs. A. J. Neall.

Engraved bronze boat-shaped brooch, of Italian type, found
at Box, near Bath. Presented by Alfred Jones, Esq.

Pottery urn and fragments of other vessels found in or
near ancient lake-dwellings at Ulrome, E.R. Yorks, described
in Archeologia, lxii. 600. EHacavated and presented by Thos.
Boynton, Esq., F.S.A.

Socketed iron spear-head from the Thames at Brentford
Presented by Dr. C. H. Read, P.S.A.

Tron fragments of a sword or curreney-bar found in
Lyneham barrow, Oxon, and described in Proc, Soc. Antiq.,
xv. 409. Presented by Lord Moreton.

(d.) Foreign.—Flint specimens of Le Moustier period, found
in a Jersey cave known as Cotte St. Brelade, described in
Archeologva, xii. 450. Presented by the Societé Jersiarse.

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Obsidian core and flake of Early Minoan III. period (2400—
2200 B.c.), found at Mokhlos, Crete. Presented by H. R.
atl, Hsq., FSA.

Stone hammers, copper tool and ore, and fragments of
crucibles, from sites in Sinai. Presented by the Egypt
Exploration Fund.

Pottery fragments and breccia from a cave in the Ronda
Mts., in the South of Spain. Discovered and presented by
Col. Willoughby Verner.

Massive bronze armlet engraved in the style of the Hallstatt
period, found in Hungary.

Bronze swords, daggers, halbert-blades, socketed spear-head
and celt, of Bronze Age types, found in China.

Specimens of the rude stone implements of Tasmanian
aborigines. Presented by J. EH. Philp, Esq.

(2.) Romano-British :—

Pig of lead inscribed with the name of the Emperor Hadrian,
found at Theobald’s Park, Herts, 1885.

Stone sepulchral monument with standing figure in recess
and Greek inscription in three lines, found in Lamb’s Conduit
Street, London, W.C.

Pottery antefix with the boar of the twentieth legion, found
on the site of the factory at Holt, Cheshire. Presented by
Arthur Acton, Esq.

Two cinerary urns found on the site of Moorgate Street
Station (West Street, Finsbury Circus), 1902. Presented by
Messrs. S. Pearson and Sons, Ltd.

(3.) Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic :—

Cinerary urn stamped with trigrams found near another
between Cavenham and Lackford, Suffolk, 1911. Presented by
Mrs. Allen Sturge.

A “long” brooch and bracelet of bronze from the rampart
of Woolbury Ring, Stockbridge, Hants. Presented by Gray
Hill, Esq.

Iron shield-boss of conical form, from a cemetery at
Wickham, near Sturry, Kent. Presented by James Berry,
Esq., F.R.CS.

Iron sword of the Viking period, with curved guard and
lobed pommel, from the Thames at Windsor.

Silver earring of the Frankish period, obtained in Belgium.
Presented by Dr. Frank Corner.

(4.) Medieval and Later :—

(a.) British.—Silver matrix of seal set with antique nicolo
intaglio, with legend FRANGE LEGE LECTA TEGE, about
1300.

BRITISH AND MEDIAVAL ANTIQUITIES. Sl

Silver matrix of seal set with antique jasper intaglio of
a horseman, with legend QVE TIBI LEGO LEGE, 13th
century; and a barometer with ivory shaft and lettering in
English and French made by John Patrick in the Old Bailey
(London), early 18th century. Presented through the National
Art-Collections Fund by Max Rosenhevm, Esq., F.S.A.

Wooden charter-box with three locks, ornamented in low
relief with quatrefoils enclosing animals, 14th century.

Bronze seal-matrix of John Choc, two annular brooches,
chape of knife-sheath and Maltese cross of bronze-gilt, found at
Dunwich, Suffolk. Presented by P. Carlyon-Britton, Esq.,
#.S.A.

Bronze horse-trapping, shield of arms charged with three
choughs, black and red enamel, found at Beaconsfield, Bucks.
Presented by Dr. C. H. Read, P.S.A.

Alabaster carving of the Nativity, with crenellated top and
spotted background, 15th century.

Monumental brass representing a priest holding chalice and
paten, late 15th century.

Knife and fork stamped JEFFERY, with handles of
Whieldon’s agate ware, mid 18th century. Presented by
B. P. Harland, Esq.

Specimen of the tin chocolate-boxes sent to the troops in
South Africa in 1900 by her late Majesty Queen Victoria.
Presented by the Army Council.

(b.) Forergn.—-A remarkable series of Gothic church-plate
from the Hospital de la Vera Cruz at Medina de Pomar, near
Burgos, Spain, to which they were given by Don Pedro,
Conde de Haro. It consists of a silver-gilt ciborium engraved
and ornamented with plaques of niello and enamel, with
figures of apostles and saints and St. Andrew’s cross (aspa
blanca) ; a pair of silver candlesticks, parcel gilt, with eight-
foil bases; silver-gilt paten with medallion of translucent
enamel and part of the Lord’s Prayer engraved round the
edge; a chalice embossed and ornamented with enamel, one of
the shields charged with the arms of Velasco, as on the
ciborium ; a standing crucifix with enamelled panels on both
faces and in the centre of the back relics of the True Cross
covered by a disc of crystal; and a crucifix of silver-gilt, the
cross raguly, with niello arms of Haro on the knop-facets.
The objects date between 1450 and 1500, but are without
silversmiths’ stamps; they are described and illustrated in
Proc. Soc. Antiq., xxiii. 474. Presented by J. sea
E'sq., Hon. FSA.

Limoges painted enamei badge, with legend in gold
TVROVIN SVIS, 16th century. Presented through the
National Art Collections Fund by Max Rosenheim, Esq.,
er S.A.

0.91 F

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(5.) Ceramic and Glass Collections :—

(a.) Oriental Wares.—Two cylindrical stoneware vases on
three feet, and a celadon bowl, early Chinese.

Chinese stoneware bowl with chocolate-colour glaze ; bow]
with green glaze and oval body ribbed; large jar with brown-
black design in low relief; jar with storks and spirals in brown
on white ground; and two small dishes with white glaze. Also
pottery bow! with iridescent white glaze, another with applied
leaves and three claw feet, two cups and small porcelain
figure.

Chinese stoneware bottle, probably of the T’ang dynasty,
and vase with creamy glaze, probably Tz’t-chou ware, of the
Sung dynasty. Presented by Wm. C. Alexander, Esq.

A valuable series of Corean ware, Chinese pottery vessels,
and a glazed stoneware bow] fixed inside its sagger, of the Sung
or Yuan period. Presented by G. Eumorfopoulos, Esq.

Stoneware water-vessel in the form of a peach, with crackled
turquoise glaze, probably Kuan ware, Sung dynasty. Presented
by Wilson Crewdson, Esq., F.S.A.

Two cylindrical pottery jars with turquoise glaze, and three
glazed tiles, from Aleppo.

Stoneware cup and vessel in the form of a dog, both of Sung
dynasty: and a series of clay statuettes, model of a house,
grain-crusher and stove, and a vase with fluted body, all of the
Han dynasty, from Shansi, North China.

Glazed pottery tile, a half cylinder with sloping circular
end in relief, Chinese, 15th century, from a Ming tomb.
Presented by J. S. T. Audley, Esq.

Glazed stoneware vase in the form of a fish, probably Canton
ware, 17th century; and a flask covered with black lacquer
and inlaid with mother-of-pearl! (lac burgauté), 18th century.
Presented by Norman Hardy, Esq.

Porcelain plate with tiger, bamboo and prunus, Japanese,
17th century. Presented by Kington Baker, Esq.

Pair of porcelain ewers decorated in underglaze blue with
enamel colours and gilding, Chinese, early 18th -century.
Bequeathed by Mrs. J. G. Keen.

Chinese porcelain coffee-cup and four plates, with arms of
Elwick, Stanley and Mathew (Cornwall), 18th century. Pre-
sented by C. A. Beavan, Esq.

Porcelain vase imitating a bronze form with elephant-head
handles; dish with pomegranate design and mark of the K’ang
Hsi period (1662-1722); and four bowls marked Yung Chéng
period (1723-1735). Presented by Andrew Burman, Esq.

(b.) Contenental.—Two glazed tiles with floral designs,
polychrome, Dutch. Presented by Dr. C. van Figen.

BRITISH AND MEDIZ VAL ANTIQUITIES. 85

(c.) English.—Three medieval pottery pitchers with green
glaze, found in 1899 on the site of a kiln (now the Central
vailway-station) at Nottingham. Presented by Mrs. Chapman.

Small pottery jug with yellowish-green glaze, medieval.
Presented by Lt.-Col. B. Croft Lyons, F.S.A.

Slip-ware dish, laty holding lily and rose, with initials in
the field, and on the border JOHN WRIGHT 1702.

Delft covered punch-bow] with drinking scenes on the body,
and below both handles HA and date 1697. Presented through
the National Art-Collections Fund by Max Rosenheim, Esq.,
Bares A

Chelsea porcelain plate, cup and saucer in oriental style,
Derby plate in Worcester oriental style, and Worcester bell-
pull and spill-vase. Presented by Kington Baker, Esq.

Earthenware plate with white glaze and spray of herbaceous
heath, marked SWANSEA. Presented by Mrs. Dickson.

Coalport porcelain tea-cup and saucer (J. Rose & Co.), two
Worcester coffee-cups and Bristol coffee-cup. Presented by
C. B. Farmer, Esq.

Bronzed plaque of Wedgwood ware, with Bacchanalian
procession. Presented by F. FE. Hallett, Esq.

Porcelain plate with rustic scene, after an engraving in the
style of Hogarth. Presented by L. A. Lawrence, Esq.

(d.) Glass.—Amphora, jugs, bottle, cup, and bracelet, and a
moulded bottle with hexagonal body, and lattice-pattern, palm,
eross and figure in the panels, all of Roman period, and from
Aleppo.

Fragments of Roman window-panes found in Magdalene
College grounds, Cambridge, 1910. Presented by Rev. F. G.
Walker.

Thin glass cup and intaglio with blanks imitating precious
stones, Roman period, from Egypt. Presented by the British
School of Archeology in Egypt.

Calcedonio ewer with ribbed body, marbled in brown,
green and blue, Venetian, 16th century. Presented through
the National Art-Collections Fund by Max Rosenheim, Esq.,
FSA.

(6.) Collection wllustrating various Religions :—

(a.) Christianity: —Enamelled copper medallion with busts
of St. Basil and St. Nicholas, Byzantine, 11th century ; and a
gold bracteate with filigree design, human face above an animal

and round the border COPATIC OEOT.

Coptic stone capital elaborately carved, and stone panel
carved with the acanthus; redware dishes stamped with the
cross, and sandals from Memphis, Roman period. Presented
by the British School of Archwoloyy in Egypt.

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(b.) Buddhism.--Head of a stone statue with elaborate
head-dress, and three friezes carved with Buddhist scenes, from
Swat, North India.

Two wooden standing figures of Bodhisattvas. Presented
by G. Humorfopoulos, Ksq.

(7.) Oriental and Ethnographical :—

Asia.—A leather pouch, mounted in silver, with fire-steel :
from Kalgan in North China. Presented by R. Lawrence
Binyon, Esq.

A number of bones inscribed with ancient Chinese characters.
Presented by J. Spier, Esq.

A series of bones, some carved, with amuletic inscriptions in
ancient Chinese characters.

Various ancient bronzes and a two-handed armour-breaker
of iron, from Shansi, North China.

Portion of a bronze bowl already in the Museum, from
Tezpur, Assam. Presented by Ed. Earle, Esq.

A ceremonial apron, head-dress and other ornaments, of
carved bone beads, from Tibet.

Two Indian land-grants.

Africa.—A large and valuable collection, illustrating the

ethnography of various tribes in Northern Nigeria and in the
neighbourhood of lake Chad. Presented by Miss Macleod.

A series of stone implements and pottery fragments from
Kitchen-middens on the coast of South Africa. Presented by
J. Bruce Bays, E'sq., M.D.

A series of spears and shields from the Uganda Protec-
torate: collected by the late C. M. Cowper Coles, Esq.
Presented by 8S. H. Cowper Coles, Esq.

An ethnographical series from Southern Nigeria. Pre-
sented by Sir John Kirk, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.

A bead ornament from the Basuto. Presented by R. R.
Hickling, Esq.

A series of stone celts from the Bauchi plateau, Northern
Nigeria. Presented by T. W. Pragnell, Esq.

A series of weapons, musical instruments, and utensils,
collected by Lord Mountmorres in the north-east region of the —
Belgian Congo. }

A bronze jug inthe form of aleopard: from Benin, Southern
Nigeria.

A steatite figure from Mendiland, Sierra Leone.

A large mask and a pottery vase from Southern Nigeria.

Oceania.—A series of stone implements of the extinct
aborigines of Tasmania.

Three stone churinga, from the Arunta of Northern
Territory, Australia.

BRITISH AND MEDIZAVAL ANTIQUITIES. 85

America.—A series of ancient pottery and beads of cor-
melian, stone and amber, from the bed of the sacred lake of
Guatavita, Colombia. Presented by Louis Clarke, Ksq.

A large collection illustrating the ethnography of the
Chorote Indians, Bolivia. Presented by Count Hric von
Rosen.

A shrunk human head, from Quito, Ecuador. Presented by
Alex. Rawlinson, Esq.

A series of antiquities from Cuzco, Peru.

A club from British Guiana and a series of feather ornaments
from the Paraguayan Chaco.

A collection of stone implements from Greenland, formed
by the late Edward Whymper, Ksq.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY’S COLLECTION.

The collection belonging to the London Missionary Society,
and deposited on loan in the British Museum in 1890, has been
acquired by purchase at a nominal price, the Trustees of the
Christy Collection providing one-half the necessary sum. This
collection, the greater part of which was acquired by the early
Missionaries, John Williams, W. Ellis, D. Tyerman, and
G. Bennet, comprises the most valuable series of Polynesian
idols and ceremonial objects in existence. Now that it has
been added to the British Museum series, the latter becomes
the most extensive and historically important collection illus-
trative of Polynesian ethnography in the world.

CHRISTY COLLECTION.

During the year 363 objects have been entered in the
registration Catalogue. The Christy Trustees have acquired
by donation the following objects, which they have transferred
to the Trustees of the British Museum :—

(1.) Ethnography of Africa :—

A set of three throwing-knives (ngalio) from Bornu. Pre-
sented by Dr. D. Alexander.

Arrows from the Dakkakari people, Kontagora Province,
Northern Nigeria. Presented by T. R. Bowlby, Esq.

Section of a branch of the sacrifice-tree, Kumasi, Ashanti.
Presented by H. Drewry, Esq.

Iron rings and copper bangles excavated during the con-

struction of the Baro-Kano railway, Northern Nigeria. Pre-
sented by H. 8S. W. Edwardes, Esq.

A pottery gabna for coffee from Omdurman. Presented by
G. W. Grabham, Esq.

» A series of weapons and other objects from Somaliland and
Bechuanaland. Presented by Major G. H. Grant.

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Two engraved gourds and a wooden snufi-box from the
Akamba of the Kast Africa Protectorate. Presented by C. W.
Hobley, Esq., C.M.G.

Ethnographical series from the Munchi of Southern
Nigeria. Presented by G. S. Podevin, Esq.

A bark-cloth robe from Uganda. Presented by J. H.
Skilbeck, Hsq.

(2.) Ethnography of Asia :—
A stone celt from Sarawak. Presented by C. J. Brooks,
Esq.
A brass lingam from India. Presented by S. C. Hill, Esq.

A pair of castanets from the Kalinga of Isabella, North
Luzon, Philippine Jslands. Presented by J. W. Howells, Esq.

A cloth jacket from the Shan States. Presented by Miss
Jessie E. Muntz.

Cloth woven by the Iu people of South China. Presented
by A. L. Nairn, Esq.

Model of a Mongolian pack-saddle. Presented by Roger
Pocock, Hsq.

(3.) Ethnography of Oceania :—

A club and boomerang from New South Wales, and stone
and glass implements from New South Wales, North-West
Australia and Tasmania. Presented by the Hon. J. M.
Creed.

A net of bark-fibre from New South Wales. Presented by
Mrs. J. Macdonald Larnach.

A stone celt from New Guinea. Presented by R. B. Pilcher,
Esq.

Weapons from the Solomon Islands and a shield from the
Trobriands. Presented by Capt. H. Ramsden.

A wooden rain-charm from Western Australia. Presented
by Dr. C. G. Seligman.

Two small drums and two lime-spatule from British New
Guinea. Presented by R. S. Grant Thorold, Esq.

Nine obsidian implements from Easter Island. Presented

by W. F. Woods, Esq.

(4.) Antiquities and Ethnography of America :—

A white metal casting in the form cf a knife found while
excavating for the railway, Chile. Presented by 0. Chadwick,
Esq.

A series of antiquities from Cuzco, Peru, and Tiahuanaco,
Bolivia. Presented by Louis Clarke, Esq.

Pottery fragments from the Aruka hills, Morawhanna,
British Guiana. Presented by the Rev. C. Cooksey.

BRITISH AND MEDIAVAL ANTIQUITIES, 87

A series of ancient Chiriqui vases from Panama. Presented
by Douglas F. S. Pilliter, Esq.

Series of ancient pottery from the river Beni, Bolivia.
Presented by F. Fisher, E'sq.

Series of flint knives and arrowheads from the Grand Canon,
U.S.A. Presented by Roger Pocock, Esq.

Ethnographical series from the Kenai peninsula, Alaska,
U.S.A. Presented by J. T. Studley, Esq.

Charles H. Read.

88 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS.

].—Registration and Arrangement.

1. Greek Series :—

778 coins of various parts of the Greek world, recently
acquired, have been registered and 902 have been incorporated.

. In the Macedonian series the gold, silver, and copper coins of
Philip II. have been classified under types with sub-divisions
under adjunct symbols, letters, and monograms.

A similar classification of the coinage of Alexander the
Great has been carried out, but where practicable the coins of
the Eastern Empire have been arranged under mints. The
eoinages of the later Kings of Macedon have also been re-
arranged previously to being described for the Catalogue. This
re-classification has necessitated the writing of new heading-
cards and labels throughout. The large increase to this series
by recent purchases and gifts has required the inclusion of four
additional cabinets.

The following collections have been examined with a view
to making selections either for presentation or purchase :—
(a) A large find of silver coins of the Thessalian League; (b) a
series of coins of Panticapaeum and Olbia; (c) an extensive
series of coins collected by a resident in Asia Minor; and (d)
various Catalogues of sales in London and on the Continent.

The MS. bibliography of Numismatics has been continued
and brought up to date.

The “ Index of Types ” in connection with the Catalogues of
Greek coins published by the Trustees has been brought up to
date; and the Card Index of illustrated Greek coins under
types has been continued.

2. Roman and Byzantine Serves :—

256 coins, Republican and Imperial, recently acquired, have
been registered and incorporated.

The Roman Republican gold, silver and bronze coins issued
in Campania, and also the bronze coins of the Provinces have
been placed in cabinets in the order of the Catalogue. Many
heading-cards and outside labels have been written.

A hoard of 369 Imperial denarii found at Edwinstowe,
Notts, and declared to be Treasure-Trove, has been examined,
classified, and described, and a selection made.

The following series of coins have been examined :—(a) A
large number of coins mostly of the later Roman Empire found
at Caerwent; (b) two hoards of Republican denarii found in
Spain. :

956 tickets giving references to the Catalogue of Roman
Republican coins, and 969 similar tickets giving references to

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the Catalogue of Coins of the Vandals, ete., have been written
and placed beneath the coins.

A bibliography of articles in periodicals, ete. relating to
Roman coins has been commenced.

3. British and Colonial Series :—

447 coins and tokens, recently acquired, and also 96 medals
have been registered and incorporated.

The coins of Henry III. and Edward I. and II. have been
re-arranged with the different types classified under each mint.

The nobles of Edward III. have been re-arranged in chrono-
logical order, deduced from a comparison of the coins already
in the Museum and of those of the East Raynham find. Notes
on this classification have been made and published in the
Numismatic Chronicle for 1911.

In a similar manner the long-cross coins (pennies) of
Henry III. have been re-arranged from evidence extracted from
the Palmer’s Green hoard and other sources.

The following hoards of coins, declared to be Treasure-Trove,
having been forwarded by H.M. Treasury, were examined,
arranged, and reported upon :—(a) A series of guineas and 1
half-guinea of Charles IJ. and William III., and 3 Jouis dor of
Louis XIV. of France found at lAncienneté, St. Brelade, Jersey ;
(b) 200 nobles of Edward Ii]. found at East Raynham, Norfolk ;
(¢) 200 pennies, English, and 5 Irish pennies of Henry III., and
4 others of Alexander III. of Scotland found at Palmer’s
Green, N.

The portion of the Kirkeudbrightshire find of coins of
Edward I. and II. (1,300 specimens) not required by the Society
of Antiquaries of Scotland was classified and a selection made.

A list of duplicate specimens of XVIIth century London
tokens in the Guildhall Library has been examined and a
selection made for presentation of such pieces as are not in the
National Collection.

Various collections, private and otherwise, of coins of
William I. and II., Henry I., and Stephen have been examined
in connection with the volume of the Catalogue of English
Coins “ Norman Kings,” now in course of compilation. Casts
have been made of such specimens as are not represented in the
Museum. When offered for purchase selections have been
made.

The bibliography cf English coins desribed in various
publications has been commenced.
4, Medieval and Modern Series :—

145 coins and 34 medals recently peaiynes have been
registered and incorporated.

Rectifications have been made in the aibaiviubions of coins
to certain Doges of Venice and also to the series of German
bracteates, many of the latter having been identified.

90 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM,

The proof-sheets of the Corpus Nummorum Italicorum,
Vol. II., which has been issued by H.M. the King of Italy, have
been read and collated with the coins in the British Museum.

5. Orrental Serves :—
90 coins, recently acquired, have been registered and
incorporated.

A list of the coins of the State of Oudh in the British
Museum has been compiled for the Bengal Asiatic Society.

Notes have been made of unpublished coins in the series of
the Sultans of Delhi.

The series of coins procured by the Stein expedition in
Khotan have been examined and identified.

A minute examination was made of the Pathan and Moghul
coins in the Bleazby Collection, which were compared piece by
piece with those in the Museum previous to its presentation by
Mr. Henry Van den Bergh (see also Acquisitions, Oriental
Serves).

A large collection of coins of Afghanistan, the Sikh Empire,
and Kashmir has been examined with a view to its acquisition
in the future.

The collection of Indian coins in the Imperial Institute has
been arranged.

A selection of representative coins in the Bleazby Collection
presented by Mr. Henry Van den Bergh has been made and
placed on exhibition in the corridor of the Medal Room.

II.— Catalogues.

1. CATALOGUES OF GREEK COINS.

Coins of Philip II., Alexander the Great, and: later
Macedonian Kings, by Warwick Wroth.
_ In preparation for this work a-preliminary re-arrangement
of the coins of Philip II. and Alexander the Great was made.
The coinages of the later Kings, including those of Lysimachus
of Thrace were also re-arranged and those of Antigonus and
Demetrius Poliorcetes have been described.
(On account of the death of Mr. Warwick Wroth further
progress with this work is at present in abeyance. )

Coins of Palestine (Galilea, Samaritis, and Judea), by
G. F. Hill.

The description of the Civic Coinages for this volume, which
are arranged under the various Cities at which they were
struck, has been completed ; and an introduction to each mint
has been written. The series of Philisto-Arabian and Egypto-
Arabian coins have also been described and the introduction
written. The cataloguing of the Maccabean coins has been

begun.

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An epigraphic table of the Jewish coins is in course of
preparation.

29. CATALOGUES OF ROMAN AND BYZANTINE COINS.

Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Lombards, and of the
Empires of Nicwa and Trebizond, by Warwick Wroth.
The text from signature Ee onwards and the whole of the

introduction and indexes have been passed for press; and the

volume published.

3. CATALOGUES OF BRITISH COINS AND MEDALS.

Catalogue of English Coins: Norman Kings, by G. C. Brooke.

The description of the coins of William I. and William II.
has been completed ; and progress has been made with the
series of Henry I. Selections of coins of the early types of
William I. for illustration have been made.

Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and
Ireland (illustrated ed.), by H. A. Grueber.

The compilation of Parts XV.—XVIII. has been finished
and the indexes passed for press. This work is now completed.

4, CATALOGUES OF ORIENTAL COINS.

Catalogue of Indian Coins: Coins of the Guptas, by J. Allan.

All the coins comprised in this volume have now been
weighed and described ; the Plates in illustration have been
mounted ; and progress has been made with the historical and
numismatic portions of the Introduction.

III. — Acquisitions.

The total number of coins and medals added to the
Department during the year 1911 was 4,458, of which 323 are
of gold, 2,614 of silver, 1,487 of bronze, and 34 of other metals.

The following table shows the numbers of the new acqui-
sitions, classified according to the several series to which they
belong :—

Other
Class. Gold. | Silver. | Bronze. | Metals, | Total,
etc.

Greek - - - = 46 388 306 == 740
Roman - - - - 1 229 33 — 263
British and Colonial = = 87 428 141 22 678
Medizval and Modern - - 5 63 47 - 12 2
Oriental - - - - 184 1,506 960 a 2,650
Total - - 323 2,614 1,487 34 4,458

92 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Of the above, 2,929 have been presented, viz., 206 of gold,
1,564 of silver, 1,130 of bronze, and 29 of other metals.

The following is a list of benefactors to the Department
of Coins and Medals during the past year :—

His Majesty Victor Kmmanuel III., King of Italy; Vice-
Admiral H.S.H. Prince Louis of Battenberg, G.C.B., G.C.V.O. ;
the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint; the Library Committee
of the Corporation of the City of London ; La Société Hongroise
des Beaux-Arts, Budapest; El Universidad de los Andes,
Merida, Venezuela; the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic
Society ; the Committee of Management of the United Provinces
Exhibition Association of India; the Department of Agri-
culture, Central Provinces, India ; the Government of Eastern
Bengal and Assam; the Government of Madras, India; the
Government of the United Provinces of India; John Allan,
Esq.; H. F. Amedroz, Esq.; W. P. Appleford, Esq.; A. Archi-
bald, Esq.; Warren D. Barnes, Esq.; G. M. Beloe, Esq. ; Henry
Van den Bergh, Esq.; Frank Bowcher, Esq.; the Rev. C. J.
Bowden ; |Harry L. Churchill, Esqi; A’-Close, Ksq.; (eek:
Coates, Esq.; Ashley W. Cole, Esq.; R. Dalton, Esq.; Captain
W. Dawkes; Mrs. Emma Esther Deacon; Edward 8. Dodgson,
Esq.; W. B. Doubleday, Esq.; Evelyn Grant Duff, Esq., c.B. ;
Miss Helen Farquhar; H. Pirie Gordon, Esq.; Herbert A.
Grueber, Esq., F.s.A.; H. R. Hall, Esq., F.s.a.; W. R. Halliday,
Esq.; S. H. Hamer, Esq.; Frederick D. Harford, Esq., C.v.o. ;
F. W. Hasluck, Esq. ; G. F. Hill, Esq.; W. Murton Holmes, Esq. ;
Sir Henry H. Howorth, k.c.1.z.; L. P. Johnston, Esq.; H.
Festing Jones, Esq.; Herbert Jones, Esq., F.s.A4.; Alfred
Lawson, Esq.; Mrs. Mackenzie; F. F. Madan, Esq.; F. H.
Marshall, Esq. ; J. Mavrogordato, Esq. : J. Grafton Milne, Esq. ;
H. Alexander Parsons, Esq.; John H. Pinches, Esq. ; W. ‘Talbot
Ready, Esq.; Dr. P. Rizzini, Director of the Museo Civico,
Brescia; the Rev. Edgar Rogers: Maurice Rosenheim, Ksq. ;
the late Max Rosenheim, Esq., F.s.a.;. Horace Sandars, Esq.,
F.S.A.; Arthur Hamilton Smith, Esq. ; Theodore Spicer-Simson,
Esq. ; Comm. E. Steinmann; Henry Symonds, Esq., F.s.A.; W. H.
Valentine, Esq.; C. D. Wilkinson, Esq.; Lieut. A. T. Wilson;
Howland Wood, Esq.; P. Wood, Esq., c.B.; and A. H. 8.
Yeames, Esq.

IV.— Remarkable Coins and Medals.
1. Greek Series :—-
(a) EHurope :—
Ltaly.—Lucania —Velia.—A fine specimen of the silver

drachm of the earliest period; obv. Forepart of lon devouring
prey; rev. Incuse square. Wt. 59°6 grs.

Sarmatia.—Olbia.— Two specimens of a base silver didrachm
of the early third century B.c.; obv. Head of Athene ; counter-
mark, branch; rev. OABIONOA. Lance and buckler; on the
r., a@ monogram. Wt. 94°3 and 86°9 ors. The same types

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were previously known only on bronze coins (Pick, die antiken
Miinzen Nord-Griechenlands I. pl. X. 35).

Olbia.— 9 bronze coins of various types.
Presented by Sir H. H. Howorth, K.C.L.E.

Thrace. — Hadrianopolis. — A bronze coin of Severus
Alexander, rev. Hermes.

Thrace.—King Lysimachus.—One gold (of Byzantium), 54
silver and three bronze coins, including a fine tetradrachm and
three drachms of the first coinage with Alexander’s types.

Macedonia.—Philip II. and Alexander III.—A series of
thirty gold staters of the usual types, 21 of Philip, and 9 of
Alexander. Presented by Mrs. Emma Esther Deacon.

Macedonia.—Philip II., Alexander III., and the later
Kings.—10 gold, 280 silver and 205 bronze coins; including
specimens of the tetradrachm of Alexander with the types of
Philip II.; and of the tetradrachm of Demetrius Poliorcetes
with the types of Alexander III.

Illyricwum.—Dyrrhachium.—tTwo silver drachms of the 2nd
cent. B.C., with the magistrates’ names.

Presented by F. F. Madan, Esq.

Pannonia.—Two silver staters; obv., Laureate male head
to right, with spiral on cheek ; rev. Horseman to right. Wt.
205°8 and 202 grs.

A silver tetradrachm ; obv. Bust to left, with branch in
front; rev. BVSV Winged centauress. Wt. 261°3 grs. Cp.
Muret no. 10141. From the Stroehlin Collection.

A silver tetradrachm ; obv. Laureate head to right, in front,
a long-tailed animal ; rev. Unintelligible inscription ; horseman
to left with spear. Cp. Muret no. 9900. From the Stroehlin
Collection.

Gaul.—Treviri.—A gold stater of the usual types, inscribed
VOCORAN. Wt. 93:1 gers. Cp. Muret no. 8823. From the
Stroehlin Collection.

Spain.—Carthago Nova.—A rare silver coin of the period
of the Carthaginian occupation ; obv. Head of Heracles to left,
laureate, with club behind shoulder ; rev. Elephant, with rider
on neck, walking r. Wt. 227°4 gers.

This coin, of which but few other specimens are known,
belongs to a series issued during the Barcide rule (221-209 B.c.).
See Berichte der k. preuss. Akad. der Wiss., 11 June 1863,
pp- 248 ff.

Spain.—Orippo.—aA bronze coin, with the usual rev. type,
a bull standingr, Presented by W. Murton Holmes, Esq.

(b) Asta and Africa:—

Cimmerian Bosporus.—A bronze coin of Sauromates II. ;
obv. Head to right, and name of King Sauromates; rev. Eagle
holding wreath in beak, and the letters PMA.

Presented by Sir H. H. Howorth, K.C.L.E.

94 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Bithynia.—Nicaea.—A bronze coin of Trebonianus Gallus ;
rev. Sarapis seated ; one of Valerian with Dionysus AION ....
NIKAIEQON ; and two of Gallienus and one of Salonina with
types relating to games.

Bithynia.—Prusias ad Hypiwm.—-A bronze coin of L.
Verus ; rev. Head of young Heracies in lion-skin.

Bithynia.—Prusa ad Olympum.—aA large bronze of Trajan ;
rev. NPOYCAEIC AIA OAYM. § Zeus seated to right, hold-
ing Nike; and a bronze of Commodus ; rev. Nike.

Uncertain City of Bithynia ?—A bronze coin of Claudius L. ;
obv. Head and titles of Claudius to left; rev. Zeus standing
to r.; inser. A. AOYNIOY CEQYHPOY ANOYNATOY. and
a monogram. Cp. Imhoof-Blumer, Kleinasiatische Munzen
p- 529 no. 10. Nothing is known of the Proconsul L. Dunius
Severus.

Mysia.—Apollonia ad Rhyndacum.—A bronze “ medal-
lion” of Elagabalus; rev, Apollo in Temple.

Mysia.— Cyzicus.—A bronze “ medallion” of Caracalla; rev.
Imperial galley to left. Cp. the similar type on a coin of
Commodus; Rev. Numism. 1891 pl. IV. I.

Mysia.—Hadriani ad Olympum.—A bronze “ medallion ” of
Septimius Severus; rev. Apollo with lyre and tripod; behind
him, figure of Artemis on a column.

Aeolis.—Tisna.—A finely preserved, rare bronze coin of the
4th cent. B.c.; obv. Head of young river-god to left, horned ;
rev. TIZNA[LIJON. Sword in seabbard.

Tonia.—Ephesus.—A silver drachm and half-drachm of
Ephesus, circa 480 B.c.; obv. Bee; vev. Quadripartite incuse
square. Wt. 50°6 and 20-4 ors.

Presented by A. J. Lawson, Esq.

Chios.—A bronze coin of three assaria, of the Imperial
period, with the naine of the magistrate, Aurelius Chrysogonos
son of Epaphrodeitos ; type, Apollo and Dionysos.

Presented by J. Mavrogordato, Esq.

Caria.—Cnidus.—A very fine silver half-obol of the 5th
cent. B.c.; obv. Forepart of lion; rev. Head of Aphrodite in
deep incuse square. Wt. 6°5 grs, -

A silver didrachm of the Rhodian’ standard, crrca 190-167
B.c.; obv. Facing head of Apollo; rev. Head and foreleg of
lion; magistrates name AYZINNOZ. Wt. 76 grs.

Caria.—Cnidus.—13 silver coins from the find of 1911, with
magistrates’ names; types, obv. Head of Artemis ; rev. Tripod ;
and.obv. Head of Aphrodite; rev. Bull’s head and neck.

Caria.—Cnidus.—Iwo silver drachms, from the same
find, with the names of the magistrates EYTEAHZ and
KAEYMBPOT.

Presented by J. Grafton Milne, Esq.

Cilicia.—Flaviopolis.—A bronze coin of Julia Mamaea ; rev.
Dioseuri and date 153 (= A.D. 226-7).

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Armenia.—A bronze coin; obv. Head of King to right,

wearing tiara; behind, small Nike; rev. BAZ .... METAAOY

. AIAZAOY King and City-goddess. Apparently of
Artavasdes III. Presented anonymously.

Phoenicia.—Cesarea ad Libanwm.—A bronze coin of
Elagabalus; rev. COL CESARIA LIB Founder ploughing
with yoke of oxen.

Parthia.—11 drachms of Mithradates II., Phraates III. and
IV., Gotarzes, Volagases I. and V. (from Khumanabad), and a
copper coin of Volagases II.

Presented by Lieut. A. T.. Wilson.

Elymais.—Dynasty of Kamnaskires.—A large bronze coin of
Orodes (?), first century B.c.; obv. Head of King, behind anchor
and crescent ; inscription in two lines, in Chaldzeo-Pehlvi script ;
rev. Arrangement of dashes (degraded type). Cp. Allotte de la
Fuye, Monnaies de V Elymaide PI. X., no. 17.

Mauretania.—Five silver denarii of Juba II. (including one
with the mint-name of CAESAREA); and one of Juba and
Cleopatra.

2. Roman Series :—

A unique bronze coin of Augustus ; oby. Head of Augustus
to left, between the letters SC; behind, ltuus; rev. Mare,
with bell round her neck, browsing to right; in exergue S C.
Spanish fabric. Found in the neighbourhood of an ancient
mine at el Centenillo, in Southern Spain. See Journal of
Roman Studres, Vol. I, p. 101.

Presented by Horace Sandars, Esq., F.S.A.

A barbarous imitation of the denarius of Tiberius, of the
PONTIF:MAXIM: type. From Persia.
Presented by Lieut. A. T. Wilson.

A rare aureus of Nero; obv. NERO CAESAR: AVG: IMP:
Head of Nero to right; rev. PONTIF-‘MAX:TR:P:V-P:P:-
and, in a wreath,EX S:C. Wt. 117°3 gers.

924 denarii, from Galba to Commodus, from the find at
Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire.

Four base denarii of the Emperors Probus, Gallienus,
Nigrinianus, and Arcadius.
Presented by EL. 8. Dodgson, Esq.

25 bronze coins of Emperors from Probus to Focas.
From the Leitner Collection.

A rare silver siliqua of Isaac I. Comnenus; obv. Bust of
Christ holding the Gospels; rev. K€? BOHO: ICAAKIW
OPOOAO=EW AECNOTH TW KOMNHNW. Wt. 22°5 ers.
The only other published specimen of this coin appears
to be that in the Paris Cabinet (see B.M. Catal., Imperial
Byzantine Coins, Vol. II., p. 513).

From the Leitner Collection.

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3. British and Colonial Series :—
(a) Coins :—

Two British gold staters both with the reverse type of a
rude horse: but one having the obverse plain, the other a rude
male head: the edge of the former is dentated. Also a quarter
stater; obv. Eye; rev. Sickle, oak, ete.

From the Stroehlin Collection.

A British gold stater found on the sea-shore at Selsey, near
Chichester, with plain obverse, but on the reverse a horse
surrounded by ornaments of unusual forms.

Selections (2) of 40 silver pennies of William I., William II.
and Stephen, of various types, and struck at Canterbury,
Gloucester, Hereford, Ipswich, Leicester, London, Norwich,
St. Edmundsbury, Thetford, Wallingford, ete.

A penny of Stephen struck at Castle Rising with the legend
on the reverse, HIVN [ON] RISINGE.
Presented by G. M. Beloe, Esq.

A series of 107 silver pennies of the Long cross type of
Henry IIJI., forming part of a hoard unearthed at Palmer’s
Green. The evidence afforded by this find has made it possible
to establish an entirely new classification of this coinage of
Henry III.; a classification, the inverse of that previously
suggested by English numismatists.

A selection of 181 coins (pennies of Edward I, and II.; 4
Irish pennies of Edward IJ., anda Scottish penny of Alex-
ander ITI.) from the Kircudbrightshire find.

80 gold nobles of Edward III. from a hoard found at East
Raynham in Norfolk in December 1910. This hoard consisted.
of 200 nobles covering the period 1351-1372. As these coins
were struck from 119 obverse and 179 reverse dies, the frequent
use of one obverse with two or more reverse dies produced a
large number of so-called mules connecting the three main
classes. By this means it was possible to arrange in chrono-
logical sequence all the known varieties of the gold coinage of
Edward III. and to determine in detail the minor varieties
which distinguish the nobles and half-nobles attributed to
the Calais mint from the London issues, and thereby to suggest
a series of quarter-nobles, which may represent the Calais
issues of this denomination.

A series of 72 XVIIth century London tokens, being
duplicates of those in the Guildhall Library. This selection
includes many rare pieces, more especially those of London
taverns. Presented by the Library Committee of the

Corporation of the City of London.

Five XVIIth century tokens of Corfe Castle, Shepton
Mallet, Poole, Wareham, and Exeter.

Presented by Henry Symonds, Esq., F.S.A.

A pattern half-crown of Victoria with incuse types, by
J. Rochelle Thomas.

Presented by H. A. Grueber, Esq., F.S.A.

DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 07

“ Royal Mint Museum Catalogue, Vol. ]., Coins and Medals” :
also the Mint Report of 1911.
Presented by the Deputy Master of the Mint.

(b) Medals :—

A unique advertising ticket or medal in lead having on
the reverse the name of “Thomas Nuttgrove,” and a Tudor
rose, and on the obverse a man on horseback. This interesting
piece is of the second half of the XVIIth century and was
probably the advertising ticket of a horse-jobber.

A series of 10 bronze medals commemorating the taking of
Porto Bello and Fort Chagre in 1739 and 1741.
Presented by Vice-Admiral H.S.H. Prince Louis
of Battenberg, G.C.B., G.C.V.0.

A portrait plaque in lead of George I.
Presented by Miss Helen Farquhar.

A series of 26 silver and 17 bronze or copper medals relating
to British History and struck between the years 1736-1758.
These medals commemorate various events, amongst which may
be mentioned: the marriage of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, 1756; the administration of
Sir Robert Walpole, obv. bust of Walpole, rev. statue of Cicero
and the legend REGIT NVMMIS ANIMOS ET NVMMIS
REGITVR IPSE;; the passage of the Rhine by Prince Charles
of Lorraine, 1744; the battle of Culloden, 1746; the election of
William IV. as Stadholder of the United Enomniced 1747 ; the
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748; the battles of Rosbach, Lissa,
and Crefeld, 1757, 1758.

A bronze medal commemorating the coronation of their
Majesties the King and Queen: with reverse, the King seated
in a ship with Fame. By J. H. Pinches.

Presented by the Artist.

A specimen in silver of the medal issued in commemoration
of the “Swapping Mallard Festival” held at All Souls College,
Oxford, in 1901, The medal was struck from dies lent by His
Grace the Archbishop of York.

A specimen in bronze of the medal of the Cambridge Society
for Biblical Research. By F. Bowcher,

Presented by the Artist.

A portrait plaque of the late Max Rosenheim, F.S.A. By

Theodore Spicer-Simson. Presented by the Artist,

4, Medieval and Modern Series :—
(a) Coins :—

5 Flemish deniers esterlins of Alost (Guy de Dompierre and
Robert III.’, Maubeuge and Mons (Jean d’Avennes), and Yves
(Gaucher), found in Scotland, and forming part of the Kircud-
brightshire hoard.

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A series of 19 silver and 2 copper coins of Raymond IL.,
Count of Tripoli, and of the Lusignan Dynasty struck in
Cyprus. The coins of the latter series consist of gros and
half-gros of Henri IT. (1312-1324); Hugues IV. (1324-1359) ;
Pierre I. (1359-1369), and of Jacques II. (1460-1473); and two
copper coins of the last ruler. With the exception of the last
3 pieces, these coins came from the Trésor du Morf.

A series of 14 silver and 5 copper coins of Goa struck by
John V1., Maria J., Peter V., and Louis I. of Portugal.

A cut Spanish quarter-dollar countermarked for New
Orleans.
13 pieces of Token-Money of the Greek Church in Asia
Minor (Mytilene, &c.). Presented by F. W. Hasluck, Esq.
(b) Medals :—
A bronze medal of Maximilian I. attributed to Gian Marco
Cavalli, 1506.
Presented by the late Max Rosenheim, E'sq., ¥F.S.A.
A bronze medal of Aretino, by Leone Leoni, with reverse
type, Truth seated ; before her kneels Hatred.
Presented by H. A. Grueber, Esq., F.S.A.

A bronze plaque with female figure watering flowers ;
struck to commemorate the Jubilee of the Société Hongroise
des Beaux-Arts (1861-1911). Presented by the Secvete.

Silver medals commemorating the friendly relations between
Chili and Argentina in 1903; the peace of 1902; and the visit
of the Chilian Delegates to Buenos Aires in 1903.

Presented by Frederve D. Harford, Esq., C.v.0.

A silver medal and another in copper, of the same type but
smaller, struck to commemorate the Centenary of Venezuelan
Independence, 1811-1911. These medals were issued by
the Venezuelan Government, for presentation only, on July 5th,
Ie Presented by Frederick D. Harford Esq., C.v.0.

4 medals in bronze presented by the “Société Francaise
d’Archéologie” to those present at the meetings at Evreux
(1889), Brive (1890), Orleans (1892), and Noyon (1905).

Presented by Herbert Jones, Esq., ¥.S.A.

A bronze medal struck in commemoration of the Centenary
of the Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela.

Presented by the Universidad through the Rector,
Prof. R. Parra Picors.
A bronze medal of the University of Geneva commemorating
the tercentenary of the appointment of the first Rector.
Presented by A. H. S. Yeames, Esq.
(c) Books :—
“Corpus Nummoruin Italicorum,” Vols. I. and II.
Presented by His Majesty Victor Emmanuel IIL.,
King of Italy.

‘Depositi e Medaglie d’Alcuni Sommi Pontifici,’” Roma

MDCCLXXxX. Presented by Henry Van den Bergh, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 99

5. Oriental Serves :—
(a) Coins :—
2 gold mohurs of the Gupta Dynasty struck by Kumara

Gupta I. a.p. 412-450, of the archer and lion type, and the
horseman and goddess (Lakshmi) type.

4 silver coins of Muhammad bin Latif of Gujarat found in
the Betul District.
Presented by the Department of Agriculture,
Central Provinces, India.

2 gold coins of Achin (Malay Archipelago).
Presented by Warren D. Barnes, Esq.

3 silver coins of Alamgir II. (Emperor of Delhi) struck at
Kashmir; of Mahmud (Afghanistan) also struck at Kashuir ;
and of Kuang Hsiti (1875-1909) struck at Kashgar; also 2
Muhammadan amulets issued in Northern India.

Presented by W. P. Appleford, Esq.

10 rupees of Shah Alam, Emperor of Delhi, struck at
Ahmadnagar and Farrukhabad of various dates; and 5 others
of the same ruler struck at Bareli.

Presented by the Government of the United
Provinces, India.

15 rupees of the Mogul Emperors of Delhi :—Akbar,.
Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Farrukh Siyar, Shah Alam I. and IL.,ete. ; .
also 3 rupees of Haidarabad ; and a Persian dirhem of Husain.
Shah struck at Isfahan in a.H. 1132.

Presented by Evelyn Grant Duff, Esq., 0.B.

4 half-pagodas of Vijayanagara struck by Dévaraya IL,
Achyutaraya, Sadasivaraya, and Krishnaraya; and 2 pagodas
of Ikkeri struck by Sadasiva.

Presented by the Government of Madras..

3 base silver coins struck by the Mahdi at Omdurman.

Presented by Howland Wood, Esq.

THE BLEAZBY COLLECTION OF MUHAMMADAN COINS oF INDIA.

Presented by. Henry Van den Bergh, Esq., through the.
. National Art-Collections Fund.

This collection, which consists of 173 specimens in gold,
1,480 in silver, and 994 in billon and copper, was formed by
Mr. George Bleazby during a long residence in India. In
making this collection Mr. Bleazby insisted on two points, viz.,
the historical importance of the coins and their state of
preservation. The result has been that it is without exception
the finest and most complete that has ever been brought
together by a private individual. The series comprises coins
of the six dynasties, known as the Sultans of Delhi, and of the
Moghul Emperors of India, whose seat of Government was also
at Delhi, and it forms a magnificent record of the history of
India from a.p. 1168, when the victorious Muhammad bin Sam
finally crushed the opposition of the Rajputs and became the
first Muhammadan ruler of India till the deposition of Bahadur

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Shah in 1857. This generous gift not only doubles this series
of coins in the National Collection, but also places it far ahead
numerically and in completeness of any other collection either
in India or on the Continent.

(b) Medals :—

1 silver and 1 bronze medal of the United Provinces
Exhibition, Allahabad, 1910.
Presented by the Committee of Management, United
Provinces Association, Allahabad.

V.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits made to the Department of Coins
and Medals by students and others during the year 191]
was 4,050.

H. A. Grueber.

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BritisH Museum (NATURAL HIstTory).

STATEMENT of PROGRESS made in the ARRANGEMENT and
DESCRIPTION of the COLLECTIONS, and Account of OBJECTS
added to them, in the Year 1911.

GENERAL PROGRESS.
Visitors.

The total number of visits made by the public to the
Natural History Museum during 1911 was 435,684, as compared
with 515,562in 1910. The falling off in numbers (nearly 80,000)
_ is no doubt partly to be accounted for by the exceptionally
fine weather experienced during the summer. A comparison
of the figures during the months of July, August, and September
with those of the same months of the previous year shows that
nearly 40,000, or one-half of the decrease, occurred in those
three months, when the weather was exceptionally fine. The
number of visits on week days was 380,991, and on Sunday
afternoons 54,693.

The average daily attendance for all open days was 1,207 ;
for week days only, 1,221; and for Sunday afternoons, 1,032.

The Museum was closed on 22 and 23 June, the days
proclaimed as Public Holidays on the occasion of the Royal
Coronation and the Royal Progress.

Swiney Lectures.

Dr. T. J. Jehu gave his third course of Swiney Lectures
during November, the subject being “The Natural History of
Rocks.”

The lectures, twelve in number, were delivered, as usual, in
the theatre of the Victoria and Albert Museum, by permission
of the Board of Education, and the total attendance for the
course was 2,341 persons, or an average of 195 per lecture (as
compared with 193 in 1910).

The Trustees have approved as the subject of Dr. Jehu’s
next course of lectures: “The Record of Life as revealed in the
Rocks”; and they have agreed to his proposal to deliver them
on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays in December and
January, with a fortnight’s interval for the Christmas holiday,
instead of in November.

Exhibition of the Natural History of the Bible.

In connection with the celebration of the Tercentenary of
the first publication of the Authorized Version of the Bible, a
special exhibition illustrating the natural history of the Bible
has been arranged in the Central Hall of the Museum, and a
Guide-book to the Exhibition has been published.

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The Exhibition was opened to the public in June. The
Exhibition has attracted considerable notice not only in this
country but also in the United States, and it has been deter-
mined to keep it open for some time longer—probably until the
end of the year (1912). |

South Kensington Site.

This question, to which reference was made in the last
Annual Return, has given the Trustees considerable anxiety,
since the original proposal in connection with the use of the
land on the north of the Natural History Museum threatened
seriously to affect the interests of the Museum in the future.
The views of the Trustees on the subject are fully set out in
the White Paper ‘“‘ Copy of Correspondence between the First
“ Commissioner of Works and the Trustees of the British
““ Museum on the subject of the Provision of a Site fora New
“ Science Museum at South Kensington” (Cd. 5650).

As a result of further correspondence and of several con-
ferences between representatives of the Departments concerned,
a settlement has been arrived at, under the terms of which the
boundary of the Natural History Museum as adjusted in 1899
has been secured to the Trustees. By the settlement the demo-
lition of the existiny Spirit Building has been avoided, and
accommodation for the Geological Survey and the collections
at present in Jermyn Street will be provided on ground south
of the boundary line of 1899. The buildings for the Survey
offices and the collections (while communicating with the
Science Museum) will be in connection with and form a part
structurally of the eastward extension of the Natural History
Museum, and will be so arranged as to fit that extension when
it is eventually built. A Lecture Theatre, which will be under
the control of the Trustees but available for joint use by both
Museums, forms part of the scheme.

The Trustees in assenting to provide this accommodation
for the Geological Survey collections believe that the arrange-
ment will be of great advantage to students and others
interested, since these collections will thus be continuous with
the part of the Natural History Museum in which are arranged
the Systematic Palzontological and Mineralogical collections.

Spirit Building.

The question of the South Kensington site was closely
connected with the problem of finding room for an extension of
the building containing the spirit collections. Reference has
in previous years been made to the over-crowded state of the
Spirit House, and the provision of additional accommodation
has become an urgent matter. The specimens form a most
important section of the Natural History Muscum, and their
increase in number may be expected to be more rapid in the
future than it has been in the past, great as this has been,

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By the terms of the above-mentioned settlement the Trustees
are debarred from extending the existing Spirit’ Building on
the same alignment, either eastward or westward, as they had
hitherto contemplated.

Correspondence on the subject has taken place between
them and the First Commissioner of His Majesty’s Works, who
has submitted plans for the erection of a new Spirit Building
on the open space lying between the Natural History Museum
and Cromwell Road.

It is proposed that the new Spirit House shall be partly
below the ground, the roof being at the same level as the
footway adjacent in Cromwell Road.

The Trustees have found serious objection to placing the
Spirit House in front of the main building, and they have only
assented to the scheme because they are assured that no other
suitable site is available.

Photographic Room.

This has been provided with two arc-lamps of 1,000 candle
power, so that photographs may be taken at all times with a
constant supply of sufficient light.

Entomological Research Committee,

Increased accommodation has been afforded at the Museum
for the purposes of the Entomological Research Committee.

The Trustees have had brought to their notice the probable
considerable development in the staff and work of the Com-
mittee, for which still further accommodation will be required
in the near future; and they have under their consideration
the question of the best way to provide quarters for the work
of the Committee. The Trustees feel assured that it is in the
interest of the Natural History Museum, not less than in that
of the Entomological Research Committee, that the present
close association of the Committee with the Museum should be
established on a permanent footing, and they propose to reserve
ample accommodation for the work of the Committee in the
scheme for an extension of the Natural History Museum on its
west wing which they have under consideration,

Destructive Action of Light.

Further reports have been received from the Director of
the National Physical Laboratory on the results of experiments
carried out to test the effect of light on skins of mammals and
birds, recommending the use of tinted glass for electric light
lamps, and stating that the deleterious rays can be excluded by
interposing a sufficient number of layers of ordinary glass.

These reports have been brought under the notice of the
Office of Works, with a view to the carrying out of the
recommendations contained in them.

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Museums Association.

Dr. F. A. Bather was appointed to act as the representative
of the Natural History Museum at the annual conference of
the Museums Association held at Brighton in July.

Meteorological Office.

By permission of the Trustees, the Director of the Meteoro-
logical Office, which recently moved to South Kensington, has
placed a set of instruments for his daily observations and
weather reports on a plot of grass in the Museum grounds, to
which he is allowed access at 6 p.m. daily.

Protection of Whales in Antarctic Seas.

The attention of the Trustees having been directed to the
wholesale destruction of Whales said to be going on in
Antarctic Seas, representations on the subject have been made
to the Colonial Office, with a view to bringing about an Inter-
national Conference, in which the Trustees would be prepared
to participate, on the need of measures being taken for the
protection of these animals. The subject is one of considerable
importance, for it is certain that the unrestricted slaughter of
these marine mammals cannot be continued without serious
danger of the extermination of the species concerned.

Protection of Birds in the West Indies.

At the request of the Acting Governor of the Windward
Islands, received through the Colonial Office, schedules of
species of birds for total and partial protection, with popular
and scientific names, have been prepared for substitution
en bloc for the present lists in the Wild Birds’ Protection
Ordinance (St. Lucia), 1885,

Bombay Natural History Society.

In response to an appeal from the Bombay Natural History
Society, the Trustees have, with Treasury sanction, contributed
towards a fund raised by that Society for the employment of
trained European collectors to make a systematic collection of
the mammals of India, Burma, and Ceylon; it being a part of
the scheme that all the specimens obtained will be sent to the
Natural History Museum for identification and description, and
the types and other specimens that may be required for the
Museum will be presented by the Society to the Trustees.

Uganda Boundary Commission.

At the request of the Trustees, Mr. Robin Kemp, an expe-
rienced collector, was attached as naturalist to the Commission
appointed to delimit the boundary between Uganda, the Congo,
and German East Africa. A valuable collection consisting of
mammals (including 23 species new to science) and birds has
been received from Mr. Kemp.

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 105

Geological Expedition to British East Africa.

Through the generosity of friends of the Museum, Dr. Felix
Oswald, F.G.S., arranged to devote four months to an
exploration of the newly discovered Tertiary bone-bearing
deposit in British East Africa, with the object of obtaining
fossil specimens for the Museum. Facilities in aid of this
mission have been promised by the Colonial Office.

Bequest.

The collection of Insects has been considerably enriched
by the bequest of the late Mr. G. H. Verrall of part of his
collection of British Diptera. The bequest was accompanied
with the condition that Mr. Verrall’s labels bearing the names
applied by him should be permanently. attached to his
specimens.

Presents.

The total number of gifts received during the year by the
several Departments was 2,431, as compared with 2,235 in 1910.
Many of these comprised large numbers of individua] specimens.
The details of the more important of them will be found in the
reports of the Keepers of the Departments, but the following
are mentioned here also, as being of special interest :—

From the Duke of Bedford.—A very fine collection of
Mammals and Birds from Western China brought together by
His Grace’s Collector, Mr. M. P. Anderson, during a systematic
zoological survey of Western Asia.

From the Subscribers to the British Ornithologists’ Union’s
Expedition to Dutch New Guinea.-—The whole of the zoological
- collections obtained by the Expedition sent out in 1909 by the
British Ornithologists’ Union, under the leadership of Mr.
Walter Goodfellow, to collect specimens in the unexplored
Hinterland of Dutch New Guinea have been received at the
Museum as a gift trom the subscribers. The expedition was
due to the initiation of Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, who acted as
Secretary to the Committee formed to carry it out, while
Mr. C. EK. Fagan acted as Treasurer. The total number of
specimens obtained is about 7,870, of which 2,750 are birds,
nearly 500 mammals, and 2,860 insects.

From Mr. C. D. Rudd.—A second valuable consignment of
mammals and birds collected in British East Africa by Mr.
Robin Kemp. (The whole collection resulting from the
zoological exploration of British East Africa undertaken by
Mr. C. D. Rudd for the benefit of the Museum has amounted
to 1,590 mammals, including the types of 44 new species and
sub-species, 567 birds, and some insects, &c.—Sce last year’s
Return, page 111.)

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From Mr. Robin Alexander.—A series of 4,798 Birds,
including the types of no fewer than 84 species, selected from
the collection obtained by the late Mr. Boyd Alexander
during his various expeditions to Africa, Cape Verde, and
Fernando Po.

From the Board of Trade.—Two specimens of Whales which’
were stranded on the coast during the summer: one being
the complete skeleton of a Pilot Whale or Blackfish; the
other, the skull, with fragments of the baleen, of a Lesser
Rorqual.

From Captain E. C. Hardy, R.N., of H.M.S. “ Mutine.”—A
collection of zoological specimens obtained on the West Coast
of Africa by Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe, during the magnetic
survey of that coast from the Cape to Sierra Leone.

From Lord Walsingham.—Three valuable series of Moths,
viz., 700 Pterophorina or Tineina collected by him in S. France;
2,533 Tineina from N. Queensland; and 1,467 Tineina from
French Guinea.

From Mr. F. D. Godman.—Further important collections
of Mexican and Central American insects -received. during the
year, comprising 19,444 specimens of Coleoptera, all fully
labelled and arranged, and 900 specimens partly determined
and described; 3,425 specimens of Lepidoptera, almost all
being named Lycenide ; 2,327 specimens of Odonata (Dragon-
flies) fully labelled and described; 1,178 unnamed specimens
of Neuroptera ; and 305 named specimens of Orthoptera.

From Mr. Guy R. G. Nevinson.—A valuable collection of
6,500 beetles, of the family Cicindelide, formerly the property
of the late Mr. Frederick Bates.

From the Solar Physics Observatory Eclipse Expedition.—
A miscellaneous series of natura: history specimens collected
by the Officers during tbe cruise of the Expedition in the Pacific.

From the Geological Society of London.—All the non-
British specimens of fossils, minerals and rocks contained in
the Society’s Museum: all type and figured specimens and all
material of exceptional value and importance in illustrating
the advance of the Science of Geology to be retained by the
Trustees. —

From H.I. and R.H. the Archduke Ludwig Salvator of
Austria.—A set of very handsome volumes describing H.I. and
R.H.’s various travels.

Purchases.

Among the more important purchases made during the
year, special mention may be made of the following :--

The fourth instalment of the Rev. Canon A. M. Norman’s
collection of Atlantic and. Arctic Invertebrates, consisting
chiefly of Mollusca, Crustacea, Polyzoa, &c.; the second
instalment of the first portion of the collection of Australian
Coleoptera made by the Rev. Canon Thomas Blackburn ;
the second instalment of the Lewis collection of Coleoptera

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from Japan and Ceylon; the first instalment of Mr. W.
L. Distant’s collection of Insects, comprising about 5,000
specimens of Cicadidze and Moths, including .250 types; a
fine series of vertebrate animals from the Cameroons, collected
by Mr. G. L. Bates; skull, with the horns, of a white Rhinoceros
from Southern Africa; 560 Fishes from British Guiana, including
the co-types of 80 species; a collection of fresh-water fishes
from Angola; collections of birds from Portuguese East Africa,
Western Columbia, Palawan, etc.; a monkey-eating Hagle from
the Philippines ; collections of Moths from Western Columbia,
Dutch New Guinea, etc.; a selection of very rare reptilian
remains, in a remarkable state of preservation, from the
Wealden of the South Coast of the Isle of Wight; fossil
reptiles from the Trias of Elgin, and fish remains from the
Upper Old Red Sandstone of Nairn; 5,000 small fossils, chiefly
polyzoa, from the Chalk Marl of Cambridge; about 4,500
foraminifera from the Oligocene of Lower Alsace; a series
of remains of 9 marine reptiles from the Oxford Clay of Peter-
borough; fragments of the Borodino meteoric stone, the
meteoric iron found in the nitrate deposits of the Oficina
Angela, Tarapaca, Chile, and the meteoric stone which fell in
1910 at Vigarano, Ferrara, Italy; a large and fine native
copper; collections of plants from the Philippines, Mexico,
Angola, China, Natal, Sandwich Islands, Bulgaria, ete.

EHxchanges and Gifts of Duplicates.

Exchanges of duplicate specimens have been made with
various institutions and individuals.

The following have been added to the lst of institutions
to receive grants of duplicate specimens, namely :—National
Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Municipal Museum, Hull; Bethlem
Royal Hospital ; Goldsmith’s College (University of London) ;
Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum, Kimberley ; Worksop
Museum; University College, Reading.

Selections of duplicate specimens have been presented as
follows :—

Of zoological specimens—to Battersea Museum; Hudders-
field Museum; St. Helens Public Museum; Bootle Museum ;
S. Wilts and Blackmore Museum, Salisbury ; the Australian
Museum, Sydney; the Nationa] Museum of Wales, Cardiff;
the Municipal Museum, Hull; the Imperial College of Science
and Technology ; the National Museum, Dublin; Grey Coat
Hospital, Westminster; Londonderry Museum; Mr. Pierre
Lesne, Paris; Mr. Adolf Schmidt, Berlin; Mr. A. M. Lea;
Prof. G. H. F. Nuttall, F.R.S. (Cambridge University) ; Dr.
F. Ohaus, Berlin; Dr. Hans Wagner, Berlin; Sefior R. P.
Longinos Navas,8.J., Saragossa; Mr. Heinrich Prell, Dresden ;
Dr. Creighton Wellman, California; Prof. O. Taschenberg,
Halle; Dr. F. F. Kohl, Vienna; Prof. J. W. Spengel, Giessen ;
meot, Dr; Bs Y. Sjostedt, Stockholm; Dr. K: M. Heller,
Dresden; Mr. E. Olivier; and Mr. B. Lichtwardt, Charlot-
tenburg.

108 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Of fossils and casts of fossils—-to the Zoological Depart-
ment of Bristol University ; the Royal Scottish Museum ;
Kdinburgh ; the Geological Museum of Oxford University ;
the Natural History Museum of the Grand Duchy of Luxem-
bourg ; London Hospital Medicai College; Bethlem Hospital ;
the Botanical Department of Sheffield University ; the London
Museum; Dr. R. 8S. Bassler, Washington; and Prof. Sollas,
Oxford Univer sity Museum

Of mineral Pee ie the Geological Survey of India,
Calcutta.

Of botanical specimens—to Warrington Museum; and
Pennsylvania University Herbarium, Philadelphia.

(N.B.—AIl the ondividuals named have presented specimens
or otherwise benefited the Museum.)

Publications.

The following works on Natural History have been published
during the year :—

Catalogue of the Freshwater Fishes of Africa in the British
Museum (Natural History). By G. A. Boulenger, r.x.s. Vol. II.
Pp. xii., 529; 382 text-figures. Imp. 8vo. £2 10s.

Handbook of the Tsetse-Flies (Genus Glossina). By E. E,
Austen. Pp. x., 110; 10 coloured plates and 24 text-figures, by
A.J. Engel Terzi; 1 map. Roy. 8vo. 5s. 6d.

Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phaleenz (Moths) in the British
Museum. By Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart. Vol. X. Atlas of
26 Coloured Plates. 8vo. £1.

A Monograph of the British Lichens: a Descriptive Cata-
logue of the Species in the Department of Botany, British
Museum. Part II. By Annie Lorrain Smith, F.L.s. Pp. viii,
409; 59 plates. 8vo. £1.

A Monograph of the Mycetozoa: a Descriptive Catalogue
of the Species in the Herbarium of the British Museum. “By
A. Lister, F.R.S., F.L.S. Second Edition, revised by Gulielma
Lister, F.L.S. Pp. 302 ; 201 plates (120 coloured), 56 text-
figures. 8vo. £1 10s.

Special Guides. No. 5.-—Guide to the Exhibition of Animals,
Plants, and Minerals mentioned in the Bible. Pp. vii, 74;
7 text-figures. 8vo. 6d.

New editions have been issued of the following Guide-
Books :—

Guide to the Fossil Invertebrate Animals in the Depart-
ment of Geology and Paleontology. By Dr. F. A. Bather,
F.R.S. Second Edition. Pp. x., 183; 7 plates and 96 text-
figures. 8vo. Is

Guide to the Mineral Gallery. Eleventh Edition. Pp. 32.
8vo. Id.

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 109

The Student’s Index to the Collection of Minerals. Twenty-
fourth edition. Pp. 36. 8vo. 2d.

Guide to the Exhibition of Animals, Plants, and Minerals
mentioned in the Bible. Second Edition. Pp. vii. 78; 7 text-
figures. 8vo. 6d.

Instructions for Collectors. No. 4.—Insects. Fifth Edition.
Pp. 11. Text illustrated. 8vo. 3d.

Selections of the natural] history publications of the Museum
have been sent to Free Libraries and other institutions in
Great Britain and Ireland, to Colonial, Indian, and foreign
Museums, Libraries, and Scientific Societies, and to several
persons who have benefited the Museum by helping in the
publication of the volumes, or in other ways.

Additions have been made to the publications-exchange list.

The undermentioned works are in preparation :—
Catalogue of the Library, Vol. IV.

National Antarctic (Discovery) Expedition, 1901-4. Natural
History, Vol. VI.

Catalogue of Bats, by Dr. Knud Andersen.
Hand-list of Birds, General Index to Vols. I -V.
Catalogue of Birds’ Eggs, Vol. V., by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant.

Catalogue of Mammals of Western Europe, by Gerrit S.
Miller.

Catalogue of the Freshwater Fishes of Africa, Vol. III., by
G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S.

Third Report on Economic Zoology.
Lllustrations of British Flies, Second Series.

Illustrations of Oriental Blood-sucking Flies, with text by
KE. E. Austen.

Catalogue of Moths, Vol. XI., by Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart.

Catalogue of Ichneumonidze or Parasitic Flies, by C. Morley.

Catalogue of Polychete Worms, by Dr. J. H. Ashworth

Catalogue of Marine Reptiles of the Oxford Clay, Part II.,
by Dr. C. W. Andrews, F.R.S.

Catalogue of Fossil Fishes, Part V., by Dr. A. S.
Woodward, F.R.S.

Flora of Jamaica, by W. Fawcett, Vol. II.

Catalogue of the Sloane Herbarium, by J. Britten.

Catalogue of Cretaceous Flora, Vol. I., by Dr. Marie
Stopes.

Guide to British Lichens.

110 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH: MUSEUM.

GENERAL LIBRARY.

The additions to the General Library during the past year
have been :—

By purchase - - - 327 volumes.

By transfer from other

Departments” - - - 2 volumes and 10 photo-
graphs.

By donation - - - 715 volumes, 87 maps, and

147 photographs.

- 1,044 volumes, 87 maps, and
157 photographs.

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The most important donation of the year was that of fifty
volumes, chiefly on his travels, received from H.I. and R.H. the
Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria. The other personal
donors to the Library during the year were :—

Austen, E. E., Esq. Kofoid, C. A., Esq.

Bagshaw, W., Esq. Orleans H.R.H. the Duke of.
Calman, Dr. T. W. Pace, S., Esq.

Dean, Dr. Bashford. Pearse, Major A.

Fagan, C. E., Esq. Rothschild, Hon. W.

Fletcher, Dr. L.
Harmer, Dr. S. F.

Hopkinson, John, Esq.

Shackleton, Sir E., c.v.o.
Sherborn, C. Davies, Esq.

Smitha; Dan'N, BP:

Jackson, J. Wilfred, Esq. | Woodward, Dr. A. Smith.

All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press-
marked, and put in their places; whilst 1,401 volumes have
been bound in 731, and one has been repaired.

The extent of the collection on the 3lst of December was
40,998 volumes, 5,786 maps, and 695 photographs (not including
those in the Owen Collection of Drawings, etc.).

The accessions to the Departmental Libraries have also been
catalogued as they came in, and duplicate transcripts of the
titles have been returned with the books.

Altogether 2,953 title-slips have been written, 224 re-
written, “and 3 3, 951 revised (independently of those prepared for

printing).

There are now, on a rough estimate, 89,772 volumes (ex-
clusive of continuations and minor separata) and 6,140 maps
in the whole building.

The number of visits paid to the General Library during
the year by students and others (irrespective of the staff and
persons to whom the use of a key is granted) was 1,947.

The printing of the Catalogue was proceeded with, and the
work at the end of the year stood as follows :—

No. of sheets passed for press (A—RIBB) - - 212
No. of title-slips set up in type (A—RIBE)~ - - 48,173

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BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 111

A “List of Works relating to the Natural History Depart-
ments of the British Museum to the end of the year 1910” was
prepared, printed, and issued for the use of the staff of the
Museum.

InDEX MUSEUM AND MORPHOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS.

In the early part of the year the exhibited collection of the
“Memorials of Charles Darwin” was dispersed, and the 250
specimens and groups of specimens borrowed from various
Departments of the Museum and from private individuals were
returned.

An exhibition of Animals, Plants, and Minerals mentioned
in the Bible has been placed in one of the bays on the east side
of the Central Hall. It supplements the literary and historical
Bible Exhibition which has been arranged at Bloomsbury for
the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version. The Animals and
Minerals, respectively, have been selected, arranged, and labelled
by Mr. Lydekker and Dr. Herbert Smith, under the general
supervision of the Keepers of Zoology and Mineralogy; the
Plants have been selected, arranged, and labelled by Dr. Rendle,
the Keeper of Botany. <A guide to the exhibition has been
prepared and published.

A greatly enlarged model of the Tropical Rat Flea (Xeno-
psylla cheopis), the Flea which is responsible for the spread of
plague, was set out in the middle of the Hall in July. The
model (that of a male) was presented by the Entcmological
Research Committee, which has since given enlarged models of
the head and the hind end of the female of the same species for
comparison with it.

The series of exhibits in the middle of the Hall illustrating
the spread of diseases of Trypanosome origin by means of
Tsetse Flies has been revised, enlarged, and re-labelled.

With a view to explaining to the general visitor the
elementary principles of the classification of animals, plants,
and minerals, and with the further object of indicating to him
by reference to plans of the building the various Departments
in which he may find exhibited the fuller series of such objects
as he may desire to examine, specimens are being prepared for
exhibition in a series of four upright table-cases to be placed in
a prominent position in the Hall.

In view of the great interest taken in the Flight of Animals
in consequence of the rapid progress recently made in the science
of aeroplaning, specimens are being prepared to illustrate in a
popular manner the modes of flight in Vertebrates and Insects.
The preparations are designed to explain the mechanical
principles involved in the link-work and leverage of the skeletal
parts, the power-producing mechanism (elevator and depressor
muscles) and its relation to the skeletal parts, the structure and
shape of the flight membranes, and the mode of folding of the

112 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

wings when at rest. Examples will be shown, not only of
animals possessing the capacity for true flight, but also of those
which move through the air by scudding or parachuting down
from a higher to a lower level.
(Signed) L. Fletcher,
Director.

British Museum (Natural History),
24 February, 1911.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 113

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY,
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.
MAMMALIA,

Mammal Galleries.

During the year the rearrangement of the Rodents in their
new position in the Upper Gallery has been completed, with
manifest advantage from the exhibition point of view, as such
relatively small animals show much better in the cases in this
gallery than in the larger ones below. Many of the labels
have also been reprinted, as it was found by experience that
the small type selected by Sir William Flower for the smaller
Specimens was difficult to read. Many of the descriptive labels
in both galleries have also been reprinted, in order to bring
them up to date.

In the Lower Mammal Gallery little has been required in
the way of rearrangement; the most important alterations
being the fitting of partitions in the big Sheep case and in the
Wild Goat case, for the purpose of displaying specimens in a
better light than was previously possible.

In the East Corridor the Rhodesian Giraffe presented by
Mr. Thornicroft has been put in position in the big case at the
top of the staircase, and the ground-work has been rearranged.
It was hoped that this would only involve the removal from
the case of the small Kilimanjaro Giraffe (for the exhibition of
which arrangements had already been made); but when the
new specimen was put in position, the case iooked overcrowded,
and it became necessary to remove the Nigerian Giraffe as well.
The latter must: therefore stand unprotected in the Corridor,
until other arrangements can be made.

The additions to the Galleries during the year include the
following specimens, among which special attention may be
directed to the Gribble Island Bear, the Shen-si Takin, and
the Rhodesian Giraffe :—A Gribble Island White Bear (Ursus
kermodet), presented by the Government of British Columbia.
Head of Ankole Buffalo (Bos caffer radcliffer), presented by
. G. Barclay, Esq. Head of Senegambian Buffalo (Bos caffer
planiceros), the gift of G. Fenwick Owen, Esq. Heads of an
Afghan Urial (Ovis vignet blanfordi) and a Cabul Markhou
(Capra faleonert megaceros), from Chitral, presented by
Captain R. A. Lyall. Head of Suleman Markhor (Capra
falconert jerdoni), presented by Major R. L. Kennion. A
complete specimen of the new Shen-si Takin (Budorcas
bedfordi), the gift of the Duke of Bedford, K.G. A Weyns’s
Duiker (Cephalophus weynsi), presented by Dr. C. C. Christy.
A Phillips’ Dik-dik (Madoqua phillipsz), presented by Dr. R. E.
Drake-Brockman. A Four-horned Antelope (Tetraceros quad-
ricornis), given by the Bombay Natural History Society. Head

0.91 H

114 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

of horned female Klipspringer (Oreotragus saltator schillingst),
presented by Captain W. H. Wilkin. Skulls and horns of Red-
fronted Gazelle (Gazella rufifrons), Heuglin’s Gazelle (Gazella
tilonura), and Isabelle Gazelle (Gazella isabella), presented by
W. B. Cotton, Esq. Frontlets and horns of Persian Gazelle
(Gazella swbguttwrosa) and Palestine Gazelle(Gazella merrilli),
presented by Mrs. Guy Bethell. Skull of Bongo (Bodcercus
. euryceros), the gift of R. K. Gibbons, Esq. A brindled Gnu
(Connochetes tawrinus), presented by L. A. Walker, Esq.,
C.M.G. (at the request of the Earl of Selborne, K.G.). A
Rhodesian Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis thornicrofti),
presented by H. S. Thornicroft, Esq. Frontlet and horns of
Pampas Deer (Dorcelaphus bezoarticus), presented by Sir
Arthur Warren, K.C.B. A series of frontlets and antlers of
the Roebuck (Capreolus caprea), from Bavaria, presented by
F. N. A. Fleischmann, Esq.

The only important additions by purchase are a Brazilian
Tapir (Tapirus terrestris), and a remarkably fine skull, with
the horns, of a South African White Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros
s~umus),.

Whale-Room.—Continued progress has been made with the
work of replacing the unsightly mounted skins of Porpoises
and Dolphins by coloured plaster models. This has made
available a considerable amount of space in the wall-cases at.
the South end of the Gallery, in which the skulls of the Beaked
Whales have been arranged; this transference having also
set several glass table-cases at liberty.

Study Serves :—
The usual work of labelling, registering, and incorporating
the mammals added to the collection has been continued.

Three cabinets for storing small Mammal skins and one
cabinet for the skulls of small Mammals have been added.
A block of six cabinets for storing medium-sized Mammal
skins has recently been placed in the Upper Mammal Gallery.
The collections of Carnivora and Marsupials have been
rearranged, and the entire coilection of Rodents (excepting
the Hares and Rabbits) is now arranged in the New Room.

The Department is again much indebted to volunteer helpers
for valuable assistance in working out new forms of Mammals.
The following gentlemen should be specially mentioned in this
connection :—Mr. R. C. Wroughton, Dr. Knud Andersen,
Dr. R. E. Drake-Brockman, Dr. Einar Lonnberg, Professor
Angel Cabrera, and Major G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton.

The services of Dr. Knud Andersen have been continued
for the preparation of the new Catalogue of Chiroptera, the
first volume of which will be published in 1912. :

The printing of Mr. Gerrit 8. Miller’s Catalogue of the
Mammals of Western Europe is nearly completed.

The arrangement of the skeleton collection in the Osteological
Room has made-good progress. The skulls of several Whales

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have been suspended from the ceiling to economize the floor-
space; and iron bands have been placed round the pillars to
serve as supports for large skulls and horns. New cabinets
have been added for the reception of the Ungulate skeletons.
The skeleton of “ Persimmon” exhibited in the North Hall has
been remounted. A cast of a dissection of the Paddle of the
Pilot-Whale has been made and placed in the Whale Gallery.
This appears to be the best means of displaying such specimens,
with the bones accurately in position; and it is proposed to
add other specimens to the series as opportunity occurs.

Additions of special interest to the Osteological and Anthropo-
logical Collections :—The face-mask and hand of a Bushman 104
years old, taken during life, presented by Thackeray Edwards,
Esq. Eleven skulls of natives from the Mimika River, presented
by the British Ornithologists’ Union Expedition to New Guinea.
10 human skulls, mostly African, but including one Guanche
and one deformed skull from Vancouver, presented by the
Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich. A male and female
Roe-deer, Capreolus caprea, given by the Duke of Buccleuch,
K.G. The skeleton of an Arab pony, “ Little Joker,” given by
the President, Bombay Veterinary College. A skeleton of
Balena biscayensis, obtained as a result of the efforts of
R. C. Haldane, Esq. A specimen of the “ Black-fish,” Ca’ing
Whale, or Pilot-Whale, Globicephalus melas, and a skull of the
Lesser Rorqual, Balenoptera rostrata, presented by the
President of the Board of Trade. A Panda, Hlwropus fulgens,
given by the Zoological Society of London. A Solid-hoofed Pig.
the present of the Hon. N. C. Rothschild.

DOMESTICATED ANIMALS,

North Hall.—As the result of Mr. Lydekker’s special
(private) studies of Domesticated Horses, Cattle, and Sheep, it -
has been found practicable to make numerous redeterminations
in the specimens of these groups exhibited in the North Hall,
and this has involved the reprinting of many of the labels,
which has, of course, rendered the corresponding references in
the ‘“‘ Guide-book ” to this section of the Museum out of date.

The additions to the domesticated series include the:
following :—Skull and horns of Cape Trek Ox, presented by
the Administration of British Bechuanaland, Head of Khati--
awar Buffalo, presented by H.H. the Nawab of Junagahr. An
Indian Dumba Sheep, presented by the Duke of Bedford, K.G.
A Punjabi Goat, presented by V. H. Woodley, Esq. A Jamna-
pari Goat, presented by the Agricultural Department of India.
A Solid-hoofed Pig, presented by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild.
A Siamese Cat, presented by Mrs. Windham Holley. Skull
a an albinistic Pekinese Spaniel, presented by G. Nettleship,

sq.

The abnormality series has been augmented by a parti-
coloured Mole, presented by C. Dawson, Esq. |

H 2

116 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

AVES.

The remounting of the series of Birds in the General Gallery
has been continued and the old and faded specimens of the
Families Dendrocolaptide, Cotingide, and Pipride have been
replaced by finely mounted examples.

The rearrangement and relabelling of the Gould collection
of Humming-Birds has been continued.

The preparation of the fifth volume of the ‘“ Catalogue of
the Collection of Birds’ Eggs,” by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant,
has been completed.

A general Index to the five volumes of the Handlist of
Birds is in the press, and will be issued early in 1912.

Lists of Birds believed to require protection in certain
British Colonies and Protectorates have been prepared for the
information of the Colonial Office.

The collection of skins in cabinets has been carefully
examined, drawer by drawer, or box by box, to ascertain if
there is any trace of moth or beetle among them. About half
the cabinets have been inspected in this way and camphor has
been placed in each drawer.

Great assistance has been received from Mr. David A.
Bannerman, who has been engaged in working out various
collections, in labelling a number of old collections, and in
preparing them for incorporation.

The Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for the
Colonies to inquire into the question of the destruction of
Plumage Birds, including Mr. C. E. Fagan, Dr. Harmer, and
Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, to represent the Museum, have
completed their investigations, but have not yet issued their
report. ;

The more notable presents are the following:—From the
Subscribers to the British Ornithologists’ Union Expedition to
Dutch New Guinea: A large series of Birds which are of great
zoological importance, and form a gift, the value of which
can scarcely be over estimated. The magnificent collection of
African Birds formed by the late Mr. Boyd Alexander, during
his various Expeditions, and given in accordance with his wish
to the Trustees, has been handed over by his executors. It
includes the types of eighty-four species described by him, and
numbers in all four thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight
specimens. From Captain E. C. Hardy, R.N.: A valuable
collection of Birds [in addition to Mammals and Insects] formed
by Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe, who accompanied H.MLS. ‘“‘ Mutine ”
as naturalist. Captain Hardy was engaged in carrying out a
magnetic survey from the Cape of Good Hope to Sierra Leone,
and invited Mr. Lowe to join him as his guest for the purpose
of collecting specimens for the Natural History Museum. From
Mr. G. Blaine: A valuable collection of Birds formed during
his travels in Equatorial Africa. From the Grouse Disease

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. ; 117

Inquiry Committee: A large series of Grouse, Black Game, and
Ptarmigan, including many interesting phases of plumage and
valuable varieties.

REPTILIA, BATRACHIA, PISCES.

All additions have been registered, and, with a few
exceptions, named and incorporated in the collection.

Iu the Reptile Gallery, a glass table-case from the Whale-
Room has been utilised for the exhibition of two additional
specimens of Giant Tortoises, taken from the store-collection.
The only other additions to this gallery are a Brazilian Tortoise
(Testudo tabulata), presented by F. V. McConnell, Esq. ; and a
coloured plaster-cast of a West African Python, the gift of
Rowland Ward, Esq.

In the Study Series the renewal of the spirit has been
proceeded with, and the work of rearranging the stuffed
specimens, skeletons, and skins in the basement of the main
building has been completed.

A number of skeletons, mostly of Fishes, has been added to
the collection.

The second volume of the Catalogue of African Freshwater
Fishes has been published, and considerable progress has been
made with the MS. and figures for the third and last volume.

TUNICATA.

The Tunicata have been removed to a large new wall-case.
on the West side of the Shell Gallery.

MOLLUSCA.

The following is the principal work done during the year
in connection with the collection of Mollusca.

The specimens from South Africa belonging to the genus
Phasianella have been worked out, and a new species described.
The working out of the large collection of land, freshwater, and
marine shells made at Bermuda by Major A. J. Peile, R.A., has
been continued, and in connection with this work many West
Indian forms have been studied and determined. A small
collection of marine shells from Christmas Island, obtained by
Mr. R. Kirkpatrick, has been worked out, and some new species
described. A report has been prepared, illustrated with eight
plates, upon some gigantic oysters found buried beneath the
streets of Calcutta, and on other specimens from the shores of
Cuttack and Mergui. The species of Thala, a group of the
family Mitridz, have been determined. <A selection has been
made from a collection of marine shells from Bombay, the
specimens being named and mounted, and a new species of the
genus Acmea described. A series of figured specimens from
the collection of the late Sylvanus Hanley have been identified,
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Expedition to New Guinea have been determined. A collection
of types of land shells from South Africa has been checked, and
a small series of marine species from that part of the world has
been worked out, and some new species described.

The species of the family Acmeeidlz have been critically
examined and determined. A model has been prepared illus-
trating “torsion” in the Gastropoda. A show-case has been
erected upon the screen at the North end of the Shell Gallery
to contain specimens too large for the table-cases. ‘Of the
numerous acquisitions, a selection has been mounted and placed
on exhibition. The mounting and arrangement of the Blanford
and Godwin-Austen collections of Indian land shells have been
continued by Lt.-Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S.; and the
large collection of paleearctic Mollusca, purchased from Canon
A. M. Norman, F.R.S., and consisting of many thousands of
specimens, has been received and its registration commenced.
The other numerous acquisitions have all been registered
mounted, and incorporated.

INSECTA.

In the Insect Gallery the arrangement of the Rhynchota
and Diptera in the table-cases has been completed, and a
‘commencement has been made with the arrangement of the
wall-cases on the West wall. The spirit in the various exhibits
has been renewed where necessary.

Enlarged models of the Plague-Flea have been placed in the
Central Hall, and the Tsetse Fly exhibit in the same part of
the Museum has been revised, increased, and relabelled.

In the COLEOPTERA the valuable collection of Curcu-
lionidze from Mexico and Central America, which was worked
out and named by Mr. G. C. Champion, and presented by
Mr. F.D. Godman, F.R.S., has been the most important addition
made during the year. Considerable additions have also been
made by the purchase of further portions of the Lewis col-
lections of Japanese and Ceylonese beeties and of the
Blackburn collection of Australian types; and by the pre-
sentation, by Guy R. G. Nevinson, Esq., of the fine collection
of Cicindelide formed by the late Mr. F. Bates. The greater
part of the family Lucanide. has been rearranged during the
year and the numerous accessions from all sources have been
incorporated. A large number of species belonging to the
genera Anomala and Adoretus (family Scarabeide) have been
submitted to Dr. Ohaus and determined by him; and others
have been determined by comparison with types belonging to
the Museums of Paris, Berlin, Halle, and Genoa.

Undetermined species of the genera Heterogomphus, Ontho-
phagus and Bolboceras have been determined by Herr H.
Prell, M. d@Orbigny, and M. Boucomont respectively, and
incorporated in the collection ; and many species of Aphodiine
have been determined by Herr Adelf Schmidt. Part of the

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Lamellicornia of the Lewis collection from Japan have been
incorporated.

Progress has been made with the rearrangement of the
Tenebrionidx, including the incorporation of specimens from
the Bates, Sharp, Fry, and Godman-Salvin collections ; and a
large consignment of the South African species of the earlier
groups has been sent to Cape Town to he worked out by
Mr. L. Péringuey. A large number of Meloide, returned
after determination by Dr. Creighton Wellman, have been
incorporated.

Collections of undetermined Curculionide from Australia
and from New Guinea and the Malayan Region respectively
have been worked out by Mr. Arthur Lea and Dr. K. Heller
and subsequently rearranged. The American species of Apion
have been determined or described by Herr Wagner and, on
their return, have been arranged in the collection. The
Oriental and Australian species have also been sent to him for
determination.

_#* The thanks of the Department are due to Lt.-Col. F. Winn
Sampson, who has given valuable assistance by devoting much
time to the determination and arrangement of the Scolytide,
and has incorporated the many specimens of this family
included in the Lewis collection from Japan and Ceylon.

The collection of African Longicornia, presented by the
Hon. W. Rothschild, F.R.S., as well as several other mincr
additions to this group of beetles, have been incorporated in
the general collection.

M. Ernest Olivier has named and returned several species
of Oriental and Australian Lampyridez and Rhagophthalmide
sent to him for determination; and M. P. Lesne, of the Paris
Museum, has rendered similar service in regard to African and
other species of Bostrichide.

The incorporation in the general collection of the collection
of European Coleoptera, which had been gradually taking
place during past years, was this year hastened on, and com-
pleted, in order to make the cabinets which they occupied
available for other purposes.

In the HYMENOPTERA the rearrangement of the
Apidee has been continued, and all accessions from the Saunders,
Farren White, and other collections incorporated. The arrange-
ment of the Ichneumonide of the general collection has been
proceeded with by Mr. Claude Morley, the Tribes Ophionides
and Metopiides have been entirely revised and considerable
progress has been made with the Paniscine. Mr. R. E. Turner,
as in former years, has devoted much time to work at the
collection, and has completed the arrangement of the Sphegide,
and commenced the expansion of the Pompilide. The collection
of British Ants has been expanded and revised.

120 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Various consignments have been sent on loan to specialists,
who have in all cases determined the specimens sent, and in
many instances described new species; these include consign-

-ments of Sphegide to Dr. F. F. Kohl, of Vienna, and of Vespidee
to Vicomte du Buysson, of Paris.

Among the NEUROPTERA, the Odonata of the Godman-
Salvin collection have been received and placed with the general
collection. <A large loan of Termitide has been returned by
M. Nils Holmgren, of Stockholm ; loans of Myrmeleonide and
Caloptery gine have also been sent out, some of which are still
in process of determination.

The RHYNCHOTA have received an important addition
by the purchase of the Cicadide of the Distant collection. The
incorporation of these with the Cicadide of the general col-
lection has been commenced, and has necessitated an entire
rearrangement of the family. Several collections of Rhynchota
from Australia, the Aru and Solomon Islands, and from Tropical
America have been received during the year, and have been
worked out and incorporated in the general collection.

The MALLOPHAGA, ANOPLURA, and other parasitic
insects have been attended to, with the object of making them
more readily accessible and better fitted for examination. The
spirit specimens have all been placed in glass tubes, which have
been arranged in a deep-drawer cabinet adapted for holding
the tubes; and many of the specimens, both dry and from
spirit, have been prepared and mounted as microscopic slides.
The Hon. N. Charles Rothschild has generously provided for
assistance in carrying out this work of preparation.

In the LEPIDOPTERA considerable progress has been
made in transferring the Lyczenide from the old to the new
pattern cabinets, and in the incorporation and arrangement at
the same time of the specimens belonging to that family con-
tained in the Godman-Salvin, Hewitson, and other collections.
This work has been carried out by Mr. R, South. The trans-
ference of Pierinz into the new glass-bottom drawers has been
completed ; the Papilionine have been expanded, and a com-
mencement has been made with the rearrangement of the
Satyrine.

During the year 1911 the plates belonging to Vol. 10 of the
Catalogue of Moths have been published, and nearly the whole
of Vol. 11 dealing with the smali sub-families Euteliane, Stic-
topterine, Sarrothripine, and Acontiane has been passed
through the press and the plates prepared. These sub-families.
have also been rearranged. The rearrangement of the Pyralid
sub-family Pyraustinze has been completed, and the families.
Callidulide, Drepanide, and Thyridide rearranged, and a large
number of recent accessions incorporated. |

In the Micro-Lepidoptera the rearrangement of the Gele-
chiadee, Oecophoride, etc., in connection with work on the
Neotropical genera of these families, has been continued, and

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the collection of slides has been considerably augmented. Good
progress has been made in remounting and transferring the
British series of Tineina to other cabinets.

In the DIPTERA the Tsetse-flies (Genus Glossina) have
been worked out afresh and redescribed (with the addition of
matter relating to Bionomics, Distribution, etc.), and the results
of the revision have been published by the Museum as “A
Handbook of the Tsetse-Flies (Genus Glossina)”; the Glossina
material in the.Museum Collection has been rearranged in
accordance therewith.

The family Nemestrinide has been rearranged, and all
material belonging thereto, returned by Herr B. Lichtwardt
after determination by him, has been reincorporated.

The sub-family Cerioidinz (fam. Syrphidee) has been worked
out and rearranged, and the rearrangement of the sub-family
Anthracine (fam. Bombyliidee) has been commenced.

New genera and species of Tabanide and Hippoboscide
recently received from various parts of Tropical Africa and
from Madagascar have been described.

The family Culicide has been rearranged, and the whole
collection of microscope-slides illustrating their structure has
been arranged. A large collection of Indian Anopheles has
been mounted and incorporated, and a number of collections
of African Culicide and other Blood-sucking flies have been
worked out and incorporated.

The collections of British Syrphide, Platypezide, Pipun-
culide, and Conopidee have been expanded, and part of the
collection of British Simuliwm has been sent to Mr. P. H.
Grimshaw for redetermination.

A large number of inquiries from various parts of the world
concerning Diptera of economic or medical importance have
been dealt with.

ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE.

As one of the results of the work carried on by the
Entomological Research Committee of the Colonial Office, more
than 30,000 specimens, many representing species of consider-
able economic importance, have been added to the Insect.
collections of the Museum during the year. The importance
of the work, and the benefits accruing from it to the Museum,
make it a matter of regret that more adequate accommodation
could not be provided for the Scientific Secretary of the
Committee and his Assistants than the two rooms allotted to
their use in 1910. The congested state of the Insect Room, and
the consequent want of available space, made this impossible,
but the members of the Staff have continued as heretofore to
give all the assistance they could to the Secretary ; and most
of the setting and labelling of specimens has been done by the
preparators employed by the Museum.

122 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MYRIOPODA AND ARACHNIDA.*

The accessions received during the year, which include large
collections from Japan and Algeria, have been registered and
incorporated. Reports dealing with several of the more
important accessions have been published.

Dr. C. Fr. Roewer, of Bremen, has determined the Harvest-
men of the sub-family Phalangiine in the collection and has
described a number of new forms in the second part of his
monograph.

Fresh camphor has been placed in all the drawers and store
boxes containing the dry collections of Arachnida and
Myriopoda.

A number of Myriopods, chiefly of the family Scolopendride,
have been determined.

CRUSTACEA AND PYCNOGONIDA.

In the exhibited series of Crustacea the large crab Paro-
mola cuviert has been repainted from a coloured sketch of a
fresh specimen ; a spirit preparation of a Hermit-crab and its
commensals has been added; and thirty-one labels have been
printed. In the Crustacea Room, numbers have been affixed to
all the shelves of the cnpboards containing the spirit collection,
and some work has been done in re-pinning and repairing the
specimens in the dry collection. A beginning has been made
with a revision of the MS. catalogue of Brachyura.

The final instalment of Canon Norman’s collection has been
received and forms the most important addition made to the
collection for many years. Until the registration of the
specimens has been completed, their number cannot be stated
exactly, but it is estimated at not less than 35,000. The
incorporation of these with the general collection is, of course,
out of the question for the present ; and even their safe custody
is a matter of constant anxiety under existing conditions. The
drawers of the cabinets have been numbered and an index to
the genera has been prepared to facilitate reference to the
collection. i

A large collection of Cumacea belonging to the United
States National Museum has been worked out and a valuable
series of duplicates selected from it. Collections from New
Guinea, Christmas Island, Vancouver Island, and from
telegraph cables in Eastern Seas have also been examined.

ECHINODERMA. +

The rearrangement of the dried study collection of Echino-
derms has taken much longer than was expected, and is not

* The Assistant in charge of these sections was absent on sick-leave for
two months (Feb. 6th—April 5th).

+ The Assistant in charge of this and other groups has the responsibility
of editing the Reports on the National Antarctic (Discovery) Expedition,
1901-4. The Sixth Volume of the Natural History Results is nearly ready
and should be published early in 1912.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 123

yet quite completed. The exhibition cases have been thoroughly
cleaned, and the Starfish Gallery has been repainted. Most of
the specimens obtained during the year have been determined,
and all have been incorporated. The work of respiriting the
specimens in alcohol has been continued, as opportunities
occurred.

W oRMS.

._ The first part of Dr. J. H. Ashworth’s Catalogue of
Arenicolide has been read for press and is in course of printing.
Some text-figures have been prepared, and others, with two
lithographic plates, are in hand.

Four coloured plates from Prof. W.C. M‘Intosh’s Monograph
of British Annelids have been mounted and supplied with
descriptive labels ; these figures are of remarkable beauty.

The systematic rearrangement of the collection of micro-
scopic slides has been continued.

Owing to the state of congestion in the Spirit Building it is
no longer possible to incorporate Polychetes in{their systematic
position, and for this reason the recent accessions from the
Norman collection have not yet been worked through. The
enlargement of the “Spirit House” is, obviously, a work of
urgent necessity.

ANTHOZOA.

New cases were supplied for the study collections of dry
Corals too late in the year for any use to be made of them; it
is hoped soon to be able to set out the large study collection of
Fungiide.

The exhibition cases in the Public Gallery have been
thoroughly cleaned, and the specimens rearranged.

Progress has been made with the MS. Catalogue of Pennatu-
lids, but it has not yet been possible to complete it.

As so-called iarge Corals continue to be offered for purchase,
it may be well to state that only exceptionally handsome Corals
will be considered when offered on account only of their size.

PORIFERA.

Work done during the year has comprised the conservation,
arranging, partial determination and incorporation of acces-
sions.

The collection of sponges dredged by Mr. R. Kirkpatrick off
Christmas Island has been sorted and investigated.

A fully illustrated report has been written on the remark-
able organism Astrosclera willeyana, Lister, which Mr. Kirk-
patrick believes to be a siliceous Ectyonine sponge living in
symbiosis with a degenerate Red Alga.

124 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

I1.—Duplicates and Hachanges.
(a) Duplicates.

Duplicates have been distributed among museums, scientific
institutions, etc., as follows :—

Aves.—Borough Museum, Battersea; Berlin Museum ; Cen-
tral Public Library and Museum, Bootle, Lancashire; South
African Museum, Cape Town; National Museum of Wales,
Cardiff; Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh; Huddersfield
Museum ; Central Free Public Library, St. Helens; Salisbury
Museum ; Grey Coat Hospital, Westminster ; Mr. J. H. Fleming ;
and the Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.R.S.

Reptilia, Batrachia, Pisces.—National Museum of Wales,
Cardiff; Hull Museum; Londonderry Museum; Professor
J. W. Spengel.

Mollusca.—Mr. C. J. Gabriel.

Insecta.—-National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; National
Museum of Ireland, Dublin; the Imperial College of Science
and Technology, London; Professor G. H. F. Nuttall, F.R.S.,
University of Cambridge. Duplicates have also been sent to the
following gentlemen who have assisted in naming specimens :—
Dr. K. M. Heller, Dr. F. F. Kohl, Mr. A. M. Lea, MegPierre
Lesne, Herr B. Lichtwardt, Senor R. P. Longinos Navas, S. J.,
Dr. F. Ohaus, M. Ernest Olivier, Herr Heinrich Prell, Herr
Adolf Schmidt, Professor Y. Sjéstedt, Professor O. Taschen-
berg, Herr H. Wagner, and Dr. Creighton Wellman.

(b) Hachanges.

Exchanges have been made with the following institutions
and individuals :—

Manmalia.—With the Albany Museum, Grahamstown ;
the St. Petersburg Museum ; the Santiago Museum ; the Turin
Museum; Professor F. Forster; and Messrs. Rowland. Ward,
Ltd.

Aves. — With the Berlin Museum; the Royal Scottish
Museum, Edinburgh ; the Tring Museum ; Mr. J. H. Fleming ;
and Mr. G. M. Mathews.

Reptilia and Batrachia.—With Dr. J. C. Thompson,

Pisces—With the Paris Museum, and with Professor
Bashford Dean.

Mollusca.-—-With the Santiago Museum (in addition to a few
other Invertebrates) ; and with Mr. C. J. Gabriel.

Insecta.—With the University Museum of Zoology, Cam-
bridge; and with Mr. C. F. Baker, Mr. E. C. Bedwell, Herr C.

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Felsche, Mr. O. E. Janson, Mr. A. M. Lea, Dr. F. Netolitzky,
Mr. F. W. Nunenmacher, Dr. F. Ohaus, and the Hon. Walter
Rothschild, F.R.S.

Myriopoda.—With Professor F. Silvestri.
Arachnida.—With the Indian Museum, Calcutta.

Crustacea.—With the Basel Museum; the Indian Museum,
Calcutta; and the Munich Museum.

Polyzoa.—With the Australian Museum, Sydney.
Hydrozoa.—With the Munich Museum.

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IlI.— Departmental Library.

The acquisitions during the year, obtained by purchase,
presentation, and exchange, consist of 98 separate works in 139
volumes, and 1,757 parts of periodicals and works in progress.

Five hundred and forty-eight volumes, including those
belonging to the Walsingham Library, have been bound.

As in previous years, the work of collating, stamping,
press-marking and entering in the Catalogue all additions has
been performed as usual.

The Attendant in the Library, with the aid and supervision
of an Assistant, has checked the entries of the Zoological
Works in the proofs of that portion of the General Catalogue
of Books which has been printed during the year.

Among the donations two may be specially referred to :—
Thirteen volumes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society,
presented by Oldfield Thomas, Esq., F.R.S.; and “ Brandtia,”
a series of papers on Diplopodaand other Arthropoda, by
O. F. Cook, presented by Dr. O. F. Cook. ;

“The Birds of Australia” (Vol. L, parts 1-5), a very
important ornithological work by Mr. G. M. Mathews, has
been presented by the author.

List of Donors to the Departmental Library during the
gear 1911 :—

Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, Bengal.

Arenander, E. O.

Arrow, G. J.

Australian Museum, Sydney.

Avicultural Society, London.

Bergen Museum.

Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, London. ~

Board of Agriculture, Trinidad.

Bolas, Mrs.

British Ornithologists’ Union, London.

Bruch, C.

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California, University of.

Colombo Museum, Ceylon.

Commissioners of Inland Fisheries, Providence, Rhode Island.

Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Congrés International de Chasse, Vienna.

Conseil permanent International pour lExploration de la
Mer.

Cook, Dr. O. F.

Département de l’ Agriculture, Buitenzorg.

Department of Agriculture, Madras.

Department of Agriculture, New South Wales.

Department of Agriculture, Victoria.

Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction,
Ireland.

Department of Fisheries, New South Wales.

Donne, T. E.

Entomological Research Committee, London.

Entomological Society, London.

Fagan, C. E.

Fernald, Prof. C. H.

Fisheries Bureau, Madras.

Fishery Board for Scotland.

Fletcher, T. Bainbrigge.

Flower, Capt. S. 8.

Ioreign Bird Club, Ashborne.

Froggatt, W. W.

Hampson, Sir G. F.

Harmer, Dr. S. F.

Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, Honolulu.

- Herdman, Prof. W. A.

Hull Municipal Museum.

Iconnikoff, N.

Imperial Department of Agr iculture, West Indies.

India, Secretary of State for.

Indian Museum, Calcutta.

James, Major S. P.

Janet, C.

Kommissionen for Havundersogelser, Kjobenhavn.

Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola
Superiore d’Agricoltura in Portici.

Ledyard, H. M.

Lewis, G.

Linnean Society, London.

Lyell, J. C.

Meek, Prof. A.

Methuen, Messrs.

Minister of Trade and Customs, Melbourne.

Moulton, J. C.

Musée du Congo Belge, Tervueren, Bruxelles.

Musée National Hunger ois, Budapest.

Museum of Comparative ‘Lodlogy, Harvard College, Boston,

Mass.

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Nageli, Fraulein.

Nebraska, University of.

Nederlindische Entomologische Vereeniging.
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Bruns-

wick.

New Mexico College of Agriculture, &c., Santa Fé.
Norman, Rev. Canon A. M.

Wuttall Prof. G.iH. F.

Outes, F. F.

Pennsylvania, University of.

Ridley, H. N.

Rothschild, Hon. N. C.

Sarasin, Dr. P.

Sasaki, Prof. C.

Schuster, G.

Sclater, W. L.

Selous, F. C.

Sherborn, C. D.

Société Entomologique de Belgique.

Socicté Entomologique de France.

Société Entomologique de. Russie.

South African Ornithologists’ Union.
Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, India.
Thomas, O.

Thornhill, Lt.-Col. H. B.,°Q.l.E.

Ungarische Ornithologische Centrale, Budapest.
United States Bureau of Fisheries, Washington.
United States Department of Agriculture, Washington.
Urich, F. W.

Vakil, R. B.

Wallace, D.

Wellcome ‘Tropical Research Institute, Gordon Memorial

College, Khartoum.

Woodward, B. B.

Wyoming, University of.

Zoological Gardens, Giza, Egypt.

Zoological Soziety, London.

Zoological Society, New York.

Zoological Society, Philadelphia.

Zoological Society, Tokyo.

Zoologischer Garten, Frankfurt a. Main.
Zoologisches Museum, Berlin.

Zoologische Staatssamlung, Miinchen.

Zoologiske Museum, Kjobenhavn.

Cy een es one.

In addition to the official Catalogues and other volumes
published by the Trustees (see pp. 108-9), various reports and
descriptive papers have been prepared in connection with the
different branches of the collection ; and have been published for
the most part in scientific journals.

128 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

For the convenience of reference the following list is
appended :—

Mammalia.
By OLDFIELD THoMAS, F.R.S. :—
«Three new South-American Mammals.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vii., p. 1183.
“ New Asiatic Muride.” Ib. pi 205.
“The Mammals of the Tenth Edition of Linnzus; an
Attempt to fix the Types of the Genera and the exact
Bases and Localities of the Species.”
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1911, p. 120.
“The Duke of Bedford’s Zoological Exploration of
Eastern Asia.—XIIJT. On Mammals from the Provinces
of Kansu and Sze-chwan, Western China.” Jb., p. 158.
«On New African Muride.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vii., p. 378.

« A new Vole from Eastern Asia.” Ib., p. 383.
“Three New Mammals from Dutch New Guinea.”
Ib., p. 384.
«On Mammals collected by the Rev. G. T. Fox in Northern
Nigeria.” Ib., p. 457.
<“New Mammals from Tropical South America.”
Ib., p. 513.
“Three new African Rodents.” Ib., p. 590.
“Three new Mammals from the Lower Amazons.”
Ib., p. 606.
«A new Kangaroo from the Northern Territory of Western.
Australia.” 1b. p.'609.

«A new Murine Genus and Species from Sind with
diagnoses of three other new genera based on previously
known species of ‘ Mus.’”

Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., May 1911, p. 996.

“ List of small Mammals obtained by Mr. G. Fenwick Owen
on the Upper Gambia and in Fouta Djallon.”

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii. p. 118.

“New Rodents from South America.” Ib., p. 250.
“ New African Mammals.” Ib., p. 375.
“Two new Eastern Bats.” EDL RSIS.

“The Duke of Bedford’s Zoological Exploration of Eastern
Asia._-XIV... On Mammals from Southern Shen-si and
Central China.” Proc. Zool. Soc., 1911, p. 687.

“Three new Rodents from Kan-su.”

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.(8) viii., p. 720.

“Four new African Carnivores.” Lb., p. 724.

“New Rodents from Sze-chwan coliected by Capt. F. M.
Bailey.” . Lbs paee

“New Mammals from .Central and Western Asia, mostly
collected by Mr. Douglas Carruthers.” 1b; priabi

By Guy DOLLMAN :—-

“Description of a new Genus of Molossine Bats from
West Africa.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vii., p. 210.

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MAMMALIA—continued.

“List of Mammals from British East Africa, obtained by
Mr. Robin Kemp and presented to the British Museum
by Mr. C. D. Rudd, with additional notes on Specimens
collected and presented by Mr. A. Blaney Percival.”

Ib., p. 518.

«New and interesting Mammals from East Africa.”

Ib., viii, p. 124.

“New West African Rodents.” LO 257:

“A new Spiny Mouse from Somaliland.” Lb% pe25o:

“On Arvicanthis abyssinicus and allied East African
Species with Descriptions of Four new Forms.”

Ib., p. 334.

“On a new Black-tailed Rat from South Africa.”

Ib., p. 544.

* On new Mammals from East Africa presented to the
British Museum by Mr. A. Blaney Percival.”

Ib., p. 562.
«On a new West African Squirrel presented to the British
Museum by Mr. P. A. Talbot.” Ib., p. 733.

By R. C. WRoUGHTON :—

«<The Pale Weasel’ of Blanford’s ‘ Mammalia’ and a new
Himalayan Vole.”
Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., May 1911, p. 930.
“On a small Collection of Rodents from Lower Sind.”
Ib., p. 1000.
“Oriental Flying Squirrels of the ‘ Pteromys’ group.”
1b., p. 1012.
“On some Local Forms of Cephalophus natalensis.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii., p. 277.
“List of a Collection of Mammals made by Mr. A. L. Butler
on the Upper Nile.” Ib., p. 458.

By H. ©. Ropinson and R. C. WROUGHTON :—

“ Notes on Indo-Malayan Squirrels.”
Journ. Federated Malay States Museums.
Vol..LV.; No, 2:; p. 166.

By R. LyDEKKeER, F.R.S. :—

“On the Mountain Nyala, Tragelaphus buatoni.”
Proce. Zool. Soc., 1911, p. 348.

«A Rare Beaked Whale.” Ib., p. 420.

“* Age-Phases of the Rorqual.” Ib., p. 423.

“An African Rhinoceros Klipspringer and Gazelle.”
prho., p. Vos:

During the year Mr. Lydekker contributed a note to Nature
on the Rhodesian Giraffe, to which he gave a new name;
proposing at the same time a second sub-specific title for another
Giraffe represented by a piece of skin presented by himself to
the Museum, and now exhibited in the East Corridor, near the
Giraffe case.

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130 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MAMMALIA—continued.
By Dr. KNub ANDERSEN :—
“Six new Fruit-bats of the genera Macroglossus and
Syconycteris.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vii., p. 641.
By Dr. R. E. DRAKE-BROCKMAN.
“Two new Species of Lepus.” 1b., Vii. ps 270:
“On Antelopes of the Genera Madoqua and Rhynchotragus
found in Somaliland.” Proc. Zool. Soc., 1911, p. 977.
By Professor ANGEL CABRERA :—
“On the Specimens of Spotted) Hyzenas in the British
Museum (Natural History).” J:, p. 93:

By Ernst SCHWARZ :—
“ Seven new Asiatic Mammals, with Note onthe ‘ Viverra
fasciata’ of Gmelin.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vii, p. 634.
Aves.
By W. R. OGILVIE-GRaANT :—
“ Descriptions of Eggs from South Cameroon.”
Ibis, 1911, pp. 479, 581.
“ On anew species of Coal-Titmouse (Parus habernicus).”
Ib., p. 548.
“On the Boyd Alexander Collection of Birds.”
Ib., p. 573.
“On the Formosan Rose-Finch(Carpodacus formosanus).”
Bull. B..0.'C., ie p. 3G
“On three male Pheasants, which had partially assumed

the plumage of the female.” Ib., p. 54.
“Remarks on the plumage of the Red Grouse (Lagopus
scoticus).” Ib., p. 56.
“On a new species of Flycatcher (Tarsiger elgonensi)
from British East Africa.” pe 2G
“On the Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) nesting in Tend”
16.,.p.. 59:
“On a very rare Bird of Paradise (Xanthomelus ardens)
from Dutch New Guinea.” Ib., p. 66.
“On anew species of Parrot (Cyclopsittacus godmani)
from Dutch New Guinea.” ep: GA
«Remarks on the Black Grouse in Eclipse olden
Lb., p. 8G
“On anew species of Parroquet (A prosmictus wilhelmine)
from Dutch New Guinea.” Ib., p. 83.

‘Exhibition of two rare species of Fruit-Pigeon procured
by the B. O. U. Expedition to Dutch New Guinea.”

Ib., p. 84.
“On a British example of the North American Peregrine
Falcon (Falco peregrinus anatwm).” Ib., p. 108:

« On two rare species (Campochera sloeti and Pycnopy-
gius stictocephalus) from Dutch New Guinea.”

Tb., p. 10

“On two new species of Birds (Columba stalker’ and

Piezorhynchus wellsr) from Ceram.’ Ib., p. 104.

“On anew species of Crombec (Sylviella lowev) from West

Africa.” Ib., p. 10x

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AVES— continued.

“On anew species of Cassowary (Casuarius claudit) from
Dutch New Guinea.” Bull, B. @..@.xxix., p. 25.
‘On nine new species of Birds collected by the B. O. U.
Expedition to Dutch New Guinea.” wp. 20.
“On anew species of Strike (Laniarius mufumbirr) and
anew species of Wagtail (Motacilla wellsv) from the

Mufumbiro Volcanoes.” Ib., p. 30.
“On the eclipse-plumage of the Common Partridge
(Perdia perdic).” Ib., p. 39.
“On the plumage of the Common Ptarmigan (Lagopus
mutus).” Ib., p. 41.
“ Obituary Notice of Mr. E. W. Oates.” Ib., p. 45.

Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club. Volumes
XXVli., xxviii. (Report of the Immigration of Summer
Residents), and xxix. (edited).

By C. CHUBB :—
“ Deseription of a new Ground Wren (Upucerthia tamuco-
ensis) from Southern Chile.” Bull. B. O. C., xxvii, p.101.
By Lorp BRABOURNE and C. CHUBB :—
“The Nomenclature of the Rheas of South America.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist (8) viii., p. 273..

Reptilia and Batrachia.

By G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S. :—

“List of the Batrachians and Reptiles obtained by Prof.
Stanley Gardiner on his second Expedition to the.
Seychelles and Aldabra.”

‘Tr. Linn. Soce., Zool., xiv., p. 375.

“ Descriptions of new Reptiles from the Andes of South

_ America, preserved in the British Museum.”

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vii, p. 19..

“ Descriptions of three new Tree Frogs discovered by Mr.

A. E. Pratt in Dutch New Guinea.” ADs Vill., p. 55.
“ Descriptions of three new Snakes discovered by Mr.
G. L. Bates in South Cameroon.” Ib., p. 370.

“On a third collection of Reptiles and Batrachians made
by Dr. E. Bayon in Uganda.”

; Ann. Mus. Genova (3) v.,p. 169.

_ * Description of a new Frog discovered by Signor Nello

Beccari in Erythrea.” Ib., p. 160,

Pisces.
By G. A. BoULENGER, F.R.S. :—

“On a collection of Fishes from the Lake Ngami Basin,
Bechuanaland.” Trans. Zool. Soe. xviii., p. 399.

“ Descriptions of three new Characinid Fishes from South-

_ Western Colombia.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vii., p. 212.
“ Descriptions of new Freshwater Fishes discovered by Dr.
W. J. Ansorge in Portuguese Guinea,” L6., p.. 373.

WZ

132

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

PiscEs— continued.

“Description of a new Fish of the genus Polypterus from

Liberia.” 1 Dep. BV

“Further Descriptions of new Freshwater Fishes dis-
covered by Dr. W. J. Ansorge in Portuguese Guinea.”

ibs; wus p. BT

“ Description of a new African Fish of the genus Clarias

from Lake Rukwa.” Ib., p. 54.
“Descriptions of new African Cyprinodont Fishes.”

Ib., p. 260.

* Descriptions of two new African Barbels.” Jb., p. 369.

‘“‘ Descriptions of three new Freshwater Fishes discovered
by Mr. G. L. Bates in South Cameroon.” Ib. p. 372.
“ Descriptions of four new African Fishes of the genus
Mastacembelus.” Ib. p. 637.
‘On a third collection of Fishes made by Dr. E. Bayon in
Uganda, in 1909-1910.” Ann. Mus. Genova (3) v., p. 64.
“L’Etat présent de nos connaissances sur la Faune
ichthyologique du Congo.” Rev. Zool. Afri a., p_ 12:

By C. TATE REGAN :—

“The Anatomy and Classification of the Teleostean Fishes
of the Orders Berycomorphi and Xenoberyces.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist (8) vii, p. 1.

«The Anatomy and Classification of the Teleostean Fishes

of the Order Iniomi.” Ib. p. 120,
“The Osteology and Classification of the Teleostean Fishes
of the Order Microcyprini.” Lb., p. 320.
“The Classification of the Teleostean Fishes of the Order
Synentognathi.” Lb., p. 327.
The Anatomy and Classification of the Teleostean Fishes
of the Order Salmoperce.” - Lb., p. 294
“The Classification of the Teleostean Fishes of the Order
Ostariophysi.” 1. Cyprinoidea. Lbs vi. p. Ts
2. Siluroidea. L6.2p. Bde
“The Osteology and Classification of the Gobioid Fishes.”
Lop. 729;
“ On the Cirrhitiform Percoids.” Ib., Vii, p. 259%
“On the Systematic Position of Macristiwm chavesv.”
Ib., p. 204,
‘A Synopsis of the Marsipobranchs of the Order Hyper-
oartil.” Tb., p. FOR:

“A new Peciliid Fish from the Amazon, with Notes on
the Genera Petalosoma and Zomeurus.”
1b., Viil., p. 6oe
“On some Fishes of the Family Peeciliide.” Ib., p. 373.
“The Giant Pike of Loch Ken.”

Ann. Scottish Nat. Hist., Jan. 1911, p. 11.

“ Xiphophorus brevis und Xiphophorus rachovii.”
Blatt. f. Aquarienkunde, xxii., p. 806.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 133

Mollusca.

By E. A. Suita, 1.8.0. :—
‘“ Note on the animal of the genus Cleopatra.”
Proc. Malac. Soc., ix., p 240.
“On the recent species of the genus Vulsella.”
HU. ps a6.
“On a new species of Phasianella from South Africa.”
Ib., p. 313.
“ List of Marine Shells occurring at Christmas Island,
Indian Ocean, with descriptions of new species.”
Ib., p. 815.
“Description of a new species of Acmea from Bombay,
and notes on other forms from that locality. Jb., p. 356.

By C. D. SHERBORN and E. A. Smita, 1.8.0. :—
“Collation of J. C. Chenu’s Illustrations Conchyliolo-
giques, and a note on P. L. Duclos’ Hist. nat. gén. et
part. Coquilles. Ib., p. 264.

Insecta.

By C.J. GAHAN :-—
“On some recent attempts to classify the Coleoptera in
accordance with their Phylogeny.”
The Entomologist, Apr—Dec. 1911.
By GILBERT J. ARROW :—
“A Synoptical Revision of the Dynastid Genus Lon-
chotus.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vii., p. 84.
“ Notes on the Lamellicorn Beetles of the Genus Golofa,
with Descriptions of Three new Species.” Ib., p. 186.
“On Lamellicorn Beetles belonging to the Sub-families
Ochodeinz, Orphnine, Hybosorine and Trogine.”

Tbs, p. 390.
“ Upon the Dynamopine, a new Sub-family of Lamellicorn
Beetles.” Lbs p00.

“Notes on the Coleopterous Sub-family Dynastine, with
Descriptions of new Genera and Species.”
Lb: ovis: USL,
“A new Genus of Ruteline Coleoptera from the Indian
Region.” 1b., p. 268.
* On the Ruteline Coleoptera of Ceylon, with Descriptions
of new Species.” Ib., p. 354,
“Some new Species of the Coleopterous Genus Anomala
from Southern India.” Ib., p. 473.
By Lieut.-Col. F. WINN SAMPSON :—
“On two new Wood-boring Beetles (Ipide).”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vili., p. 381.
By Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart. :—
* Moths of India. Supplement.”
Journ. Bomb, Nat. Hist. Soc., 1911, pp. 634,
1046,

“ Catalogue of Moths. Supplement vi.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vili., p. 393.

134 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

INsEctTA—continued.
By C. DAVIES SHERBORN and J. HARTLEY DURRANT :—
‘“ Note on John Curtis’ British Entomology, 1824-1839 ;
1829-1840 ; and 1862.” Ent. Mo. Mag. XLVIL., p. 84.
By J. HARTLEY DURRANT :—

“Descriptions of two new British species of Rhyacionia
Hibs “Weep. linn” Ib., p. 251.

The publication of the following series of descriptions by
LorD WALSINGHAM has been continued* :—
«Biologia Centrali-Americana. Zoologia. Insecta. Lepi-
doptera. Heterocera.”
Vol. IV., pp. 49-112, fig. 12-23, pl. 2, 3.
* Algerian Microlepidoptera (continued).”
Knt. Mo. Mag. XLVIL., pp. 12, 187.
“Spanish and Moorish Microlepidoptera (continued) ”
Ib., p. 212.
By GEOFFREY MEADE-WALDO :—

“New species of Diploptera in the collection of the
British Museum.” Part III.

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vii, p. 98.

. Descriptions of new species of African Diploptera i in the

collection of the British Museum.” Ib., vill., p. 445.

“Notes on the Family Masaride (Hymenoptera), with
descriptions of a new genus and three new species.”

Ib., p.. 747.

By RotanD E. TuRNER:

“ Notes on Fossorial Hymenoptera.” III.
1b. VUR pr 297.
Vv

“Ib., vii, p. 479.
-

Ib., viii., p. 602.
*Fossorial Hymenoptera from the Seychelles and other
Islands in the Indian Ocean.”
Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) xiv., p. 267.
“New Hymenoptera from Ceylon, Mutillide and
Scoliide.” Spolia Zeylanica. vil., p. 141.
By E. EL. AUSTEN : —

“ On Tabanide collected in North-Eastern Rhodesia and
Katanga, Congo Free State, by Dr. S. and Mr. 8. A.
Neave, with Descriptions of New Species. Part 1.—
Pangoniine.” Bull Ent. Res. i., p. 275.

“A New Species of Tabanus from the Anglo-Egyptian
Sudan.” 1b... po Zone

“A New Species of Tsetse-Fly allied to Glossina palpals,
Rob.- Desv.” Lb., p. 294.

“On the Occurrence in North America of the European
Hristalis estraceus, L.” Ent. Mo. Mag. (2) xxii., p. 63.

*. Prepared for publication by Mr. Durrant by permission of the Trustees.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 135:

INSECTA—-continued.
“Three New African Species of the Genus Chrysops

(Family Tabanide).” Bull. Ent. Res. ii., p. 161.
“New African Hippoboscide.” Los p.. 169),
“Two new Species of Tabanus from the Anglo-Egyptian

Sudan.” Ib., p. 173.

By F. W. EDwarps :—
“On the Culicid genus Hretmapodites, Theobald.”
Ann. Mag, Nat. Hist. (8) viii, p. 67.
“On some Tipulide (Limoniine) from Ceylon in the
British Museum Collection, with Descriptions of eight

new species.” Ib., p. 58.
“On the so-called new Tipulid Sub-family Ceratocheiline,
Wesché.” Ib., p. 279.

“Some new West African species of Anopheles (sensu
lato), with notes on Nomenclature.”
Bull. Ent. Res. ii., p. 141.
“The African species of Culex and allied genera.”
Ib., p. 241.
By W. L. Distant :—

“Rhynchotal Notes. LIII. Neotropical Pentatomide.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vii, p. 242.
“Rhynchotal Notes. LIV. Pentatomidze from various

regions.” Ib., p. 338.
“Rhynchotal Notes. LV. Australian Coreide and
Berytide.” fb. \p: 576.

“New Genera and Species of Cicadide.”
Ib., Viil., p- 132.

“ Rhynchota from the Solomon Islands.” Ib., p. 384,
“‘Rhynchota from the Aru Islands.” Ib., p. 389.
““ New Genera and Species of Oriental Homoptera.”

Ib., pp. 639 and 735.
“Rhynchota Indica.”
. The Entomologist, 1911, pp. 22, 104, 213, 269, 310.

Myriopoda.
By 8. Hirst :—

“A new Termitophilous Millipede from Bengal.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vili., p. 256.

Arachnida.

By S. Hirst :—
“ Scorpions and Solifugze collected by Capt. S. S. Flower
in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.” wore p. 217.
«©On a new Pedipalp from Burma.” 1b., viii., p. 380.
“ Descriptions of new Scorpions.” Ib., p. 462.
““On some new Opiliones from Japan and the Loo-Choo
Islands.” Hix.p. 625.

“The Aranez, Opiliones and Pseudoscorpiones collected by
the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean.”
Trans. Linn. Soc, (2) XIV., p. 379.

136 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

ARACHNIDA— continued.
“On a collection of Arachnida and Chilopoda, made by
Mr. S. A. Neave in Rhodesia, North of the Zambesi,”
Mem. Manchester Lit. & Phil. Soe. lvi.,
Pt. 1; No-2.p. i
The following paper is based to a large extent on material
in the British Museum :—
By C. Fr. RoEWER :—

“ Ubersicht der Genera der Sub-familie der Phalangiini der
Opiliones Palpatores nebst Beschreibung einiger neuer
Gattungen und Arten.”

Arch. f. Naturg., Suppl. (1911), p. f.
Crustacea.
By Dr. W. T. CALMAN :—

“On New or Rare Crustacea of the Order Cumacea from

the Collection of the Copenhagen Museum. Part 2.”
Trans. Zool. Soc. xviii, p. 341.

‘Note on a Crayfish from New Guinea.”

‘Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viil., p. 366.

“An Epizoic Hydroid on a Crab from Christmas Island.”

Ib., p. 546.
The following papers are based on material in the British
Museum :—
— By A. O. WALKER :—
“On Gammarus campylops, Leach.” Ib., vii, p. 397-

Chietopoda.
By Dr. Luiet CoGNETTI DE MARTIIS :—
“A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Oligocheta of
Travancore.” TOS. 494.

“ Description of anew species of the Genus Polytoreutus.”
EOSsp. 507.

“ Description of a new species of the Genus Perionym.”
1b. Dee pa Ore
Hirudinea.

By W. A. HARDING :—
“Note on a new Leech (Placobdella ewgyptiaca) from
Egypt.” Ib., vii., p. 388.

Echinoderma.

By AusTINn H. CLARK :-—
« A new Crinoid Genus from the Indian Ocean.”
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXIV.
“A new Unstalked Crinoid from Christmas Island.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vii., p. 644.

Anthozoa.
By Professor SYDNEY J. Hickson, F.R.S. :

‘“On a specimen of Osteocella septentr Hn (Gray).”
Mem. Manchester Lit. & Phil. Soe. lv., Pt. ii1.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 137

Porifera.
By R. KIRKPATRICK :—
* On Merlia normani, a siliceo-calcareous sponge.”
Quart. Journ. Mier. Sci. lvi., p. 657.

“On a new Lithonine Sponge from Christmas Island.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii., p. 177.

V.—Acquisitions.*
MAMMALIA.

The additions to this class during the past year number
four thousand two hundred and thirty-one, of which the
following are most worthy of note :—

Special attention may be directed to the Duke of Bedford’s
Collection from China, Mr. C. D. Rudd’s Collection from British
East Africa, Mr. Fenwick Owen’s Collection from West Africa,
the Collection from Amboina and Dutch New Guinea presented
by the Subscribers to the British Ornithologists’ Union Expe-
dition to Dutch New Guinea, and Major G. HK. H. Barrett-
Hamilton’s European Collection.

From various localities.

Face-mask and hand (Plaster cast) of Bushman, 104 years
old. Taken during life; presented by Thackeray Edwards,
Esq.

Eleven skulls of natives from the Mimika River, New
Guinea; presented by the Subscribers to the British Orni-
thologists Union New Guinea Expedition Fund.

Ten skulls of African, Guanche, Vancouver Island and New
Zealand natives; presented by the Royal Artillery Institution,
Woolwich.

Lurope.

The skeleton of an adult male Ca’ing Whale or Pilot Whale
(Globicephalus melas) and the head of a fetus of the same
species, from Penzance; and the skull of a Lesser Rorqual,
from Aberystwyth ; presented by the President of the Board
of Trade.

A skeleton of the Black Right Whale from off Shetland.

Two semi-albino Moles from Sussex; presented by Charles
Dawson, Esq.

Eleven Mammals from St. Kilda; presented by W. Eagle
Clarke, Esq.

Hight Voles from Sanday, Orkney Islands; presented by
W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Esq.

* A table showing the number of specimens added during the™ year {is
given on page 158.

138 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MAMMALIA—continued.

Two Roe-deer from Dumfriesshire; presented by His Grace
the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G.

A foetal Moufflon [Corsica] ; presented by the Zoological
Society of London.

One hundred and sixty mammals from Europe; presented
by Major G. EH. H. Barrett-Hamilton.

Kighteen mammals from France and Russia; presented
by the Hon. N. OC. Rothschild.

Three specimens of a rare Shrew (Pachyura etrusca) from
Spain; presented by Abel Chapman, Esq.

Fifteen mammals from Hungary; presented by the Home
Mrs. Charles Rothschild.

Asia.

Twelve mammals from Palestine; presented by the Hon.
N.C. Rothschild.

A Panda [Nepal]; presented by the Zoological Society of
London.

Thirteen mammals from the Punjab; presented by Major
H. N. Dunn.

Ten mammals from India; presented by R. S. Pearson,
Esq.

Ten mammals from India; presented by R. C. Wroughton,
Esq.

Twenty-five mammals from Southern Bombay; presented
by G. S. Hardy, Esq. I.C.S8.

Twelve mammals from Bombay ; presented by LE. Comber,
Esq.

Sixty-one mammals from India; presented by the Bombay
Natural History Society.

An Arab Pony, “ Little Joker”; presented by the Principal,
Bombay Veterinary College.

A rare Langur from Ceylon; presented by Mrs. Bell.

Nine mammals from Sze-chwan ; presented by Capt. F. M.
Bailey.

Five mammals from Sze-chwan; presented by W. N.
Fergusson, Esq.

Six mammals from Yunnan; presented by E. B. Howell,
Esq.

Four hundred and sixteen mammals from China, collected
by Mr. M. P. Anderson ; presented by His Grace the Duke of
Bedford, K.G@., FBS.

Nine mammals from China, collected by Dr. J. A.C. Smith ;
presented by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY.. 139

MamMMALIA—continued.

Eleven mammals from Sarawak ; presented by C. J. Brooks,
Esq.

Eight mammals from Sarawak ; presented by the Sarawak
Museum.

Head of a foetal Banting [Java]; presented by the Zoological
Society of London.

Africa.
Two Bats from Egypt and the Blue Nile; presented by the
Egyptian Government Zoological Gardens.

The type of a new Otter from the White Nile; presented
by the Rev. Archibald Shaw.

Seventy mammals from Somaliland; presented by Dr.
R. EL. Drake-Brockman.

Four mammals from the Bahr-el-Ghazal; presented by
F.C. Selous, Esq.

Sixty mammals from Ruwenzori and the Bahr-el-Ghazal ;
presented by G. Blaine, Esq.

Ninety mammals from the Bahr-el-Ghazal, collected by
A. L. Butler, Esq.

Thirty-two mammals from British East Africa; presented
by S. L. Hinde, Esq.

A monkey (Hrythrocebus whiter) from British East Africa,
new to the collection ; presented by Miss Trehawke Davies.

Three hundred and sixty mammals from British East
Africa, collected by Mr. Robin Kemp; presented by C. D.
Rudd, Esq.

Ten mammals from Toro, East Africa; presented by Dr.
R. A. L. van Someren. —

Seven hundred and forty mammals from Uganda and
British East Africa, collected by Mr. Robin Kemp.

Forty mammals from Rhodesia, British and German East
Africa, and Uganda; presented bythe Entomological Research
Convmittee.

Seventeen mammals from West Nyasaland; presented by
T. H. Lloyd, Esq.

Twelve mammals from North Eastern Rhodesia ; presented
by the Hon. Walter Guinness.

Five mammals from Katanga; presented by Dr. F. O.
Stohr.

Twelve mammals from South Africa and the Bahr-el
Ghazal; presented by the Zoological Society of London.

Sixteen mammals from the Congo, collected by the Rev.
H. M. Whiteside.

140 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MAMMALIA—continued.

Twenty-four mammals from Cameroon and Principe Island ;
presented in accordance with the wish of the late Mr. Boyd
Alexander.

HKighteen mammals from Cameroon, collected by Mr. G. L.
Bates.

Eight mammals from Northern Nigeria; presented by
Douglas Cator, Esq.

Twelve mammals from Northern Nigeria; presented by
P, A. Talbot, Esq.

Sixty-six mammals from the Gold Coast; presented by
Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell.

Twenty-six mammals from Liberia and the Gold Coast,
collected by Willoughby P. Lowe, Esq.

Thirty-six mammals from Liberia, collected by Mr. R. H.
Bunting.

Six mammals from the French Gambia; presented by
F. Russell Roberts, Esq.

Hight mammals from the Gambia; presented by LE.
Hopkinson, Ksq.

One hundred and fifteen mammals from the French Gambia ;
presented by G. Fenwick Owen, Esq.

The type of a new Rodent-Mole from the French Shari
Protectorate; presented by Dr. H. Karl W. Kumm.
America, North.

Two Solid-hoofed Pigs (domestic); presented by the Hon.
N.C. Rothschild.

A foetal Sea-Lion [California]; presented by the Zoological
Socwety of London.

America, South.

Ten mammals from Tolima, Colombia; presented by
H. H. Crease, Esq.

One hundred and ninety mammals from Northern Venezuela.

Two mammals from Venezuela; presented by Hugo Pam,
Esq.

Seventy-four mammals from British Guiana; presented by
F. V. McConnell, Esq.

A Tamarin from Parad; presented by Mrs. Hulton.

Seventy-seven mammals from Ceara, the Lower Amazons
and Tocantins ; presented bu the Goeldi Museum, Para.

Hight mammals from Paraguay and Brazil ; presented by
G. W. Tudor, Esq.

Twenty-three mammals from Paraguay, Patagonia and the
Argentine Republic; presented by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 141

MAMMALIA— continued.

A rare Armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus) from San
Luis, Argentine Republic; presented by Henry L. Green, Esq.

Two mammals from Buenos Aires; presented by Lady
Jackson.

Two mammals from Tierra del Fuego; presented by

W. B. Rogers, Esq.

Twenty mammals from the Rio Pastaza, collected by
Mr. M. G. Palmer.

Australasia.

Fifty-one mammals from Amboina, collected by C. B. Kloss,
Hsq.; presented by the Subscribers to the British Or nitho-
logists’ Union New Guinea Hapedition Fund.

Six mammals from German New Guinea; presented by the
Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.R.S.

One hundred and ten mammals from Dutch New Guinea ;
presented by the Subscribers to the British Or nithologists
Union New Guinea Haupedition Fund.

Eleven mammals from Dutch New Guinea, collected by
Mr. A. S. Meek.

Seven mammals from Queensland; presented by Mrs.
Crookshank.

AVES.

The acquisitions number ten thousand eight hundred and
nineteen. Of these the most noteworthy are as follows :—

ELurope.

Two hundred and seventy-six birds from Ireland; presented
by W. RB. Ogilvie-Grant, Esq.

Five examples of the Irish Jay, Garrulus hibernicus, from

Co. Waterford, new to the collection; presented by Cownt
de la Poer.

Two hundred and thirty-one Grouse, Black Game, and
Ptarmigan from Great Britain, including many valuable
varieties and plumages ; presented by the Grouse Disease
Enquiry Committee.

Two Lammergeiers and a Turkey Vulture; presented by the
Zooloyical Society of London.

Two nestling Marsh Harriers, from the Camargue; pre-
sented by Collingwood Ingram, Esq.

Asia.

Six specimens of Paradoxornis from China; presented by
Commander H. Lynes.

Twenty-two birds from Sze-chwan, Western China; pre-
sented by His Grace the Duke of Bedford, EG, Males.

142 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

AvES—continued.

Two hundred and forty-four birds’ from. Central Asia,
collected by Douglas Carruthers, Esq. |

Thirty-seven birds from Formosa, collected by Dr.
A. Moltrecht.

Three hundred and thirty-seven birds from the Island of
Palawan, collected by Willoughby P. Lowe, Esq.

Africa.
Alexander Collection.—Four thousand seven. hundred and
ninety-eight birds from Africa, including the types of eighty-

four species ; collected by and presented in accordance with the
wish of the late Mr. Boyd Alexander.

Three hundred and fourteen birds from the Sudan Region ;
presented by G. Blaine, Esq.
The type-specimens of Tarsiger elgonensis and Irrisor

granti, from British East Africa, both new to the collection ;
presented by F. J. Jackson, E'sq., C.B., C.M.G.

Nine birds from Equatorial Africa, six species being new to
the collection ; received in exchange from the Berlin Museum.

One hundred and seventy-three birds from East Africa ;
collected by Mr. Robin Kemp.

One hundred and forty-one birds from Central Africa ;
presented by Sheffield A. Neave, Esq.

Fifty-three birds from Entebbe, Uganda; presented by
C. C. Gowdey, Esq.

An example of the rare Scops Owl, Gymnoscops insularis,
from the Seychelles; presented by H. P. Thomasset, Esq.

Four specimens of the Black Knorhaan, Lissotis afra, from
Bechuanaland ; presented by R. EL. Dent, Esq.

Three hundred and six eggs from Northern Ankole, col-
lected by R. A. L. van Someren, Esq.

Twenty-three birds from the district South of Lake George,
including the type of Laniarius mufumbiri; presented by
Mrs. M. Roby. /

A nestling Ostrich ; presented by Carl Hagenbeck, Esq.

One hundred and eighty-two birds, including the types of
Sylviella lower, S. hardyr, and Connyris kruensis, from West
Africa ; collected by Willoughby P. Lowe, Esq.

Four hundred and fifty-one birds from West Africa; pre-
sented by Capt. H. C. Hardy, RN.

Sixteen birds, including the type of Himantornis whitesidet,
and one egg from the Congo Region ; collected by the Rev.
H. M. Whiteside.

Nine birds from Cameroon, including six types of newly
described species, and seventy-two eggs, nearly all of which

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AvEs— continued.
were not previously represented in the collection; presented
by G. L. Bates, Esq.

Five hundred and thirty birds and one hundred and eleven
skeletons from Cameroon; collected by G, L. Bates, Esq.

The type specimen of Wells’ Wagtail,. Motacilla wellsi, from
Upper Nigeria; presented by T. V. Fou, Esq.

Australasia.

An example of Mantou’s Bird of Paradise, Heteroptilorhis
mantoui, new to the collection.

An egg of the Greater Bird of Paradise, Paradisea apoda,
new to the collection; presented by Mrs. EL. J. Johnstone.

One thousand birds from Dutch New Guinea and Amboina,
including the types of ten new species and many species new
to the collection ; presented by the Subscribers to the British
Ornithologists Union New Guinea Hupedition Fund.

America, North.

An example of the extinct Passenger Pigeon, Hctopistes
migratorius, from Kingston, Canada; presented by Mrs.
Oliver.

America, South.

Two hundred and twenty-four birds, sixty-eight eggs, and
fifteen nests from Tamuco, Southern Chile, including a new
species, Upucerthia tamucoensis, and eggs which were pre-
viously unrepresented ; collected by Senor A. Saldana.

Thirty-four birds from Entrerios; presented by Lady
Jackson.

One hundred and twenty birds from British Guiana ; pre-
sented by the Royal. Artillery Institution, Woolwich.

REPTILIA.

The additions number three hundred and sixty-six, of which
two hundred and eleven were acquired by presentation, one
hundred and fifty-two by purchase, and three by exchange.

The principal additions are :—

Europe.
Lizards from Linosa Island, Mediterranean; presented by
Dr. J. de Bedriaga.

Asia.

Examples of two Lizards new to the collection (Tachy-
dromus kuehnet and T. sauterr) from Formosa; received in
exchange from the California Academy of Sciences, San
Francisco.

144 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

REPTILIA—continued.

Fourteen Reptiles from various parts of India and Burma,
including a Snake (Oligodon erythrogaster), new to the
collection ; presented by Major F. Wall.

Eleven Snakes from Kelantan, Malay Peninsula; presented
by Dr. J. D. Gomlette.

Thirty Reptiles from Sarawak; presented by Cecil J.
Brooks, Hsq.

Afriea.
Examples of Uromastix acanthinurus, var, nigriventris,

from Ghardaia, Algeria; presented by the Hon. Walter
Rothschild, F.R.S.

A skull of the Nile Crocodile, from the Fayum (Roman
period) ; presented by Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie, F.R.S.

Five Reptiles collected on the Bahr-el-Gebel by the Rev. A.
Shaw; presented by A. L. Butler, Esq.

Eleven Reptiles from the Blue ‘Nile; presented by Capt.
S. S. Flower.

Ten Reptiles collected by Mr. Kristensen near Harrar,
Abyssinia.

Twenty-one Reptiles collected by Dr. E. Bayon in Uganda ;
presented by the Director of the Museo Civico, Genoa.

Ten Chameleons obtained by Mr. F. B. Pratt in Central
Madagascar.

Examples of a Lizard (Lygodactylus ocellatus) from the
Transvaal, new to the collection; presented by J. Hewitt, Esq.

Twelve Reptiles from the Zaria and Bassa Provinces,
Northern Nigeria, including a Lizard (Bunocenemis matschit),
new to the collection; presented by A. C. Francis, Esq.

Eight Reptiles from Deert, Nigeria, including a new
Amphisbena (Amphisbena simpsoni); presented by J. J.
Simpson, Esq.

Thirteen Reptiles from the Gold Coast; presented by
Dr, H. G. F. Spurrell.

Thirteen Reptiles from South Cameroon, collected by Mr.
G. L. Bates, and including the type of a new Snake (Gontono-
tophis microps).

North and Central America.

Thirty-five Reptiles from N.W. Mexico, collected by Mr.
Neilly, including examples of a Lizard (Gerr honotus teniatus)
anda Snake (Tr eprdanotus multimaculatus), new to the
collection.

A rare Turtle (Dermatemys mawvt) from British Hondamee :
presented by the Zoological Society of London.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 145

REPTILIA—continued.

South America.

Twenty-five Reptiles collected in the Andes of Peru by
Messrs. H. and C. Watkins.

Forty-two Reptiles collected at Huancabamba, Andes of E.
Peru, by Dr. E. Boettger, including types of three new Lizards
(Anolis boettgeri, Stenocercus boettgerit, Prionodactylus
spinalis).

Ten Reptiles collected at Chanchamayo, Andes of E. Peru,
by Mr. C. Schunke.

BATRACHIA.

The additions are two hundred and sixty-six, of which two
hundred and ten were received by presentation, fifty-one by
purchase, and five by exchange.

The following are the most important :—

Europe.
A large series of Salamandra maculosa from various

localities, to illustrate the range and variation of the species ;
presented by various donors.

Asia.

A specimen of the Giant Salamander (Megalobatrachus
maximus) from the Kwangsi Province, China; presented by
Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., D.S.O.

Hight Batrachians from Formosa, received in exchange from
the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
A Frog new to the collection (Rana yunnanensis) from

Tibet.

Highteen Batrachians from Sarawak, including a new Frog
(Rhacophorus brooksit) ; presented by Cecil J. Brooks, Esq.

Africa.
Six Batrachians from the Blue Nile; presented by Capt.
S. S. Flower.

Five Batrachians collected in Erythrea by Signor Nello
Beccari, including a new Frog (Rana beccari); presented by
the Director of the Museo Civico, Genoa.

Five Batrachians from Mount Kenia, British East Africa ;
presented by Prof. E. Linnberg.

Twelve Batrachians collected in Uganda by Dr. E. Bayon,
including the type of a new Frog (Rappia bayoni); presented
by the Director of the Museo Crvico, Genoa.

Twelve Frogs from Grahamstown and Kimberley, 8. Africa;
presented by J. Hewitt, Esq.

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146 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

BATRACHIA—continued.

A rare Frog (Breviceps adspersus) from Novsiacgataleaaee
presented by Dr. Rh. Broom.

Four Batrachians from the Zima Province, N. Nigeria,
including a Frog new to the collection (Rana longirostris) and
the type of a new species (Phrynobatrachus francisci); pre-
sented by A. C. Francis, Esq.

America, North.

Nine Frogs from N.W. Mexico, collected by Mr. Neilly.
America, South.

Types of a new Frog discovered in Trinidad by Dr. L. H.
Gough (Hyla goughi); presented by the Zoological Society of
London.

Twelve Batrachians from the Andes of Peru.

Australasia.
Types of two new Frogs (Hyla pratti and Hylella chloro-
nota), obtained by Mr. A. HE. Pratt on Mt. Arfak, New Guinea.

PISCES.

The additions number seventeen hundred and fifty-six, of
‘which nine hundred and twenty-six were acquired by presenta-
tion and eight hundred and thirty by purchase.

The following are the principal additions :—

Hurope.

A rare Skate from Iceland (Raia lintea); presented by
Mr. J. Mundie.

A remarkably large Horse Mackerel (Trachurus trachurus)
from Ireland; presented by Herbert Quinton, Esq.

A yellow Eel (Anguilla vulgaris, ictera) from Holland ;
presented by Sir J. Wrench Towse.

A rare Fish (Centrolophus pompilus) from Bordighera ;
presented by Mr. A. L. Hollis.

Co-types of three Cyprinids from Herzegovina (Para-
phoxinus metohiensis, P. ghetaldii, and P. pstr Ossit); pre-~
sented by Dr. F. Steindachner.

A sid.

Sixty-nine Fishes from the Persian Gulf and forty-seven
from Kurrachee; presented by F. W. Townsend Esq.

Examples of two Fishes from Rangoon, Burma, new to the
collection (Danio analipunctatus and Haplochilus melano-
stigma); presented by Mr. J. Paul Arnold.

Nineteen Fishes from the Malay Peninsula; presented by
Mr. E. Seamund.

Thirty-three Fishes from Christmas Island; presented by
R. Kirkpatrick, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 147

PiscEs—continued.

Hight Fishes from the Indian Ocean, collected by Dr. F. R. D.
Glisson, among them an example of a species new to the collec-
tion (Idiacanthus fasciola); presented by the Hastern and
Associated Telegraph Companies.

Africa.

Examples of a little known Barbel from Biskra (Barbus
biscarensis) ; presented by the How. Walter Rothschild, F. BRS.

Five Cyprinodonts from Algeria, including examples of a
species (Tellia apoda) new to the collection; received in
exchange from the Paris Museum.

One hundred and sixty-seven Fishes, from a collection made
by Dr. E. Bayon in Uganda, including the types of eight new
species; presented by the Director of the Museo Civico, Genoa.

Seventeen Fishes from the Victoria Nile; presented by
F. H. Melland, Esq.

The type of a new Barbel (Barbus somereni) from Mount
Ruwenzori, British Hast Africa; presented by V. G. L. van
Someren, Esq.

Examples of two new Fishes (Barbus luazomele and Tilapia
nyvrica) from British East Africa; presented by Prof. LE.
Lonnberg.

Four Fishes from Lake Rukwa, including the type of a new
species (Clarias hilgendorfi) ; presented by F. H. Melland,
E'sq. ;

Fifty-three Fishes from Lake Bangwelu; presented by
F. H. Melland, E'sq.

Twenty-seven Fishes from the Sankun River, Kasai, Congo,
from the collection of M. E. Luja; among them the types of
two new species (Labeo nigricans, Haplochilus luje); pre-
sented by the Director of the Luxemburg Museum.

One hundred and seventy Fishes “obtained in Angola by
Dr. W. J. Ansorge, including the types of nineteen new species.

Twenty-two Fishes collected in South Cameroon by Mr.
G. L. Bates, including the types of three new species (Clarias
jaensis, C. esamese, Auchenoglanis altipinnis).

Forty-nine Fishes from the Lower Niger and the head-
waters of the Cross River; presented by R. D. Gardner, Esq.

Fifty-six Fishes from the Niger; presented by J. J. Sump-
son, Esq.

Forty-three Fishes from Lagos and the head-waters of the
Cross River, including a new Barbel (Barbus aboinensis) ;
presented by Major G. HL. Bruce.

A new Cyprinodont (Haplochilus grahami) from Lagos;
presented by Dr. W. M. Graham.

Seven Fishes from the Gold Coast, including a new Barbel
(Barbus spurrelli); presented by Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell.

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148 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

PISCES-—continued. ,
Fifty-two Fishes collected in Liberia by Mr. W. P. Lowe,
including a new Polypterus (Polypterus lowe).
Eighteen Cyprinodonts, including a new species (Haplo-
chilus calliurus) from Liberia; presented by Mr. J. Paul
Arnold.

A new Fish (Mastacembelus reticulatus) from Sierra Leone ;
presented by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

America, North.

Examples of a Ray (Dicerobatis olfersii) from North
Carolina, new to the collection; presented by Mr. Russell J.
Coles. Z

A model of a record specimen of the Yellow-tail (Seriola
dorsalis) from South California; presented by W. W. Simpson,
Lisq.

A large stuffed Tarpon (Megalops thrissoides) from Tampico,
Mexico; presented by A. Louis Allen, Esq.

America, South.

Five hundred and sixty Fishes from Prof. C. H. Eigenmann’s
British Guiana Collection, including co-types of eighty-one
new species.

Four Fishes from Manaos, Brazil, including one (Crenicichla
lenticulata) new to the collection; presented by EH. Stanley
Sutton, Esq.

The type of a new Cyprinodont (Petalosoma amazonum)
from Brazil; presented by Mr. A. Rachow.

Thirteen Fishes from the Andes of Peru, collected by
Messrs. H. and C. Watkins.

Fifty-six Fishes from the Falklands, including examples of
two species new to the collection (Liparis falklandicus, Noto-
thenia karlandre); presented by Rupert Vallentin, Esq.

Examples of a Sprat (Clupea fuegensis), new to the collec-
tion, from the Falklands; presented by T. W. Proger, Esq.

MOLLUSCA.

The collection of Palearctic Mollusca formed by the Rev.
Canon A. M. Norman constitutes the principal acquisition
during the year. It consists of about 50,000 specimens which
are in excellent condition and are named throughout. It
contains probably the most complete series of the British
species in this country and is a great accession to the Museum
on this account. Besides the British series the collection
includes Mediterranean, Madeiran, Atlantic, Scandinavian and
Arctic forms, besides others from the United States, Vancouver
and Japan. The Arctic portion of the collection is especially
fine and of much scientific interest. With regard to the

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 149

MoLLusca—continued.

specimens themselves it was Canon Norman’s object to obtain
the finest he possibly could; and some of them are quite
unique in respect of size.

In addition to the above collection three thousand four
hundred and eighty-eight specimens were acquired during the
year.-

The following are the principal series :—

Miscellaneous.

Fifty-nine shells from various localities, including remark-
able abnormal specimens of Strombus, Cyprea, Oliva, Conus,
Murex and Ravnella,a valuable reversed example of Vaswm
rhinoceros and twenty-two figured specimens from the Hanley
Collection; presented by Henry Harvey, Esq.

Twenty-eight shells from various localities, including speci-
mens of Voluta gatlifi and V. prevostiana, the types of
Pleurotoma invicta, Terebra remanovolva and other species
new to the collection.

Two hundred and eighty-three specimens, mostly land and
freshwater species from Africa, Caspian Sea, South Pacific
Islands, ete. ; nearly all new to the collection.

Two hundred and forty-nine shells from Africa, Tonkin,
Viti, etc., including co-types of many recently described species.

Two hundred and one specimens from Sunday Island,
Kermadec Group, and East Central Africa, all new to the
collection and lately described species.

Europe.
Seventeen fine specimens of marine shells from Jersey ;
presented by H. Spurrier, Esq.

Asia.

Twenty-two marine shells from Christmas Island, including
four new species; presented by R. Kirkpatrick, Esq.

Fifty marine shells from Wei-Hai-Wei, North China;
presented by C. EL. Liardet, Esq.

Ninety land and marine shells from Bombay, Karachi and
Ceylon; presented by EL. Comber, Esq.

Africa.
One hundred and twenty-nine marine shells from Kalk Bay,

Cape of Good Hope, including a fine series of Phasianella ;
presented by Miss Reid.

Sixty-three land shells from Natal and “Cape Colony,
including the types of thirty-one species; presented by
J. H. Ponsonby, Esq.

A second series of twenty-one types of South African land
shells and other species, represented by sixty-one specimens ;
presented by J. H. Ponsonby, Esq.

150 ACCOUNTS, ETC.,; OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MoLLUScA—continued.

Forty-five land and freshwater shells from Nigeria and
Lagone District, South of Lake Chad; presented by P. A.
Talbot, Esq.

Twenty-nine marine shells from Madeira, including the
types of nineteen species described by the Rev. R. Boog
Watson ; presented by J. R. Le B. Tomlin, Esq.

America.

Thirty-one land and freshwater shells from New Mexico,
including several new varieties; presented by Prof. T. D. A.
Cockerell.

Thirty-one marine shells from Vancouver Island, collected
and presented by Miss H. L. M. Pizell.

Thirteen hundred and thirty-nine land, freshwater, and
marine shells from Bermuda, including many species new to
the collection ; presented by Major A. J. Peile, R.A.

Australasia.

Forty-two marine shells from South Dutch New Guinea ;
presented by the Subscribers to the British Ornithologists’
Union New Guinea Lapedition Fund.

Three hundred and thirty-four specimens of the genus
Physa from exact localities in South Australia; presented
by W. T. Bednall, Esq.

Highteen marine shells from South Australia, representative
of eight species new to the collection ; presented by Dr. J. C.
Verco.

INSECTA.

The number of specimens added to this part of the col-
lection during the year is one hundred and eighteen thousand
and twenty-two, made up as follows :—

Coleoptera = - - - - = - - 55,887
Lepidoptera - ~ - ~ - - - 26,040
Hyimenoptera - = = - - - - 11,661
Diptera - - - - - - - - 8,542
Rhynchota -~— - - = - - - 4,967
Orthoptera: - = = -, <= (= -Rzoen
Neuroptera- - - - = - : - 4,732
Nests, eggs, larvee, etc. - - - - - 246

Total - - - 118,022

The most important of these accessions are the following :—

From various localities.

Five thousand six hundred and thirteen Micro-Lepidoptera
from Queensland, French Guiana and S. Europe; presented by
the Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, F.R.S.

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InNsECTA— continued.

Five thousand Lepidoptera and Rhynchota purchased of
W. L. Distant, Esq., being the first instalment of the Distant
Collection.

Six thousand five hundred Coleoptera, being the collection
of Cicindelidz formed by the late Frederick Bates; presented
by Guy R. G. Nevinson, Esq.

One hundred and eighty-eight Coleoptera, being the col-
lections of Platypodide formed by Messrs. Janson and Wallace,
and including many types of species described by Chapuis.

One thousand and fourteen Hymenoptera; presented by
RH. Turner, Esq.

Europe.

Two thousand one hundred and sixty-six named British
Diptera ; a first instalment of the collection bequeathed by
the late G. H. Verrall, Esq.

Nine hundred named British Diptera; presented by Lieut.-
Col. J. W. Yerbury.

Asia.

Hight thousand Coleoptera from Japan, including many
types, being the second instalment of the collection formed
by G. Lewis, Esq.

Two thousand seven hundred Insects of all Orders from:
China; presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.R.S.

Five hundred and twenty-three Insects of all Orders from
China and the Hawaiian Islands; presented by the late F. W.
Terry, Esq.

Three hundred and forty-five Lepidoptera from Kashmir ;
presented by Major F. Wall.

Two hundred Diptera from India; presented by Col. H. G.W.
Barrow. R.A.M.C.

Africa.
Thirty-one thousand seven hundred and thirty Insects

of all Orders; presented by the Entomological Research
Committee.

Four hundred and ten Coleoptera (Longicornia), including
many co-types; presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild,
#.R.S.

Three hundred and ten Diptera from Uganda; presented
by Capt. A. D. Fraser, R.A.M.C.

Hight hundred and twenty-five Insects of various Orders,
including many types, and fifty-one microscopic slides, from
Bo chelles Islands ; presented by Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner,

152 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

INSECTA—continued.

One thousand eight hundred and eighty Coleoptera,
including a named collection of South African Tenebrionide ;
presented by G. A. K. Marshall, Esq.

Five thousand Rhynchota from Natal, received in exchange
from Mr. O. K. Janson.

One thousand and forty seven Lepidoptera, and three
hundred Insects of other Orders, from Southern Nigeria ;
presented by Capt. Lorn HL. H. Humfrey.

Four hundred and seventy-seven Lepidoptera from the
Gold Coast; presented by Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell.

America.

Twenty thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven Coleop-
tera, three thousand four hundred and twenty-five Lepidoptera
and three thousand eight hundred and ten Insects of other
Orders, mainly from Mexico and Central America; presented

by Dr. F. D. Godman, FBS.

Four hundred and twenty-three Lepidoptera from Costa
Rica; presented by W. Schaus, Esq.

Four hundred and eighty-five Lepidoptera from Colombia ;
presented by Herbert Druce, Esq.

Australasia.

One thousand five hundred and seventy Lepidoptera, and
one thousand and thirty-three Insects of other Orders, from
Dutch New Guinea and the Aru (slands; presented by the
Subscribers to the British Ornithologists’ Union New Guinea
Expedition Fund.

Seven hundred and twenty Coleoptera from Australia,
mostly type specimens, being the second instalment of the
Rev. Canon T. Blackburn’s Collection.

Seventy-tive Coleoptera from Australia, mostly co-types;
received in exchange from A. M. Lea, Esq., Government
Entomologist, Hobart.

One hundred Diptera from S. Queensland; presented by
Dr. T. L. Bancroft.

Four hundred and forty-three Insects of various Orders
from Central Australia; presented by H. J. Hillier, Esq.

MYRIOPODA.

The accessions number two hundred and eighty-four, of
which the following are the more important :—

A number of specimens of a new termitophilous millipede
(Termitodesmus lefroyi) from Bengal; presented by H.
Maawell-Lefroy, Esq.

Eighty-one Myriopoda from Japan.

DEPARTMENT OF ZQOLOGY. 153

MyriopoDa-—continued.

Twenty specimens from Dutch New Guinea; presented by
the Subscribers to the British Ornithologists Union New
Guinea EHaupedition Fund.

Thirty specimens from Hawaii; presented by the late F. W.
Terry, Esq.

Highty-seven specimens from Algeria; presented by S.
Hirst, Esq.

ARACHNIDA.

The accessions number two thousand and twenty-six. The
following are worthy of note :—

Asia.

Nine Pedipalpi from India and Ceylon, including co-types
of four species and a variety; received in exchange from the
Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.

Forty Arachnida from Northern and Western China,
including the types of five new species of spiders and a new
variety of a tick ; presented by A. de C. Sowerby, Esq.

Nine hundred and ten Arachnida from Japan.

Five spiders and a new species of harvestman (Systenocentrus
confucianus) from the Shensi Province of China; presented
by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.R.S.

Africa.
Two hundred and thirty-two Ticks from various parts of
Africa, including the types of three new species and two new

varieties; presented by the Hntomological Research Com-
mittee.

One hundred and ninety-seven Arachnida from Algeria ;
presented by S. Hirst, Ksq.

Three hundred and twenty Ticks from British East Africa
and German East Africa; presented by the Hon. N. C.
Rothschild,

Forty-eight Ticks from Uganda; presented by Capt. A. D.
Fraser, R.A.M.C.

Fourteen Arachnida from North East . hodesia, including
the types of two new species; presented iy the Manchester
Museum.

Thirty Arachnida from the Gold Coast presented by Dr.
H. G. F. Spurrell.

Australasia and Pacific Ocean.

Sixty-two Spiders from Dutch New Guinea; presented by
the British Ornithologists’ Union New Guinea EHapedition
Fund.

Forty-five Spiders from Hawaii; presented by the late
F.W. Terry, Esq.

154 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

CRUSTACEA.

Excluding the Norman collection, which is estimated to
contain over 35,000 specimens, the additions number eight
hundred, of which the following are the most important :—

Europe.

Hight. microscopical preparations of British Crustacea ;
presented by H. J. Waddington, Esq.

A rare British Crab (Paromola cuvieri); presented by
H. Bolton, Esq.

One hundred and five specimens of British Woodlice ;
presented by R. 8S. Bagnall, Esq.

Five British Amphipoda; presented by A. O. Walker, Esq.

Three Crayfish from Derbyshire; presented by T. A.
Coward, Esq.

Five Woodlice (Porcellio dilatatus) from Fulham;
presented by Mr. W. LE. Barnett.

Twenty-two Well-shrimps and Copepods from the Isle of
Wight; presented by Mrs. S. F. Harmer.

Three myrmecophilous Woodlice from Devonshire; pre-
sented by S. Hirst, Esq.

Ten Freshwater Amphipods from Ireland; presented by
Major H. Trevelyan.

The type-specimen of a new species of Cirripede from the
West of Ireland; presented by the Department of Agriculture
and Technical Instruction, Ireland.

Six Well-shrimps (Niphargus plateau) from France ;
presented by the Rev R. Ashington Bullen, F.L.S.

* Fifteen Tanaide from Naples; presented by Dr. R. Dohrn.

Asia.
Two blind Prawns from the Sea of Galilee.

Two parasitic Isopoda from Arabia; presented by Dr. A.
Hayes.

Seventy-six Decapoda from India; received in exchange
from the Indian Museum, Calcutta.

Ten freshwater Ostracods from Travancore ; presented by
the Government Museum, Trivandrum.

Twenty-nine Peneid Prawns from the Persian Gulf and
Karachi; presented by F. W. Townsend, Esq.

Twenty-four Crustacea from Christmas Island ; presented
by Rk. Kirkpatrick, Esq.

One hundred and sixty-seven pelagic Copepoda from
Christmas Island; presented by Sir John Murray, K.C.B.,
tas:

Eight River-crabs from Borneo; presented by C. J. Brooks,
Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 155

CRUSTACEA—continued,
Fourteen Crustacea from Japan and China; received in
exchange from the Zoological Museum, Munich.

Two Crabs from Hong Kong; presented by the Indian
Museum, Calcutta.

Africa.

A River-crab from the Blue Nile; presented by Capt. S. 8.
Flower.

Three River-crabs from Abyssinia.

Three River-shrimps from British East Africa; presented
by C. M. Woodhouse, Esq.

Four River-crabs from British East Africa; presented by
C.D. Rudd, Esq.

Four River-crabs from Uganda; presented by Oldfield
Thomas, Esq., F.R.S.

A River-crab from Uganda; presented by CO. C. Gowdey,
Esq.

Eleven Crabs and Prawns from West Africa; presented by
Capt, E. C. Hardy, RN.

Four River-crabs from the Gold Coast; presented by Dr.
H. G. F. Spurrell.

One River-crab from Northern Nigeria; presented by A. C.
Francis, Esq.

America.

A Crab from Florida; received in exchange from the
Zoological Museum, Munich.

Two River-prawns from Ecuador.

Twenty-five Crustacea from Chili; presented by Prof.
Carlos H. Porter, C.M.Z.S.

Australasia.

Six specimens of Hulimnadia from Sydney ; presented by
Professor J. P. Hill.

A Crayfish from the Aru Islands; received in exchange
from the Natural History Museum, Basel.

Twenty-six Crustacea from New Guinea; presented by ‘the
Subscribers to the British Ornithologists’ Union ‘New Guinea
EHxpedition Fund.

Miscellaneous.

Forty-four Crustacea from submarine telegraph cables in
the Indian Ocean and Australian waters; presented by the
Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies.

A Hermit-crab from the Red Sea; received in exchange
from the Zoological Museum, Munich.

156 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

CrRusTACcEA—continued.

Fifty microscopical preparations of Ostracoda, including
holotypes of eleven species, from Funafuti ; presented by the
Royal “Society.

Eight Crustacea from the Friendly Islands, collected by

the Solar Physics Observatory Eclipse Expedition of 1911 to
Vavau; presented by Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer.

A Woodlouse and four specimens of Apus from Hawaii ;
presented by the late Ff. W. Terry, Esq.

Twenty-one Whale-parasites from South Georgia; presented
by Dr. George Cruickshank.

Forty Cumacea from the “ Nimrod” Antarctic Expedition ;
presented by Sir Hrnest Shackleton.

PYCNOGONIDA.

Four specimens from South Georgia; presented by Dr.
George Cruickshank.

ECHINODERMA.

Of the few (eight) specimens obtained during the year, none
eall for special mention.

W oRMS.

Of these the most important are :—

Two hundred and twenty-six Polycheta collected by the
National Antarctic Expedition, including representatives of
thirteen genera hitherto wanting to the collection ; described by
Prof. E. Ehlers in Vol. VI. of the “ Discovery ” Reports.

Forty-eight Polycheta described by Dr. A. Willey, F.R.S.,
in the Transactions of the Linnean Society (Vol, ix);
presented by the Trustees of the South African Musewm.

Various additions to the collection of Oligocheta which
have been determined mest kindly by Dr. L. Cognetti de
Martiis.

A further set of twenty-four beautiful preparations of
Rotifers, determined and mounted by C. F. Rousselet, Esq.

POLYZOA.

The most notable acquisition has been that of the Norman
Collection of Polyzoa, the most important part of which was
contained in 1,063 glass-topped boxes, and included types,
co-types, and figured specimens.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. yy.

ANTHOZOA.

The most interesting additions were the following :—

Several pieces of Osteocella septentrionalis, which have
formed the subject of a recent paper by Prof. S. J. Hickson,
F.R.S. ; collected and presented by the Rev. J. H. Keen.

HKighty-three specimens of Porites, collected by the donor
during his expedition to the Laccadive Is.; presented by
Professor J. Stanley Gardiner, F.RS.

An interesting specimen of the rare Alcyonarian Antho-
mastus ; presented by the Eastern and Associated Telegraph
Companies.

Three stony Corals, selected from the collection made by
the Solar Physics Observatory Eclipse Expedition of 1911 to
Vavau; presented by Dr. W. J. 8S. Lockyer.

HYDROZOA.

The Meduse of the National Antarctic Expedition, described
by Mr. E. T. Browne in Vol. Y. of the “ Discovery ” Reports.

PORIFERA.

Twenty-five slides of freshwater Sponges; presented by
Dr. Edward Potts.

One hundred and forty-eight slides of Hexactinellida from
the Pacific, mostly prepared from type-specimens by Prof.
R. v. Lendenfeld.

A large collection of Sponges from Christmas Island, now
contained in 104 bottles and 22 boxes ; collected and presented
by R. Kirkpatrick, Esq.

Fifteen bottles containing nine hundred specemens of Merlia
normani collected at monthly and occasionally fortnightly
intervals during twelve months, for the purpose of ascertaining
the time of development of the eggs and embryos.

A small but interesting collection of thirty-two Sponges
from about 20 fathoms in Departure Bay, Vancouver, B.C., and
including specimens of three species of Hexactinellida ; collected

and presented by Miss H. L. M. Picell.

PROTOZOA.

Hight compound slides of deep-sea types of Foraminifera
from Funafuti, and one compound slide of holotypes and
plesiotypes of Foraminifera, mounted by Mr. F. Chapman and
described by him in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx., 1910; presented by
the Royal Socvety.

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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Summary of the Acquisitions in the Department of Zoology
during 1911.

( Wild : = =
Mammalia Domesticated - -
Human - - -
Skins - -
Aves | Eggs, Beate, and skeletons
Reptilia - - : -
Batrachia - - - -
Pisces - - - - -
Tunicata - - - -
Wiglaees | Norman Collection -
Other sources - -
Insecta - - - -
Prototracheata - - -
Myriopoda - - - :
Arachnida - - - -
Gruciaten Norman Collection -
Other sources - -
Pycnogonida - - . -
Echinoderma - - -
i Discovery ” Collection-
Worms Other sources -
: Norman Collection
Brachiopoda Other sources -

Qther sources -
Anthozoa - -
Hydrozoa . -
Porifera - -
Protozoa - .

Polyzoa ' Norman Collection ;

Totals - - -

Donations.

2,993
11

22
8,622
39
211
210
926

8

2,559
102,132
181
1,098

700
4

8
227
81

36
18
99
47
301
18

120,551

Purchases

1,185
1,625
496
152
51
830

49,171
861
15,493
103
920
35,000

| 110,082

.| Exchanges.

397

Totals.’

4,194
ll

26
10,284
535
366
266
1,756
8

52,659
118.022

284
2,026

35,800

231,301

The following Donors* have presented specimens to the
Department of Zoology during the past year :—

Baring, Hon. C.
Barnard, K. H.
Barnett, W. E.

Aders, Dr. W. M.
Admiralty, Lords of the
Alexander, Boyd (the late)
Allen, A. L.

Andrews, Dr. C. W.
Andrewes, H. E.
Arbuckle, Dr. H. E.
Arnold, J. P.

Ashover, J. J.

Bacot, A.

Bagnall, R. 8.
Bailey, Capt. F. M.
Baird, T.

Bancroft, Dr. R. L.
Barclay, H. G.

Barrett-Hamilton, Maj.G. E. H.

Barrow, Col. H Fy W.

Bate, Miss D. M. A.

Bates, G. L.

Bavay, A.

Baxter, Dr. J. E.

Bayne, W. M.

Bechuanaland Administration.

Beddett, Major

Bedford, His
Duke of, K.G.

Bednall, W. T.

Bedriaga, J. de

Grace the

* A list of Donors’ of books, etc., is given on pp. 125-127, under the »

heading ‘“ Departmental Library.”

DEPARTMENT

Bell, Mrs.

Berg, C.

Beringer, Dr. F. J. A.

Best, T. A. V.

_ Bethell, Mrs. Guy.

Betton, C. S.

Bilborough, Mrs. G. E.

Bird, H.

Bishop, A. H.

Blackler, W. F. G.

Blaine, G.

Blair, K. G.

Blochmann, Dr. F.

Board of Trade, President of

Bolton, H.

Bombay Nat. Hist. Society.

Boury, E. de

Bowditch, F, C.

Bradshaw, Maj. C. P.

- Braem, Dr. F,

Bridgman, F. G.

British Columbia, Government
of

British Ornithologist sUnion.

Broad, P. G.

Brook, Miss S. A.

Brooks, C. J.

Broom, Dy. R.

Browne, Qr. Mr. Set.

Bruce, Col. Sir D.

Bruce, Maj. G.’E.

Bruch, Dr. C.

Brunetti, E.

Bryant, G. E.

Buccleugh, His Grace the
Duke of, K.G.

Bucknill, Hon. John A.

Bullen, Rev. R. A.

Bunbury, Col. Vesey

Burbridge, K. G.

Burr, Dr. M.

Busch, A‘

Butler, A. L.

Buxton, P. A.

Buysson, Vicomte R. du

Caradja, Prince A. de
Carreras, T.

Warter, H. F.
Casorla, J. O.

Cator, Douglas

OF ZOOLOGY.'

Chalmers, Guthrie & Co.
Champion, A. M.
Champion, G. C.
Chapman, A.

Chapman, Dr. T. A.

| Charmoy, D’E. de

Christiania Museum.
Christy, Dr. C. C.
Clark, E. L.

Clarke, W. Eagle
Cochrane, Commander H.
Cockayne, E. A.
Cockburn, Maj. W. A. C.
Cockerell, Prof. T. D. A.
Coles, R. J.

Collins, Miss F.

Comber, E.

Cooke, A..T.

Copeman, WH. A.
Copeman, Dr. S. M.
Copland, Dr A.
Coplestone, W. E.
Cotton, W. B.

Coward, T. A.

Crease, H. H.
Crookshank, Mrs.
Crowfoot, Dr. W. M.
Cruickshank, Dr. G.

D’Abreu, E. A.

Daws, W.

Dawson, Charles.
Davidson, T.

Davies, Miss Trehawke
Davys, Capt. G. J.
Day, G. O.

Dayrell, Elphinstone
De la Poer, Count
Denny, Prof. A.

Dent, R. E.

Dillistone, Rev. H. G.
Dimock, Miss

Din, Dr. Fatteh ud
Distant, W. L.

Dod; EF. Ae Ws. x
Dodds, Lieut. E. H.
Dognin, P.

Dohrn, Dr. R.
Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K.
Drake-Brockman, Dr. R. E.
Druce, H.

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160

Dunn, Maj. H. N.
D’Urban, W.
Durham, Dr. H. E.
Durham, Dr.
Durrant, J. H.

Earle, E.

Eastern and Associated Tele-
graph Companies.

Eaton, Rev. A. E.

Edwardes, H. S. W.

Edwards, S.

Edwards, T.

Egypt Research Fund.

Eldrid, Mrs. E. R. C.

Enderlein, Dr. G.

English, T. M. S.

Entomological Research Com-
mittee (Tropical Africa).

Ericson, I. B.

Evans, Capt. W. H.

Fagan, C. E.

Feilden, G. S. C.
Felsche, C.
Fergusson, W. N.
Fischer, C. E. C.
Fleischmann, F. N. A.
Flower, Capt. S. S.
Forde, Dr. R. M.
Forsyth-Major, Dr. C. I.
Foster, A. G.

Fox. Rev. G. T.

Hox TV.

Francis, A. C.

Fraser, Capt. A. D.
Froggatt, W. W.
Frohawk, F. W.

Ganglbauer, L.
Gardiner, Prof. J. S.
Gardner, R. D.

Genoa Museum,
Geological Society.
Gibbons, R. K.

Giles, Col. G.N., I.M.S.
Gillet, Prof. J. J.
Gimlette, Dr. J. D.
Giza Zoological Gardens.
Gladstone, H. 8.
Godman, F. D.
Gossweiler, J.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Gounelle, E.
Gowdey, C. C.
Graham, Dr. W. M.
Grant, C.

Gravely, F. H.
Green, E. E.
Green, H. L.
Grierson, P. H.
Griffith, W. St. B.
Grosholz, A. E.
Grouvelle, A.
Guinness, Hon. W.

Hadden, H.
Hagenbeck, C.
Haldane, R. C.
Hardy, Capt. E. C.
Hardy, G. 8.
Harmer, Mrs. S. F.
Harting, J. E.
Harvey, H.

Hayes, Dr. A.
Heller, Dr. K. M.
Hewitt, J.
Hickson, Prof. S. J.
Hall, Protx.
Hillier, H. J.
Hinde, S. L.

Hirst, 8:
Hitchcock, Miss M.
Hobart, ‘Cc. H.
Hodgson, G. G. (the late)
Holley, Mrs. Windham
Hollis, Mrs. A. E.

Holt, E. W. L.
Hopkinson, E.
Howard, C.
Howard, H. E.
Howell, E. B.
Howes, G.
Howlett, W. F.
Hulton, Mrs.

Humfrey, Capt. L. E. H.
Hurrell, H. E.

Ihering, Dr. H. von

Ikonikov, N.

Imperial Institute.

India, Agricultural Department
of

Indian Museum, Calcutta.

Ingram, C.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY.

Iredale, T.
Ireland, Department of Agri-
culture.

Jack, Major E. M.

Jack, R. W.

Jackson, F. J., C.B., C.M.G.

Jackson, Lady

James, Sir E., K.C.LE.

James, Hon. Mrs. B. R.

Jameson, Dr. L.

Janaghar, Nawab of

Jemmett, C. W.

Jennings, F. B.

Jensen, H.

Jermyn, Col.

Joannis, L’Abbé J. de

Johnstone, Mrs. E. J.

Jones, Staff-Surgeon K. H.,
R.N.

Jordan, Dr. K.

Jukes-Browne, A J.

Justice, J. N.

Kaye, W. J.

Keen, Rev. J. H.
Kemmis, A. W.
Kennion, Major R. L.
Kerr, A. F. G.

King, W. A.

Richy, W. F.

Kirkman, F. B.
Kirkpatrick, R.
Komm, Dr. H. Karl W.

Lankester, C. H.

Lea, A. M.

Lee, G.

Leeke, Rev. W.

Leigh, J. H.

Lesne, P.

Lewis, G.

Lewis, R. F.

Liardet, C. E.

Lister, J. J.

Liverpool School of Tropical
Medicine.

Lloyd, T. H.

Lockyer, Dr. W. J. S.

London School of Tropical
Medicine.

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161

Longstaff, Mrs.

Longstaff, Dr. G, B.

Lonnberg, Prof. E.

Lowe, Dr. F. E.

Lowe, W. P.

itubn, Dro OS. ke

iucard, “Sit 2h.
D.S.O.

Luvoni, A. B.

Luxemburg Museum.

Lyall, Capt. R. A.

Lydekker, R.

Lyell, G.

Eynes, Commander H.

K.C.M.G.

McConnell, F. V.

MacDougall, Dr. R.

MacDougall, Major, R.A.M.C.

McNeill, Capt. M.

Main, H.

Marshall, Dr. C. H.

Marshall, G. A. K.

Maw, W. A.

Maxwell-Lefroy, H.

Meade-Waldo, E. G. B.

Melland, F. H.

Melvill, Dr. J. C.

Mexican Geographical
mission.

Middleton, J. E.

Migeod, F. W. H.

Moffarts, Baron Paul de

Morel, E. D.

Morice, Rev. F. D.

Moulton, J. C.

Muir, F.

Mundie, J.

Murray, G. W.

Murray, Sir J., K.C.B.

Muss, L. J.

Com-

Nash, W.

Navas, R.-P. L.

Neave, S. A.

Neish, Dr. W. D.

Nettleship, G.

Nevinson, G. R. G.

New Guinea, Subscribers to
B. O. U. Expedition to

Nichol, Col. C. KE.

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162

Nicholl, Mrs.
Nurse, Col. C. G.
Nutt, W. G.

Ohaus, Dr. F.
Ogilvie-Grant, W. R.
Old, Dr J: ES:
Oliver, Mrs.

Orme, W. B.
Oudemans, Dr. A. C.
Owen, G. F.

Pam, H.

Para Museum.

Park, M.

Peake, H. G. J.

Pearson, R. 8.

Pegler, Miss A.

Peile, Major A. J.

Penny, F.

Perez, DrvG.ay.

Perkins, R. Cb:

Petrie, Prof. W. M. F.

Petters, J. McF.

Philipe, G. W. V. De R.

Philp, J. E.

Philpott, Miss

Pillar, Ade oN

Pixell, Miss H. L. M.

Ponsonby, J. H.

Pool «Cao ee.

Porter, Prof. C. E.

Potts, Dr. E.

Poulton, Prof. EK. B.

Powell, F.G. M. |

Prell. A.

Preston, H. B.

Primrose, A. M.

Prince, N. E.

Prittie, F. R. D.

Progen, 2. Wie

Prout, L. B.

Purdy, W.

Pusa, Agricultural Research
Institute.

‘Quinton, A.

Rachow, A.
Ramsay, L. N. G.
Randall, Mrs.
Ratcliff, F. R.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Redemann, A. W. B.

Reid, Miss

Ridley, H. N.

Roberts, F. R.

Roberts, W. R.

Roby, Mrs. M.

Rogers, W. B.

Rosing Bros.

Rothschild, Hon. Walter

Rothschild, Hon. N. C.

Rothschild, Hon. Mrs. N. C.

Rousselet, C. F.

Royal Artillery Institution,
Woolwich, Committee of

Royal Society.

Rudd, C;. D.

St. Quintin, W. H.

Sansom, —

Sarawak Museum.

Schaus, W.

Schmassmann, W.

Sclater, W. L.

Scorer, A. G.

Seimund, E.

Selkirk, Rev. T.

Selous, F. C.

Shackleton, Sir E.

Sharman, T. P.

Shaw, Rev. A.

Sherborn, C. D.

Shuttleworth, Hon. L. V. Kay

Sicard, Surg.-Major A.

Simpson, J. J.

Simpson, W. W.

Sjostedt, Prof. Dr. Y.

Sladden, Dr. A. F. S.

Sladen, Percy, Committee of
Trust Fund.

Sloane, Mrs. A. E.

Smith, Lieut. M. P. T., R.N.

Smith, K. M.

Smitheman, F.

Smyth, Miss N.

Snooke, Mrs.

Solar Physics Observatory
Kelipse Expedition.

Someren, Dr. R. G. L. van

Someren, V. G. L. van

Sorensen, H.

South African Museum,
Trustees of

DEPARTMENT

South, R.

Sowerby, A. de C.
Spitzly, Dr. J. H.
Spurrell, Dr. H. G. F.
Spurrier, H.

Stannus, Dr. H. S.
Stephens, Miss J.
Stohr, Dr. F. O.
Strathairn, Dr. G.
Steindachner, Dr. F.
Strickland, T. A. G.
Surcouf, Baron J. M. R.
Sutton, E. S.

Swinhoe, Col. C.
Sykes, E. R.

Talbot, P. A.
Taylor, W.
Telegraph Companies, tated
and Associated
Terry, F. W. (the late)
Terzi, A. J. E.
Theobald, F. V.
Thiele, Dr. J.
Thomas, O.
Thomasset, H. P.
Thompson, P. E.
Thompson, Lieut. W. R.
Thorne, F. W.
Thornicroft, H. S.
Thurnall, A.
Tomkinson, J. W.
Tomlin, J. R. Le B,
Tonge, A. E.
Townsend, F. W.
Towse, Sir J. W.
Travancore Museum.
Trevelyan, Major H.
mripp, C. H.
Trivandrum Museum.
Tudor, G. W.
Turner, Dr. A. J.
Turner, R. E.
Tytler, Major H.

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United States
Museum.

Ussher, R. J.

Vallentin, R.

Vanatta, E. G.

Verco, Dr. J. C.
Verrall, G. H. (the late)
Videla, F.

National

Waddington, H. J.
Walker, A. O.
Walker, B.
Walker, Commander J. J.
Walker, L. A.
Wall, Major F.
Wallis, J. B.
Walsingham, Lord
Ward, Rowland
Warner, C. B. L.
Warren, Gen. Sir A.
Waterhouse, C. O., 1.8.0.
Waterhouse, F. H.
Werner, Prof. F.
Wertheimstein,
Sarolta von
Wheeler, G. C.
Whiteside, W. M.
Wickham, H. A.
Wilkin, Capt. W. H.
Wilmer, Lieut.-Col. L. W.
Williams, F.
Wills, Lieut. G. E. J.
Wollaston, A. F. R.
Wolverton, Lord
Woodforde, F. C.
Woodhouse, C. M.
Woodley, V. H.
Woodward, Dr. A. S.
Woodward, B. B.
Woosnam, R. B.
Wroughton, R. C.

Fraulein

Yates, F.
Yates, W.
Yerbury, Lieut.-Col. J. W.

Zoological Society.

VL—ELEconomic Zoology.

The work of the Department in Economic Zoology has been
carried on with the assistance of gentlemen specially qualified

1 Fae

164 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

to deal with the matters requiring attention. Mr. G. H.
Grosvenor’s services were continued until, at the end of April,
he left in order to take advantage of a Carnegie Research
Studentship, which enabled him to go to the United States to
continue his studies there, and to become more thoroughly
acquainted with the practical side of the subject. Fortunately
the services of Mr. H. Maxwell-Lefroy, Imperial Entomologist
to the Government of India, were just then available, and were
secured in the interests of the Museum for the rest of the year.
Although Mr. Lefroy was unable to give as much time as could
be wished, his wide knowledge and great practical experience
were of considerable value not only in dealing with inquiries
that came in from time to time, but in all matters relating to
the arrangement of the economic collections, and to the
organisation and future development of the work.

The card-index giving references to all the chief insect pests
of the world and to the literature bearing upon them, which
was begun by Mr. Grosvenor, was continued by Mr. Lefroy and
greatly amplified by the additions which he made toit. In
this work he had the assistance of Mr. Lionel Armstrong, whose
services were engaged at the beginning of December.

Inquiries on subjects of economic importance continued to
come in from various parts of the world during the year. Many
of these, as in previous years, related to the Diptera and more
especially to the blood-sucking and other species concerned in
the transmission of diseases.

The following were among the more interesting and
important inquiries with respect to the Diptera :—

1. Determination of Blood-sucking Flies from Sierra
Leone, Zanzibar, Congo Free State and the Uganda
Protectorate.

2. Tsetse-flies forwarded for determination by the Sleeping
Sickness Bureau.

3. The Bite of Glossina fusca, Walk., and that of G.
morsitans. An inquiry from the Sleeping Sickness
Bureau.

4. Tsetse-flies and big game in the Transvaal. Information
sent to the Transvaal Game Protection Association.

5. Phlebotomus fever at Malta. A request for suggestions
from Col. Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S.

6. Hamatopota pluvialis, L., attacking horses near
Keynsham, Somerset.
7. Warble-flies and their habits.

8. The. narcissus fly, Merodon equestris, F., bred from
larve in bulb of Habranthus.

9, House-flies as “ plagues” at Minehead and Westward Ho.

10. Swarms of Chloropesta notata in rooms at Hemsby,
Norfolk.

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11. Leptis scolopacea, L., said to be troublesome to human
beings at Hendon.

12. Gnats and Mosquitoes, numerous reports of annoyance
caused by them.

13. Limosina sp., attacking rhubarb roots.

14. Agromyza scutellata, L., damaging peas by mining the

leaves.

15. Piophila casei, L., damaging hams in a bacon warehouse

at Harrow.

Amongst the inquiries relating to other Orders of Insects
the most important was one received from the Government of
Mauritius, through the Director of the Imperial Institute.
This had reference to the great destruction of the roots of
sugar-canes in Mauritius by innumerable grubs of a species of
beetle of the cockchafer family, believed to have been recently
imported into the island. From specimens forwarded for
determination, this species (Phytalus smithi, Arrow) was found
to be a native of the West Indies till then unnamed.

These facts and advice as to the steps for dealing with the
pest were communicated to the Government of Mauritius.

The following are some of the other objects upon which
information and advice have been sought, and as far as possible
given :—

LEPIDOPTERA (Moths, etc.).

16. Ephestia kuhniella and Corcyra cephalonica, injurious
to wheat, rice, and flour and also biscuits in granaries
and warehouses, London, Swansea, Birmingham,
Battersea.

17. Ephestia cautella, injurious to cocoa beans from
Ecuador.

18. Sylepta derogata, Lab., as a cotton pest.

19. Gelechia spp., damaging cotton in British East Africa,
Zanzibar and Egypt.

20. Tinea pallescentella damaging “ Pemmican ” in London.

21. Clothes-moth (Trichophaga tapetzella, L.) attacking
reredos hangings in church at Rugby.

22. Bananas from Tenerife injured by a moth, Sesamia
vuteria, also by a fly (Drosophila funebris, Mg.).

23. Tobacco in Rhodesia injured by Gnorimoschema sp.,
and Phthorimea operculella.

24. Sweet potato in Rhodesia injured by Bedellia
somnulentella.

25. Scots Fir near Bristol injured by Haoteleva dodecella.
26. Larch in Surrey injured by Coleophora laricella.

27. Apple trees near London injured by Hyponomeuta
padella.

166 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

28. Euonymus in gardens round London injured by
Hyponomeuta euonymella.

29. Palings and fences near London and also in Scotland
destroyed by Dasycera sulphurella, F.

30. Flax: list furnished of European Lepidoptera known to
feed on species of Linum.

CoLEOPTERA (Beetles). ;

31. Larve of Hpilachna sp., on leaves of potatoes in
Portuguese East Africa.

32. Larvee of Longicornia destroying rubber plants in Brazil
and in Guatemala.

33. Banana trees in Mauritius damaged by a _ weevil,
Lrochorhopalus strangulatus, Gyll.

34. Anemerus fuscus, Oliv., a weevil from N. Nigeria
destructive to cotton.

35. Lasioderma serricorne, Silvanus surinamensis, L.,
Triboium ferrugineum, ¥F., T. confusum, Duv., and
Tenebroides mauritanicus as granary and warehouse
pests.

36. Coccotrypes eggersi in ivory nuts from Ecuador.

37. Alphitobius diaperinus damaging the collars of pit
ponies.

38. Sinoxylon crassum and Lymeaylon navale, L., in
timber. |

39. Nacerdes melanura destroying tarred wooden sheathing
used to protect electric cables near Erith.

MyRIOPoDA (Centipedes and Millipedes).

40. A millipede (Odontopyge sp.) causing great damage to
cotton seedlings in Uganda. .

ARACHNIDA (Ticks, Mites, ete.).

41. Ticks found in houses. (A.) Tortoise tick (Hyalomma
syrvacum) ; (B.) [wodes hexagonus.

42. A number of specimens of a tick (Izodes ricinus) taken
off sheep in the North of England and believed to
transmit ‘“louping ill” were also received for
determination.

43. A specimen of Jxodes ricinus taken from the leg of a
lady at Wandsworth was also sent for examination.

44, Glycyphagus domesticus, De Geer, a Mite found in
furniture.

45. Inquiry regarding “itch,” supposed to attack persons
entering water at Kwala Lampur, Malay States,
infested with a freshwater snail, Planorbis indicus.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 167

VIil.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits paid to the Zoological Department
by Students and other persons requiring assistance or infor-
mation amounted to 12,175. In the ten previous years the
numbers were :—

12,443 in the year 1910.

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DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY.

L—Arrangement and Conservation.

Mammalia (Galleries 1 and 2).—Part of a skeleton of
Oreodon from the White River Formation of Wyoming has
been mounted in pier-case 13, and the remains of Camelide in
the same case have been cleaned.

A skull and mandible of Bos primigenius from Essex have
been mounted on the top of pier-case 17.

Several drawers of unexhibited remains of Rodentia in
table-case 16 have been arranged and labelled.

The small teeth of Mastodon in table-case 23 have been
re-tableted with new printed labels.

A mandible of Hlephas primigenius from Hungary has
been placed in pier-case 31.

The remains of Hlephas from India in pier-case 34 are being
mounted and re-arranged.

Part of a mandible of Dinotherium hobleyt from British
Kast Africa has been mounted in wall-case 43.

Numerous Tertiary Mammalian remains from Baluchistan
have been prepared for study, and progress has been made with
a restored model of the skeleton of Avsinoitherium zitteli.

All acquisitions during the year have been registered and
incorporated.

Number of specimens of Mammalia registered, 660.

Aves (Gallery 2).—The only specimens incorporated during
‘the year. are a few bird-bones from the Lake Dwellings of
Holderness, Yorkshire, discovered and presented by Thomas
Boynton, Esq.

Number of specimens of Aves registered, 9.

Reptilia and Batrachia (Galleries 3, 4, 5, 11).—A jaw
‘of Machimosaurus from the Kimmeridge Clay has been
mounted on the wali above wall-case 3.

A plaster-cast of the skin of Trachodon from the Upper
Cretaceous of Wyoming, U.S.A., has been placed in wall-case 8.

A skull of Triceratops prorsus from the Upper Cretaceous
of Wyoming, U.S.A., has been prepared and mounted on a
special stand in the middle of the Gallery.

The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs have been studied and their
nomenclature revised.

Dinosaurian remains from the Cretaceous of Transsylvania
have been sorted and registered.

A plaster-cast of the skull and mandible of a gigantic turtle
(Archelon ischyros) from the Chalk of Kansas has been
mounted on the top of wall-case 18.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 169

A pelvis of Pliosawrus from the Oxford Clay of Peter-
borough has been prepared and mounted in case O.

A Plesiosaurian shoulder-girdle has been prepared and
mounted in wall-case 12, gallery 11.

A slab of Rhynchocephalian and other footprints from the
Trias of Storeton, Cheshire, has been mounted in wall-case 11,
gallery 11.

A skeleton of Geosaurus from the Lithographic Stone of
Bavaria has been prepared and framed for exhibition.

Much progress has been made in the preparation and
arrangement of the Leeds Collection of Oxfordian Marine
Reptiles in cases in the 8.E. Basement, which have now been
made dust-proof.

Number of specimens of Reptilia and Batrachia registered,
186.

Pisces (Gallery 6).—The Silurian and Downtonian fish-
remains in the drawers of table-case A have been examined
and re-arranged for the incorporation of recent acquisitions.

The collection of Ptychodus from the Chalk, in the drawers
of table-case 8, has been examined and re-arranged, preparatory
to the revision of the exhibited series.

Several newly-acquired specimens of Lepidotus and allied
genera have been prepared for study and exhibition; and
numerous Chalk fishes have been extricated from the matrix.

A series of large Tertiary fishes has been framed for
exhibition in wall-cases 17, 18.

All acquisitions during the year have been registered,
labelled, ana incorporated.

Number of specimens of Pisces registered, 180.

Molluscu (Galleries 7 and 8, and Workroom).—The Cepha-
lopoda registered, labelled, and incorporated during the year
include :—Triassic Ammonoids from Austria and Asia Minor,
Ammonites from the Dogger of Switzerland, and the Lias of
Austria-Hungary ; Scaphites from the Chalk of Yorkshire
(G. Sheppard Coll.) ; Belemnites and Nautili from the Chalk
of Yorkshire, Kent, and Surrey ; and Belemnites from the
Greensand of Faringdon, Berks.

The Ammonites from the Speeton Clay of Yorkshire, and
the collection of Austrian Triassic Ammonoids, have been
examined and their nomenclature revised.

The exhibited Nautiloids (except those from the Carbo-
niferous formations) have been re-arranged in wall-cases
1, 2, 13, 14, gallery 7; and the Carboniferous Nautiloids are
being arranged in table-case 2.

The specimens of Aspidoceras from British Corallian rocks
have been re-mounted with newly printed labels in wall-case 9.

170 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Important additions to the exhibited collections of Cepha-
lopoda are :—Scaphites from the Chalk of Yorkshire (table
case 14), a specimen of Macrocephalites morrisi from the
Fuller's Earth of Lansdown, Bath (table-case 8), and a
specimen of Orthoceras from the Devonian of Kartal, near
_ Constantinople.

The Palreozoic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia registered,
labelled, and incorporated during the year include :—Carbo-
niferous Gastropoda from Bolivia (A. L. Dun Coll.), Devonian
Gastropoda from Kartal, near Constantinople (W. Endriss
Coll.), and about 120 British specimens from old collections.

The arrangement of the exhibited collection of British
Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian Gastropoda and Lamelli-
branchia in table-case 16, gallery 8, has been completed.

The unexhibited Silurian Gastropoda from Austria-Hungary
have been examined and arranged in case A 6, gallery 8.

The Triassic Gastropoda from St. Cassian are in course of
arrangement.

The Mesozoic and Tertiary Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia
registered, labelled, and incorporated during the year include :—
The Caleb Evans Collection of British Cretaceous and Eocene
shells (recorded in Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. ii, 1871, p. 61);
Senonian Lamellibranchia from flints in gravels near Peterhead,
Scotland (A. M. Insch Coll.), some British Liassic Lamelli-
branchia, including specimens of Gryphea incurva and _ its
varieties, described and figured by John Jones, Proc. Cotteswold
Nat. Field Club, vol. iii (1865), p. 85, pls. i-iv ; a collection of
Recent and Post-Tertiary shells from Hungary, presented by
Mrs. N. Charles Rothschild; Pliocene shells from Roumania
(Harold Dabeli Coll.) and Italy; shells from the Norwich
Crag (R. E. Leach Coll.); and marine Tertiary shells from
Japan (G. Lewis Coll.) and Madeira (A. F. R. Blandy Coll.).

The nomenclature of the Cretaceous species of Inoceramus,
Tertiary Scalidz, and Post-Pliocene species of Pisidiuwm, has
been revised.

A collection of Post-Pliocene and Recent shells of Mela-
nopsis, arranged by Dr. Toth Mihaly to illustrate the supposed
evolution of the existing Melanopsis parreyssi, has been
mounted for exhibition in wall-case 1, gallery 8.

A slab of Miocene limestone from France, covered with
numerous specimens of Aequipecten prescabriusculus, has
been framed and mounted on the wall between wall-cases 2, 3,
gallery 8.

The Tertiary non-marine Mollusca from France, Germany,
Slavonia, Croatia, Hungary, Roumania, and Turkey have been
revised, arranged, and labelled; and a typical series from
Germany has been mounted for exhibition in a small table-case
in gallery 8.

Number of specimens of Mollusca registered : Cephalopoda,
621; Gastropoda, 4,543; Lamellibranchia, 1,813.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 171

Arthropoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The Cirripedia,
Trilobita, and various Insects enclosed in amber have been the
groups to receive most attention during the year.

Among Cirripedia registered, labelled, and incorporated are
specimens from the Cretaceous rocks of England, France
(Hutin Coll.), Belgium, and Westphalia; from the Oxfordian
of Wiltshire; and from the Stonesfield Slate near Cheltenham
(PUB. Brodie).

The Trilobites registered seka incorporated include a series
from the Olenellus-Limestone of Comley Quarry, Shropshire ;
Devonian specimens collected by Mrs. A. S. Woodward near
Constantinople; over three hundred from the Cambrian and
Ordovician of Vestrogothia, Nerike, and Dalecarlia (Bather
Coll.) ; and specimens from numerous foreign localities.

Many of the Insects enclosed in Amber have been sorted
and re-registered for study by various specialists.

Among the other Arthropods registered and incorporated
are Ostracoda from rocks of supposed eens age in the
Phillippines (Warren D. Smith Coll.) ; Tertiary Insects from
Shiobara, Japan (M. C. Stopes); a large series of interesting
forms belonging to several groups found in Coal Measure
nodules at Coseley, Statfordshire (Neil and other Collections).

The temporary exhibit of Miocene fossils from Florissant,
Colorado, has been broken up, and the Arthropods have been
transferred provisionally to a case adjacent to the systematic
series of Insecta. The slip-catalogue of these fossils has been
kept up to date.

The exhibited series of Britisk Jurassic Cirripedes has been
re-labelled, re-mounted, and re-arranged. A few additions have
been made to the British Cretaceous series, notably those from
the Sowerby Collection transferred from gallery 11.

A special selection of specimens illustrating the structure
of the Trilobites has heen prepared, labelled, and placed on
exhibition. The British species of Harpes have been re-
mounted and re-labelled after revision.

Interesting Carboniferous Arthropods of the genera Plewro-
caris, Paleocaris [= Preanaspides|, Pygocephalus, and
Palewomachus, have been specially investigated and placed on
exhibition with explanatory labels.

A fine specimen of Glyphwa cretacea from the Totternhoe
Stone of Hertfordshire (presd. by Wm. Hill, Esq.) has been
added to the exhibited series of British Crustacea.

Number of specimens of Arthropoda registered, 1,121.

Echinoderma (Gallery 8).—-The acquisitions registered,
labelled, and incorporated during the year include :—Kchinoids
from the Chalk of England (Bower, Dibley, and C. Griffith
Colls.), and of France (Hutin), from the Lower Greensand of
Kent (Bullbrook), and from various EKuropean ‘Tertiary
localities ; Echinoids, Asteroids, Ophiuroids, and Crinoids from

172 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

the Corallian and SBathonian rocks of France (Charpy),
including the syntypes of Muillervcrinus charpy and other
specimens studied by P. de Loriol; Crinoids from the Oxfordian
of Var (Michalet), from the Toarcian of the Balearic Islands
(D. M. A. Bate), from the Carboniferous of Fife (J. Wright)
and of Japan (G. Lewis); Bourgueticrinus from the Senonian
of Hants (C. Griffith) and Roveacrinus from that of Sussex
(Withers, Mockler) ; and Cystidea from the Ordovician of
Bohemia.

The sorting and determination of the T. Wright Collection
of foreign Echinoidea has been completed.

The chief work has been on Cystidea, partly in the prepara-
tion, sorting, and labelling of collections specially made in
Sweden, partly in the comparison of the Museum collections
with specimens lent from Scotland, Bohemia, and elsewhere,
and in the preparation of replicas from all these latter.
Considerable progress has been made with the slip-catalogue of
Cystidea.

Among various additions to the exhibited series the most
interesting is a set of the curious crinoid Petalocrinus, which
has recentlv been found in the Woolhope Limestone (R. W.
Pocock). The specimens, tablets, and labels in the exhibited
series of Foreign Echinoidea in wall-cases 15, 16, have been
cleaned.

A slip-catalogue has been started for all specimens of
Echinoderma placed on exhibition with modern printed labels,
and has the result of saving constant reference to the public
galleries. (The same applies to Arthropoda and Annelida.)

Number of specimens of Echinoderma registered : Echinoidea,
293; Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea, 59; Crinoidea, 483; Blas-
toidea, 1; Cystidea, 27. Total, 863.

Annelida (Gallery 8 and Workroom),—-The acquisitions
registered, labelled, and incorporated during the year include
various specimens from the Carboniferous of the British Isles
(G. H. Morton and Bather Colls.).

Further studies have been made on the British Cretaceous
Terebelloids, leading to a revision and re-labelling of several
drawers and of the exhibited series, as well as the resultant
acquisitions. ;

Number of specimens of Annelida registered, 25.

Brachiopoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—Progress has
been made with the registration of the Walker Collection, all
the British specimens (nearly 50,000 in number) having now
been entered.

Numerous figured specimens, both in the Walker Collection
and in the general collection, have been mounted and labelled
for exhibition, and placed in the table-cases with the Davidson
Collection. Records of these have been added to the slip-
catalogue.

Number of specimens of Brachiopoda registered, 55,656.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 173

Polyzoa (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The collection of
Cretaceous Cheilostome Polyzoa from France, and recently-
acquired specimens from Spain and various English districts,
chiefly Sussex, the Thames valley, and Cambridge, have been
sorted, cleaned, mounted, and registered as a preliminary to the
preparation of Vol. iii of the Catalogue of Cretaceous Polyzoa.
Recently-acquired specimens from other formations have been
registered, labelled, and incorporated, the largest coliection
of these, comprising 250 specimens from the Cornbrash and
Great Oolite of Northamptonshire (Jesson Coll.).

Number of specimens of Polyzoa registered, 2,190.

Anthozoa and Hydrozoa (Gallery 10).—A table-top made
of pieces of Devonian Corals, presented by the iate W. Vicary,
Esq., in 1881, has been removed from wall-case 5, where it
was unsuitably exhibited, re-framed and hung on the wall
between wall-cases 4 and 5, and a framed label placed beneath.

A large specimen of Lophophyllum, presented by Dr. James
Galloway, has been cut, polished, and mounted with explanatory
label in wall-case 4.

Newly-acquired specimens have been registered, labelled,
and incorporated, from the Eocene and Cretaceous of Spain
(Mrs. A. S. Woodward Coll.), Chalk Marl of Cambridge
(Moéckler), Carboniferous of Yorkshire (Wilmore), Devonian
of Asia Minor (Mrs. A. S. Woodward), Silurian of Wales and
Silurian of Sweden (Bather).

Number of specimens of Anthozoa and Hydrozoa registered,
627.

Porifera (Gallery 10).—The Taylor Collection of Archzo-
eyathine has been exhibited in table-case 15 with explanatory
diagrams and labels.

Framed explanatory labels have been attached to the large
block of Hydnoceras exhibited in a special case at the northern
end of gallery 10.

Chalk sponges from Surrey, Sussex, and Kent have been
registered, labelled, and incorporated.

Number of specimens of Porifera registered, 41].

Protozoa (Gallery 10).—The collection of Jurassic Foramint-
fera mounted on abcut 2,350 slides has been labelled and
transferred to a new cabinet, specially provided.

More of the samples of rock in the collection of the late
Rev. J. F. Blake have been washed, and the contained fossils
extracted, mounted, registered, and labelled. These include
specimens from the London Clay of Elstree, and of Sheppey,
the Chalk of Gravesend, the Gault of Folkestone, the Lower
Greensand of Hythe, the Kimmeridge Clay of Weymouth, the
Oxford Clay of Weymouth, and the Oolite Marl of Gloucester-
shire.

174 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Recently-acquired specimens have been registered, labelled,
and incorporated from the Miocene and Cenomanian of Japan
(Yabe Coll.), Eocene and Cretaceous of Spain (Mrs. A. 8.
Woodward Coll,), Eocene of Austria, Senonian of Luneberg
(Mockler Coll.), the Kimmeridgian of Algeria (Welsch Coll.). the
Bathonian of Northamptonshire (Jesson Coll.), the Upper and
Lower Lias of Somerset (Méckler Coll.), and the Permian of
Kansas.

Number of specimens of Protozoa registered, 912.

Plante (Gallery 10).—The Mareus Gunn Collection of
Jurassic Plants from Sutherland, described and figured by Prof.
A. C. Seward, has been prepared, registered, and labelled.

A large slab of Lepidodendron lycopodioides from the Coal
Measures of Lancashire, has been prepared and mounted on the
wall between wall-cases 16,17. The section of trunk of Pitys
withams beneath has been re-mounted.

In connection with the Catalogue, progress has been made
with the revision of the Cretaceous plants.

Number of specimens of Plante registered, 321.

Tracks and Rock Specimens (Gallery 11.)--The specimens
in wall-case 9 have been partly re-arranged and re-fitted to
admit a large slab of tracks from the Palzozoic rocks of
the Alleghany Mts., U.S.A., from the Geological Society’s
Museum. ;

Number of specimens registered, 21.

IlL.—Duplicates and Exuchanges.

Duplicate fossils have been presented to the Royal Scottish
Museum, Edinburgh; Oxford University Museum; Botanical
Department, University of Sheffield ; Zoological Department,
University of Bristol; London MESO, Kensington Palace ;
London Hospital Medical College ; Bethlem Hospital, London ;
Natural History Museum, Luxembourg; and Dr. R. 8. Bassler,
National Museum, Washington, eC. U.S.A.

Exchanges of duplicate fossils have been made with the
Geological Survey of Prussia, the University of Gottingen, the
American Museum of Natural History ; Dr. Karl Fischer ; and
Dr. L. H. Miller.

IIl.—Departmental Library.

The additions to the Library, which have been registered,
stamped, catalogued, and press-marked, comprise 223 new
works and pamphlets, of which 59 were purchased and
164 presented ; 727 parts of serials in progress, of which 329
were purchased and 398 presented ; 187 sheets of maps, of which
61 were purchased and 126 presented. 8 photographs were
presented. 243 volumes were bound and press-marked. 2,330
visits were paid to the Library.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 175

The following is an alphabetical list of personal donors to
the Library during the year :—

Ameghino, Dr. Florentino | Nepesa, Baron F.
Andrée, Dr. K. Nowak, Dr. Jan
Andrews, Dr. Charles W. Oliver, Prof. Francis W.
Bather, Dr. Francis A. | Outes, Dr. Felix F.
Blochmann, Dr. F. | Pavlow, Dr. Marie
Boutchev, Dr. G. Potter, G., Esq.

Broili, Dr. Ferdinand Rabot, Charles, Esq.
Canu, Ferdinand, Esq. Ravn: Ord Bad:

Crick, George C., Esq. Salfeld, Dr. H.

Fidge, Mrs. Schuchert, Prof. Charles
Gregory, Prof. J. W. Seward, Prof. A. C.
Gude, G. K., Esq. Shelford, R., Esq.
Irving, Rev. Alexander Sherborn, Charles D., Esq.
Jackson, J. Wilfrid, Esq. | Singlair; Ws, Esq.’
Jehu, Dr. Thomas J. Sjogren, Dr. Otto
Johnson, Prof. T. | Springer, Frank, Esq.
Jongmans, Dr. W. J. Stefanini, Dr. Giuseppe
Klinghardt, Dr. Franz Steinmann, Prof. Gustav
Lambe, Lawrence M., Esq. ~ Story-Maskelyne, Mrs.
Loukaschewitsch, J., Esq. Stuart-Menteath, P. W., Esq.
Lydekker, Richard, Esq. Tuzson, Dr. J.

Marriott, Major R. A. Woodward, Dr. A. 8.
Maslen, Arthur J., Esq. Woodward, B. B., Esq.
Newton, R. Bullen, Esq. Zeiller, Prof. Réné

IV.— Publications.

A new edition of the Guide Book to Fossil Invertebrata
has been prepared and published.

The MS. of the first volume of the Catalogue of Cretaceous
Plants has been completed.

The MSS. of the second part of the Catalogue of Marine
Reptiles of the Oxford Clay, and of Fossil Fishes (Supplement),
have made progress.

Apart from the official publications issued by the Trustees,
the following descriptive papers dealing with different parts of
the collection, chiefly recent acquisitions, have been contributed
to scientific journals during 1911 :—

By Dr. A. S. Woodward.

1. The Fossil Fishes of the English Chalk, Part VII. Mon.
Palzont Soc.

2, On some Mammal Teeth from the Wealden of Hastings.
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lxvii., pp. 278-280.

3. Note on a Fossil Fish from Ekoi Creek, Southern Nigeria.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [8], vol. vill., p. 207.

4, On the Upper Devonian Ostracoderm, Psammosteus
taylort. Loc. cit., pp. 649-652, pl. ix.

176 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

5. Note on Paleoniscid Fish-seales from the Ecca Shales,
near Ladysmith. Ann. Natal Mus., vol. ii. (1910), pp. 229-231,
phe ax,

By Dr. F. A. Bather.

1. The Paleontology Exhibit at the White City, 1910 and
1911. Museums Journal, vol. x., pp. 306 313.

2. Notes on Crinoid plates from the Penshurst boring.
Being Appendix II., Summary of Progress. Geol. Surv. Gt.
Britain, 1910, pp. 78, 79.

3. The holotypes of the fossil scorpions Palcwomachus
anglicus and Paleophonus caledonicus. Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist.
[8], vol. viii., pp. 673-677.

4. Upper Cretaceous Terebelloids from England. Geol. Mag.
[5], vol. viil., pp. 481-487 ; 549-556, pl. xxiv.

By Mr. R. B. Newton.

1. On some Fossil Mollusca, etc., from Southern Nigeria
collected by Mr. John Parkinson, M.A. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.
[8], vol. viii., pp. 193-207, pl. vi.

2. A Sketch of the chief Geological Zones and their Mollusca.
Proc. Malacol. Soce., vol. ix., pp. 282-305.

3. On the Modifications in Form of the Upper Tertiary
Lacustrine Shells of the Island of Cos, as first observed by
Edward Forbesand T. A.B. Spratt. Loc. cit., pp. 363-368, pl. xii.

4, Kainozoic Mollusca from Cyrenaica. Quart. Journ. Geol.
Soc., vol. xvii, pp. 616-653, pls. xlili-xlvi.

By Dr. C. W. Andrews.

1. On the Structure of the Roof of the Skull and of the
Mandible of Peloneustes, with some Remarks on the Plesiosaurian
Mandible generally. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. viii., pp. 160-164.

2. Description of a new Plesiosaur ( Plestosaurus capensis,
sp. nov.) from the Uitenhage Beds of Cape Colony. Ann.
S. African Mus., vol. vii., pp. 309-322, pl. xviii.

3. Note on some Fragments of the Fossil Egg-shell of a
large Struthious Bird from Southern Algeria, with some
Remarks on some pieces of Egg-shell of an Ostrich from
Northern India. Bericht uber den V. Internationalen Orni-
thologen Kongress, Berlin, 1910, pp. 169-174.

4. Report on Bones from the Lake-dwellings in Holderness.
Printed in Mr. Reginald A. Smith’s paper ‘‘ Lake-dwellings in
Holderness, Yorks., discovered by Thos. Boynton, Esq., F.S.A.”
Archeeologia, vol. lxii., p. 603.

By Mr. G. C. Crick.

1. Notes on Carboniferous Cephalopoda from the Neigh-
bourhood of Exeter. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe., vol. Ixvii..
pp. 399-413.

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By Dr. W. T. Calman.
1. On Plewrocaris, a new Crustacean from the English Coal
Measures. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. vill., pp. 156-160.

2. On some Crustacea of the Division Syncarida from the
English Coal Measures. Loc. cit., pp. 488-495.

By Mr. T. H. Withers.

1. Some Cirripedes from the Chalk of Salisbury, Wilts.
Geol. Mag. [5], vol. viii., pp. 21-31.

By Baron F. Nopesa.

1. Notes on British Dinosaurs, Part IV.: Stegosawrus
priscus. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. viiil., pp. 109-115, 145-153.

By Baron F. von Huene.

1. Ueber Hrythrosuchus, Vertreter der neuen Reptil-
Ordnung, Pelycosimia. Geol. u. Palaeont. Abhandl., n.s.,
vol. x., pp. 3-60, pls. i.—xi.

2. Beitrage zur Kenntniss und Beurtheilung der Parasuchia.
Loe. cit., pp. 67-121, pls. xii.—xix.

By Mr. D. M.S. Watson.

1. The Skull of Diademodon, with Notes on those of
some other Cynodonts. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [8], vol. viil.,
pp. 293-330.

By Mr. L. Hussakof.

1. Notes on some Upper Devonian Arthrodira from Ohio,
U.S.A., in the British Museum. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. viii,
pp. 123-129, pl. viii.

By Mr. G. E. Dibley.

1. On the Teeth of Ptychodus and their Distribution in the
English Chalk. _ Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. Ixvii., pp. 263-

276, pls. xvii.—xxili.
By Mr. H. L. Hawkins.
1, On the Teeth and Buccal Structuresin the genus Conulus
Leske. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. viii., pp. 70-74, pl. iii.

2. On the Structure and Evolution of the Phyllodes in some
Fossil Kchinoidea.. Loc. cit., pp. 257-265, pl. xiii.

3. On the Tuberculation of the Holectypoida. Loc. cit.,
pp. 442-454.

By Mr. G. K. Gude.

1. On some preoccupied Molluscan Generic Names and
proposed new Genera of Zonitide. Proc. Malac. Soe., vol. ix.,
pp. 269-273.

2. A proposed new Genus of the Family Helicide. Loc. cit.,
pp. 361-362.

0.91 M

178 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

By Mr. R. Shelford.

1. The British Museum Collection of Blattidz enclosed in
Amber. Journ. Linn. Soce., Zool., vol. xxxu., pp. 59-69, 1 pl.

By Dr. Ray 8. Bassler.

1. The Early Paleozoic Bryozoa of the Baltic Provinces.
Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 77, pp. 382, pls. xiii.

By Mrs. Rina Scott.

1. On Traquairia. Ann. Botany, vol. xxv., pp. 459-467,
pis xxxix.3 xh.

By Dr. Marie C. Stopes.

1. The “ Dragon Tree” of the Kentish Rag, with Remarks
on the Treatment of Imperfectly Petrified Woods. Geol. Mag.
[5], vol. viil., pp. 55-59.

By Dr. R. Zeiller.

1. Etude sur le Lepidostrobus browni. Mém. Acad. Sci.,
Paris, vol. li.

Various fossils in the Department of Geology have also been
described and figured by Prof. 8. H. Reynolds, Dr. R. H.
Traquair, and Mr. H. Woods, in the Monographs of the
Palzontographical Society, vol. Ixv. for 1911.

V.— Acquisitions.
A.—By Donation.

The Geological Society of London’s Collection of Colonial
and Foreign Fossils, which, as now arranged in the Department.
of Geology, occupy 672 drawers and 2 wall-cases. They have
been arranged geographically in the same order as in the
Society’s Museum, and represent all parts of the world. They
include a large number of type and figured specimens, and
specially illustrate memoirs and papers published by the
Geological Society. Among European fossils may be mentioned
the Daniel Sharpe Collection from Portugal: among Indian
fossils, the C. W. Grant Collection from Cutch, the 8. Hislop
Collection from Central India, the South Indian fossils
described by Prof. Edward Forbes, and the Nummulitic fossils
forming the subject of a work by d’Archiac and Haime ;
among South African fossils, the Bain Collection described by
Daniel Sharpe, and various Secondary fossils described by
Prof. Ralph Tate ; among other fossils, West Indian Tertiary
Corals and Australian Tertiary Corals and Echinoderma
described by Prof. Martin Duncan. Presented by the Geological
Society of London.

A series of nine hundred and fifty invertebrate fossils from
the Tertiary and earlier rocks of Egypt, namely, three hundred
and seventy-eight Post-pliocene, nine Pliocene, seventy-six
Miocene, two hundred and twenty-eight Eocene, two hundred

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and fifty-three Cretaceous and six Paleozoic fossils. Presented
by the Director of the Geological Survey of Egypt.

Mammalia.—The distal end of a femur of Toxodon, from
the Rio Madeira, North Brazil. Presented by E. Stanley
Tutton, Esq.

A portion of jaw, teeth and other remains of Dinotheriwm
with remains of other Mammals, from a Tertiary deposit near
Karungu, Victoria Nyanza. Presented by C. W. Hobley, Esq.,
Call G.

A molar tooth of Hlephas from a superficial deposit on the
river Prah, Gold Coast. Presented by Lveut.-General Sor
Reginald C. Hart, V.C., &.C.B.

Bones of Lutreola macrodon from aboriginal shell-heaps,
Flagg Island, Casco Bay, Maine. Presented by Prof. F. B.
Loomis.

A lower molar of Ursus from a brickfield near Portslade
Ry. Station, Brighton. Presented by Dr. Eliot Curwen.

A portion of a very large antler of Red Deer (Cervus
elaphus), from the bank of the R. Yore, Yorkshire. Presented
by Lord Bolton.

A skull and mandible of Bos primigenius from Chingford,
Essex. Presented by the Metropolitan Water Board.

Remains of a skeleton of a Beaver from excavations at the
Royal Albert Docks. Presented by the Port of London
Authority.

A collection of Mammalian remains (horse, ox, deer,
dog, &c.) from Neolithic lake-dwellings near Ulrome,
Holderness, Yorkshire. Presented by Thomas Boynton, Esq.,
S.A

Twelve plaster-casts of Human teeth from the St. Brelade-
Cave, Jersey. The originals in the Museum of the Société
Jersiaise. Presented by the Committee of the Socicté Jersiaise.

Seven plaster-casts of fossil Mammalian remains in the:
Museum of the Geological Survey of Hungary. Presented by
Prof. Dr. L. Léczy, Director.

Reptilia.—A series of plaster casts of Telerpeton from the
Trias of Elgin, Scotland. Presented by Baron F.von Huene.

A vertebra of [chthyosaurus from the Trias of Sassen Bay,
Spitzbergen. Presented by Walter Child, Esq., A.R.S.M.

A Dinosaurian vertebra from the Great Oolite, Thrapston,
Northampton. Presented by Thomas Jesson, Esq.

A plaster cast of a tridactyl Reptilian foot-print from the
Ashdown Sands, Jarvis Brook Well, Sussex. Presented by
Charles Dawson, Esq., F.S.A.

A plaster cast of the skull and mandible of Avchelon
aschyros, from the Upper Cretaceous of Custer County, South
Dakota, U.S.A. Presented by the Peabody Museum of
Natural History, per Prof. Charles Schuchert.

The symphysis of a Chelonian mandible from the Barton
Clay, Barton Cliff, Hants. Presented by H. Eliot Walton, Esq.

M 2

180 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Hight plaster casts of fossil Reptilian remains in the Museum
pf the Geological Survey of Hungary. Presented by Prof.
Dr. L. Léezy, Director.

Pisces.—One Rhadinichthys brevis from the Calciferous
Sandstone, Wardie, near Edinburgh (counterpart of B.M.
No. P. 845). Presented by Dr. R. H. Traquair, F.R.S.

A group of fossil Fishes (Semionotus capensis) in Sandstone
from Weltevreden, Senekal district, Orange Free State
Province. Presented by T. C. L. Bergstedt, E'sq.

A tooth of Ceratodws from the Rhetic of Garden Cliff,
Westbury-on-Severn. Presented by P. Charteris A. Stewart,
Esq.

Two fossil Fishes (Mesodon and Pleuropholis) from the
Middle Purbeck Beds, Teffont, Wilts. Presented by YT. Tf.
‘Gething, Esq.

One Fish (Osmeroides) from the Totternhoe Stone and
-one head of Enchodus from the Lower Chalk, near Hitchin.
Presented by William Hill, Esq.

Two fish-fragments, probably Cretaceous, from Southern
Nigeria, described by Dr. A. S. Woodward, Ann. Mag. Nat.
Hist. [8], vol. viii., 1911, pp. 207, 208. Presented by the British
Colonial Petroleum Corporation, Ltd.

Eleven tubes of Fish-otoliths from the Red and Coralline
‘Crags. Presented by Alfred Bell, Esq.

A tooth of Carcharodon from Sweet River, near Paradise,
Jamaica. Presented by Charles M. Calder, E'sq.

Mollusca.—A plaster cast of the holotype of Murchisonia
antermedia, a Gastropod from the Devonian of the Eifel (the
original in the ‘Deshayes Collection, Ecole des Mines, Paris).
Presented by Mrs. Longstaff.

Two Cephalopods, collected by the donor, from the
Devonian of Kartal, near Constantinople. Presented by
Mrs. A. S. Woodward.

Two blocks of weathered Carboniferous Limestone with
Gastropods, &c., from the shore of Lower Lough Erne.
Presented by Major Herbert Trevelyan.

An Ammonite from the Trias of Sassen Bay, Spitzbergen.
Presented by Walter Child, Esq., A.R.S.M.

Two specimens of Dactylioceras semicelatum from the
Upper lias of Port Mulgrave, Yorkshire. Presented by
James Francis, Esq.

Three Belemnites and five Ammonites from the Toarcian
rocks of Cabrera, Balearic Islands. Presented by Miss
D. M. A. Bate.

An Ammonite (Macrocephalites) from the Fullers Earth,
Lansdown, Bath. Presented by W. P. Workman, Esq.

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Two specimens of Unio kendalli from the Lower Oolites
(Estuarine Series), Saltwick, near Whitby. Presented by
J. Wilfrid Jackson, Esq.

An Ammonite (Aspidoceras perarmatum), from the Middle
Oolite of Brora, Sutherland. Presented by Master Nigel
Gunnis. |

Alectryonia in a small block of Kimmeridge Clay from
Swindon. Presented by Charles H. Gore, Esq.

An Ammonite from the Portlandian of Swindon. Presented
by Mrs. Croft.

One Pecten gaultinus from the Albian of Stonebarrow
Cliff, Charmouth, Dorset. «Presented by W. D. Lang, Esq.

One Nautilus from the Chalk Rock, Cherhill, near Calne.
Presented by Mr..T. H, Withers.

One Hippurite from the Cretaceous and one Pecten from
the Tertiary of Persia. Presented by Mrs. EL. J. Clifton.

Forty-four Mollusca (Reineckia, Perisphinctes, Ostrea)
from the Mesozoic rocks of France, and nine Mollusca, including
Ostrea crassissima, from the Cainozoic rocks of Algeria.

Presented by Prof. Jules Welsch.

An Ammonite from the Mesvuzoic, and nineteen Mollusca
from the Tertiary, collected by the donor in Colombia, South
America. Presented by Dr. Arthur R. Andrew.

Twenty-four Mollusca, collected by John Parkinson, Ksq.,.
in the Secondary and Tertiary formations of Southern Nigeria,
described by R. B. Newton, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [8], vol. viii,
pp. 183-207, pl. vi. Presented by the British Colonial
Petroleum Corporation, Ltd.

Twelve Gastropods (Planorbis and Limnaea) from the
Bartonian Beds, Paris. Presented by Monsieur EL. de Boury.

Seven Pectiniform shells from the Miocene of S. Maria,
Azores. Presented by Walter Child, E'sq., A.R.S.M.

_ A piece of fresh-water Limestone, containing Valvata
piscrnalis, from the Post-Pliocene of Pargkong Lake, Ladak,
- Thibet. Presented by Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen,
F.R.S.

Five Mollusca from the Tertiary of the Adana Province of
Asia Minor. Presented by Messrs. Thompson and Hunter.

Two specimens of Unio littoralis from the Post-Pliocene,
Clacton, Essex, showing the well-preserved ligament. Pre-
sented by S. Hazzledine Warren, Esq.

Twelve Gastropoda and six Lamellibranchia from a raised
beach, Zeib, Red Sea. Presented by Harold Dabell, Esq.

Arthropoda.—Five Trilobites (Agnostus, &c.) from the
pe Cambrian, Malvern Hills. Presented by H. D. Acland,
sq.

182 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

One Trilobite (Acidaspis) and two plaster casts of the
counterpart of the same, from the Ordovician, near Castle
Gorfod Mill, St. Clears, Carmarthen. Presented by John
Innes, Esq.

382 Trilobites and other Arthropods collected by the donor
from the Cambrian and Ordovician of Sweden. Presented by
Dr. F. A. Bather, F.RB.S.

Two Trilobites (Homalonotus armatus) from the Devonian
of the Eifel, and one Trilobite from the Lower Devonian,
Katzenberg, near Mayen. Presented by Upficld Green, Esq.

A plaster cast of the type-specimen of an Arachnid (Maio-
cercus orbicularis, Gill) from the Coal Measures, West-
houghton, Lanes. (the original in the Chadwick Museum,
Bolton). Presented by E. Leonard Gill, Esq.

A Crustacean (Glyphea) from the Totternhoe Stone, near
Hitchin. Presented by William Hill, Esq.

Two valves of Cirripedes (Scalpellum longissimum and
Loricula expansa) from the Chalk of East Harnham, near
Salisbury. Presented by Dr. H. P. Blackmore.

Two Ostracods from the English Crag, from the collection
of the late Prof. T. Rupert Jones. Presented by C. D.
Sherborn, Esq.

Echinoderma.—An almost complete crown of Petalocrinus
from the Woolhope Limestone, near Woolhope. Presented by
RR. W. Pocock, Esq.

Sixteen cups of a Crinoid (cf. Ulocrinus) from the Lower
Carboniferous, E. of St. Monans, Fife, and fifteen Crinoids
from the Carboniferous, Invertiel, Fife. Presented by James
Wright, E'sq., jun.

Six Crinoid fragments and one piece of Crinoidal Lime-
stone from the Carboniferous of Calderwood Glen, near
Glasgow. Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S.

A piece of Crinoidal Limestone from the Carboniferous
Limestone of Kingweston Hill. Presented by S. G. Perceval,
Esq.

Seven Crinoid stem-fragments from the Toarcian rocks of
‘Cabrera, Balearic Is. Presented by Miss D. M. A. Bate.

Seven portions of Crinoids from the Lower Jurassic near
Niort (Deux Sévres). Presented by M. lV Abbé Boone.

Three specimens of Hcehinocorys and seventeen specimens
of Bourgueticrinus from the Chalk of Hampshire, figured in
Griffith and Brydone’s “The Zones of the Chalk in Hants.”
Presented by C. Griffith, Hsq.

Ten Crinoids (Roveacrinus) from the Chalk of Seaford.
Presented by Mr. T. H. Withers.

Two Echinoids (Stegaster) from the Campanian of France.
Presented by Prof. Jules Welsch.

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Three radioles of the Echinoid Cidaris websteriana from
the Barton Beds, Barton Cliff, Hants. Presented by H. Eliot
Walton, Esq.

One Echinoid (Zchinolampas) from the Tertiary of the
Adana Province of Asia Minor. Presented by Messrs.
Thompson and Hunter.

One Kchinoid (#chinolampas), probably Miocene, from near
Kassala, E. Sudan. Presented by Lieut.-Col. L. Worthington
Wilmer,

One Echinoid from the Miocene of Algeria. Presented by
Prof. Jules Welsch.

Three Echinoids from the Helvetian, Cétes-du-Nord. Pvre-
sented by Monsieur E. de Boury.

One Echinoid, collected by the donor from the Tertiary of
Colombia, South America. Presented by Dr. Arthur R.
Andrew.

Annelida.—Three specimens of the Annelid bed from the
Carboniferous of Calderwood Glen, near Glasgow. Presented
by Dr. F. A, Bather, F.RS.

A piece of limestone showing worm-borings from the
Bathonian, Dundry Hill, Bristol. Presented by C. D. Sherborn,
Eisq.

ied tubes from the Great Oolite, Northampton. Pre-
sented by Thomas Jesson, Esq.

One Annelid (Terebella ? lewesiensis) from the Chalk,
Whyteleafe, Surrey. Presented -by Mr. T. H. Withers.

Brachiopoda.—Six Brachiopods from the Carboniferous
Limestone of Tockington, Gloucestershire. Presented by S. G.
Perceval, Esq.

Rhynchonella inconstans in a small block of Kimmeridge
Clay from Swindon. Presented by Charles H. Gore, Esq.

Polyzoa.—A piece of Polyzoan shale from the Devonian of
Loue (Sarthe). Presented by M. VAbbé Boone.

Two blocks of weathered Carboniferous Limestone with
Polyzoa, &c., from the shore of Lough Anlaban, Co. Fermanagh.
Presented by Major Herbert Trevelyan.

Nineteen Polyzoa from the Inferior Oolite of Gloucester-
shire. Presented by Miss H. Mary Hutton.

An Oyster encrusted with Berenicea from the Portlandian
of Durlston Head. Presented by Ivan Thatcher, Esq. |

Three Polyzoa from the Red Chalk of Hunstanton. Pre-
sented by Thomas Jesson, Esq.

Five Polyzoa from the Gault, Black Ven, and one Polyzoan
(Cellulipora ornata, var. devonica) from the Upper Green-
sand, Stonebarrow Cliff, Charmouth, Dorset. Presented by
W. D. Lang, Esq.

One Polyzoan from the Chalk of Goring. Presented by
mer 0. A. Withers.

184 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Thirty-five Polyzoa from the Chalk of various English
localities. Presented by H. J. Osborne White, Esq.

Two specimens of Polyzoan Limestone from the Miocene of
Algeria. Presented by Prof. Jules Welsch.

Anthozoa and Hydrozoa._-A Graptolite from the Skiddaw
Slates, Barf, Cumberland. Presented by John Postlethwaite,
Esq.

A piece of a limestone-lenticle containing Corals, probably
of Wenlock age, from Porthluney, 8.W. of Mevagissey, Corn-
wall. Presented by C. D. Sherborn, Esq.

Eighteen Corals, collected by the donor, from the Devonian
of Kartal, near Constantinople. Presented by Mrs. A. S.
Woodward.

A. collection of a hundred and two Corals, and fifty-three
thin sections of the same, characterizing the zones and sub-
zones of the Lower Carboniferous rocks, being the specimens
described and figured in the donor’s papers on the Bristol
district and elsewhere. Presented by Dr. Arthur Vaughan.

Thirty Corals, illustrating the donor’s paper on the Car-
boniferous Limestone S. of the Craven Fault, Quart. Journ.
Geol. Soc. 1910, vol. lxvi., p. 539. Presented by Dr. Arthur
Wilmore.

Hight Corals from the Carboniferous Limestone and Oolite
of England. Presented by W. H. Wickes, Esq.

One Coral (Trochocyathus) from Ebbsfleet boring, Pegwell
Bay, Kent. Presented by W. A. Hubbard, Esq.

One Hydrozoan from the Upper Chalk, Hogsback, Guild-
ford. Presented by Alfred Bell, Esq.

One Hydrozoan (Spinopora dixoni) in a Chalk flint. Pre-
sented by J. H. A. Verinder, Esq.

A Coral, collected by the donor, from the Tertiary of
Colombia, South America. Presented by Dr. Arthur -R.
Andrew.

Porifera.—An organism, either a Sponge or Archwocyathus,
from the Cambrian of the I. of Skye. Presented by F. Ross
Thompson, Esq. : |

A Sponge from the Greensand, I. of Wight. Presented by
Gregory Jones, Esq.

Protozoa.-Three Foraminifera (Sprrocyclina) from the
Jurassic of Algeria. Presented by Prof. Jules Welsch.

Three Foraminifera from the Cenomanian and Miocene of
Japan. Presented by Dr. H. Yabe.

A piece of Orbitoidal Limestone from the Eocene of Southern
Nigeria, described and figured by R. B. Newton, Ann. Mag.
Nat. Hist. [8], vol. viii. (1911), pp. 202-206, text-fig. on p. 206.
Presented by the British Colonial Petroleum Corporation,
Lid. .

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Plantae.—A piece of shale with Stigmaria ficoides, from
1,700 ft. below O.D., Mattice Hill boring, Kent. Presented by
W. A. Hubbard, Esq.

Five fossil leaves from the Rantau Panjang Coal Measures,
Federated Malay States. Presented by the Senior Warden of
Mines, Federated Malay States.

A small collection of fossil plants from the Upper Coal
Measures, Somersetshire. Presented by H. J. Cyril Wyatt,
Eisq.

One plant (Otozamites) from the Callovian of France.
Presented by Prof. Jules Welsch.

One plant from the Mesozoic of Colombia, South America,
collected by the donor. Presented by Dr. Arthur R. Andrew.

Two Nullipores from the Miocene of 8S. Maria, Azores.
Presented by Walter Child, E'sq., A.R.S.M.

Two dicotyledonous leaves from the Tertiary of the Adana
Province of Asia Minor. Presented by Messrs. Thompson and
Hunter.

Fossil wood from the foot-hills of Mount Elgon. Presented
by A. C. Hollis, Esq.

A piece of fossil wood from Puerto Madryn, Chubut.
Presented by Reginald Pinnell, Esq.

Rock Specimens.—Six wind-worn pebbles from the Um-Esh
Plain, Eastern Desert, Egypt. Presented by A. Wade, Esq.

B.—By Purchase.

Mammalia.—Left upper and lower jaws, four fragments of
lower jaws, humerus, femur, tibia and astragalus of Brachyodus
borbonicus, from the Oligocene, Bouches-du-Rhéne, France.

Skull and mandible of Brachyodus cluai, and three other
fragments of the same mammal, from the Oligocene of Tarrega,
Lérida, Spain.

Mandible of Mammoth from River Save, Hungary.

Reptilia.—One Saltopus, one Scleromochlus, two Steno-
metopon, one Ornithosuchus, three Telerpeton, and various
fragments of Telerpeton from the Trias of Elgin (William
Taylor Coll.).

A portion of a skull of Placodus from the Muschelkalk of
Bayreuth.

Portions of skeletons of Peloneustes, Ophthalmosaurus,
Steneosaurus, and other reptilian remains from the Oxford
Clay of Peterborough (Leeds Coll.).

A group of Crocodilian scutes from the Purbeck Beds,
Swanage.

The skeleton of Goniopholis crassidens described and
figured, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1907, pp. 50-63, pls. ii. -iv.,
and a portion of asimilar specimen ; skeleton of Ornithodesmus
latidens, and fragments of three other skeletons of the same;
all from the Wealden Cliffs near Atherfield, I. of Wight
(R. W. Hooley Coll.).

186 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Reptilian remains from the Chalk of 8S.E. England.

Fifteen Crocodilianand Chelonian remains from the Oligocene
of Tarrega, Lérida, Spain.

Pisces.—Fifty Fishes from the Upper Silurian of Lanark-
shire (Frank White Coll.).

Fish-remains from the Upper Old Red Sandstone of
Morayshire, including Psammosteus taylori (William Taylor
Coll. ).

Teeth of Ptyctodus from the Upper Devonian of Iowa.
Five Rhaetic Fishes from Hirtenstein, Austria.

Spathobatis, Ischyodus, and Caturus furcatus from the
Lithographic Stone, Bavaria.

Fifteen Fishes from the Upper Jurassic (Lithographic
Stone) of Santa Maria de Meya, Province of Lérida, Spain.

Pleuropholis from the Purbeck Stone, Chilmark Quarries,
Wilts.

Thirteen Fish-remains from the Chalk of the South-east of
England.

Two Fishes from the Cretaceous of the Lebanon, and a jaw
of Coelodus from the Cretaceous of Syria.

Two Fishes (Amphistium) from the Eocene of Monte
Bolea.

Mollusca.—Mollusea from the Lower Silurian and Lower
Carboniferous of Great Britain.

A hundred and seventy-five Cephalopoda from the Devonian
and Trias, near Constantinople.

Two specimens of Beneckia bucht from the Trias of Baden.

One Rostellaria sub-punctata from the Dogger of Wiir-
temberg.

Eleven Cephalopods and fourteen Lamellibranchs and
Gastropods from the Lower Greensand of Kent.

Caprina schiozensis from the Turonian of Italy.

Seventeen Ammonites and three Nautiloids from the Chalk
of the South-east of England.

Sixteen Cephalopods, two Lamellibranchs, and one Gastro-
pod from the Yorkshire Chalk.

Two Ammonites from the Cretaceous of Syria.

Kighty-three Mollusca from the European and American
Cretaceous.

One Nautilus lamarcki and one Aturia aturi from the
Tertiary of Belgium.

Ostraea crassissuma from the Miocene of Marchfield, near
Vienna.

A slab of Aequipecten from the Miocene of Vaucluse, France.

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Fifty-seven Miocene shells from Coquimbo, Chili (Wolffsohn
Coll.).

Thirty-eight Post-Pliocene Helicidz from Corsica.

Pleistocene marine shells from the South of Scotland.

Arthropoda.—-Ten Arthropoda from the Upper Silurian of
Lanarkshire (Frank White Coll.).

Six hundred Ostracoda, &e., from the Silurian of Gotland.

One Pterygotus from the Lower Old Red Sandstone,
Turin Hill, Forfar.

Five Trilobites from the Carboniferous of Belgium.

Thirteen Cirripedes from the Cretaceous of North France.

Fourteen Blattidz in amber from the Oligocene of Hast
Prussia.

Echinoderma.—Three Cambrian Cystids from Bohemia.

Ten Crinoids from the Silurian of the Baltic.

Fifty Crinoids (Petalocrinus, &c.) from the Woolhope
Limestone.

Two Crinoids from the Devonian near Constantinople.
One Batocrinus from the Carboniferous of Ireland.

Four specimens of Ophioderma bonnardi from the Rhaetic
of Wiirtemberg.

One Cidaris minutus from the Lias of Wurtemberg.

One Hyboclypeus ovalis from the Inferior Oolite of
Gloucestershire.

One Echinoid and ninety fragments of Crinoids from the
Corallian of Var, France.

Twenty-seven Crinoids (Antedon lorioli, Phyllocrinus
cyclamen, Cyrtocrinus, Selerocrinus tenuis and stramber-
gensis) from the Tithonian of Stramberg, Germany.

Four Echinoids from the Lower Greensand of Kent.

Fifty-eight Echinoderms, &c., from the Chalk of Lincoln-
shire (C. R. Bower Coll.).

Twenty-two Echinoids from the Chalk of the South-east of
England.

Eight Echinoderms from the Cretaceous of North France.
One Kchinoid from the Cretaceous of Syria. —
A hundred Holothurian remains from the London Clay.

Annelida.—One worm from the Lower Greensand of Kent.

One Serpula feliar from the Eocene of Barcelona.

188 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Brachiopoda.—Twenty-eight Brachiopoda from the Trias
and Devonian, near Constantinople.

Polyzoa.—Three hundred thin sections of Russian Ordovi-
cian Polyzoa (R. S. Bassler Coll.).
Sixty-seven Polyzoa from the Bradford Clay.

Two hundred and fifty Polyzoa from the Cornbrash near
Northampton (Jesson Coll.).

' Five thousand small fossils, chiefly Polyzoa, from the Chalk
Marl of Cambridge (F. Méckler Coll.).

Two hundred and ninety Polyzoa from the Chalk, chiefly
of the Thames Valley.

Twenty-eight Polyzoa from the Chalk of the South-east of
England. °

Three hundred and sixty minute fossils, chiefly Polyzoa,
from the Chalk of the Chatham district (W. Gamble Coll.).

Coelentera.—A hundred and twenty-seven Graptolites from
the Ordovician of Wales.

Eleven Devonian Corals from near Constantinople.

One Astrea from the Miocene of Gironde, France.

Protozoa.—One Fusulina ventricosa from the Permian of
Kansas, U.S.A.

Two hundred and sixteen Foraminifera from the English
Lias.

Sixty slides and a hundred tubes of Foraminifera from the
Cretaceous of Saxony.

Three hundred and four Foraminifera Pam the Upper
Chalk of Liinebery, Hanover.

Alveolina bosii and Asilina sprra from the Eocene of
Austria.

Four thousand five hundred Foraminifera from the Lower
Oligocene of Alsace, Germany.

Plantae.—Three slabs of Lepidodendron lycopodioides
from the Lower Coal Measures cf Bolton.

Specimens and a set of plaster casts and photos of a large
specimen of Lepidodendron tongeit from the Lower Coal
Measures of Bolton.

Four micro-slides of Lepidodendron obovatum.
Two micro-sections of Sigillaria elegans.

Four plants from the Culm, and one plant from the Rhaetic
of Germany.

Rock specimens.—Three rock specimens from the Lower
Greensand of Kent.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 189

In addition to the Collection of Colonial and Foreign
Fossils presented by the Geological Society of London (p. 178),
the total accessions during 1911 are as follows :—

A.—VERTEBRATA:

By Donation - - ~ - - 136
, Purchase - - - - - 1938
, Exchange - - - - - 76
—— 405
B.—INVERTEBRATA.:
By Donation - - - - - 1,924
, Purchase - - - ~ - 13,215
,» Exchange - - - - = 152
—— 15,291
C:—PLANTA :
By Donation - - - - = 35
» Purchase - - - - - 15
50
D.—Rock SPECIMENS:
By Donation =)\ner ef Ape - io
,, Purchase - - - - 3
10
TOTAL =) 155756

VI.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits paid to the Department by students
and other persons for the purpose of consultation or study
during 1911 was 6,038.

VII.— Demonstrations.
Six parties were received in the Galleries of the Department
of Geology, and demonstrations were given as follows :—

February 11th.—Teachers of the London County Council
Schools (31) ; Dr. Woodward. -

February 18th.—The Battersea Field Club (17 members) ;
Dr. Bather.

February 25th.—The Geologists’ Association (39 members) ;
Dr. Woodward and Mr. Lang.

March 4th.—Teachers of the babs County Council
Schools (29); Dr. Woodward.

March een gan eu of the London County Council
Schools (26) ; Dr. Woodward.

March Bg a8 Teachers of the London County Council
Schools (22); Dr. Woodward.

Arthur Smith Woodward.

190 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY.

L—Arrangement.

Sixteen new cubes, each containing five drawers, have been
fitted beneath the table-cases in the Gallery ; and many of
these drawers have been utilised for the reception of reserve
specimens of zeolites and calcites.

A series of specimens to illustrate the minerals mentioned
in the Bible has been selected from the General Collection, and
arranged and labelled in a case in the Central Hall.

The Collections, comprising some 17,000 specimens, of
foreign rocks and minerals recently presented by the Geological
Society of London, have been arranged, and a catalogue in
which details of each Collection are entered on separate slips
has been prepared. The work of separating duplicates and of
selecting specimens of minerals and rocks suitable for a
students-series 1s in progress.

Seventy-nine boxes or parcels of mineral specimens have
been received, unpacked, and examined; seventy-three boxes
or parcels have been packed and despatched.

II.— Registration, Indexing, and Cataloguing.

All the specimens acquired during the year, with the
exception of the large series of foreign rocks received from the
Geological Society, have been registered, numbered, labelled,
and incorporated with the Collection.

The preparation of the slip-catalogues of the mineral-
specimens in the Collection, species by species, and of permanent
labels giving all available information for each specimen, has
now been completed for the Elements, Arsenides, Sulphides and
Sulphur-salts (Table Cases 1-8). In the course of this work
permanent labels have been written, checked and placed in the
Collection with the specimens of copper-pyrites, tetrahedrite,
pyrargyrite, etc, to the end of the Sulphur-salts; faded
register-numbers have been re-written ; unsightly labels have
been transferred to the back of specimens, and 1,693 specimens
acquired before 1837 or with the Allan-Greg Collection in 1860,
have been entered in the General Register. The registration of
specimens hitherto referred to only in old Catalogues has been
completed for the Haloid Division and the Oxide Division as
far as Corundum inclusive. In the Division of the Silicates
also, a slip list has been made of all specimens belonging to the
species pyroxene, amphibole, apophyllite, okenite, gyrolite,
pectolite, talc, meerschaum, hemimorphite and chrysocolla,
which have not been entered in the General Register.

The preparation of a slip-catalogue of the topographical
rock collections has been begun.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 19%

Two hundred and thirty thin-slices of rocks have been
microscopically examined, and have been entered in the slip-
catalogue.

Four hundred and forty-six locality, species, and variety
labels have been prepared, printed, and placed in the exhibition
cases, and the corresponding entries have been made in the
alphabetical and topographical indexes of localities.

Five thousand four hundred and twenty thin-slices of rocks
have been cleaned, and the register-numbers have been written
on them with a diamond.

Ill.— Preparation.

One hundred and eight thin-slices of rocks and meteorites
have been prepared.

IV.—Investigation.

Crystallographic and optical investigations have been made
of celsian, paracelsian and natrolite from a new occurrence in
North Wales, and of zeolites (including phacolite, gmelinite,
analcite and natrolite) from the basalts near Belfast.

Crystals of an unknown mineral from the Binnental have
been measured, and their morphological characters determined.

A large and curiously developed crystal of anatase from the
Binnental has also been examined.

Crystals of zircon and tourmaline from Ceylon, phenacite
and prehnite from Cornwall, apophyllite from Durham, and
artificial crystals of gypsum have been measured.

Specimens of the following minerals have also been
examined: atacamite, calcite, caracolite, cassiterite, chrysobery]l,
epidote, idocrase, labradorite, marcasite, paratacamite, pectolite,
spessartite, spinel, wollastonite, and zircon.

The materials of certain worked stones in the Collection at
Bloomsbury have been determined and named.

A spherulitic dolerite from Natal, presenting remarkable
structural features, has been microscopically examined, and a
description of the rock has been prepared for publication.

Collections of rocks from Kerguelen Land, Dutch New
Guinea, the Channel Islands, Stonehenge and other localities
have been examined.

Stone implements from Malta have been examined, and the
materials of which they consist determined.

A chemical investigation has been made of a meteoric
stone which fell on 28 June, 1911, at El Nakhla el Baharia,
Egypt.

In the chemical laboratory, quantitative analyses have been
roade of sepiolite from Weardale, bismutite from South Africa,
tilasite and fermorite from India, cordierite from Finland,
staurolite from Switzerland, and the meteoric stone from Egypt ;
and many doubtful minerals have been qualitatively analysed.

192 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

V.—Donations of Duplicates.

Duplicate specimens of minerals have been given to the
Museum of the Geological Survey of India.

VI.— Departmental Lrbrary.

Arrangement.—Letters relating to the business of the
Department have been arranged in order.

Cataloguing and Press-marking.—1,364 volumes and 354
title-slips have been press-marked. All the accessions, includ-
ing 778 plates, have been catalogued and stamped.

Proofs of the Library Catalogue have been read and checked
against the slip-catalogue in the Department.

A ccessions.—59 volumes of separate works, 31 periodicals
(in 389 volumes and parts), 40 pamphlets, 19 parts of works,
13 mining reports, and 25 sheets of maps have been added to
the Library. These were acquired as follows :—

By presentation.—11 volumes of separate works, 10
periodicals (in 120 volumes and parts), 33 pamphlets,
2 parts of works, 13 mining reports and 6 sheets of maps.

By purchase. —44 volumes of separate works, 19
periodicals Gn 265 volumes and parts), 2 pamphlets
and 7 parts of works.

By transfer.—4 volumes of separate works, 2 periodicals
(in 4 volumes and parts), 5 pamphlets, 10 parts of works
and 17 sheets of maps.

Binding.—82 volumes have been bound.

Vil.— Publications.
New editions of the Student’s Index to the Collection of

Minerals (24th Edition) and A Guide to the Mineral Gallery
(11th Edition) have been issued.

The following papers, relating to specimens in the collection,
have been published in the “ Mineralogical Magazine and
Journal of the Mineralogical Society,” 1911, vol. 16 :—

“On Schwartzembergite”: by G. F. H. Smith and G. T.
Prior (p!'77).

“On Fermorite, a new arsenate and phosphate of lime and
strontia, and Tilasite, from the Manganese-ore deposits of
India”: by G. F. H. Smith and G. T. Prior (p. 84).

“The larger Diamonds of South Africa”: by L. J. Spencer
(p. 140).

VIII. Acquisitions.

18,274 specimens have been acquired, namely :—
316 minerals, 17,952 rocks, and 6 meteorites.

Exchanges of specimens have been made with the University
Museum, Oxford (through Professor H. L. Bowman); the

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 193

Senckenberg. Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfurt - am -
Main (through Dr. W. Schauf); and Signor Francesco Mauro,
of Milan.

The specimens acquired by presentation (arranged alpha-
betically according to donors), and by exchange, and the more
important of those obtained by purchase are as follows :—

Minerals.
By Presentation :
Native copper and coal from Russian Turkestan: by Dr. A.
Adiassevich.
Artificial avanturine glass: by Commendatore Arbib.
Idocrase and axinite in metamorphic rocks from Cornwall:
by George Barrow, Esq.

Zircon, orthoclase, and a pseudomorph of quartz after
calcite ; occurrences of Portuguese minerals newly discovered
by the donor: by Antonio Maria d’Oliveira Bello, Esq.

Cassiterite, isolated crystal, from Swaziland, South Africa:
by R. H. Bray, Esq.

Cassiterite from Northern Nigeria: by S. G. Brounger, Esq.

Caracolite from Chili: by Lazard Cahn, Esq.

Molybdenite from Jersey: by Walter Child, Esq.

Chlorargyrite and huantajayite from Chili: by F. G.
Clarke, Esq.

Malachite from Rhodesia: by W. H. Clarke, Esq.

Anthracite and tremolite in metamorphosed dolomite, from
Transvaal: by Dr. G. S. Corstorphine.

Ironstone nodule from Northern Nigeria: by H. 5 W.
Edwardes, Esq.

Calcite with dolomite, on coal, from South Shields, Co.
Durham: by the Rev. Mark Fletcher.

Tourmaline, a fine large crystal, from Pala, California ;
fluor-spar, a large, pink, transparent octahedron, from the
granite at Strievau, Silesia; apophyllite, a fine specimen
showing pink crystals of tabular habit, from Andreasberg,
Harz ; apophyllite and faroelite lining a long tubular cavity in
basalt from Belfast ; hyalite in rhyolite trom Co. Antrim : by
GN. A. Fleischmann, Esq.

Iron-pyrites and barytes from Westphalia: by eau
Grundhoff, Esq.

Asphaltum from Alberta, Canada: by A. von Hammerstein,
Esq.

Monazite from Northern Nigeria: by R. T. Hancock, Esq.

Chromite from Queensland: by P. Harris, Esq.
091 N

194 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Striiverite from Black Hills, South Dakota: by Dr. Frank
L. Hess.

Souesite from Fraser River, British Columbia: by Dr. G.
Christian Hoffmann.

Iron-pyrites crystals from Chili: by F. A. Homer, Esq.

Beryl from Madagascar, 2 faceted stones; fire-opal from
Mexico, polished specimen: by Edward Hopkins, Esq.

Bog-butter (butyrellite) from Oldtown bog, Co. Antrim: by
Dr W.E. Hoyle.

Tilasite, a large twinned crystal, from Kajlidongri manganese
mine, Central India: by the Director, Geological Survey of
India.

Autunite from Sabugal, Portugal; and “liver-blende”’ from
Broken Hill, New South Wales: by E. W. Janson, Esq.

Flint from Co. Antrim: by J. Gregory Jones, Esq.

Gypsum, artificially produced twinned crystals: by Frank
E. Lott, Esq.

Wolframite from Portugal: by William McEwan, Esq.

Coal from Matabeleland, South Africa: by A. Molyneux,
Esq.

Pectolite and apophyllite from Weardale, Co. Durham: by
Messrs. Monkhouse and Peart.

Ambrite in coal from New Zealand: by T. P. Moody, Esq.

Garnet, large crystals in Gneiss, from Labrador; bitumen
from Deer Lake, Newfoundland: by J. M. Moubray, Esq.

Bog-butter (butyrellite), a large spherical mass from
Donegal: by Captain A. W. Reid.

Specimens of British minerals recently collected by the
donor, illustrating occurrences not hitherto represented in the
Collection ; viz., blende from Shropshire ; autunite on slab of
granite from Cheesewring quarry, Cornwall; tetrahedrite from
Co. Tipperary: by Arthur Russell, Esq.

Cobaltite crystals from Sweden: by Mrs. Cecilia Sandell.

Rhodochrosite from Nassau, and emery from Naxos: by
Dr. W. Schauf.

Moldavite from Bohemia: by His Highness Prince Adolf
Joseph Schwarzenberg, Duke of Krumau.

Cassiterite (magnetic and pseudomorphous), and tourmaline
crystals, from Perak, Federated Malay States: by J. B.
Scrivenor, Esq.

Mirabilite from South Victoria Land (collected by the
British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-9): by Sir Ernest H.
Shackleton, C.v.o. |

Chalcedony enclosing liquid (“enhydros”), five Specimens
from Banda, India: by H. G.S. Tyler, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 195

Banded flint from Beckenham, Kent: by A. Verinder, Esq.

Montmorillonite and quartz from France: by Professor
Jules Welsch.

Beekite from Co. Antrim: by W. H. Wickes, Esq.

By Huchange:
Monazite with fluor from Transvaal.
Calcite, twinned crystals of a rare type, from Somersetshire.
Brugnatellite from Lombardy,

By Purchase :

A collection of 225 orientated micro-sections of rock-forming
minerals.

Choice crystallized specimens of various North of England
minerals, viz.: Witherite from Hexham and Alston, quartz from
Weardale and Frizington, barytes from Frizington.

British minerals selected from the collection of the late Mr.
F. Fry, of Bristol (e.g., pharmacosiderite from Cornwall, stron-
tianite from Dublin, agate and goethite from Cheddar, calcite
from Torquay).

Crystallized kaolinite from Glamorganshire.

Calcite and calamine from the present workings at Wanlock-
head, Dumfriesshire.

Oligoclase, risdrite, and sphene from Norway.
Childrenite from Greifenstein, Saxony.

Chabazite, stilbite, prehnite, albite, microcline, and epidote
from the granite at Striegau, Prussian Silesia,

Anatase, a very large pyramidal crystal, from Binnental,
Switzerland.

Chrysocolla, cuprite, chaleedony, and hematite from Sassari,
Sardinia.

Whewellite, pyrrhotite, natrolite, and calcite, from Bohemia.
Hessite, large distinct crystals, from Botes, Transylvania.

Various minerals from the Ural Mountains, including beryl,
corundum, epidote, hematite, muscovite, rutile, and chrome-
idocrase (a new variety of idocrase of a beautiful green colour).

Native tantalum from Altai Mts., Siberia.

Allanite, chloropal, fergusonite, thorite, tourmaline, and
zircon from Ceylon.

Various species illustrating Japanese occurrences; viz.,
amethyst, andalusite, cassiterite, columbite, pseudogaylussite,
scorodite, topaz.

Gypsum, two large twinned crystals (40 and 14 Ib. in weight),
from Cloncurry, Queensland.

Topaz and emerald, specimens showing the associated
minerals, from Emmaville, New South Wales.

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196 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

A series of beautifully crystallized minerals (chessylite,
cerussite, and calamine) and distinctly formed pseudomorphs of
malachite after chessylite, from the copper mines at Otavi,
German South-West Africa.

A series of specimens from the gem mines in central Mada-
gascar; including hambergite crystals (one of large size),
spodumene (“ kunzite’’), cordierite ; also corundum from South-
West Madagascar.

Breithauptite and erythrite from Cobalt, Ontario.

Various specimens illustrating American occurrences, ¢.9.,
Garnets from New York, Maine, and Connecticut ; anatase,
brookite, and sphene from Somerville, Massachusetts ; calcite
from Lake Erie and Joplin, Missouri; eglestonite and calomel
from Palo Alto, California; iridosmine from California;
childrenite from Hebron, Maine ; herderite, an isolated crystal
and a group of ciear crystals, from Auburn, Maine; benitoite
crystals on matrix from San Benito County, California; quartz,
group of twinned crystals (Japanese twin-law) from New
Mexico; zincite crystals, willemite, rhodonite, hancockite, and
gageite from the zinc mines at Franklin Furnace, New Jersey ;
enargite, large cleavage masses from Red Mtn., Colorado ;
native copper, a fine large mass of distorted crystals, weighing
57 lb. from Houghton, Michigan ; beryl, a portion of a very
large, transparent, pink crystal of tabular habit, from Cahuilla,

California.

Livingstonite, in bladed crystals, from Huitzuco, Mexico.
Cassiterite, large twinned crystals, from Bolivia.

The following mineral names added to the Museum
‘List were previously not represented by specimens in the
- Collection :—

Chrome-idocrase, gageite, neocolemanite, pilbarite, souesite,
_yttrofluorite.
Rocks.
By Presentation :

Rock specimens from Palestine: by H. D. Acland, Esq.

28 rock specimens collected by the donor in Colombia,
South America; 114 rock specimens collected by the donor in
Nyasaland: by Dr. Arthur R. Andrew.

Limestone and “kolm” from Vestergotland;. gneissose
granite from Dalecarlia: by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S.

92 rock specimens from a small island (Trinity Island)
discovered by the donor in the Antarctic: by Captain H. Borge.

Rock specimens from Dutch New Guinea, collected by the
British Ornithologists’ Union Expedition, 1910: by the British
Ornithologist’s Union.

Rock specimens collected by the donor in Spitzbergen; 15
vock specimens collected by the donor in the Channel Islands
(Jersey, Alderney, Herm, and Sark): by Walter Child, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY, 197

A collection of 34 glacial boulders from the coast of
Norfolk : by Dr. W. Carruthers, F.R.S.

_ Metamorphosed limestone from Tortworth, Gloucestershire:
by Rt. Hon. the Earl of Ducie.

Sandstone from Grinshill quarries, Shrewsbury : by John
Fawdry, Esq.

Shale from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick: by Mrs. M.
Gates.

Voleanic dust and lapilli from St. Vincent, West Indies: by
Dr. St. G. Gray.

Perlitic structure shown in canada-balsam : by Mrs. Rupert
Jones.

Hematite-schist from Uganda: by Robin Kemp, Esq.

Rock specimens from the Lleyn peninsula, Carnarvonshire :
by W. B. R. King, Esq.

“St. Katharine’s” Marble, rough and polished samples,
from Durango, Spain: by Messrs. Arthur Lee and Brothers,
Ltd.

Aplite and granite from Nigeria: by H. J. Lofting, Esq.

Rock specimens from Northern Nigeria: by Miss MacLeod.

174 rock specimens and samples of volcanic ash collected
by Dr. Tempest Anderson and Dr. G. 8. Flett in the West
Indies after the eruptions of the Soufriére, St. Vincent, in 1902 °.
by the Royal Society of London.

Rock specimens from a boring in South Africa: by T. J. W.
Ryley, Esq.

Quartz-porphyry passing into sericite-schist from Taunus
Mts.: by Dr. W. Schauf.

Chips from a sacred stone in British New Guinea: by Dr.
C. G, Seligmann,

154 rock specimens collected by the British Antarctic
Expedition, 1907-9 : by Sir Ernest H. Shackleton, C.V.O.

New rock types (assyntite, cromaltite, ledmorite, ledmorite-
pegmatite, and melanite-syenoid) from Ledmore, Sutherland--
shire, recently described by the donor: by Dr. 8S. J. Shand.

Quartz-porphyry from Yass, New South Wales: by A. J.
Shearsby, Esq.

Slate from Cornwall: by C. Davies Sherborn, Esq.

Rock specimens from Ayrshire: by John Smith, Esq.

Micro-sections of rocks from Stonehenge, Wiltshire,
described by Professor N, Story-Maskelyne, F.R.S., in 1877: by
Mrs. Story-Maskelyne.

By Purchase:
Latite, bostonite, nordmarkite, ete. from American loeali-
ties.
A collection of 50 specimens taken at measured points in
the new Loetscbberg tunnel, Wallis, Switzerland.

198 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

A series of 70 hand-specimens and thin-sections, illustrating
the occurrence of alkali rocks in the Serra de Monchique,
Portugal.

Meteorites.
By Presentation :

El Nakhla el Baharia, Alexandria, Egypt. Meteoric stones
(2 fragments weighing 725 and 274 grams) which fell on 28
June 1911: by the Director, Geological Survey of Egypt.
Shytal, India, a fragment weighing 14°8 grams; also
fragments of piddingtonite and daubreelite: by Mrs. Story-
Maskelyne,

By Purchase:

Borodino, Moscow, Russia, a fragment weighing 1:4 grams
of the stone which fell on 5-6 September, 1812.

Muonionalusta, Norrboten, Sweden, a slice weighing 142°5
grams of the iron found in 1906.

Angela, a mass of iron weighing 4,341 grams from the
nitrate deposits of the Oficina Angela, Tarapaca, Chili.

Vigarano, Ferrara, Italy, a fragment weighing 147 grams
of the stone which fell on 22 January 1910.

Those meteorites of which the names are italicized belong to
falls hitherto unrepresented in the Museum Collection.

[X.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits recorded as made to the Department
for the purposes of consultation or study is 682.

The Gallery being no longer reserved on particular days of
the week for use by students, and study-series having been so
arranged as to be directly accessible to the public, and so
labelled as to render reference to the staff for information
thereon almost completely unnecessary, it has become difficult
to distinguish, for statistical purposes, ‘‘ Students ” of minerals
from ordinary “ Visitors,” and stress can no longer be laid on
the distinction.

G, .E..Paan.

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 199

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY.
I— Arrangement and Conservation.

During the past year 26,375 specimens have been incor-
porated with the Herbarium. This number includes 20,550
Flowering Plants, 7 Vascular Cryptogams, 118 Mosses,
103 Hepatics, 191 Lichens, 112 Algze, and 5,294 Fungi.

Flowering Plunts.—Collections have been mounted and
incorporated wholly or in part as follows:—Small British
collections from various donors, including Revs. E. S. Marshall
and H. J. Riddelsdell, Messrs. G. C. Druce and W. A. Davis,
and Major A. H. Wolley-Dod; Europe, Herb, Normale, Dorfler ;
Kuropean Rubi (Sudre); Flora Italica (Fiori and Béguinot) ;
Turkestan (Adiassewick) ; Persia (Strauss) ; China (Schindler) ;
Siam (Hosseus); Malaya (Ridley); Elmer (Philippine Islands) ;
Libyan Desert (Harding King) ; Angola (Gossweiler) ; Nigeria
and Cameroons (Talbot, MacLeod, Kitson); Liberia (Bunting) ;
Rhodesia and Congo (Kassner, Chubb) and other Tropical
African collections ; South Africa (Rudatis, Pegler, Schlechter) ;
S. Domingo (Tiirckheim) ; Cuba (Shafer) ; Mexico (Purpus) ;
Bolivia (Conway Expedition) ; Paraguay (Fiebrig) ; Sandwich
Islands (Faurie). Progress has been made with the selection,
determination and incorporation of the early Australian col-
lections ; and the unincorporated extra-European specimens of
a number of families of Dicotyledons have been mounted and
incorporated. The European material of the early families of
Dicotyledons has been separated from the General Herbarium
and rearranged according to Nyman’s “Conspectus Flore
Kuropez.” Work of revision and rearrangement has been done
also in the following families: Verbenacew, Rubiacee, Pipera-
cee, Urticaceze, and in the genera Lupinus, Tephrosia, Lobelia,

eee Pentstemon, Polygonum (British species) and
others,

Ferns.—The series of plates has been rearranged ;
some small collections from Liberia (Bunting), New Zealand
(Henley) and Borneo (Gibbs) have been determined, and critical
work has been done on various genera and species.

Bryophyta.-—A collection of Mosses from India and collec-
tions of Hepatics from South America and New Zealand have
been incorporated. Small collections have been determined
from Britain, S. America, Tahiti and New Zealand. Work of
revision has been done on various genera.

Lichens.—Progress has been made with the incorporation

of British Lichens. The revision of the Pyrenocarpei has’ been
completed.

Algce.—Collections have been determined and in part incor-
porated from South Africa (Tyson), the Indian Ocean, Singa-
pore (Ridley), China, N.W. America and the Kermadec Islands
(Oliver). Work of revision and rearrangement has been done

200 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

in the genera Udotea, Codium, Callophyllis, Fucus and
Sargassum. The collection of microscopic slides bas been
rearranged owing to the accession of some new cabinets.

Fungi.—The general collection has been brought up to date
and all outstanding specimens incorporated in the groups
Hymenomycetes and Gasteromycetes ; and progress has been
made with the incorporation of the Uredinew. Some British
specimens collected during the year have been determined and
incorporated.

Exhibition Series.—Various specimens have been added
to the general series in the Public Gallery, and work has been
commenced preparatory to the rearrangement of the exhibition
of Algw. Progress has been made with the exhibition of a
series of British Lichens, and with the selection and preparation
of specimens and drawings for exhibitions of British Seaweeds
and British Hepatics. The exhibition in the Central Hall
illustrating the general characters of Seed-plants has been
completed ; and work is in progress on the exhibition of
Cryptogams. A representation of Bible-plants has been pre-
pared in connection with the exhibition illustrating the Natural
History of the Bible.

Catalogues and Guides.—The second edition of the Mono-
graph of the Mycetozow by Miss Gulielma Lister has been
completed and published ; and progress has been made with the
preparation of the continuation of the Flora of Jamaica by
Mr. Fawcett and Dr. Rendle, and with the revision of the first
volume of the Catalogue of British Lichens by Miss Annie
Lorrain Smith. <A Guide to the Bible-piants exhibited in the
Hall has been prepared, and progress has been made with the
preparation of a Guide to the exhibition of British Lichens.

II.—Jnvestigation.

Collections have been determined either wholly or in part.
from the following localities and collectors :—-Gazaland (Swyn-
nerton), Nigeria, North Cameroons and Lake Chad district
(Talbot, MacLeod, Kitson), Liberia (Bunting), Angola (Goss-
weiler), Rhodesia and Congo { Kassner ), Libyan Desert (Harding
King).

Work of investigation has been carried on on the African
species of Crotalaria and Indigofera by Mr. Baker, on several
genera of Rubiacee by Mr. Wernham, on the Jamaican species
of several families of apetalous Dicotyledons by Mr. Fawcett
and Dr. Rendle, on various genera of Algz by Mr. and Mrs.
Gepp, and on the British Lichens by Miss A. Lorrain Smith ; on
numerous genera of Californian plants by Miss A. Eastwood (of
California), on American Mosses by Mrs. E. G. Britton, and on
various other families and genera by numerous British and
foreign Botanists. Also on various genera of the British Flora, -
especially Polygonum, Rumex, Chenopodium, Atriplex,
Salsola, Plantago and Rosa by various workers at British

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 201

Botany. Undetermined material has been lent for study and
determination as follows:—African specimens of the family
Euphorbiacee to the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in
connection with the preparation of the Flora of Tropical
Africa ; African Ebenacez to Mr. W. P. Hiern, F.R.S.; Asiatic
Crassulacez to M. Raymond Hamet, Paris; African Leguminose
to Mr. S. T. Dunn, Kew ; specimens of Xyris to Dr. G. Malme,
Stockholm ; of Characeze to Mr. H. Groves and of Mycetozoa to
Miss G. Lister.

In connection with work done in the Department specimens
have been generously lent by the Government of Jamaica, and
the Directors of the Royal Gardens, Kew, of the Herbarium of
the Paris Museum, of the Botanical Museum, Ziirich, of the
Royal Botanic Museum, Munich, and of the _ Botanical
Department of the Royal Natural History Museum, Stockholm.

IIl.—Departmental Library.

1. Arrangement.—A new press has been fitted in the
window alcove in the Library to relieve the presses allotted to
periodicals in progress, which are at present much overcrowded.
The accessions to the collection of plates of flowering plants
and ferns have been mounted and incorporated, and the re-
arrangement of the plates of ferns has been completed. A
number of autograph letters have been added to the collection.

2. Cataloguing and Pressmarking.—The usual routine
work of registering, stamping, cataloguing and pressmarking
has been carried out; and Departmental work in connection
with the General Catalogue of Books has been continued.

3. Accessions.—The additions during the past year have
been, by donation, 255 volumes, 961 pamphlets; by purchase
187 volumes, 1 pamphlet—in all, 442 volumes, 962 pamphlets.
These include 26 periodicals in 119 parts, presented, and
89 periodicals in 705 parts, purchased—in all, 115 periodicals
in 824 parts.

The following is a list of the principal donors:—F. M.
Bailey, C.M.G., F.L.8.; R. T. Baker, F.L.S.; Société Royale de
Botanique de Belgique ; Director, Agricultural Research Insti-
tute, Pusa, Bengal; Rev. E. Blatter, S.J.; Rev. E. N. Bloomfield,
M.A.; T. S. Brandegee, B.S.; Directeur, Institut Botanique
Léo Errera, Bruxelles ; Directeur, Jardin botanique de |’ Etat,
Bruxelles; Secretaire de lEtat Independant du Congo,
Bruxelles; Dept. de ’Agriculture aux Indes Neerlandaises,
Buitenzorg; Cardiff Naturalists’ Society; Dr. William
Carruthers, F.R.S.; Director, Royal Botanic -Gardens, Pera-
deniya, Ceylon; Mrs. Agnes Chase; Miller Christy, F.LS. ;
if Cockayne, Ph.D., ELR.S.; BE. Collinder,Ksq.; Prof. H. H.
Dixon,-Sc.)., ¥.R.S.; H. N. Dixon, M:A., F.L.8S.; J. F: Duthie,
B.A., F.L.S.; Miss Alice Eastwood; the Regius Keeper, Royal
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh ; A. H. Evans, M.A.; Prof. A. J.
Ewart, D.Se, Ph.D., F.L.S.; Dr. Emil Hassler; Board of

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Agriculture and Forestry, Territory of Hawaii; Director,
Botanical Survey of India; Secretary of State for India ; Prof.
Marcus E. Jones, A.M.; Dr. Frans Kempe; Director, Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew; Secretary of Kew Guild; Frau A.
Koorders-Schumacher; Prof. Henri Lecomte; the Secretary,
Lichen Exchange Club, Leicester ; Director, Rijks Herbarium,
Leiden ; C. G. Lloyd, Esq.; Board of Agriculture and Fisheries,
London; Linnean Society of London; Royal Botanic Society,
London; Royal Horticultural Society of London; Director,
Dept. of Agriculture, Melbourne; Nederlansche Botanische
Vereeniging, Nijmegen; the Hon. Secretary for Agriculture,
New South Wales; the Under-Secretary for Lands, New
Zealand; M. P. Porsild, M.Se.; Prof. Francis Ramaley, M.S.
C. B. Robinson, Ph.D.; Director, Missouri Botanic Garden, St.
Louis, Mo., U.S.A.; Director, Botanic Gardens, Singapore; H.
©. Smith, F.C.8.; W. G. Smith, F.L.S.; Director, Botanic
Gardens, Sydney, N.S.W.; Miss J. E. Tilden, M.S.; Tokyo
Botanical Society, Tokyo, Japan; H. 8. Walker, Esq. ; United
States National Museum, Washington, U.S.A.; the Hon.
Secretary, Watson Botanical Exchange Club; Prof. G. 8. West,
M.A., D.Se.; J. Medley Wood, A.L.S.; Director, Botanic
Garden and Museum, Zurich.

The following acquisitions other than books have been
received :—53 drawings of specimens, chiefly of abnormalities
in Fungi, by W. G. Smith, and 5 drawings of specimens of
flowering plants by Mary EH. Lawrance.

4. Binding.—183 volumes have been bound; these include

three volumes of the Sloane Herbarium. A number of volumes
have been repaired.

IV.-—Publications.

(1) Issued by the Trustees.—A Monograph of the British
Lichens. Part II. By Miss A. Lorrain Smith.

A Monograph of the Mycetozoa. By Mr. A. Lister. Second
Edition, revised by Miss G. Lister.

(2) Issued by the permission of the Trustees.—A Contribution
to our knowledge of the Flora of Gazaland, being an account
of collections made by C. F. M. Swynnerton, Esq. By Dr.
Rendle, E. G. Baker, S. Moore and A.Gepp. (Journal of Linnean
Society).

Some plants from Liberia collected by Mr. R. H. Bunting.
By Dr. Rendle, E. G. Baker, H. F. Wernham and 8. Moore.
(Journal of Botany.)

New species of Crotalaria. By E.G. Baker. (Deutscher
Zentral-Afrika Expedition, 1907-1908.)

Two new African Leguminose. By E.G. Baker. (Fedde
Repertorium Sp. Nov. 1911.)

A new Aeolanthus from the Congo. By H. F. Wernham.
(Journal of Botany.)

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 203

Revision of the genus Hamelia. By H. F. Wernham.
(Journal of Botany.)

A new genus of Rubiacee. By H. F. Wernham. (Journal
of Botany.)

The genus Canephora. By. H. F. Wernham. (Journal of
Botany.)

The Codiaceze of the Siboga Expedition, including a
Monograph of Flabellaries and Udotee. By A. and E. 5S.
Gepp.

Marine Alge from the Kermadecs. By A. and H. 8. Gepp.
(Journal of Botany.)

Alabastra Diversa, Parts XX and. XXI. Rubiacee and
Acanthacez Africane Nove. By 8. Moore. (Journal of
Botany. )

Wayfaring Notes in Rhodesia. By R. F. Rand; with
identifications by Members of the Staff. (Journal of Botany.)

(3) By Students of the Collections other than Members of
the Staff—The Grewias of Roxburgh. By J. R. Drummond.
(Journal of Botany.)

A List of British Roses. By Major A. H. Wolley-Dod.
(Journal of Botany.)

Viola tricolor var. sabulosa Cand.. By Dr. F. N. Williams.
(Journal of Botany.) .

The Hepatics of New Zealand. By Miss L. S. Gibbs.
(Journal of Botany.)

New Lichens. By Miss A. Lorrain Smith. (Journal of
Botany.)

Lichenes.—Clare Island Survey. By Miss A. Lorrain Smith.
(Proceedings, Royal Irish Academy.)

New or Rare Microfungi. By Miss A. Lorrain Smith.
(Transactions, British Mycological Society.)

Two New Species of Mycetozoa. By Miss G. Lister.
(Journal of Botany. )

Merceyopsis, a New Genus of Mosses, with further contri-
butions to the Bryology of India. By Mr. H. N. Dixon.
(Journal of Botany.)

Teneriffe Mosses. By Mr. H. N. Dixon. (Journal of
Botany.)

Hyophilopsis, a New Genus of Pottiacese, with further
contributions to the Bryology of India. By Mr. H. N. Dixon.
(Journal of Botany.)

Craibia, a New Genus of Leguminose. By Mr.8. T. Dunn.
(Journal of Botany.)

- Some Species of Salicornia.. By Dr. C. E. Moss. (Journal
of Botany.)

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_ Notes on Limonium. By Mr. C. E. Salmon. (Journal of
Botany.)

Algological Notes. By Prof. G. S. West. (Journal of
Botany.)

V.— Acquisitions.
(1) By Donation.

Additions to the British Herbarium have been received from
the following donors :—H. N. Dixon, Esq., 34 microscope slides
of prehistoric Mosses; G. C. Druce, Esq., 59 specimens; W.
Fawcett, Esq., 5 specimens; C. P. Hurst, Esq., 3 specimens;
Rev. E. S. Marshall, 91 specimens; W. E. Nicholson, Esq.,
2 specimens; Prof. D. Oliver, 50 specimens; Rev. H. J.
Riddelsdell, 105 specimens ;_ C. EK. Salmon, Esq., 20 specimens ;
H. 8. Thompson, Esq., 3 specimens; Major A. H. Wolley-Dod,
258 specimens of Roses, and 49 specimens of Mentha; and
single specimens from Messrs. W. H. Burrell, T. Doggitt, A. B.
Jackson, B. Reynolds, G. W. Ricketts, R. B. Rogers and W. G.
Smith.

The following donations have been made to the General
Herbarium :—
Europe.

Miss D. Bates, 10 specimens from Majorca; Dr. Beille,
4 specimens of Fumaria from Herb. Clavaud ; Dr. M. C. Cooke,
27 microscope slides of Freshwater Alge; M. A. Fenton, Esq.,
3 specimens from Spitzbergen; Miss D. M. Higgins, 227
specimens from South of Spain; A. B. Jackson, Esq., 9
specimens from La Mortola.

Asia.

A. Adiassewick, Esq., 63 specimens from Turkestan; Prof.
W. Arnoldi, 7 Algz from Aru Islands; C. J. Brooks, Esq.,
5 Ferns from Sarawak; J. R. Drummond, Esq., 193 specimens
from India ; Rev. Prebendary H. I. Fox, 718 Phanerogams and
11 Ferns from Palestine, collected by B. T. Lowne ; H. French
Ridley, Esq., 180 specimens from Ko-ko-Nor, N.W. China; and
single specimens from Messrs. K. Minakata and H. Takeda, and
Lt.-Col. H. B. Thornhill.

Africa. :

Miss Armitage, 2 specimens from Egypt; G. L. Bates, Esq.,
23 specimens from South Cameroons; Rev. Prebendary H.
E. Fox, 147 Phanerogams and 45 Ferns from the Canary
Islands, also 42 Ferns from Madeira, collected by H. B.
Tristram; W. J. Harding King, Esq., 36 specimens from
Libyan Desert; A. E. Kitson, Esq., 102 Phanerogams, 2
Cryptogams and 4 Fruits from South Nigeria; Liberian
Rubber Corporation, 169 Phanerogams and 3 Cryptogams from
Liberia, collected by R. H. Bunting; Miss O. Macleod, 138
Cyperaceee and Graminez from North Nigeria, North
Cameroons and Lake Chad district; J. O’Brien, Esq., 3 Orchids

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 205

from Uganda, collected by J. Hughes; Hon. W. Rothschild,
F.R.S., specimen and drawing of Cynomoriwm coccineum, and
3 photographs of Terebinth taken near Laghouat, Algeria; Mr.
and Mrs. P. A. Talbot, 1,551 Phanerogams, 50 Cryptogams and
98 Fruits from North Nigeria, North Cameroons, Lake Chad
district and Oban, South Nigeria; and single specimens from
Miss Manuelli and A. J. C. Molyneux, Esq.

Australasia.

W. V. Fitzgerald, Esa., 12 specimens from West Australia,
collected by M. Kock; Miss L. S. Gibbs, 51 Hepaticz from New
Zealand; Miss A. Henley, 3 specimens of Kauri Gum, 1 Palm
and 46 Ferns from New Zealand; R. Kirkpatrick, Esq.,
7 Cryptogams from Christmas Island; Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer,
27 specimens from Late Island, near Vavau, “ Eclipse
Expedition.”

America.

A. Bennett, Esq.,58 Phanerogams and 18 Cryptogams mostly
from America; Colonial Secretary, through the Director of
Agriculture, Jamaica, 92 specimens from Jamaica; Sir W.
Martin Conway, 1,135 specimens from Bolivia, collected by
R. S. Williams; Dr. M. C. Cooke, 8 Fungi mostly from North
America; Miss B. M. Gosset, 38 Orchids from Jamaica;
R. H. Howe, Esq., 11 Mosses from Newfoundland; and
specimen of Bacopa from Dr. N. L. Britton.

Cultivated Plants.

A. Berger, Esq., specimens of cultivated Mesembryanthemum ;
EK. A. Bowles, Esq., specimen of cultivated Aster Falconeri;
Chelsea Physick Garden, 32 specimens for exhibition purposes ;
Prof. C. V. Piper, 20 specimens of cultivated Mucuna; J. T.
Winkworth, Esq., abnormal flowered specimen of Bee Orchid.

General.
Rey. D. Lillie, 50 Hepaticz, mostly tropical.

(2) By Purchase.
British Isles.

W. A. Davis, 35 Lichens from Cambridge, prepared by
C. du Bois Larbalastier; C. EK. H. Smith, 21 specimens of
prepared Fungi; B. Corfe, 7 drawings of Fruits of British
Umbelliferee.

Lurope.

Dorfler, Herb. Normale, Cent. LITT and LIV; O. Jaap,
100 Fungi selecti and 20 Myxomycetes; Kabdét and Bubiak,
50 Fungi Imperfecti; A. Kneucker, 29 specimens of Carices ;
K. W. Krieger, 50 Fungi Saxonici; J. Mikutowicz, 200 Baltic
Mosses; V. Schiffner, 50 Kuropean Hepatics; J. Schiller,
30 Adriatic Alge ; H. Sudre, 50 specimens Batotheca Europea

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and 50 specimens Hieracia; Sydow, 100 German Fungi, and
25 Phycomycetes and Protomycetes; A. Toepffer, 50 specimens
Salicetum exsicecatum; Tranzschel and Serebrianikow, 200
Russian Fungi; T. Vestergren, 50 Micromycetes Rariores
Selecti; T. O. Weigel, 400 specimens Erbario Crittogamico
Italiano, 50 Mosses of Finland prepared by V. T. Brotherus
and Flora Italica Cent. XIII and XIV, including 21 micro-
sections of woods, prepared by A. Fiori and A. Béguinot.

A sia.

J. Bornmiiller, 84 Persian plants collected by T. Strauss ;
A. D. E. Elmer, 922 Phanerogams and 188 Cryptogams from
the Philippine Islands; U. Faurie, 109 Lichens from Japan and
Corea; F. Wilms, 611 Phanerogams and 50 Cryptogams from
China, collected by A. K. Schindler.

Africa.

J. Gossweiler, 556 Phanerogams and 82 Cryptogams from
Angola; T. Kassner, 106 specimens from Katanga, Central
Africa; A. Pegler, 100 specimens from Kentani district;
Rev. F. A. Rogers, 190 specimens chiefly from Rhodesia and
Belgian Congo; F. Wilms, 352 Phanerogams and 6 Vascular
Cryptcgams from Natal, collected by H. Rudatis.

Oceania.

U. Faurie, 1,130 Phanerogams and 1,168 Cryptogams from
the Sandwich Islands; J. E. Tilden, 58 Phanerogams and
81 Cryptogams from the South Pacific Islands.

America.

E. Bartholomew, 200 Fungi Columbiani and 200 Uredinee ;
T. S. Brandegee, 459 Phanerogams and 21 Cryptogams collected
in Mexico by C. A. Purpus; Collins, Holden and Setchell,
125 North American Alge; COC. C. Haynes, 20 American
Hepaties; R. B. Hough, 25 specimens of American Woods;
G. K. Merrill, 75 Lichens, mostly North American; W. F.
Rosenberg, 90 Ferns from Peru, collected by C. O. Schunke ;
I. Urban, 247 Phanerogams and 35 Cryptogams from St.
Domingo, collected by H. von Turckheim.

General.

M. A. Miedbrodt, 100 Marine Alge ; H. Rehm, 66 Ascomy-
cetes; E. M. Reineck, 340 Phanerogams and 153 Cryptogams ;
V. Schroeder, 85 tropical Ferns determined by E. Rosenstock ;
Sydow, 100 Uredinez and 25 Ustilaginez.

(3) By Hauchange of Duplicates.

Director, Royal Botanic Museum, Berlin, 1,082 Phanerogams
and 68 Cryptogams from tropical Africa. and 47 Phanerogams
and 3 Cryptogams from Caroline Islands; Director, Royal
Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, 91 specimens from India; Director,
Royal Gardens, Kew, 21 specimens of Pedicularis from North
West India; Director, Botanic Garden, New York, 414 Phanero-
gams from Cuba, and 159 Mosses and 168 Hepatic from North

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 207

and South America; Director, Herbarium, Museum of Natural
History, Paris, 681 Phanerogams with 151 drawings, and
77 Vascular Cryptogams, mainly Chinese; Director, Imperial
Botanic Gardens, St. Petersburg, 25 specimens from Turkestan ;
Director, Botanic Gardens, Singapore, 387 Phanerogams and
91 Cryptogams from Malay Peninsula; Director, National
Herbarium, Sydney, 15 specimens of Hucalyptus; Curator,
Botanical Department, Hofmuseum, Vienna, 200 Cryptogams,
mostly European; W. A. Davis, 269 specimens of British
Hieracia.

VI.— Students and Visitors.

The number of visits to the Department for consultation
and research during the year was 3,084, as compared with 3,009
in 1910, 2,712 in 1909, 2,815 in 1908, and 2,245 in 1907.
Numerous specimens and small collections have been named
for visitors and correspondents ; in this, the Staff have received
valuable help from Miss A. Lorrain Smith (Fungi and Lichens),
and Mrs. Gepp (Alge).

VII.—-Demonstrations.

Demonstrations have been given by Dr. Rendle to the
Wimbledon Natural History Society and to groups of students
on several occasions.

A.B. Rendle.

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BOTANY ~ - - - - - - - - - - - 5. Bile,

O (10.44 700 7/13 a?

4 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

I—AN ACCOUNT of the Receipts and EXPENDITURE of the

STOCK,
CASH. 24 °/, Consols,
ie See all £. 8. a
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1912 = = BF 9 Ml 13,659 3 2

- DIVIDENDS received cn 13,6591. 5s. 2d. stock
in 24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed
by the Earl of Bridgewater, viz.:

On the 5th April 1912: - ~£. 859724

5 5th July 1912 - = NSD eats 4:

96 5th October 1912 - 8 7 4

0 6th January 1913 = OD sei A
341 9 4

- Rent OF A REAL Estate, Whitchurch,

bequeathed by the Ear! of Bridgew ater (less
repairs, &c.) - - - - - 23 13 10

Lee 33-12 33 13,659 3 2

11.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recreirrs and EXPENDITURE of the

STOCK,
CASH. 24°/, Consols.
BS, oid. Li asay a
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1912 = = 5414 —- PRrey fs) OY

- DIVIDENDS mece led on 2,8791. 10s. 7d. Stock in
$ per Cent, Consols bequeathed by
Lord Farnborough, viz.:

On the 5th April 1912. - ecb’ Is) 110
ie 5th July 12S = = LS
nF 5th October 1912 ee U7 1S ala
<4 6th January 1913 SN Ll,

——-—— 7119 8

£. 12613 8 Psa) LO, 7)

Jif—AN ACCOUNT of the REcEIPrs and EXPENDITURE of the

STOCK,
CASH. 23 °/, Consols.
eso) Se hb 2. j gSemele
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1912 - - - 1st 1 5,744 - 8

— DIVIDENDS received on 5,744/. — 8d. Stock in
24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed by
Dr. George Swiney for Lectures on
Geology, viz.:

Ou the 5th April 1912 - -£.35 18 -
is 5th July 1912 - So By gis)
a 5th October 1912 - 8518 —-
As 6th January 1913 - 3518 -

— 143 12 -

Pepe sien een 5,744 ag

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

a)

BRIDGEWATER FUND, from the 1st April 1912 to the 31st March 1913.

; STOCK,
CASH. 23 °/, Consols.
nas Ce 0 ah
By One Year’s SALARY of the EgertonLibrarian - 175 - —
— AMOUNT expended on purchase of Manuscripts - 67 4 -
- BALANCES ON THE 31ST MARcH 1913,
carried to Account for 1913-1914 = 5) SB het} 13,659 3 2

£. 373 12 3 13,659 3 2

FARNBOROUGH FUND, from the 1st April 1912 to the 31st March 1913.

Srock,
CASH. 21 °/, Consols.

Cae eae hay
By AMOUNT expended in purchase of Manuscripts - 126 - -

- BALANCES ON THE 31ST MARCH 1913,

carried to Account for 1913-1914 - i — 138 2.879 10 7

£. 12613 8 Peisyi(s) MO Ff

SWINEY FUND, from the 1st April 1912 to the 31st March 1913.

STOCK.
CASH. 24 °/, Consols.
£. & a, Pie) 1s

By AMOUNT paid to Dr, T. J, Jehu, for Lectures on
Geology in 1912_ - - - - - - 140 - -

- BALANCES ON THE 31ST MaRcH 1913,

carried to Account for 1913-1914 - - Wes 8) al 5.744 - 8

Selon h 5,744 - 8

6 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

IV.—AN ACCOUNT of the ReEcErrpts and EXPENDITURE of

STOCK,
CASH. 23 °/, Consols.
£.58. d. Fi 585
To BALANCE on the Ist April 1912 - - - = = 565 3 9

- DIVIDENDS received on 565/. 3s. 9d. Stocis in
2} ver Cent. Consols, bequeathed
by Dr. Birch in 1766, for the three
Under Liorarians of the British
Museum, viz. :

On the 5th April 1912 - = £73 10° '8
6 5th July 1912 - - By WO)
‘ Sth October 1912 - 3 LO 3s
44 6th January 1913 - 3 10-8

— 14 2 8

£. 14 2 8 565 3 9

V.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recrrprs and EXPENDITURE of the bequest
and Extension of the Library and Reading Room of the British

LocAL LOANS
CASH. STOCK.

Loo Ase has B.A piesa
To AMOUNT of Local Leans Stock on Ist has

1912 - - . - - - — 39,909 7 10
~ DIVIDENDS received during the year - - - 944 -
- AMOUNT of Local Loans Stock parebaeed with
the Dividends - — 1,082 13 4
~ NET PROCEEDS of sale of 26, 544d, 19s. 7d. Local
Loans Stock as per contra - - - - 23,000 - -
£& 23,944 - 2 40,992 1 2

VI.—AN ACCOUNT of the Receipts and EXPENDITURE of the bequest
1st April 1912 to

METROPOLITAN
CASH. 34°, STOCK.
= et pam, £. 130 ee
To AMoUNT of Metropolitan 34 per cent. Stock on
Ist April 1912 - - - - - - — 8,973 4 9
— DIVIDENDS received during the year - - 318 379
~ AMOUNT of ‘ Metropolitan 34 per cent. Stock
purchased with the Dividends - - - — 318 11 §&

Ly STS MSD. 95291) TiGaeS

VIIL—AN ACCOUNT of the Recerprs and ExpenpITURE of the
1st April 1912 to

CASH.
£. Se
To BALANCE on the Ist April, 1912 - = 4 s Y s + 500 =e
- DONATION (further anonymous contribution) — - - - - 2,200 -— -
2,700 - —

ba |

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

the BIRCH FUND, from the 1st April 1912 to the 31st March 1913

STOCK,
CASH. 23 °/, Consols.
EiemSe es £. s- da,

By LEGACY paid to the three Under Librarians of
the British Museum, whose offices existed
in 1766, viz., the Keepers of the Departments
of Printed Books, Manuscripts, and Natural
- - 144.2 38

History - - - : -

- BALANCE ON THE 31sT MARCH 1913,
carried to Account for 1913-1914 - - - — FAG) 8) b)
£ 14 2 8 565 3 9

of the late MR. VINCENT STUCKEY LEAN (for the Improvement

Museum) from the 1st April 1912 to the 31st March 1913.
LocaL LOANS

CASH. STOCK,
i ates Eads ta (i=
By AMOUNT expended in the _ purchase of
1,0802. 13s. 4d. Local Loans Stock, Com-
mission, &c. - 944 -—- 2
- AMOUNT transferred to H. M. Office of Works for
expenditure on British Museum Extension - 23,000 - -
° - — 26,544 19 7

— STOCK sold as per contra -
- BALANCE OF STOCK ON THE 31sT Marcu 1913,
carried to Account for 1913-1914 - - - — 14,447 1 7

£. 23,944 -— 2 40,992 1 2

of the late MR. CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM from the

the 31st March 1913.
METROPOLITAN
ar 31 °/, Sock.
5 Te ear Gi US= was

By AMOUNT expended in the _ purchase of

3187. lls. 8d. Metropolitan 34 per cent.

Stock, Commission, &c. - - - 318 3 9
- BALANCE OF STOCK ON THE 31ST Marcu 1913,

carried to Account for 1913-1914 - - — 9,291 16 5

Bio abl Ovi ae ipo 9,291 16 5

CARCHEMISH EXCAVATIONS FUND from the
the 31st March 1913.
CASH.
Le ashes
BY AMOUNT expended on Excavations - - 2,189 19 -
— BALANCE on the 31st March 1913, carried to ‘Neoount fa 1913- 1914 510 1 —-
2,700 - =

Frederic G. Kenyon,
Director and Frincipai Librarian,

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10 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The British Museum, Bloomsbury (including the Depart-
ments of Printed Books and Maps, Manuscripts, Oriental
Printed Books and Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings,
Iigyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Greek and Roman
Antiquities, British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethno-
graphy, and Coins and Medals) is open to the public free
daily (except on Good Friday and Christmas Day and days
of Public Fast or Thanksgiving) as follows :—

On WEEKDAYS from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

After 4 p.m. in January, February, November, Decem-
ber, and after 5 p.m. in March, September, October, only
certain of the galleries remain open, viz. :—

On Monpays Exhibitions of Manuscripts, Printed

é Books, Prints and Drawings, Porcelain,

hs ee ie Glass and Majolica; Prehistoric, British,

a Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Ethno-
FRIDAYS. oraphical Collections.

THURSDAYS, Galleries; the Gold Ornament Room, the
and ieeeiean Room and the Wadden

E
On TUESDAYS, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman
SATURDAYS. | Room.

On SuNDAY AFTERNOONS :—

From 2 to4 p.m.in January, February, November,

December.
Sie ohae OO » 95 October.
» 2, 5.30 ,, , March, September.
oe Ome LAG » », April, May, June, July, August.

Persons applying for the purposes of research and reference
are admitted to the Reading Room under certain regulations
every weekday, except the days specified below, from 9 a.m.
until 7 p.m. The Newspaper Room is open, under similar
regulations, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

The Reading Room, Newspaper Room,and Students’ Rooms
in the Library and Department of Manuscripts are closed on
Sundays, Good Friday, Christmas Day, and the first four
weekdays in March and September.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 11

Other Students’ Rooms are closed on Sundays, Good Friday,
and Christmas Day, and occasionally for cleaning.

Students are admitted generally to the several Departments
on weekdays, from 10 till 4 or 5 o’clock ; and to the Sculpture
Galleries from 9 o’clock till the hour of closing.

British Museum, | Frederic G. Kenyon,

April L913.) J Director and Principal Librarian.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 13

The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural
History), Cromwell Road, South Kensington, including the
Departments of Zoology, Entomology, Geology and Palzon-
tology, Mineralogy, and Botany, are open to the _ public,
free, daily, except Good Friday and Christmas Day, and days
of Public Fast or Thanksgiving.

The hours of Admission are as under :—

On WEEKDAYS, throughout the year from 10 a.m., in

January - - - - 4 bor 4a ema
February Ist to 14th = t = b akahes |) ale
February 15th to end - - - Plots) ¥
March ~ = - = - - SDL OUy oy
April to August = 2 : - eG 7
September - S : 2 = pi Ma Ao Ria
October - = 2 - = : 1 OND i
November and December - - - 4

Ey)

also, on MoNDAYS and SATURDAYS only, from the beginning
of May to the middle of July, to 8 p.m., and from the middle
of July to the end of August, to 7 p.m.

On SUNDAYS, in

January - =< trom. 2 ~ tov? 40 -. p.m
February tst By 14th = - neh ear Om Ao,

February 15th to end - - 5 hair: a a "

March - - - - piel 222 si MORO, 55

April - - - - - ie oral ea

May to August - - - ema me

September - - - - Cape arora

October = ~ - anh eae ae D és,

November and incomes = ee ie 4,

Persons are admitted to study in these Departments every
weekday from 10 till 4 o’clock.

British Museum (Natural History), L. Fletcher,
22 February, 1913. l Director of the Natural
History Departments.

14 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

1X.—GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM, BLOOMSBURY.

The total number of visitors to the Museum in 1912 was
754,872, being more than 31,000 in excess of the figures for
191i, and 11,000 more than the highest total since the year
1905. This is the more remarkable since the public galleries
were closed from March 5 to 24 inclusive, and partially from
March 25 .to April 13. It may be estimated that about 60,000
visitors were lost during that period; but the deficit was more
than made good by the very high totals recorded in the summer
months. In August the number of weekday visitors exceeded
100,C00 for the first time on record, and the total for August
and September was greater by 61,409 than that for the corre-
sponding months in the very hot summer of 1911. The total
for weekdays was 697,094 (an increase of 37,308), and for
Sundays 57,778 (a decrease of 6,007).

The number of visits by readers to the Reading Room was
236,643, which is the highest total hitherto recorded, and 13,000
above the figures for 1911. The daily average was 778, and the
tota] number of volumes supplied was 1,561,138, giving an aver-
age of nearly seven volumes daily for each reader, exclusive of
the volumes on the shelves to which readers have free access.
In the Newspaper Room the number of readers was 18,450,
about 760 less than in the previous year. On the other hand,
the number of volumes of newspapers consulted was greater,
giving a daily average of 229, or more than three for each
reader. The number of volumes of country newspapers brought
up from Hendon was 2,642, nearly a hundred more than in the
previous year.

The visits of students to other Departments of the Museum
also reached a higher total than any previously recorded,
namely, 38,698, as compared with 37,911 in 1911. There was
a decrease in the number of students working“in the Sculpture
Galleries, but increases in the use of the Students’ Rooms in
nearly all the Departments.

The handing over of the Extension building to the Trustees
is still delayed. Contracts have: been made for the fittings of
the new North Library and the Department of Prints and
Drawings, and work on the preparation of these is in full
progress. The occupation of the other parts of the building
will depend on the funds available for furniture and
fittings.

The reconstruction of the last section of the roof over the
northern galleries with fire-resisting materials was taken in
hand towards the close of 1912. Progress was delayed by the
failure of the contractors to deliver the materials in time;
but the work will have been completed shortly after the end of
the financial year. The redecoration of the Mausoleum Room
has also been completed.

GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM, 15

In June 1912, on the occasion of the retirement of Sir
Sidney Colvin from the Keepership of the Department of
Prints and Drawings, an exhibition of the principal drawings
by European artists acquired during the last eight years of
his Keepership was arranged, in place of the exhibition of
Chinese and Japanese drawings previously on view. It is
intended that the present exhibition shall remain open until
the Department moves into its new quarters in the Extension
Building.

In view of the increasing size and importance of the col-
lections of Oriental art, a new Sub-Department of Oriental
Prints and Drawings has been created.

The work of the official Guide has been continued through-
out the year. His tours are well attended, and great
satisfaction with the instruction given by him is frequently
expressed.

In another direction an attempt has been made to widen
the influence and increase the interest of the Museum. A
counter has been established in the Entrance Hall for the
sale of official publications and of picture postcards and other
photographs of objects in the collections. About 50,000 post-
cards alone were sold in the first five months, and there is
ample evidence that this opportunity of obtaining reproduc-
tions of works of art and objects of antiquity is much
appreciated by visitors.

The excavations at Jerablus were continued in the spring
and autumn of 1912, the second season being made possible by
the generosity of an anonymous benefactor. The results in
the way of sculptures, inscriptions, and pottery were highly
encouraging ; but much still remains to be done.

The number of separate objects incorporated in the collec-
tions of the several Departments during the year 1912 is as
follows :—

Department of Printed Books :

Books and Pamphlets” - - - - 30,916
Serials and Parts of Volumes~ - - - 69,095
Maps and Atlases - - - - - 3,736
Music - - - - ae Ae a,
Newspapers Claes numbers) = - - - 235,926
Miscellaneous - - - - - 6,981
Manuscripts and Seals - - - 1,453
Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts - - 2,144:
Prints and Drawings - - 5,469
Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities - -. - 1,806
Greek and Roman Antiquities = 1,014
British and Medizval EE and Btbnogr aphy 1,012
Coins and Medals_~ - - 2.260

Total - = - - 374,289

16 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM,

Reports on the accessions to the several Departments are
appended, in which all the noteworthy objects acquired during
the year are mentioned. No single acquisition has been made
of equal importance to the Huth Bequest of the previous year,
or the royal collection of music deposited by His Majesty the
King. But all Departments show steady progress in the addi-
tion to the national collections of objects of real importance

and interest.

The main resources of the Department of Printed Books
are necessarily devoted to the acquisition of new books in all
languages and in all branches of learning. The continual
increase in the output of printed literature throughout the
world makes it increasingly difficult to maintain the ideal
which the Department sets before itself, of possessing all the
books which any serious student is likely to want. A special
form of this difficulty arises from the constant appearance of
new periodicals purporting to possess scientific value. Apart
from these current needs, the principal efforts of the Depart-
ment are directed towards the development of the collection of
Incunabula, the catalogue of which is now in progress. Several
acquisitions of this class, and of English works printed before
1640, are included in the lists given below.

In the Department of Manuscripts, the principal accession
has been a group of 36 letters of Erasmus. The Dering roll of
arms is a heraldic document of considerable importance ; and
the collection of historical letters gains by the purchase of
18 more volumes of the Liverpool Papers.

The acyuisitions of the Department of Oriental Printed
Books and Manuscripts for the most part interest only special-
ists; but the illuminated MS. of the Masnavi i Manavi of
Jalal ul-Din Rumi, written in a.D. 1295, and presented by
Mr. H. Van den Bergh, is also of great artistic interest. A
curious acquisition is that of a collection of pieces of bone,
inscribed with extremely archaic characters, and used for
purposes of divination.

Two very important sales of artistic collections took place
in the course of the year, and the Department of Prints and
Drawings was enabled by the generosity of some of its many
friends to profit by the opportunity. At the Taylor sale
several exceedingly rare prints belonging to Turneyr’s “ Liber
Studiorum” and the “sequels” to it were secured with
the help of Mr. Henry Oppenheimer and Mr. W. G. Rawlinson ;
while a selection from the wealth of Mr. J. P. Heseltine’s
collection of drawings was obtained through the liberality of
Mr. Heseltine himself, Mr. Otto Beit, Mr. Henry Van den
Bergh, and Mr. Leopold Hirsch. Other acquisitions include a
hitherto unknown first state of Durer’s Melancolia; a rare set
of the Four Evangelists of the Master E. S8.; and Nicholas
Hilliard’s design for the Irish Great Seal of Queen Elizabeth.
Recent art is represented by large collections of the work of

GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 17

W. H. Hooper, R. Lane, E. Whymper, and C. W. Sherborn,
and a smaller group of lithographs and drawings by Charles
Conder; while the Museum is indebted to the liberality of
many artists and publishers for accessions to its collections of
contemporary art. These and other benefactions are recorded
in the Keeper’s report printed below.

In the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
a large number of miscellaneous objects have been acquired,
notably a valuable tomb-group from a pre-dynastic cemetery
in Upper Egypt; a collection of Meroitic antiquities from
the island of Faras; three cylinders of Nebuchadnezzar and
Nabonidus ; 214 tablets from Lagash, of the third millennium
B.c.; a coliection of scarabs and pottery from Gezer in
Palestine ; and a number of cylinder seals of various periods.

The acquisitions of the Department of Greek and Roman
Antiquities have mostly been in the category of small objects,
including several fine gems, a plasma head of the emperor
Claudius, an Etruscan statuette of Athena in bronze,. with
other bronze objects, and several vases of rare types. In
addition, a large number of vases, statuettes, and fragments
were obtained from the Greek Government, in exchange for a
cast of the Elgin Caryatid from the Erechtheum, to replace one
previously presented by Lord Guilford, which had suffered
damage. Additions were also made to the collection of
casts.

The accessions to the Department of British and Medieval
Antiquities and Ethnography range, as usual, over a wide field.
Among them may be mentioned a bronze-gilt case of mathe-
tical instruments, made by Bartholemew Newsum, probably for
Queen Elizabeth ; aseries of pottery vessels from early Chinese
graves ; a series of Persian glazed pottery from the 10th to the
15th centuries ; asteel figure of a peacock, said to be associated
with the Yezidi worship ; a fine silver bowl of Sassanian work ;
a large ethnographical series from Abyssinia, with the gold
ring and silver cup of King Theodore; and some rare and
important collections of early pottery from Peru and Argentina.
The majority of these accessions were the result of gifts from
many liberal friends of the Museum, whose names are recorded
below. ©

The Department of Coins and Medals had perhaps the most.
remarkable accession of the year, in the two finds of Roman
gold coins from Corbridge, on the Roman Wall. These finds,
consisting respectively of 48 coins of the fourth century and
160 of the first and second, were claimed by the Treasury as
treasure trove, and were transferred intact to the Museum,
where they wil be kept together as the largest hoards of gold
coins hitherto discovered in Great Britain. Other important
accessions included the Bleazby Collection of Mohammedan
coins of Afghanistan, and a fine medal in lead by Pisanello.

_ Gifts of Museum publications, including reproductions of
prints by Old Masters, and sets of electrotypes of British
Historical Medals, have been made to many Free Libraries,

0.44 B

18 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Museums, and Art Schools throughout the United Kingdom,
and to certain libraries and institutions in the overseas
Dominions and in foreign countries ; and similar gifts have been
received in return.

The following are the publications issued by the Depart-
ments at Bloomsbury during the year :—

The Greenfield Papyrus: the funerary papyrus of Princess
Nesitanebtashru, Daughter of Painetchem II. and Nesi-Khensu,
and Priestess of Amen-Ra at Thebes, about B.c. 970. Collotype
facsimile, with introduction and description by E. A. Wallis
Budge. ‘4to., 21. LOS:

Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stele, &c., in the British
Museum. PartsII.and III. 50 plateseach. Folio, 7s. 6d. each
“part.

Babylonian Boundary-Stones and Memorial-Tablets in the
British Museum. Edited by L. W. King. With a portfolio of
133 plates. Folio, 2.

Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, &c., in the
British Museum. Parts XXXIJ. and XXXIII. 50 plates each.
Folio, 7s. 6d. each part.

Catalogue of Vases, Vol.I. Part II. Cypriote, Italian, and
Etruscan Pottery. By H. B. Walters. With plates. 4to., 1l.

The Franks Bequest: Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Early
Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Medizval and Later, bequeathed
to the British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks,
K.C.B.; in which are included the other rings of the same
period in the Museum. By O.M. Dalton. 4to., IU. 5s.

Catalogue of Books printed in the XVth Century now in
the British Museum. Part IJ. Germany: Eltvil-- Trier. With
30 plates of facsimiles. 4to., 11. 15s.

Catalogue of Printed Music published between 1487 and 1800
now in the British Museum. By W. Barclay Squire. 2 vols.
SVO2, Sl. 3s.

Catalogue of Additions to the MSS. in the British Museum
in the years 1906-1910. S8vo., IJ. 8s.

Index to the Charters and Rolls in the Department of
Manuscripts in the British Museum. Vol. II. (Index Locorum,
1882-1900, and Religious Houses, &c.). 8vo., 1l. 15s.

Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts and Printed Books
bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfred H. Huth. With
frontispiece, 18 collotype plates, and illustrations in the text.
4to., 11. 2s. 6d.

Queen Mary’s Psalter: Collotype facsimile of Royal MS.
2 B. VIL. in the British Museum. With introduction by Sir
George Warner. 4to., 21. 5s. |

Descriptive List of Arabic Manuscripts in the British
Museum acquired since 1894. Compiled by A. G. Ellis and
Edward Edwards. S8vo., 4s.

GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 19

Coptic Biblical Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt.
Edited by E. A. Wallis Budge. With 10 plates. 8vo., 15s.

Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the
British Museum. Part III. Sections II.-VII. (Ethics; Philo-
sophy; Poetry; Philology; Mathematics and Astronomy ;
Medicine). By G. Margoliouth. 4to., 1/. 15s.

Catalogue of the Telugu Books in the Library of the
British Museum. Compiled by L. D. Barnett. 4to., 1U. 12s. 6d.

Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits in the British
Museum. By F. M. O'Donoghue. Vol. III, L—R. 8vo.,
Hes:

Reproductions of Prints. Third Series. Part VI. (Speci-

mens of Etching hy Rembrandt, Livens, and Bol, 1630-1680.)
25 plates. 21.

Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum,
Bloomsbury. 11th edition. With plans. 8vo., 2d.

tuide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
in the British Museum. With illustrations, maps and plans.
4th edition. 8vo., cloth, 1s. 6d.; paper, Ls.

Short Guide to the American Antiquities in the British
Museum. With 12 plates and 48 illustrations. 8vo., 6d.

Guide to the use of the Reading Room. 8vo., 6d.
Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts :—

Part I. Autographs and Documents, illustrative chiefly of
English History and Literature, exhibited in the Manuscript
Saloon. With 20 plates. 8vo., 6d.

Part II]. Manuscripts (Paleographical and Biblical Series and

Chronicles), Charters, and Seals, exhibited in the Manuscript
Saloon. With 20 plates. 8vo., 6d.

Part III. Illuminated Manuscripts and Bindings of Manu-
scripts, exhibited in the Grenville Library. With 20 plates.
8vo., 4d.

Guide to an Exhibition of Drawings and Sketches by Old
Masters and by Artists of the English School, principally
acquired between 1904 and 1912. 8vo., 4d.

British Museum, Frederic G. Kenyon,
1 April, 1913. Director and Principal Librarian.

20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

X.—-PROGRESS made in the ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION
OF THE COLLECTIONS, AND ACCOUNT OF OBJECTS
ADDED TO THEM in the Year 1912 (Bloomsbury).

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS.

I, Arrangement.—The works added to the collection during
the past year have, as far as possible, been placed on the
shelves of the Library, according to the system of classification
adopted in the Museum.

The press-marks, indicating their respective localities, have
been marked on the inside and affixed to the back of each
volume.

The total number of these press-marks amounts to 81,179;
in addition to which 161,503 press-marks have been altered,
on books and in the catalogues, in consequence of changes and
re-arrangements carried out in the Library ; 39,005 labels have
been affixed to books and volumes of newspapers, and 103,344
obliterated labels have been renewed.

The number of stamps impressed upon articles received is
563,410.

4,682 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in
the course of the year.

II. Catalogues.—Cataloqguing.—58,741 titles have been
written for the General Catalogue and for the Catalogues of
Maps and Music.

Printing.—36,196 titles and index-slips for the General
Catalogue, 3,356 for the Map Catalogue, and 4,194 for the
Music Catalogue have been prepared for printing during the
year; and 33,440 titles and index-slips for the General Cata-
logue. 1,676 for the Map Catalogue, and 11,732 for the Music
Catalogue, have been printed.

Reprinting.-— +26 columns, including the headings Amadis
-de Gaula (28 columns), Edmund Burke (26 columns), Butler
(100 columns), Aikin (16 columns ), and Wood (99 columns), have
been revised and reprinted.

Incorporation.—General Catalogue.—36,869 title-slips and
index-slips have been incorporated into each of the three copies
of this Catalogue. This incorporation has rendered it necessary,
in order to maintain as far as possible the alphabetical arrange-
ment, to remove and re-insert 49,720 title-slips and index-slips
in each copy and to add to each copy 734 new leaves.

The system of fortnightly incorporation of accessions to
the Library has been carried out with perfect regularity during
the year.

Map Catalogue.—2,784 titles have been written for this
Catalogue, and 2,655 title-slips have been incorporated into
each of three copies of it. This incorporation has rendere:}

e

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 21

it necessary to remove and re-insert 6,594 title-slips in each
copy and to add to each copy 165 new leavey.

Music Catalogue.—16,612 titles have been written for
the Music Catalogue, and 13,474 title-slips have been incorpo-
rated into each of the two copies of it. This incorporation has
rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 26,517 title-slips
in each copy and to add to each copy 1,222 new leaves.

Shelf Catalogue.—For this Catalogue, in which the title-
slips, mounted on cards, are arranged in order of press-
‘marks, 30,371 have been so mounted and 29,190 have been
incorporated in their proper order.

Catalogue of Books printed in the XVth Century. —
Part II. of this Catalogue, containing descriptions of the
books printed at Augsburg, Nuremberg, and twenty other
towns in Germany was published by the Trustees in March,
1302;

Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts and Printed Books
bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfred H. Huth.—-This
Catalogue was issued in March, 1912.

Catalogue of Printed Music published between 1487 and
1800.—This Catalogue was issued in July, 1912.

Guide to the use of the Reading Room.—This Guide was
issued in September, 1912.

Ill. Binding.—The number of volumes and sets of
pamphlets sent to be bound in the course of the year was
13,704, including 3,496 volumes of newspapers. In conse-
guence of the frequent aduption of the plan of binding two
or more volumes in one, the number of volumes returned
was 10,759. In addition to this, 1,850 volumes have been
repaired in the binders’ shops.

Besides this, the following binding work has been done in
the Library itself:—3,183 volumes have been repaired and
5,540 volumes of reports, parts of periodicals, &c., have been
bound in a hght style of binding.

The following maps, charts, &c., have also been bound or
mounted during the year :—Six atlases and 243 volumes of the
6-inch and 25-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound, and
two Admiralty Charts have been mounted on linen ; in addition,
300 general maps have been mounted on linen in 1,681 sheets,
and 112 maps have been mounted on cards in 229 sheets.

45,251 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded
into 948 parcels, and 903 parcels have been tied up and labelled.

Ten volumes of the Blue Copy, 11 volumes of the Red
Copy, and 13 volumes of the Green Copy of the General
Catalogue, have been broken up and re-bound in 53 new volumes.
412 columns have been re-laid, owing to the accumulation of
titles under certain headings, as well as 362 columns of
reprinted headings, in each of the three interleaved copies of
the General Catalogue. Four volumes of the Music Catalogue
have been re-bound in seven new volumes.

Ze ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

IV. Reading Room Service.—The number of volumes re-
placed in the General Library after use in the Reading Room
was 807,562; in the King’s Library, 25,355; in the Grenville
Library, 2,397; in the Map Room, 6,674; in the presses in
which books are kept from day to day for the use of readers,
715,914; and in the Oriental Department, 3,236; making a
total amount of 1,561,138 volumes supplied to readers during
the year, exclusive of those to which the readers have personal
access on the shelves of the Reading Room.

The number of readers during the year was 236,643, giving
an average of 778°43 daily, the room having been open
304 days, with an average of nearly seven volumes daily for
each reader.

Newspaper Room.—The number of readers during the
year was 18,450, giving a daily average of over 60, the recom
having been open on 304 days. The number of volumes
replaced after use was 69,340, giving a daily average of
229, and of over three volumes for each reader, not reckoning
volumes, chiefly Parliamentary Papers, taken from the shelves
of the Newspaper Room by the readers themselves. In
addition 2,642 country newspapers were brought up to the
Library from the Repository at Hendon for the use of readers.

Map Room.—502 visitors were admitted to the Map Room
for the purpose of special geographical research.

Photography.—There were 447 applications for leave to
photograph from books in the Library, and 1,608 volumes
were supplied to the applicants for this purpose.

V. Accessions.—General Library.—30,916 complete volumes
and pamphlets have been added to the General Library in the
course’ of the year. Of these, 7,052 were presented ; 16,517
were received by Copyright ; 460 by Colonial Copyright ; 1,007
by International Exchange ; and 5,850 acquired by purchase

69,095 parts or volumes of magazines and other eri
publications and of works in progress have been added to
the General Library. Of these, 3,981 were presented; 43,364
received by Copyright ; 511 by Colonial Copyright ; 1 356 by
International Exchange; and 19,383 acquired by purchase.

Maps.—50 atlases, 157 parts of atlases, and 3,529 maps in
7,436 sheets have been added to the collection during the
year. Of these, 11 atlases, 37 parts of atlases, and 536 maps
were presented; 12 atlases and 2,836 maps received by Copy-
right; 16 atlases and 47 maps by Colonial Copyright; and 11
atlases, 120 parts of atlases, and 110 maps acquired by
purchase.

Music.—12,477 musical publications have been added to
-the collection during the year. Of these, 9,926 books and
pieces and 1,651 parts were received by Copyright ; 530 pieces
by Colonial Copyright; and 47 books and 323 parts acquired
by purchase.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 23

Newspapers.—The number of newspapers published in the
United Kingdom, received under the provisions of the Copy-
right Act during the year, was 3,394, comprising 235,926
single numbers. Of these newspapers, 1,228 were published in
London and its suburbs; 1,652 in other parts of England and
Wales and in the Channel Islands; 284 in Scotland; and 230
in Ireland. Eleven sets, comprising 828 single numbers, were
received by Colonial Cepyright ; 265 sets, comprising 45,641
single numbers of colonial and foreign newspapers, have been
presented ; and 79 sets, comprising 19 volumes and 14,711 single
numbers of current colonial and foreign newspapers, have been
purchased.

Miscellaneous.—6,981 articles not included in the foregoing
paragraphs have been received in the Department. These
consist of Parliamentary Papers, single sheets, and other
miscellaneous items.

The total number of articles enumerated above as having
been received in the Department during the year, exclusive:
of newspapers, is 123,205.

Acquisitions of Specral Interest.—The following is a list of
the most important and interesting books acquired by purchase:
during the year. It includes two English incunabula and a
remarkable collection of English news-sheets printed in the
years 1620, 1621.

Cicero: Rhetorica, translated into Italian in the 13th
century by Galeotto Guidotti. Printed in Northern Italy
before 1480. The printer has not yet been identified.

A contemporary report in French of the proceedings of the
meeting of the Etats Généraux at Tours, January — March,
1484. Printed by Antoine Caillaut, Paris, c. 1484.

An English translation of a Bull of Pope Innocent VIIL.,
dated 26 April, 1486, on the marriage of Henry VII. and
Elizabeth of York, and on Henry’s right and that of his
children to the throne of England. Printed by William de
Machlinia, 1486.

The Book of Good Manners. [Printed by Richard Pynson,
London, 1494. The only copy known.

Dino del Garbo: Expositio super tertia &c. parte fen
Canonis Auicéne. Printed by Bonetus Locatellus, Venice, 1495.

Albertus de Saxonia: Quaestiones super libros Posteriorum.
Printed by Bonetus Locatellus, Venice, 1497.

‘Agostino Dati: Elegantiae minores. Printed by Johann
Winterberg, Vienna, 1499. :

Cardinal John Fisher: Treatise concernynge the fruytfull
sayenges of David the Kinge in the seuen penytécyal psalmes.
Richard Pynson, London, 1510. | |

Accidentia ex Stanbrigiana editione. Richard Pynson,
London, ec. 1520. .

24 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Catonis Moralia cum scholiis Des. Erasmi. Wynkyn de
Worde, London, 1532. The only copy known.

A deuout Treatyse called the Tree and VII Frutes of the
Holy Ghost. Robert Copeland, London, 1534.

A very excellét & swete exposition upon the xxii Psalme.
Translated oute of Hye Almayne into Englyshe by Myles
Couerdale. James Nicolson, Southwarke, 1538.

Desiderius Erasmus: A Sermon of the chylde Jesus.
Robert Redman, London, before 1540.

Jean Calvin: An Epistle both of Godly consolacion and also
of advertisemente to Edward Duke of Somerset . . . trans-
lated by the same Duke in the tyme of his impriesonmente.
Edward Whitchurche, London, 1550.

John Colet: Absolutissimus de octo orationis partium con-
stiuctione libellus. Wynkyn de Worde, London, 1553. The
only copy known.

Psalmes or prayers taken out of holy Scripture. William
Copiand for John Waley and William Seres, London, 1559,

Philippson, Joannes, Sleidanus: A briefe Chronicle of the
foure principall Empyres, Babilon, Persia, Grecia and Rome.
Englished by Stephen Wythers. Rouland Hall, London, 1563.

Cassius of Parma his Orpheus. Translated by Roger
Rawlyns, London, 1587. Only one other copy known.

The Contre-Guyse: wherein is deciphered the pretended
title of the Guyses, ete. John Woolfe, London, 1589.

Jean Calvin: The Catechisme or maner to teache children
the Christian Religion. Imprinted by the Widdow Orwin,
London, 1594.

A true Historie of a Mayden of Confolens in the Province
of Poictiers that for three yeeres hath lived without meate or
drinke. [From the French of F. Citois.| James Roberts,
London, 1603.

Gilbert Dugdale: The Time Triumphant, declaring in briefe
the arrival of King James into England, his coronation at West-
minster, etc. (In prose and verse.) Printed by R.B., London,
1604.

Thomas Churchyard: Churchyard’s Good Will. Sad and
heavy verses for the-losse of the Archbishop of Canterbury
(Jehn Whitgift.) Simon Stafford, London, 1604.

John Davies of Hereford: Bien Venu. Greate Britaine’s
Welcome to her greate friendes and deere brethren the Danes.
Nathaniel Butter, London, 1606. A poem on the visit of King
Christian IV of Denmark to England.

Thomas Collins: The penitent Publican, his confession of
mouth. (In verse.) Arthur Johnson, London, 1610.

Thomas Deloney : Thomas of Reading, or, the sixe worthy
yeomen of the West. -Now the fourth time corrected and
enlarged. London, 1612.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS, 25

A collection of 24 English corantos or news sheets, six
printed in London and the others at Amsterdam, The Hague
and Alkmaar, 1620 and 1621. The earliest English newspapers
previously known are of the year 1622.

George Chapman: Pro Vere, Autumni Lachrymae. Inscribed
to the immortal memorie of the incomparable souldier Sir
Horatio Vere, besieged and distrest in Mainhem. (In verse.)
Printed by B. Alsop for Th. Walkley, London, 1622.

A Catechism of Christian Religion. Widowe of G. Veseler.
Amsterdam, 1626.

G. Delamothe: The French Alphabet, teaching in a very
short time to pronounce French naturally, etc. George Miller
for Luke Fawne, London, 1633.

The Pleasant History of Cawwood the Rooke, or the
Assembly of Birds. Printed by T. C. for F. Grove, London,
1640.

Eikon Basilike, 1649. Bound in black calf with a silver gilt
medallion of the head of King Charles I on each cover; a
binding hitherto unrepresented in the Library.

Le Monde dans la Lune, ete. Rouen, 1656. <A translation
of “A Discovery of a new Worlde in the Moone,” by John
Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, first published in 1633.

John Dryden: The State of Innocence and Fall of Man.
An opera. JSondon, 1684.

Franciscus Lichetus: In Joh. Duns Secotum supra secundo
Sententiarum commentaria. Salo, 1517. The first of several
books printed by Paganino Paganini, of Brescia, at Salo on
Lake Garda, a press hitherto unrepresented in the Library.

Die Messe von der Hochzeyt D. Andre Carolstadt. Witten-
berg [1522].. Apparently the first form of a marriage service
drawn up by the German reformers.

Joannes a 8. Stephano: Practica brevis ac universalis
omnium summarum, ete: bBrundisii, 1627. The first book
printed at Brindisi.

Music.

John Dowland’s Lachrimae, or Seauen Teares figured in
seauen Passionate Pauans, Galliards and Almands, set forth for
the Lute, Viols or Violins in five parts. J. Windet, London,
1605. One of the rarest 17th century music-books.

Seven collections of part-Looks, completing the copies in
the Library of the following works :—

1. Madrigali ariosi. Venice, 1559.

2. C. Jannequin. Canzon Francese. Lib. 2. Venice, 1560.

3. B. Giacomini. Madrigali. Lib. 1. Venice, 1563.

4. C. de Rore. Madrigali. Lib. 4. Venice, 1563.

5. P. Verdelot. Tutti 1 Madrigali del Primo et del Secondo
Libro. Venice, 1565.

6. O. Lasso. Madrigali. Lib. 1. Venice, 1565.

7. C. de Rore. Madrigali. Lib. 5. Venice, 1566.

26 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Wolfgang Ammon. Libri Tres Odarum Ecclesiasticarum.
Leipsic, 1579.

Donations.

The following donations may be mentioned :-—

“Ausziige aus dem Tagebuch der Herzogin Auguste von
Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld, 1805-1821.” Privately printed.
Presented by H.R.H. Princess Henry of Battenberg.

History of the Russian Senate for two hundred years,
1711-1911. 5 vol. St. Petersburg, 1911. Presented by the
Procurator General of the First Department of the Senate of
the Russian Empire.

“ Forty Years of Rajkumar College.” 7 vol. Presented by
H. H. Sir Bhavsinhji, K.C.SI., Maharaja of Bhavnagar.

Twenty-six volumes containing first or early numbers of
newspapers published in Great Britain during the years
1838-1883. Bequeathed by T. Ff. Dillon Croker, Esq.

Martin Luther’s Table Talk, 1791. With copious MS.

notes by S. T. Coleridge. Presented by the Misses Field, of
Hampstead.

Ballads and Broadsides chiefly of the Elizabethan period, in
the Library at Britwell Court. 1912. Presented by S. R.
Christie-Miller, Esq.

Songs, Ballads, and instrumental pieces composed by King
Henry VIII. 1912. Presented by Earl Beauchamp, K.C.M.G.

A collection of files of newspapers published in the British
Colonies during the year 1911. In continuation of the files

presented in former years. Presented by the Royal Colonial
Institute.

Arthur W. K. Miller.

DEPARTMENT OF MSS. Nie

DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS.

1. Catalogue of Additions.—The quinquennial Catalogue
for 1906-1910 has been issued.

The following MSS. acquired in 1911 have been described
and indexed: Additional 38147-38157, 38161, 38167-38177,
38182-38187, 38190-38196, 38203-38236, 38241-38378, 288383-
38407, 38416, 38419-38442, 38462-38467, 38490, 38491, 38497-—
38510.

Of those acquired in 1912, Additional 38511-38526, 38529,
38530, 38532, 38582-38590 have been described and indexed.

2. Catalogue of Greek Papyri. — The following Papyri
acquired in 1911 have been described and provisionally tran-
scribed, viz., 1873-2036; and in preparation of Vol. V. of the
Catalogue, 1547-1607, 1787-1820 have been described and
copied.

3. Catalogue of the Royal MSS.—Sheets TT and UU of
Vol. Il. have been revised, and Sheet XX is in print. Descrip-
tions of 19 C. 1-19 E. vi. have been revised and sent to press.
Descriptions of Kings MSS. 2-4 have been revised.

4. Catalogue of Irish MSS.—The following MSS. have been
described :—Additional 11609, 30512, 33933 and Egerton 91-93,
0365137, 1781, 4782; 1791:

5. Catalogue of Charters.—Vol. II. of the General Index
of Charters acquired up to 1900 has been issued.

Additional Charters 55488-55544 acquired in 1910, 55545-
55878, 56051-56365 acquired in 1911 and 56366-56432 acquired
in 1912 have been described and indexed. |

6. Binding. — One hundred and three Additional MSS.
newly acquired, and ninety-three MSS. of the old collections
have been bound, repaired, or lettered, together with one
hundred and seventy-four pieces of Papyri and seventy-three
Books of Reference, volumes of Facsimiles, and Catalogues.
One hundred and sixty-four Charters have been repaired.

> 7. Verification.—The entire collection of MSS. has been
verified by comparison with the Shelf-Lists.

8. Reproductions.—Royal MS. 2 B. vil. (Queen Mary’s
Psalter) with introduction by Sir George Warner has been
issued.

9. Stamping, folioing, and placing.—One hundred and
eighty-one Additional MSS., one hundred and eighty-nine
Charters and Rolls, and two hundred Books of Reference (all
newly acquired) have been stamped. The total of impressions
made was 22,699.

Two hundred and ninety-one MSS. have been folioed, with
a total of 76,071 folios. 7,097 slips have been numbered.

Sixty-four newly-acquired MSS. and 365 Papyri have been
placed, and ten MSS. of the old collections have been re-placed.

28 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

All have been press-marked and entered in Hand- and Shelf-
Lists. Eleven hundred and thirty-nine Charters and Rolls
have been placed and have been entered in the Hand-List.
Numbers have been written on 1219 newly-acquired Charters,
and, generally, numbers have been re-written on Rolls returned
from the Binders. Thirty-five Seals and Casts have been pro-
vided with boxes, placed, and entered in Hand-Lists.

10. Books of Reference. — One hundred and ninety-nine
volumes and parts have been received, catalogued, and placed.

Twenty-five volumes and parts of Facsimiles were added
to the series now deposited in the Department and available
for the use of Readers.

11. Consultation of MSS.—35,555 MSS. and 2,511 Charters
and Seals have been consulted in the Students’ Room, and
seventy-nine MSS. in the Reading Room. The number of
Students was 12,142.

Magna Charta was exhibited to 16,578 visitors.

12. MSS. photographed.Seven hundred and seventy-nine
MSS. (including Papyri, Charters and Seals) were allowed to be
photographed, with a total of 8,925 photographs taken.

— 13. Hxhibitions.—The General Collection of MSS. exhibited
to the public has been slightly rearranged, and a new Guide,
in three parts, has been issued.

Five special exhibitions of MSS. were set out for lectures
and visits by separate parties.

14. Acquisitions.—The number of Manuscripts and Docu-
ments, &e., acquired during the year has been :—

Additional MSS. - - . - ~ - 141
Egerton MSS. - - - - - - - 1
Charters and Rolls” - - - - ¥ - 1,258
Papyri - - . - - - - - None
Detached Seals and Casts - - - - = 53

The most valuabie acquisition during 1912 is a collection of
thirty-six original letters of Erasmus, nearly all addressed to
his Antwerp banker, E. Schets. Original letters of HKrasmus
very rarely come into the market, and even of public libraries+
only those of Basle and Copenhagen now possess as many as
the British Museum.

The Museum has benefited, as usual, by the generosity of
private donors, the principal gifts including :—

A volume of autograph directions by Thomas Gray for the
publication of the 1768 edition of his poems, including the text
of three poems then first printed. Presented by Miss Laetitia
Sharpe.

Liber Regalis, or Order of the Coronation of Kings of Eng-
land, 14th cent. Presented by Rev. EH. 8. Dewick, to whom it
was bequeathed by Sir Thomas Brooke, Bart.

Journal of George Gilbert, midshipman, on Captain Cook’s
third voyage, 1779. Presented by Alban Doran, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF MSS. 29

Autograph letter of Shelley to Mrs. Williams, 4 July 1822,
one of the last letters written by the poet. Presented by
Lt.-Col. and Mrs. C. F. Call.

The large collection of papers of the Earls of Liverpool, pre-
sented in 1911, has been supplemented by the purchase of
eighteen more volumes, containing original letters of George IIL.,
George IV., and other members of the Royal Family, Pitt,
Canning, Castlereagh, Peel, and other statesmen, and papers
relating to the trial of Queen Caroline.

Among other acquisitions during the year, by purchase or
donation, are the following :—

Acts and Epistles in Greek, written A.D. 1312.
Prudentius, Peristephanon, 1]th cent.
Epistolae canonicae, 12th cent.

Origen on Numbers, Joshua, Judges and Kings, in Latin.
Written in Italy, with initials in colours, 12th cent.
Benedictional of an Abbey near Cambrai, 12th cent.

Latin psalter, executed in Scotland, 14th cent., with initials
of Celtic type. Purchased from the Bridgewater Fund.

Johannes Andreae, Novella super sexto, with miniature and
initials of French work, A.D. 1345.

York breviary, incomplete. Early 15th cent.

Spiegel der Maechden, Dutch version of the Speculum Vir-
ginum. Early 15th cent.

Horae of Paris use, with miniatures and borders. First half
of 15th cent.

Constitutiones Ordinis Heremitarum 8. Augustini. 15th
cent.

Breviary of the Brigittine Order of Genoa, written in 1470.

Seven psalms composed by Petrarch and miscellaneous
prayers, written in Poland for Alexander, afterwards ,King of
Poland, in 1491.

Feudal aid-book of Norfolk, 1347.

Book of drafts of letters by the Latin Secretary of James I.,
1620-1623.

Petitions in the Court of Requests, 1638. _

Rolls of Sir Spencer Compton as Paymaster of the Forces
1721-1723 and as Paymaster of Chelsea Hospital 1725.
Presented by Charles Dalton, Esq.

Journal of Gen. Boyd’s headquarters during the siege of
Gibraltar, 1781-1783. ‘Two volumes.

Record of the Westminster Committee, 1780-1785 ; partly
in the hands of Fox and Sheridan.

130 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITJSH MUSEUM.

Diary of James Young in the second Mahratta campaign,
1804, a report by the same 1819, and Ictters to him from the
Marquess of Hastings, 1817-1820.

Copies of certain Wellington despatches, etc., by Col.
‘Gurwood. Presented by Viscount Esher.

The 15th cent. roll of arms known as the Dering roll, on
which are depicted 300 coats of persons of the 12th and 13th
-centt,

Collections of R. Sanderson (d. 1741) relating to the reign
of Henry V., including transcripts from Cotton MSS. since
burnt. .

Commonplace-book of the Shann family of Methley, cire.
1592-1632.

Prayers written in the Tower in 1653 by Philarchus
(Col. Walter Slingsby ?).

Letters of Sir Humphry Davy to J. G. Children, 1808-1817.

Letters on antiquarian subjects addressed to Sir H. Ellis,
18th-19th centt.

Journals of travel to Smyrna and Athens, ete., 1813, 1814.
‘Two vols.

Tracts and correspondence and notebooks of Sir Henry
Ellis relating to Domesday Survey, etc. 3 vols. Presented
by H. J. Ellis, Esq.

Collections relating to the stage and drama by James
Winston, cire. 1825, 1 vol., and by Crofton Croker, 3 vols.

Genealogical collections by H. C. Malden. 9 Vols. Pre-
sented by Mrs. Malden.

Collections relating to the Julian and Gregorian Calendars
by Rev. 8. B. Burnaby. Presented by Mrs. Burnaby.

Collection of watermarks traced from Canterbury registers
by M. Beazeley, Esq., Hon. Librarian to the Dean and Chapter.
Presented by the compiler.

Letters addressed to Leigh Hunt, supplementing a series
purchased in 1910. They include letters of Mary Shelley,
Jane Williams, Carlyle, Macaulay, J. S. Mill, and others.
2 vols.

Forty letters of Sir E. Landseer to F. C. Lewis and Charles
Lewis, 1830-1855. |

Autograph MSS. of some of the poems of James Thomson
(« B. V.”) including the City of Dreadful Night, ete.

Autograph MSS. of Sir Spencer Walpole’s History of
England from 1815, and History of Twenty-five Years 1856-
(1880. 9 vols. Presented by F. C. Holland, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF MSS. 31

Court-books of West Peckham, temp. Chas. I., and of
Humbershoe manor, co. Hertf., tempp. Chas. I.—Chas, IT.

Court-roll of the manor of Wimbish, co. Essex, tempp.
Ric. I].-Henry VII.

Court-rolls of West Ham, 1580-1587, and estreat-rolls of
the Liberty of the Savoy, 1740-1748.

A eollection of charters (678) tempp. Hen. I.-Edw. VI.
Collected by the late Mr. James Coleman.

Charters (245), tempp. Hen. III.-Edw. VI., relating chiefly
to the Isle of Wight.

Charters (41), temp. Hen. II.-1586 (including four of the
12th century).

Plans of earthworks in co. Lincoln, by Rev. E. A. Downman.

Autograph MSS. of musical compositions and other works
of Robert Lucas de Pearsall, 1795-1856.

Lute-solos by English composers of the first half of the
17th cent.

Sonatas for two oboes, etc., by R. Valentine, early 18th cent.

Pureell’s first and second service in B-flat in the hand of
J. Aleock (1715-1806) and other music.

J. P. Gilson.

32 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED Books anD MSS.

Arrangement and Cataloguing.—The numbers of the
sheets of the various Oriental Catalogues and other publica-
tions of the Department sent to press in 1912 are :—Arabic
MSS. Hand list, 8sheets ; Armenian MSS. Catalogue, 20 sheets ;
Coptic Texts, vols. 2-3, 41 sheets; Hebrew MSS. Catalogue, 12
sheets; Hindi Printed Books Catalogue, 27 sheets; Telugu
Printed Books Catalogue, S sheets.

The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are :—
Arabic, 1,073; Assamese, 33; Avestan, 3: Baylonian, 1;
Bali, 1; Bengali, 585; Burmese, 324; Cambojian, 1; Chin, 1 ;.
Chinese, ~ 1/335 ; ““Coptic, “05> Nthiopic, 7” ‘Georciam aa:
Gujarati, 105 ; Hebrew, 72; Hindi, 922; Hindustani, 442 ;
Kanarese, 250; Kanauri, 1; Karen, 11; Khassi, 3; Kui, 6;
Kurku, 2; Kuvi, 1; Laos, 1; Lushai, 34, Malayalamngse,:
Marathi, 118; Mundari, 6; Naga, 6; Oraon, 2; Oriya, 73;
Pahari, 2; Pahlavi, 5; Pali, 192; Panjabi, 78 ; Persian, 949 ;
Prakrit, 18 ; Pushtu, 13; Sanskrit, 1,119; Shan, 4; Siamese, 14;
Sindhi, 22; ‘Sinhalese, 91; Styriae, 185~Tai,’ 1-;' PamilyoGis ;
Taungthu, 2; Telugu, 609; Tibetan, 12;. Tulu, 7; Turkish, 32.
Total, 9,247.

Six Georgian MSS. and 16 Hebrew MSS. have been fully
catalogued.

Ninety-four short descriptions of MSS. have been entered
in the Descriptive List, the Register, and the Classed Inven-
tory.

One hundred and thirty-nine MSS. (15,966 folios) have heen
folioed.

The exhibition of Chinese and Japanese printed books and
woodcut pictures in the King’s Library has been rearranged,
and new descriptions have been. written where necessary.

Publications.—Vol. 2 of the Coptic Texts (containing
versions of Deuteronomy, Jonah, and Acts), the second fasci-
cule of vol. 3 of the Catalogue of Hebrew MSS., and a Catalogue
of Telugu Printed Books have been issued.

Binding.—The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to
the binders are:—Arabic and Persian Books, 179; Chinese
Books, 281; Hebrew Books, 54; Mongolian Books, 27; Books in
Sanskrit and other Indian languages, 239; Tibetan Books, 87 ;
MSS., 165.

Students.—The number of visits of Students working in the
Students’ Room attached to the Department during the year is
2,446. The numberof Oriental Printed Books read by them in
the Department is 7,229 (4,756 having been issued once only,
and 2,473 reserved), and of those used in the Reading Room,
3,236. The number of Oriental MSS. read in the Students”
Room is 5,476.

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 33

Photography.— Ninety-six applications have been made to
photograph books and MSS. in this Department.

Additions.—The number of volumes, pamphlets, &e., added
to the collections of the Department during the year is 2,144,
of which 2,067 are Printed Books and 87 are MSS.

Of the Printed Books, 1,912 were bought; 1,863 were received
under the India Copyright Act; 88 were received under the
Colonial Copyright Acts from Ceylon and Hongkong; and 155
were presented. Of the MSS., 78 were bought and the rest

presented.
The MSS. are as follows :—

Arabie - - - =i" 1.52
Arabic and Persian - - 2

Chinese - ~ - - 3 MSS. and 1 col-

lection of in-

scribed bones.

Coptic - - - 1 (set of frag-

P ments).

Hebrew - = - - i)
Kashmiri - - - - 1
- Persian - - - - 8
Persian and Turkish = - 1
Sinhalese - “ - - 1
Syriac - - - - h
Turkish - - S Sd NS
Tota = hg OK

The most important acquisitions are as follows :—

Arabic MSS.—(1) Al-Hamasah, the poem of Abu Tammim.
Copied a.H. 491 (A.D. 1097), with supplements probably of the
_ xiliith century. 8°.

(2) Kitab al-luma‘, a treatise on Sufism, by Abu Nasr ‘Ali
ibn ‘Abd Allah al-Sarraj. Copied A.H. 548 (A.D. 1153). 8°.
Probably the oldest surviving copy of this important work.

(3) A collection of Traditions derived from Al-Bukhari’s
Sahih, with marginal supplements giving traditions found in
Muslim’s recension of Al-Bukhari and in Malik’s Muwatta’.
Copied a.H. 581 (A.D. 1185). 4°,

(4) Amali, traditions of Al-Jurjani (Abu ‘Abd Allah Muh.
ibn Ibrahim ibn Ja‘far al-Ja‘fartyah al-YazdI). xii-xiiith
century. 12°. Hxtremely rare.

(5) Vol. ii. of the Kitab al-gharibain of Abu ‘Ubaid
al-Harawi, a lexicon of the Koran and Traditions, finely
written and well collated. xii-xiith century. 8°.

(6) Ijaz al-kur’an, a treatise on the theology of the Koran,
by Abu Bakr Muh. ibn al-Taiyib ibn Muh. al-Bakilani al-
Ash‘arl. xii-xiiith century. 8°. Extremely rare; only one
other MS. is known to exist.

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(7) Kawa’id al-ilahiyah, a treatise on metaphysic, by Said
ibn Maitham ibn ‘Ali al-Bahrani. Copied A.H. 658 Caen.
1259). ..°S°.

(8) A commentary by ‘Ala al-Din ibn Muh. al-Samarkandi

on the Manzimah of Al-Nasafi. Copied A.H. 659 (4.p. 1260). 4°.
Only two other copies seem to be known.
_ (9) Fada’ih al-batiniyah, an exposition and refutation of the
doctrines of the Karmathians, Isma‘ilis, and other esoteric
sects of Islam, by Al-Ghazzali. Copied A.H. 665 (A.D. 1266). 8°.
No other copy is known to survive.

(10) Al-Idah, a commentary on Al-Zamakhshari’s Mufassal,
by Ibn al- Hajib. Copied in the Nizamiyah College at Bagdad
in A.H. 673 (A.D. 1274), and collated with the author’s autograph
in A.H. 676 (A.D, 1277). 4°. Only one other copy seems to be
known.

(11) Al-Mughni fi al-nahw, a treatise on grammar, ascribed
to Taki al-Din al-Tamimi. Copied A.H. 674 (A.D. 1275). 4°.
Wo other copy appears to be known.

(12) Al-Manhikah, a poem by Abu Nuwas, with commen-
tary by Abu al-Fath ‘Uthman ibn Jinni. Copied a.y. 680
(A.D. 1281). 8° No other MS. appears to survive. —

(13) Madarij al-kamal, a work on _ spiritual perfection,
glosses by Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi on dicta of Shaikh Abu
Muh. al-Jariri, and other tracts. The first tract was copied
ACH Oot (AD: LAT eS.

(14) Kut al-kulib, a treatise on the religious life, by Abu
Talib al-Makki. Vols. V.and VI. xiiith century. 8°.

(15) Al-Mujam, notices of the Imams, Shaikhs, and other
famous men, especially Shafi‘fis, by Hafiz Abu al- asim ‘Ali
ibn al-Hasan (Ibn ‘Asakir) ; with a supplement styled Kitab
al-wahm by Hatiz Diya al- Din Abu ‘Abd Allah Muh. ibn ‘Abd

*-Wahid al-Mukaddasi. Copied A.H. 703-4 (A.). 1303- =4)),)~ 4%
Exceedingly rare.

16) Ai-Badr al-munir, a treatise on dream-interpretation,
by ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Ali al-Basri (Ibn Jaidan). Copied, in the
author’s handwriting, a.H. 727 (A.D. 1326). 8°. Apparently
otherwise unknown.

(17) Sharh lubb al-lubab, a treatise on grammar, by AI-
Isfara@ini, with a commentary by Muh. ibn Mas‘id al-Sivafi.
Copied A.H. 737 (A.D. 1336). 4°.

(18) ‘Ajvib al-kulib and Adab al-muridin, Sufic works by
‘Ubaid Allah ibn Muh. al-Samarkandi. Copied A.H. 743 (A.D.
1342), 12°. Apparently not known to survive elsewhere.

(19) A MS. containing Al-Tamhid, a treatise on Shafid law,
and Al-Kaukab, a tr eatise on grammar in so far as it forms the
basis of law, both by ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Hasan al-Isnawi.
Copied A.H. 775 (A.D. 1373). 4°.

(20) Kitab al-wafa, an account of Muhammad’s life and
work, by ‘Abd al- Pelagia ibn ‘Ali (Ibn al-Jauzi). Copied, in

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS, 35

a fine hand, A.H. 787 (A.D. 13885). Followed by Al-Tirmidi’s
Kitab al-shama‘il, traditions of Muhammad, copied a.H. 791
(A.D. 1388). Fol. Apparently only one other complete copy of
the Kitab al-wafa exists in Europe.

(21) Vol. VI. of the Ta’rikh Baghdad of Al-Khatib, a series
of biographies of the scholars of Bagdad, etc. More than half
the book is written in a handwriting of about 1300 4.D., the
rest in a hand of the xviith century. 4°. Extremely rare and
important.

22) Al-La’ali wa’l-durar, notices and anecdotes of famous
men, by Al-Tha‘alibi. xiv-xvth century. 4°. Very rare.

(23) Tatimmat al-ibanah, asupplement by Abu Sa‘d ‘Abd
al-Rahman ibn Ma’mun al-Mutawalli to Al-Ibanah, a treatise on
Shafit law by Al-Farani. Vol. 1V. xiv—xvth century. 8°.
Extremely rare.

(24) Tarajim Ibn Taimiyah, notices of Ibn Taimiyah by
contemporaries, compiled by Muh. ibn Abi Bakr ‘Abd Allah ibn
Muh. (Ibn Nasir al-Din) ; followed by a tract in defence of Ibn
Taimiyah’s orthodoxy. Copied A.H. 880 (A.D. 1475). 12°.
Apparently unknown.

(25) Diwan of Al-Radi. xvth century. 8°.

(26) Nahj al-hakk and Minhaj al-karamah, works on Shiah
theology, by Al-Hilli. xvth century. 8°

(27) Faid al-ghaffar, a commentary by Muh. ibn ‘Abd Allah
al-Timirtashi on a treatise on Hanafi law by Tahir ibn al-Hasan.
Transcribed in A.H. 995 (a.D. 1586) from the author’s autograph,
which was completed s.H. 982 (A.D. 1574). 8°. No other copy
seems 40 be on record.

(28) Mirkat al-mubtadiin, a commentary, ascribed to Hamid
al-Din Hamid ibn Aiytb al-Kurashi, upon the ‘Ukid al jawahir,
a treatise on Hanafi law attributed to Sadid al-Din Muh. ibn
Abi Bakr al-Bukhari (Imam Zadah). xvith century. Followed
by Al-Tamhid fi bayan al-tauhid, a work on the principles of
Islam, by Abu Shukir al-Salimi; copied A.H. 1001 (4.D. 1592).
Fol. Of the first work no other copy is recorded.

(29) Vol. IV. of Al-Muhit al-Burhani, a treatise on Hanafi
law, by Burhan al-Din ibn Mahmud al-Bukhari. xvith century.
4°. Jvare.

(30) A MS. containing tracts on Sufism and lives of famous
Sufis. xvi-xvilith century. 12°.

(31) Kitab al-milal wa’l-duwal, a treatise on astronomy by
Abu Ma‘shar, followed by cognate tracts. xviith century. 12°.

(32) Fihrist asma musannifi al-shi‘ah, alphabetically
arranged notices of Shiah writers, by Al-Jalil Abu al-Husain
Ahmad ibn ‘Alial-Najashi al-Asadi. xviith century. 8°. Only
one other copy is known to exist.

(33) Kunh al-murad, a commentary by Al-Suyati on Ka‘b
ibn Zuhair’s poem Banat Su‘ad. Copied a.H. 1149 (a.D.
h7o6). 8°.

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(34) Khulasat al-ta’rikh, chronologically arranged lives of
famous kings and scholars, by ‘Ali ibn ‘Umar al-Kashshish.
xvilith century. 4°. Presented by G. Clauson, Esq.

(85) ‘Unwan al-majd fi ta’rikh al-najd, a history of Nejd
from the xiith to the xilith century of the Hijra, by ‘Uthman
ibn ‘Abd Allah al-Hanbali. Copied a.u. 1270 (A.D. 1853). 4°.

(36) A collection comprising 16 Wahhabi tracts and three
other MSS. xvili-xixth century. Presented by Colonel S. R
Miles.

Arabic and Persian MS.—(1) A MS. containing a glossary
of mystic religious terms ; Zubdat al-haka’ik, a doctrinal work by
Muh. ‘Aziz al-Nasafi, in Persian; Al-Fikh al-akbar and Al-
Wasiyah, tracts on the principles of Islam, by Abu Hanifah, in
Arabic: glosses on works of Ibn al-‘Arabi, in Arabic and
Persian; and Ghayat al-imkan, a theological tract by Al-
Ghazzali, in Arabic and Persian. The last work copied 4.4.
9784A.D. 1570)... 8°.

Chinese MSS.—(1) A collection of more than 300 pieces of
bone, of various sizes, inscribed with very archaic Chinese
characters recording the divination afforded by the cracks
appearing on bones seared with a hot iron. Probably of about
the earlier half or middle of the Chou Dynasty (B.c. 1122-249).

(2) Nan hua chén ching nei ch‘i p‘ien, chapters 1-7 of
Chuang Tzi’s treatise on Taoist mysticism, written on a roll
of Sung silk measuring 794 by 15.5 em., and dated in the
Hstian-ho period (A.D. 1119-1125).

Kashmiri MS.—(1) A volume of poems on Hindu religion
and philosophy, in Persian script. xixthcentury. 4°. Presented
by Dr. A. K. Coomaraswamy.

Persian MSS.—(1) The Masnavii Ma‘navi of Jalal ul-Din
Rimi. A finely written copy, with beautifully illuminated
‘unwans, and some full-page iulustrations and small miniatures.
Dated in the colophon a.m. 695 (4.D. 1295). 8°. Presented
through the National Art-Collections Fund by Henry Van
den Bergh, Esq.

(2) Tajnisat i Fattahi, a treatise explaining the differences
of reading due to differences of diacritic punctuation, by Fattahi.
Copied a.H. 972 (A.D. 1564). 8°, Rare.

(3) Tuhfat ul-murshidin and Al-Mu‘tamad fi al-mu‘takad,
treatises on Islam by Imam Shihab ul-Din Fazl Ullah Tur-
pushti. xvi-xviith century. 8% Apparently very rare.

(4) Rescripts of Sultan Husain Baikara, compiled by ‘Abd
Ullah ibn Muh. al-Marvarid. xvii-xvilith century. 4°.

5) Kanz ul-salikin, a Sufie tract by ‘Abd Ullah al-Ansari.
Copied a.H. 1120 (A.D. 1708). 12°. Rare.

(6) Divan of Khalid. xviili-xixth century. 8°.

Fersian and Turkish MS.—(1) Miftah ul-ghaib and other
Hurufi works. xviiith century. 12°.

Turkish MSS.—(1) Mihr u mushtari, a masnavi romance by
Muniri ibn Muhammad. Copied, in the author’s own hand-

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writing, A.H. 892 (A.D. 1486). 12°. No other copy appears to
be known. %

(2) Divan of Ashraf Zadah. Copied A.u. 996 (A.D. 1587).
8°. No other copy seems to be known.

(3) A large collection of letters of sovereigns and other
celebrated men, including the poet Nav‘, Sultan Husain
Baikara, Sultan Muhammad Jilani, Shaikh ‘Arif Billah, ete.
Xvi-xviith century. 8°.

(4) A MS. containing ‘Ibrat ul-bahrain and Riyaz ul-rauzat,
poems on ethical subjects by Sharifi; followed by an epitome
of Turkish history. xvii-xvilith century. 8°.

(5) Mu‘ammayat, riddles and poetical conceits by Amri
Chelebi. xvii-xviiith century. 8°.

(6) Zubdat ul-manakib, a life of Saiyid Muhammad ibn ‘Ali
al-Bukhari (Amir Sultan), with notices of his family, by Husam
ul-Din (Husami). xvii-xvilith century. 4°.

(7) Futuhat i ahmadiyyah, a biography of Saiyid Ahmad
ul-Badavi, by Muhammad ul-Vafiak Nakshbandi. xvilith cen-
curry.) 8°.

(8) Divan of Fana’i. xviiith century. 8°.

(9) Divan of Nigah. xvili-xixth century. 8”.

(10) ‘Ilm i istihkamat, a work on military fortifications, with
24 plates of diagrams, by Shaikh Ahmad ibn Hajji Muhammad.
xvillth century. 8°.

(11) Poems of Raushani. xviiith century. 8°.

(12) Divan of Sultan Muhammad Va‘izi, called Bicharah.
Copied A.H. 1238-39 (A.D. 1822-23). 8°.

(13) Divan of Nuri. xixth century. 8°.

L. D. Barnett.

38 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS,

1.— Arrangement and Cataloguing, ete.

The exhibition of Japanese and Chinese Paintings, which
had occupied the gallery of the Department since June 1910,
was closed in April, and an exhibition of five hundred and
sixty-five drawings by masters of the British and Continental
Schools, acquired with few exceptions since 1904, was opened in
June.

The drawings from the Salting Collection, together with
drawings by Rossetti and Swan, for some time exhibited in the
King’s Library, have been removed, and eight Chinese and
Japanese paintings have been transferred from the gallery of
the Department to replace them.

The preparation, and transcription for press, of the Cata-
logue of Japanese Woodcuts have been continued.

_ The preparation of a complete classified index of the works
of British artists represented in the Department has been
continued.

The preparation of a critical and descriptive Catalogue of
the Dutch and Flemish Drawings has been continued.

Vol. III. of the Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits
has been published.

The printing of the facsimile in colours of the Early
Chinese Roll painted by Ku K‘ai-chih has been completed, and
the mounting of the several portions of the facsimile is in
progress. The descriptive text has been printed.

The card index to periodicals has been brought up to date.

All books of prints and books of reference recently acquired
have been catalogued, labelled, and placed.

The work of writing slips for the titles of prints after
English Masters, with a view to the preparation of a subject-
index of that division of the collection, has been continued.

The work of compiling a topographical slip-index of the
English Drawings in the Department has been continued.

An index to the Catalogue of the Crace Collection of
London Views has been completed.

A collection, hitherto unarranged, of reproductions of prints
by Old Masters has been classified and put in order.

The work of verifying the contents of the cases from the
case-list and inserting the case-number in the various port-
folios, ete , has been completed.

The woodcuts by Hans and Ambrosius Holbein «nd other
Basle artists, from the Mitchell Collection, have been combined
in a single series with those in the older part of the collection,
aud duplicates have been eliminated.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 39

The engravings after Turner described in Vol. I. of Mr.
W. G. Rawlinson’s Catalogue have been arranged in the order
described, and marked off in the Catalogue.

The work of taking stock of the prints after Italian Masters,
and making cross-references from them to the various indexes,
has been completed.

The work of making an index to the artists represented in
the Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits has been begun.

The work of making a duplicate set of index-slips to the

Foreign Portraits has been continued.
An index to portraits contained among drawings by artists
of the foreign schools has been commenced.

The portion of the Cheylesmore Collection of Mezzotints
that remains unmounted has been arranged in a new series of
portfolics, and a list has been prepared for finding them.

One thousand three hundred and forty-one prints and
drawings, recently acquired, have been incorporated with the
divisions of the Collection to which they severally belong,

Registration.—Four thousand seven hundred and eighty-
nine items have been entered in the Register of Acquisitions.

Stamping and Mounting.—Two thousand eight hundred
and thirty-two drawings, prints, etc., recently acquired, have
been impressed with the departmental stamp and references to
the Register.

Ninety-five drawings have been prepared and mounted on
sunk mounts, and one hundred and sixty-three prints have
been mounted either on sunk mounts or in the ordinary
manner.

Five hundred and twenty prints and drawings have been
lettered with the artists’ names and references to the Register
and to catalogues.

All the drawings from the Salting Collection have been
impressed with a special stamp.

Students.—The total number of visitors admitted to the
Print Room during the year ending 31 December 1912 was
9,833.

Photographing.—F¥our hundred and twenty-six applications
were mnade for leave to photograph, and 1,676 photographs
were taken.

Il.—Acquisitions.

The total number of prints, drawings, etc., acquired during
the year was 5,469, of which the following are the most
important :—

ITALIAN SCHOOL.
Drawings.

Anonymous, School of Fontainebleau. Christ and the
woman taken in adultery ; red chalk, heightened with white.
Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.

40 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Bartolommeo, Fra. Nude figures, study for a group in the
altarpiece at Besancon; pen and ink. Presented by J. P.
Heseltine, Eeq.

Cresti, Domenico (“ I] Passignano”’). The entry of Margaret.
of Austria into Ferrara in 1598 ; red chalk, pen and sepia, and
sepia wash. Presented by G. T. Clough, Esq.

Grassi, Niccolo. A baptism ; red chalk, pen and sepia, and
wash. Presented by A. M. Hind, Esq.

Romanino, Girolamo. Illustration to a romance; pen and
ink and bistre wash.

San Gimignano, Vincenzo da. Sheet of studies; pen and ink.
Presented by J. P. Heseltine, Esq.

Sarto, Andrea del. Study for the fresco of the Madonna
and Child and St. John at Porta a Pinti, Florence ; red chalk.
Studies for the Madonna del Sacco; red chalk. Presented by
J, P. Heseltine, Esq.

Strozzi, Bernardo. Six male figures in motion towards the

left; pen and sepia. Presented by Mrs. Arundell Esdaile
thr ough the National Art-Collections Fund.

Engravings.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista. View of the intended bridge
at Blackfriars, after Milne. Presented by B. T. Batsford, Esq.

Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.

Camuccini, Vincenzo. Five subjects from Roman history ;
engraved by P. Bettelini, G. Folo, P. Fontana, and D. Marchetti.
Raphael. St. John the Evangelist ; mezzotint by R.
Dunkarton.
GERMAN SCHOOL.
Drawings.

Anonymous, 15th century. A gentleman and lady with
hands clasped, who form the letter A of an ornamental
alphabet; pen and ink.

Breu, Jorg I. The Story of T. Manlius Torquatus and the
Gaul, a design for glass-painting ; pen and ink. Presented by
Maurice HS, Esq , through the National Art-Collec-
tions Fund.

Graf, Urs. Soldier bearing the banner of Canton Zug;
pen and ink; dated 1521.

Menzel, Adolf von. Portrait, head of a woman; pencil ;
dated 1902.

Hichings.
Halm, Peter. Head of an old man, after Quentin Matsys.
Hirschvogel, Augustin. Coat-of-arms with an eagle, B. 130.
Kirchner, Eugen. Tennis-players, aquatint.
Klinger, Max. Secession (title-page), S. 286 VII. Book-
plate of R. Graul, Singer 305 IT.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. — 4}

Koepping, Karl. Nude study, a seated youth. Young
woman seated, leaning forward. Presented by Campbell
Dodgson, Esq.

Pollak, Max. Winter landscape.

Simon, T. Frantisek. Morgenstunde in Paris, printed in
colours. L’Estacade. Die Eroberung der Luft.

Engravings.

Durer, Albrecht. Melancholia, B. 74. Undescribed first
state, with the “9” in the third row of figures on the tablet
engraved in reverse. Presented by the National Art-Collec-
tions Fund, with the aid of the Direr Society and of a body of
subscribers.

E. S., the Master. The Four Evangelists, B. 67-70, Lehrs
$4-87. Very rare as a complete set. Presented by the
National Art-Collections Fund. Coatof arms with a fantastic
bird. Unique and undescribed (original of Lehrs 219).

Meckenem, Israhe! von. A bishop, undescribed copy of
Schongauer, B. 61.

St. Erasmus, the Master of. St. John the Evangelist,
undescribed.

Engravings of Ornament.

Rosch, G. 8. Twelve decorative designs for the Months,
engraved by Jacob Wangner, published by Johann Georg
Hertel.

Weodcuts.

Anonymous, 15th century. <A set of forty metal cuts of
the Life of Christ, of which twenty-six are unique, and the
remainder only known to exist in one other impression, at
Munich, Paris, or Vienna. Presented by an anonymous donor.

Anonymous, 15th century. 8S. Brant, Stultifera navis, Basel,
1498, with one hundred and sixteen illustrations.

Amman; Jost. Title-border to Index in Commentaria
Innocentii, 1571. Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.

Anshelm, Thomas. The Virgin and Child and St. Dorothy.
Woodcut printed at Tiibingen about 1500, of which only one
other impression is known.

B.A., the Master (a Benedictine monk of Heise. in
Austria). St. Benedict, coloured by hand, very. rare.

Beck, Leonhard. Five proofs of the Weisskunig series ;
from the Huth Collection.

Burgkmair, Hans. Two proofs of the Weisskunig series,

one of which is a unique and undescribed first state; from the
Huth Collection.

42 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Cranach, Lucas I. Christ before Annas, B. 9; the Scourg-
ing, B. 12; the Crowning with Thorns, B. 13; Pilate washing
his hands, B. 15. All proofs, from the Huth Collection.

D. S., the Master. Christ on the Cross, from the Brixen
Missal, Basel, 1511; on vellum, coloured.

Durer, Albrecht. Death and the Soldier, B. 132. Early
proof with an undescribed variation in the printed heading.
Presented by Junius S. Morgan, Esq.

Gerung, Matthias. Christ on the Cross, from the Augsburg
Missal, Dillingen, 1555; on vellum.

G. Z., the Master. Title-border to Prima pars Plyniani
indicis, Hagenau, 1518. Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.

SCHOOLS OF THE NETHERLANDS.
Drawings.

Anonymous, about 1510-20. St. Jerome in penitence, in a
landscape ; pen and ink on grey prepared ground, heightened
with white; from the Heseltine Collection. Presented by
Leopold Hirsch, Esq.

Backer, Jacob Adriaensz. Study for the portrait of a lady.
Black and white chalk, on grey paper; from the Heseltine
Collection. Presented by Henry Van den Bergh, Esq., through
the National Art-Collections Fund.

Cuyp, Aelbert. Landscape. Black chalk and water-colour.
wash; from the Heseltine Collection. Presented by Otto
Beit, Esq.

Dou, Gerard. Portraitofawoman. Black chalk; from the
Heseltine Collection. Presented by Henry Van den Bergh,
E'sq., through the National Art-Collections Fund.

Flinck, Govaert. Landscape. Pen and ink and water-
colour, signed and dated 1642 ; from the Heseltine Collection.
Presented by Otto Beit, Hsq.

Gelder, Aert de. The Nativity. Red chalk and sepia,
signed and dated 1680; from the Heseltine Collection. Pre-
sented by Otto Bert, Esq.

Helmbreeker, Dirk. A woman asleep. Black chalk ; frcm
the Heseltine Collection. Presented by Otto Beit, Ksq.

Huygens, Constantyn. View of the Commanderie de
Vaillampont. Pen and bistre, dated 1675; from the Heseltine
Collection. Presented by Otto Bett, Ksq.

Koogen, Leendert van der. Head ofa girl. Red and black
chalk; from the Heseltine Collection. Presented by Otto
Bert, Esq.

Mierevelt, Michiel Jansz. Portrait head of a lady. Pen
and ink,

Rembrandt. Group of five figures, with a child learning to
walk, Drawn with the brush in sepia.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS, 45

Rubens, Peter Paul. A nude woman, kneeling and bending
forward. Black and white chalk. Presented by J. P. Hesel-

tine, Esq.
Engravings.
Goltzius, Hendrik. A soldier, B. 215, The contemporary,
copy with a different portrait head.

FRENCH SCHOOL.
Drawings.

Tsabey, Kugéne. Interior of a church. Fishing boats on a
canal. Canal, windmill, and fishing boat. Water-colour ; al!
three signed and dated “La Haye, 1846.” Presented by
J.C. J. Drucker, Esq.

Pissarro, Camille. Woman bathing, and geese ; study for an
etching ; bistre wash, heightened with white. Head of a man,
inacap; penandink. Presented by Lucien Pissarro, Esq.

Etchings.

Bracquemond, Félix. Landscape, dry point, not described
by Beraldi. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Claussin, Joseph J. de. Twelve etchings of heads, animals,
and subjects after Rembrandt, chiefly in early states.

Rajon, Paul Adolphe. Cornelis Van der Geest, after Van
Dyck; a portrait after Rubens; proof. Presented by Sir
Sidney Colvin.

Ribot, Théodule. Les Eplucheurs. La Recette. Presented
by Campbell Dodgson, E'sq.

Vergésarrat, H. The Seine, from the apse of Notre Dame.
Presented by M. Hugéene Rodrigues.

Watelet, Claude Henri. Group of four women, after Rubens.
Dry point, early state.

Engravings.
Bervic, Jean Guillaume. Portrait of Gabriel Sénac de
Meilhan, after Duplessis ; proof before letters.
Haussouillier, J. La Semaine, after J. A.D. Ingres. Seven
proots and title-page. Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.
Launay, Robert de. Bains publics des femmes Mahomé-
taines, after Le Barbier. Before letters. Presented by W. H.
White, Esq.
Lithographs.
_ Bracquemond, Félix. L’are-en-ciel; printed in colours.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Manet, Edouard. Le Corbeau ; series of four illustrations to
Poe’s Raven, in cover. M.-N. 91-95. Presented by Campbell
Dodgson, Esq.

44 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Toupey, A. Portrait of a man, after Jean Foucquet. Pre-
sented by L. A. Legros, Esq.

Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Musters.

Balleroy, A. de. Listening hare, etched by F. Bracquemond.
Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.

Chardin, Jean Baptiste. Petite fille jouant au volant,
engraved by Bernard Lépici¢é. Presented by Sir Sidney
Colvin.

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique. Portrait of a lady,
engraved in stipple; engraver unknown. Presented by Sir
Sidney Colvin.

Poussin, Nicolas. Nymphs offering fruit to a river god,
engraved by Cornelis Bloemart.

RUSSIAN SCHOOL.

Etchings.
Polunin, Vladimir. Four views of the Temple, five views

of Oxford, and a view of Otford Church, Kent. Presented by
the Artist.

SPANISH SCHOOL.

Engravings.
Anonymous, late 16th century. The Nine Ages of Woman.

FOREIGN ARTISTS WORKING IN ENGLAND.

. Htchings.
Legros, Alphonse. Un vieil Espagnol, Cat. No. 21. Pvre-
sented by Sir Sidney Colvin.
Montbard, Georges. Cavalier Serbe, Prétres surpris par un
Orage. Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.

Engravings.

Bartolozzi, Francesco. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire,
after J. Nixon; Mrs. Gibson, after T. Engleheart ; Mrs. Siddons,
after W. Hone; all first states. Prudence and Beauty, Genius
and Beauty; a pair, after G. B. Cipriani. Presented by
J. CU. J. Drucker, Esq. Head of a woman, after Angelica
Kauffmann; before letters. Children at play, after G. B.
Cipriani ; proof with inscription in the engraver’s autograph.

Benazech, Charles. ‘Title-page, Les Consolations des Miséres
de ma Vie; aquatint, 1781.

Le Blon, Jacques Christophe. Portrait of Carondelet and
his secretary, after Raphael; mezzotint printed in - colours,
damaged. Very rare, only three other impressions having been
recorded. J’resented by Messrs. P. and D. Colnaghi & Co.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. eB)

Picot, Victor Marie. Portrait of Cervetti, after Zoffany,
mezzotint ; first state.

Schiavonetti, Luigi. The Cartoon of Pisa; before letters.
Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.

Vivares, Francois. Trade card of Henry Scott, after
S. Wale, in two states; trade card of James Scott, after
P. Bourguignon. Presented by C. Davies Sherborn, Esq.

Woodcut.

Daviel, Léon. Facsimile engraved on wood of a pen and
ink drawing of asleeping child by Augustus John ; India proof.
Presented by the Artist.

ENGLISH SCHOOL.

Drawings.

Benwell, John Hodges. Lady mourning beside an urn;
water-colour. Dated 1783.

Callow, Wiliam. View of Cochem on the Moselle; pencil
and water-colour. Presented by Miss E. P. McGhee.

Carlisle, George Howard, Earl of. Minster in Thanet ;
water-colour. Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.

Creswick, Thomas, R A. Three landscapes ; water-colour.

Danby, Francis, A.R.A. Landscape with two anglers ; pen
and sepia. Presented by Sir Harry Wilson, K.C.M.G. Mount
Etna; water-colour. A mountain pool; sepia wash. Land-
scape with a lake; pencil.

Davis, Jobn Scarlett. Two landscapes; water-colour and
sepia.

Dodd, Francis. General Booth preaching in Exeter Hall,
1906; pen and ink. Presented by the Artist.

Dyce, William, R.A. Osborne, Isle of Wight. The Rhéne
at Avignon ; water-colour.

Eddis, Eden Upton. Portrait of Lord Macaulay ; coloured
chalks. Portrait of a lady; coloured chalks. Presented by
Mrs. Henry Pryor Powell.

Forbes, Elizabeth Adela. Six water-colour drawings :—
Twilight; Near Lamorne; Girl with Satchel; Fisher Girl;
Woodman; Farm buildings in France. Presented by Stanhope
Forbes, Esq., R.A.

Girtin, Thomas. A town on a lake, after J. R. Cozens;
water-colour.

Harlow, George Henry, R.A. The Kemble family in the
trial scene in “ Henry VIII.” ; red and black ehalk.

Haydon, Benjamin. Portrait of the engraver William
Sharpe ; pencil and white chalk.

Hayter, Sir George. Six sketches in pen and ink made at
the trial of Queen Caroline in preparation for the picture now

46 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH “MUSEUM.

in the National Portrait Gallery :—Queen Caroline; Sir John
Copley; the Duke of Leinster, Lord Liverpool and Lord
Holland ; Theodore Majocchi ; Brougham, Majocchi and others ;
General sketch of the composition. Presented by M. B. Walker,
Esq.

Hilhard, Nicholas. Design for the Irish Seal of Queen
Elizabeth; pen and ink on vellum. Presented by Mrs.
Gellatly.

Hood, Thomas. Thirteen landscapes; water-colour.

Landseer, Sir Edwin, R.A. Count D’Orsay and Lanéscer
boxing ; charcoal. Presented by EL. HE. Leggatt, Esq.

Nash, Edward. Portrait of a gentleman; water-colour,
dated 1805.

Pitt, Douglas Fox. Interior of the Reading Room of the
British Museum ; water-colour. Presented by Lord Avebury.

Rich, Alfred W. Lewes Castle; water-colour. Presented
by the Artist.

Robertson, George. Landscape with a huntsman; black.
red, and white chalk. Presented by H..E. Leggatt, sq.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Small pen and ink sketch of
Miss Siddal. Small study for Mary Magdalene at the door
of Simon the Pharisee. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Sambourne, Linley. Two illustrations to “ Basil and
Annette” (Good Words, 1890); pen and ink.

Sherborn, Charles William. The old stone breaker ; water~
colour. Four landscapes; water-colour. Nineteen designs for
book-plates ; pen and ink, pencil, and Indian ink wash. Pre-
sented by C. Davies Sherborn, Esq.

Short, Sir Frank, R.A. Sunrise over Whitby Scaur; water-
colour. Presented by Miss H. P. McGhee.

Sickert, Walter. Workman washing his hands at a table.
Black chalk, heightened with white. Presented by the Artist.

Symons, William Christian. The Mill on the hill; water-
colour. Cactus dahlias ; water-colour.

Woodman, Charles Henry. Fields to the north of Hamp-
stead; water-colour. Roman bridge, North Wales; water-
colour. Old Eastbourne; water-colour. Presented by the
Misses Woodman.

Ziegler, Henry Bryan. View of Ludlow; water colour.

Etchings.
Armington, Frank Milton. Six views of Paris; two views
of Canadian scenery. Presented by the Artist.
Armington, Caroline. Five views of Canadian scenery.
Presented by the Artist. . |
Baskett, C. H. The Silver Moon, aquatint. Walberswick,
aquatint. Presented: by Messrs. P. and D. Colnaghi and

Obach.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 47

Bone, Muirhead. The Old Court House, Glasgow. Trial
proof E. Presented by the Artist.

Brangwyn, Frank, A.R.A. Certificate of the Master Ship-
wrights’ Company. Presented by the Company. Certificate
of the Executive Council of the Shipping Federation. Pre-
sented by T. L. Devitt, sq.

Cameron, D. Y.,A.R.A. The Boddin. Dinnet Moor. Ralia.
Drumadoon. The Wingless Chimera. Hell’s Hole on the Tay.
Kerrera. Presented by an anonymous donor.

Conder, Charles. Dry point portrait of a lady, first state.
Presented by W. Rothenstein, Esq. The same, second state
and third state in two varieties of printing. Presented by
Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Dodd, Francis. New Inn; dry point, fourth state. Pre-
sented by the Artist.

Forbes, Elizabeth Adela. Eight etchings of rustic subjects.
Presented by Stanhope Forbes, Esq., R.A.

Howarth, Albany. Amiens (second plate), Presented by
Messrs. P. and D. Colnaght and Obach. West door, Rochester.
Chapter House door, Rochester. Bamborough Castle, No. Z.
Peterborough Cathedral. St. William’s College, York. Car-
narvon Gate. King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. Richmond
Castle. Corfe Castle, No.2. Across the Downs. Simonside,
Northumberland. Porte St. Pierre, Auxerre. Lincoln Cathedral.
Rose window, Notre Dame. Presented by Messrs. Dowdeswell
and Dowdeswells, Ltd.

Linnell, John. Sheep in shade, dated 1818.

Livens, Horace Mann. Head of an old woman. Girl with
a big book. Girl reading. Fowls. A barrister (two states).
Dry point. Presented by the Artist.

Lumsden, Ernest 8. The Path by Gunga. The Pilgrims,
Benares. On the pagoda platform, Rangoon. Presented by
Messrs. Douwdeswell and Dowdeswells, Ltd.

McLachlan, Thomas Hope. Ten landscape etchings, being
the complete work of the artist with the exception of one
unique specimen. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq., and
Frank Newbolt, Esq.

Newbolt, Frank. The Alders, Norwegian river. The
Custom House Mole, Bergen. A Norwegian interior. Thirteen
etchings of English Jandscape. Presented by the Artist.

Pearce, Charles Maresco. The House by the Meat Market,
St. Malo. Presented by the Artist.

Robinson, Sir J. Charles, C.B. The Summit of the Pass.
Greyhound Inn, Corfe Castle. Presented by the Artist. Corfe
Castle (H. 16), third state. Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.

Short, Sir Frank, R.A. Dawn, aquatint. The Thames at
Twickenham, aquatint. Presented by Miss HE. P. McGhee.

48 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Strang, William, A.R.A. Four illustrations to Stevenson
(Cat. Nos. 359, 360, 363, 364). Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.

Turner, J. M. W.,R.A. Bridge and Goats (Liber Studiorum,
No. 43), etched state. Presented by W. G. Rawlinson, Esq.
Pan and Syrinx (Liber Studiorum, No. 80), one of the three
impressions known. Presented by Henry Oppenheimer, Esq.

Webster, Thomas, R.A. Head of an old woman. Touched
proof.

Engravings.

Bell, Edward. George Westcott; mezzotint, undescribed
state before letters.

Dunkarton, Robert. Lady Philadelphia Wharton, after
Van Dyck ; mezzotint, undescribed trial proof. Portrait of a
man unknown, aiter W. Artand ; mezzotint, undescribed.

EKarlom, Richard. David Barclay, after Houghton ; mezzo-
tint, early state before letters.

Green, Valentine. Miravan breaking open the tomb of his
ancestors, after Joseph Wright; mezzotint, Whitman 174, un-
described state (I.a).

Hodgetts, Thomas. Charles Cartwright, after G. F. Joseph ;
mezzotint, before letters.

Meyer, Henry.. Rev. R. Aspland, after John Partridge.
Thomas Dampier, Bishop of Ely, after J. Northcote. Samuel
Goodenough, Bishop of Ely, after J. Northcote. AJl mezzotints,
proofs before letters.

Short, Sir Frank, R.A. ‘“ Per steam power per hour,”
Strange 60; original mezzotint. London from Greenwich,
Strange 260; mezzotint, after P. Dewint. Presented by Miss
EL. P. McGhee.

Smith, John Raphael. James, Baron Tyrawley, after J.
Cuming; mezzotint, proof before letters.

Tomkins, Peltro William. Diana and Actzon; stipple,
proof before letters. Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin. “He
Sleeps”; stipple, proof before letters. Presented by J. C. J.
Drucker, Esq.

Turner, Charles. John Garnett, Dean of Exeter, after J. J.
Halls; mezzotint, Whitman 213, before letters.

Turner, J. M. W., R.A. Shields Lighthouse, R. 801, first
state. Presented by Henry Oppenheimer, Esq. Study of Sea
and Sky, R. 806. Presented by W. G. Rawlinson, Esq. The
Evening Gun, R.800. Shields Lighthouse, R. 801, second state.
Ship in a Storm, R. 803. Catania, R. 805, first and second
states. Bridge and Monument, R. 807. Ship and Cutter,
R. 808. The foregoing are a portion of the exceedingly rare
original mezzotints by Turner, commonly known as the
“ Sequels to the Liber Studiorum.” From the Taylor Collec-
tion,

Turner, J. M. W., R.A. (after, engraved perhaps by H..
Dawe). The Felucca, R. 82. <A very fine and rare engraver’s

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 49

proof of an unpublished Liber Studiorum plate. From the
Taylor Collection. Presented by H. S. Theobald, E'sq., K.C.

Ward, William. John Douglas, Bishop of Carlisle, after
Sir W. Beechey, R.A. Sir George Campbell, after the same.
Henry Moyes and Mr. Nieoll, after John Raphael Smith.
Mezzotints, all proofs before letters.

Woodman, Richard. Children playing, after Nicholas
Poussin ; proofs before letters. Fifteen portraits engraved in line
and stipple, in proof states. Presented by the Misses Wood-
man.

Young, John. Rev. Sambrooke Higgins, after Thomas
Barber ; mezzotint, proof before letters.

Lnthographs.
Bonington, Richard Parkes. Marine subject, very rare.

Conder, Charles. Six subjects from Balzac, in portfolio.
Presented by Messrs. Carfax and Company. Fantaisie espag-
nole, printed on white silk. Psyche. The Maypole. Invitation
Card. Presented by Mrs. A. Cecil Lawson. The Leaning
Tree. Lucien et Esther, first state and a touched proof.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq. The Carnival Set
(eight subjects). Fantaisie espagnole. La Peau de Chagrin.
Harlequin s’amuse. Cupid’s Hour. Portrait of Mrs. Humphrey.
Gossip. Un Prince de la Bohéme. _ The Fairy Tale. The
Dressing Room. La Guitariste. Esther. Harlequin’s Courtship.
The Buddha.

Woodcuts.

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward. Eighty-seven illustrations to the
Kelmscott Press Chaucer. Fifteen illustrations to other books
printed at the Kelmscott Press. Book-plate of Lady Horner.
All engraved by W. H. Hooper.

Hooper, William Harcourt. A large collection of his mis-
cellaneous work in proof states, including the rare advertise-
ment of Wilkie Collins’ “‘ Woman in White,” after Fred Walker,
A.R.A.; 27 ornaments and illustrations after William Morris
and others for the Kelmscott Press; seven illustrations after
©. M. Gere for the Ashendene Press Dante; 246 illustrations
after C. Green, C. Keene, J. Leech, R. W. Macbeth, Sir J. E.
Millais, A. F. Sandys, J. M. Smith, Sir J. Tenniel, R. Caton
Woodville, and other artists; 220 ornaments, trade cards, book-
plates, &c., engraved from Hooper’s own designs. Four hundred
and thirty-four of these proofs were presented by Campbell
Dodgson, Esq., the remainder purchased.

Housman, Clemence. Bay Wreath. Book-plates of A. W.
Pollard and W. D. Weaver. All after Laurence Housman.
Presented by the Artist.

Kirkall, Elisha. Portrait of C. Gevartius after Van Dyck ;
Chiaroscuro.

0.44 D

50 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Moore, Thomas Sturge. Book-plates of May Downs and
Archibald Russell; proofs. Presented by the Artist.

Ricketts, Charles. Book-plate of Gleeson White. Presented
by H.C. Marillier, Esq.

Sambourne, Linley. Fifty illustrations to J. L. Molloy’s
“Our Autumn Holiday on French Rivers,” 1874. Twenty-one
illustrations to C. Kingsley’s “ Water Babies,” 1886. Engraved
by J. Swain.

Scott, Thomas Dewell. Nine proof wood engravings of
Moths engraved for H. T. Stainton’s “Manuel of British
Butterflies and Moths,” 1857. Presented by Alexander Scott,
Esq.

Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.
Burgess, John Bagnold, R.A. ‘Stolen by Gipsies”; engraved
by Lumb Stocks and C. H. Jeens, proof before letters.
Gainsborough, Thomas. Landscape, engraved by John
Boydell, 1747.
New, Edmund Hort. High Street, Oxford ; photogravure.
Presented by the Artist.

CHINESE SCHOOL.
Paintings.

Lin Liang. Wild Geese by a Mountain Stream. Kake-
mono, painted in ink. Presented by an anonymous donor
through the National Art Collections Fund.

Ming period. Three kakemono :—Landscape with warriors,
signed “Tang Yin”; Summer palace by the lake, signed
Yiian Ssti; the Gorge, signed “Chu Pang.” Presented by
A. W. Bahr, Esq.

JAPANESE SCHOOL.

Woodcuts.

Hiroshige. Fishes, two out of a set of 20. Landscape, one
of the 10 views near Kioto. Landscape, one of the eight views
of Omi.

Kuniyoshbi. Warriors on horseback swimming a river ;
triptych. Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.

Utamaro. Group of four women and two children ; trip-
tych. Women bathing in the sea, others, with children, on
the shore; triptych, known as “ the small Awabi Fishers.”

Yoshi-iku. Portrait of Kuniyoshi, seated. Yoshitomi. Por-
trait of Kuniyoshi walking, followed by a porter.

PORTRAITS.

Foreign.
Dalou, Jules. Etching by A. Legros. Presented by Camp-
bell Dodgson, Esq.

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DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 5]

Dhuleep Singh, Maharajah. Chromolithograph by M. and
N. Hanhart after F. Winterhalter ; set of 25 progress proofs.
Presented by Miss Lane.

Louise, Princess of Prussia, afterwards Princess Radziwill.
Engraving by Meno Haas, 1787.

Manet, Edouard. Etching by A. Masson. Presented by
Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

English.

Balfour, Arthur James. Etching by C. W. Sherborn after
the Marchioness of Granby. Presented by C. Davies Sher-
born, Esq.

Bell, Sir John. Mezzotint by H. Cousins after John Lucas.

Benson, Martin White, Archbishop of Canterbury. Etching
iby C. W. Sherborn after H. T. Wells, R.A. Presented by C.
Davies Sherborn, Esq.

Bidlake, John, D.D. Mezzotint by Charles Turner. Pre-
sented by John Lane, Esq.

Buckingham and Chandos, Richard, third Duke of. Mezzo-
tint by C. A. Tomkins after the Duchess of Buckingham and
Chandos. Presented by EL. E. Leggatt, Esq.

Carr, Robert James, Bishop of Chichester. Mezzotint by
S. W. Reynolds after J. Hayter.

Conder, Charles. Lithograph by-Mrs. Humphrey. Pre-
sented by Mrs. Humphrey.

Gaskell, Charles G. Milne. Photogravure after A. Legros.
Presenied by L. A. Legros, Esq.

George III. Equestrian Statue by R. Westmacott, engraved
in stipple ; engraver unknown.

Gibson, John, R.A. Etching by J. Brown after H. W.
Phillips.

Gordon, Charles. Mezzotint by T. L. Atkinson after Lowes
Dickinson.

Gough, Viscount. Mezzotint by H. Cousins after Lowes
Dickinson. Presented by EF. E. Leggatt, Ksq.

Jackson, Henry. Mezzotint by W. Strang, A.R.A., after
C. W. Furse, A.R.A. Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.

Law, G. H., Bishop of Bath and Wells. Mezzotint by H.
Meyer after Sir William Beechey, R.A.

Lennox, Lady George. Mezzotint by J. McArdell after
A. Ramsay. Presented by J. Charrington, Esq.

Mulready, William, R.A. Etching by J. H. Robinson

Randolph, John, Bishop of London. Mezzotint by C. Turner
after J. Hoppner, R.A.

Sclater, William, D.D. Mezzotint by J. R. Smith after
av; Hone.

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52 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Staples, Sir John. Engraving by C. W. Sherborn. Pre-
sented by C. Davies Sherborn, Esq.

Thompson, Sir Edward Maunde, K.C.B. Photogravure,
printed in colours, after Sir Edward Poynter, P.R.A. Pre-
sented by D, Macbeth, Esq.

Thompson, W. H., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Mezzotint after Sir Hubert von Herkomer, R.A. Presented
by Sir Sidney Colvin.

Wheatley, George. Mezzotint by S. W. Reynolds after
I. W. Chandler.

HIsTory.

The attack on Cadiz by the English fleet under Essex in 1596 ;

rare Flemish engraving. Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.

BooK-PLATES.

Hight American plates. Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.

Plate of J. C. Getting, engraved by G. W. Eve, large and
small, in varieties of colour; another of the same by
W. Foster. Presented by J. C. Getting, Esq.

Plates of A. L. Langman, C.M.G., and Philip Langman, by
G. W. Eve; of Lucius Fisher, by E. D. French; of Constance
Morgan, by F. Spenceley ; and of Charles Phelps, by J. W.
Spenceley. Presented by J. C. Getting, Ksq.

Plate of Sir Arthur Church, K.C.V.O. Presented by the
owner.

Plate of Bibliotheca Drydeniana, engraved by C. W. Sher-
born and finished by Malcolm Osborne. Presented by H. B.
Wheatley, Esq.

Thirty English book-plates, wanting in the Franks Col-
lection. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Eight plates designed by H. Stacy Marks, R.A. Presented
by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Plate of Dr. Alois Rogenhofer, by A. Cossmann. Presented
by the owner.

COLLECTIONS AND SETS.

Thirty-nine rare portrait mezzotints, by S. W. Reynolds,
chiefly proofs before letters in states not recorded in Whitman's
catalogue.

One hundred and forty portraits, engraved by Joseph
Brown, in proof state, from Baily’s Magazine of Sports and
Pastimes, 1860-1880.

Four hundred and seventy-eight lithographs, by Richard
Lane, A.R.A., chiefly portraits, including many rare and
unpublished plates in proof states. Presented by Miss Lane
and Miss Emily Lane. :

Twenty-five portraits of ladies from a series uf lithographs,
entitled “Leaders of Society,” published in the Whitehall
Review. Presented by L. LE. Leggatt, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 53

Thirty reproductions of pictures in the Brunswick Gallery.
Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.

Sixty photogravures from pictures in the Louvre.

Thirty-five coloured reproductions of paintings by Old
Masters. Presented by the Medici Society, Ltd.

One hundred and ninety-seven proofs of engravings, chiefly
heraldic and topographical, by John Emslie. Presented by
J. P. Emslie, Esq.

A collection of the engraved work of Charles William
Sherborn, consisting of 947 book-plates, 138 etchings, two
mezzotints, and 76 line engravings, including a large number of
unique or rare trial proofs. Presented by C.D. Sherborn, Esq.

Four hundred and seventy-eight proofs of wood-engravings
by Edward Whymper, including his illustrations to ‘‘ Scrambles
amongst the Alps” (1871), Guillemard’s “Cruise of the
Marchesa” (1889), Whympev’s “ Travels amongst the Great
Andes of the Equator” (1890), and many illustrations to other
books.

Books OF PRINTS AND BooKS OF REFERENCE.
Bruwaert Edmond. Vie de Jacques Callot. Presented by
the author.

Craig, William Marshall. Lectures on Drawing, Painting,
and Engraving. Presented by EL. EL. Leggatt, Esq.

Daubigny, Charles. Voyage en Bateau. With 16 etchings
by Daubigny.

Goloubew, Victor. Les Dessins de Jacopo Bellini, 1°
partie. Presented by the author.

Horae in laudem beatissime Virginis Marizw; Lyons, 1548.
With 14 metal cuts by Jacob Faber, from the designs of
Holbein. Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund.

Le Pois, Antoine. Discours sur les Médailles, 1579. With
portrait and other engravings by Pierre Woeiriot.

Levis, H. C. Bibliography of books connected with the
history of engraving. Presented by the author.

Mascha, Ottokar. Félicien Rops und sein Werk.

Moreau-Nélaton, Etienne. Manet, graveur et lithographe.

Rinder, Frank. Tlustrated catalogue of D. Y. Cameron’s
etched work.

Scott, William Bell. Illustrations to the King’s Quhair.
Presented by Sir Sidney Colvin.

See, R. R. M. English Pastels.

Verzeichnis der Radierungen von Dr. Otto peat. Pre-
sented by F. Bruckmann, A.-G.

Campbell Dodgson.

54 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES.
l.—Arrangement, Cataloguing, ke.

EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES :—

The general re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collections
has been continued, and most of the important objects acquired
during the year have been incorporated and exhibited.

A number of monuments in hard stone have been washed,
and the systematic cleaning of the limestone and sandstone
statues, stele, &c. has been continued. Many small objects
have been treated for efflorescence of salt, and copper plugs
have been inserted in mountings and iron ones removed.

The labelling of the exhibits has been continued, and the
old sale catalogue numbers and early collection numbers have
been checked and restored wherever necessary. Objects, the
source of which could not be traced, and which bore the old
collection numbers, have been numbered according to their
positions in the collection.

A number of stele, parts of which were in a crumbling
state, have been repaired, carefully washed, re-dried, and
re-framed.

The tomb wall paintings in the Third Egyptian Room have
been removed from their frames and repaired, and arrange-
ments for effective ventilation have been fitted in the cases.

A selection of sheets from the Greenfield Papyrus has been
exhibited in the Southern Egyptian Gallery.

Highty-three Caen-stone, marble, alabaster, and slate plinths.
have been worked and prepared; 246 wooden plinths, tablets,.
stands, plaques, &c. have been prepared and polished; 60
mahogany labels have been prepared and polished ; a cabinet
for holding casts of scarabs has been made; four trays for
holding slp lists of collection numbers have been made; five
stele frames have been made and glazed and polished, and 12
have been repaired.

Fittings necessary for the safety of the objects during
building operations in the first three Egyptian Rooms have
been made, and certain collections have been removed and
replaced.

Nine hundred and eighteen moulds and casts of the bases
of scarabs have been made in connection with the Catalogue
of Scarabs which is now being prepared, and the scarabs
from which they were made have been cleaned, re-numbered
and re-mounted.

Sixty bronze figures, bowls, rings, and other small objects.
have been cleaned and repaired.

Forty-six figures of gods and sacred animals have been
mounted on stone or alabaster plinths.

EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 55

Ninety-two amulets, figures of different kinds, objects in
porcelain, &c. have been mounted on wooden stands and
tablets.

Highty labels have been drafted and painted on plinths,
frames, &c., and registration and collection numbers have been
painted on 2,800 objects.

Three hundred and forty objects of the old collections have
been identified with the registers, and broken and missing
numbers have been restored.

Twelve hundred and ninety miscellaneous objects have
been revistered or re-registered, and the slip inventury of
exhibited objects has been continued.

One hundred and twenty-five ushabtiw figures have been
catalogued.

Drawings of the sculptured portions of about 80 stele
have been made, and the hieroglyphic and hieratic texts have
been copied on about 60 of them.

Works in Progress.

1. Coptic MSS.—Oriental No. 6804, Oriental No. 6782, and
Oriental 7024 have been copied, and the copies sent to the
printer. Twenty sheets are in type, and 14 sheets have been
read in proof.

2. Catalogue of Scarabs.—Catalogue slips have been written
(for the Appendix) for the scarabs acquired recently, and 20
sheets have been read in proof and revise and passed for press.

3. Egyptian Texts.—Part 1V.is being prepared for publi-
cation.

ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES :—

The general re-arrangement of the unexhibited section of
the Babylonian and Assyrian Collections has been continued,
and the washing and cleaning of the bas-reliefs have been
continued. The replacing of the glass in the Galleries has
been completed.

The verification of collections arranged temporarily in the
Basement has been completed, the contents of the boxes have
been checked, and worn or broken numbers have been re-
stored. As large numbers of the tablets of the Ktytnjik
Collection are in constant use by students, the checking of the
numbers and the examination of the fragments for rejoins
goes on continually. Five thousand three hundred slips have
been written to record the rejoining of fragments.

Three hundred and twelve tablets have been cleaned; 31
tablets have been repaired ; 118 tablets have been repaired and
rejoined; several “case-tablets” have been opened; 500
tablets have been placed in wool-lined boxes ; 6,122 fragments
of tablets have been brushed and examined ; 35 cylinder seals
and miscellaneous stamps have been made.

56 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Highty-four casts have been made from cylindrical and
other seals, and mounted with the originals on cloth-covered
mounts.

Six thousand five hundred and twenty-eight tablets offered
for purchase have been unpacked and examined.

Sixty-five labels have been drafted and painted, and
numbers, registration and collection, have been painted on
about 3,000 tablets, Xe.

Seventeen hundred and two tablets have been registered,
and 1,400 slips for the slip cataiogue have been written.

One hundred and twenty-two texts from tablets, &c., have
been copied and collated; and 1,408 catalogue slips have been
written for the Catalogue of the Kfiiyfnjik Collection.

Eight hundred and three slips have been revised for the

supplementary volume of the Catalogue of the Kiytnjik
Collection.

Works in Progress.

1. Cuneiform Texts.—Material is being collected for Part
XXXIV.

2. Kiyunjik Catalogue (Supplement).—About 2,028 slips
for this volume have been written.

Publications.

1. “The Greenfield Papyrus, or the Papyrus of Nesitaneb-
tashru, daughter of Painetchem II. and Nesi-Khensu, about
Bees 70.,

2. “ Coptic Biblical Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt.”

3. “ Egyptian Texts,” Parts IL. and III.

4. “ Babylonian Boundary Stones and Memorial Tablets
in the British Museum.” With an Atlas of Plates.

5. “ Cuneiform Texts,” Parts XXXII. and XXXIII.

Students.—About 3,451 visits have been made to the
Department by students and others ; and 10,870 objects have
been issued for the use of students. ’

Personally conducted Parties. — Fifty-two parties have
been personally conducted through the Department by members
of the staff, the number of persons being about 1,500, including
pupil-teachers and others from schools.

IIl.— Acquisitions,
1.— EGYPTIAN :—

J.-—1. A series of 40 slices of calcareous stone fragments on
which are drawn in outline figures of kings, high
officials, &c., and drafts of texts which were to
be cut on statues. XVIIIth Dynasty. From the
Valley of the Tombs of the Kings, Thebes.

EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. ap

2. A series of black, painted wooden figures of certain
gods of the dead, which formerly stood in the
doorways of tombs, and near the bier. The chief
of these are :—

3. A seated wooden figure of the Snake goddess Neheb-
kau, on a pedestal. She was the goddess of the
mountain in which the tomb was situated, and
protected the door.

4. A seated wooden figure of Ta-urt, the Hippopotamus
goddess, the maternal ancestress of the Egyptians.
She guarded the sarcophagus.

5. A seated wooden figure of the Ape god.

6. A seated wooden figure of the Gazelle god, who
protected the deceased from the attacks of evil
spirits from the mountains.

7. A seated wooden figure of Horus, or Harmakhis.

L

A seated wooden figure of the Sheep-god, or Goat-
god, v.e. Amen, or Amen-Ra, the great god of
Thebes. His arms are extended, and, when the
figure was complete, each hand held in it a croco-
dile; this is proved by the Vignette to Chapter
elxxxii. of the Book of the Dead.

9. A seated wooden figure of Apesh, the Tortoise-god,
or Turtle-god, whose duty was to supply the
deceased with fresh air in the tomb.

All the above figures date from the XVIIIth
dynasty, and come from Thebes.

ii. A very important collection of objects of the
Predynastic Period, from a cemetery in Upper
Egypt; they appear to belong to the end of the
Period, and a few may be early dynastic :—

1. A seated figure of a youth, or young man, with
a bent head. ‘This is probably the oldest known
example of the plastic art as applied to the human
figure.
2-6. Five terra-cotta figures of men, two of them having
their arms raised.

7,8. Two red terra-cotta figures of women of the
steatopygous variety.

9. A yellow terra-cotta figure of a steatopygous woman,
with designs on the back, and left side, and right
leg, which probably represent tatti markings.
She wears a head-dress.

10. A stone figure of similar shape, but undecorated.

11-27. A group of seventeen terra-cotta women with large
pendent breasts and raised arms. These probably
represent the women who were buried alive in
the tomb of their master.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

28. A bowl made of drab-coloured mud, blackened on

29.

30, o4

35

36.

the outer edge and on the inside.

A sun-dried mud figure of a cow, which in the
Dynastic Period became the type of the Cow of
Hathor.

. A terra-cotta figure of an animal; identification
uncertain.

. A portion of another figure of the same animal.

2. A couch, or diwan, in terra-cotta, with figures of

_ three women seated upon it.
. Two wooden models of boats.
. A terra-cotta coffin, and a model of the body of
a woman.
A wooden plough, from a pre-dynastic site, but date
uncertain.

iil.—1-11. An important series of eleven marble capitals

from pillars found among the ruins of the monas-
tery church of Saint Jeremiah, at Sakkarah.
Highth or ninth century a.D.

iv.—l. A massive bronze hinge with an inscription re-

cording the dedication of a temple to Amen by
Princess Amenartas. About B.c. 670. From
Nakadah.

. Four fragments of bronze edging from the same

temple.

. A bronze toilet box, with cover and studs for fasten-
ing. From Karnak. XXVIth dynasty.

7-10. Four Coptic mirrors, each in a circular wooden case.

From Armant.

11-14. Four Coptic wooden combs, each of which is deco-

rated with wooden carvings.

15. A hawk-headed seated limestone figure of a warrior-

god, the Horus of the Egyptians, and the Ares of
the Greeks. Roman Period. From Karnak.

16-65. An important coliection of bronze axes, razors,

swords, and instruments of various kinds, many
of them being very finely worked. From
Nakadah. XIXth dynasty.

66. A bronze weight or counterpoise of a door, with a

handle in the form of a ring. From Karnak.
XIXth dynasty.

67. A tube for holding eye-paint, inscribed. XXIInd

dynasty.

68-70. Three red glazed ware vases. XXth dynasty.

71. A Coptic glass mirror, in its wooden case, inlaid

with mother-of-pearl and ebony. A fine object.
Christian Period.

84-87.

88.

89-92.

93.

94-107.

108.

109:

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. An ebony jewel-box, or toilet-case, inlaid with

figures of saints in ivory or bone. The corners
are bound with bronze edging. A very rare
object. Christian Period.

. A green glazed porcelain plaque. From the Sdadan.

. A green glazed porcelain cartouche of Tirhakah,

King of Egypt about b.c. 650. From the Sadan.

. A horn from an ox or cow of the Pre-dynastic

Period.

. A large black, painted wooden figure of Osiris, with

inlaid obsidian eyes. From the Tuat Chamber in
the Tomb of Thothmes III. XVIIIth dynasty.

A large steatite scarab, on which is cut the name
of Queen Ti. From Sadénga in the Sadan.

A large scarab, of unusual shape and design, with
the prenomen Menkheperra. From Sadénga in
the Sadan.

A large, handsome, finely-painted outer coffin of
Hent-Mehit, a priestess of Amen-Ra at Thebes
about B.c. 1000.

. A blue paste cylindrical seal of Pepi II. VIth

dynasty. From Thebes.

. An ebony model of a hippopotamus. Pre-dynastic

Period.

. A large flint knife, very finely worked, 124 in. long.

Pre-dynastic Period.

. A very fine bronze mirror, on the face of which is

cut in outline a figure of the deceased adoring a
god who is seated in a shrine. The handle is
made of ivory; decoration, a double hawk-head.
A rare object. XXth dynasty. From Thebes.

A set of Canopic vases in a deep ultramarine-blue
vitreous paste. From the tomb of Amen-hetep II.
XVIIIth dynasty. From the Tombs of the Kings.

A head of a Canopic vase in blue vitreous paste.
XVIIIth dynasty. From Thebes.

A set of figures of the Four Sons of Horus, Mesta,
Hapi, Tuamutef, Qebhsenuf.

A large vase, date and provenance uncertain.

An interesting series of fourteen flints of the Pre-
dynastic Period.

A wooden model from a tomb of a yoke of oxen
engaged in ploughing, with figures of two farmers.
From Beni Hasan.

A similar model, but with one figure of a man.
From Beni Hasan.

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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

110. A large painted earthenware vase. Late Period.
From Nubia.

v.—l. A terra-cotta mould for making figures of a Ptole-

le

maic or Roman Pharaoh, in the character of the
Physician-god Imhetep, accompanied by his two
apes. Thoth and Asten (or, Astes).

A large and interesting collection of Romano-
Egyptian and Meroitic antiquities, and a collection
of miscellaneous predynastic antiquities, exca-
vated chiefly on the Island of Faras, which seems
to have been the frontier outpost of Egypt on
the south. The following are the most character-
istic objects in the collections :—

l. Antiquities from a Protodynastic Cemetery consisting of
objects from eleven tomb-groups, viz. :—

Ostrich-egg.

Specimens of plain and painted pottery.

A spotted red and buff bowl: Egyptian predynastic.

Three quartz palettes, and pebbles for grinding paint.

Several strings of beads; shell, carnelian, and garnet.

Bronze chisel: edge found resting on skull and pointing
behind head.

Bronze celt: found in front.of face.

Tall pot: Egyptian early dynastic.

Upper and lower grindstone: granite.

Blue giaze beads: Egyptian.

Two bronze piercers: one with ivory handle.

Fragments of ivory and shell bracelets.

Il. Antiquitees from a“ C-Group” Cemetery: XIIth Dynasty :

Nineteen bowls and pots of black and red incised pottery ;
designs often filled with white.

Seven strings of glazed and coloured crystal beads, &e. :
one with a carnelian foot-amulet.

Tomb-group consisting of a black-topped bowl, a black
incised bowl, a red pot, a white pot, and a grindstone.

Bronze mirror.

One stone bracelet.

One shell bracelet and two shell finger-rings.

Bone needle.

Ill Antiquities from the Hathor temple: XVILIth Dynasty :

Four fragments of a blue glaze decorated bowl.
One striped blue glaze ball.

Two blue glaze votive ears.

Blue glaze figure of Taurt.

Three blue glaze small female figures.

One similar figure, brown and blue.

Three blue glaze imitation fruits.

One pottery cow.

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One pottery female figure.

One pottery female head.

Two pottery female torsos; very crude.

Highty-three scarabs, exclusively of the late Middle King-
dom and the beginning of the XVIIIth dynasty ; chiefly
the latter ; and ‘including specimens of the Hyksos King
Suatchenra, Kames (XVIIth dynasty), Queen Aahmes-
Neferitari, Thothmes I, and Thothmes III.

Twelve miscellaneous faience amulets; flies, figures of

gods, &e.

IV. Antiquities from the Meroitic Cemetery : Roman Period ;
consisting of objects from twenty tomb-groups and other

finds :—

Large jar with painted decoration: frogs and plants.

Globular vase with painted crescents and ankh-signs.

Cup with tulip pattern.

“Tumbler ” cup with red and white bands.

Cup with birds and palm-branch decoration.

Water jar with leaf decoration in red.

Vase in shape of a ring.

Cup with imitation fluted decoration.

Water jar with eyes painted on the shoulder.

Long-necked jar with black bands.

Amphora with elaborate decoration of ducks and plants.

Large flat jar with lotus flowers on shoulders.

Amphcra with frieze of negroes hunting.

Jar with decoration of three giraffes and a man.

Jar with three jackals.

Large jar with scene of lions devouring a negro.

Water pot, with decoration of crow-like birds.

Water jar with snake-pattern.

Water jar with snake and quatrefoils in white.

Water jar with picture of guinea-fowl.

Water jar with two crocodiles.

Cup with griffin, painted. .

Four cups with strings of flowers, painted.

Goblet with decoration of sa-signs.

Goblet with decoration of ankh-signs.

Buff cup with impressed pattern.

Red cup with impressed pattern.

Three black cups with incised pattern; two large pots,
similar.

Three vases with appliqué decoration in white.

Two vases of thin ware: imitation of glasss

Six cups of thin, delicate, ware.

Bowl of fine white ware.

Two little pipes: red pottery.

Red saucer: buff inside.

Fragments of a large jar, showing a design of lions.

Bowl with trefoil scroll.

Painted oinochoe. .

Double ogee jar, red ware : much sand-worn.

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Two fragments of a pot, showing a human hand and a
hawk’s head: painted.

Fragment of a pot, with altar in black.

Two bronze mirrors, one spatula, one kohl-stick.

Two bronze pans, two “ dippers,” one thin cup.

Six bronze bowls: plain.

One bow! with embossed ornament.

Three pairs heavy bronze anklets.

Bronze toe ring; twenty finger rings with signets.

Two small bronze bowls with three feet ; engraved.

Round bronze bowl; tinned.

Smal! bronze tripod bowl.

Bronze saucepan and two saucers ; tube with strainer.

Three bowls of New Empire type.

Copper coin, Greek mint, of Antoninus Pius.

Iron ring with staple attachment.

Eight lots of iron arrow-heads.

Two stone mace-heads.

Two stone palettes.

Four bottles of plain Roman glass.

Two glass beads of peculiar shape ; resembling those worn
by the Kings on Meroitic monuments.

Sixty-four strings of beads, mostly of stone, especially
white quartz and carnelian.

Four Meroitic scarabs : faience.

Bust of female Ba-statue.

Head of a male Ba-statue: sandstone.

Torso of sandstone figure of a man.

Fifteen tables of offerings, inscribed in Meroitie.

Six inscribed stele: Meroitic.

Painted stela: two figures.

V. From a Meroittic House :-—

Stone monkey.
Fragments of blue glaze and ble ware pottery.

Clay sealings.

VI. From the Christian Cemetery : —

NABI

Ten lamps: five inscribed.

Four pottery censers.
Tall pottery incense-burner ; with original charcoal.

Fragments of decorated pottery.

Architectural fragment : Meroitic ; winged sun on cornice.

Fragment of a relief with inscription of Tutankhamen :
XVILIth dynasty.

al,—ASSYRIAN :—

i—l. A large barrel-cylinder of Nabonidus, [Xing of
Babylon, B.c. 555-538, inscribed with a text
parallel to the great cylinder K. 1628, which was
found at Mukayyar, the site of Ur, and was
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EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 65

tions, 1, plate 61. It gives passages which are
wanting in the Mukayyar cylinder, and supplies
new details about the restoration by Nabonidus
of the two temples which bore the name Eulmash,
the one situated in Agade, the other in Sippar of
Anunitum. The references to the restoration of
the temple Eulmash in Agade by Ashurbanipal,
and to the destruction by Sennacherib of Sippar
of Anunitum and its temple, are important facts
of history which are quite new.

ii.—l, 2. Two complete and well-preserved barrel-cylinders

3.

AQ,

of Nebuchadnezzar II., King of Babylon, B.c. 605—
558, inscribed with texts recording the construction
of the temple of Marada, the modern Sediém.
Many parts of the texts are known from cylinders
already in the Museum (7.e, Rm. 673 and 674),
neither of which is complete, but the newly
acquired cylinders supply many details. The
temple of Marada was called E-idi-Kalama, and
was dedicated to the City-god Lugal Marada.
The texts end with a prayer to Lugal-Marada, im-
ploring him to report the King’s piety to Marduk,
the chief of the gods.

Green serpentine cylinder-seal engraved with scene
representing heroes in conflict.

. Green serpentine cylinder-seal engraved with a scene

representing Gilgamesh, Eabani, and a _ third
mythological being in conflict with a lion and two
human-headed bulls.

. Light green stone cylinder-seal engraved with a

similar scene.

. White marble cylinder-seal engraved with a scene

representing Kabani in conflict with a lion and
four ibexes.

. Mottled green steatite cylinder-seal engraved with

a scene representing heroes in conflict with a bull,
a lion, an ibex, and a stag. In the field are a
serpent, a scorpion, a crescent, and a star.

. Fine lapis-lazuli cylinder-seal engraved with a scene

representing two figures of heroes in conflict with
bulls. Nos. 3-8 belong to the early Babylonian
Period.

. Fine hematite cylinder-seal engraved with a scene

representing two mythological beings rescuing
bulls from lions. Its owner was one “ Danni,
the servant of Nergal.” The style of the seal
indicates a West-Semitic origin. About B.c. 2000.

White marble cylinder-seal engraved with a scene
representing a worshipper before a seated god,
who, according to the inscription, is Nusku, the

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Fire-god. Behind the worshipper is a nude figure
of a goddess, the consort of Nusku. About
B.C. 2000.

11. Green jasper cylinder-seal, on which are engraved
the figures of two goddesses; its owner’s name
was Khazirum. Of Babylonian origin.

12. Stone cylinder-seal engraved with the figures and
symbols of the god Adad and the goddess Shala.
The owner was ‘“ {fli-ishmeani, the son of Manna-
tum, the servant of Adad.” Of Babylonian origin.

13. Stone cylinder-seal engraved with a scene repre-
senting a goddess leading a worshipper into the
presence of a seated deity, and with a figure of
a long-necked bird. Its owner was called Ada.
Of Babylonian origin.

14. A crystal cylinder-seal engraved with the figure of
a god and an address to the Sun-god Shamash.
Kassite period. About B.c. 1450.

15. Hematite cylinder-seal engraved with figures of
the Sun-god and his goddess Aa, and with the
figure of an attendant bearing a standard sur-
mounted by a solar disk.

16. Chalcedony cylinder-seal engraved with the figure
of the the god Ashur rising from a winged solar
disk above the Sacred Tree, and figures of a
worshipper and a mythological being, the latter
wearing a fish-skin and carrying spathes of the
date-palm to fertilize the Sacred Tree. About
B.C. 700.

17. Paste cylinder-seal on which are engraved figures
of two gryphons, a crescent, and an eight-rayed
star. About B.c. 500.

18. Stone cylinder-seal of the Persian period, engraved
with the figure of a god or king in conflict with
lions. About B.c. 500.

19. Red-stone pendant, in the form of a bull, probably
from Susa.

20. Bronze figure of a gryphon, which formed one of
the handles of a large bronze vessel.

21. Small stone squatting figure, pierced for suspension
as a bead or amulet.

22-26; Five tablets inscribed with records of rations issued
to officials and others in Larsa. All are dated in
the reign of Gimil-Sin, King of Ur. About
B.C. 2350.

. An important collection of 214 tablets, of which
207 are inscribed in minute characters with
memoranda of rations of corn, strong drink, oil,
sheep, &c., supplied to priests, officials, servants,

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and attendants when staying in the town of
Lagash on official business. The city of Lagash
was on the high road between Babylonia and
Elam, and Government servants of all classes
stopped there to obtain food for their immediate
wants and supplies to be consumed on their
journeys to Babylon and Elam. The greater
number of the tablets are dated in the reigns of
Dungi, Bir-Sin I., and Gimil-Sin. About B.c.
2309-2420.

28. A large duck-weight on which are cut the name and

title of Ur-Ningirsu, Patesi of Lagash. About
B.C. 2425.

29. A weight with a handle perforated for suspension.

30. Fragment of a historical tablet from Kuytnjik.

i1i.— HIMYARITIC :—
1. Part of a votive inscription dedicated to Al-Makah, a

god of Southern Arabia. VIIIth century B.c.

2. Rectangular slab of limestone, on which is sculptured in

relief a human face; below it is cuta name. This
probably served as a gravestone.

3. Rudely cut limestone figure of a king, or chief. From

Sanaa. About B.c. 500.

4. Fragment of an inscription ofa votive character.

iv.——-PALESTINIAN :-—

ed ne

ts

A collection of scarabs, earthenware vessels of

various shapes and sizes and periods, which have
been obtained at and in the neighbourhood of
Gezer in Palestine. These objects illustrate the
tictile art in Syria from about B.c. 1500 downwards,
and many of them belong to classes of antiquities
which have hitherto been unrepresented in the
collection. The following are the most interesting :—

. Blue fatence cylinder-seal ; with spiral design.

Cylinder-seal ; with two rows of fish.
Cylinder-seal ; with two human figures. Gold mounting

at each end.

Cylinder-seal ; with designs of dots connected by doubl :

diagonal lines.

Cylinder-seal ; with two human figures, palm trees, etc

. Plaque; with Sphinx, urzus, cartouche of Thothmes IV.
. Scarab ; with cartouche of Thothmes III.

Scarab ; with cartouche of Usertsen IIi.
Scarab; with cartouche of Queen Ti.

0.44

. Scarab ; with cartouche of Thothmes IV.
. Searab ; with imitation cartouche, with hawks.
. Scarab; with cartouche of Amenhetep III.

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. Scarab ; with cartouche of Amenhetep II.

. Plaque ; with cartouche of Amenhetep IIT. and Queen Ti.
. Searab; with cartouche of Nut-Kheper-Ra.

. Scarab; with cartouche of Thothmes ITI.

. Plaque ; with cartouche of Amenhetep II.

. Searab; with cartouche, ure, ete.

. Searab; with cartouche, hawk, and urei.

. Scarab; with cartouche, horse with plumes.

. Scarab ; with cartouche, ete.

. Scarab; with seated figure and rough signs.

3. Scarab; with two hawks, “gold,” and two urei.
. Scarab; with two hawks and ureus.

. Scarab; with four urei on neb-sign.

- Scarab; with name of royal scribe Ameni, deceased.
. Scarab; with naked female figure, two branches, ete.
. Scarab ; with lion, ureeus, and branch.

. Searab; with uncertain inscription.

. Scarab; with lion, urzeus, and ibex.

. Searab; with signs of goodness, sovereignty, life, ete
. Scarab; with lion and sun.

. Scarab; with double spiral.

. Scarab; with Sphinx and ureus.

. Searab ; of Amenhetep I.

. Searab ; with hawk, ureei, and crocodile.

. Scarab; with three annules.

. Searab; with crowns, ete.

. Searab; with lily-spiral, ete.

. Searab; with branch, ete.

. Scarab.

. Scarab.

. Scarab.

. Scarab ; with male figure.

. Scarab.

. Searab; with ibex and ureus.

. Searab ; with ibex and branch.

. Scarab ; with scarabeeus and two urei.

. Scarab; with spiral and ankh.

. Scarab; with hawk and various signs.

. Scarab; with papyrus plant, ete.

. Cowroid ; with fish.

. Scarab; with uncertain signs.

. Scarab; of Amen-Ra.

. Searab; with hawk, ete.

. Cowroid ; with eye.

. Scarab.

. Scarab; with four annules.

. Copper axe-head.

. Vase; Bugelkanne, red on buff ware.

. Vase; Amphoriskos ;' black on buff ware.

. Vase; Cypriote ; pilgrim-fiask, red on buff.

. Shaped Vase; Philistine imitation, two-handled, red om

buff.

100.
101.

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. Flask and drinking-cup, combined ; Syrian red ware.
65.

. Large Jug; Cypriote base-ring ware, white on black.

Large Jug; Cypriote base-ring ware, white on red-black

Cypriote base-ring ; Lekythos, black, double-handle.

. Cypriote base-ring ; Lekythos, drab.

. Cypriote base-ring ; Lekythos, drab with white stripes.
. Cypriote base-ring ; Lekythos-flask, black.

. Cypriote base-ring ; Lekythos-flask, red with white lines.
. Cypriote base-ring ; one-handled flask, with long neck,

red-black with white lines.

. Cypriote base-ring ; Jug with shaped mouth and collar

on neck, red-black.

. Cypriote base-ring; Bull vase, white stripes on red-

black.

. Jug; drab ware, with red stripe decoration.
. Jug; with oval body, one handle, and shaped mouth,

red ware.

. Jug; red ware, oval, with shaped mouth and one handle.

Jug; red ware, oval, with shaped mouth and one handle.

. Jug; red ware, oval, with shaped mouth and one handle.
. Jug; red ware, bag-shaped, with shaped mouth and one

handle.

. Jug; drab ware, with round body and one handle.

. Jug; red ware, bag-shaped ; not made on wheel.

. Jug; drab ware, with pointed body ; not made on wheel.
. Jug; drab ware, with pointed body ; not made on wheel.
. Amphoriskos; red ware, pointed body; not made on

wheel.

. Vase; red ware, with two handles on shoulders.
. Vase; red ware, with squat body and one handle.
. Amphoriskos ; drab.ware, with traces of black bands:

Philistine imitation of Minoan.

. Strainer-jug; rough red ware, with open spout and one

handle.

. ““Champagne-glass ” cup; red ware, with hollow foot.
. “Champagne-glass” cup ; red ware, with hollow foot.
. Bowl; drab ware, with bevelled-edge and cross red

stripes.

. Bowl; drab ware, with bevelled-edge, unpainted.
. Bowl; drab ware, with bevelled-side.
. Bowl; drab ware, with bevelled-side and red cross,

painted.

. Bowl; red polished ware.

. Bowl; drab ware.

. Bowl; drab ware, with single horizontal handle.

: Bowl; drab ware, with bevelled-side and single vertical

handle.
Lamp; drab ware, with red painted lip.
Lamp ; drab ware plain.

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Ill.— Presents.
iil. Fragment of predynastic pottery with incised lines.
From Mahasnah.
. Two predynastic vases.

3
4. Fragment of a vase of the lst dynasty. Found in
a kiln.

5. Wax model of the kiln.
6. Clay head of a dog. Ist dynasty.
7. Limestone stele of Herab. VIth dynasty.
8. Portion of inscribed stele. XIIth dynasty.
9. Set of pottery and carnelian beads. XIth—XIIth
dynasty.
10. Red ware vase. XIth—XIIth dynasty.
11. Bowl of “ pan-grave” style. XIIth dynasty.
12. Vase of polished red pottery. XIIIth dynasty.
13. Necklace of blue “ cake” beads.
14, Vase, with hieratic inscription.
15-45. Thirty-one ostraka: 1 hieratic, 19 Demotic, 10
Greek, 1 Coptic.
46-48. Three inscriptions: 1 Demotic, 2 Coptic.
49, Coptic painted vase.
50,51. Two cartonnage cases for the head and feet of
mummies. Roman Period.
Nos. 2-51 from Abydos and Tayyibah.
Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund.

iil. Bronze figure of a man.
2. Bronze ring.
3. Agate scaraboid, uninscribed.
4, Glazed faience jar. Cyprian imitation.

All the above are from Cyprus.
Presented by Sir R. H. Hamilton Lang, K.C.M.G.

iiiil. The right hand of a mummy, on one finger of which
is a scarab.
Presented by Lady William Cecil (Baroness
Amherst of Hackney).

iv.—l. An inscribed limestone stele of the official Bemba
Middle Empire.
Presented by the Right Hon. Russell Rea, P.C., ete.
v.—1, 2. Two terra-cotta vases, with covers.

3. A portion of a statue of a high official called Tetaki.
XVIIIth dynasty. From Thebes.
Presented by the Earl of Carnarvon.

EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 69

vi.—l. A ushabti figure, uninscribed.
Presented by Mrs. John Barnard.

vil.—1-3. Three casts of hieroglyphic texts cut upon statues
of the Ancient Empire (A. 36, A. 37, A. 38).
Presented by the Direction du Lowvre.

vili.— 1. A wooden ushabti figure for Senba. XIIth dynasty.
Presented by Alan Gardiner, Esq.

ix. A very fine blue paste scarab, on the base of which

is the prenomen of Hatshepset, Queen of Egypt.
About B.c, 1500.

Presented by Jesse Haworth, Esq.

. Two flakes of obsidian.
. A celt.

4
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2
3. Two pieces of painted pottery.
4. Two circular pieces.
5. Two bone needles.
6. Stone for inlaying.

Presented by Col. F. R. Maunsell, B.A.., CM. Gs

xi1.—1. Two brouze baskets.

2. Two adzes. Foundation deposits.
3. One balance or yoke.

Presented by A. T. Loyd, Esq.

EH. A. Wallis Budge.

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DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.

I.— Arrangement.

The Sculpture Galleries.—T he re-arrangement of the Mauso-
leum Room has been continued ; three of the marble lions, the
panther, and the ram have been re-mounted; smaller sculpture
fragments have been arranged on shelves ; architectural frag-
ments from Lycia have been restored and exhibited; and all
the sculptures have been covered up during the redecoration of
the Room. In the Mausoleum Room Annexe fragments of
Roman sarcophagi have been mounted and arranged.

In the Phigaleian Room, the slabs from the frieze of the
Temple of Nike Apteros were taken down and combined in .
correct order with casts of the slabs still at Athens; the frieze
was then replaced on the wall. Two casts of newly discovered
fragments of the Phigaleian frieze have been fixed in position ;
and a stone plinth has been provided for the stele of
Archagora.

The inscription recording the report of the Erechtheion
commissioners has been set up in the Elgin Room near the
fragments of the Erechtheion; a relief was mounted in tbe
Third Graeco-Roman Room, a mosaic and several reliefs were
fixed in the Graeco-Roman Basement.

A re-arrangement of the Cast Gallery has been made and the
new acquisitions placed on exhibition. The unexhibited casts of
the Arch of Trajan at Beneventum have been unpacked and
stored.

The Vase Rooms and Upper Galleries.—In the First Vase
Room a Cretan bath-tub has been mounted and a series of
reproductions of Minoan objects have been exhibited. The
arrangement of the unexhibited section of the Collections has
been continued, registered vases and terra-cottas having been
brought up from basement cupboards and distributed between
the various rooms. The unexhibited lamps have been arranged in
the Fourth Vase Room and a re-arrangement of the same room is
in progress, a new standard case having been placed in position.

In the Bronze Room, the head of Hypnos has been mounted
ona cast of the torso of the Madrid statue. A number of
transferred or unexhibited pieces have been arranged or
incorporated.

The publication of Vol. 1., Part II., of the Catalogue of
Vases was completed. Progress was made with Part I. of the
same volume; the new acquisitions of early fabrics were
included and the sectional introductions written to the close of
the Mycenean period. The preparation of Vol. V. of the
same Catalogue was continued, the black and red figure sections
being revised in manuscript. The Catalogue of Lamps was
corrected in proof ; progress was made with the second part of
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GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 71

Edition of the Departmental Guide was published, and a Guide
to the Gallery of Casts was completed in manuscript.

Moulds have been made of three slabs and three fragments
of the Frieze of the Parthenon ; of a pilaster capital from the
Erechtheion ; of the new fragments of the Phigaleian frieze,
and of four marble busts. Twenty-one pieces of sculpture were
mounted on stone pedestals. Fifty bronzes, 18 terra-cottas,
5 vases, one gold, one wooden and 18 plaster objects were
mounted. One thousand one hundred and twenty-six objects
were registered, 903 numbered ; 214 labels were written and
53 printed.

The number of visits to the Departmental Library and
Students’ Room for purposes of research was 755; there were
983 other visits to the Staff for enquiry or on departmental
business, and 1,879 attendances of students of art and
architecture in the Sculpture Galleries.

II.—A cquisitions.

I.—Sculpture in Stone and Marble.

1. Marble relief of a cloaked horseman, dedicated to Apollo
Epekoos by Marcus Salvius Duiscus. Height 134inches. From
Chios.

2. Marble bust of lady, with headdress of the Flavian
period. Presented by G. W. Duffett, Esq.

3. Primitive limestone female figure from Syra. Height 25
inches.

IIl.—Gemes.

4. Chalcedony scarabeoid in original gold mount; a bull
standing with head lowered. From Syria; sixth century B.c.

~

5. Sard intaglio ; a youth attended by a physician in the
presence of Asclepios.

6. Sard intaglio; Artemis of Ephesus between busts of
Helios and Selene; on each side, a Nemesis of Smyrna with
bridle and cubit. Compare an alliance coin of Ephesus and
Smyrna, Catalogue of the Cows of Jona, pl. XXXVIIL.,
fic. 2.

7. Nicolo intaglio; Apollo Sauroctonos.

8. Sardonyx intaglio; Dionysos bearded, with cup and
thyrsos.

9. Plasma head in high relief of the Emperor Claudius,
laureated. <A finely-worked and characteristic portrait. From
Constantinople.

10. Lapis lazuli bust of Serapis, a work of a very late epoch.
Height 5} inches. Presented by Sir H. H. Howorth, K.C.1L.E.,
through the National Art-Collections Fund.

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IIL.—Gold.

11. Large ear-ring resembling Palmyrene types of the
second and third centuries A.D. Length 24 inches. From the
neighbourhood of Aleppo.

12. Circular pendant set with pastes. From Petra.
IV.—Svlver.

13. Medallion with a repoussé head of Zeus in high relief.
Diameter 44 inches. From Greece.

V.—Lead.

14. Votive dish from the Temple of Jupiter Anxur at
Terracina. Cp. Not. d. Scavi, 1894, p. 108. .

V1.—Bronze.

15. Statuette of Athena standing with helmet, egis, and
gorgoneion ; she holds out a patera in her right hand, and an
owl is perched on her right fore-arm ; her left hand is raised
to hold a spear. Fine Etruscan work of the third century B.c..
From Orvieto. Height 2? inches.

16. Statuette of Aphrodite, wearing the head-dress with
feathers of Isis. Height 12+ inches. From Syria. Cp. Roscher,
Leaxikon, Il., p. 495.

17. Objects from the Bowyer Collection : (a) Female por-
trait bust of the Jate second century A.D.;(b) Statuette of Eros
running with arms raised; (c) Statuette of Eros seated, pro-
bably astride a dolphin; (d) Statuette of Aphrodite loosing
her sandal; (e) Bust of Serapis; (f) Mask of Heracles, frag-
mentary ; (g) Decorative leg of a small candelabrum; (h)
Statuette of Cat, seated ; (2) Bull’s head.

18. Two medallions with lions’ heads in relief, rings hang-
ing from the jaws; probably from the panels of a door.
Diameter 5} inches. Found near Aleppo.

19. Two heads of horned sheep, apparently the terminal
ornaments of the handles of a situla. From Olynthus.

20. Votive hand holding up a pine-cone ; a snake, a Jizard,
and a tortoise are shown in relief. From Marach (Aleppo).

21. Lantern with chains and wick-lifter, the uprights are in
the form of Oorinthian pilasters. Height 54 inches. From
Boscoreale.

22, Fragment of a cup with figures in relief of three Erotes
variously employed, probably used in repoussé metal working.

23. Bell with external palm leaf fluting; probably of the
late Imperial period. Height 54 inches, Found near Aleppo.

24, Flat dish with heavy moulded rim and side handles.
Diameter 74 inches. From Jerusalem,

25. Large arrowhead, inscribed ®IAINNO. Length 24 in.
From Olynthus.

26. Javelin head. Length 43} in. From Olynthus.

GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 73

27. Tumbler lock : a heavy bolt held fast in a groove by
three pins which are released by pressing the key against three
other pins in the bolt. Length of bolt 12 in. From Syria.

28. Three bolts with the original keys to fit the wards.
From Syria.

29. Large key, terminating in a lion’s head. Length 3} in.
From Rome.

30. Spoon with short curved-up handle. Length 2? in.

VIL.—Ivory and Bone.

31. Two circular medallions with busts of female winged
figures (Seasons ?) holding fruits, decorated with gilding over a
purple-ground colour. Diameter 5in. Third or fourth century
A.D. Said to come from Gaza; a similar example from the
same find was presented by Sir A. W. Franks in 1878. Pre-
sented by P. A. Irving, Esq.

32. Tube with eyelet holes for suspension, containing a
rolled-up bronze plate: probably an amulet.

35. Whistle.
34. Bone die of elongated rhombohedral form.

VIII.— Fictile.

35. Geometric jug; the main band of decoration contains a
“prothesis” scene, repeated four times, with mourners between
the couches. Such scenes have hitherto only been known on
amphore, and the present vase appears to be the first example
of a transitional stage between these and the jugs of the
earlier Geometric period. Unbroken. Height 17+ in.

36. Geometric jug; on neck a design of an armed man
leading two horses. From the Lambros Collection. Height
114 in.

37. Black-figured lekythos ; Hermes, Athena, and Perseus
in flight after the slaying of Medusa.

38. Red-figured jug of strong period; a Scythian mounted
on a mule and another on foot. From Cervetri.

39. A series of twenty-four vases from various sites in
Apulia, illustrating the styles of the indigenous tribes of that
district, the Messapians, Daunians, and Peucetians.

40. A series of vases and potsherds from Crete, represent-
ing the three Early Minoan periods, and sherds of late
Kamarais style from Tiryns. Presented by H. R. Hall, Esq.,
and EL. J. Forsdyke, Esq.

41. A large series of vases and fragments obtained by ex-
change from the Greek Government. (a) Vases of Cycladic ware ;
also two marble vessels from Syros (Chalandriane). (4) Vases
and fragments from Amorgos, Tiryns, Mycenz, Nauplia, and
Attica, mainly of the Mycenzan period. (c) Vases and sherds
of the Mycenzan and Geometric periods from Argos, excavated
at the site known as the Aspis (see Bulletin de Corespondence

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Hellénique, XXX., p. 5 ff). (d) A large series of sherds from
the Heraion of Argos of all periods from Mycenzan to
Hellenistic, the Proto-Corinthian style being most strongly
represented. (¢) Sherds of various prehistoric Thessalian
fabrics, and other objects from Dimini and Sesklo. In
exchange, a cast of the Elgin Caryatid in white Portland
cement was sent to be fixed in position on the Erechtheion,
in place of the copy given by Lord Guilford, which had
become dilapidated.

42. Vase in the form of a shoe. Presented by Sir C.
Hercules Read.

43. Clay inkpot ; acquired from Rome.

IX.—Terra-cotta.
44, Votive relief of Aphrodite. From Carthage.
45. Four female busts of the Roman period. From Carthage.

46. A series of female heads broken from votive reliefs ; in
one case the whole relief is preserved, showing a draped half-
figure clasping a fawn. Fifth century B.c. From Olynthus.
Presented by Mr. M. Ritsos. |

47. Dog’s head. Presented by F. W. Hasluck, Esq.

48. (a) Statuettes and fragments of primitive style from
the Aspis and Heraion sites at Argos and from Dimini. (6)
Statuettes of draped females and horsemen. of Geometric style.
From Tanagra. (c) Draped female statuettes of fifth century
types. From Corfu. (d) Statuettes of various types, male,
female, and animal. From the Cabeirion, Thebes. Acquired
by exchange from the Greek Government with the pottery
series No, 41.

X.—Plaster.

‘49. Casts of objects in the Museum of Candia: (a) Twenty-
eight objects from the snake-goddess shrine at Knossos. (6)
Bull’s head. From the smaller palace of Knossos. (¢) Terra-
cotta group of ritual dance. From Palaikastro. (d) Two
stone Jamps. (é) Four bronze pedestals.

50. Casts of sculpture fragments found during the repairs
to the Temple of Apollo Epicourios, Phigalia, in 1902. These
included the missing part of slab 536. Presented by the Greek
Government. :

51. Casts of sculptures in the National Museum, Athens:
(a2) Two early female statues from the Acropolis. (b) Head of
youth from the Acropolis. (c) Nike of Archermos. (d)
Apollo Ptoos. (¢) Relief of Mourning Athena. (jf) Relief of
case of surgical instruments.

52. Casts from the Louvre: (a) Archaic male statue, by
Polymedes, from Delphi. (b) Metope of the Dioscuri from the
Treasury of Sicyon, Delphi. (c) South frieze of the Treasury
of the Cnidians (7), Delphi. (d) Part of the north frieze of the
same building. (¢) Metope of Athena and Theseus from the

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Treasury of the Athenians, Delphi. (jf) Head of the Agias,
Delphi. (g) The Delos Diadumenos. (h) The Piombino Apollo.
(7) Votive relief to the Dioscuri from Larissa. (k) The
“Gemma Augustea” of Vienna.

53. Casts from Berlin: (a) The Herm of Alcamenes. (b)
The Chrysapha grave-relief. (c) Attic washermen relief. (d)
Two fragments of egg-and-tongue moulding from Priene. (e)
Relief of the birth of Erichthonios. (jf) Gryphon’s head
from Olympia. (g) Relief of Heracles and Prometheus from
Olympia. (h) Inscribed spear-head. (7) Inscribed plate with
treaty.

54, Cast of the ideal head at Holkham Hall (Michaelis,
No. 37). Presented by Sir C. Waldstein.

55. Cast of a fragment of Aretine pottery at Tiibingen.
Obtained by exchange with the Archeological Institute of
Tubingen.

A. H. Smith.

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DEPARTMENT OF BRITISH AND MEDI#ZVAL ANTIQUITIES AND
ETHNOGRAPHY.

1.— Arrangement, Cataloguing, ete.

Prehistoric Saloon.—The exhibition of Stone Age specimens
in drawers accessible to the public has been continued, and
another desk-case added and refitted for temporary exhibitions.

Romano-British Section. — The collection exhibited in
drawers accessible to the public has been periodically over-
hauled, and the pier-cases and clock-case at the head of the
staircase cleaned inside.

Anglo-Saxon Room.—Series of flint implements have been
stored in the drawers.

Gold Ornament Room.—The finger-ring collections have
been finally arranged and numbered in accordance with the
published catalogue.

Glass and Ceramic Gallery.—Specimens of pottery from
the Near East have been mounted on boards and exhibited in
drawers accessible to the public.

Gallery of Religions.—The Buddhist section has been
refitted on the north side after structural alterations, and the
exhibits have been partly replaced. Many of the Indian sculp-
tures have been cleaned and a large number of labels prepared
and placed in the Hindu section.

Asiatic Saloon.—Further progress has been made with the
permanent labelling of the Chinese porcelain, and three large
cases of porcelain have been cleaned.

Ethnographical Gallery.—The collections from the Nile,
North-east Congo, Uganda, East and South Africa, have been
cleaned and re-arranged in wall-cases, and the Hollis and
Routledge Collections from East Africa exhibited and labelled.
Space has been secured for the late Captain Speedy’s collection
from Abyssinia and the Macleod Collection from West Africa
exhibited in three wall-cases. Objects over the African wall-
cases have been re-arranged, and the following secticns over-
hauled and re-arranged :—Tonga, Samoa, New Zealand, Micro-
nesia, Borneo, Nicobar, Tibet and North Asia. Two cases of
Japanese armour have also been examined and cleaned.

American Room.—The Central and South American series
have been considerably re-arranged and a large number of
labels prepared. Exhibition drawers have been fitted and a
collection of Peruvian pottery exhibited.

Registration.—The registration of current acquisitions has
been continued, and 1,012 objects have been added, including
ethnographical specimens. Numbers have been painted on 3,128
specimens and 1,523 permanent labels written. Photographs
to the number of 275 have been prepared in the Department
for purposes of illustration and reference, and 22 impressions

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of blocks taken. Typewritten labels to the number of 855 have
been cut and bordered, and 49 labels printed on the hand-press ;
147 boards papered, and 2,478 objects mounted onthem. There
have been prepared 623 trays, plinths, stands, tablets, frames,
and separate fittings.

The Easter Island sculptures under the portico have been
meved and cleaned, and moulds for making plaster casts of
specimens listed for publication. Part of the Witt Collection
has been cleaned and re-arranged, and the classical specimens
oi the Museum collection transferred to the Department of
Greek and Roman Antiquities. Two Roman mosaic pavements
found at Hemsworth, Dorset, have been restored and affixed to
the wall on the north-east staircase.

Excavations were conducted in conjunction with H.M.
Geological Survey at Swanscombe, Kent, on 23 days between
March 18th and July 1st, and a collection inspected at Rayleigh,
Essex. The Dublin meeting of the Museums Association was
attended in July.

Publications.—The Catalogue of Medizval Finger-rings
was published in March, and a Guide to the American Antiquities
in May. Current additions have been made to the slip catalogue
of Oriental pottery and porcelain, and a catalogue of Renaissance
and later gems begun.

Students. — Three thousand six hundred and forty-six
students and visitors have been received in the Department.
Two demonstrations have been given in the Prehistoric Room
by a member of the staff.

2. Acquisitions.

(1.) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities :—

Flint implements of various forms from gravel at Kennet,
near Newmarket. Presented by C. R. Jennings, Esq.

Two flint implements from the cemetery, Welwyn, Herts,
and aseries of small white flints from the surface, Windmill

Hill, Wilts. Presented by the Rev. H. G. O. Kendall.

A battered flint of unusual size from a gravel pit at Bidden-
ham, Beds. Presented by H. S. Calverly, Esq.

Flint with natural perforation, resembling a hammer, from
the beach at Southsea Castle, and an implement from the clay-
with-flints on Hinton Hill, Hants. Presented by Col. Jamieson.

Flint implement with ivory patina from Shortheath, Farn-
ham, Surrey. Presented by Henry Bury, Esq.

Two flint implements from the site of. a palzolithic
rock-shelter at Oldbury, near Ightham, Kent. Presented by
B. Harrison, Esq.

Flint tool of segmental form from Southfleet chalk-pit,
Northfleet, Kent, found by the donor and described in Archeo-
dogia, LXIII, 131. Presented by Henry Dewey, Esq.

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Tortoise-shaped core from Southfleet chalk-pit, Northfleet,
of the type described in Archewologia, LXII, 522. —

Flint flake found 60-70 feet deep in the ‘'hames bed at Til-
bury Dock, 1883. Presented by the Royal College of Surgeons.

Series of a new type of flint implements found by the donor
at Laverstock, near Salisbury. Presented dy Dr. Blackmore.

Two basalt celts from Ireland, probably Co. Antrim. Pre-
sented by Mrs. Douglas Taylor.

Late Keltic clasp of bronze from Lakenheath, Suffolk.

Three paleolithic implements from Rafaat, Palestine, and one
from Lellina near Gibraltar. Presented by H. EL. Clark, Esq.

Pottery bowls and fragments of other vessels from a cave in
the Ronda Mountains, 8.Spain. Presented by Col. Willoughby
Verner.

Series of white flint implements from the surface at Cape
Ancora, Isle of Riigen.

Ten flint implements from a workshop at Girolles, Loiret,
France, and stone celts from Cochin China. Presented by
Dr. Capitan.

(2.) Romano-British :—

Gold necklace with settings and pendants, two gold bracelets
and finger-ring set with garnet, from a child’s coffin (which is
already in the Museum) found at Southtleet, Kent, 1801, and
described: in Archeologia, XIV, pl. VIII, p. 38.

Series of cinerary urns and accompanying ‘“ Samian”’ dishes
found during excavations at Hoo Ness on the Medway, 1912.
Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty.

Cinerary urn and bronze brooches from Old Newton, Suffolk,
and other sites, collected by the late Dr. Low, of Stowmarket.

Cinerary urn found with others at Twickenham, Middlesex.
Presented by Sir C. Hercules Read, P.S.A.

Specimen of cloth from a well within Roman walls at
Huntcliffe, near Saltburn, Yorks. Presented by Messrs. Stan-
ton and Hornsby.

Seven casts of Roman sculptures found in Britain.

(3.) Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic :—

Long brooch and pair of clasps found with beads at Hoxne,
Suffolk.

Gold cireular ornament set with garnets, iron sword and
shield-boss, and pottery vase from a burial at Twickenham,
Middlesex. Described in Proceedings of the Society of Anti-
quaries, XXIV. Presented by Sir C. Hercules Read, P.S.A.

Viking sword, scramasax, scythes and axe-heads found
together in a stream near Harbuck, Lanchester, Durham, and
described in Archwologia Aliana, V, 159.

Gold finger-ring with conical bezel and seven pellets,
Frankish period, found in Samos (Catalogue of Finger-rings,
No. 176).

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Series of silver ornaments, part of a hoard found near
Kanief, South Russia, 1911, of the Gothic period.

(4.) Medieval and Later :—

(a.) British —Apprentice’s woollen cap of the Tudor period.
Presented by B. T. Harland, Esq.

Brass gunnevr’s level, signed H. Cole, 1575.

Bronze-gilt case of mathematical instruments richly chased
with PAX ORBI EXOPTATISSIMA engraved on the lock-
plate, and signed Barthelmewe Newswm : made probably for
Queen Elizabeth. An unusually elaborate example of contem-
porary work. Described in Archeologia, LV, 531. Bequeathed
by Max Rosenhewm, Esq., F.S.A.

Tapestry panel with biblical scenes, dated 1632, formerly
at Brandeston Hall, Suffolk. Bequeathed by Mrs. Arabella
Revett.

Brass quadrant with date, 1644, and signature, Abraham
Watlington fecit.

Five pieces of enamelled jewellery, late 17th century.

Gold watch in ornamented case, Arabic and Roman figures
on dial, signed G. Graham, London: made about 1720.

Leather case with mirror and writing materials, 18th
century. Presented by Miss Bird.

Shield of arms in paper filigree, 18th century. Presented by
Miss D. H. Morris.

Bronze steelyard from Galway. Presented by Dr. T. B.
Costello.

Steel matrices of 30 obsolete seals of British dependencies.
Presented by the Lord President of the Council.

(b.) Forergn.—Gold pendent cross set with stones and
enamelled: 11th or 12th century.

Brass basin with embossed design of Adam and Eve:
Nuremberg work, 15th century. Presented by Dr. Hildburgh.

Chalcedony cameo, head of a lady with draped head-dress,
15th century ; from the Boy Collection.

Four wooden draughtsmen with busts of Julius, Duke of
Brunswick, Rudoiph II., and titles of the Emperor Charies V.
Presented by A. W. F. Fuller, Esq.

Lid of patch-box enamelled on copper with shell designs
and emblems, 18th century. Presented by Miss Bird.

(5.) Ceramic and Glass Collections :—

(a.) Oriental Wares.—Stoneware jars and pillows of T’zu

_ Chow ware: pottery vases and ewer, standing figure and horse-

man of the T’ang dynasty, and a hill- -censcr, brick and flask
of the Han dynasty. Presented by Wm. C. Alexander, Esq.

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Chinese costrel of the Han dynasty and jar with dragons
in relief, of the Ming dynasty. Presented by J. S. T.
Audley, Esq.

Ewer with bronze coloured glaze, Chinese, T’ang dynasty.

Stoneware ewer of the T’ang dynasty. Presented by R. L.
Hobson, Esq.

Early Chinese figure of a horse with thick white glaze.

A series of pottery vessels and figures from graves in Honan
province, including the complete furniture of graves dating
from the Han and T’ang dynasties.

A toy horse. Presented by S. C. Bosch Reitz, Esq.

Chinese porcelain wine-pot with mark of Hsuan Te period
(1426-1435). Presented by Sir C. Hercules Read, P.S.A.

Unglazed porcelain dish with K’ang Hsi mark in blue
(1662-1722). Presented by G. T. Veitch, Esq.

Porcelain ink-slab, dated 1692.

Pair of porcelain vases with covers: Chinese, of late
18th century. Presented by Henry Wallis, Esq.

Porcelain tray of Nabeshima ware and pottery figure of a
man with fly-whisk: two stoneware teapots with the Banko
mark, and glazed saké kettle. Presented by R. Phené
Sprers,- £.

Pottery urn with four handles, jug with blue glaze, basin
and two bowls, Persian, 13th century.

Pottery bowl glazed with lattice pattern in blue, Persian,
13th century. Presented by MM. Kalebdjian Freres.

Amphora with turquoise glaze from Rakka Upper
Euphrates.

Two pottery fragments with applied arabesques, found at
Nisibin, Mesopotamia. Presented by Miss Gertrude Bell.

Glazed openwork tile of cruciform pattern, Persian, 15th
century. Presented by Sir C. Hercules Read, P.S.A.

Seven fragments of early medieval Persian ware. Pre-
sented by M. C. Tabbagh.

A. valuable series of Persian glazed pottery, dating from
the 10th to the 15th century. Presented by Henry Van den
Bergh, Esq., through the National Art-Collections Funda.

Two jugs with stamped designs found in the Diamir Nullah,
Chilas, Kashmir. Presented by Captain R. A. Yule, /.A.

Five glazed fragments from Mombasa, East Africa, probably
imported. Presented by Dr. C. G. Seligmann.

(b.) Continental.—Part of a glazed dish, Italian, dated 1301.
Presented by Baron de Cosson.

Maiolica tondino of Faenza ware, late 15th century, and a
Valencian tile with a bull in foliage. Presented by M. Stora.

Glazed dish-cover with relief decoration, probably Italian -
18th century, found on the site of the Old Bell Brewery, High
Road, Tottenham, 1896. Presented by H. Langton, Esq.

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(c.) English.—Four Staffordshire tiles with marbled glaze.
Presented by T. Charbonnier, Esq.

Four similar tiles. Presented by Sir C. Hercules Read,
ES iy.

Figure of a pig with brown glaze, Sussex ware, 18th
century. Presented by William C. Alexander, Esq.

Delft plate with decoration in Chinese style.

Mug with mottled brown glaze and standard-mark of
Queen Anne. Presented by Sir C. Hercules Read, P.S.A.

Delft plate with bust of Queen Charlotte. Presented by
Dr. Edgar Willett.

Marked specimens of ware by Hillcock and Walton, Toft
and May, and W. Suckers. Presented by T. Jesson, Esq.

Worcester cup and saucer, delft plate with mark, and vase
of marbled ware. Presented by Miss Bird.

(d.) Glass.—Series ot jugs and bottles and bowls of the
Roman period and two Greek phials from Cyprus. Presented
by the Viscountess Wolseley.

Rhyton and two tubes of the Roman period, from Syria.
Presented by C. H. Nevill, Esq.

Two cinerary urns, jug and phial from RKoman burial ground,
Old Newton, Suffolk, collected by the late Dr. C. W. Low.

Piece of a beaker, enamelled in colours, Arab, 14th century.
Presented by MM. Kalebdjian Freres.

Beaker with three rows of prunts, 16th century, inscribed
in Dutch, They, our ancestors, prepared this beaker more than
one hundred years back, 1648.

Three cameos, with head of Roman emperor, a bird in
cloisonné, and eagle in gold.

Opal medallion of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, by
Tassie. Presented by H. J. Ellis, Esq.

Wine bottle of the 18th century found at Hoo Ness on the
Medway. Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty.

(6.) Collection illustrating various Religions :—

(a.) Christianity:—Bronze figure of a cow with cross
engraved between the horns, and Greek inscription on both
flanks, from Angora, Asia Minor.

Byzantine bronze censer with biblical scenes in relief.

Coptic capital and portions of two friezes from Shurifah,
South of Helouan. Presented by the British School of
Archeology mm Hgypt.

(b.) Hinduism.—-Six bronze and brass figures of deities.
Presented by M. A. Fenton, Esq.

(c.) Buddhism.—Five gilt wooden figures taken from a
captured junk in 1876. Presented by Mrs. Harvey.

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A clay seal with Buddhist formule. Presented by the
Misses Lay

A wooden figure from Burma.

Two Gandhara sculptures, one, of unusually good and
delicate workmanship, illustrating the story of King Sivi (see
Man, 1913-11.)

(d.) Yezidi.—Steel figure of a peacock engraved and inlaid
with silver; Persian work. Said to have come from a Yezidi
temple at Bahadia, near Diarbekr, Kurdistan. Presented by
Imre Schwaiger, E'sq., through the National Art-Collections
Fund.

(7.) Oriental and Ethnographical :—

Asta.—Hemispherical silver bewl with hunting scene in
relief; king and courtiers pursuing lions, tigers, boars and
ibex ; inscription in Brahmi characters. Found in the Swat
Valley, North West India, and illustrated in Archeologia,
LXIII. 251. Sassanian work of 4th to Sth century A.D.
Presented by Max Bonn, Esq., through the National Art-
Collections Fund.

Two Chinese composite pictures, made chiefly of kingfisher
feathers, said to have come from the Summer Palace. Pre-
sented by Andrew Burman, Esq.

Stone seal engraved with the figure of an ox and unknown
characters, from Harapa, Punjab. Presented by M. Longworth
Dames, E'sq.

An inscribed seal from Harapa, Punjab. Presented by
J. Harvey, Esq.

Copper plate engraved in Nagari characters with a grant
of land by Maharaja Pratap Singh, Samvat, 1845 (a.D. 1788) ;
and asmall copper plate in Modi characters. Presented by
Mrs. Stewart.

Box with engraved inscription in archaic Chinese characters.
Presented by G. Humorfopoulos, Esq.

Small bronze jar inlaid with silver cloud-pattern, Sung
dynasty. Presented by S. W. Littlejohn, Esq.

Chinese bronze kettle, probably Sung period.

Large bronze dish, probably of the Han dynasty.

Goa-stone in gold filigree case, brought from India by Sir
Hugh Inglis in 1775: Presented, in memory of Sir Robert

Harry Inglis, formerly a Trustee of the British Musewm, by
Miss Laura Mary Forster.

Specimens of clothing from Chitral. Presented by the Hon.
Lady Gatacre. .

Iron shield and shell ornaments from the Raipur District,
Central Provinces, India. Presented by Sir John Miller.

A series of kris from the Malay Archipelago. Presented by
Mrs. Speedy.

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Sixteen netswké, one carving, two tsuba, two swords, a
war-fan, a lacquer casket containing the perfume game and a
lacquer coffer inlaid. Presented by Mrs. H. Seymour Trower.

Carbuncle engraved with a head and an inscription, Gupta
period ; in a modern gold setting.

Combined gun and sword, Shan States.

Africa.—A large and important ethnographical series
from Abyssinia, including the gold signet ring and silver
drinking cup of King Theodore, a book of the Psalms belonging
to his queen, and the necklace of Prince Alamayu. This series
was collected by the late Captain T. C.S. Speedy. Presented
oy Mrs. Speedy.

A Karamojo head-dress, three Turkana clubs and two
Turkana pillows, Uganda Protectorate. Presented by Major
R. C. Bright.

A large drum, formerly belonging to Mwanga, King of
Uganda. Presented by Mrs. Austen Chamberlain.

A series of ethnographical objects from the East Africa
Protectorate.

Three ancient iron implements found in the earth near
Maiduguri, Bornu. Presented by the Chief Secretary, Northern
Nigeria.

A leaf cover from the Surra Pagans, Bauchi, Northern
Nigeria. Presented by J. McF. Pallard, Esq.

A wooden figure from Northern Nigeria. Presented by
Mrs. Scott.

Two standards, a suit of quilted armour and other objects
from the Dervishes of the Eastern Sudan. Presented by the
Hon. Lady Gatacre.

A series vf stone implements from the terraces of the
Monapo River, South East Africa, and three quartz specimens
from Egypt. Presented by H. J. Wayland, Esq.

Oceania.—An ethnographical series, including objects from
the Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz, Torres Island, Banks Island

and the New Hebrides. Presented by the Venerable Arch-
deacon Comins.

Plaster cast of an unusually large stone adze found at
Horowhenua, New Zealand. Presented by A. Hamilton, Esq.

A fine series of Maori stone implements selected from the
“White Collection ” formed by the late Mr. Struan Robertson.

An ethnographical series from British New Guinea. Pre-
sented by Dr. G. Landtman.

An ethnographical series from Dutch New Guinea, includ-
ing objects from the pygmy tribes, collected by the British
Ornithological Expedition.

A series of stone flakes and implements from Millstream
Station, N.W. Australia. Presented by R. 8S. Newall, Esq.

A necklace of whale-ivory beads from Tonga.
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America.—-An old and large Zuni vase. Presented by W.
Crewdson, Esq., F.S.A.

A series of stone bolas and arrowheads from the north shore
of the Magellan Straits. Presented by Kenneth Young, Esq.

A fine series of 34 ancient polychrome vases from Nasca,
Peru. These vases represent a class of pottery only recently
discovered, and belonging to an early period of pre-Inca culture.

A series of 20 ancient vases from Yca, Peru, painted in the
style characteristic of that valley.

A collection of pottery vases and burial urns from the
ancient Diaguite tribes of N.W. Argentina: many of these are
in human form and most are painted with characteristic
designs. :

A series of baskets from British Guiana, collected from the
technological point of view by Dr. W. E. Roth.

A series of ancient pottery from Ecuador.

CHRISTY COLLECTION.

During the year the Trustees have acquired by donation the
following objects, which have been transferred to the Trustees
of the British Museum :—

(1.) Hthnography of Kurope :—

A wooden whip-handle mounted in metal, from Bacska,

Hungary. Presented by EL. Torday, Esq.
(2.) Ethnography of Africa :—

A feather tippet and head-dress from Matabeleland. Pre-
sented by the Rev. A. M. Cazalet.

A wooden parrying shield from the WaGiriama, East Africa.
Presented by Miss Pf. I. Deed.

' Nine stone implements from Windsorton, Vaal River, South
Africa. Presented by J. A. le Doux, Esq.

Somali basket, two Sudanese javelins, East African how and
West African decorated gourd. Presented by A. W. F. Fuller,
Esq.

Seven stone implements from Bauchi, West Africa. Pre-
sented by L. J. Harris, sq.

Two girdle pendants and a lip-ornament from the Kagoro,
Northern Nigeria. Presented by Major A. J. N. Tremearne.

Six stone axe-blades from Jos and one from Shen, Bauchi,
Northern Nigeria. Presented by A. 8S. Williams, Esq.

Two wooden figures from the Lower Congo. Presented by
L. J. Lyon, Ksq.

A wooden figure from Mendiland. Presented by WM.
Shattock, Esq.

A hide shield from the Azbin Tuareg from near Sokoto.
Presented by G. F. Tomlinson, Esq.

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(3.) Ethnography of Asia :—

An ethnographical series from British North Borneo. Pre-
sented by I. H. Evans, Esq.

A pottery water jar from Tagaung, Upper Burma. Pre-
sented by R. M. R. Robinson, Esq.

A Chinese magnetic compass. Presented by Maurice
Rosenheim, E'sq.

(4.) Ethnography of Oceania :—

A wooden meré, waha-ika-type, from New Zealand. Pre-
sented by Miss Bird.

Fragments of prehistoric pottery from Murin, British New
Guinea. Presented by A. K. Chignell, Esq.

Two woven bags from Santa Cruz. Presented by A. W. F.
Fuller, Esq.

Ethnographical objects from New Britain, St. Matthias
Island and Bougainville Jsland, Melanesia. Presented by the
Rev. W. Fuller.

Two pieces of painted tapa from Aitutaki. Presented by
EL. Gruning, Esq.

A stone adze and aspecimen of bark-cloth from Fiji. Given
by W. J. Simpson Ladell, sq.

A paddle, club and spear from Oceania. Presented by S. G.
Perceval, Esq.

A stone axe from Awhitu, New Zealand. Presented by
C. Saunders, Esq.

(5.) Antiquities and Ethnography of America :—

Two pottery vases from the Zufi Indians of North America.
Presented by Dr. Ff. Corner.

A basket ornamented with quail-feathers, from the Tulare,
and a basket from the Paiute, North America. Presented by
W. Crewdson, Esq.

Two bows and arrows from British Guiana, two ancient
decorated gourds from Peru and a pottery vase from Arizona.
Presented by A. W. F. Fuller, Esq.

A series of embroidered neck-bands from La Paz, Bolivia.
Presented by A. W. Hill, Esq.

A copy of “Some Aboriginal Sites on the Red River.”
Presented by the author, Clarence B. Moore, Esq.

A seal-hide line, a harpoun-head, a stone knife and other
objects from graves between Iquique and River Loa, Chile.
Presented by Miss M. Turner.

Three stone axe-blades from the John Crow Mountains,
Jamaica. Presented by L. W. Wilmer, Esq.

_ Two stone axes from Jamaica. Presented by S. G. Perceval,

Esq.
C. Hercules Read.

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DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS.
J.—Registration and Arrangement.

1. Greek Series :-—

Three hundred and seventy-five coins of various parts of
the Greek world, recently acquired, have been registered and
362 incorporated, while 752 coins previously set aside as
duplicates have been re-incorporated.

The coinage of Lysimachus and of Macedon from Philip {.
(Arrhidzeus) down to its cessation under the Romans has been
arranged, fresh heading cards inserted and fresh labels written
for the cabinets. Fresh heading cards have also been written
for the Bruttian, Campanian, Corinthian, Cypriote, Aeginetic
and Ptolemaic series, while a concordance of the coins described
in the Catalogue of Corinth has also been drawn up to indicate
their present position in the trays. Reference tickets to the
coins described in the Catalogue of Phoenicia have been written
and placed beneath the coins, and references to the most recent
publications have been provided in the same way for several of
the autonomous series of Thrace.

Two hundred and seventy-seven casts have been incorpo-
rated in the collection of Casts and Electrotypes of coins not
in the British Museum and this addition has necessitated the
inclusion of another cabinet. A beginning has also been made
with the rearrangement of the collection of sulphur casts.

The following collections have been examined with a view
to making selections either for presentation or purchase :—
(a) a portion of the celebrated Damanhur (Egypt) find of
tetradrachms of Alexander the Great ; (b) a series of Cypriote
and other Greek coins ; (¢) a collection of coins from the EHastern
part of the Greek world; and (d) various Sale Catalogues,
British and Continental.

A fresh selection of coins is being made with a view to
enlarging the Exhibition of Electrotypes.

The MS. Bibliography of Numismatics has been brought up
to date, and progress has been made with the Card “Index
of Coins arranged according to types, while an index of the
city names on Greek coins, “arranged according to terminals to
assist in identification, is nearing completion.

2. Roman and Byzantine Serves :—

Five hundred and seventy-eight coins, Republican and
Imperial, have been registered and 568 incorporated. The
coins formerly set aside as duplicates have Leen examined, and
14 incorporated, while a large number have been arranged and
put aside for further study.

A close study is being made of the issues of the Early
Empire. The coins of Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius
have been weighed, rearranged, and transferred to more

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convenient cabinets, and new heading cards have been written
for the silver coins as far as the middle of the 3rd century.
The series issued at Antioch and Nicomedia during the Con-
stantinian period have been examined and several corrections
made in their arrangement.

Reference tickets to the Catalogue of the Coins of the
Empire of Trebizond and of the Roman Republic have been
written and placed beneath the coins, and in the case of the
latter, cross references from the silver to the gold coins have
been inserted in the trays.

A series of sulphur casts of coins not in the British Museum
has been sorted and arranged.

Two very important finds of gold coins from Corbridge
have been examined, as well as others from El Centenillo
(Spain), Anglesey, Hengistbury Head, Hambledon (Bucks), and
a Roman camp near Saltburn, while selections have been made
from a dealer’s stock of Roman silver coins from Augustus to
Commodus, and of Roman bronze from Augustus to Marcus
Aurelius. A selection of coins for electrotyping is in progress
with a view to forming an exhibition of representations of
Roman buildings.

The general Bibliography of Roman Numismatics has been
brought up to date, while a special Bibliography for the
Imperial period has been undertaken, and a beginning has
been made with a Card Index of Imperial coins classified
according to types.

3. British and Colonial Series :—

Two hundred and sixty-three coins and 41 medals have
been registered, and 235 coins and 41 medals incorporated,
while five coins previously separated as duplicates have been
put back into the collection. Six hundred and seventy-seven
casts of coins not in the British Museum have been incorporated
in the collection of casts.

The issues of the kings from William I. to Stephen have
been classified under types, and the coius of Henry III.
rearranged. The coins of the English kings from Wilham I.
to Stephen in the British Museum have been compared with
the examples in many private collections and notes taken as to
moneyers, mints, etc. In the Colonial series corrections have
been made in connexion with the classification of counter-
marked coins.

A find of Jong-cross pennies of Henry III. from Steppingley
(Beds) has been examined, and coins found during the excava-
tions at Hengistbury Head have been cleaned and classified.

Selections have been made from two dealers’ stocks of the
coins of Henry III. and Stephen, and also from a collection of
seventeenth century Tokens, while various sale catalogues have
been examined. The portion of the Mellendean (Roxburgh)
find, consisting of pennies of Edward I. and of Alexander III.
and John Baliol of Scotland, and also of deniers esterlins

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of the Low Countries, which was not required by the Society
of Antiquaries of Scotland, has been classified and a selection
made.

4. Medieval and Modern Series :—

In this division 80 coins and 84 medals recently acquired
have been registered and 87 coins and 84 medals incorporated,
while 61 coins and counters formerly regarded as duplicates
have been reincorporated.

The rearrangement of the series of Nuremberg Counters,
which has been expanded into another cabinet, has been under-
taken, and the collation of the proof sheets of H.M. the King
of [taly’s Corpus of Italian Coins with the British Museum
collection has been continued.

A small medizval collection has been examined and identified,
while selections for presentation or purchase have been made
from a small series of Hungarian medizval coins, of modern
European medals, and of medals dealing with Peace, and from
a large miscellaneous collection of coins and tokens. A Card
Index of Personal Medals after 1600 is in progress.

5. Ortental Semmes : —

One thousand two hundred and five coins have been
registered and incorporated, while 150 duplicates, mainly from
the Indo-Scythic series, have been examined.

The Samanid and Moghul series have been rearranged under
mints and supplied with additional heading cards, while the
issues of the Sikh and Dogra Kingdoms of Kashmir, of the
Shahs of Persia and of Afghanistan, have been expanded, and
new heading cards inserted.

The coins of the Moghuls, Babar. Humayun and Akbar, from
the Bleazby Collection presented by Mr. Henry Van den
Bergh, have been incorporated in the general collection.

The Stein Collection has been identified and arranged with
written slips in three cabinets and a selection made to illustrate
Sir M. Aurel Stein’s repcrt.

The duplicates from the Bleazby Collection have been
roughly classified, packed and despatched for their owner.

Several collections of Chinese and other oriental coins
offered for purchase or presentation have been examined and
selections made.

A selection of electrotypes of Bactrian coins has been made
for the Punjaub Museum.

6. General Arrangement :-—
The cabinets containing the collection have been numbered
throughout, and a summary inventory indicating their places
and contents has been prepared.

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IIl.— Catalogues.
1. CATALOGUES OF GREEK COINS.
Coins of Palestine (Galilea, Samaritis, and Judea), by
Coon, Hall

The arrangement, weighing and description of the coins
for this volume have been completed; the records of the
provenance of the coins have been verified; the historical
introduction has been completed and typewritten: an epigraphic
table has been drawn, and a selection of forms made for a fount
of type; a sketch map has been made, and casts for 42 plates
mounted, and references to these plates inserted in the text.
The volume is now ready to be placed in the printer’s hands.

Coins of Cyrenarca, by KH. 8. G. Robinson.

The study and arrangement of the coins and the special
bibliographical work for this volume have been begun.

2. CATALOGUE OF RomAN COINS.
Coins of the Early Roman Empire, by H. Mattingly.
The study and arrangement of the coins and the special
bibliographical work for this volume have been begun.

3. CATALOGUE OF ENGLISH COINS.
Coins of the Norman kings, by G. C. Brooke.

The arrangement, weighing and descriptions of the coins
of Henry I. and Stephen have been completed ; the descriptions
of the coins of William I. and William II. have been revised ;
the order of the types of these two kings has been corrected
by the evidence of overstruck coins and of the forms of letters ;
tables illustrating the epigraphy, mints, moneyers and finds
have been prepared ; the coins of the period in six public and
five private collections have been examined; over 500 casts
have been made from specimens therein contained, compared
with the British Museum Collection, and incorporated in the
series of casts ; and selections have been made for the illustration
of the catalogue.

4. CATALOGUE OF ORIENTAL COINS.
Coins of the Guptas, by J. Allan.

The descriptions of the coins of this series have been
revised, and references to the plates inserted in the text;
24 plates have been mounted; the greater part of the Intro-
duction has been written ; the metres of most of the fragmentary
inscriptions have been identified, rendering it possible for the
first time to supply the correct vowels and restore the readings ;
an epigraphic table, drawings for a fount, and a list of
monograms and symbols have been prepared ; two important
collections of Gupta coins have been examined ; the plates,
drawings for type and symbols, and the text have, been sent to
the printers.

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IlI.—A equisitrons.

The total number of coins and medals added to the
Department during the year 1912 was 2,260, of which 270 are
of gold, 1,327 of silver, 636 of bronze, and 27 of other metals.

The following table shows the numbers of the new acqui-
sitions, classified according to the several series to which they
belong :—

Other
Class. Gold. Silver. | Bronze. | Metals, | Total.
ete.
Greek - - - = it 278 1B} 2 410
Ronan - : 215 349 28 1 593
British and Colonial = + 15 19] 46 2 254
Medizval and Moder - . 4 100 73 20) 197
Oriental : = - 29 409 366 2 806
rare or Lee
Total fay a Are B70: ee aes aa 636 | 27 | 2,260

Of the above, 674 have been presented, viz., 9 of gold,
373 of silver, 268 of bronze, and 24 of other metals.

The following is a list of benefactors to the Department
of Coins and Medals during the past year :-—

His Majesty Victor Hmmanuel III.. King of Italy: the
Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society; the Deputy
Master of the Mint; the Egypt Exploration Fund; the
National Art-Collections Fund; the India Office, through the
Harl of Crewe; the Thakur of Piploda; John Allan, Esq. ;
H. F. Amedroz, Esg.; the Rev. Gerard W. Bancks; J. T.
Bennett-Poé, Esq. ; Monsieur L. Bouvat; Frank Bowcher, Esq. ;
P. W. P. Carlyon-Britton, Esq.; J. Thacher Clarke, Esq. ;
Mrs. Cripps; Q. M. Dalton, Esq.; R. Dalton, Esq.; Colonel
H. E. Deane; Monsieur A. Dieudonné; Evelyn Grant Duff,
Esq., c.M.G.; Messrs. L. Duval and L. Janvier; Miss Edwards ;
Alexander Farkas, Esq.; Miss Helen Farquhar ; Professor
EK. A. Gardner; the Hon. Lady Gatacre; Senor Joao Gomes-
do Rego; H. A. Grueber, Esq.; H. P. Hall, Esq.; J’ Harvey,
Ksq. ; “FW. Hasluck, Esq. ; Professor W. H. Heckler ; Kristian
Hellstrom, Esq. ; Miss Rose Beresford Herbert ; Gray Hill,
Esq. ; Miss M. tremonger; Siz R. Hamilton Lang, K.C.M.G. 5
L. A. Lawrence, Esq.; the Misses Rosamond and Caroline
Hayard;"Colonel H. P. “Po Merb’ “C. ° We how, Eisg sean.
George Macdonald, Esq. ; Lieut.-Colonel Sir A. Henry McMahon,
G.C.V.0., K.C.1.E.; Murray Marks, Esq.; R. W. McLachlan, Esq. ;
J. Grafton Milne, Bed: ; Ellis H. Minns, Esq. ; G. Morley, Esq. ;
EK. T. Newell, Esq. ; Senor Felix F. Outes; W. Sharp Ogden,
Esq. ; Professor C. Oman; R. A. Peddie, Esq. : er. Llewellyn
Powell Phillips ; Professor Behrendt Pick; A. W. Piper, Esq--;
Forbes Pyman, Esq.; H. L. Rabino, Esq. ; H. A. Ramsden,
Esq.; Monsieur Charles Roessler; the Rev. Edgar Rogers;
Edwin Rose,-«Esq.; Maurice Rosenheim, Esq.; Horace Sandars,
Esq.; Professor Boris Schutz; Major-General Sir C. Holland

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Smith, K.C.M.G.; H. Stabler, Esg.; Sir Isidore Spielmann,
C.M.G.; Messrs. Spink and Son; J. L. Strachan-Davidson, Esq.,
Master of Balliol College, Oxford ; H. Symonds, Esq. ; Henry
Van den Bergh, Esq.; S. Ward-Evans, Esq.; W.C. West, Esq. ;
P. Woods, Esq. ; Colonel L. Worthington Wilmer.

IV.—Remarkable Coins and Medals.
1. Greek Serves :—-
(a) Hurope :—
Italy.— Etruria.—Populonia.—A gold 25-litre piece; obv.
Young male head to r., wearing necklace ; behind, XXV.: rev.

Plain. Wt. 21 grs.; fifth century B.c. From Populonia. Cp.
A. Sambon, Monn. ant. de Vitalie, p. 38 no. 5.

Campania.—Capua.—A. finely patinated bronze triens of
the period 268-213 B.c. Obv. Head of Zeus. Rev. winged
thunderbolt. Wt. 353 grs.

Lucania.—Thurium.— A silver didrachm of the ‘period
281-268 B.c. Obv. Head of Apollo of fine style with long hair.
Rev. Butting bull, inscr. OOYPIQN and magistrate’s name
TO! Wt. 88°7 grs.

Bruttium.—Caulonia.—A silver stater of the fifth century
B.c., of the usual types ; symbol, a bull’s head surrounded by
branches. Wt. 102°6 ers.

Sicily. — Segesta. — Silver tetradrachm. Obv. Youthful
hunter, nude, accompanied by two dogs; inscribed ZETE-
ZTAION. Rev. Goddess Segesta, holding ears of corn, driving
a four-horse chariot r.; inscribed LEFEZTALIB. Wt. 250 gers.
About 415-409 B.c. This type is the earliest and rarest of the
chariot types of Segesta.

Sicily.— Selinus.—A silver didrachm of the archaic period
(480-466 B.c.). Obv. Selinon (wild celery) leaf of unusa] form.
Rev. Incuse square divided into eight triangles. Wt. 135-3¢rs,
Another, obyv. Selinon leaf. Kev. SEAL Selinon leaf in incuse
square. Wt. 133°7 gers. From a small hoard said to have been
discovered in Malta.

Sicily. Syracuse.—A silver decadrachm of the end of the
fifth century B.c., by Kimon. Obv. Head of Arethusa to 1.
surrounded by dolphins. ‘Traces of inscription, TYPAKO-
ZION. ev. Four-horse chariot, crowned by flying Nike, on a
pedestal on the steps of which is a suit of armour; below,
traces of inscription, AQAA. The artist’s signature is not
visible. The obverse is struck from a fractured die, leaving a
large excrescence out of which the head of Arethusa appears to
rise as though out of a rock. From the Fenerly Bey
Collection (Sale Catalogue, lot 152). Wt. 662°6 ers.

Presented by Henry Van den Bergh, E'sq., through the
National Art-Collections Fund.

Macedcn.—Acanthus.—A silver tetradrachm. Obv. Lion
devouring bull. Rev. Mill-sail incuse impression.» Wt.

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256°5 grs. From the Taranto hoard (Rev. Num. 1912, p. 13,
no. 27). This coin and others found with it differ considerably
in fabric from the ordinary Acanthian coinage, and are regarded
by Babelon (loc. cit.) as the earliest of the series (beginning
about 515-510 B.c.)

Macedon.—Pella.—A bronze coin of Augustus, with the
names of the duumviri C. Herennius and lL. Titucius. Wt.
Cie Oers.

Macedon.—Alexander the Great.—An important series of
50 silver tetradrachms of the usual types, from the hoard of
Damanhur.

Presented by EF. T. Newell, Esq.

Thessaly.—75 silver double victoriates and drachms of
the period of the Thessalian League (196-146 B.c.) with rev.
Athena Itonia, and magistrates’ names, from a hoard recently
discovered near Larissa.

Illyrio-Epirote.—Damastium.—A fine silver stater of the
fourth century B.c. Obv. Head of Apollor. Rev. Tripod;
magistrates’ names, KH( woforvroc) and HPAKAEIAO. Wt.
193° 7 grs.

Corinth.—A silver stater of the archaic period after
500 B.c. with the usual types (rev. Head of Athena with hair
in queue). Wt. 133-7 grs. From the Taranto hoard (Rev.
Num. 1912, p. 22, no. 50).

Three fine silver staters of the first half of the fourth
century, of the usual types, with symbols: stern of galley, ivy
leaf and vine branch.

Two finely preserved bronze coins of M. Aurelius (rev.
Palemon standing ona dolphin) and Plautilla (rev. Artemis
huntress, inatemple). Cp. Pausanias II. 1,7: chryselephantine
statue of the boy Palemon standing on a doiphin, and II. 2,3:

temple of Artemis on the road ta Cenchree.

Achaia.—Bura.—A bronze coin of Septimius Severus ;
rev. BOYVPEATUN Tyche standing.

Celtic.—Two gold coins (wt. 38:3 and 37 ers.) from a large
hoard discovered recently in a tomb near Vetulonia (Etruria).
The obverse type is a plain boss, the reverse a degraded design,
derived from the type of the Regenbogenschusselchen usually
found north of the Alps. The date is perhaps the third century
B.c. The presence of these Celtic coins in Etruria is of
considerable historical interest.

(b) Asia and Africa :—
Cos.—Two silver drachms of the second century B.c. Obv.

Head of bearded Herakles.: Rev. Crab, with magistrates’
names [EPQ[N] and NIKAFLOPAZ]; and two bronze coins
with similar types (but the head of Herakles beardless), and
magistrates’ names [I]JMMAPXOZ and TIMOZ.

Presented by J. Grafton Milne, Esq.

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Rhodes.—A rare silver hemidrachm of the period 408—400
B.c. Obv. Head of Helios three-quarters right. Rev. PO Head of
the nymph Rhodos r. in incuse square. Wt. 27:4 grs.

Cappadocia. — Caesarea. — A silver didrachm of Nero.
Rev. APMENIAC Victory with wreath and palm flying to right.
Wt. 114°1 grs.

A bronze coin of Vespasian. Rev. ENIM. NEPA. TILANCA
TIPE|JCBEYTOY ET.!. Mount Argeus. M. Hirrius Fronto
Neratius Pansa was legutus pro pretore of Galatia and
Cappadocia A.D. 78-80.

Cyprus.—4s silver coins of various mints, including Citium,
Idalium, Paphos and Salamis, chiefly from the Dali hoard ;
and 20 Ptolemaic silver coins struck in Cyprus.

Presented by Sir Robert Hamilton Lang, K.C.M.G.

Syria.— Seleucis. — Laodicea ad Mare.—A silver tetra-
drachm of Claudius I. Obv. Head and name of Claudius. Rev.
ZEBAZTOZ FTEPMANIKOZ. Zeus Nikephoros seated ; in the
exercue, uncertain inscription. Wt. 189°1 grs. Cp. Imhoof-
Blumer, Monn. grecques, pp. 4398.

Syria.— Seleucude.— Antiochus I. Soter (281-261 B.c.).
A rare gold stater, of the types of Alexander the Great (Head
of Athena and Nike with standard) with the inscription
BAZIAEQZ ANTIOXOY, and the letters APK in monogram.
Wt. 132°8 grs.

Seleucus IV. Philopator (187-175 B.c.). Silver tetradrachm.
Obv. Head of Seleucus right, diademed. Rev. Apollo on omphaios ;
above and below, thunderbolts; on the left a laurel branch ;
inscription BAZIAEQZ ZEAEYKOY. Wt. 233-2 gers. Of
unusual fabric, and differing from the regular coinage in the
adjuncts on the reverse.

Antiochus [V. (175-164 B.c.). <A tinely patinated large
bronze coin, Obw. Head of Zeus. Rev. BAZIANEQ2 ANTIOXOY
OEOY ENIDANOY:. Eagle on thunderbolt. Wt. 575 gers.

Judea.—- Second revolt of the Jews.—A specimen of the
rare large bronze coin issued in the first year of the revolt
(132-133 A.D.). Obv. inscription “Jerusalem” in Hebrew
characters, in a wreath. ev. “ Year one of the Redemption of
Israel” in Hebrew characters, around an amphora. Wt.
300°6 grs. Only one other specimen of this coin has hitherto
been published (Frankfurter Munzzeitung, 1 Apr. 1908).

Parthia.— V olagases J.—A silver tetradrachm of the usual
types, with the rare date 375=63-64 a.p. Wt. 176°4 ers.

Egypt.—Ptolemy XII1.—A selection of 47 silver-plated
tetradrachms (contemporary forgeries), from a hoard found at
Tanis. Presented by the Egypt Huploration Fund.

Cyrenaica.__Barca.—A silver drachm of the fifth cent.
B.c. Obv. Silphium plant; magistrate’s name ®A[M]I. Rev.
BAP (retrograde) ; head of Zeus Ammon. Wt. 50:2 grs.

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Cyrene.—A silver drachm of the fifth cent. B.c. Obv.
Silphium plant. Rev. KVPA, Head of Zeus Ammon in incuse
circle. Wt. 50°8 grs.

A gold stater of the period 431-423 B.c. Obv. Zeus Ammon
seated, with eagle flying towards him; magistrate’s name
OEYOEI (retrograde). Rev. KYPANAIQN (not KYPANAION
as hitherto published) on a tablet in the exergue; quadriga
driven by the nymph Cyrene. Cp. Miiller, 4nc. Afr. I., p. 48,
no. 184. Wt. 131-2 grs.

A gold half-stater, of the period 431--323 B.c. Obv. Horse-
man, and magistrates name MOAI. Rev. KVPA, Silphium
plant; in the field a jerboa. Wt. 66-7 grs.

2. Roman Series :—

The most important acquisition in this branch for many
years is that of the two hoards of gold imperial coins found at
Corbridge in Northumberland, in 1908 and 1911. Both have been
fully described in Archeologia Aeliana, 3rd ser., vols. V. and
VIIL, and in Numism. Chronicle, 1912, pp. 265-312 and 1913,
Pt. I. The hoard found in 1908 contained 48 solidi of the reigns
of Valentinian I., Valens, Gratian, Valentinian II., Theodosius,
and Magnus Maximus, and a gold ring. The coins are in fine
condition, and 43 out of the whole number were struck at
Trier; the deposit was probably made about 385-387 a.D., and
is one of the last traces of the Roman occupation of North
Britain. The hoard of 1911 consisted of 159 or 160 aurei from
Nero to Mareus Aurelius; of these, one of Trajan, which had
apparently fallen out of the bronze jug in which the others
were contained, was not found until a day later. This hoard
must have been concealed about 160-162 a.p. It contained
many rare pieces, including one of Vitellius and Lucius
Vitellius (Cohen, p. 367, 3) and one of Faustina I. (rev.
PVELLAE FAVSTINIANAE, Cohen, p. 433, 261), com-
memorating a charity founded by Antoninus Pius in honour
of his empress. These two hoards, acquired under the law of
Treasure Trove, are preserved intact and separate, instead of
being incorporated with the rest of the collection.

Among the other Roman coins acquired may be mentioned :—

Republic.—A bronze dupondius of the uncial standard.
Obv. Head of Minerva. Rev. Prow of ship; above, mark of
value Il. Wt. 734°4 gers. This coin is overstruck on an as of
the previous (sextantal) period, about 217 B.c. Only three
other specimens appear to be known, one in the Paris Cabinet,
and two which were recently found with this at Ostia.

Seven silver denarii found in the Centenillo mine, Spain.

Presented by Horace Sandars, Esq.

Nero.— A dupondius (rev. Victory), in unusualiy fine
condition; found at Ashley Camp, Hants.
Presented by Gray Hill, Esq.
Probus (276-281 a.D.).—An aureus. Rev. PM TR'P’V"
COS IIII'P°P and in the exergue ANT. The Emperor in a

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triumphal quadriga, holding a laurel branch and sceptre. Wt.
96 gers. Struck at Antioch a.D. 281, commemorating the
Emperor’s triumph of the preceding year.

Another aureus of thesame Emperor, with rev. SECVRITAS
SAECVLI, but without mint mark. Wt. 82°6 gers.

3. British and Colonial Series :—
(a) Coins and Tokens :—
A Sceat with inscription EPA in runic letters.

A penny of Offa of Mercia with moneyer’s name (Potred)
in Runic characters.

Anglo-Saxon pennies of Offa (unpublished type) and
Burgred of Mercia, Aethelstan of Hast Anglia, Aethelstan of
Wessex, Eadred, Edward the Martyr, Aethelred IJ. and Edward
the Confessor.

A selection of pennies of William I. and William II. of
various types and mints.

A penny of William II. of the Southwark mint.
Presented by H. Symonds, Esq.
Pennies of Henry J., of which some represent the so-called
Canterbury Find and others, through the Rashleigh Collection,
the Watford Find.

A Lincoln penny of Stephen’s reign reading PERERIC
in place of the king’s name, an issue recently attributed to
the Empress Matilda.

A very fine specimen of the rare coinage of Stephen’s reign,
showing two full-length figures (perhaps Stephen and _ his
Queen Matilda) standing, one on each side of a long sceptre.

‘Two nobles of Henry IV. from the same obverse die, one
belonging to the heavy, the other to the hght coinage of
this reign.

A rare penny of Henry V. supposed to be struck from dies
of Henry IV. altered, by the addition of a mullet beside the
crown, for the coinage of Henry V.

A large series of London tokens of the XVII. century,
including many rare pieces.

Presented by the Library Committee of the
City of London.
(b) Medals :—

A pewter specimen of the medal of Charles Il. with radiate
sun on reverse, figured in Medallic Illustrations, pl. LXII., 5.
It was previously unknown in this metal.

Presented by P. W. P. Carlyon-
Britton, Hsq., JP.

A silver specimen of the medal commemorating the Capture
of Quebec in 1759 (Med. Ill., pl. CLXXX., 8), bearing on the
edge the inscription “WILLIAM PITT ADMINISTRING.”
This seems to be the actual specimen presented by Thomas
Hollis to Pitt.

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Specimens in gold and silver of the medal struck in com-
memoration of the Durbar at Delhi, 1911.
Presented by the India Office, through the
Right Hon. the Karl of Crewe, K.G.

Bronze medal issued by the Duke of Connaught as Governor-
General of Canada, with portrait and design by F. Bowcher.
Presented by F. Bowcher, Esq.

4, Medieval and Modern Series :—
(a) Coins :—

A Merovingian Triens struck at Troyes, bearing names of
mint (TRECAS) and moneyer (SGENNVLFVS).

A selection of XIIIth century deniers esterlins of the
Low Countries: Brabant (Jean I.), Hainault (Jean d’Avesnes),
Namur (Gui de Dompierre), Loos (Arnold VIII). Found with
English and Scottish coins at Mellendean (Roxburgh).

A very rare 4-ducat piece of Magdeburg struck in 1599,
with a portrait of the Emperor Otto on horseback.

Coins of Poland (Stephen and Sigismund III.), Brandenburg

(Duke Albert) and Salzburg ; and medizval coins of Hungary.
Presented by LE. M. Grant Duff, E'sq., C_M.G.

A series of Spanish and Hast Indian coins formerly in the
collection of Sir W. Maxwell, K.c.m.G.

Presented by Miss M. Iremonger.
(6) Medals :—

A fine specimen, in lead, of the rare medal of Gianfran-
cesco I. Gonzaga, first Marquis of Mantua, by Pisanello. Obv.
Bust and titles of the Marquis. hev. the Marquis on horseback,
accompanied by a mounted esquire: signed OPVS PISANI
PICTORIS. Probably made in 1439; see J. de Foville in
Rev. Numismatique, 1909, pp. 406 ff.

A miscellaneous collection of European medals in silver,
copper, and lead. Presented by Maurice Rosenheim, Esq.

A series of medals of the Argentine Republic.
Presented by Senor Felia F. Outes.

Medals . commemorating the centenary of Venezuelan
Independence.
Presented by Frederick D. Harford, Esq. C.V.O.
Specimens in silver and bronze of the medals of the
Olympic Games, 1912.
Presented by Mr. Kristian Hellstrom.

5. Orvental Series :—
An unpublished drachm of the Sassanian Emperor
Hormazd I. (272-273 A.D.)

A series of drachms of the Sassanian Emperors Sapor I1.,
Hormazd 11., Kobad, Khusrau lL, Hormazd IV., Khusrau II.,
and a copper coin of Ardashir I., with busts of himself and _ his
son Sapor. Presented by Sir A. Henry Macmahon, K.C.IL.L.

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Five dirhems of the Umayyad Caliphate struck at Abu Shahr
{92 A.H.), Damascus (80 A.H.), and Wasit (96, 105, 123 a.H.) ;
and 7 dirhems of the ‘Abbasid Caliphate struck by al-Mahdi
at Sijistan (163 a.H.), and Madinat al-Salam (167 A.H.),
and al-Rashid at Balkh (183 a.H.), Basrah (182 A.H.),
Muhammadiyah (191 4.H.), Sijistan (174 a.H.), and Zaranj
(192 a.u.) Presented by Sir A. Henry Macmahon, K.C.I.E.

Four dirhems of the Samanid Nasr II. b. Ahmad struck at
Enderabeh (301 4.H.), Nisapur (399, 321 A.H.), and al-Shash
(314 4.4.) Presented by Colonel L. Worthington-Wilmer.

A dirhem of the Tahirid Talha b. Tahir struck at Zaranj
(209 a.H.); a dinar of Khalaf b. Ahmad of Sijistan, and silver
and copper coins of Ahmad b. Muhammad of Sijistan ; copper
coins of the Samanids Manstr I. and Nuh II.; a fine series
of copper coins of the kings of Nimraz, Kutb al-Din, Taj
al-Din, Ka’an al-Adil and ‘Izz al-Din, who were hitherto
quite unrepresented in the Museum; a dinar of ‘Ala al-Din
Khwarizmshah, and 4 dirhems of Tamerlane.

Presented by Sir A. Henry Macmahon, K.C.L.E.

Two copper coins of Kutlagh Khwaja, a Chaghatai invader

‘of India. Presented by Colonel H. EH. Deane.
A silver coin of the Ak-Kuyunli Yakub Beg struck at
Sari. Presented by H. L. Rabino, Esq.

Five silver coins of the Shahs of Persia, Isma’il I. struck at
Nimruz, Tahmasp I. at Herat, Husain Shah at Tabriz
(1137 A.H.), Sulaiman I. at Huwaiza (1086 a.H.), and
Muhammad Shah at Yazd.

Presented by Sir A. Henry Macmahon, K.C.1.E.

Fourteen silver coins of Ismail I. of Persia of the mints
Karijan, Lahijan, Lestenshah, and Timejan, and silver coins of
‘Tahmasp I. and Karim Khan. °

Presented by H. L. Rabino, Esq.

A gold tuman of Fath ‘Ali Shah of Persia struck at
Kermanshahan (1239 a.H.), and another of Muhammad Shah
of Teheran (1260 A.H.).

A rupee of Nadir Shah of Persia struck at Sind during his
invasion of India.

Presented by the Bombay Branch of the
Royal Asiatic Socrety.

Six Afghan rupees of Shah Shuja’ struck at Peshawar (year 1)
and Kabul (1295 a.H.), Mahmud, Peshawar (year 8), ‘Ayyub
Shah, Peshawar ‘year 6), and ‘Abd al-Rahman, Kabul (1304 4.H.),
and Herat (1297 A.H.). Presented by Lady Gatacre.

A very fine collection of 13 gold, 262 silver, and 258 copper
coins of the Durrani and Barakzai dynasties of Afghanistan,
the Sikhs and the modern Dogra kingdom of Kashmir,
including many rare and unpublished pieces, among which
may be mentioned a gold mohur of Ahmadnagar and rupees of
Dera, Baréli, Muradabad and Sahrind of Ahmad Shah, a mohur
of Timurof Lahore, rupees of the Afghan pretenders, Afzal

0.44 G

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Shah, ‘Azam Shah, Yakub Khan and Muhammad Ishak; a
double mohur of Ranjit Singh, of Amritsar, and a gold coin
of Gholab Singh of Kashmir. This collection is of special
importance for the study of the history of the Durrani and
Sikh empires.

A very rare bronze coin of Apollodotus II. Obv., bow-case,
and titles in Kharoshthi. Rev., the King standing to front.
Presented by G. Morley, Esq.

Twenty hemidrachms of the Indo-Greek king Zoilus, with
various symbols and monograms.

Two hemidrachms of the Indo-Greek king Menander and a
gold coin of the late Kushans of North India.
Presented by Sir A. Henry Macmahon, K.C.1.E.

A gold coin of Candragupta II. of the Chattra type and
another of Kumaragupta I. of the Swordsman type.

A copper coin of Toramana, a Hun invader of India.
Presented by Lieutenant-Colonel H. P. P. Leigh.

A gold mohur of Aurangzib of Akbarabad (1071 : 5 a.H.),
and another of Muhammad Shah of Mu’azzamabad (1136 4.4.)

Four rupees of Aurangzib of Surat (1094: 24) and Tatta,
Muhammad Shah of Multan (1053: 12), and Farrukhsiyar of
Surat; 3 local rupees of Gwalior and Baroda.

Presented by the Bombay Branch of the
Royal Asiatic Society.

A rupee of Aurangzib of Katak (year 6).

Presented by the Director of Agriculture,
Central Provinces.

A rupee of Haidarabad State (1302 a.n.).

Presented by Lady Gatacre.

A gold coin of the Chola king Rajendra, and another of
Venkatadeva of Vijayanagara.

A gold coin of the Kadamba dynasty (Elliot, Pl. L., 16).

Presented by the Director of Agriculture,
Central Provinces.

Fifty-four copper coins of South India and Ceylon, including
Roman coins found in Ceylon.

Presented by the Misses R. and C. Layard.
6. Chinese Series :—

A 20 cent piece of the first year of the Emperor Hsuan
T’ung (1909) of Manchuria, restruck by the revolutionaries.
shortly before the proclamation of the Republic.

Presented by Edwin Rose, Esq.

V.—Books presented to. the Departmental Library.

Among the more important books presented during the
year are :—
“Corpus Nummorum Italicorum,” Vol. IJ.
Presented by His Majesty the King of Italy.

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“ Recueil Général des Monnaies Grecques d’Asie Mineure,”’
Vol. I., Fase. 4.
Presented by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles
Lettres, Paris.
A selection of Numismatic books, including Reimann’s
“ Munzen und Medaillen Cabinet” (3 vols.).
Presented by Mawrice Rosenherm, Esq.
Histoire des Quatres Gordiens, 1695.

Catalogue Numismatique, J. de Bary, 1730.
Presented by R. A. Peddie, Esq.
Numismatic Supplements to the Journal of the Asiatic
Society of Bengal, Nos. [X.. XI-XV.
Presented by the How ble H. Nelson Wright.

“ Les Barmécides d’aprés les Historiens Arabes et Persans.”
Presented by M. L. Bowvat.
Transactions of the Numismatic Sections of the Imperial
Russian Archeological Society, Vols. I. and II.
Presented by O. M. Dalton, E'sq.
Pamphlets on Russian coins by A. L. Bertier-Delagarde,
with marginal analyses in English.
Presented by E. H. Minus, Esq.
“ Forrer’s Biographical Dictionary of Medallists,” Vol. V.
Presented by Messrs. Spink and Son.

VI.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits made to the Department of Coins
and Medals by students and others during the year 1912
was 4,044.

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British Museum (NATURAL HIsToRY).

STATEMENT of PRoGRESS made in the ARRANGEMENT and
DESCRIPTION of the COLLECTIONS, and Account of OBJECTS
added to them, in the Year 1912.

GENERAL PROGRESS.

Visitors.

The total number of visits made by the public to the
Natural History Museum during 1912 was 455,613, an increase
of nearly 20,000, as compared with 435,684 in 1911. The
number of visits on week days was 404,848, and on Sunday
afternoons 50,765. In 1911 the Sunday afternoon visitors
numbered 54,693.

The average daily attendance for all open days was 1,276;
for week days only, 1,328; and for Sunday afternoons, 995.

Swiney Lectures.

Dr. Jehu gave his fourth course of Swiney Lectures on
three afternoons a week during the months of December and
January, with an interval for the Christmas holiday. His
subject on this occasion was “The Record of Life as revealed in
the Rocks,” and the lectures, 12 in number, were delivered, as
usual, in the theatre of the Victoria and Albert Museum, by
permission of the Board of Education. The attendance for the
course totalled 1,931, or an average of 161 persons per lecture.

Dr. Jehu’s appointment has been extended for another year,
and he proposes to give a course of Jectures in December next
on “The Natural History of Minerals and Ores.”

Oficial Guide.

An Official Guide (Mr. J. H. Leonard, B.Sc.) has been
appointed to take parties of visitors round the collections,
daily, except Sundays, free of charge. The experiment has
proved a great success, and the services of the Guide are so
much in request that it is evident that the public greatly
appreciate this new departure.

Department of Entomology.

Owing to the rapid growth of the entomological collections,
and the importance, now widely recognised, of the study of
insects in relation to the spread of disease in man and in
animals, the Trustees considered that the time had arrived
when the section of entomology should be constituted a
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The Treasury have agreed to this step, and Mr. C. J. Gahan
has been appointed Keeper of Entomology.

The remarkable increase in our knowledge of the role played
by insects in relation to many sides of human activity has led to
a great development in the work of this section of the Museum.
All the available accommodation for the proper arrangement of
the collections and for their study is now exhausted, and the
congested state of the entomological collections is engaging
the serious attention of the Trustees. They have under
consideration a plan for a considerable extension westward of
the main building of the Natural History Museum, which
would provide not only adequate accommodation for Entomo-
logical Research and an exhibition series of Insects, including
a series of specimens illustrating the economic side of the
subject, but also much needed space for other portions of the
Zoological Department, including a gallery in which a compre-
hensive display of specimens of Whales could be made.

Re-arrangement of the Study Collection of Birds.

During the summer the Bird Room was closed for six weeks
to allow of a complete re-arrangement of the Study Collection
of Birds in accordance with the Museum Hand-list. The
opportunity was taken of counting this vast collection, and it
was found that it consists of nearly 700,000 specimens, referable
to about 19,000 species. The collection is now arranged in 379
cabinets.

Projected Flight Exhibition.

The Exhibition of Animals, Plants, and Minerals mentioned
in the Bible has been dismantled, and an exhibition is in
preparation of specimens illustrating modifications of structure
of animals in relation to flight. The series will prove of
interest in connection with the science of aeroplaning.

Nature Reserves.

The Trustees have given permission to the newly established
Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves in the United
Kingdom to make use of the Natural History Museum as the
temporary address of the Society, with whose aims they are in
cordial sympathy.

International Commission for the Protection of Nature.

Mr. C. E. Fagan, I.S8.0., Assistant Secretary, has. been
appointed one of the British delegates to the Permanent
International Commission for the Protection of Nature, which
has its headquarters at Basle.

International Congress of Entomology.

The Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.R.S., and Mr. C. J. Gahan
were nominated to represent the Natural History Museum at the
Second International Congress of Entomology, held at Oxford
in August 1912.

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Museums’ Association.

Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S., Assistant Keeper, was again
nominated to represent the Natural History Museum at the
annual conference of the Museums’ Association held at Dublin
in July.

Fisheries Committee of Board of Agriculture.

Dr. Harmer, F.R.S., Keeper of Zoology, has been appointed
to serve on a Committee to advise the Board of Agriculture and
Fisheries on various fishery questions.

Ghent International Exhibition, 1913.

The Trustees readily gave their assent to a request from
the Colonial Oftice and the Board of Trade for the co-operation
of the Natural History Museum in organising at the Ghent
International Exhibition, 1913, a British Government Exhibit
illustrating the work done in Great Britain in the investigation
and study of tropical diseases.

Warming and Ventilation.

His Majesty’s Office of Works having represented to the
Trustees that a central boiler-house had been constructed in
the Exhibition Road at the Victoria and Albert Museum with
sufficient power to heat the Natural History Museum as well,
and that:a considerable economy of public expenditure could
be effected by heating both Museums from that centre, the
Trustees have agreed to transfer this service to the control of
the Office of Works from 1st April 1913.

Electric Lightvng.

Progress has been made with the electric lighting of the
Museum. Arrangements have been made to proceed with the
installation of the light in the ground-floor galleries on the east
side (Geology) in the same way as that carried out in the west
wing (Zoology), except in the Gallery of Fossil Reptiles, where
incandescent lamps of a high power will be used. As a safe-
guard against accident, a pilot light installation will he
introduced throughout the building in the course of 1913.

Unpacking Room.

A much needed room for the reception and unpacking of
specimens has been erected in the rear of the building in
convenient proximity to the entrance to the zoological
basement.

Subway to District Railway Station.

An agreement has been come to between His Majesty’s
Office of Works and the Metropolitan District Railway Com-
pany as to the terms on which the Company’s subway at

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South Kensington and the accesses thereto may be used. The
connection between the subway and the grounds of the Natural
History Museum was opened for the use of the public on
16th December, since when the gates have been open daily
during Museum hours.

Stranded Whales.

With the assistance of the Board of Trade, arrangements
have been made for prompt information being sent to the
Museum of the stranding of any whales on the British coasts.
A pamphlet describing the different kinds of whales has been
prepared by the Museum for distribution by the Board of
Trade among Receivers of Wreck, Coastguardmen, Lighthouse.
Keepers, and others. It is hoped that this pamphlet will aid
in the identification of the various species of whales, and thus
facilitate the acquisition of specimens that are wanted for the
National Collection.

During the summer a representative of the Museum was
sent to the Shetlands to collect specimens illustrating the
structure of whales. The resuits of this mission were very
satisfactory, and may be regarded as an encouragement for
further work of the same kind in future years. The specimens
obtained included the baleen and paddles of two species of
Rorqual Whales.

Dr. Oswald's Hapedition to British East Africa.

Dr. Felix Oswald’s expedition to British East Africa to
explore the bone-bearing deposit in the Karungu district on
the Victoria Nyanza resulted in the acquisition by the Museum
of an interesting collection of geological specimens, including
remains of Dinotherium, and confirming the geological age of
the fauna as already provisionally determined. With these
long extinct mammalian remains were found fresh-water shells
that are essentially the same as those now living in the same
district, thus proving that the Victoria Nyanza has existed
since early Tertiary times, and that, while the mammals have
changed there as in other regions, the molluscs have remained
unmodified during the whole period.

The Trustees have approved a proposal by the Keeper of
the Geological Department to arrange for the preparation of
a series of descriptive notes on the collection for publication.

Loan of Specomens by Their Majesties the King and Queen.

By direction of Their Majesties the King and Queen six
Lyre Birds’ tails have been. sent on loan to the Museum.
An interesting exhibit has been made of three of the tails,
while the remaining three have been placed in the study
series.

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Bequests.

Verrall Collectton.—Some 11,650 Diptera were received at
the Museum under the terms of the will of the late Mr. G. H.
Verrall, to whose bequest of part of his collection reference was
made in the last report (p. 105).

Adams Collection of Lepidoptera.—The Museum has been
enriched by the acquisition of the very valuable collection of
Exotic and Palearctic Lepidoptera formed by the late Mr. H.
J. Adams, who bequeathed it to the Trustees, subject to the
conditions that the collection “be known as the ‘Adams
‘“ Collection’ and kept intact for 25 years, after which time
“ the authorities shall he at liberty to transfer the ‘type’
specimens to the National Collection and also such others
‘‘ (with due care not to deplete) as they may think desirable
‘“ for improvement of the same” ; that all specimens transferred
be labelled as from the H. J. Adams Collection ; and that the
remainder be still known as the “ Adams Collection,” and no
part of it sold or exchanged.

ce

This magnificent collection is estimated to consist of about
140,000 specimens, 109,000 of these, comprising the butterflies
and some of the larger moths, being contained in 69 cabinets,
while the remaining 31,000 are moths contained in 531 carton
boxes.

Hume Collection of Indian Horns.—-The late Mr. Allan O.
Hume, C.B., who died in July, bequeathed to the Museum his
valuable collection of heads and horns of Asiatic and other
horned animals, subject to the condition that it be preserved
“as an entire and undivided collection.” The bequest consists
of 107 specimens, considered to be the finest series of Indian
horns ever brought together, all being much beyond average
dimensions, some being records, and several types. The
Trustees have accepted this splendid bequest, with the condition
attached, and arrangements are in progress for exhibiting the
collection.

Presents.

The total number of gifts received during the year by the
several Departments was 2,444, as compared with 2,431 in 1911.
Many of these comprised large numbers of individual] specimens.
The details of the more important of them will be found in the
reports of the Keepers of the Departments, but the following
are mentioned here also, as being of special interest :—

From Mrs. Beddome.—A selection from the collection of
shells from India (including Burma and the Malay Peninsula)
made by her husband, the late Col. R. H. Beddome, of all such
species as were required to complete the Museum collection :
the selection to be made by Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen,
who had been a close friend of Co]. Beddome and was well
acquainted with the contents and value of the collection.

From Mr. A. Blayney Percival.__The skin of a white Zebra,
from the Loriar Swamp, British East Africa.

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Also an interesting series of 374 birds collected by him in
British East Africa.

From the Earl of Ancaster.—Series of plaster casts of
British and Indian Cattle and British Sheep and Pigs, modelled
by G. Garrard in 1800.

From Mr. F, N. A. Fleischmann.— A valuabie and interesting
series of 45 minerals from the Walker collection.

From Miss Rose Fryer.—The valuable collection of British
Pond weeds made by her father, the late Mr. Altred Fryer, who
devoted many years to the critical study of the subject, on
which he was the recognised authority, and whose herbarium
contained 5,450 sheets.

From Mr. and Mrs. P. Amaury Talbot.—An important
collection of 2,800 plants from South Nigeria. (A Catalogue
of the Plants of South Nigeria, based on this collection, is in
preparation. )

Purchases.

Among the more important purchases made during the
year, special attention may be drawn to the following :---

The third instalment of the Lewis collection of Coleoptera
from Japan and Ceylon, consisting of about 8,000 specimens ;
the second instalment of the Distant collection of Insects, com-
prising 4,970 specimens and including 250 types ; further instal-
ments of the late Rev. Canon Thomas Blackburn’s collection
ot Australian Coleoptera; a fine series of fishes and reptiles,
from Portuguese Guinea and Chiloango, collected by Dr. W. J.
Ansorge; a valuabie collection of mammals and birds made by
Mr. D. Carruthers in Central Asia; shells from South Africa,
Japan, &e., including 55 types from the Layard collection ; a
collection of Woodlice (some 6,500 specimens) from all parts of
the world, made by the late Gustav Budde-Lund ; two skulls of
fossil mammals (Mesatirhinus and Dolichorhinus), from the
Eocene of the United States, in nearly perfect preservation ;
coloured plaster casts of skull and mandible of Tyrannosaurus,
from the Laramie of Montana; a restored skeleton of Hryops,
from the Permian of Texas ; a large skeleton of a Crocodilian
(Mystriosaurus), and skull and paddles of Ichthyosaurus, from
Wiirtemburg ; 600 cephalopoda from the Cretaceous of Hanover :
aremarkably fine specimen of the Cretaceous bony fish Portheus
(an ally of the Herring family), 14 feet long, from Kansas;
15 Anomodont reptiles from the Karoo of South Africa; a
complete skeleton of a short-tailed Pterodactyl ; a fine series
of 180 minerals from the Walker collection ; a large faceted
colourless topaz; a large faceted aquamarine of unusually fine
bluish green colour; fragments of meteoric stones from Cullison,
Kansas (1911); Kermichel, Morbihan (1903); St. Germain-en-
Puel (1890) ; sections of meteoric irons found near Tepl, Bohemia,
and Kingston, New Mexico; a series of 101 meteoric stones,
part of a shower which fell near Holbrook, Arizona, July 12,
1912; 751 Chinese plants collected by E. H. Wilson; 978
Philippine plants.

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ELachanges and Gifts of Duplicates.

Exchanges of duplicate specimens have been made with
various institutions and individuals.

The following additions have been made to the lst of
institutions to receive grants of duplicate specimens,
namely :—University of Edinburgh ; Towneley Hall Museum,
Burnley ; Lancing College ; Kilmarnock Museum; Barry Public
Museum; the Parkes Museum of the Royal Sanitary Institute ;
Dundee Public Museum; Pocle Public Museum; Friends’
Foreign Mission Association (China Committee) ; Ross-on-Wye
Secondary School; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

Selections of duplicate specimens have been presented as
follows :— 7

Of zoological specimens—to Warrington Museum; Man-
chester Museum; L.C.C. Secondary Schools at Clapham and
Eltham; Haslemere Educational Museum; Royal Scottish
Museum, Edinburgh; Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter ;
the Parkes Museum of the Royal Sanitary Institute; Bristol
Museum and Art Gallery ; Royal Normal College for the Blind;
Salford Museum ; Birkbeck College ; St. Andrews University
Museum; Friends’ Foreign Mission Association (China Com-
mittee); Prof. C. Chilton (New Zealand); Vicomte R. du
Buysson (Paris) ; Sefior R. P. Longinos Navas, 8.J. (Saragossa) ;
Dr. R. Gestro (Genoa); Mr. H.d’Orbigny (Paris); Dr. F. Ohaus
(Berlin); Mr. Heinrich Prell (Marburg); Dr. F. Netolitzky
(Czernowitz); Dr. Kraepelin (Hamburg); Prof. J. J. Gillet
(Nivelles); Mr. A. Grouvelle (Paris); Surgeon-Major A. Sicard ;
Mr. F. Hendel (Vienna); Mr. Hans von Krekich-Strassoldo |
(Vienna).

Of fossils and casts of fossils—to Goldsmiths’ College ;
Manchester Museum ; Bethlem Royal Hospital ; Norwich Castle
Museum; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Peterborough
Museum ; Barry Public Museum; Mr. E. B. Lotherington.

Of mineral specimens—to the Bombay Natural History
Society (cast of meteorite).

Of botanical specimens—to Mr. W. P. Hiern, F.R.S.

(N.B.—All the individuals named have presented specimens
or otherwise benefited the Museum.)

Loan of Duplicate Specimens.—Five duplicate stuffed
animals were lent to the Whitechapel Art Gallery for a Sports
and Pastimes Exhibition that took place during November.
and December ; and four of these specimens were passed on to
the Salvation Army for an exhibition at the Army’s Trade
Headquarters.

Publications.
The following works on Natural History have been published
during the year :—
History of the Collections, Vol. 11.—Appendix. General
History of the Department of Zoology from 1856 to 1895.

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By Dr. A. Giinther, F.R.s., formerly Keeper of the Department
of Zoology Pp.ix., 109. 8vo. ds.

National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-4. (‘“ Discovery ”
Expedition.) Natural History, Vol. VI. Zoology and Botany.
Pp. xvi, 101; 8 plates, 1 key-plate, and 1 text-figure. Ato.
16s.

Catalogue of Chiroptera (Bats). By Knud Andersen. Vol. I.
Megachiroptera. Pp. ci., 854; 85 text-figures. 8vo. £2 10s.
Catalogue of Mammals of Western Europe (Europe ex-
clusive of Russia). By Gerrit S. Miller. Pp. xv., 109; 213
text-figures. Svo. £1 6s.

General Index to Vols. IL-V. of the Hand-list of Birds.
Edited by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. Pp. v., 199. 8vo. 10s.—Large
paper edition printed on one side only. Pp.v., 388. fol. £1.

Catalogue of Birds’ Eggs, Voi. V. Carinatze (Passeriformes
completed). By W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. Pp. xxiil., 547;
22 coloured plates. 8vo. £2 7s. 6d.

Revision of the Ichneumonide. By Claude Morley. Part I.
Tribes Ophionides and Metopiides. Pp. xi., 88; 1 coloured
plate. Svo. 4s.

Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalenz (Moths). By Sir George
F. Hampson, Bart. Vol. XI. Noctuidee (Sub-families Eute-
liane, Stictopterine, Sarrothripine, and Acontianz). Pp. xvii.,
689 ; 275 text-figures. 8vo. £1.—Atlas of 16 coloured plates.
8vo. 17s. 6d.

Catalogue of the Chetopeda. <A. Polycheta: Part JI.—
mremcolide, By J. AH: Ashworth, D:Se.- Pp) xi.5 175; 15
plates, 68 text-figures. Roy. 8vo. £1 7s. 6d.

New editions have been issued of the following Guide-
books, etc. :-—

Guide to the Specimens illustrating the Races of Mankind
(Anthropology). Second Edition. By R. Lydekker, r.R.s.
Pp. 35; 16 illlustrations. Svo. 4d.

Guide to the Domesticated Animals (other than Horses)
exhibited in the Central and North Halls of the British Museum
(Natural History). Second Edition. By R. Lydekker, F.R.s.
Pp. 56; 25 illustrations. 8vo. 6d.

Instructions for Collectors. No. 1.—Mammals. Fourth
Edition. Pp. 8. Textillustrated. 8vo. 3d.

Instructions for Collectors. No. 2.—Birds and their Eggs.
Fifth Edition. Pp. 13; 6 text-figures. 8vo. 3d.

Selections of the natural] history publications of the Museum
have been sent to Free Libraries and other institutions in
Great Britain and Ireland, to Colonial, Indian, and foreign
Museums, Libraries, and Scientific Societies, and to several
persons who have benefited the Museum by helping in the .
publication of the volumes, or in other ways: and additions
have been made to the publications-exchange list.

108 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The under-mentioned works are in preparation :—

Catalogue of the Library, Vol. IV.

Catalogue of Bats, Vol. II., by Dr. Knud Andersen.

Catalogue of Ungulates, by R. Lydekker, F.R.s.

Catalogue of the Hume Collection of Indian Horns.

Catalogue of the Freshwater Fishes of Africa, Vol. III.,
by G. A. Boulenger, F.R.s.

Third Report on Eeonomic Zoology.

Illustrations of British Flies, Second Series.

Ilustrations of Oriental Blood-sucking Flies, by E. E.
Austen.

Catalogue of Moths, Vols. XII. and XIIL., by Sir George
F. Hampson, Bart.

Catalogue of the British Species of Pisidium, by B. B.
Woodward.

Flora of Jamaica, Vol. IL, by W. Fawcett.

Catalogue of South Nigerian Plants.

Catalogue of the Sloane Herbarium, by J. Britten.

Catalogue of Fossil Fishes, Part V., by Dr. A. S.
Woodward, F.R.S.

Catalogue of Cretaceous Flora, Vol? I., by Miss Marie
Stopes, D.Sc.

Guide to British Lichens.

Guide to Flight Exhibition.

GENERAL LIBRARY.

The additions to the General Library during the past year
have been :—
By purchase - - 454 volumes.
By donation - - - 589 volumes, 4 maps, and
69 photographs.
TOTAL = - 1,043 volumes, 4 maps, and
69 photographs.
All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press-
marked, and put in their places; whilst 1,778 volumes have
been bound in 680, and one has been repaired.

The extent of the collection on the 31st of December was
42,041 volumes, 5,790 maps, and 764 photographs (not including
those in the Owen Collection of Drawings, etc.).

The accessions to the Departmental Libraries have also been
catalogued as they came in, and duplicate transcripts of the
titles have been returned with the books.

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 109

Altogether 2,467 title-slips have been written, 209 re-
written, and 3,656 revised (independently of those prepared for
printing).

There are now, on a rough estimate, 91,379 volumes (ex-
clusive of continuations and minor separata) and 6,180 maps
in the whole building.

The number of visits paid to the General Library during
the year by students and others (irrespective of the staff and
persons to whom the use of a key is granted) was 2,041.

A further donation of five volumes was received from H.I.
and R.H. the Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria. The other
personal donors to the Library during the year were—

Lord Sudeley. Sherborn, C. Davies, Esq.
Bather, Dr. F. A. Smith. Dir. 0...

Darwin, Sir Francis. Tomlin, J. R. Le B., Esq.
Imeson, W. E., Esq. Woodward, Dr. A. Smith.
Kennard, A. 8., Esq. Woodward, Mrs. A. Smith.

Read, Sir C. Hercules. —

Valuable donations were also received from the Egypt
Exploration Fund and the Swedenborg Society.

The printing of the Catalogue was proceeded with, and the
work at the end of the year stood as follows :—

No. of sheets passed for press (A—SCHULZ) - - 234
No. of title-slips set up in type (A—SERG)_ - - 53,399

The following bibliographical paper dealing with an
important series of works was published during the year :

Sherborn (C. D.) and Prout (L. B.), Note on the Date of
Publication of the Works of Jacob Huebner on the Lepidoptera.
(Ann. and Mag. Natural History, Ser. VIIL, Vol. IX.,
pp. 175-180).

INDEX GENERUM ET SPECIERUM ANIMALIUM.

The Trustees have taken over from the British Associa-
tion the preparation of the ‘Index Generum et Specierum
Animalium,” which had been conducted for the previous
20 years by a Committee of that Association; and the Minute
Look, MS. slips, and all other documents connected with the
work have been transferred by the Committee to the Trustees
for preservation in the Natura! History Museum.

Since the transfer of the work to the Museum on Ist April
1912, considerable progress has been made with the Jndea,
under the charge of Mr. C. Davies Sherborn, some 20,000 slips
having been compiled and incorporated, whilst,in addition to
daily consultation by the staff and students, 30 enquiries from
abroad were answered.

110 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

InDEX MUSEUM AND MORPHOLUGICAL COLLECTIONS.

All the dissections exhibited in the Hall have been examined
during the course of the year; 22 dissections have been
re-mounted in alcohol, and four new preparations have been
added.

The series of enlarged models in the middle of the Hall
illustrating the life-cycle of the Malarial parasite is undergoing
revision. In the House-Fly case, models have been introduced
of the eggs, larva and pupa, enlarged to the same scale as the
Fly model.

In Bay VI. has been set out a series of 24 skins of Pigeons
illustrating the results of cross-breeding experiments on
Mendelian lines conducted by Mr. J. L. Bonhote and Mr. F.
Smalley, and a small addition has been made to the series of
cross-bred Maize cobs presented by Mr, R. H. Lock.

Progress. has been made with the series of preparations
designed to explain to the general visitor the elementary
principles of the classification of the animal kingdom, but it is
not proposed to put the preparations cn exhibition until the
whole series has been completed.

The series of specimens illustrating the structure of Flying
Animals, referred to in the last annual report (p. 111), is now so
far advanced as to be ready for setting out in the Hall when
accommodation can be found. The part relating to Insects is
already displayed in a special case, and will be ready for
exhibition when the explanatory labels have been printed.

A series of 12 slides has been prepared for examination
under a microscope by the visiting public, showing certain
structural features of the wings of Insects and the feathers of
Birds that are too minute to be otherwise studied

L. Fletcher,
Director.

British Museum (Natural History),
22 February 1913.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 2B

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY.
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.

MAMMALIA.

Mammal Galleries.

During the latter part of the year under review the
preparation of the Hume Bequest of Indian Big Game heads
for exhibition on the wall above the Banks Statue at the top
of the main staircase has been actively pushed on; but at the
time of writing this Return the actual installation had not been
commenced.

No special alterations in the arrangement of the Mammal
Galleries have taken place during the year; and work has
been confined in the main to the installation of new specimens,
and the rewriting and printing of such labels as required
modification in order to bring them up to date.

A small case has been placed on the wail behind the Kudu
case, at the top of the staircase leading to the West Corridor,
to illustrate, by means of small diagrammatic models, the
variations in the direction of the spirals of the horns of the
Hollow-horned Ruminants. It is hoped that by this means a
difficult and complicated subject may be made plain to the
general public.

The installation of black blinds in the Lower Gallery—in
order to preserve the specimens from the deleterious effect of
light during the long summer mornings, before the opening of
the Museum,—and the structural alterations required for the
installation of Tobin Tubes have rendered it necessary to
remove many specimens and pictures temporarily from the
walls, and likewise to cover up some of the cases, but these
operations have not seriously interfered with the accessibility
of the exhibits as a whole.

A new and revised edition of the Guide to the Specimens
of Anthropology, in the preparation of which the author
(Mr. R. Lydekker, F.R.S.) has been assisted by advice from
specialists in this country and in America, has been printed
during the year; but no additions have been made to the
exhibited series in this part of the collection.

The additions by presentation to the exhibited series in the
Mammal Galleries and Corridors include the following :—

In the Primates, a male Gorilla (Anthropopithecus gorilla)
presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.R.S., forms a
striking addition to the central] case in the Upper Gallery; the
same case also including an adult male Pig-tailed Macaque
(Macacus nemestrinus ), the gift of W. J. Henning, Esq. Tothe
Rodent cases the only addition is a Red-fronted Ground Squirrel
(Xerus dabagalla rufifrons), presented by A. B. Percival, Esq.
An important addition to the Carnivora is a fine Clouded

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Leopard (Felis nebulosa), presented by the Zoological Society,
alongside of which is placed a specimen of the Formosan race
of the same species (/. nebulosa brachyura), acquired by
purchase ; another addition being a Large-toothed Indian Otter
(Lutra macrodus), the gift of Percival Landor, Esq.

The new specimens of Ungulata comprise a bull Laikipia
Eland (Taurotragus oryx pattersonianus), presented by
F. C. Selous, Esq.; a Cape Hartebeest (Bubalis caama),
presented, at the suggestion of the Earl of Selborne, K.G., by
the De Beers Mining Co.; a Kob Antelope from the Guasin
Gishu, the proper name of which has not yet been determined,
presented by C. Bulpett, Esq.; a series of Antelope heads,
including two of Cotton’s Reedbuck (Cervicapra cottoni)
from the Dinder Valley, presented by Col. E. J. Gunthorpe ;
horns of Kudu (Strepsiceros strepsiceros), presented by
J. C. Starke, Esq.; skull and horns of Mountain Nyala
(Tragelaphus buxtoni), presented by Rowland Ward, Esq. ;
head of Guaso Nyiro Dik-dik (Madoqua cavendishi minor),
presented by F. C. Selous, Esq. ; a skull and horns of Sonoran
Bighorn (Ovis canadensis gaillardi), presented by Messrs. I. N.
and J.C. Dracopoli; head of South Nigerian Buffalo (Bos caffer
hunti) presented by A. W. Hunt, Esq. ; an unusually large Indian
Wild Boar (Sus cristatus), presented by F. C. Anderson, Esq. ;
a Sonoran Peccary (Dicotyles angulatus sonoriensis) ; lower
tusks of Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), presented
by J. C. Lyell, Esq.; and a Malay Tapir (Tapirus indicus),
the gift of H. C. Robinson, Esq., Director of the Federated
Malay Museums.

Whale-Room.—The replacement of the stuffed skins of
Dolphins and Porpoises by coloured plaster-casts, which has
been in progress for several years, has been practically
completed, with a manifest improvement to the series from an
exhibition point of view.

During the year the paddles of three species of Rorqual,
namely, the Blue Whale (Balenoptera sibbaldi), the Common
Rorqual (B. musculus), and Rudolphi’s Rorqual (B. borealis)
have been procured from the Shetlands and utilised for exhibi-
tion in the Whale Room. This has been done by preparing a
coloured cast of the entire flipper and afterwards a second cast
showing the natural arrangement of the bones as displayed
in a dissection. Arrangements for exhibiting these as well
as sets of baleen or whalebone of the Common Rorqual and
Rudolphi’s Rorqual are in progress.

Study Serves :—
The usual work of Jabelling, registering, and incorporating
the mammals added to the collection has been continued.

Two cabinets for storing small Mammal skins and a block
of six cabinets for storing medium-sized Mammal skins have
been acquired. In addition, four writing tables have been
added to the furniture in the New Room.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. nS

The collections of Old World Monkeys, Fruit Bats, and
Ungulates have been entirely rearranged.

The Department is again much.indebted to volunteer helpers
for valuable assistance in working out new forms of Mammals.
The following gentlemen should be specially mentioned in this
econnection:—Mr. R. C. Wroughton, Dr. Knud Andersen,
Mr. Gilbert Blaine, Major G. HK. H. Barrett- Hamilton,
Dr. R. E. Drake-Brockman, Mr. J. Lewis Bonhote, and Mr. E.
Heller.

The Department is further indebted to Mr. Gilbert Blaine
for baving kindly undertaken the preparation of a new
Manuscript List of the collection of Ungulates.

In connection with the Bombay Natural History Society’s
Survey of the Mammais of India, Mr. R. C. Wroughton,
Mr. T. B. Fry, and Miss K. Ryley have worked out the various
collections, published reports on the same, and selected series
for registration. The thanks of the Department are due to
these three volunteer helpers for the great assistance thus
rendered.

The services of Dr. Knud Andersen have been continued
for the preparation of the new Catalogue of Bats, the first.
volume of which, dealing with the Fruit Bats, has now been
published.

The Catalogue of the Mammals of Western Europe by
Mr. Gerrit S. Miller has also been published.

The Catalogue, written by Mr. R. Lydekker, F.R.S., of the
heads and horns of Indian Big Game bequeathed by A. O.
Hume, C.B., is now in the press and will shortly be published.

A Catalogue of the Collection of Ungulates is being prepared
by Mr. R. Lydekker.

The arrangement of the skeleton collection in the Osteological
Room has made good progress. Anew cabinet for the reception
of large Ungulate skeletons has been supplied. Various portions
of Whales and of their embryos have been added to the spirit
collection.

Additions of special interest to the Osteological and
_ Anthropological collections :—13 skulls of Peruvians showing
distortion of the brain-case caused by bandaging during infancy ;
received in exchange. The skeleton of a Malay Tapir;
presented by the Taiping Museum. The skeleton of the famous
race horse “Common”; presented by Dr. A. Boyce Barrow.
The skeleton of the rare Cetacean, Globicephala indica ;
presented by H.C. Robinson, Esq. The paddles of the Common
Rorqual, Balenoptera musculus, Sibbald’s Rorqual, Bale-
noptera sibbaldi, and Rudolphi’s Rorqual, Balenoptera
borealis ; the baleen of the Common and Rudolphi’s Rorgqual ;
and the skeleton of an Elephant Seal ; purchased.

Abnormal Coloration.

To the series of albinos and other specimens of abnormal
coloration have been added a semi-albino specimen of Grevy’s

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Zebra (Equus grevyt), presented by A. B. Percival, Esq.; and
a white Rook (Corvus frugilegus), presented by W. B. Gibbins,
Esq.

AVES.

The remounting of specimens in the General Gallery has
been continued, and the families Oxyrhamphide and Tyrannidz
have been nearly completed. ;

The entire collection of bird-skins has been rearranged in
the cabinets to make room for the additions, some 70,000 in
number, which hadaccumulated during recent years, and which
could not be incorporated owing to the crowded state of the
drawers. All these additions have now been registered and
labelled and are rapidly being put away in their proper places.
The number of incorporated specimens to be dealt with,
amounting to about 700,000 skins and formerly occupying 320
cabinets, have been spread over 379 cabinets, now available ;
the extra cabinets utilised include 44 of the old type placed in
the passage connecting the two bird rooms and 11 smaller top
cabinets of a new type, specially designed to accommodate the
larger Birds of Prey and Vultures.

The labour of this move, which entailed the shifting of
almost every drawer, has been great, but the result is eminently
satisfactory, and for the first time for years there is now ample
room not only for the present vast collection but for any
specimens likely to be added for many years to come.

A special new Catalogue has been prepared, and marked so
as to show the exact position of each species, and it will soon
be possible to find any specimen required without loss of time.

The total number of specimens in the skin collection of
birds numbers nearly 800,000 specimens at the present time ; in
1872 it was estimated by Dr. Sharpe at 20,000 skins.

In the collection of eggs, work has been continued, and a
large number of additions have been incorporated, labelled, and
neatly arranged in boxes filled with cotton-wool.

All the cabinets in the Bird Room have been carefully
examined for moth, and camphor has been placed in every
drawer where it was considered necessary.

The naming and relabelling of the Gould collection of
Humming-birds has been completed.

Mr. D. A. Bannerman has given valuable assistance in
working out various collections, in labelling the cabinets and
drawers under the new arrangement, and in preparing a number
of old collections for incorporation.

The Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for the
Colonies to inquire into the question of the destruction of
Plumage Birds, including Mr. C. HE. Fagan, I.8.0., Dr. Harmer,
and Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, to represent the Museum, has
completed its investigation and has sent in its report.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 115

By walling off a portion of the space in the Basement a new

room has been provided for the better housing of the birds’

skeletons, which hitherto have been far too crowded for
convenience of work.

The more notable presents are the following :—From the
Karl of Denbigh, C.V.O.; the collection formed by Thomas
Pennant, consisting of 142 specimens of British Birds, including
two Capercailzies, believed to be from Scotland and figured in
Pennant’s British Zoology (1766). From the Duke of
Bedford, K.G.; a final collection of birds from Western China,
including 167 specimens., From Mr. W. N. McMillan; a very
valuable collection of birds formed for him by P. Zaphiro in
Southern Abyssinia and including several new species and many
rare birds. From Mr. A. B. Percival; a fine collection from the
country north of the Guaso Nyiro and Mount Nyiro.

A valuable series of Birds collected at the lighthouse on the
Island of Shaweishan off the coast of South China, during the
Autumn migration, has been purchased.

The following Expeditions promise to yield important
results :—Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston is at present engaged in
making a second attempt to reach the Snow Mountains in
Dutch New Guinea by way of the Oetakawa River. He is
accompanied by Mr. C. B. Kloss, Curator of the Kuala Lumpur
Museum, and a number of trained Dyak collectors, and it is
confidently expected that large collections will soon reach
England. Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe is accompanying Lieut.
Cosens, of the Royal Dragoons, on a trip through an almost
unknown part of East Africa and has already dispatched a large
number of cases of specimens.

The work of systematic collecting in the Hebrides is being
continued ; and two gentlemen have been engaged, Mr. P. D.
Montague in completing the inner islands, and Dr. David
Anderson in working through the outer group. The results
obtained in the more southern islands of the Inner Hebrides
have been of so much interest, especially as regards Voles,
Shrews and Mice, three of which are new, that it has been
thought advisable to complete the examination of these groups
of islands as soon as possible.

DOMESTICATED ANIMALS.

North Hall.—The classification and descriptions of some
of the breeds of Sheep and Cattle have been somewhat modified
and brought up to date; and a new and revised edition of the
Guide to Domesticated Animals has been published.

The additions by presentation to the series of Domesticated
Animals include the following :—A series of miniature models
of Cattle, Sheep and Pigs made by G. Garrard in 1808, presented
by the Earl of Ancaster; these are in white plaster, but in due
course will be coloured to nature from the series of coloured
prints, also by Garrard, of the animals from which they were
modelled. <A fine Guzerati Humped Bull, presented by- the

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Duke of Bedford, K.G. ; head of Mysore Humped Cow, presented
by the Zoological Society ; a Tatarian Fat-Rumped Ram and
two other Central Asiatic Sheep, as well as three skulls of
Sheep, collected by D. Carruthers, Esq., and presented by H. J.
Elwes, Esq., F.R.S.; an Arabian Long-tailed Sheep presented
by Lt.-Col. Prall, Chief Medical Officer at Aden; head of
Norfolk Ram, presented by J. D. Sayer, Esq. ; skull and horns
of Circassian Goat, presented by the Egyptian Government;
Tibet Dog, presented by the Zoological Society; Chinese
Huppa Dog, presented by the Hon. Mrs. Carnegie; a King
Charles’ Spaniel, presented by Mrs. Stephens; a Borzoi, the
cift of Major S. P. Borman; head of Ibiza Greyhound, from
Majorca, presented by Miss D. M. A. Bate; skull of Dachshund,
presented by Capt. R. A. H. Barry.

Indian Runner Duck, presented by J. W. Walton, Esq. ;
Self-Black Archangel Pigeon, presented by H. W. Webb, Esq.

REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA.

All additions have been named and incorporated.

A number of skeletons have been prepared.

In the Reptile Gallery some progress has been made during
the year in sanding the shelves of the cases containing the
Snakes and Lizards, but other pressing work has prevented the
completion of the task. No addition has been made to the
exhibited series.

The Guide to the Reptile Gallery has been revised and
partly rewritten, and a new edition is in the press.

PISCES.

As the services of a taxidermist have not been available no
progress has been made with the exhibition series of Fishes.

Considerable progress has been made with a card catalogue
of the collection, and some groups that have recently been
studied have been arranged in accordance with this. Owing to
lack of space, further rearrangement and expansion of the
collection 1s, however, impossible for the present.

The additions have been registered and incorporated in the
collection so far as its congested state has permitted.

The work of replenishing with spirit has been continued.

Progress has been made with the third volume of the
Catalogue of African Freshwater Fishes, and several large
collections of African Fishes have been worked out.

TUNICATA.

Work in connection with the exhibition of a new series of
Tunicata in the large new wall-case in the Shell Gallery has
been begun.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 117

MOLLUSCA,

The work done in connection with the collection of Mollusca
has been of a miscellaneous character. The collection of radule
and other microscopic preparations has been arranged in proper
sequence, and a manuscript catologue of them prepared.
Further progress has been made in the arrangement of the
family Acmeeide ; the divisions of the genus Dosinia have been
studied, and the species arranged in accordance ; collections of
Opisthobranchs from Japan, the South African Scalarias, a
series of land and freshwater shells from Madagascar, and
some species of the genera Thais and Haliotis from Japan, have
been worked out. A presumed new species of Crepidula has
been studied, and an account has been drawn up of some
remarkable shell-growths supposed to have been taken from
valves of Tridacna. Anumber of types and figured specimens
from the Hanley and Pennant collections have been identified
by comparison with the original figures and descriptions. The
registration of the Norman collection of Arctic and Palzarctic
Mollusca has been continued and the model illustrating
“torsion” in Gastropoda and a table-case containing British
Mollusca of economic interest have been placed on exhibition.
A very large number of acquisitions from many localities have
been mounted, registered and incorporated, a selection of the
more striking specimens being placed in the exhibition cases.

INSECTA.

In order to provide additional accommodation for cabinets
in the Insect Room, an iron gallery has been fixed to the walls
in Room H, but the work was only just completed at the end
of the year. By the removal to this gallery of cabinets
‘containing duplicates and other material not often required for
reference, a certain amount of space will be set free for the
expansion of the economic and other parts of the collection.

The need of additional working space, which is required
not only for the members of the staff but also for the use of
voluntary workers and students, has been greatly felt at all
times during the year, and was especially noticeable for a short
period following the International Congress of Entomology at
Oxford, when a number of distinguished entomologists from
abroad visited the Insect Room in order to study the collections
there. At that time special efforts had to be made by the
Assistants in charge of the collections, and with the kindly
proffered help of Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, 1.8.0., late Assistant
Keeper, matters were arranged as satisfactorily as possible for
the convenience of the visitors.

The chief addition to the Insect Room during the year has
been the large and valuable collection of ‘Lepidoptera be-
queathed by the late Mr. Herbert J. Adams, and consisting of
about 140,000 specimens arranged in 69 cabinets and 581
carton boxes. Sufficient space not being available in the Insect
Room itself, these cabinets and boxes have heen placed in the
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118 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

the rest of the Lepidoptera. The cabinets have been numbered
and labelled, and the preparation of an index to their contents
has been put in hand.

The work of incorporating and arranging in cabinet drawers
the Jarge number of accessions waiting to be dealt with, has
made considerable progress during the year; so much so that
new cabinets provided were found to be not quite sufficient in
number, and in consequence the expansion of the collections
had in some cases to be suspended.

In the COLEOPTERA, the rearrangement of the Tene-
brionidz has been continued, many of the sub-families having
been dealt with and all their accessions incorporated. Collec-
tions of unnamed specimens of many groups have been sent to
specialists to be worked out, and upon their return have been
incorporated and arranged as far as space permitted. Numerous
species of the genus ‘Onthophagus have been dealt with by
M. Henri d’Orbigny, of the genus Bembidiwm by Dr. Neto-
litzky, of Copris by Prof. Gillet, of Aphodiine by Herr
Adolf Schmidt, of Pselaphidee by Major Broun, and of
Clavicornia by M. Grouvelle. A consignment of South African
Tenebrionide, worked out by Dr. Péringuey, has been returned
and reincorporated in the collection; and a number of
Australian Amarygmine have been sent to be worked out by
Mr. H. J. Carter, an authority upon that group.. The Pythide
and Pyrochroidze have been rearranged and all accessions
belonging to those families incorporated. A considerable
number of Anthicide have been sent to Herr Von. Krekich-
Strassoldo for examination and these have in part been named
and returned. The Japanese Lamellicornia of the Lewis
Collection have been incorporated, and a large number of
East African beetles of the same group have been determined
and added to the collection. Where the cabinet drawers were
too congested to admit of these important additions, the
genera contained in them have been expanded and rearranged.
Many of the Longicornia received during the year have been
determined and incorporated ; species of the group have been
identified for the Forest Research Institute at Dehra Dun,
and duplicates retained for the Museum, and a small collection
made on the Abor Expedition and sent by the Indian Museum
has been similarly dealt with. A commencement has been
made in sorting out into species, and determining, the very large
and interesting series of Lycidz from Africa presented by the
Entomological Research Committee during the last two years
—a series which in itself contains more species and a consider-
ably larger number of specimens than that already in the
Museum collection from the same part of the world. The dry
collection of Coleopterous larve has . been revised and
rearranged ; and a good deal of time has been given to the
determination of beetles which have proved injurious to crops
in the Colonies or which are otherwise of economic importance.
Lieut.-Colonel F. Winn Sampson has again, as in previous

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years, voluntarily devoted a great part of his time to naming
and arranging the Scolytide.

In the HYMENOPTERA the rearrangement of the
Sphegide (Sand wasps) has been completed by Mr. R. E.
Turner, who has continued to devote much time to this order.
The rearrangement of the Apidz has been proceeded with, and
all accessions incorporated so far as the work has gone; the
sub-families Megachiline and Melittine have been completed
and the Nomadinz commenced. A considerable amount of time
has been devoted to the large collection of Apide and Vespidee
collected by Mr. S. A. Neave in East Africa. Series of un-
determined species have been sent to foreign specialists on
loan; the largest consignments are in process of identification
by Dr. Maid] (Vienna) and Dr. Edvardo Zavattari (Turin).
Mr. Morley has continued work on the rearrangement of the
Parasitic Hymenoptera (Ichneumonide) and Part 1 of the
‘“ Revision of the [chneumonide” was published during the
year.

In the NEUROPTERA much material has been sent to
Senor Longinos Navas of Saragossa for identification, including
unnamed species of Chrysopide, Mantispidz, Ascalaphide and
Myrmeleonide. Other loans have been sent out to Dr. Ris
(Odonata) and the Rev. A. E. Eaton (Ephemeride).

The collection of the ANOPLURA and MALLOPHAGA
has been very much extended by consignments presented from
time to time during the year by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild and
by the Entomological Research Committee. The Anoplura
and a portion of the Mallophaga have been incorporated and
the collection arranged. The dry collection and most of the
species represented by specimens in spirit have been duplicated
by microscopic slides. The work of mounting Denny’s
valuable types is proceeding. A good deal of time has been
devoted to exotic and particularly African parasites. The Hon.
N. C. Rothschild has generously continued to make provision
for a preparator engaged in mounting slides‘and attending
to the spirit specimens.

The RHYNCHOTA have received a considerable addition
by the purchase of another instalment of the Distant collection.
The incorporation of this collection has been proceeded with ;
much work has also been done on Oriental Homoptera; and
a report on the collection made during the expedition sent out
by the British Ornithologists’ Union to Dutch New Guinea has
been published.

In the LEPIDOPTERA the family Satyride and the
Nymphalid sub-family Ithomiine have been considerably
extended and all accessions incorporated—chiefly the Godman
and Salvin and Hewitson collections, necessitating a large
amount of rearrangement and general revision of the collections.

Mr. South has continued work upon the Lycenide, having
incorporated the whole of the Godman and Salvin and
Hewitson Lycenide and most of the more recent accessions ;

120 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

and he has made considerable progress in transferring the
Hesperide to the new pattern cabinets, at the same time
incorporating all accessions.

During the year 1912 the text of Volume XII. of the Cata-
logue of Moths has been passed through the press, and will be
published in January, while almost the whole of Volume XIII.
has been prepared. The greater part of the Noctuid sub-family
Catocaline and of the Geometrid sub-family Geometrine have
been rearranged, and the Pyralid sub-family Epipaschiane has
been arranged.

In the Tineina the revision of the Gelechiade, Ethnfiade,
Blastobaside, Stenomide, Aegeriadz, Arrhenophanide, Spar-
ganothide, Eucosmide, Tortricide, etc., has been continued in
connection with work on the Neotropical genera of these
families, and the collection of slides has been augmented. The
transference of the British series of Tineina to other cabinets
has been completed: the general collection of Aegeriadze has
been reset and considerable progress has been made in
remounting and rearranging the specimens in new cabinets.
Various species of economic interest have been determined.

In the DIPTERA the working out of the African Tabanidee
has been continued, and a considerable amount of new material,
presented chiefly by the Entomological Research Committee
(now the Imperial Bureau of Entomology), has been incor-
porated ; descriptions of the new species have been published
in the papers mentioned below. The specimens required by
the Museum have been selected from a collection of 'Tabanidze
made several years ago by Mr. 8. A. Neave, in N.E. Rhodesia.

The African Blood-sucking Ceratopogonine (Family Chiro-
nomidz) have been subjected to revision, and descriptions of
new species have been published.

The General Cataiogue of Asilidze has been brought down
to the year 1910, by the entering of additions.

A large collection of Tsetse-Flies (Glossina) from the Congo
Free State, received for study from the Musée Royal D’ Histoire
Naturelle de Belgique, has been determined, and the specimens
required by the Museum have been selected.

A small collection of Diptera from Southern Algeria,
recently presented, has been partly worked out, and in
connection therewith the material in the Museum collection
belonging to the genera Anastechus, Usia, and Cytherea
(Family Bombyliidz) has been re-determined and rearranged.

A considerable number of accessions belonging to various
Families have been determined and incorporated.

A pamphlet on the House-Fly in relation to disease has
been prepared (for publication by the Museum).

During the year one of the principa] additions to the
collections has been a further large consignment of British
Diptera, under the Verrall bequest, bringing the total up to

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11,650 specimens. Further consignments of Diptera from the
Seychelles Islands have been received from Prof. J. Stanley
Gardiner, ¥.R.S. I1t-has been impossible, up to the present, to
do very much towards the incorporation of these collections.
Other large collections which have been received during the
year and for the most part incorporated are :—British Diptera
from Lieut.-Colonel Yerbury (over 1,000 specimens); Culicidze
of Malaya from Dr. G. F. Leicester (about 800 specimens,
including a large number of types) and Culicidee from the Gold
Coast, British East Africa, etc., from the Entomological
Research Committee.

Much time has been given to the expansion of the general
collection of Culicide, and to the determination and arrange-
ment of the British Mycetophilide ; this work is now almost
completed.

ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE.

Owing to the progress and extension of the important
work carried on by the Entomological Research Commitiee of
the Colonial Office, which has now become the Imperial
Bureau of Entomology, the two rooms provided for the use of
the Scientific Secretary of the Committee and his Assistants
have no longer sufficed to meet all their requirements, and the
Committee have had to rent additional rooms outside the
Museum. Although it is much to be regretted that incon-
venience to the Committee should result from lack of available
accommodation in the Museum, every effort has been made to
facilitate their work, which is still largely conducted within
the Museum.

One result of the active work of the Committee has been
the addition to the Insect Room collections of over 80,000
specimens during the year. A considerable number of these
- had been worked out and named before being handed over to
the Museum, amongst them being several species of economic
importance and a good many valuable type-specimens. The
vast majority of the specimens have been set and labelled
by the preparators at work in the Insect Room, and have thus
been made available for study. A good many have been
incorporated in the general collection, and some have been sent
to specialists to be worked out. Much of the material
presented by the Committee will prove extremely useful for
the study of distribution and variation.

MyYRIOPODA AND ARACHNIDA,

Part of the dry collection of Arachnida has. been arranged
and relabelled, and the collections of Ticks have been re-
arranged. Numerous accessions have been incorporated into
the named collections, and reports on some of the more
interesting forms have been published. A model of a Tick
(Amblyomma hebreum) has been prepared for exhibition.

122 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

PERIPATUS.

The collection, which is fully determined, has been re-
arranged, and is now more accessible.

CRUSTACEA AND PYCNOGONIDA.

In the exhibited series of Crustacea a coloured drawing from
living British specimens of the Fairy Shrimp (Chirocephalus
diaphanus) has been prepared and placed in the Gallery.

In the Crustacea Room the whole of the spirit collection
has been overhauled, and the bottles, about 13,500 in number,
have been cleaned and refilled. Of the Norman collection,
received in 1911, 19,177 specimens have been registered, a
large number of tubes refilled, and faulty corks replaced. The
Budde-Lund collection of Woodlice, received during the year,
has been placed in bottles, and arranged in systematic order,
in preparation for labelling and registration. A large number
of other accessions have been registered and incorporated.

ECHINODERMA.*

The rearrangement of the dried collection of Echinoderms,
by which space has, it is hoped, been gained for the systematic
incorporation of accessions for some years, has been completed,
and an index has been made to the drawers. Unfortunately
there is not now the space to arrange accessions to the spirit-
collection systematically ; and much trouble must be expected
in finding specimens asked for by students. Most of the
specimens obtained during the year have been determined, and
all have been incorporated.

WORMS.

Dr. J. H. Ashworth’s “Catalogue of the Arenicolide” has
been revised and passed through the press. The MS. list of
Gephyrea has been added to, and brought up to date. A MS,
list of the species of Chetognatha has been prepared, but the
specimens in the collection have not yet been catalogued:
attention has been given to the collection of Nematode Worms,
and the nomenclature is gradually being brought up to date.

A specimen of “measly pork” better than that at present
exhibited has been mounted, and will be shown as soon as a
descriptive label has been prepared.

As it was found that long worms in tubes suffered from
exposure to dirt, a closed cabinet has been devised, which affords
room for additions.

The systematic rearrangement of the collection of micro-
scopic slides has been continued.

* The Assistant in charge of this and other groups has edited the
Reports on the National Antarctic (“ Discovery”) Expedition, 1901-4, the
sixth and last volume of which has been published during the year.

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A better type of exhibition case has been supplied for
worms, and specimens have been arranged in it.

POLYZOA;

The Norman collection of Polyzoa, contained in 1,728 glass-
topped boxes and in a slide cabinet, has been registered, care
being taken to enter in the register all the information on all
the labels, there being usually more than one label in each box.

ANTHOZOA.

The exhibition cases have been revelveted.

A very large specimen of the white variety of Coralliwm
secundum has been mounted and exhibited.

Progress has been made with the determination of the
specimens in the collection of Pennatulids, and nearly all the
specimens of Anthozoa added during the year have been named,
and have been incorporated in their systematic position.

HyYDROZOA.

The rearrangement and_ registration of the Norman
collection of Hydrozoa has been begun.

PORIFERA AND PROTOZOA.
With the aid of a grant from the Royal Society Mr. Kirk-

patrick has continued his investigation of Merlia normani, a
siliceous sponge with a calcareous skeleton. He has arrived
at novel conclusions with regard to the mode of development ~
of the calcareous part of the skeleton.

IIl.—Duplicates and Hachanges.

(a) Duplicates.
Duplicates have been distributed among museums, scientific
institutions, etc., as follows :—
Mammalia.—Friends’ Foreign Mission Association ; Lisbon
Museum ; and Royal Normal College for the Biind, Norwood.

Duplicates have been lent to the Whitechapel Art Gallery
and to the Salvation Army.

Aves.—Friends’ Foreign Mission Association ; Salford
Museum; Royal Normal College for the Blind.

Reptilia, Batrachia.—Friends’ Foreign Mission Associa-
tion.

Pisces.—Friends’ Foreign Mission Association; Dr. W. 8.
Bruce ; and Professor W. C. M‘Intosh, F.R.S.

Pterobranchia.—Birkbeck College, London.
Mollusca.—Friends’ Foreign Mission Association.

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Insecta.—Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh ; Royal Albert
Memorial Museum, Exeter; Haslemere Educational Museum ;
Friends’ Foreign Mission Association ; London County Council ;
Parkes Museum, Royal Sanitary Institute, London ; Manchester
Museum. Duplicates have also been sent to the following
gentlemen, who have assisted in naming specimens :—Vicomte
R. du Buysson, Dr. R. Gestro, Dr. J.J. Gillet, M. Ant. Grouvelle,
Herr F. Hendel, Herr Hans von Krekich-Strassoldo, Senor R.
P. Longinos Navas, S.J., Dr. Fr. Netolitzky, Dr. F. Ohaus,
M. Henri d’Orbigny, Herr Heinrich Prell, and Surgeon-Major
A. Sicard.

Crustacea.—Warrington Municipal Museum ; Professor C.
Chilton.

Echinoderma. — Friends’ Foreign Mission Association ;
Professor W. C. M‘Intosh, F.R.S.

Worms.— Friends’ Foreign Mission Association.
Polyzoa.—Professor W. C. M‘Intosh, F.R.S.
Calenterata.—Professor W. C. M‘Intosh, F.R.S.
Porifera.—Professor W. C. M‘Intosh, F.R.S.

(b) EHachanges.

Exchanges have been made with the following institutions
and individuals :—

. Mammalia.—With the Kénigl. Zoologisches Museum,
Berlin; the Buitenzorg Museum ; the University Museuin of
Zoology, Cambridge ; the Naturhistorisches Museum, Hamburg ;
the Istituto Zoologico, Naples; the Perth Museum, Western
Australia ; the Musée du Congo Belge, Tervueren; and the
United States National Museum, Washington (Anthropology).

Aves. — With the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris ; the
American Museum of Natural History, New York; Mr. H. J.
Elwes, F.R.S. ; and Mr. G. M. Mathews.

Reptilia and Batrachia.—With the Bristol Museum and
Art Gallery ; the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge,
Mass. ; the University of Turin; and Dr. F. Werner.

Pisces.—With the University Museum of Zoology, Cam-
bridge; the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris; Professor
Bashford Dean; Professor Fr. Guitel; and Professor Einar
Lonnberg.

Pterobranchia.—With the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum,
Stockholm.

Invertebrates (Miscellaneous Antarctic).—With Dr. W. &.
Bruce.

Mollusca.—-With Mr. H. B. Preston.

Insecta.—With the South Australian Museum, Adelaide ;
the Konigl. Zoologisches Museum, Berlin ; the Natural History
Museum, Leyden; and with Dr. Hans Brauns, Dr. A. Fenyes,
Herr Carl Frings, Dr... J. J. Gillet, Mr. O. E. Janson® De:
Kurt Lampert, Mr. F. Mason, Dr. Fr. Netolitzky, M. Maurice

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Pic, the Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.R.S., Herr Adolf Schmidt,
Dr. A. von Schulthess, and Professor Dr. Yngve Sjéstedt.

Myriopoda.—With Professor F. Silvestri.

Arachnida.—With the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; and with
Professor K. Kraepelin.

Crustacea.—With the Australian Museum, Sydney.

Celenterata.—With the Indian Museum, Calcutta; the
University Zoological Museum, Copenhagen; and _ with
Professor S. J. Hickson, F.R.S.

III.— Departmental Library.

The acquisitions for the Departmental Library during the
year, obtained by purchase, presentation and exchange, consist
of 111 separate works in 119 volumes, and 2,097 parts of
periodicals and works in progress.

Four hundred and twenty-one volumes, including those
belonging to the Walsingham Library, have been bound.

The work of collating, stamping, press-marking and entering
in the Catalogue all additions has been performed as usual.

The Attendant in the Library, with the aid and supervision
of an Assistant, has checked all the entries of Zoolovical
Works in that portion of the General Catalogue of Books which
has been printed during the year.

Among the donations two are worthy of special mention :—
The Birds of Australia, Vol. 1, part 6, and Vol. 2, parts 1-4;
presented by G. M. Mathews, Esq. One hundred and sixty-nine
reprints of papers by various authors on Zoological subjects but
chiefly entomological; presented by R. C. Wroughton, Esq.

List of Donors to the Departmental Library during the
year 1912 :—

Adams, F. B.

Agricultural Experiment Station, Berkeley, California.
Agricultural Experiment Station, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, Behar, British India.
Agriculture and Fisheries, London, Board of.
Anthropological Society, Bombay.

Asamblea Nacional, Republia del Salvador, Central America.
Australian Museum, Sydney.

Avicultural Society, London.

Barnes, W.

Blanc, Prof. H.

Botanical Gardens Department, Singapore.

Breitfuss, L. L.

Bresslau, Prof. E.

British Ornithologists’ Union.

Colonial Office, Under Secretary of State.

Committee for the Study of Malaria in India.
Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Connolly, Major M.

126 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Conseil permanent pour |’Exploration de la Mer.

Crown Agents for the Colonies, London.

Département de | Agriculture, de |’ Industrie et du Com-
merce, aux Indes Neerlandaises, 4 Buitenzorg (Java).

Department of Agriculture, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Department of Agriculture, Egypt.

Department of Agriculture, Fiji.

Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada.

Department of Agriculture, Sidney, N.S.W.

Department of Agriculture, Victoria.

Department of Agriculture, Wellington, New Zealand.

Department of Fisheries, Sydney, N.S.W.

Direction Générale du Ministére des Colonies, Bruxelles.

Dove Marine Laboratory, Cullercoats, Northumberland.

Ecole de Médicine Tropicale, Junqueira, Lisbonne, Portugal.

Entomological Research Committee, Londen.

Entomological Society, London.

Entomological Society, Ontario, Canada.

Essex Field Club.

Field, Editor of the.

Fishery Board for Scotland.

Fishery Department, Calcutta.

Foreign Bird Club.

Froggatt, W. W.

Hampson, Sir G. F., Bart.

Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association.

Herdman, Prof. W. A., F.R.S.

Hoyle, Dr. W. E.

Imperial Department of Agriculture, West Indies.

India, Secretary of State for.

Indian Museum, Calcutta.

Janet, Mons. C.

Jepson, F. P.

Kofoid, Prof. C. A.

Kommissionen for Havundersogelser, Kjobenhavn.

Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola
Superiore d’Agricoltura in Portici.

Linnean Society, London.

Longstaff, Dr. G. B.

Madras Fisheries Bureau.

Miers, Miss E.

Minister of State for Trade and Customs, Melbourne.

Ministero d’Agricoltura, Industria e Commercio, Roma.

Musée Zoologique de l’Académie Imp. St. Pétersbourg.

Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Harvard College.

Nederlandische Entomologische Vereeniging.

Neue Zoologische Gesellschaft in Frankfurt a. Main.

New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.

Norman, Canon A. M., F.R.S.

Outes, F. F.

Ridley, H. N., F.R.S.

Royal Sanitary Institute, London.

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Salmon and Trout Association, London.

Seabra, Senor A. F. de.

Severin, Mons. G.

Sherborn, C. Davies.

Skinner, Prof. H.

Société Entomologique de Belgique.

Socicté Entomologique de France.

Société Entomologique de Russie.

South African Ornithologists’ Union.

Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, India.

Thomas, O., F.R.S.

Thompson, Dr. J. C.

Townsend, C. H.

Ungarische Ornithologische Centrale, Budapest.

United States Bureau of Fisheries, Washington.

United States Department of Agriculture, Washington.

University of Pennsylvania.

University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming.

Van Denburgh, J.

Wefelscheid, Dr. H.

Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Gordon Memorial
College, Khartoum.

Wroughton, R. C.

Zoological Gardens, Giza, Egypt.

Zoological Museum, Copenhagen.

Zoological Society, London.

Zoological Society, New York.

Zoological Society, Philadelphia.

Zoological Society, Tokyo.

Zoologische Staatssammlung, Miinchen.

Zoologisches Museum, Berlin.

IV.—Publications.
In addition to the official Catalogues and other volumes

published by the Trustees (see pp. 106-7), various reports and
descriptive papers have been prepared in connection with the
different branches of the collection; and have been published for
the most part in scientific journals.

For the convenience of reference the following list is

appended :—

Mammalia.
By OLDFIELD THomAS, F.R.S. :—
“On Small Mammals from the Lower Amazon.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) ix., p. 84.
“ Notes on Phascogale and Chetocercus.” Dt pan 9 ly:
“Revised determination of two Far Eastern species of
Myospalax.” 1D... p:. 93.
“A new Genus of Opossums and a new Tuco-tuco.”
Tb., p. 239.
“ Mammals of the Panyam Plateau, Northern Nigeria.”
Ldy,1p. 269.

128 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MAMMALIA—continued.
«“ Two new Asiatic Voles.” Ib., p. 348.
“The Duke of Bedford’s Zoological Exploration of Eastern
Asia.—-XV. On Mammals from the Provinces of Sze-
chwan and Yunnan, Western China.”
Proc: Zool. Soc 10127 plz;
“On Mammals from Central Asia collected by Mr. Douglas
Carruthers.” Arn. Mag: Nat. Hist: (8) 1x., po 39ol.
“ Three Small Mammals from South America.” Ib., p. 408.
“Descriptions of Two Giant Rats from New Guinea,
presented to the British Museum by the Hon. Walter
Rothschild, F.R.S. Novitates Zoologice, XIX., p. 91.
“On Insectivores and Rodents collected by Mr. Kingdon
Ward in N.W. Yunnan.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) ix., p. 513.
“List of a Third Collection of Mammals from Panyam,
North Nigeria, presented by the Rev. G. T. Fox.”
1b., p. 683.
“ New Species of Crocidura and Petaurista from Yunnan.”
10.5 pe 636,
“The Races of European Wild Swine.”
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1912, p. 390.
“Two new Genera and a new Species of Viverrine
Carnivora.” Ib., p. 498.
“The Generic Names Cercomys and Proechimys.”
Proe. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXV a pets.
“The Technical Name of the Tasmanian Devil.”
Thy peii6.
‘“ Mammals from the Ja River, Cameroons.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) x., p. 41.

«“ Small Mammals from South America.” Ib., p. 44.
«A new Vespertilionine Bat fron Angola.” Ib., p. 204.
“Two new Species of Vasua.” Lb., p. 228.
“Two New West African Mammals.” Ib., p. 280.

“Ona Collection of Small Mammals from the Tsin-ling
Mountains, Central China, presented by Mr. G. Fenwick

Owen to the National Museum.” Lb:, p..395.
“New Bats and Rodents from South America.”

Ib., p. 403.
“Two new Races of Mongoose.” fb., p. 588:
“New Centronycteris and Ctenomys from South

America.” — Ib., p. 638.

By Guy DoOLLMAN :—-
«A new Gerbil from British East Africa.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) ix., p. 219,
«Seven new African Dormice.” L6.; p. B12:
«A new Snub-Nosed Monkey.”
Proce: Zool. Sde7° 1912, p.50s.
« A new Elephant Shrew from the Island of Zanzibar.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) x.,p 130.
“Mammals of the Oban District.” Included in “In the
Shadow of the Bush,” by P. Amaury Talbot. 1912.
Appendix f., p. 465.

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MAMMALIA—continued.

By R. C. WROUGHTON :—
‘‘Some new Indian Rodents.
Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xxi, p. 338.
‘ Bombay Natural History Society’s Mammal Survey of
India. Report No. 1, Kandesh Collection. Jb., p. 392.
“ Some new Indian Mammals.” Lb Oe FET:
“Bombay Natural History Society’s Mammal scree of
India. Report No. 2, Berar Collection. Report
No. 3, Cutch Collection. Report No. 4, Nimar
Collection. Ib. , p. 820.
“Bombay Natural History Society’s Mammal Survey of

India. Report No. 5, Dharwar Collection.”

Kb. p. 1170:

99

By R. LYDEKKER, F.R.S. :—
“On the Milk-Dentition of the Ratel.”
Proe. Zool. Soe.,.1912; p. 221.

“The North Rhodesian Giraffe.” LDS (4 Dp. TFA.

“The Bornean Bantin.” I6., p. 902.

“ Note stating that Gazella hayi=Gazella fuscifrons.”
ED S99.

By Dr. KNUD ANDERSEN :—
“A new Nyctumene from New Guinea.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), ix., p. 95.
“ Brief Diagnoses of eight new Petalia, with a list on the

known forms of the Genus.” Ib., X., p. 546.

“A new Cynopterus from Borneo.” Tb., p. 640.
By R. E. DRAKE-BRocKMAN, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.Z.S. :—
‘Two new Mongooses from Somaliland.” POS pe ol.

By J. Lewis Bonuwore, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.8. :
“Ona further Collection of Mammals sane Egypt and
Sinai.” Proc. Zool. Soe., 1912, p. 224.
ye poe kv CRART: ==
“The Infancy of Animals.”
Aves.
By W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT :—

“ British Game Birds and Wild Fowl” (Natural History of
each species).
London and Counties Press Association, 1912.
* On the Eggs of Certain Birds of Paradise.”
Ebis, E9L2..p. 112:

“ Notes on Laniarius mufumbire.” Hs, Pp. 832.

‘“On the Birds of Ngamiland.” HO. ps 535),

i Buraber, Notes on the Birds of the Island of Formosa.”
Ib., p. 643.

“ Notes on the Birds collected by the B. O.-U. Expedition
to Dutch New Guinea.” Appendix A. to A. F. R.
Wollaston’s “Pygmies and Papuans,” pp. 263-302
(1912) (cf. Ibis, 1913, pp. 76-113).

“On an immature Blackcock (Lyfurus tetrix) in partial
female plumage.”’ Bull, By O.C., x13, pa Os

0,44: I

150 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

AVES— continued.
‘““On a new species of Weaver-Finch (Pytelia chubbi) from

British East Africa.” LG GA.
“On the Australian species of Corvus.” Tbs pero.
“On Birds requiring protection in the Fanning Group of

Islands.” Tb. p.L0r,
“On the Nestling of the Thick-billed Lark (Rhamphocorys

clot-bey).”’ Ib., p. 104.
“On new species of Birds from Mount Arizan, Formosa.”

EDS ip 107.
“On the unknown breeding-plumage of the Common

Partridge.” Lb. 110.

“On a new species of Flycatcher (Lrythrocercus nyasce).”
Lb. p. 115.
“On a new species of Scops-Owl (Scops spurrelli) from

Ashanti.” Top p16.

“On rare Francolins from N.E. Africa.” Libs, ip. 11:6;

“Note on Abrornis albigularis formosana.”
Bull BaO.0C. xa po 14:
““On a new sub-species of Pheasant (Phasianus strawchi
chonensis).” Poe. hb:
“On a new species of Seed-eater (Poliospiza pep ae's)
from Mount Elgon.” Hepes.
“On the distinctive characters of the Common ae oe s
Golden-Eye.” Tip 18.
Bulletin of the Ornithologists’ Club. Volumes xxix,
xxx. (Report on the Immigration of Summer-Resi-
dents) and xxx1i. (edited).
“On a new sub-species of Lark (Calandrella sclatert
capensis) from South Africa.”
Annals of the South African Museum, 1912.
“Breeding and Eclipse-plumage of the Common Part-
ridge.” British Birds, p. 234.

By C. CHuBB (and LorD BRABOURNE) :—
“ Notes on Guiana Birds.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), x., p. 261.
“A List of the Birds of South America.”
The Birds of South America, Vol. I

By W. P. PycRarr :—
‘The Game Birds.” The British Bird Book.
“The Anseres.” The British Bird Book.

Reptilia and Butrachia.
By G. A. BoULENGER, F.R.S. :—

« A Vertebrate Fauna of the Malay Peninsula.”
“ Reptilia and Batrachia,” London, 1912.
‘Some Remarks on the Habits of British Frogs and Toads.”
Proes Zoolu Sot; O12 pea:
es Descriptions of* new African Batrachians in the British
Museum.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), x., p. 140.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 131

REPTILIA—continwed.

Descriptions of new Reptiles from the Andes of South
America, preserved in the British Museum.”
Ib., p. 420.
' Descriptions of new Batrachians from the Andes of
South America, preserved in the British Museum.”
TO polSo.
‘Missione per la frontiera Italo-etiopica sotto il comando
del Capitano CarloCiterni.” “Reptilia and Batrachia.”
Ann. Mus. Genova (3), v., p. 329.
“On some Tree Frogs allied to Hyla caerulea, with
Remarks on noteworthy secondary sexual characters
in the Family Hylide.”
Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. xv., 1., p. 211.
‘Observations sur l’accouplement et la ponte de |’Alyte
accoucheur, Alytes obstetricans.”
Bull. Acad. Belge, 1912, p. 570.

Pisces.
By G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. :—
‘ Poissons recueillis dans la Région du Bas-Congo par
M. le Dr. W. J. Ansorge.”

Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii., Fascic. 3, p. 27.
“ A Synopsis of the Fishes of the genus Mastacembelus.”
Journ. Ac. Philad. (2), xv., p. 197.
“On a Collection of Fishes made by Mr. A. Blayney
Percival in British East Africa to the east of Lake
Baringo.” Proe. Zool. Soc., 1912, p. 672.
“Description of a new Fish from British Central Africa.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), ix., p. 519.
“ Description of three new African Cichlid Fishes of the

genus Tilapia, preserved in the British Museum.”

1G Len ps aS:
“Description of a new Cichlid Fish from the Lower
Niger.” Eh. po 263.

‘“ Description of two new Fishes from the Nile System.”
Ib., p. 601.

‘Description d’un Poisson nouveau du genre Haplochilus
provenant du Katanga.” Rev. Zool. Afr., ii., p. 47.
By C. Tate REGAN :—
“ Descriptions of new Fishes of the family Loricariide in
the British Museum Collection.”
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1912, p. 666.

** Philippine Sharks.” Science, 36, p. 81.
“The Anatomy and Olassification of the Symbranchoid
Eels.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), ix., p. 387.
“The Osteology of the Teleostean Fishes of the Order
Opisthomi.” Po: p. 207%.
“The Classification of the Teleostean Fishes of the Order
Pediculati.” 1b., p. 207.
‘““A Synopsis of the Myxinoids of the genus Heptatretus
or Bdellostoma.” Ib., p. 534,

Teg

132 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

PISCES-—continued.
* Descriptions of new Cichlid Fishes from South America

in the British Museum.” Ib., p. 505.
*“‘ Description of a new Characid Fish from the Amazon.”
#b., p. 682.

“A Revision of the South American Siluroid Fishes of the
genus Corydoras, with a list of the specimens in the
British Museum (Natural History).” Paap oi OP Urd U)

“The Classification of the Blennioid Fishes.” Jb., p. 265.

“Description of two new Eels from West Africa, belonging
to a new genus and family.” Ib., p. 323.

“The Anatomy and Classification of the Tlelegateam Fishes
of the Order Lyomeri.” Ib., p. 347.

“ The Osteology and Classification of the Teleostean Fishes
of the Order Apodes.” Ibsgprsi C-

‘A Revision of the South American Characid Fishes of
the genera Chalceus, Pyrrhulina, Copeina, and Pogo-

nocharax.” IDS Braol.

“ A Revision of the Peeciliid Fishes of the genera Rivulus,

Pterolebias, and Cynolebias.” Ib., p. 494.

“The Anatomy and Classification of the Teleostean Fishes

of the Order Discocephali.” Ib., p. 634.
‘The Caristiide, a family of Berycomorphous Fishes.”

TD. paneod «

“Sexual Differences in the Peeciliid Fishes of the genus

Cynolebias.” Ib., p. G41.

«New Fishes from Aldabra and Assumption, collected by
Mr. Ji. Cu H.. Bayer.
Trans, Linn. S0esxv., Pt. 2ps01.

“The Twaite Shad in Killarney Lakes.”
Irish Naturalist, xxi., p. 63.

Mollusca.

By HE. A. Surra, [.8.0. :—
‘Note on a large specimen of Anodonta cygnea.”
Proc. Malac. Soe., x., p. 4.
“Note on Plewrotoma (Clionella) bipariita, Stee ”
Lb. p. 53.
“On the generic name to be applied to the Vea
islandica, Linn.” 16.5 pakos:
“ On the survival of a Miocene Oyster in Recent Seas.”
Records Geol. Survey India, xlii., p. 1.

By G. C. Ropson :—
‘On a case of presumed viviparity in Limicolaria.”
Proc. Malac. Soe: x., poa2,
“Qn a new genus and species of marine parasitic
Gastropod from the Indian Region,” by H. B. Preston
—- Appendix. Records Indian Museum, vii., p. 127.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 133

Insecta.
By G. J. ARRow :—
‘Some new Species of the Lamellicorn Genus Anomala
from Sikkim, North: India.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), ix., p. 72.
“On a new Species of Melolonthid Beetle (Phytalus

smithr) destructive to Sugar-Cane.” Ib., p. 455.
‘A Synoptical Revision of the Coleopterous Genus
Hexodon (Dynastine).” 1b., p. 594:

“Descriptions of some new Burmese Species of Ruteline

Coleoptera belonging to the Genus Anomala.”
1G., Xs; Po alte

By K. G. BLAIR :—
“ Descriptions of new Species of Pyrochroide.”
HDs, 1X, DP. O20
By Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart. :—
“The Moths of India.”
Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., xxi., pp. 411, 878,
1222.
“Descriptions of new Species of Pyralide of the sub-
family Pyraustine.” .
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), ix., pp. 149, 242, 321,
433, 625; x., pp. 1, 557.
“Descriptions of new African Agaristide in the British
Museum.” Kon x, 009!

By J. HARTLEY DURRANT :—
“Notes on Tineina bred from Cotton-bolls.”
Bull. Ent. Res., iii., p. 2038.
By Eusrace RALPH BANKES, edited by J. HARTLEY
DURRANT: --
“Stray Notes on Monopis crocicapitella, Clms., and
M. ferruginella, Hb.” Ent. Mo. Mag., xlviii., p. 39.
“Oceurrence in England of Coleophora trigeminella,
Fuchs, a Species new to the British List, with notes
on C. kroneella, Fuchs, and C. badiipennella, Dup.”
OED. OF,
By LoRD WALSINGHAM :—
The publication of the following series of descriptions
has been continued” :—
“Biologia Centrali-America. Zoologia. Insecta. Lepi-
doptera Heterocera. Tineina.”
Vol. IV., pp. 113-168, figs. 24-28, pls. 4 and 5
(pp. 169 -224, figs. 29 and 30, pl. 6 -in the press).

By C.J. GAHAN :-—
“A new Species of Phasmide of the Genus Prisopus,
considered especially in reference to the supposed

aquatic habits of the Genus.”
Entomologist, xlv., p. 49.

* Prepared for publication by Mr. Durrant, by permission of the Trustees,

154 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Insecta—continued.
By GEOFFREY MEADE-WALDO :—

‘An Enumeration of the Hymenoptera (Families Vespide,
Apide, and Tenthredinide) collected in Dutch New

Guinea by the Expedition of the British Ornitho-

gists’ Union.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), ix., p. 446.

‘“ Notes on the Apide (Hymenoptera: in the Collection of

the British Museum, with Descriptions of new Species.”

Ib., 5 Dy aie

By RowLanyd KE. TURNER:
“Studies in the Fossorial Wasps of the Family Scoliide,
Sub-families Elidine and Anthoboscine.”
Proc. Zool: Sec: 19128 paruge-
“A Monograph of the Wasps of the Genus Cerceris,
inhabiting British India.”
Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., xxi, pp. 476, 794.
“A Revision of the Australian Species of the Genus
Cerceris.” Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xxxvi., p. 664.
‘Notes on Fossorial Hymenoptera.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), ix., p. 194, 337, 410 ;
x., pp. 48, 361, 533.
By EK. E. AUSTEN : —
“New Genera and Species of Tabanide in the British
Museum (Natural History).”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), jap: 1.
“New African Phlebotomic Diptera in the British
Museum (Natural History)—Part VIII. Tabanide
(continued).”’ Ib., p. 353.
“Anew Species of Tabanus from German East Africa,
in the British Museum (Natural History).”
16.) p40.
“A new Species of Stygeromyia (Family Muscide, Sub-
family Stomoxydine) from the East Africa Pro-
tectorate.” Bull, Ent. Res., 111., p. 97.
“ Notes on African Blood-sucking Midges (Family Chiro-
nomid, Sub-family Ceratopogonine), with descrip-

tions of new Species.” LO pedo:
“ New African Tabanidz —Part I.” L[6., pails.
ae - as Part le 7 Tb., pred.
Part: Li; libs p27599.

“<A new Species of ‘Hippobosea from Northera Rhodesia.”
Ib., p. 417.

By F. W. EDWARDS :—
“A Key to the Australian Species of Ochlerotatus (Culi-

cide ).” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), 1x., p. 521.
“Description of a new Species of Blepharoceride from
South Africa.” Ib., p. 633.
« Lygistorrhina wricht, a new Mycetophilid from
Trinidad.” Ib., x:, p. 203.

“Two Diptera (Cecidomyiidz) new to Britain.”
Ent. Mo. Mag., xlviii., p. 136.
“A Synopsis of the Species of African Culicide, other
than Anopheles.” Bull. Ent. Res., iii., p. i.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 135

INSECTA—continued.
“A Key for determining the African Species of Anopheles

(sensu lato).” Ib., p. 241.
“Revised Keys to the known Larve of African Culicine.”
Ib., p. 373.

“ Notes on the British Mosquitos (Culicinee).”
Entomologist, xlv., pp. 191, 217, 260.

“Tipulide of the Seychelles Islands.”

Lrans, Lins: Soe. (2)),.xw:, palo.
By W. L. Distant :—

“An Enumeration of the Rhynchota collected during the
Expedition of the British Ornithologists’ Union to
Central Dutch New Guinea.”

Trans. Ent. Soc., 1911, p. 591.

“Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Oriental
Homoptera.” Ann. Mag, Nat. Hist. (8), ix., p. 181.

“ New Genera and Species of Oriental Homoptera.”

Lb., p. 459.

** New Genera and Species of Rhynchota.”’. Hee) p. 640.
“ Descriptions of Ethiopian Rhynchota (Heteroptera).”

Ge, ee Da Od -

“Insects of the Fauna of Bromeliacez.” Ib. ae 437.

“Description of some new Homoptera.” Ib., p. 438.

‘Rhynchotal Notes.” Ib., p: 602.

‘ Description of a new Ethiopian Cicada.”

Entomologist, xlv., p. 200.
“ Bornean Pentatomide.”’ LOS pe 251.
“ Cieadidz, Part I.” Wytsman’s “ Genera Insectorum.”

By Bruce F. CumMMINGs :—
“ Anoplura from African Hosts

99

Bull. Ent. Res., iii., p. 393.
Arachnida.
By A. S. Hirst :—
“Descriptions of new Arachnids of the Orders Solifugee
and Pedipalpi.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), ix., p. 229.
“Descriptions of new Harvestmen of the family Phalan-
godidee.” Lb: 2 p. Go:
“On a new Species of Mite (Tarsonemus) injurious to
Sugar-Canes in Barbados.”
Bull. Ent. Res., iii., p. 325.
“ Report on the Acarus causing the skin-disease known
as Copra ltch.”
Journ. Trop. Med., p. 374. (Also published in
Journ. Roy. Soc. Med.)
‘On two new Parasitic Acari of the genus Leiognathus,
Cn. (Gamaside).” Bolle tmnt, Wes.,/ii1., p. doo:
The following paper was based partly on material preserved
in the British Museum :—
By Prof. K. KRAEPELIN :——
“Neue Beitrige zur Systematik der Gliederspinnen,”’
Parte. Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst., xxix., p. 45.

136 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BKITISH MUSEUM.

Crustacea.
By Dr. W. T. CALMAN :—
“The Crustacea of the Order Cumacea in the Collection of
the United States National Museum.”

Proc U:S: Nat. Mus.) xlie peeve:

“On a Terrestrial Amphipod from Kew Gardens.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), x., p. 132.
“On Dipteropeltis, anew genus of the Crustacean Order
Branchiura.” Proc. Zool. Soc., 1912, p. 763.

By Prof. G. O. Sars :—-

“ Report on some larval and young stages of Prawns from
Lake Tanganyika.” Proc. Zool. Soc., 1912, p. 426.

Pycnogonida.
By Miss FLtora M. Scort :—

“On a Species of Vymphon from-the North Pacific.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), x., p. 206.

Worms.
The foilowing deal with earthworms in the coJlection :—
By L. CoGNETTI DE MARTIIS :-—
‘“ Description of a new species of the Genus Perionyz.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), 1x., p. 67.
“On the Geographical Distribution of the Genus
Perionyx.” Ib., p. 336.

Porifera, etc.
By R. KIRKPATRICK :—

* On the Stromatoporoids and Hozoon.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), x., p. 341.
‘‘On the Structure of Stromatoporoids and of Hozoon.”
Ib., p. 446.
“ Note on Merlia normani and the Monticuliporas.”
Proc. Roy. Soc., B. ]xxxv., p. 562.

V.—Acquisitions.*

MAMMALIA.

The additions to this class during the past year number
3,138, of which the following are most worthy of note :—

Special attention may be directed to the large collection
of Indian Mammals presented by the Bombay Natural History
Society ; to Mr. A. Blayney Percival’s Collection of East African
Mammals; Mr. Fenwick Owen’s Chinese Collection; the
Algerian Collection presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild,
E.R.S. ; and the fine Collection of Heads and Horns, mostly
Asiatic, the bequest of the late Mr. A. O. Hume, C.B.

* A table showing the number of specimens added during the vear is
given on page 159.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 137

MAMMALIA— continued.

From various localities.

Thirteen skulls of Peruvians, and two skulls of Mound
Builders, from Peru, by exchange with the United States
National Museum.

Three human skulls from Ruanda; presented by Claude A.
Marshall, Esq.

A human skull found in digging the foundation of a house
near Thetford, Norfolk ; presented by T. R. Ashlee, Esq.

Europe.
Two flippers, a set of baleen, and parts of the viscera of the

Common Rorqual, Balewnoptera musculus, from Collafirth,
Lochend, Shetland.

Two flippers, a set of baleen, and parts of the viscera of
Rudolphi’s Rorqual, Balenoptera borealis, from Collatirth,
Lochend, Shetland.

Two fcetuses of Rudolphi’s Rorqual, Balenoptera borealis,
from Collafirth, Lochend, Shetland.

Two flippers of Sibbald’s Rorqual, Balewnoptera sibbaldi,
from CollJafirth, Lochend, Shetland.

A skull of the Common Porpoise, Phocena communis,
from Yell Sound, Shetland; presented by Capt. Gunter
Jenssen.

An Albino Mole from Uckfield, Sussex; presented by
Charles Dawson, Esq.

A melanic specimen of the Common Hare, from Alton ;
presented by Jermyn Boyd, Ksq.

A melanic specimen of the Common Water Vole from
Aberdeenshire; presented by the Hon. George Edwards.

Fifty mammals from Dobrudscha and a Roe Deer from
Ferriéres, France ; presented by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild.

A Wild Boar from Transylvania; presented by Fraulein
Sarolta von Werthermstewm.

A Wild Boar from Coto Doiana, Spain; presented by
Abel Chapman, Esq.

Asia.

A Sumatran Tiger and a Sheep (Ovzs vignei) from India ;
presented by the Zoological Society.

Six hundred and seventy-seven mammals collected by
Messrs. G. C. Shortridge and C. A. Crump in India ; presented
by the Bombay Natural History Society.

Seven mammals from Ratnagiri, S.W. India; presented by
G.S. Hardy, Esq., 1.C.8.

Two mammals from Simla; presented by P. YT. L.
Dodsworth, Esq.

138 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MAMMALIA—continued.

Twenty-eight mammals from the Kaghan Valley and
Hazara, India; presented by Capt. C. H. T. Whitehead.

A Mishmi Takin from Chulikatta, Mishmi Country ;
presented by Capt. Leonard Bethell.

Two mammals from the Shan States; presented by Colonel
Hf. H. Harrington.

Two mammals from Burma; presented by Capt. B. V.
A bbay.

Twenty-eight mammals from Penang and Pahang Island,
and the skeleton of a Ca’ing Whale from Malacca; presented
by the Federated Malay States Museum.

A Malay Tapir, Tapirus indicus, from Penang; presented
by H. C. Robinson, E'sq.

A skeleton of the rare Cetacean, Globicephala indica,
from Malacca; presented by H. C. Robinson, Esq.

Fifty-one mammals from Tonkin.

Sixty-nine mammals collected by Dr. J. A. C. Smith in
China; presented by G. Fenwick Owen, Esq.

Eight mammals from Yunnan; presented by EH. B.
Howell, Esq.

Twenty-seven mammals collected by Mr. F. Kingdon Ward
in N.W. Yunnan, and 51 mammals collected by Mr. W.
Ruckbeil, from Djarkent; presented by His Grace the Duke
of Bedford, K.G., FBS.

Thirty-one mammals from Formosa; collected and
presented by Walter Goodfellow, Esq.

A Pen-tailed Shrew from Karimon Island: presented by
E. D. Butler, Esq.

A Siamang from Sumatra; presented by C. Boden
Kloss, E'sq.

Twenty-five mammals from Java: received in exchange
from the Buitenzorg Museum.

Two mammals from Central Asia; presented by Mr. Z.
Tachibana:

A Kiang from Ebi-Nor, Central Asia; presented by J. H.
Miller, Lsq.

One hundred and eighty-six mammals collected by Douglas
Carruthers, Esq., in Central Asia.

The Hume collection of Mounted Heads and Horns, con-

sisting of 105 specimens, mostly Asiatic ; bequeathed by the late
Mr. A. O. Hume, C.B.

Five mammals from Transeaspia: presented by the
Hon. N. C. Rothschild.
Africa.

Twelve mammals from the Blue Nile, collected by Capt.
M. E. T. Gunthorpe ; presented by Colonel E. J. Gunthorpe.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 139

MamMALIA— continued.

Two Lions from Port Herald; presented by Colonel EH. F.
Colville.

Two mammals from Abyssinia ; presented by the Hon. N.C.
Rothschild.

Five mammals from Abyssinia and Somaliland; presented
by F. Russell Roberts, E'sq.

A Waterbuck from the Bahr-el-Ghazal; presented by
Capt. C. Hunter Little.

A Beira Antelope from Somaliland ; presented by Arnold
Hodson, E'sq.

Seventy mammals from British Somaliland; presented by
Dr. R. EB. Drake-Brockman.

A Laikipia Eland and two mounted heads of Hast African
Dik-Diks ; presented by F. C. Selous, Esq.

A Waterbuck from German East Africa; presented by
Capt. W. Silver.

Two Hippopotamus skulls from Portuguese East Africa ;
presented by T. Thompson, Esq. |

Thirty-seven mammals from British East Africa ; presented
by RK. L. Scott, Esq.

Four hundred and fifty mammals from British East Africa ;
presented by A. Blaney Percival, Esq.

A wild pig from Mt. Kenia, British Hast Africa; presented
by R. B. Woosnam, Esq.

Fourteen mammals from British East Africa ; presented by
C. W. Woodhouse, Esq.

Two monkeys from British East Africa; presented by
Go. hk. Hurst, Esq:

Seventeen mammals from British East Africa and
Somaliland ; presented by Gilbert Blaine, Esq.

Three mammals from British Hast Africa; presented by
Lord Cranworth.

Three Giraffes from British East Africa; presented by the
Game Department, British Hast Africa.

A rare lemur (Galago hindev) from the Tana River, British
East Africa; presented by G. St. J. Orde Browne, Esq.

Fifteen mammals from British East Africa; presented by
A. M. Champion, Esq.

Four Shrews from Zanzibar; presented by Dr. W. M. Aders.

Ten mammals from Uganda; presented by Dr. C. H.
Marshall.

Ten mammals from Central and South Africa; presented
by the Zoological Socvety.

A Duiker from Blantyre, Southern Nyasaland ; presented
by D. D. Lyell, Esq.

140 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MAMMALIA—continued.

A Livingstone’s Antelope from Blantyre, Southern Nyasa-
land; presented by Dr. A. H. Barclay.

Twenty-six mammals collected by S. A. Neave, Esq., in
Uganda; presented bythe Entomological Research Committee.

A Waterbuck from Northern Rhodesia; presented by
0. E. Wynne, Esq., R.E.

Three mammals from North-East Rhodesia; presented by
the Hon. Walter Guinness.

Two mammals from North-West Rhodesia; presented by
J. ff. Darling, Esq.

Nine mammals from Rhodesia and Abyssinia ; presented by
the late Mr. Rowland Ward.

A Vaal Rhebok from Basutoland; presented by M.
Bosworth Smith, Esq.

Two Mouse Gerbils from the Transvaal; presented by
A. N. Stenning, Esq.

Five maminals from East Griqualand; presented by T. B.
Goodall, Esq.

Hour mammals from Cape Colony ; presented by Professor
R. Broom.

A Gorilla from West Africa; presented by the Hon. Walter
Rothschild, F.R.S.

Nine mammals from West and East Africa; presented by
the Wiesbaden Museum.

Forty-two mammals from Angola; presented by the Lisbon
Museum.

Two mammals from the Belgian Congo; presented by
Colonel C. F. Blaine.

Twenty mammals from the Ja River, Cameroons; collected
by Mr. G. L. Bates.

The mounted head of a new Nigerian Buffalo; presented by
A.W. Ward Hunt, Hsq., RA.

Fourteen mammals from Southern Nigeria; presented by
N. W. Thomas, Esq.

A new Dormouse from Southern Nigeria; presented by
Peas Ca oot, Lis:

Seventy-five mammals from Southern Nigeria.

Four mammals from Northern Nigeria; presented by
Douglas Cator, Esq.

Twenty-five mammals from Kabwir, Northern Nigeria ;
presented by J.C. Fox, Esq.

Gne hundred and seventeen mammals from Panyai,
Northern Nigeria; presented by the late Rev. G. T. Fox.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 141

MAMMALIA—continued.

Thirty-nine mammals from the Gold Coast; presented by
Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell.

Twelve mammals from Liberia; presented by R. H.
Bunting, Esq.

Two hundred and forty-three mammals, collected by Dr. E.
Hartert, Dr. K. Jordan, and C. Hilgert, Esq., in Algeria and
the Algerian Sahara; presented by the Hon. eee Rothschild,
PRS.

America, North.

A hare from North-West Alberta; presented by PPrtae
F.C. Smith.

A Gopher (Thomomys talpoides) from South Oslifornia ;
presented by D. Crewdson, Esq.

An Opossum from Virginia; presented by Dr. R. W.
Shufeldt.
America, South.

Seventeen mammais from South America; presented by
the Para Museum.

Four mammals from South America; presented by J. A.
Wolffsohn, Esq.

Thirteen mammals from Mariquita, Colombia; presented
by H. H. Crease, Esq.

An Opossum from Tobago; presented by R. B. Archibald,
Esq.

Fifty-six mammals from British Guiana; presented by F. V.
McConnell, Esq.

Ten mammals from Buenos Ayres; presented by W. A.
Smithers, Ksq.

Three mammals from Buenos Ayres; presented by the
Zoological Society.

A cat (Felis geoffroyz) from Los Yngleses, Ajo, Buenos
Ayres ; presented by Ernest Gibson, Esq.

Fifty-five mammals collected by Senor E. Budin in North
Argentina; presented by the Hon N. C. Rothschild.

Four mammals from the Argentine Republic; presented by
Capt. H. Holmes-Tarn.

A Pichiciago from the Argentine Republic; presented by
F. H. Schultz, Esq.

A skin and skeleton of the Hlephant Seal (Mirounga
leonina) from Speedwell Island, 8. Falklands.

Eight mammals from Pozuzo, Peru; presented by Oldfield
Thomas, E'sq., FBS.

Three mammals from Peru, collected by Messrs. H. and C.
Watkins.

142 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MAMMALIA—continued.

A Grison from San Pedro, Limache; presented by Mr.
Arturio Solart.

A Bolivian Leaf-eared Mouse from Chyanta, Bolivia;
presented by Frank A. Moss, Esq.

Australasia.
The types of two new Rodents from the Rawlinson

Mountains, New Guinea; presented by the Hon. Walter
Rothschild, F.BRS.

A feather-tailed Phalanger and the type of a new species
of Phascogale from German New Guinea; presented by the
Hon. N. C. Rothschild.

A Dormouse Phalanger from North-East Tasmania ;
presented by H. H. Scott, Esq.

AVES.

The acquisitions number 4,575. Of these the most note-
worthy are as follows :—

Europe.

Four examples of the Capercailzie (Tetrao wrogallus), in
eclipse-plumage ; presented by the Marquess of Breadalbane,
OG.

One hundred and forty-two British birds from the collection
of the late Thomas Pennant, including examples of the Caper-
cailzie believed to be from Scotland, and many of the specimens
figured in his “ British Zoology ” (1766); presented by the Earl
of Denbigh, C.V.O.

One hundred and sixteen birds from Northumberland and
Scotland ; presented by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Esq.

An example of the male Black Grouse (Lyrurus tetria),
assuming female plumage; presented by Lvieut.-Colonel H.
Wade-Dalton.

Five Ducks from Iceland, including Clangula islandica and
Fuligula marila in “eclipse” plumage; presented by Major
H. Jones.

Nestlings of Otis tetrax, Grus antiyone, and Clangula
islandica, bred in captivity ; presented by W. H. St. Quintin,
Esq.

Asia.

Eleven Pheasants from South-east Kansu, Western China,
including the type of Phasianus strauchi chonensis; presented
by G. Fenwick Owen, Esq.

One hundred and sixty-seven birds from Western China ;
presented by His Grace the Duke of Bedford, K.G.

Forty-four birds from South-east Tibet and the Mishmi
Hills ; presented by Capt. F. M. Bacley.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 143

AVES—continued.

Five birds from the Southern Shan States; presented by J.
Pemberton Cook, Esq.

Two hundred and forty-eight birds from the Island of
Shaweishan, South China: collected by J. D. La Touche, Esq.

The type specimens of Porzana cinerea brevipes from the
Bonin Islands; presented by Collingwood Ingram, Esq.

Four examples of the Persian Pheasant (Phasianus per-
sicus) ; presented by Major P. M. Sykes.

The co-type of Kuser’s Blood Pheasant (lthagenes kwseri)
from Yunnan ; received in exchange from the Paris Museum.

One hundred and two birds from the Philippine Islands ;
collected by J, J. Mouncey, Esq.

The type specimen of Pucrasia joretiana from Anwhei
Province, China; presented by the Rev. J. Courtois.

Five examples of Cuvier’s Silver Pheasant (Genneus
cuviert) from Upper Burma; presented by C. Hopwood, Esq.

Six birds from the Mishmi Hills, collected by Capt. F. M.
Bailey ; presented by the Bombay Natural History Society.

Africa.

One thousand nine hundred and ninety birds from North-
east Africa, including the types of Anomalospiza macmillani,
EHremomela abyssinica, Pentholea macmillani, and Brady-
ornis granti; presented by W. N. McMillan, Esq.

One hundred and eighty-nine birds from the Tana River,
including a rare Pipit, Macronyx aurantiugula, which was
previously unrepresented in the collection; presented by G.
Blaine, Esq.

One hundred and forty-two birds from Uganda and the
Belgian Congo, collected by Robin Kemp; presented by Oldfield
Thomas, Esq., F.B.S.

Nine eggs from British East Africa, including those of a
Weaver-Finch, Ploceipasser melanorhynchus, new to the
collection ; presented by F. C. Selous, Esq.

Three rare birds from British East Africa, including examples
of Pitta longipennis and Francolinus wluensis ; presented by
Rh. B. Woosnam, Esq.

Eleven birds from British East Africa, including a rare
Weaver-Finch (Estrilda cyanocephala) new to the collection ;
presented by Colonel R, Stephenson Clarke.

Three hundred and ninety-seven birds from British East
Africa, including the type of a new Weaver-Finch (Cryptospiza
borealis) ; presented by A. Blayney Percival, Esq.

The type-specimen of Hrythrocercus nyassa from Nyasa-
land; presented by Professor R. Newstead, F.R.S.

Six birds from Natal; presented by E. C. Chubb, Esq.

144 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

AVES— continued.

The type-specimens of Mirafra jacksoni, Poliospiza
elgonensis, and Campophaga martini; presented by Sir F.
J. Jackson, K.C.M.G.

The co-types of Calandrella sclateri capensis; pre-
sented by the South African Museum.

Seven birds and two eggs from South Africa ; presented by
Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S.

Sixteen birds from Southern Nigeria; presented by P. A.
Talbot, Esq.

One hundred and sixty-five birds from Gran Canaria and
other localities; presented by D. A. Bannerman, Esq.

Sixty-three birds from Northern Nigeria collected by the
late José Lopez; presented by Capt. J. J. Brocklebank.

America, North.

Two hundred and eleven birds from Canada ; collected by
J. Munro, Esq.

Three examples of the White-tailed Ptarmigan (Lagopus
leucurus), in full summer-plumage, from the Mountains of
Alberta, Canada; presented by A. Thorborn, Esq.

Two specimens of the White-tailed Ptarmigan (Lagopus
leucurus) in full summer-plumage, from Canada; collected by
Willoughby P. Lowe, Esq.

Eleven birds from the West Indies ; presented by Dit tank.
Sclater, F.R.S.

America, South.

One hundred and three birds from Trinidad; presented by
C. J. Wilson, Esq.

An example of Berlepschia rikert from British Guiana, new
to the collection; presented by F. V. McConnell, Esq.

Twenty-seven birds from South-east Brazil ; presented by
Claude H. B. Grant, Ksq.

Twenty birds and ten eges from the Falkland Islands,
collected by Arthur F. Cobb, Esq.

The type specimen of Phenicopterus jamesi from Northern
Chile; presented by Mrs. H. Berkeley James.

Forty-one birds from Lima, Peru; presented by Dr. P. L.
Sclater, F.R.S.

Australasia.

Two rare Cassowaries, Casuarius intensus and C. violi-
collis, from New Guinea; presented by the Hon. Walter
Rothschild, F.R.S.

Fifty-seven birds from Australia ; received in exchange from
Gregory M. Matthews, Esq.

Nine birds from the Solomon Islands; presented by Dr. P.
L. Sclater, F.B.S.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 145

REPTILIA.
The additions number 511, of which 391 were received
by presentation, 87 by purchase, and 33 by exchange.
The following additions are the most important :—

Europe.

Twenty-nine Lizards from Southern Europe, including types
of varieties of Lacerta muralis described by the donor ; pre-
sented by Dr. F. Werner.

Seven Lizards from Southern Europe; presented by Dr.
J. de Bedriaga.

Asia.

Seven Lizards from Syria, Mesopotamia, and Kurdistan ;
presented by the Lyons Museum.

One of the types of Lacerta anatolica, from Asia Minor ;
presented by Dr. F. Werner.

Twenty-eight Reptiles from Baluchistan; presented by
Capt. C. Daukes.

Six Snakes from French Indo-China; presented by Prof.
F. Guitel.

Thirty-eight Snakes from Kelantan, Malay Peninsula ;
presented by Dr. A. G. H. Smart.

Twenty-five Snakes from Dutch Borneo; presented by
Henry Harvey, Esq.

The type of a Snake, Xenelaphis ellipsifer, from Borneo ;
presented by the Sarawak Museum.

Africa. |

Seventeen Reptiles collected by Capt. C. Citerni in Abys-
sinia and Somaliland, including the type of a new Lizard
(Hemidactylus citernii), and a “Lizard new to the collection
(Latastia bosce) ; presented by the Genoa Civic Museum.

Hight Reptiles from Uganda; presented by Sir F. J.
Jackson, K.C.M.G.

Four Reptiles from British East Africa; presented by R. L.
Scott, Esq.

Fourteen Reptiles from Portuguese East Africa; presented
by Dr. J. J. Simpson.

Four Snakes obtained in the Lower Congo by Dr. W. J.
Ansorge.

Forty Reptiles from South Cameroon, collected by Mr. G. L.
Bates, among which are the types of three new Snakes (J'yphlops
batesir, Gonionotophis microps, Elapocalamus gracilis).

Thirteen Reptiles from Southern Nigeria and French Central
Africa; presented by P. A. Talbot, Esq.

Ten Reptiles from the Gold Coast ; presented by Dr. H. G. F.
Spurrell.

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146 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

REPTILIA-——continued.

A Snake (Psammophis regularis), new to the collection,
from Sierra Leone; presented by the Zoological Society of
London.

Six Snakes collected by Dr. W. J. Ansorge in Portuguese
Guinea.

Twenty-three Reptiles from the Central Plateau of Algeria,
collected by Dr. K. Jordan; presented by the Hon. Walter
Rothschild, F.R.S.

One hundred and thirty-five Reptiles from the Algerian
Sahara, collected by Dr. E. Hartert ; presented by the Hon.
Walter Rothschild, F.R.S.

America.

A co-type of a Lizard from Hayti (Liocephalus melano-
chlorus) and an Amphisbena from Cuba new to the collection
(Amphisboena cubana), received in exchange from the Museum
of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, Mass.

Twenty-five Reptiles collected in Eastern Ecuador by Mr.
M. G. Palmer, among which are the types of two new Lizards
(Tropidurus holotropis, Ptychoglossus brevifrontalis) and of
a new Snake (Leptognathus palmer).

Eleven Reptiles from Eastern Peru, collected by Mr. E.
Boettger, among which are the types of two new Snakes
(Leptognathus polylepis, Lachesis chloromelas).

An Amphisbena (Amphisbena angustifrons), new to the
collection, from Argentina; presented by the Hon. N. C.
Rothschild.

Australia.
A Lizard (Gymnodactylus sphyrurus) from New South
Wales, new to the collection.

BATRACHIA.

The additions number 192, of which 116 were received
by presentation, 65 by purchase, 11 by exchange.
The following are the most important :—

Europe.
Twelve Frogs from Andalucia; presented by Abel Chapman,
Esq.
Africa.
Twelve Frogs from Laikipia, British East Africa; presented
by Sir F. J. Jackson, K.C.M.G.
ray Frogs from Portuguese East Africa; presented by
TNE ered Simpson.

ee Batrachians from oni Cameroon, collected
by Mr. G. L. Bates.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 147

BATRACHIA—continued.

Fourteen Batrachians from Southern Nigeria and the French
Congo; presented by P. A. Talbot, Esq.

Twenty-three Frogs from the Algerian Sahara, collected by
Dr. E. Hartert; presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild,

America.

Eleven specimens from the West Indies and Colombia,
including representatives of five species (Prostherapis boulen-
germ, Atelopus gracilis, Hylodes jamaicensis, H. varians,
Bufo empusus), new to the collection ; received in exchange
from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.

Twenty-six Batrachians collected in Eastern Ecuador by
Mr. M. G. Palmer, including types of three new Frogs (Hy-
lodes ventrimarmoratus, H. margaritifer, Phyllomedusa
loris).

Twelve Batrachians, collected in Eastern Peru by Mr. KE.
Boettger, including types of two new Frogs (Hdalorhina
nasuta, Hyla melanopleura).

PISCES.

- The additions numbered 2,035, of which 1,385 were acquired
by presentation, 630 by purchase, and 20 by exchange; the
following are the most important :—

From Various Localities.

Seventy-one Fishes from various localities, including ex-
amples of several species new to the collection and the type
of a new Cyprinodont (Rivulus strigatus) from the Amazon ;
presented by Herr J. Paul Arnold.

Kurope.

Ten Fishes from deep water off the Irish Coast, including
the type of Raia bathyphila and a specimen of Scopelopsis
multipunctata, new to the collection ; presented by HL. W. L.
Holt, Esq.

One hundred and forty-five Fishes from deep water off the
Trish Coast ; presented by L. W. Byrne, Esq.

A Char (Salvelinus trevelyant) from Lough Finn; presented
by Capt. J. S. Hamilton.

Two Char (Salvelinus coli1) from Lough Gortyglass; pre-
sented by F. B. Henn, I'sq.

A Twaite Shad (Clupea finta) from fallen er. caught in
January; presented by John Hilliard, Esq.

Thirty-five Sticklebacks (Gastrostews aculeatus and G.
pungitius) from Ireland; presented by RK. Patterson, Esq.

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148 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

PISCES—continued.

A Rare Ray (Raia undulata) from Rye Bay, Sussex ;
presented by J. O. Borley, Esq.

A large Carp (Cyprinus carpio), 204 lbs., from Alder-
maston ; presented by Charles HK. Keyser, Esq.

A Vendace (Coregonus gracilior) from Derwentwater.

Two Char (Salvelinus lonsdalir) from Haweswater; pre-
sented by C. H. Allan, Esq.

A Char (Salvelinus willughbit) from North Uist ; presented
by D. Mackenzie, Esq.

A Char (Salvelinus willughbw) from Loch Calder; pre-
sented by Leuis Dunbar, Esq.

A rare Skate (Rava lintea) from Iceland; presented by
Rh. M. Thomson, Ksq.

Two examples of Raia lintea from Iceland; presented by
J. Mundic, Esq.

Twenty Fishes from the Atlantic and Mediterranean ; »re-
sented by Dr. R. N. Wolfenden.

Asia.

Eleven fishes from India, including examples of Clupea
brachysoma and Nemachilichthys rueppellvi, new to the
collection ; presented by N. B. Kinnear, Esq.

Twenty-nine fishes from Travancore, including examples of
an Eel (Ophichthys microcephalus) and a Blenny (Cristiceps
canthosona), new to the collection; presented by the
Trevandrum Museum.

Thirty-six fishes from the Indian Ocean, including the types
of three new species (Xenoconger fryert, Salarias longianalis
and Parioglossus teniatus) ; presented by Professor J. Stanley
Gardiner, F.RS.

Nine fishes from the Seychelles ; presented by P. R. Dupont,
Esq.

Fifty-two fishes from Perak and Penang; presented by LE.
Seaimund, Esq.

Africa.
Fifteen fishes from Algeria; presented by the Hon. Walter
Rothschild, F.R.S.

Seventy fishes from Lake Victoria and Magadi; presented
by C. M. Woodhouse, Esq.

Seventy-eight fishes from Uganda, including the types of
two new species (Alestes jacksoni and Amphilius jacksoni) ;
presented by Sir F. J. Jackson, K.C.M.G.

One hundred and fifty fishes from British East Africa,
including the types of five new species (Labeo percivalt, Barbus
argyrotenia, B. mimus, Amphilius oxyrhinus and Tilapia
percivalt) ; presented by A. Blayney Percival, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 149

Pisces— continued.

Thirty fishes from the Congo, including the types of several
new species; presented by the Congo Musewm, Tervueren.

Five hundred and seventy-nine fishes from Portuguese
Guinea and the Congo, including the types of several new
species, collected by Dr. W. J. Ansorge.

Twenty-nine fishes from South Cameroon, including the
types of two new species (Labeo batesiz and Pelmatochromis
kribensis), collected by Mr. G. L. Bates.

Sixty-seven fishes from the Gold Coast, including the type

of anew Cyprinid (Barilius macrostoma) ; presented by Dr.
H.G. F. Spurrell.

America, North.

Eggs and young of the Bow-fin (Amia calva), from North
America ; received in exchange from Professor Bashford Dean.

Ten fishes from British Columbia, including specimens of
three species (Oxylebius pictus, Stelgis vulsus and Icelinus
borealis), new to the collection; presented by F. A. Potts,
Esq.

America, South.

Forty fishes from South America, including the types of
three new species (Pyrrhulina vittata, Iguanodectes rachovir
and Cynopecilus melanotenia); presented by Herr A.
Rachow.

A co-type pf a Cichlid Fish (Geophagus camopiensis) from
French Guiana ; received in exchange from the Paris Museum.

Two specimens of a Cyprinodont (Rivulus ocellatus) from
Santos, new to the collection.

Thirty-four \fishes from Porto Real, Rio Janeiro; from
M. Hardy de Dréneuf’s collection.

Seventeen fishes from Chile, including examples of a Characid
(Chirodon pisciculus) new to the collection; presented by
D.S. Bullock, Esq.

Three Nototheniid Fishes from South Georgia and the
Falklands, including a co-type of Notothenia karlandree ;
received in exchange from Dr. E. Lonnberg.

A Characid (Xiphorhamphus knerz) from Canelos, new to
the collection.

Australia.

Five specimens of Ceratodus forstert from Queensland ;
presented by Dr. T. L. Bancroft.
Antarctica.

Kighty-eight fishes from the Antarctic, including the types
of several new species ; presented by Dr. W. S Bruce.

TUNICATA.
The most important additions are :—
Nine specimens of Pelagic Tunicata (Salpa and Pyrosoma)
from the Atlantic Ocean between Gibraltar and the Azores ;
presented by R. N. Wolfenden, Esq.

150 — ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MOLLUSCA.

The additions number 2,784, of which 1,668 were obtained
by presentation, 1,112 by purchase, and four by exchange.
The principal acquisitions are:

Miscellaneous.

Kighty-four shells from various localities, including 17 types,
2 co-types and 45 figured specimens from the Hanley
Collection, also abnormal examples of Murea, Strombus, Harpa,
Cyprea and Turbo ; presented by Henry Harvey, Esq.

Three hundred and seventy-five shells from various localities,
including 75 types of species described by J. C. Melvill, J. H.
Ponsonby, and G. B. Sowerby.

One hundred and fifty-five land and freshwater shells from
East Africa, Falkland Islands and other localities, including a
large number of new and recently described forms.

Two hundred and ninety-nine land, freshwater and marine
shells from Falkland Islands, Central Africa and other places,
including many new species, and nearly all being new to the
collection.

Europe.

Five rare Cephalopods from the West of Ireland ; presented
by #. W. L. Holt, Esq.

Fifteen types of species and sixty-one figured specimens

from the collection of Thomas Pennant; presented by the
Earl of Denbigh, C.V.O.

Asia.

About seven hundred species of Oriental Land Mollusca,
selected from the collection of the late Col. R. H. Beddome ;
presented by Mrs. Beddome.

Forty-one land and freshwater shells from Siam ; presented
by H. B. Garrett, Esq.

Ten Opisthobranchs from Japan; presented by the Tokio
Museum. —

Eighteen land shells from N.W. China, including the types
of nine new species ; presented by the Rev, A. H. Cooke.

Forty-five marine shells from the Persian Gulf, including

the types of 32 species described by Mr. Melvill; presented
by J. C. Melvill, E'sq., and F. W. Townsend, Esq.

Africa.

Thirteen Pulmonata from South Africa, including eight
types and two co-types of new species; presented by Major
H. Connolly. .

The types of Marginella dautzenbergi and M. chalmersi,
from St. Thomé Island, West Africa; presented by J. R. Le B.
Tomlin, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 151

MoLLuscA—continued.

Forty-one land shells from East and South Africa, including
types of species of Curvella and Helicarion ; presented by J.
H. Ponsonby, Esq.

America.

The types of Ambages sharmani and Neocyclotus peilet,
from Alejandria, Colombia; presented by Major A. J. Pele,
ba

Australasia.

Twenty-two land shells from Queensland and New South
Wales, mostly co-types of new species described by Mr. C.
Hedley ; presented by S. W. Jackson, Esq.

Sixty-six specimens of Marginella from Cape Pillar and
Maria Island, off Tasmania, nearly all new to the collection ;
presented by W. L. May, Esq.

Fourteen land shells from Oahu, Hawaiian Islands; pre-
sented by J. H. Ponsonby, Esq.

Forty-seven land and freshwater shells from various parts
of Australia; presented by J. H. Ponsonby, Esq.

One hundred and thirty marine shells from Waikanac
Beach, West Coast of North Island, New Zealand; presented
by W. G. Rutherfurd, Esq.

INSECTA.

Including the Adams Collection of Lepidoptera, estimated
to contain about 140,000 specimens, the number of specimens
added to this part of the collection during the year is 303,717,
made up as follows :—

Coleoptera - - - - - - - 45,173
Lepidoptera - ~ - - - - - 195,618
Hymenoptera- - - - = - = 13,797
Diptera - - - . - - . - 17,758
Rhynchota’- - - s ~ - - 18,951
Orthoptera = - - - - - - - 2,914
Neuroptera ~ - - - 1,184
Mallophaga, eee ee - - ~ SR C1007
Nests, larve, pupe, ete. - - - - 2,315

Total] - - - 303,717

The most important of these accessions are the following :—

From Various Localities.

The Collection of Lepidoptera, estimated to contain some
140,000 specimens, including 250 types, chiefly Rhopalocera ;
bequeathed by the late Herbert J. Adams, Esq.

Fourteen thousand four hundred and fifty-one named
Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, chiefly American, and containing

152 ACCOUNTS, ETC.,:-OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

InsEecTtTa—continued.

numerous types, together with 1,544 microscope slides of
Rhopalocera; presented by F. Du Cane Godman, Esq., D.C.L.,
FERS.

Three thousand nine hundred and eighty specimens of
Anoplura and Mallophaga; presented by the Hon. N. C.
Rothschild.

Six hundred and ninety-three specimens of Anoplura and
Mallophaga ; presented by the Zoological Society of London.

Eight hundred and ninety-three Hymenoptera; presented
by Rowland EL. Turner, Esq.

The second instalment of the Distant Collection, containing
2,400 Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, 2,000 Rhynchota, and 570
Diptera.

Three thousand seven hundred Rhynchota, 68 Coleoptera,
and 11 Orthoptera, from the collection of the late Mr. G. W.
Kirkaldy ; presented by Miss Kirkaldy.

Europe.

Nine thousand four hundred and genus four British
Diptera from the Verrall Collection, bringing the total bequest
up to 11,650 specimens ; bequeathed by the late G. H. Verrall,
Esq.

One thousand two hundred and thirteen Microlepidoptera
from various parts of Europe; presented by T. A. Chapman,
Eisq., M.D.

One thousand one hundred and fifty-six British Diptera ;
presented by Lieut.-Col. J. W. Yerbury.

Asia.
Two hundred and forty-six Orthoptera; presented by the
Indian Museum, Calcutta.

Two hundred and ninety-three Orthoptera; presented by
the Agricultural Institute, Pusa.

Five hundred and eighty Rhynchota, from the Philippine
Islands ; presented by J. J. Mounsey, Esq.

Seven hundred and ninety Diptera, including some types,
and 55 microphotographs of the same, from the Federated
Malay States ; presented by Dr. G. F. Leicester.

A third instalment, consisting of 8,000 specimens of
Japanese Coleoptera, from the George Lewis Collection.

Africa.

Kighty-two thousand nine hundred and nine specimens of
all Orders of Insects from various parts of Africa, containing
much valuable named material; presented by the Entomological
Research Committee.

Three thousand one ides and forty - three named
Coleoptera, from South Africa; presented by Guy A. K.
Marshall, Esq.

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DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 153

Insecta—continued.

Hight hundred and seventy-four Hymenoptera and 197
Insects of other Orders, from the Valleys of the Zambesi and
Luangwa Rivers; presented by the British South Africa
Comnany and the relatives of the late Mr. O. C. Silverlock.

Seven hundred and ninety-seven Lepidoptera, from Nigeria :
presented by Lieut. J. D. Sanders,

A collection of 550 Hymenoptera from South Africa,
received from Dr. H. Brauns.

Two hundred and fifty-four Diptera, collected by the Percy
Sladen Trust Expedition to the Seychelles; presented by
Professor J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S.

America.

Kight hundred and fifteen Hymenoptera from Brazil and
the Argentine; presented by G. LE. Bryant, Esq.

Two hundred and sixty-two Insects of all Orders from
Trinidad ; presented by Guy A. kK. Marshall, Esq.

Two hundred and nineteen Insects of all Orders from
St. Kitts ; presented by J. J. Quelch, Esq.

Two hundred and twenty - six Coleoptera from North
America and Mexico, received in exchange from Dr. A. Fenyes.

Three thousand five hundred and twenty Coleoptera,
including 200 type-specimens, from Central America; presented
by F. Du Cane Godman, Esq. D.C.L., F.RB.S.

Two hundred and twenty-three moths and three butterflies,
from Costa Rica; presented by W. Schaus, Esq.

Australasia and Pacific Ocean.
Three hundred and ninety Hymenoptera and 245 Diptera
from Victoria; presented by Charles French, Esq.

Four hundred Australian Coleoptera, mostly type-specimens,
from the late Rev. Canon T. Blackburn’s Collection.

Three thousand one hundred and eighty-four Coleoptera,
1,066 Hymenoptera and 214 Neuroptera, from the Sandwich
Islands ; presented by the Joint Committee of the Royal Society
and the British Association for the Exploration of the
Sandwich Islands.

MyRrropopa.

The accessions number 51, of which the more important
are as follows :—

Two co-types of a Mexican Millipede (Rhiscosomides
miner?) ; received in exchange from Prof. F. Silvestri.

Twenty-two Centipedes from Venezuela.

Two Centipedes from Uganda, one of them representing an
undescribed genus of Scolopendridz ; presented by the
Entomological Research Committee.

154 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

ARACHNIDA.

The accessions number 1,085 ; the following being specially
worthy of notice :—

Miscellaneous.

Four hundred and ninety parasitic Acari from various
localities, including the typical specimens of a new Mite
(Levognathus liberiensis) ; presented by the Hon. N. C. Roths-
child.

Two hundred and ten Arachnida from various localities,
including the types of a new Mite (Tarsonemus spinipes) ;
presented by the Entomological Research Committee.

Asia.

Thirty-three Oriental Opiliones, including the co-types of
several species described by Dr. C. Fr. Roewer; received in
exchange from the Indian Museum, Calcutta.

The types of a new Mite (Tyroglyphus longior, var. castel-
laniv), causing a skin-disease in Ceylon; presented by Dr. Aldo
Castellani.

Africa.

Forty-four Spiders from South Africa, including the type of
Harpactira gigas.

The typical specimens of a parasitic Mite (Leiognathus
creightoni) found on a porcupine at Nairobi, British Hast
Africa; presented by J. Creighton, Esq.

,

CRUSTACEA.

The principal addition has been the Budde-Lund collection
of Wocdlice (terrestrial Isopoda) which is estimated to contain
about 6,500 specimens; the other accessions number 1,959, of
which the following are the most important :—

Miscellaneous.

Two hundred and sixty-six specimens of Cumacea, including
paratypes of 11 species; presented by the United States
National Museum.

Europe.

Five Crustacea, probably types of species described by
Thomas Pennant in 1777 ; presented by the Earl of Denbigh,
C.V20:

Nine specimens of a new species of terrestrial Amphipod
from Kew Gardens; presented by A. W. Hull, Esq., Assistant
Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Eleven microscopic preparations of Branchiopoda and
Schizopoda from Bournemouth ; presented by H. J. Waddina-
ton, Lisq.

Four Woodlice from the Isle of Wight; presented by W.
Omer Cooper, Esq.

Bea

Or

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 15

CRUSTACEA—continued,

Fifty Crustacea collected at Plymouth.

Six specimens of Galathea from the English Channel; pre-
sented by L. R. Crawshay, Esq.

Eight fish-parasites from Great Yarmouth; presented by A.
H. Patterson, Esq.

Five specimens of Gill-maggots of the Salmon from the
River Tay; presented by P. D. Malloch, Esq.

Six specimens of Whale-parasites from Shetland; presented
by R. J. Haldane, E'sq.

Twenty-seven specimens of Whale-lice from Shetland ; pre-
sented by Dr. Thomas Lovett.

Co-types of two species of subterranean Isopoda from
France; presented by Prof. EL. G. Racovitza.

Forty-six Amphipoda from the Mediterranean, including
co-types of seven species ; presented by M. Ed. Chevreuz.

Two Stomatopoda, new to the collection, from Naples.

Fifteen specimens of Prawns from Teneriffe; presented by
Lord Walsingham, F.R.S.

Forty-two Crustacea from Porto Santo; presented by R.
Kirkpatrick, Esq.
Asia.

A Common Lobster and a Spiny Lobster from Smyrna ;
presented by Capt. J. R. Westcott.

Four Branchiopoda from Aleppo; presented by Dr. C. M.
Wenyon.

Fifteen Crustacea from Muscat; presented by Major S. G.
Knox, CLE.

Twenty-five River-crabs and Prawns from Chungking ; pre-
sented by W. R. Brown, Esq.

Six specimens of Freshwater Shrimps from Japan; presented

by Prof. DArcy W. Thompson, C.B.

Africa.
Co-types of three species of subterranean Isopoda from
Algeria; presented by Prof. HE. G. Racovitza.

Twenty specimens of subterranean Isopoda from Algeria ;
presented by Prof. B. H. Buxton.

Thirty-one specimens of Branchiopoda and five River-crabs
from Algeria; presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild,
eT.

Five freshwater Amphipoda from Algeria; presented by
Lord Walsingham, F.R.S.

Twelve freshwater Crustacea from Africa ; presented by the
Entomological Research Committee.

$

156 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

CRUSTACEA— continued.

Fifteen specimens of Branchiopoda from Khartoum; pre-
sented by G. W. Grabham, Esq.

Three specimens of a River-crab from British East Africa ;
presented by R. L. Scott, Esq.

Sixty-two River-crabs from Uganda; presented by Sir F. J.
Jackson, K.C.M.G.

Forty-five specimens of larval Prawns from the Great Lakes
of Africa; presented by the Tanganyika Exploration Com-
mittee.

A River-prawn from the Transvaal; presented by Dr. J.
W. B. Gunning.

Nine co-types of an Amphipod from the Transvaal; pre-
sented by the Hon. Paul Methuen.

Eleven River-crabs and Prawns from the Cameroons.
collected by Mr. G. L. Bates.

Thirty-eight freshwater Decapoda from the Congo, collected
by Dr. W. J. Ansorge.

Nineteen River-prawns from Southern Nigeria; presented
by Major W. A. C. Cockburn.

Three hundred and three Decapoda, Stomatopoda, and
Schizopoda from the Western Indian Ocean (“ Sealark ” Expe-
dition); presented by Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.RB.S.

America.

Four Crustacea from the West Indies; presented by Capt.
A. Morrell.

Four Crabs from Jamaica; presented by Lvreut.-Col. L.
Worthington Walmer.

A Land-crab from St. Kitts, W.I.; presented by J. J. Quelch,
Esq. .

One hundred and sixty specimens of Crustacea from
Vancouver Island; presented by Miss H. L. M. Pixell, B.Sc.

A collection of fish-parasites (about 90 specimens) from
British Guiana; presented by the Hon. N.C. Rothschild.

Australasia.
Five specimens of Crabs from Australia; presented by the
Australian Museum, Sydney.

One hundred and seventy-nine Decapoda and Stomatopoda
from Australia; received in exchange from the Australian
Museum, Sydney.

Three specimens of freshwater shrimps from Tasmania ;
presented by Dr. W. M. Tattersall.

One hundred and thirty-nine Crustacea collected in New
Zealand.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 157

CruUSTACEA—continued.

One hundred and thirteen Crustacea from the Kermadec
Islands and New Zealand ; presented by Prof. Charles Chilton.

Antarctic and Subantarctic.
Twenty-two specimens of Whale-parasites from South
Georgia; presented by Dr. G. Cruickshank.

Sixty-seven Isopoda and Amphipoda from the Antarctic ;
presented by Prof. Charles Chilton.

Twenty-eight Crustacea, including co-types of two species,
from the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition ;' received in
exchange from Dr. W. 8. Bruce.

PYCNOGONIDA.

Thirty-six specimens, including co-types of two species,
from the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition ; received in
exchange from Dr. W. 8S. Bruce.

Four co-types of a new species from Vancouver Island;
presented by Miss H. L. M. Piaell, B.Sc.

ECHINODERMA.

The following are specially noteworthy :—

Six interesting slides of larve of young Holothurians from
the Antarctic, reported on by Prof. E. W. MacBride, F.R.S.

The type of Cucumaria normani has been purchased.
A very interesting series of 11 Crinoids from the West Coast of
Ireland; presented by the Department of Agriculture and
Technical Instruction, Dublin. Twenty-five specimens of
Antarctic forms collected by the “Scotia” have been obtained
by exchange, and make a welcome addition to the collection.

WORMS.

The most important addition is to be found in the specimens
of Arenicola from the Norman and Ashworth collections, by
which every known species but one of that genus is represented.

Thirty-two Polycheetes from the neighbourhood of the Malay
Archipelago, and 25 from Jamaica, collected by Mr. Duerden.

Kighteen interesting Gephyrea from the North Atlantic were
incorporated from the Norman Collection.

The co-type and 10 slides of Phoronopsis harmevi, Pixell,
and Phoronis vancowverensis, from Vancouver; presented by
Wiss H. L. M. Pixell, B.Sc.

The type of Trichostrongylus colubriformis from a Punjaub
sheep; presented by Lieut.-Col. Giles.

Two further instalments—the fifth and sixth--in each case
of 24 slides of Rotifera, mounted by C. F. Rousselet, Esq.

158 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

POLYZOA.

A number of specimens of Ireshwater Polyzoa (Plumatella,
Fredericella and Paludicella) of considerable economic
interest have been added to the collection, viz., from Water-
works at Torquay, Batley, near Market Drayton, and elsewhere
in this country, and from the Hamburg Waterworks. The
growth of the Polyzoa may seriously interfere with the
distribution of the water, and the Museum authorities have
been consulted as to the best remedies for curing and preventing
the mischief.

ANTHOZOA.

The following deserve special notice :—-

A valuable collection of 75 Aleyonaria collected by Prof.
J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., in the Solomon Islands has been
presented by him, and 15 Alcyonarians from the Seychelles
have been obtained by exchange from the Cambridge University
Museum of Zoology. .

A fine specimen of Corallium secundum from the Sagami
Sea.

An excellent example of Merulina ampliata ; presented by
Mrs. Rubin.

HYDROZOA.

Eight specimens of Limnocnida indica, Annandale, a
Medusa from fresh-water ponds in the Bombay Presidency ;
received in exchange from the Indian Museum, Calcutta.

PORIFERA.

The more important additions were :—

A complete set comprising 111 mounted microscepic pre-
parations made mostly from type-specimens of Sponges de-
scribed by Prof. G. C. J. Vosmaer in his Report on the Porifera
of the “ Siboga” Expedition (Part II., The genus Spirastrella).
The donation was made by Prof. Vosmaer in acknowledgment
of the help given him by the staff of the Natural History
Museum during his stay in London.

A collection of 97 specimens of Sponges, including many
types, from the Red Sea; presented by the collector, Cyril
Crossland, Hsq.

A very fine specimen of Regadrella komeyamaz Ijima, from
Sagami Bay, Japan.
PROTOZOA.

Five specimens of the Foraminifera Homotrema, Sporado-
trema and Polytrema, referred to in a memoir by the donor;
presented by Prof. S. J. Hickson, F.R.S.

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DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 159

Summary of the Acquisitions in the Department of Zoology
during 1912.

—— nce real Purchases.|Exchanges.) Totals.

( Wild - = =
Mammalia Domesticated - -
' Human - - - |
rs j Sisins).= - = =
oe Eggs and skeletons” - -
Reptilia - - - - -
Batrachia - - - -
Pisces - - - - -
Tunicata - - = =
Mollusca - -
{ Adams Bequest -
| Other sources -
Prototracheata - - -
Myriopoda - - -
Arachnida - = - =
Budde-lLund Collection -
Other sources ° -
Pycnogonida - - - -
Hehinoderma - - -
Worms - - - - -
Brachiopoda~ - - - -
Polyzoa - - - -
Anthozoa - = - =
Hydrozoa - - - -
Porifera = = = =
Protozoa - - - =

Insecta

Crustacea 4

Totals - - =

|

2,234 Sores 37 3,098
21 =v: ae 21
hee es 15 19
4,090 386 60 4,536
29 ia ee 39
391 87. 33 51l
116 | 65 | 11 192
1,385 630 | 20 2,035
9 oe ee ee 9
L,668¢ tie h119. 4 2,784

140,000 ST eer years
VEU ae OR ot 0 a als Af la
1 Ti as 2
24 25 2 51
921 131 33 1,085
= ppl hy 8yB00 Rk 450
Dstzn|:, 240 DOT fio ee?
4 a 36 40
17 1 25 43
a 14 | 5 190
3 4 = ‘i
36 = = 36
7 1 95 103
Aa) eee 14 18
214 | 2 = 216
5 | == —_ 5
300,948 | 24,740 1,528 | 327,216

The following Donors* presented specimens to the Depart-
ment of Zoology during the year 1912 :—

Abbay, Capt. B. V.

Adams, Herbert J. (the late)
Aders, Dr. W. M.

Aleoek, Lieut.-Col. A., F.R.S.
Alexander, C. P.

Allan, C. H.

Ancaster, Earl of

Anderson, F. C.

Anderson, J.

Andres, Prof. Ad.
Andrewes, H. E.

Andrewes, H. L.

Archibald, R. B.

Arnold, J. P.

Ashworth, Dr. J. H.
Austen, E. E.

Australian Museum (see Syd-
ney).

Avebury, Lord, F.R.S. (the
late)

Aylmer, Capt. L.

Bacot, A.

Bailey, Capt. F. M.

Bancroft, Dr, T. L.

Bannerman, D. A.

Bankes, E. R.

Barclay, Dr. A. H.

Barres, Dr. W.

Barrett-Hamilton, Maj.G. E. H.

Barrow, Dr. A. Boyce

Barry, Capt. R. A. H.

Bartseh, Dr. P.

* A list of Donors of books, etc., is given on pp. 125-127, under the

heading ‘“‘ Departmental Library.”

160
Bassett, Rev. Compton

Bate, Miss D. M. A.

Baxter, T.

Beckett, B. J.

Beddome, Mrs. R. H.

Bedford, His Grace the

Duke of, K.G., F.R.S.

Bedriaga, Dr. J. de

Belcher, T. Edward

Bell, T. R.

Bethell, Capt. Leonard

Bethune-Baker, G. T.

Blaine, G.

Blane, Col. C._F.

Boettger, Dr. C. R.

Bombay Natural History So- |
ciety,

Borley, J. O.

Borman, Major S. P.

Boulenger, E. G.

Boulenger, G. A.

Bower, B. A.

Boyd, Jermyn

Brabant, Mons. E.

Brander, A. A. Dunbar

Brauns, Dr. H.

Breadalbane, Marquis of, K.G.

Briggs, Rev. F. J.

British Columbia, Government |
of

British Ornithologists’ Union.

British South Africa Com-
pany.
Broad, P. G.

Brocklebank, Capt. J. J.
Brooke, Dr. Gilbert E.
Broom, Prof. R.
Brown, E. A.

Brown, W. R.

Bruce, Dr. ‘W. 8.
Brussels Museum.
Bryant, E.

Bucks, Miss

Bullock, D. S.
Bulpett, C.

Bunting, RK. H.
Burbridge, K. G.
Burnup, H.

Burr, Dr. Malcolm
Buseck, August
Butler, A. L.

Butler, E. A.

Butler, EK. D.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Buxton, B. H.
Buysson, Vicomte R. du
Byrne, L. W.

Caamaiia Tencuel Estate, Ltd.

Calcutta, Indian Museum

California Academy of Sciences.

Cameron, Dr. M.

Campion, H.

Cane, A.

Cant, A.

Cape Town,
Museum

Carleton, F. M.

Carnegie, Hon. Mrs.

Carter, A. E. J.

Carter wH.: J.

Carver, Miss Irene

Castellani, Dr. A.

Cator, Douglas

Challis, Miss B.

Champion, A. M.

Champion, G. C.

Chapman, A.

Chapman, 8S. C.

Chapman, Dr. T. A.

Chevreux, Ed.

Chilton, Prof. Charles

Christie, Dr. W. L.

Christophers, Major T. R.

Christy, W. M.

Chubb, E. C.

Clark, R. S.

Clarke, E.

Clarke, Col. R. S.

Clarke, W. Eagle

Clifton, Mrs. Talbot

Cockburn, Maj. W. A. C.

Cockerell, Prof. T. D. A.

Cockerel], Mrs. W. P.

Collin, J. E.

Collins, Miss F.

Colvile, Col. E. F.

Congo Museum (see Tervueren),

Connolly, Major M.

Cook, J.

Cooke, Rev. A. H.

Cooke, A. T.

Cooper, W. Omer

Courtois, Rev. J.

Cowan, W.

Cranworth, Lord

Crawshay, L. R.

South African

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY.

Crease, Herbert H.
Creighton, J.
Crosoer, F.
Crossland, C.
Cruickshank, Dr. G.
Crumplen, T.

Dalton, L:. V;

Danford, Capt. B. V.

Darling, J. ff.

Darling, S. T.

Daukes, Capt. C.

Davis, Capt. G.

Daw, M. T.

Dawson, Charles

De Beers Consolidated Mines
Co.

Dehra Dun, Forest Research
Institute and College

Delft, A. van

Denbigh, Earl of, C.V.O.

Dendy, Prof. A., F.R.S.

Dennis, A. W.

Distant, W. L.

Dodsworth, P. T. L.

Dognin, Paul

Dollman, G.

Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K.

Dracopoli, I. N.

Dracopoli, J. C.

Drake-Brockman, Dr. R. E.

Dubois, M.
Dudgeon, G. C.
Dun, “A. L.
Dunbar, L.
Duncan, N. C.

Dundas, Hon. Mrs. Kenneth
Dunn, Major H. N.

Dupont, P. R.

Dziedziski, Dr. H.

Eaton, Rev. A. E.
Edelstein, H. M.
Edington, Dr. A.
Edwardes, Hon. George
Egyptian Government.
Elliot, E. A.
Elwes, H. J., F.R.S.
English, T. M.S.
Entomological Research Com-

mittee.
Epps, Messrs. James, and Co.
Ewing, F.

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161

Faber, Harold

Farquhar, J. N. J.

Federated Malay States (see
Kuala Lumpur).

Ferrant, M. V.

Ferrer, Senor F.

Fisher, F. G.

Foulkes, R.

Fountaine, Miss M. E.

Fox, Rev. G. T. (the late)

Hox dhuiC.

Fox, W. Storrs

Foy, Dr. H. Andrew

French, Charles

Frohawk, F. W.

Game Department, British
Kast Africa

Gardiner, Prof. J. Stanley,
F.R.S.

Garrett, H. B.

Garrett, Mewburn

Genoa Museum.

Gestro, Dr. R.

Gibbons, W. B.

Gibbs, E. A.

Gibson, Ernest

Giles, Lt.-Col.

Gillespie, J. W.

Godman, Dr.
F.R.S.

Godwin - Austen,
H. H., F.B.S.

Goodall, T. B.

Goodfellow, Walter

Gould, A. R.

CGowdey, C. C.

Grabham, Dr. M.

Grabham, G. W.

Graham, J.

Grant, C. H. B.

Graves, ©. P.

Green, E. E.

Green, H. L.

Grey, C.

Grosvenor, G. H. (the late)

Grouvelle, A.

Guinness, Hon. Walter

Guitel, Prof. F.

Gunning, J. W. B.

Gunthorpe, Col. EK. J.

F. Du Cane,
Lieut.-Col.

162

Haldane, R. C.
Hale, Rev. J. R.
Hall, A. L.

Hamburg Museum.
Hamilton, A.
Hamilton, Capt. J. S.
Hamlyn-Harris, R.
Hanitsch, Dr. R.
Hankin, Dr. E. H.
Hardy, Capt. E.
Hardy, G.S.

Harger, L.

Hargor, R. L.
Harington, Col. H. H.
Hartert, Dr. E..J. O.
Harvey, Henry
Haslemere Museum.
Hawkshaw, J. C.
Hayes, A.

Hayward, H. C.
Hedley, C.

Helliesen, Tor

Henn, F. B.

Henning, W. J.
Herdman, Prof. W. A., F.R.S.
Hewitt, J.

Hickson, Prof. 8. J., F.R.S.
Hill, A. W.

Hilliard, J.

Hinde, Dr. S. L.
Hodgkins, Major C. R.
Hodson, Arnold
Hollis, E.
Holmes-Tarn, Capt. H.
Holt, E. W. L.
Hopwood, C.

Horsfall, H.
Houghton, B. L.
Howell, E. B.

Hudson, Mrs. Eva
Hume, A. O., C.B. (the late)
Hunt, A. W.

Hunti, A. W. Ward
Hurrell, H. E.
Hutchison, Capt. J.
Hutton, Samuel J.

Imms, Dr. A. D

Imperial Institue.

Indian Museum (see Calcutta).

Ingram, A.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Ingram, C.
Iredale, T.

Jack, R. W.

Jackson, Sir F. J., K.C.M.G.
Jackson, S. W.

Jacobson, E.

James, Sir Evan, K.C.I.E.
James, Mrs. H.

Janson, O. E.

Jenkins, Lady Madalene S.
Jenkinson, F.

Jennings, F. B.

Jenssen, Capt. G.

Jiacomi, Dr. de

Joubin, Prof. L.

Johnstone, J.

Jones, E. Dunkinfield
Jones, Major H.

Jones, R.

Jukes-Browne, A J., F.R.S.

Kaye, W. J.

Kenrick, Sir George H.

Kertész, Dr. K.

Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens

Key; A.

Keyser, C. E.

Kinnear, N. B.

Kirby, W. F. (the late)

Kirkaldy, Miss

Kirkpatrick, R.

Klaptser, Dr.

Kloss, C. Boden

Knox, Major S. G.

Kuala Lumpur, Federated
Malay States Museum

Lake Ngami Expedition, Sub-
scribers to the

Lamb, C. G.

Lampert, Dr. Kurt

‘Landon, Perceval

Lankester, C. H.

Lea, A. M.

Lebbe, Rev. B.

Ledyard, Prof. Edgar W.
Leicester, Dr. G. F.

Lett, Stephen J.

Levinsen, Inspektor G. M. R.
Lewis, J. E. A.

Lewis, R. F.

Liardet, C.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY.

Lisbon Museum.

Little, Capt. C. Hunter

Littledale, Capt. H. A. P.

Littledale, St. George

Liverpool School of Tropical
Medicine.

Loder, Sir E. G., Bart.

London School of Tropical
Medicine.

Longstaff, Dr. G, B.

Loveridge, A.

Lovett, Dr. T.

Lowe, Rev. F. E.

Lundstrom, Dr. C.

Luvoni, A. B.

Lyell, D. D.

Lyell, J. C.

Lyons, Capt. C.

Lyons Museum.

McClymont, J. R.
McConnell, F. V.
MacDougall, Prof. R. 8S.
McDowall, C. H.
MacF¥ie, Dr. J. W. F. S.
McGregor, J. Laird
Mackenzie, D.
Mackenzie, M.
McLeay, Dr. C. W.
McMillan, W. N.
Mackwood, F. M.
Malloch, P. D.
Mallock, A.

Mally, Miss Lily
Maplestone, C. M.
Marcus, E.

Marré, E.

Marshall, Dr. C. H.
Marshall, G. A. K.
Mason, Frank

Maw, W. A.
Maxwell-Lefroy, Prof. H.
May, W. L.
Meade-Waldo, E. G. B.
Melvill, Dr. J. C.
Menzies, Rev. H.
Merrins, Mrs. E. M.
Methuen, Hon. Paul
Metropolitan Water Board.
Migeod, F. W. H.
Millar, A. EH.

Millar, Rev. E.

Miller, J. H.

163

Mitzmain, W. B.
Moggeridge, W.
Morice, Rev. F. D.
Morley, Claude
Morrell, Capt. A.
Morrison, Dr. W.
Mosely, Martin E.
Moss, Rev. A. Miles
Moss, Frank A.
Moss, W.
Mouchet, M.
Moulton, J. C.
Mounsey, J. J.
Mundie, J.

Munt, H.

Navas, R. P. Longinos, S. J.
Neave, S. A.

Netolitzky, Dr. F.
Newbery, E. A.

Newill, R. H.

Newstead, Prof. R., F.R.S.
Nichol, Col. C. E.

Nicholls, Dr. L.

Nicholson, C.

Nicholson, Dr. G. W.
Nurse, Col. C. G.

Nuttall, Prof. G. H. F., F.R.S.

O’Connor, D.
Ogilvie-Grant, W. R.
Olclaker, F. A.
Oman, Dr. J.
Osborne, General
Osburn, Prof. R. C.
Ottewill, H. A.
Owen, G. Fenwick

Pachundaki, D. E.

Palmer, R. Foster

Para Museum.

Paris, Muséum
Naturelle

Park, Mungo

Parsons, Dr. Allan C.

Patterson, A. H.

Patterson, R.

Paulson, R.

Peile, Major A.J.

Percival, A. Blaney

Perez, Dr. G. Y.

Perkins, Dr. R. C. L.

Petrie, Prof. W. M. Flinders,
F.R.S.

d’ Histoire

Lg

164

Philpott, Miss

Pic, Maurice

Pilcher, Col. J. G.

Pixell, Miss H. L. M.

Pollard, Dr. J. McFarlane

Ponsonby, J. H.

Porteous, Dr. E. J.

Potts, F. A.

Prall, Lt.-Col.

Prater, S. W.

Pratt, E.

Prell, H.

Preston, H. B.

Prichard, B. W. O.

Priestley, E.

Prout, diw.

Pryce, Dr. T. E.

Pusa, Agricultural Research
Institute

Quelch, J. J.

achow, A.
Racovitza, E. G.
Radford, Dr. W. J.
Rae, Capt. M. E.
Rainer, A. J.
Ramsden, Charles T.
Randall, Mrs.
Ratelat, HR:
Rawson, Lieut. G.

Reid, D. W.

Rhoades, E. L.
Roberts, F. Russell
Roberts, J.

Robertson, Major R. B.
Robins, E.

Robinson, H. C.
Rodway, G.

Rosenberg, W. F. H.
Rothschild, Hon. N. C.

Rothschild, Hon. Walter,
Roubaud, Emile.

Round, Dr. J. Cornwell

Royal Society and _ British
Association, Joint Com-

mittee of, for the Explora-
tion of the Sandwich istends;
Rubin, Mrs. M.
Rutherfurd, W. G.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Saddle, A. W.

St. Quintin, W. H.

Sampson, Col. F. Winn

Sanders, Juieut. J. D. G.

Sarawak Museum.

Schaus, W.

Schulthess-Rechberg, Dr.

Schultz, F. Howard

Sclater, Dr. P. L., F.R.S.

Scott, H. H.

Scott, Hugh

BCouumake. Las

Seimund, E.

Selous, F. C.

Sharp; W. An iW.

Sharp, W. E.

Sheldon, W. G.

Shiraka, TV.

Shirley, Dr. J.

Shufeldt, Dr. R. W.

Sicard, Surg.-Major A.

Sich, A.

Sikes, F. H.

Silver, Capt. W.

Silverlock, O. C. (the relatives
of the late).

Silvestri, Prof. F.

Simpson, Dr. J. J.

Sims, A. D.

smart, Dr, A.-G. Ee

Smith, Mrs. B. Oliver

Smith, Canon F: C.

Smith, Dr. G. F. Herbert

Smith, M. Bosworth

Smith, M. P. Traill

Smith, 8.

Smithers, Ww. A.

Someren, Dr. R. van

Somerville, as

South, R.

South African Museum (see
Cape Town).

Southoff, M. G. de

Spurrell, Dr. H. G. F

Stanton, Dr. A. FT.

Starke; JC:

Starke, J. J.

Staty, Hric

Stenning, A. N.

Stephens, Mrs.

Suarez, A.

Surcouf, Baron J. M. R.

Swale, Dr. H.

DEPARTMENT

Swinhoe, Col. C.

Sydney, Australian Museum
Sykes, Major P. M

Synge, Dr. Ella

Tachibana, Z.

Waloot, P. A.

Tanganyika Exploration Coim-
mittee.

Tattersall, Dr. W. M.

_ Taylor, Frank H.

Tervueren, Congo Museum

Thacker, T. Lindsay

Thomas, N. W.

iiomas, O., F.R.S.

Thompson, D’Arcy W., C.B.

Thompson, T.

Thomson, R. M.

Thorburn, A.

Thurburn, Perey C.

Tokio Museum.

Tomlin, J. R. Le B.

Tosh, Dr: J. R.

Townsend, F. W.

Towse, Sir J. Wrench

Trevandrum Museum.

Trevelyan, Major H.

Turner, Dr. A. J.

Turner, R. E.

United States National
Museum (see Washington).
Uzzell, Thos. H.

Vallentin, R.

Vavra, Dr. V.
Velleneuve, Dr. J.
Verity, R.

Verrall, G. H. (the late)
Vickers, J.
Vinciguerra, Prof. D.
Vipan, Capt. H.
Vosmaer, Prof. G. C. J.
Vuillot, Mons. P.

Waddington, H. J.
Wade-Dalton, Colonel H.
Walker, Commander J.J., R.N.

OF ZOOLOGY.

Wallis, J. B.
Walsingham, Lord, F.R.S.
Walton, J. W.
Ward, J. Rowland (the late)
Washington, U.S. National
Museum
Waterfield, Dr. M. E.
Waterfield, Noel E.
Waterhouse, C. O., 1.8.0.
Waterhouse, G. A.
Waterston, Rev. James
Watson, Dr. C. F.
Webb, H. W.
Weinhausen, H.
Wenyon, Dr. C. M.
Wertheimstein, Fraulein
Sarolta von
Westcott, J. R.
Westmacott, J. L.
Whitehead, Capt. C. H. T.
Whittle, F. G.
Wickwar, 0. S.
Wiesbaden Museum.
Willey, Prof. A., F.R.S.
Wilmer, Lieut.-Col. L. W.
Wilson, C. J.
Wilson, H.
Wodehouse, Lord
Wolfenden, Dr. R. N.
Wolffsohn, John A.
Wolley-Dod, F. H.-:
Wolterstorff, Dr. W.
Wood, Rodney C.
Woodford, C. M.
Woodforde, F. C.
Woodhouse, C. W.
Woosnam, R. B.
Wray, C.
Wroughton, Mrs. L.
Wroughton, R. C.
Wynne, Lt. O. E.

Yerbury, Lieut.-Col. J. W.
Youngs, Miss Ella Sharpe

Zoological Society of London.
Zurcher, Mrs. F. A.

VI.—E£conomic Zoology.

The work of the Department in Economic Zoology was
continued with the assistance, during the first five months of

166 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

the year, of the late Mr. Lionel Armstrong, whose services as
a specialist had been engaged in December of the previous
year. In addition to attending to several inquiries, Mr. Arm-
strong made considerable progress in the preparation of the
card-index to insect pests and to the literature bearing upon
them, as well as in the arrangement of the economic collections.
The loss of his services occasioned by his illness and his sub-
sequent death on the 6th August was greatly felt. It was
unfortunate, also, that Mr. Maxwell-Lefroy had been unable
to give more than a small amount of time to the work during
the year. Such time as he gave to it was given voluntarily ;
and his advice was often sought and freely given, with great
benefit to the Department, in matters of economic interest
which required special knowledge and experience to deal with.

The Economic collections have been added to considerably
as a result of the work of the Entomological Research Com-
mittee ; and the Secretary of the Committee, Mr. Guy Marshall,
when visiting the West Indies in the early part of the year,
helped materially in the investigation relating to the beetle
Phytalus smithi Arrow, mentioned in the return for 1911 as
very destructive to sugar-canes in Mauritius. Mr. Marshall
discovered the presence of the beetle in Barbados, which is
probably its native habitat, and discovered there also a
Hymenopterous parasite of the beetle—facts which have since
been communicated to the Government of Mauritius. Inquiries
have continued to come from various parts of the world.

Amongst the objects on which information and advice
have been sought, and as far as possible given, the following
may be mentioned :—

I. Pisces.

Damage to a submarine cable, caused apparently by the
bite of a Deep-sea Fish (Eastern and Associated Tele-
graph Companies).

TI. INSECTA.
A. DIPTERA.

1. Distribution of the Orange fly (Ceratitis capitata).
(Information on this matter requested by, and sup-
plied to Prof. F. Silvestri.)

2. A species of fly (Bibio sp.) serving as food for the Red
Grouse (Lagopus scoticus).

3. Maggots (Dipterous larve) in frozen rabbits from
Australia.

4, Flies infesting a house. (Species identified for Dr. 8.
Monckton Copeman, F.R.S.,Local Government Board.)

5. A fly (Hippobosca maculata) parasitic on cattle from
S. India, which had just arrived at Singapore.
(Specimens sent by and information supplied to
Dr. Gilbert E. Brooke, Port Health Officer, Singa-
pore.)

6.

11.

12.

13.

14,

22.

23.

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Blood-sucking flies (Tabanidee) from Rhodesia, identi-
fied for the Government Entomologist, Salisbury,
Rhodesia.

. Midges (Chironomus spp.) eaten by trout. (Informa-

tion supplied to M. KE. Mosely, Esq.)

. Treatment for mosquito bites in England.
. Blood sucking midges (Leptoconops kerteszi) causing

trouble to mules, Ouargla, Southern Algeria.

. Larva of a Syrphid fly (Senaspis hemorrhoa) found in

diseased spot in the trunk of coco-nut palm in
Portuguese Hast Africa.

A gall-midge (Dasyneura tiliamvolvens) producing
galls in buds of lime trees in Essex.

A species of Tabanide (Tabanus striatus, Fab.) sup-
posed to be concerned in the dissemination of surra
in the Philippine Islands. (The species identitied
for, and information as to its distribution supplied
to Department of Entomology, College of Agri-
cuture, University of the Philippines.)

The narcissus fly (Merodon equestris) attacking Daffodil
bulbs.

Larve of a Bibionid fly (Dilophus febrilis) damaging
the roots of grass.

B. LepiporTera (Moths, ete.).

. The flour-moth (Lphestia kuhniella) and other insects

in biscuits and cereal foods, and infesting flour mills
in London and other parts of the country.

. The raspberry moth (Lampromia rubiella) killing

raspberry canes.

. Microlepidoptera of various species attacking lupin,

lucerne, potato, and tobacco in Rhodesia. (Species
identified for, and other information supplied to the
Government Entomologist, Salisbury, Rhodesia.)

. A moth (Gelechia malvella) destructive to seeds of

Hollyhock in gardens in Surrey.

. Moths (Gelechia gossypiella and Pyroderces gossypiella)

injurious to cotton in Egypt and Zanzibar.

. “ Boll-worm” in diseased cotton from Nigeria.

C. CoLEoPTERA (Beetles).

. The possibility of damage by beetles or other insects

to aerial telephone cables in England similar to that
caused by them in Australia and South America.
(Inquiry from Sir John Gavey, Consulting Engineer
to the Post Office.)

Larve of a Longicorn beetle (Acrocinus longimanus)
damaging rubber trees (Castilloa) in Ecuador.

Beetles (Dermestes vulpinus) in chests of tea.

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24. A weevil (Orchestes fagi) reported to be attacking apples
in Devon.

25. Larve of weevil (Otiorrhynchus sulcatus) attacking
Begonias in pots.

26. Beetles (Cathorama herbarium) damaging the bindings
of law books in the library of the Prosecuting
Attorney for the Isthmian Canal Commission at
Panama.

27. Beetles (Sitodrepa panicea) found in flock bedding.

28. Damage to wood by beetle larve. (An inquiry from
the Royal Institute of British Architects.)

29. A Melolonthid beetle (Lachnosterna sp.) which, like the
Phytalus smitha reported on in 1911, has been doing
considerable damage to sugar-canes in Mauritius.

D. ORTHOPTERA and NEUROPTERA (Crickets, “ White
Ants,” etc.).

30. The presence and distribution of “white ants” in New
Zealand, with reference to provision against their
attacks when laying telegraph cables.

31. Treatment of furniture to prevent attack by ‘“ white
ants” in tropical countries.

32. Crickets (Brachytrypes vastatric and Gryllus atratus)
attacking Cacao trees in Sierra Leone; and Brachy-
trypes membranaceus reported to be damaging cocoa
and rubber trees in Uganda.

III. Myriopopa (Millipedes, etc.).
A millipede (Julus guttulatus) damaging strawberries.

ITV. ARACHNIDA (Ticks, Mites, etc.).

1. A mite (Tyroglyphus longior var. castellani) causing
Copra-itch among people working in Copra-mills in
Ceylon. (Report on, and description of the Mite
published.)

2. A Mite (Tarsonemus spinipes) injurious to sugar-cane
in Barbados.

3. A Tick (Jxodes ricinus) found on a cat.

4. House-mites (Glycyphagus) in houses and on furniture.
(Several inquiries received during the year.)

V. MoLuusca.

Identification of freshwater mussels (Dreissensia poly-
morpha) from mains supplying filtering beds of the
Metropolitan Water Board at Hampton-on-Thames.

VI. Potyzoa.
Growth of these animals leading to serious trouble in the
pipes of Waterworks. (Specimens examined for several
Municipalities, ete., and information supplied.)

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 169

Vil.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits paid to the Zoological Department
during the year 1912 by Students and other persons requiring
assistance or information amounted to 12,564.

In the 10 previous years the numbers were :—
12,175 in the year 1911.

12,443
11,461
10,220
11,043
10,813
11,811
11,824
11,627
10,633

99

1910.
1909.
1908.
LOT:
1906.
1905.
1904.
1903.
1902.

Sidney F. Harmer.

170 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY.
L—Arrangement and Conservation.

Mammalia (Galleries 1 and 2).—The skulls of Zeuglodonts
have been arranged in a separate section of pier-case 4.

The collection of Rhinoceride and Titanotheriide in pier-
case 8 has been cleaned, re-labelled, and partially re- arranged
to admit recent acquisitions.

The collection of Suide and Camelide in pier-case 13 has
been cleaned and completely re-arranged and labelled, and
numerous specimens have been mounted on wooden stands.
A skull and other remains of Hlotheriwm have been prepared
and mounted in one section of this case.

Wall-case 28 has been cleaned and re-arranged to accommo-
date some large bones of Hlephas prinigenius from Alaska.

The remains of Hlephas from India in pier-case 34 have
been mounted, re-arranged, and re-labelled.

Numerous Tertiary Mammalian remains from British East
Africa and Baluchistan have been prepared for study.

Number of specimens of Mammalia registered, 72.

Aves (Gallery 2)—An important specimen of Ichthyornis
from the Chalk of Kansas, showing the sternum and associated
parts, has been prepared for study and exhibition.

Number of specimens of Aves registered, 2.

Reptilia and Batrachia (Galleries 8, 4, 5,11).—The table-
cases of Ornithosauria have been re-arranged, while a new
specimen of Pterodactylus scolopaciceps and a plaster cast of
Dorygnathus have been added to the collection.

A large new central case has been provided for the Jurassic
marine crocodiles. One skeleton of Steneosaurus and other
portions of skeletons of the same genus and of Metriorhynchus,
from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough, have been mounted in
this case.

Plaster casts of Dinosaurian footprints from the Wealden
of Crowborough, Sussex, have been mounted on the north wall
of Gallery 11.

The skull of Triceratops, with other remains of the same
genus, has been mounted and labelled in a new central case in
Gallery 4.

Part of_wall-case 8 has been re-fitted to accommodate a
plaster cast of the skull and mandible of Tyrannosaurus rex
from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana, U.S.A.

Progress has been made in the preparation and arrangement
of the Leeds Collection of Oxfordian Marine Reptiles in wall-
cases in the S.E. Basement; and the other unexhibited Plesio-
saurian remains have been removed to adjacent cases, in which
they are arranged and indexed.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 171

Wall-case 19, Gallery 5, has been partially re-arranged to
admit new plaster casts of Archegosaurus; and some large
plaster casts of Labyrinthodonts have been mounted on the top
of the case.

Number of specimens of Reptilia and Batrachia registered,
443,

Pisces (Gallery 6).—The exhibited collection of Ptychodus
in table-case 8 has been re-arranged and partially re-labelled,

while several important new specimens have been prepared and
added.

A large new upright case has been provided in the middle
of the gailery, and a nearly complete skeleton of Portheus
molossus, 14 feet in length, from the Chalk of Kansas, has
been mounted on one side of it. The opposite side of this case
has been fitted for slabs of Chimaeroids and Batoid Selachians.

Additional Tertiary fishes have been prepared, framed, and
mounted for exhibition in wall-cases 17, 18.

Numerous Chalk fishes have been extricated from the matrix,
and various other recent acquisitions have also been prepared
for study and exhibition.

Number of specimens of Pisces registered, 81.

Mollusca (Galleries 7 and 8, and Workroom).—The Cepha-
lopoda registered and labelled include:—Ammonites from the
Chalk of Kent, Belemnites from the Chalk of Rugen, Ammonoids
and Belemnites from the Cretaceous of Germany, and plaster-
casts of figured specimens (mostly types) of Ammonites from
the Spiti Shales of the Himalayas.

Important additions to the exhibited collection of Cepha-
lopoda are:—The type specimen of Belemnocamaxz boweri
from the Chalk of Lincolnshire (table-case 16), a large Scaphite
from the Chalk of Yorkshire (table-case 14), and two specimens
of Actinoceras giganteum from the Carboniferous Limestone
of the Isle of Man (wall-case 1) and of Westmoreland (table-
case 2).

The unexhibited portion of the Gilbertson Collection of
Cephalopoda has been removed from Gallery XI., and has been
re-labelled for incorporation with the General Collection.

The exhibited Carboniferous Nautiloids have been re-
arranged in table-case 2.

The Paleozoic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia registered,
labelled, and incorporated include :—Gastropoda and Lamelli-
branchia from the Ordovician of Westmoreland (I. A. Bather
Coll.), the type-specimens of Planorbis dixoni and Naiadites
madagascariensis from the Permo-Carboniferous of Madagascar
(G. Dixon Coll.); Lamellibranchia from the Permo-Carboni-
ferous of Nyasaland) (A. R. Andrew and T. E. G. Bailey Coll. ),
from the Coal Measures of the Bristol] Coalfield (H. Bolton
Coll.), from the Permian of Russia (J. A. Stigand Coll.), and
from the British Carboniferous rocks; a block of weathered

172 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Carboniferous Limestone from Lough Erne, containing Beller-
ophon, &c. (presented by Major Herbert Trevelyan). A collec-
tion of Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia from the Calciferous
Sandstone of Fifeshire (James Wright, Jun., Coll.) has been
registered and prepared for incorporation.

The unexhibited portion of the Gilbertson Collection of
Carboniferous Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia has been
removed from Gallery XI. and is being re-labelled for incorpo-
ration with the General Collection.

The Mesozoic and Tertiary Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia
registered, labelled, and incorporated include :—Tertiary shells
from Cyrenaica described in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1911
(J. W. Gregory Coll.); French Tertiary shells (lL. Staadt
Coll.) ; Lamellibranchia from the Miocene of Chili; and non-
marine Tertiary shells from Cos (E. Forbes Coll.), Germany
(K. Fischer Coll.) Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Russia,
Roumania, and Asia Minor. Important additions to the
exhibited collection are plaster casts of species of Inoceramus
from the Cretaceous of Saxony and Bohemia, Miocene Lamelli-
branchs from India and Chili, and Pliocene shells from the
Mekran coast, Baluchistan (C. Birley Bequest).

The exhibited specimens of Jnoceramus from the English
Chalk have been re-arranged and re-labelled, in accordance
with the Paleontographical Society’s Monograph by Mr. H.
Woods.

Numerous Cretaceous and Tertiary Mollusca from various
parts of Africa have been determined and named.

The Mollusca and other invertebrate fossils from Norway,
Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, and Holland in the Geological
Society’s collection, have been cleaned and prepared for study.
and registration.

Number of specimens of Mollusca registered : Cephalopoda,
291; Gastropoda, 2,979 ; Lamellibranchia, 1,938.

Arthropoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The acquisitions
registered, labelled, and incorporated include: —Insects in
amber (Blattide described by the late R. Shelford, and the
Termites studied by Kurt Baron Rosen); Trilobites from the
Olenellus Limestone of Comley, Shropshire, the Shineton
Shales (H. Keeping Coll.), the Cambrian of Hérault, the Lower
Ordovician of Bohemia (Klou¢éek Coll.), and the Upper
Ordovician of Keisley and Dufton, Westmoreland (Bather
Coll.); Cirripedes from the Cenomanian of Bohemia (Perner
Coll.), the Chalk detritus of Charing (W. Harris Coll.), the
Senonian of Hanover, the Mestrichtian of Holland (Bosquet
Coil.), the Pliocene of the Mekran Coast (C. Birley Bequest,
IF. W. Townsend Coll.), and the Crags of East Anglia (Sowerby,
S. V. Wood, Wigham Colls.) ; Ostracoda from the Kimmeridge
and Oxford Clays of Bucks, the Chalk Marl of Cambridgeshire,
the London Clay of London (F. Méckler Coll.), and Cretaceous
and Tertiary Rocks of various European localities (Geisendoérfer
Coll.) ; various Crustacea from the Calciferous Sandstone, Fife

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 173

(J. Wright Coll.), the Coal Measures of Derbyshire (L. Moysey
Coll.) and Gloucestershire (H. Bolton Coll.), the Lias of
England (Brodie, Buckman, Harford Colls.), the Bathonian of
Northamptonshire (Jesson Coll.), the Wealden of Hastings
(Teilhard and Pelletier Coll.), the Cretaceous of Hanover
(Schrammen Coll.), and the Oligocene of the Isle of Wight
(A’Court Smith Coll.).

The unexhibited Arachnida and Merostomata have been
removed to the new cabinets in the Workroom. The specimens
of Parka decipiens have been examined and transferred to
the fossil plants.

Several hundred specimens of insects in amber have been
trimmed and polished, and they are being placed for better
preservation in glass cells in a specially prepared resin.

Among additions to the exhibited collection are remains of
the Cirripede, Brachylepas naissanti, and an electrotype
of the type-specimen of the Silurian scorpion, Palewophonus
caledonicus. One of the specimens of Paradoxides davidis
has been cleaned and identified as the type.

The slip-catalogue of exhibited specimens has been con-
tinued. .

Number of specimens of Arthropoda registered, 2,384.

Echinoderma (Gallery 8).—The acquisitions registered,
labelled, and incorporated include :— Echinoidea from the
Viséan Limestone of Belgium, the Mesozoic and Tertiary of
various European localities (T. Wright Coll.), the Cretaceous
and Tertiary of Egypt (Geol. Survey Egypt and C. W. Andrews
Coll.), the Cretaceous of Hanover (A. Schrammen Coll.), the
’ Chalk Marl near Cambridge (F. Méckler Coll.), the Senonian
of Riigen (A. Laur Coll.), the Jan Jukian beds of Victoria
(Cudmore Coll.) and the Priabonian and Aquitanian of
Cyrenaica (J. W. Gregory Coll.) ; Asteroidea from the
Ordovician of Canada (W. R. Smith Coll.), the Toarcian of
May, Calvados (D. M. 8. Watson Coll.) ; Ophiuroidea from the
Calciferous Sandstone of Fife (J. Wright Coll.), and the Chalk
Marl near Cambridge (F. Méckler Coll.) ; Crinoidea from the
Ordovician of Ontario (F. Springer and W. R. Smith Colls.),
the Viséan Limestone of Belgium, the Calciferous Sandstone
of Fife (J. Wright Coll.), the Toarcian of May (Watson Coll.),
the Tithonian of Stramberg (M. Remes Coll.), the Cretaceous
of Hanover (Schrammen Coll.), and the Chalk Marl near
Cambridge (Méckler Coll.); Blastoidea from Somerset,
described by Bather, 1912 (Tutcher Coll.) ; Cystidea from the
Cambrian and Ordovician rocks of Bohemia (Barrande,
Bohemian Museum, Klouéek, Perner Colls.), the Ordovician of
Ontario and Quebec (W. R. Billings and W. R. Smith Colls.),
and the Devonian of Nassau (U. Green Coll.).

Various additions have been made to the exhibited British
Silurian Crinoids, and several of the explanatory labels have
been revised and reprinted.

174 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The slip-catalogue of exhibited specimens has been con-
tinued.

Progress has been made in the revision and rearrangement
of the Cystidea.

Number of specimens of Echinoderma registered : Echinoidea,
583; Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea, 25; Crinoidea, 385; Blas-
toidea, 2; Cystidea, 89. Total, 1,084.

Annelida (Gallery 8 and Workroom),—- The acquisitions
registered, labelled, and incorporated include specimens from
the Calciferous Sandstone of Fife (J. Wright Coll.), the
Neocomian of Hanover (A. Schrammen OColl.), the Chalk Marl
near Cambridge (F. Moéckler Coll.), and the Upper Cretaceous
of Egypt (Geol. Survey Egypt).

A few additions have been made to the exhibited series,
and some labels revised and reprinted. The slip-catalogue of
these additions has been continued.

Number of specimens of Annelida registered, 70.

Brachiopoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).— Progress has
been made with the registration of the foreign specimens in
the Walker Collection, which is now nearly completed.

Number of specimens of Brachiopoda registered, 13,811.

Polyzoa (Gallery 8 and Workroom).— Recently-acquired
specimens of Cretaceous Polyzoa, chiefly from Cambridge,
Dorset, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Riigen, have been cleaned,
mounted, and registered as a preliminary to the preparation
of Vol. III. of the Catalogue of Cretaceous Polyzoa. Of
specimens from other formations registered and incorporated,
the chief is that of Russian Ordovician Polyzoa, partly
collected and presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, partly acquired
from Dr. R.S. Bassler, who has identified and described the
whole collection in Bulletin, No. 77, of the Smithsonian
Institution.

Number of specimens of Polyzoa registered, 2,70€.

Anthozoa and Hydrozoa (Gallery 10).—A special case has
been made and placed in the middle of Gallery 10 for
exhibiting part of a collection of Carboniferous Corals made
by Dr. Vaughan, and illustrating the zonal divisions recognised
by him in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Avon Gorge by
means of the contained Corals. '

The rest of Dr. Vaughan’s Collection of Carboniferous
Corals has been registered, and other newly-acquired specimens
have been registered and incorporated, chief among which are
specimens from the Ordovician of Westmoreland (F. A. Bather
Coll.), Carboniferous of Ireland (Mrs. A. 8. Woodward Coll.),
Cretaceous of Kent (Dibley, Gamble Colls.), Miocene of Burma
(Dalton, Macrorie Colls.), and the Tertiary of Victoria (Cudmore
Coll:).

Number of specimens of Anthozoa and Hydrozoa registered,
573.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 173

Porifera (Gallery 10).—Newly-acquired specimens (chiefly
small examples sorted from the large collections of Polyzoa)
from the Cretaceous of England and Rugen have been registered
and incorporated.

Number of Porifera registered, 116.

Protozoa (Gallery 10).—Large collections of Foraminifera
newly acquired from the Lias of Wurtemberg (Issler Coll.),
the Cenomanian and Turonian of Dresden (Geisendérfer Coll.),
the Cenomanian of Cambridge, and the Senonian of Surrey
(Mockler Coll.), have been registered and labelled.

Number of Protozoa registered, 3,947.

Plante (Gallery 10).—A selection from the Marcus Gunn
Collection of Jurassic Plants from Sutherland has _ been
mounted, labelled, and arranged for exhibition in table-
case 22.

In connection with the Catalogue, progress has been made
with the revision of the Cretaceous plants, and numerous
microscope-sections of Cretaceous woods have been prepared.

Number of specimens of Plantz registered, 327.

Tracks and Rock Speciomens (Gallery 11).— The exhibited
collection in wall-case 8 has been cleaned and partly re-labelled.
Number of specimens registered, 33.

11.— Duplicates and Hachanges.

Duplicate fossils have been presented to the Goldsmiths’
College (University of London), Bethlem Hospital, and the
Museums of Peterborough and Barry. Duplicate specimens
from the Geological Society’s Coilection have also been
presented, with the sanction of the Council of the Geological
Society, to the Welsh National Museum and the Norwich
Castle Museum.

Exchanges of duplicate fossils and plaster casts have been
made with the Royal State Museum, Stockholm ; the Minera-
logical Museum, University of Copenhagen ; the Royal Natural
History Cabinet, Stuttgart; and also with Messrs. F. A.
Cudmore (Melbourne), E. B. Lotherington (Scarborough),
©. H. Joos (Stuttgart), and H. Andert (Ebersbach, Saxony).

III.—Departmental Library.

The additions to the Library, which have been registered,
stamped, catalogued, and press-marked, comprise 201 new
works and pamphlets, of which 46 were purchased and
155 presented ; 604 parts of serials in progress, of which 281
were purchased and 323 presented; 122 sheets of maps were
acquired, 55 by purchase and 67 by donation. 17 photographs
were presented.

Two hundred and six volumes have been bound, press-marked
and returned to the shelves. 2,224 visitors made use of the
Library.

176 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The following is an alphabetical list of personal donors to

the Library :—

Andrews, Dr. C. W.
Arber, Dr. E. A. N.
Bather, Dr. F. A.
Bayer, Prof. Franz.
Caziot, Commd. E.

Derby, Dr. Orville A.

Dollfus, Prof. G.
Dunlop, A., Esq.
Feuerheerd, Mrs.
Gothan, Dr. W.
Gregory, Prof. J. W.
Gude, G. K., Esq.

Guppy, R. J. L., Esq.

Hankin, Dr. E.
Hauff, Herr B.
Irving, Rev. A.
Jackson, J. W., Esq.
Jaekel, Prof. Dr. O.
Johnson, Dr. T.
Knipe, H. R., Esq.
Lydekker, R., Esq.

Newton, R. B., Esq.
Nopesa, Baron F.
Nowak, Dr. Jan
Oliver, Prof. F. W.
Pavlow, Dr. Marie’
Scott, Dr. D. H.
Schuchert, Prof. C.
Scrivenor, J. B., Esq.
Seeber, Dr. H.

Sergi, Prof. G.
Seward, Prof. A. C.
Sherborn, C. D., Esq.
Smith, Dr. Warren D.
Stefanini, Prof. Dr. G.
Steinmann, Prof. Dr. G.
Szadeczky, Prof. J.
Thomas, H. H., Esq.
Wenz, Dr. W.
Withers, T. H., Esq.
Woodward, Dr. A. S.

| Ziegler, Dr. V.

IV.—Publications.

The proofs of the second part of the Catalogue of Marine
Reptiles of the Oxford Clay and the first part of the Catalogue
of Cretaceous Plants have been read, and both volumes are nearly
completed.

Apart from the official publications issued by the Trustees,
the following descriptive papers dealing with different parts of
the collection have been contributed to scientific journals
during 1912 :—

By Dr. A. S. Woodward.

1. Note on a Maxilla of Triconodon from the Middle
Purbeck Beds of Swanage. Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xi., pp. 291-
297,-pl. XIV.

2. Description of the Teeth of two new Species of Fishes
from the Lower Carboniferous [Deltodus garwoodi and Coch-
liodus virgatus]. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. ]xviii., pp.
572-574, pl. i.

3. On the snout of a Pachycormid Fish (Protosphyraena
stebbingi) from the Lower Chalk of South Ferriby, Lincoln-
shire. The Naturalist, 1912, pp. 329, 330, pl. xix.

By Dr. F. A. Bather.

1. Notes on Hydreionocrinus. Trans. Edinb. Geol. Soc,
vol. x., pp. 61-76, pl. vill.

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2. Tapering ends of crinoid stems from Roscobie. Tom. cit.,
pp. 77-79.

3. Two Blastoids (Orophocrinus and Acentrotremites) from:
Somerset. Proc. Bristol Nat. Soe. [4], vol. iii., pp. 47-50, pl.

By Mr. R. B. Newton.

1. On the Lower Tertiary Mollusca of the Fayum Province
of Egypt. Proc. Malae. Soc., vol. x., pp. 56-89, pls. iii-iv.

2. [With Mr. E. A. Smith.] On the survival of a Miocene
Oyster in Recent Seas. Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. xlii., pp.
1-15, pls. i—viii.

By Dr. C. W. Andrews.

1. Note on the Molar Tooth of an Elephant from the Bed
of the Nile, near Khartum. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. ix., pp. 110—
113.

2. On the Importance of Africa in Vertebrate Paleontology,
Journ. E. Africa and Uganda Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. ii., pp. 109-
113.

By Mr. W. D. Lang.
1. Carboniferous Zones illustrated by Corals. Geol. Mag.
[5], vol. ix., pp. 435-437.
2. Paleontology and Bernard’s Biological Theories. Loc.
cit., pp. 550-558.
By Mr. T. H. Withers.

1. The Cirripede “ Brachylepas cretacea,” H. Woodward.
Geol. Mag. [5], vol. ix., pp. 321-326, 353-359, pl. xx.

2. Two New Species of Cirripedia from the Tithonian of
Stramberg, Moravia. Tom. cit., pp. 505--508, pl. xxiii.

3. Some early Fossil Cirripedes of the Genus Scalpellum.
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1912, pp. 528-539.
By Miss D. M. A. Bate.
1. On a New Species of Mouse and other Rodent Remains
from Crete. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. ix., pp. 4-6.
By Baron F. iNopesa.
1. Notes on British Dinosaurs, Part V.: Craterosaurus
(Seeley). Geol. Mag. [5], vol. ix., pp. 481-484.
By Mr. D. M. 8. Watson.
1, On some Reptilian Lower Jaws. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.
[8], vol. x., pp. 573-587. |
By Mrs, Jane Longstaff.

1. Some New Lower Carboniferous Gastropoda. Quart.
Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. Ixvili, pp. 295-309, pls. xxvii-xxx.

0.44 M

178 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

By Mr. G. K. Gude.

i. Note on Vequesnelia of Deshayes from the Miocene
(Sarmatian) of Turkey. Proc. Malac. Soc., vol. x., pp. 19, 20.

By Dr. J. W. Evans and Mr. R. W. Pocock.

1. The Age of the Morte Slates. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. ix.,
pp. 113-115.

By Dr. R. T. Jackson.

1. Phylogeny of the Echini, with a revision of Paleozoic
species. Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. vil., 492 pp., 76 pls.

By Mr. H. L. Hawkins.

1. On the Evolution of the Apical System in the
Holectypoida. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. ix., pp. 8-16, pl. ii.

2. A New Species of Fibularia from Nigeria. Tomi. cit.,
pp. 297-301, pl. xvi.

3. The Classification, Morphology and Evolution of the
Echinoidea Holectypoidea. Proc. Zool. Soe., 1912, pp. 440-497.

By Dr. M. C. Stopes.

1. Petrifactions of the Earliest European Angiosperms.
Phil. Trans., vol. 203 B., pp. 75-100, pls. vi—viii.

By Miss Theodora L. Prankerd.

1. On the Structure of the Palzeozoic Seed Lagenostoma
ovoides, Will. Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot, vol. xl., pp. 461-490,
pls. 22-24.

Various fossils in the Department of Geology have also been
described and figured by Mr. H. Woods, Mr. P. Lake, Miss
Elles, and Mrs. Shakespear, in the Monographs of the Palwonto-
graphical Society, vol. Ixvi. for 1912.

V.— Acquisitions.
A.—By Donation.

British Hast African Fossils. —A series of Mammalian and
other Vertebrate remains and Mollusca collected by Dr. Felix
Oswald from the Tertiary and Post-Tertiary formations in
British East Africa near Victoria Nyanza. Presented by the
Subscribers to the Hapedition (W. EH. Balston, Esq., W.
Heward Bell, Esq., Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, Sir Henry H.
Howorth, H. R. Knipe, Hsq., Dr. G. B. Longstaff, Charles
B. C. Storey, Esq., W. H. Sutcliffe, Esq., and Dr. A. Smith
Woodward).

Mammalha.—Two Mammalian teeth, one being the type-
specimen of Dipriodon valdensis, A. 8. Woodward, collected
by the donors from the Wealden near Hastings. Presented by
the Rev. P. Teilhard, S.J., and the Rev. F. Pelletier, Sa

One portion of mandibular ramus and two carnassial teeth of
Trochothervum cyamordes from the Upper Miocene, Steinhe m
Wiirtemberg. Presented by Prof. Dr. Eberhard Fraas.

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Humerus of Mastodon and portion of tail-sheath of a
Glyptodont, from Ceara, Brazil. Presented by J. A. Lorimer,
Esq.

Mandibular ramus and humerus of Mastodon from Peru.
Presented by Sehor Don Ramulo Cuneo-Vidal, through J.
Gregory Jones, Esq.

Remains of Mus catrews from cavern deposits, Sphinari,
W. coast of Crete; namely, a portion of the mandible (the
type-specimen described in Geol. Mag., 1912, p. 4, text-
figs. 1, la), and a portion of pelvis. Presented by Muss
DM. A. Bate.

Molar of Cervus elaphus from Symonds Yat, Herefordshire.
Presented by the Hon. N. Charles Rothschild.

Molar tooth and portion of humerus of Hippopotamus from
the site of Hathor temple near W. bank of river Faras,
province of Halfa, Soudan. Presented by Ff. Ll. Griffith, Esq.

Third upper molar of Rhinoceros antiquitatis, showing
malformation, from Brickearth, Crayford, Kent. Presented
by Rk. Brice Higgins, Esq. .

Milk-molar of Hlephas from Pleistocene gravels, Water-
newton, Hunts. Presented by J. W. Bodger, Esq.

Reptilia.—Pelvis of Mystriosaurus bollensis from the
Upper Lias of Holzmaden, Wiirtemberg. Presented by Herr
Bernhard Hauwff.

Tooth of Ichthyosaurus platyodon from the Lower Lias of
Warwickshire. Presented by Edward Mapplebeck, Esq.

Tridactyl Dinosaurian footprint from the Middle Purbeck
of Durlstone Bay, Swanage, collected by the donor. Presented
by Stanley C. Bailey, H'sq., A.MI.C.L.

Sixty Reptilian remains collected by the donors from the
Wealden and Purbeck formation near Hastings. Presented by

the Rev. P. Teilhard, S.J., and the Rev. F. Pelletier, S.J.

Two Crocodilian vertebre from River Xapury, Upper Acre
district, N. Brazil. Presented by H. Stanley Sutton, Esq.

Batrachia.—Skull of Bothriceps hualeyi from the Karoo
formation of the Drakensberg, Orange River Colony.
Presented by W. L. Distant, Esq. “

Pisces.—One spine of Onchus murchisoni and pieces of
Ludlow Bone-Bed from the neighbourhood of Dudley,
illustrating a paper by Messrs. King and Lewis, Geol. Mag,
1912, pp. 437-443, 484-491. Presented by W. Wickham
King, Esq.

Hight pieces of Upper Old Red Sandstone, from a depth of
between 1,100 and 1,200 feet in a boring at Southall, Middlesex,
containing remains of Holoptychius and Bothriolepis. Pre-
sented by E. Proctor, Esq.

Tooth of Rhynchodus from the Middle Devonian (Encrinite
Beds), Gerolstein, Kifel. Presented by Upfield Green, Esq.

Ye

180 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM,

Twenty-five fishes from the Calciferous Sandstone Series of
Kast Fife. Presented by James Wright, Esq., jun.

A specimen of Pholidophorus, in counterpart, from the
Lower Rhaetic, Glen Parva, Leicester. Presented by A.J. 8.
Cannon, Esq.

Seventy fish-remains, chiefly teeth, collected by the donors
from the Wealden and Purbeck formations near Hastings.
Presented by the Rev. P. Teilhard, S.J., and the Rev. F.
Pelletier, S.J.

Tooth of Ptychodus decurrens from the Chalk Marl,
Margett’s Pit, Burhain. Presented by G. E. Dibley, Esq.

Two fish-remains (Portheus and Pachyrhizodus) from the
Lower Chalk near Maidstone. Presented by W. L. Balston,
Esq.

One specimen of Hoplopteryx lewesiensis from the Sussex
Chalk. Presented by Alfred Bell, Esq.

Mollusca.—One Tentaculite, six Lamellibranchs and one
Cephalopod collected by the donor from the Upper Ordovician
of the Dufton area, Westmoreland. Presented by Dr. F. A.
Bather, F.R.S.

Three Lamellibranchs from the Paleozoic rocks of Ontario,
Canada. Presented by Col. C. C. Grant.

Three Mollusca from the Upper Silurian near Dudley,
illustrating a paper by Messrs. King and Lewis, Geol. Mag.,
1912, pp. 437-443, 484-491. Presented by W. Wickham
King, Esq.

Four Cephalopoda and 53 other Mollusca from the
Calciferous Sandstone Series of East Fife. «Presented by
James Wright, Esq., jun.

Seventeen Lamellibranchs from the Coal Measures of
Bristol and Radstock. Presented by Herbert Bolton, Esq.

Nine Mollusca from the Permian (Zechstein) of the Samara
district of the Volga, Russia. Presented by I. A. Stigand,
Esq.

One Gryphea from the Middle Lias, W. of Bridport.
Presented by W. D. Lang, Esq.

Sixteen Gastropoda and 14 Lamellibranchs collected by
the donors from the Wealden and Purbeck formations near
Hastings. Presented by the Rev. P. Teilhard, S.J., and the
Rev. T. Pelletier, S.J.

The natural cast of a left valve of Cyprina sowerbyi, from
the Folkestone Beds, Oldbury Hill, Ightham, Kent. Presented
by Benjamin Harrison, Esq.

Three specimens of Inoceramus from the Gault and three
Gervillia from the Greensand of Black Ven, Charmouth.
Presented by W. D. Lang, Esq.

One Belemnite from the Chalk Marl of Sussex. Presented
by H. J. Osborne White, E'sq.

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A large specimen of Inoceramus involutus from the Chalk
of Yorkshire. Presented by EL. B. Lotherington, Esq.

One Cretaceous Gastropod from Jamaica and one Cretaceous
Lamellibranch from the Isle of Wight. Presented by Lieut.-
Col. L. Worthington Wilmer.

Four valves of Ostrea longirostris from the Oligocene,
Gironde, France. Presented by Prof. Jules Welsch.

Two specimens of Pecten from the Miocene of Tliouanet,
Oran, Algeria. Presented by Arthur C. Veatch, Esq.

Forty Lamellibranchs from the Miocene of Burma. Pre-
sented by B. F. N. Macrorie, Esq., through L. V. Dalton, Esq.,
B.Sc.

HKighty-two non-marine Tertiary shells from Germany.
Presented by Dr. K. Fischer.

Two Mollusca from the Tertiary Timestone of Hilander
River, 200 miles inland, Central Dutch New Guinea. Pre-
sented by A. S. Meet, EKsq.

One hundred and eleven Mollusca described and figured by
the donor and R. B. Newton in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,
vol. Ixvii., 1911, pp. 572-680, pls. 42-49, from Tertiary
formations in Cyreniaca, N. Africa. Presented by Prof. J. W.
Gregory, F.R.S.

Seventy-eight Tertiary Mollusca from Colon (Panama),
Trinidad and Jamaica. Presented by Lieut.-Col. L. Worth-
angton Wilmer.

One Lamellibranch (Mactra chrydea) and forty-two other
Tertiary Mollusca from New Zealand. Presented by the
Geological Survey of New Zealand through J. Allan
Thomson, Esq. :

Ten Gastropods and 12 Lamellibranchs from a raised
beach near the Red Sea. Presented by A. J. Jukes-Browne
Eisq., FBS.

Arthropoda.—Twenty-four Trilobites from the Cambrian
of Comley, Shropshire. Presented by EH. 8S. Cobbold, Esq.

Seventy-nine Trilobites collected by the donor in the
Upper Ordovician of the Dufton area, Westmoreland.
Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S.

One Eurypterid from the Upper Silurian in theneighbourhood
of Dudley, noticed by Messrs. Lewis and King, Geol. Mag.,
1912, pp. 437-443, 484-491. Presented by W. Wickham
King, Esq.

One Trilobite from the Silurian of Ontario, Canada.
Presented by Col. C. C. Grant.

Twenty-five Arthropoda from the Calciferous Sandstone
of Hast Fife. Presented by James Wright, Esq., gun.

Six artificial impressions of Arthropods from the Coal
Measures, referred to in the Geol. Mag., Nov. 1911. Presented
by L. Moysey, E'sq.

182 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Forty-three Phyllopoda (Leaia) from the Coal Measures of
Bristol and Radstock. Presented by Herbert Bolton, Esq.

Twenty-six Arthropoda, including a new insect, collected
by the donors from the Wealden and Purbeck formations near
Hastings. Presented by the Rev. P. Teilhard, S.J., and the
fev. F. Pelletier, S.J.

Twenty-one Ostracods from the Gault of Black Ven,
Charmouth. Presented by W. D. Lang, Esq.

One Chela of Crab from the Chalk Marl, Cambridge.
Presented by F. Mockler, Esq.

One fossil Crab (Harpactocarcinus punctulatus) from the
Eocene, Vicentin, Italy. Presented by Walter Child, Esq.

Two Balani mentioned in a paper by the donor, Quart.
Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xvii. (1911), pp. 572-680, pls. 42-49, from
Tertiary formations in Cyreniaca, N. Africa. Presented by
Prof. J. W. Gregory, F.R.S.

Echinoderma.—Thirty-five Echinoderma collected by the
donor in the Upper Ordovician of the Dufton area,
Westmoreland. Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.RB.S.

Five Crinoids (Hybocystis eldonensis) from the Trenton
Limestone of Kirkfield, Ont., and one Ophiuroid (Onychaster
flexilis) from the Keokuk Group of Crawfordsville, Ind.
Presented by Dr. Frank Springer.

One Ophiuroid (Onychaster flexilis) from the Keokuk Group
of Crawfordsville, Ind. Presented by Frederick Braun, Esq.

Three Crinoids from the Lower Carboniferous Limestone
Series, St. Morans, Fife, and three Echinoderms from the
Calciferous Sandstone Series of East Fife. Presented by
James Wright, Esq., jun.

Twelve Asteroid ossicles and 45 Crinoid ossicles from the
Lias of May, Calvados, Normandy. Presented by D. M. 8.
Watson, Esq.

Twenty-two specimens of Lugeniacrinites from the Tithonian
of Moravia. Presented by Dr. Mauric Reme3.

Forty-six Echinoderma mentioned in a paper by the donor,
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. Ixvil. (1911), pp. 572-680, from
Tertiary formations in Cyreniaca, N. Africa. Presented by
Prop..J. W. Gregory, .F has: ’

One Echinoid from a Raised Beach near the Red Sea.
Presented by A. J. Jukes-Browne, Esq., F.R.S.

Annelida.—Five Annelida collected by the donor from the
Upper Ordovician of the Dufton area, Westmoreland. Pre-
sented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F_.R.S.

One Serpulites from the Upper Silurian of the neighbour-
hood of Dudley, noticed by Messrs. King and Lewis, Geol. Mag.,
1912, pp. 437-443, 484-491. Presented by W. Wickham King,
Esq.

Four Annelida from the Calciferous Sandstone Series of
East Fife. Presented by James Wright, Esq., jun.

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Serpula cincta from the Chalk of N.E. Surrey. Presented
by Mr. T. H. Withers.

Brachiopoda.—Sixteen Brachiopods from the Cambrian of
Comley, Shropshire. Presented by EL. 8. Cobbold, Esq.

One hundred and forty Brachiopoda, collected by the donor
from the Upper Ordovician of the Dufton area, Westmoreland.
Presented by Dr. fF. A. Bather, F.R.S.

Two hundred and eleven Brachiopoda from the Ordovician
rocks of the United States. Presented by Dr. August F.
Foerste.

Seven Brachiopoda from the Upper Silurian in the neigh-
bourhood of Dudley, illustrating a paper by Messrs. King and
Lewis, Geol. Mag., 1912, pp. 437-443, 484-491. Presented by
W. Wickham King, Esq.

Two Brachiopods from the Paleozoic of Ontario, Canada.
Presented by Col. C. C. Grant.

A specimen of Orthis from the Lower Devonian (Gedinnian }
of Ladock Quarry, Cornwall, described by Ivor Thomas, Geol.
Mag., 1912, p. 838. Presented by Upfield Green, Esq.

One Sprrifera from the Devonian, 8.E. of Lake Titicaca,
above the valley of La Paz, Bolivia, about 13,000 ft. above sea-
level. Presented by Lieut-Col. P. H. Fawcett.

Seven Brachiopoda from the Calciferous Sandstone Series
of East Fife. Presented by James Wright, E'sq., jun.

Twenty Brachiopoda from the Coal Measures of Bristol and
Radstock. Presented by Herbert Bolton, Esq.

Sixty-four Brachiopoda from the Permian (Zechstein) of the
Samara district of the Volga, Russia. Presented by I. A.
Stigand, Esq.

Polyzoa.—Polyzoa collected by the donor in the Upper
Ordovician of the Dufton area, Westmoreland. Presented by
Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S.

A piece of the Bryozoa-Bed from the Lower Carboniferous of
Portishead, Bristol. Presented by Spencer G. Perceval, Esq.

Polyzoan Limestone from the Carboniferous Limestone, S. of
Port St. Mary Harbour, I. of Man. Presented by H. L.
Hawkins, Esq.

Eleven Polyzoa from the Calciferous Sandstone Series of
Hast Fife. Presented by James Wright, E'sq., jun.

Three Polyzoa from the Lias of May, Calvados, Normandy.
Presented by D. M. S. Watson, Esq.

Fifty-six Polyzoa from the Greensand of Black Ven,
Charmouth, and one Polyzoan from the Chalk of Sompting,
Sussex. Presented by W. D. Lang, Esq.

Sixteen Polyzoa from the Chalk of N.E. Surrey. Presented
by Mr. T. H. Withers.

Two Polyzoa from the Upper Chalk of Sussex. Presented
by H. J. Osborne White, Esq.

184 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Celentera.—Corals and Hydrozoa collected by the donor
in the Upper Ordovician of the Dufton area, Westmoreland.
Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.B.S.

One Coral and four Hydrozoa from the Paleozoic rocks of
Ontario, Canada. Presented by Col. C. C. Grant.

Piece of Silurian Coral Rock from the Devonian basement
conglomerate, Porthluney, Cornwall; one Coral and five
specimens of the problematic Lodanella from the Lower
Devonian Singhofen beds of Berg, near Miehlen, Nassau
Presented by UF. pheld Green, lsq.

Two pieces of Devonian Coral Limestone from Torquay |
Presented by A. J. Jukes-Browne, E'sq., F.B.S.

The type specimen of Zaphrentis oystermouthensis,
Vaughan, from the Carboniferous Limestone of Gower. Pre-
sented by J. W. Tutcher, Esq.

Kight Corals from the Lower Carboniferous (Lower Calp
Shales) of Bundoran, Co. Donegal. Presented by Mrs. A. S.
Woodward.

A hundred and twenty-five Hydrozoa from the Toarcian of
May, Calvados, Normandy. Presented by D. M. S. Watson,
fisq.

Three Corals (Anabacia) from the Oxford Clay, Eye.
Presented by G. P. Crowden,Esq.

One Coral from the Upper Chalk of Sugsex. Presented by
H. J. Osborne White, Esq.

Twenty-seven Corals from the Miocene of Burma. Pre-
sented by B. F. N. Macrorve, Esq., per L. V. Dalton, Esq., B.Sc.

Four Corals from the Tertiary Limestone of Kilander River
(200 miles inland), Central Dutch New Guinea. Presented by
A. S. Meek, Esq.

Porifera.—One sponge from the Cenomanian of Compton
Bay, I. of Wight. Presented by C. LE. Brooks, Esq.

One sponge from the Chalk of Aston Rowant, Oxon. Pre-
sented by Mr. T. H. Withers.

Protozoa.—Two Foraminifera from the Calciferous Sandstone
eries of East Fife. Presented by James Wright, Esq., jun.

Washings of Foraminifera, &c., from the Bracklesham Beds
{Alveolina Limestone) of Selsey Bill. Presented by Edward
Heron Allen, Esq.

Seven Foraminifera and Organic Limestones described by the
donor in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe. vol. Ixvii., 1911,
pp. 572-680, from Tertiary formations in Cyreniaca, N. Africa.
Presented by Prof. J. W. Gregory, F.B.S.

Plante.—-Parka decipiens from the Lower Old Red Sand-

stone of Legsmill Quarry, near Arbroath. Presented by F.
Ross Thomson, Esq.

One artificial impression of a neuropteroid pinnule ps a
Coal Measure nodule. Presented by L. Moysey, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 185

EJeven plants from the Calciferous Sandstone of Kast Fife.
Presented by James Wright, Esq., jun.

Type-specimen of a fossil plant (Microrhagion Liversidger,
Ettingshausen, Mem. Geol. Surv., N.S. Wales. Paleont,
No. 2, 1888, p. 19, pl. i. figs. 7-11), from the Upper Carbo-
niferous of Wallesawang, New South Wales. Presented by
Prof. A. liversidge, F.R.S.

Seven fossil plants from the Rhaetic of Scania, Sweden.
Presented by Prof. A. G. Nathorst.

Seventy-four plant-remains collected by the donors from
the Wealden and Purbeck formations in the neighbourhood of
Hastings. Presented by the Rev. P. Teilhard, ‘S.J and the
Rev. F. Pelletier, S.J.

A tube of ales of Chara from the White Band, Ham-
stead Beds, Hamstead, I. of Wight. Presented by G. W.
Colenutt, Hsq.

Fossil Wood, probably of Tertiary age, from beneath basalt
on the Invermein Estate, Scone, New South Wales. Presented
by the Government Geologist, Sydney, New South Wales.

Rock Specimens.—Three rocks from the Calciferous Sand-
stone Series of Kast Fife. Presented by James Wright, Esq.,
jun.

Twenty-seven wind-worn pebbles, collected by the, donor in
the drift overlying the Bunter Sandstone, near Ramsdale
House, Nottinghamshire. Presented by Prof. H. H.
Swinnerton, D.Sc.

B.—By Purchase.

Manmalia.—Skulls of Hlotherium and Hyenodon from
the Upper Harrison Beds, Sage Creek, Converse Co., Wyoming.

Skull and associated vertebrae of Hosiren lybica from the
Hocene of the Fayum, Egypt.

Skull of Mesatirhinus petersona from the Eocene of
Wyoming.

Skull of Dolichorhinus intermedius from the Upper Eocene,
Uinta Basin, Utah.

Teeth of Arctic Fox from Durdham Down.
Plaster cast cf Human Skull from Langwith Cave, Derby-
shire (Mullins Coll.).

Aves.—Sternum, coracoid, scapula and humerus of Ich-
thyornis from the Cretaceous of Kansas.

Reptilia.—Skull of Scylacosaurus sclateri ;. three skulls of
Scymnosuchus whaitsi ; one imperfect skeleton of Hndothio-
don ; one Endothiodont skull; one Endothiodont dentary ;
two imperfect small Dicynodont skeletons; two Dicynodont
skulls; one Dicynodont mandible; one Hunotosawros; one
Dinocephalian tooth ; and one snout of Oudenodon ; all from
the Karoo formation, South Africa (Whaits Coll.).

186 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Two plaster castsof Koilosciosaurus coburgensis from the
Trias of Coburg.

One Mystriosaurus bollensis ; and one skull, mandible and
fore-paddle of Ichthyosaurus longirostris, from the Upper Lias
of Wiirtemberg.

A plaster cast of a skeleton of Dorygnathus from the Upper
Lias of Wiirtemberg.

One Pterodactylus scolopaciceps from the Lithographic
Stone of Hichstidt, Bavaria.

One Acrosaurus from the Lithographic Stone of Solenhofen,
Bavaria.

Pieces of egg-shell of Hypselosaurus from the Upper
Cretaceous of Bouches-du-Rhone, France.

Skull, mandible, vertebree and limb-bones of Toaochelys ;
and humerus, ulna and radius of Clidastes, from the Upper
Cretaceous of Kansas.

Cast of skull and mandible of Tyrannosaurus from the
Upper Cretaceous of Montana.

Batrachia.—One Labyrinthodont jaw from the Lower
Carboniferous of Midlothian.

Cast of restored skeleton of Hryops from Permian of Texas
(Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.).

Pisces.—One fish-bone from the Old Red Sandstone, Honey
Pen Hill, Herefordshire.

Two fishes from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of Forfar-
shire.

Two slabs of fishes from the Rhaetic of the Tyrol.
Forty otoliths from the Bradford Clay.

One Liodesmus, one Fugnathus, one Celacanth, and one
cast of Macrorhipis from Lithographic Stone of Eichstadt,
Bavaria.

Lepidotus mantelli from the Wealden, St. Leonards.

Thirteen teeth of Ptychodus from the European Cretaceous
formation,

One Pycnodont jaw from the Cretaceous of Syria.
One Enchodus from the Cretaceous, Westphalia.
One tooth of Notidanus from the Cretaceous, Westphalia.

Skeleton of Portheus molossus, and part of the skull of
Enchodus, from the Upper Cretaceous of Kansas.

Associated teeth of Ptychodus latissumus and of P.
decurrens ; one skull of Osmeroides latifrons ; one Berycoid ;
Ctenothrissa ; and Halec from the English Chalk.

Naseus and Rhombus minimus from the Upper Eocene of
Monte Bolea.

Two Diodont jaws from the Oligocene, Fayum.

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Dentition of Odontaspis denticulata and of Notidanus
promigenius from the Lower Miocene, Mainz Basin.

Miscellaneous Vertebrata.—One slab of vertebrate remains
from the Rhaetic, Blue Anchor.

Mollusca.—Twenty-seven Mollusca from the Ordovician of
Bohemia.
One Bellerophon from the Middle Devonian of the Rhone.

One Huomphalus colei from the Carboniferous Limestone
of Llandulas.

Actinoceras giganteus from the Carboniferous Limestone,
Hillbeck Fell, Westmoreland.

Three Ammonites and two Nautili from the Lias of
Charmouth, Dorset.

Forty-six Cephalopoda from the Lias of Asia Minor.
Five hundred Gastropods, &c., from the Bradford Clay.
Twenty-two Mollusca from the Stonesfield Slate.

One English Corallian Gastropod.

Thirty French Jurassic Mollusca.

One Ammonite, Pachydiscus, from the Chalk of the Warren
Cliffs, Folkestone, and two other Ammonites from the English
Chalk.

Fifty-one Mcllusca from the Chalk Rock of Aston Rowant,
Oxon.

Seven Mollusca from the Chalk of Yorkshire.

Two species of Cretaceous non-marine Gastropoda from
South France.

A hundred and fifty-five marine Cretaceous MolJusca from
France.

Five hundred and eighty-seven Cephalopoda, five Gastro-
poda, and twenty-nine Lamellibranchia from the Cretaceous of
Hanover (Schrammen Coll.).

One Teredo from the Cretaceous of Maestricht.

Twenty-one Lamellibranchs and six Cephalopods from the
Chalk of Riigen.

Seven Gastropods from the Cretaceous of Asia Minor.

Fourteen Ammonites, three Gastropoda and six Lamelli-
branchia from the Cretaceous between Abeih and Beyrout,
Syria.

Twenty-six Eocene Mollusca from Monte Postale.

Three Miocene Lamellibranchs from Mainz.

Six hundred species of Miocene Shells from France.

One Pecten from the Miocene of Asia Minor.

Sixty-five species of Post-Pliocene non-marine Gastropoda
from Var, France (Caziot Coll.).

188 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Nine species of Post-Pliocene marine shells from Corsica.

A hundred and ten Tertiary Mollusca from France.

Arthropoda.—Nineteen Trilobites from the Ordovician,
Bohemia.

Fifty-seven Trilobites from France.

One Eurypterid from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of
Forfarshire.

Arthropods from the Coa] Measures.
One tube of Ostracoda from the Upper Lias of Wiirtemberg.
Two Crustacea from the Stonesfield Slate.

Nine specimens of Hryma, from the Great Oolite of
Northampton.

One Arthropod from the Chalk Rock of Aston Rowant,
Oxon.

A hundred and sixty plates of a Cirripede (Br achylepas) and
six other Crustacea from the Cretaceous of Hanover.

Thirteen tubes of ostracod shells from the Cretaceous of
Saxony and Westphalia.

One Callianassa from Maestricht.

A series of Pollicipes from the Cretaceous of Westphalia.

Two Crabs from the Eocene of Istria.

Six tubes of ostracods from the Tertiary of Europe.

Echinoderma.—Four Ceratocystis pernert from the Cam-
brian of Bohemia.

Two Dendrocystis, two Compsocrinus, four Mitrocystis, and
one other Cystid, from the Ordovician of Bchemia.

Fifteen hundred Echinoderms, &c., from the Bradford Clay.

One Echinoderm from the Stonesfield Slate.

One Echinoderm from the Lithographic Stone, Eichstadt,
Bavaria.

One Echinoderm from the Chalk Rock of Aston Rowant,
Oxon.

One Catopygus from Maestricht.

Twelve Echinoderms from the Chalk of Riigen.

Twenty-three Echinoderms from the Cretaceous of Han-
over.

One Echinoid from the Cretaceous between Abeih and
Beyrout, Syria.

Sixty-three Mesozoic and Tertiary Mehinoderme from
France.

Annelida.—Thirteen Mesozoic Annelida from France.

Five Annelida from the Cretaceous of Hanover.

Brachiopoda.—-Six Brachiopods from the Ordovician of
Bohemia.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 189

Six Cretaceous Brachiopoda from France.

Thirty Brachiopoda from the Cretaceous of Hanover.
Polyzoa.—Five hundred Polyzoa from the Carboniferous,
’ Lanarkshire.

Four hundred and fifty-six Polyzoa from the Chalk Marl of
Cambridge.

Three thousand four hundred and sixty-five Polyzoa, &c.,
from the English Cretaceous.

Seven Polyzoa from the Cretaceous of Riigen.

One Polyzoan from the Cretaceous of Maastricht.

One Polyzoan from the Cretaceous of Faxe.

Thirty-five microphotographs of French Cretaceous Polyzoa.

Cretaceous and Tertiary Polyzoa from France.

Coelentera.— Two Graptolites from the Ordovician of
Bohemia.

Four Graptolites from France.

Twelve Silurian Graptolites from Yorkshire.

Two Meduse from the Lithographic Stone of Kichstadt.

Seven Corals from the Gault of Kent.

Thirty Corals from the Cretaceous of Gosau.

Cretaceous Corals from France.

Four Corals from the Cretaceous of Hanover.

One Coral from the Cretaceous of Faxe.

Four Cretaceous Corals from Asia Minor.

One Coral from the Eocene of Istria.

Tertiary Corals from France. .

; Porifera.—Twenty-nine Sponges from the Chalk of Riigen.
Two Sponges from the Chalk Rock of Aston Rowant, Oxon.
Protozoa.—Fifty-four Foraminifera from the Bradford

Clay. —
Thirty-one French Cretaceous Foraminifera.

Dr. Francesco Coppi’s collection of 686 species of Fora-
minifera from the Miccene and Pliocene of-Northern Italy.

Plante.—Two Zeilleria delicatula; one slide of Sigil
laria s utellaria; Vetacapsula; and 44 microscope slides of
plants, from the English Coal-Measures.

Two Teniopteris from the Carboniferous of Asia Minor.
Thuites from the English Bathonian.

Nine Plants from the Stonesfield Slate.

Ten fossil figs from the Laramie Beds, Wyoming, U.S.A.
Twenty-three European Cretaceous Plants.

Rock specimens.—Five rock specimens from Bristol.

190 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The total accessions during 1912 are as follows :—
A.— VERTEBRATA:

By Donation - ~ - - - 295
, Purchase = = = . = “794
,, Exchange = = = = a 1
—— 430
B.—INVERTEBRATA:
By Donation = = = = - 2AIG a
, Purchase = = = S = 9723
,» Exchange - - = = = el’ [89
—-—— 12,321
C= Pian ae
By Donation - - es = é 23
,, Purchase = = - s 92
, Exchange - = = = = i)
—— 116
D.—Rock SPECIMENS:
By Donation - - ~ = = 27
,, Purchase - = = 2 te 5
_—— oe
TOTAL - 12,899

VI.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits paid to the Department by students
and other persons for the purpose of consultation or study
during 1912 was 5,974.

| VII.— Demonstrations.

Nine parties were received in the Galleries of the Depart-
ment of Geology, and demonstrations were given as follows :—

January 11th.— Peterborough Natural History Society
(12 members); Dr. Woodward.

February 3rd.—Teachers of the London County Council
Schools (18) ; Dr. Woodward.

February 17th.—Teachers of the London County Council
Schools (11); Dr. Woodward.
March 2nd.—Teachers of the London County Council
Schools (12) ; Dr. Woodward.
March 9th.— Wimbledon Natural History Society (12
members); Dr. Bather.
March 23rd.— Social Institutes’ Union (30 members) ;
Dr. Woodward.
March 23rd.—Ealing Scientific Society (15 members) ;
Dr. Andrews.
; ¢ March 30th.—Teachers of the London County Council
Schools (11); Dr. Woodward.
May 16th.—Sir Muir Mackenzie and a party of 12 Wyk-
hamists; Dr. Bather.

Arthur Smith Woodward.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 191

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY.

L.—Arrangement.

The European rock-specimens belonging to the Geological
Society's Collection have been topographically arranged in nine
new cabinets, each containing 20 drawers, which have been
placed in the basement corridor.

Specimens of calamine, opal, and augite have been arranged
in 30 of the new drawers recently fitted beneath the table-cases
in the Gallery.

A series of fine, unaltered specimens of laumonite, exhibited
in the case-tops, have been placed in sealed glass troughs, to
preserve them in a moist atmosphere.

The crystal-sections have been re-arranged and numbered,
and the recently-acquired large series of sections of rock-
forming minerals have been incorporated.

In connection with the re-arrangement of the European
rock-collections in the Gallery, the large series of Hungarian
rocks have been re-arranged.

A large fulgurite from Maldonado, Uruguay, has been fitted
together, mounted in a special case, and exhibited in the
Pavilion.

Certain of the Meteoric [rons which showed considerable
rusting have been provided with a protective coating of shellac
by means of french-polishing.

Highty-nine boxes or parcels of mineral specimens have
been received, unpacked, and examined; 104 boxes have been
packed and despatched.

II.—Régistration, Indexing, and Cataloguing.

All the specimens of minerals, rocks, and meteorites acquired
during the year have been registered, numbered, labelled, and
incorporated with the Collection.

The preparation of the shp-catalogues of the mineral-
specimens in the Collection, species by species, and of permanent
labels giving all available information for each specimen, has
been in progress for the Divisions of the Haloids, Oxides, and
Carbonates, In the course of this work slips have been prepared
for the specimens of aragonite, alstonite, and hematite; and
permanent labels have been written, checked, and placed in the
Collection with the specimens of all the species of the Haloids
up to and including fluor. At the same time the specimens of
fluor in the drawers have been re-arranged and extended into
other cubes, and the history of various specimens not entered
in the General Register has been investigated.

In connection with the acquisition of specimens selected
from the Walker Collection (pp. 194-5), many of which had been

192 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

originally purchased from Henry Heuland, an index of the
names of purchasers at the Heuland sales of 1829-1846 has
been prepared, and marginal notes in a copy of the sale
catalogues which belonged to Heuland have been incorporated
in the Museum copy.

A slip-catalogue of the crystal-sections has been prepared,
and the catalogue of the gem-stones has been brought up to
date.

Six hundred and eighty-three labels for the Collection of
Meteorites have been prepared for press, and the printed labels
have been placed with the specimens exhibited in the four cases
in the Pavilion.

A topographical index of the meteorites in the Collection
has been prepared.

The preparation of a slip-catalogue of the topographical
rock collections has been continued.

Two hundred thin-slices of rocks have been microscopically
examined and labelled.

Two thousand and eighty-five thin-slices of rocks have been
cleaned, and the registration-rumbers have been written on
them with a diamond.

The preparation of a copy of the register of the specimens
in the Collection has been continued.

Ill.— Preparation.

Two hundred and ninety-two thin-slices of rocks and
meteorites have been prepared. In connection with this work
new and improved apparatus for slitting rocks, and for grinding
and polishing rock-sections have been made from designs
prepared in the Department, and have been installed in the
Lapidary’s room.

IV.—Investigation.

A crystallographic and optical investigation has been
made of a pyroxene from the Azores, and that of zeolites and
associated minerals from the basalts near Belfast has been
continued.

A crystallographic and chemical investigation has been made
of a supposed new sulpharsenite of lead from Binn, Switzerland.

Specimens of the following minerals have also been examined :
anatase, atacamite, beryl, calcite, corundum, dufrenoysite, garnet,
halloysite, mica, platinum, quartz, seligmannite, and vanadinite.

A collection of copper-ores, including specimens of bayldonite
and the new mineral, tsumebite, from Tsumeb, German South-
West Africa, has been examined.

Collections of rocks from the Azores, British East Africa,
‘the Antarctic, Mongolia, Madagascar, Costa Rica, and Iona have
been examined.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 193

A set of pannings from Southern Nigeria has been examined,
and the constituent minerals have been determined.

A chemical and optical investigation has been made of the
mineral constituents of the meteoric stones which fell at EI
Nakhla el Baharia, Egypt; drawings have been made, and a
description of the meteorite has been prepared for publication.

In the chemical laboratory, quantitative analyses have been
made of the olivine and the soluble and insoluble constituents
of the E] Nakhla meteorite ; a sulpharsenite of lead from Binn,
Switzerland ; a phacolite from Co. Antrim; a pyroxene and a
trachyte fromm the Azores; and a copper-nickel alloy: many
doubtful minerals have been qualitatively analysed.

V.—Departmental Library.

Arrangement.—Letters relating to the business of the
Department have been arranged.

Cataloguing and Press-marking.—677 volumes and 444
title-slips have been press-marked. All the accessions, including
841 plates, have been catalogued and stamped.

Proofs of the Library Catalogue have been read and checked
against the slip-catalogue in the Department.

Shelf-lists of all the books have been prepared.

A ccessions.—48 volumes of separate works, 33 periodicals
(in 414 volumes and parts), 45 pamphlets, 15 parts of works,
and 33 mining reports have been added to the Library. These
were acquired as follows: --

By presentation.—9 volumes of separate works, 10
periodicals (in 124 volumes and parts), 34 pamphlets,
2 parts of works, and 30 mining reports.

By purchase. — 34 volumes of separate’ works, 21
periodicals (in 288 volumes and parts), 9 pamphlets
and 11 parts of works.

By transfer.—5 volumes of separate works, 2 periodicals
(in 2 parts), 2 pamphlets, 2 parts of works and 3 mining
reports. ;

In addition to the above, 2 sets of sheets (No. 208 to 229) of
the Catalogue of the Museum Libraries have been received from
the General Library.

Binding.—116 volumes have been bound.

Assistance has been given in the General Library during
11 days and 5 half-days.

Vi.—Publications.

The following papers relating to specimens in the collection
have been published during the year :—In the “ Mineralogical
Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society,” 1912,
vol. xvi :—

“The Meteoric Stones of El Nakhla el Baharia (Egypt)”’ :
by G. T. Prior (p. 274).

0.44 N

194 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

“ Hatchite, a new (anorthic) mineral from the Binnenthal” :
by R. H. Solly and G. F. H. Smith (p. 287)

“ Note on a large crystal of Anatase from the Binnenthal” :
by G. F. H. Smith (p. 290).

“On Sericite from North Wales and on Penninite and
Labradorite from Ireland”: by A. Hutchinson and W. Campbell
Smith (p. 264).

In the “ Annals of the Natal Museum,” 1912, vol. ii :—

“A spherulitic Dolerite from Natal”: by W. Campbell
Smith (p. 381).

VIIL.— Acquisitions.

1,403 specimens have been acquired, namely :—
620 minerals, 667 rocks, and 116 meteorites.

Particularly noteworthy amongst the acquisitions during
the year are the superb specimens of minerals from the Walker
Collection, some of the finest of which were presented by
Mr. F. N. A. Fleischmann. The Walker Collection was brought
together for the most part by Mr. Isaac Walker (1794-1853),
of Southgate, Middlesex, who purchased the majority of the
finest specimens from Henry Heuland at his public sales of
minerals held between 1826 and 1847. The specimens now
acquired by the Museum therefore include some of the most
remarkable examples of minerals discovered or offered for sale
at that time.

Exchanges of specimens have been made with the Muséum
National d’ Histoire Naturelle, Paris (through Prof. A. Lacroix) ;
and the Servico Geologico e Mineralogico do Brazil (through
Prof. Orville A. Derby).

The specimens acquired by presentation (arranged alpha-
betically according to donors), and by exchange, and the more
important of those obtained by purchase are as follows :—

; Minerals.
By Presentation :

Garnet (pyrope), two faceted stones and rough fragments,
from Ceylon: by E. A. Annett, Esq.

Albite crystals with dolomite, &c., from Ouro Preto, Brazil :
by Arthur J. Bensusan, Esq.

Cassiterite crystals from Northern Nigeria: by 8. G
Brounger, Eso.

Epidote and dufrenoysite from Switzerland: by Sigismund
Bruzaud, Esq.

Calamine, bluish-green with ne surface, from Kelly
mine, New Mexico: by Albert C. Burrage, Esq.

Cellular quartz from Ranen, Norway: by J. Morrow
Campbell, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 195

Wiikite from Finland, and crystals of platinum formed by
sublimation in an electric furnace: by Sir William Crookes,

OM EF R.S.

Zinc-blende in ironstone nodule from Fairlight Cliffs,
Sussex: by Charles Dawson, Esq.

Artificial spinel and fibrous silica from furnace slags: by
Allan B..Dick, Esq.

Quartz, two isolated twinned crystals (a rare form with the
primary rhombohedron as twin-plane), a number of untwinned
crystals of quartz, and crystals of andesine, from the Esterel
Mts., France: by Dr. Julien Drugman.

Esmeraldaite from Esmeralda Co., Nevada: by Prof.
A. 8. Hakle.

Garnet in granite from Dartmoor: by H. Montagu Evans,
Esq.

Magnetite from the diamond washings of Diamantina,
Brazil: by W. Feldenheimer, Esq.

A series of 46 choice specimens specially selected from the
Walker Collection (see p. 194), including :—seven finely crystal-
lized chessylites from Chessy, France; crystallized malachite,
and malachite pseudomorphous after chessylite and after
cuprite, from Chessy, France ; two groups of distinctly formea
crystals of native silver from Kongsberg, Norway ; a group of
large bright crystals of smaltite from Riechelsdorf, Hesse; two
fine groups of pyrargyrite crystals from Andreasberg, Harz ;
pale green fluor-spar with topaz from Adun-Chalon, Siberia ;
hyalite from Waltsch, Bohemia; topaz, a clear pale brown
erystal, from Urulunga Mt., Siberia, and a group of Justrous
colourless crystals, many of them doubly terminated, from
Adun-Chalon, Siberia; garnet (hessonite) with diopside from
Ala, Piedmont; epidote, an isolated doubly-terminated crystal,
from Arendal, Norway ; two large twinned crystals of adularia
from St. Gotthard ; a clear yellow crystal of beryl from Adun-
Chalon, Siberia; a pale-green crystal of euclase from Minas
‘Geraes ; tourmaline, a large black crystal with apatite, from
Bovey Tracey, Devonshire; pale yellow crystals of scheelite of
low pyramidal habit from Breitenbrunn, Saxony (the specimen
figured and described by A. Lévy in 1826); crystallized
scorodite from Brazil and Saxony ; apatite with topaz from
St. Michael’s Mount, Cornwall; mimetite, a group of fine
yellow crystals, from Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony; galena
pseudomorphous after pyromorphite from Huelgoat, Brittany ;
also fine crystallized specimens of argentite, stephanite, cuprite,
hematite, cerussite, aurichalcite, diopside; idocrase, and
libethenite: by F. N. A. Fleischmann, Esq.

In addition to the above :—dufrenoysite, a fine large crystal
from Binn, Switzerland (figured and described in_ the
“Mineralogical Magazine,’ 1912, vol. xvi, p. 284); chessylite,
a large bright crystal with tsumebite, from Tsumeb, German
South-West Africa; leucite crystals from Monte Albano,

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196 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Rome; albite, two large groups of crystals from Vals, Switzer-
land; laumontite, a large series of isolated clear crystals
preserved in water, from Baveno, Italy, and two groups from
West Paterson, New Jersey; phillipsite, two large specimens
from Acquacetosa, Rome; natrolite, a large specimen from
Black Hill, Belfast ; heulandite crystals in a large quartz-lined
geode from Teigarhorn, Iceland: by F. N. A. Fleischmann, Esq.

Wolframite pseudomorphous after scheelite (“reinite ”’)
from Torrensvale, South Australia: by the Foote Mineral
- Company.

Iodide of lead from South Australia: by William B.
Giles, Esq.

Hydrous anthophyllite and serpentine from Ballater,
Aberdeenshire: by Russell F. Gwinnell, Esq.

Blende (‘“liver-blende”) from Prussian Silesia: by F. W.
Harbord, Ksq.

Beryl, a fine pink faceted stone, from Madagascar: by
EK. Hopkins, Esq.

Zirkelite from Ceylon: by the Director of the Imperial
Institute, London.

Hyalite, andesine, garnet, calcite, and radioactive lead and
barium sulphate from Japanese localities: by Prof. Kotora
Jimbo. :

Chalcedony pseudomorphous after calcite, from Japan: by
G. Lewis, Esq.

Gypsum, a large crystal enclosing native copper, from
Mt. Elliot mine, north-west Queensland: by C. Maitland, Hsq.

Crocoite on cerussite from Tasmania: by L. E. Marshall,
Iisq.

Jadeite, six samples of various colours from Burma: by

Rev. Dr. D. Miller.

Lapis-lazuli, seapolite, and felspar, as worked articles, from.
the Burma Ruby mines: by A. H. Morgan, Esq.

Axinite associated with apatite: by Spencer G. Perceval,
Esq.

Stibnite from the glacial drift near Keswick, Cumberland :.
by John Postlethwaite, Esq.

Quartz nodules lined with crystals from Agadir, Morocco =
by A. Rosenthal, Esq.

Bournonite, galena, and chalybite from Pontgibaud, Puy-
de-Déme, France; iridescent limonite from Hungary; quartz.
and calcite pseudomorphous after garnet from Norway ; goethite
and limonite from Val di Castello, Tuscany; barytes from
Bolivia; cassiterite from Malay : by Arthur Russell, Esq.

Huisite, hinsdalite, sicklerite, beaverite, plumbojarosite,.
dumortierite, crystallized turquoise, and crystallized variscite ;
new species, and new occurrences of American minerals.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY, 197

recently described by the donor: by Dr. Waldemar T.
Schaller.

Cassiterite of various forms from Federated Malay States :
by J. B. Scrivenor, Esq.

Precious opal in geyserite from the Great Geyser, Iceland :
by F. H. Sikes, Esq.

Calcite, dolomite, and orthite collected by the donor in
North Wales: by W. Campbell Smith, Esq.

Luzonite from the Phillipine Islands: by Dr. Warren D.
Smith.

Belgian marbles, a set of thirteen polished slabs to represent
the different trade varieties: by the Société Anonyme de
Merbes-le-Chateau, Belgium (through Marcel Leclerq, Esq.).

Chalcedony nodules enclosing water (‘“enhydros”) from

San Eugenio, Uruguay: by Lieut. J. C. Johnstone Soutter,
R.N.

Gold in quartz from Santiago, Chili: by Percy Stevens,
Esq., and Ciro Makin, Esq.

Concentrates panned from river sands in Southern Nigeria.
by P. A. Talbot, Esq.

Cassiterite, a large crystal from Otavi, German South-West
Africa: by Perey C. Tarbutt, Esq.

Calcite from Patterdale, Westmoreland: by T. Thornton,
Ksq.

Cassiterite from Northern Nigeria: by A. Stanley Williams,
Esq.

Gold in serpentine from Porcupine, Ontario: by Ernest
Williams, Esq.

Chalcedony nodules enclosing water (‘“‘enhydros”) from
Uruguay: by Dr. George C. Williamson.

Calcite, marcasite, and iron-pyrites from Fifeshire: by
James Wright, Esq., Junr.

By Exchange:

Various minerals collected in Madagascar by Prof. A.
Lacroix and described by him, including :—imerinite (a new
variety of soda-amphibole), rhodizite, noumeite, tourmaline,
corundum, apatite, autunite, spodumene, microcline, lepidolite,
zinnwaldite, ctypeite, and beryl.

Model of a large diamond (the “ Estrella de Minas”) found
in Minas Geraes in 1911.

By Purchase :

175 choice specimens specially selected from the Walker
Collection (see p. 194), including :—erystallized gold from
Colombia and Brazil; argentite from Mexico; bournonite, a
large twinned crystal from Machacamarca, Bolivia; pyrargyrite
from Andreasberg and Freiberg ; polybasite, a group of very

198 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

large crystals from Guanaxuato, Mexico ; fluor, fine groups of
crystals of various colours, from Gersdorf in Saxony, Kongsberg
in Norway, and Cornwall; hematite, a fan-like group of large
platy crystals from Brazil; chrysoberyl, a magnificent group
of large crystals of the alexandrite variety, from Takovavya,
Urals, and a number of small isolated crystals from Ceylon ;
cassiterites from Cornwall and Bohemia; zircon from Lake
Ilmen, Urals, and Fredriksvarn, Norway ; quartz of ditferent
varieties from several localities; precious opal in matrix and
wax-opal from Hungary, green opal from Ceylon; aragonite,
twinned crystals from Aragon and Bohemia, and coralloidal
from Sicily ; cerussite, a large twinned crystal from Nerchinsk,
Siberia, and bright green crystals from Leadhills, Lanarkshire ;
calamine, apple-green crystals from Chessy, France, and
pseudomorphous after calcite from Derbyshire and Mendip
Hills; calcite, a large violet twinned cleavage rhombohedron
from the Harz, translucent botryoidal group from Dauphine,
France, and various other forms; pseudogaylussite, groups of
pseudo-crystals brought up in the fishermen’s nets in Lake
Onega, Russia; aurichalcite on fluor from Rutland mine,
Matlock, Derbyshire; chessylite, crystals partly altered to
malachite, from Chessy, France; malachite, fibrous and con-
cretionary, from Siberia; olivine, a large and unique crystal,
transparent and of a rich green colour, probably from the
Island of St. John, Red Sea, and granular aggregates from
the Isle of Bourbon; chondrodite in crystalline limestone
from Amity, New York; diopside from Maneetsok, Greenland ;
topaz, 13 fine crystals and groups from Brazil, Siberia, and
Saxony, one yellow crystal from Brazil, being 23 cm. in length,
and another, more perfect and of a rich clear orange-red colour,
10 em. in length; beryl, a clear emerald in mica-schist from
Takovaya, Urals, a large etched aquamarine of unknown
locality, a deeply etched blue crystal from Mourne Mtns., Co.
Down, and a pale green crystal from Kangayam, Madras;
euclase, a clear green crystal 3°5 cm. in length from Brazil,
and a pale-blue faceted stone; chrysocolla pseudomorphous
after atacamite from Bogoslovsk, Urals; staurolite, a large
twinned crystal from Baud, Brittany; spessartite from
Haddam, Connecticut ; hessonite, isolated crystals from Ceylon ;
erossular on serpentine from Novara, Piedmont; almandine
crystal from India ; ilvaite, two groups of large crystals from
Elba; orthoclase, a sharply-developed Baveno-twin from
Baveno, Piedmont, a large Carlsbad-twin from the Urals, a
large simple crystal of adularia from St. Gotthard, and a
polished slab of the moonstone variety from Sungangarsok,
Greenland ; labradorite, a thin slice of a porphyritie crystal in
matrix, showing brilliant colours ; tourmaline, pink crystals
on granite from Elba; axinite, fine groups and isolated crystals
from Bourg d’Oisans, Isére, France; sphene, a large rough
crystal 13 cm. long from Arendal, Norway, a_ perfectly
developed isolated crystal from Grisons, and a group of twinned
crystals with apatite from Val Maggia, Ticino ; columbite, an
isolated crystal from Bodenmais, Bavaria; wulfenite from

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Bleiberg, Carinthia; scheelite, a parallel group of white
crystals with cassiterite on wolframite from Schlaggenwald,
Bohemia: wolframite, a group of large crystals from Adun-
_ Chalon, Siberia ; celestite, clear pale-blue crystals with sulphur
from Bex, Switzerland; barytes, crystals coioured yellow with
orpiment from Transylvania, and red with cinnabar from
Rhenish Bavaria; chalcanthite, crystallised, from Dolcoath
mine, Cornwall; lettsomite from Banat; connellite, two good
specimens from Cornwall; leadhillite, group of large plates
from Leadhills, Lanarkshire; euchroite crystals from Libethen,
Hungary ; apatite, violet crystals from Ehrenfriedersdorf,
Saxony, a blue crystal from Ceylon, orange-yellow crystals
from Caprera, Spain, and greenish crystals from Haytor,
Devonshire; pyromorphite from La Croix, Vosges, and from
Huelgoat, Finistére ; mimetite, yellow crystals of tabular and
of prismatic habit from Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony, acicular
crystals and a fine group of the campylite variety from
Cumberla r;cu pro-uranite from Cornwall, We.

Various Japanese minerals, including :—topaz on mica and
topaz enclosing stibnite, a fine large pyramidal crystal of
scheelite, a group of large crystals of copper-pyrites, covellite,
cinnabar, alabandite, pseudogaylussite, linarite, blende,
rhodochrosite, iron-pyrites, mispickel, twinned crystals and
distorted crystals of quartz, amethyst, microcline, idocrase,
hedenbergite, cupro-scheelite, vivianite, white prismatic
crystals 6 and 84 em. long of apatite, ilvaite, psilomelane,
aragonite, calcite, and enargite.

A series of crystallized minerals from the mines at Tsumeb,
German South-West Africa, including :—tsumebite (a new
species), bayldonite, chessylite, calamine, cerussite, dioptase,
anglesite, mimetite, malachite pseudomorphous after chessylite,
bayldonite pseudomorphous after mimetite.

A series of minerals from the volcanic rocks of the Albanian
Hills, near Rome, including Ging ae nephelite, sanidine,
augite, leucite, wollastonite, biotite.

Braunite and hausmannite crystals from Miguel Burnier,
Brazil.

Topaz, a large colourless faceted stone weighing 268 grams
(1,300 carats).

Niccolite and rammelsbergite, crystallized, from Eisleben,
Merseburg.

Quartz, twinned crystals from Elba.

Goethite from Crystal Peak, Colorado.

Stephanite, fluor, antimony, chessylite from Sardinia.

Brugnatellite from Monte Ramazzo, Liguria.

Anatase, isolated pyramidal crystals from Binn, Switzer-
land.

Zincite, two crystallized specimens from Franklin Furnace,
New Jersey.

200 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Cupro-uranite and calco-uranite from Mount Painter, South
Australia.

Apatite, a fine isolated colourless crystal enclosing epidote
and asbestos, from Untersulzbachthal, Salzburg.

Uraninite crystals altered to rutherfordine from German
East Africa.

Calomel crystals from Mt. Avala, Servia.
Cassiterite, groups of large crystals from Cornwall.

Rhodonite, fine crystallized group and a very large crystal
~ (21 x 16 x 11 cm.) from Franklin, New Jersey.

Garnet (andradite), pale green crystals with asbestos and
magnetite from Val Malenco, Lombardy.

Several small crystallized specimens of various minerals
selected from the collection of the iate Prof. E. J. Chapman
(1821-1904).

Chrysocolia and erystallized malachite from Katanga,
Belgian Congo.

Herderite, isolated crystals from Poland, Maine.

Beryl, a pale-blue faceted stone weighing 28°213 grams
(1374 carats). -

Dufrenoysite, an isolated crystal rich in faces, from Binn,
Switzerland.

Garnet (melanite), hornblende, and scapolite crystals from
Norway.

Hulsite, hinsdalite, natramblygonite, new species of
American minerals.

Corundum, a yellow faceted stone, and worked moonstones
from Ceylon.

The following mineral names added to the Museum list

were previously not represented by specimens in the Collec-
tion :—

Beaverite, ctypeite (ktypeite), esmeraldaite, hinsdalite,

hulsite, imerinite, natramblygonite, plumbojarosite, ruther-
fordine, schungite, sicklerite, tsumebite.

Rocks.
By Presentation :

Ten samples of basalt from quarries near Belfast: by
R. Bell, Esq.

Chromite-serpentine rock from Barraba, New South Wales:
by W. N. Benson, Esq.

A series of 19 rock specimens collected by the donor in
British East Africa: by Arthur Champion, Esq.

A series of 155 specimens of volcanic rocks, and a large
block of basalt penetrated by a pipe, collected by the donor in
the Azores: by Walter Child, Esq.

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Tourmaline-quartz-rock showing orbicular structure, and
eight samples of china-stone from “St. Austell, Cornwall: by
J. M. Coon, Esq.

Musical sand from ener River, Rhodesia: by Allan
B. Dick, Esq.

Five specimens of esterellite from the Esterel Mtns.,
France: by Dr. Julien Drugman.

Sandstone concretions from Zaras, Egypt: by F. Ll.
Griffith, Esq.

Volcanic ash and andesite from Trinidad: by R. J. Lech-
mere Guppy, Esq.

Rhomb-porphyry (Norwegian), a large pebble from Suffolk :
by Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, F.RS.

“ Red rain” collected on deck of a ship in the Red Sea: by
Geo. H. Jackson, Esq.

Materials from a mud volcano which gave rise toa new
island off the coast of Trinidad in 1911: by Charles A. Mills,
Esq.

Rock specimens collected by Dr. C. W. Andrews, F.R.S.,
on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean: by Sir John Murray,
HC.B., FBS. ®

Phosphate rock from Weenen, Natal: by James Peniston,
Esq.

A series of 62 rock specimens collected by the donor in
north-west Mongolia: by M. Philips Price, Esq.

Hight specimens from Skiddaw, Cumberland, and eight
from Cape Colony, collected and described by the donor:
by R. H. Rastall, Esq.

Thirty-two specimens from Costa Rica collected and
described by the donor: by J. Romanes, Esq.

Material erupted in 1911 from a mud voleano in Trinidad:
by Julian G. Rust, Esq.

Rock fragments from the sites of old villages in Sudan :
by Dr. C. G. Seligmann.

Giacial boulders from Withernsea, Yorkshire: by G. Shep-
pard, Esq.

A series of 43 rocks collected by the donor in Sark, Channel
Islands: by Dr. G. F. Herbert Smith.

Dolerite and spotted slate from Denbighshire; borolanite
from Ross-shire ; zircon-hornblende-syenite from the Cambridge
drift: by W. Campbell Smith, Esq.

Fulgurites (“lightning tubes ”’), a large number of fragments,
some of which fit together as a tube 3 it. 2 in. long, from
Maldonado, Uruguay: by Lieut. J. C. Johnstone Soutter, R.N.

Materials from a mud volcano which gave rise toa new
island off the coast of Trinidad in 1911: by C. B. C. Storey,
Ksq.

202 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Spherulitic dolerite from Vryheid, Natal: by Dr. E.
Warren.

By Hachange :
Fifteen specimens of nepheline-syenites and pegmatites
from the Los Islands, West Coast of Africa.
Thirty-five specimens of nepheline-syenites, tinguaites,
monchiquites, &c., from Nosy Komba and _ Bezavona,
Madagascar.

By Purchase :

Polished specimens of breccias from various localities.

Marscoite, pitchstone, granophyre, and basalt from Skye,
Hebrides.

Porphyritic granite from the Riesengebirge, Silesia.

Lugarite from Lugar, Ayrshire.

Eclogite from Glenelg, Ross-shire.

Chlorite-schist (“‘miskeyite”’) from Vorarlberg.

Meteorites.
By Presentation:

Baroti, Bilaspur, Simla, Punjab, India, a fragment weighing
858°2 grams and smaller fragments weighing together
78°5 grams of the stone which fell in September 1910: by the
Bombay Natural History Society (through N. B. Kinnear, Esq.).

Thin section of a stone from the Holbrook (Arizona)
meteoric shower of 19th July 1912 ; coloured casts of the Kilbourn
(Wisconsin) and Kingston (New Mexico) meteorites: by the
Foote Mineral Company.

A polished and etched slice of artificial nickel-iron
(‘synthetic meteoric iron”) showing minute crystalline
structure : by Prof. Carl Benedicks.

By Purchase:

Ahumada, Chihuahua, Mexico, a fragment weighing
47-2 grams of this siderolite.

Cullison, Pratt Co., Kansas, a fragment weighing
2,789 grams of the stone found in 1911.

Fisterholzelrics, Tepl, Marienbad, Bohemia, an etched slice
weighing 58 grams of the iron found in 1909.

Hermitage Plains, Canbelego Co., New South Wales, a
fragment weighing 667 grams of the stone found about 1909.

Holbrook, Navajo Co., Arizona, 102 stones, most of them
complete, ranging in weight from 3,120°5 grams to 0°329 gram,
and with an aggregate weight of 7,996 grams, from the
remarkable shower of over 14,000 stones on 19th July 1912.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 203

Kermichel, Vannes, Morbihan, France, a fragment weighing
112 grams of the stone which fell on 30th June 1903,

Kingston, Sierra Co., New Mexico, an etched slice weighing
360 grams of the iron found in 1891.

St. Germain-en-Puel, Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, France, a
fragment weighing 113 grams of the stone which fell on
4th July 1890.

Tabor, Bohemia, a fragment weighing 18 grams of the stone
which fell on 3rd July 1753.

Those meteorites of which the names are italicized belong
to falls hitherto unrepresented in the Museum Collection.

VII1L.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits recorded as made to the Department
for the purposes of consultation or study is 1,415. Many
specimens of minerals have been determined for visitors and
correspondents.

George T. Prior.

204 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF Borany.

I.—Arrangement and Conservation.

During the past year 29,850 specimens have been incor-
porated with the Herbarium. This number includes 21,750
Flowering Plants, 8 Vascular Cryptogams, 4,748 Mosses,
443 Hepatics, 1,779 Lichens, 667 Algee, and 455 Fungi.

Flowering Plunts.— Collections have been mounted and
incorporated wholly or in part as follows:—Small British
collections from various donors and part of the herbarium of
the late Thomas Hilton; Asia Minor (Siehe, Bornmiller) ;
Japan (Faurie, Milne) ; China (Wilson); Manchuria (Stuart) ;
Malaya (Ridley): Philippine Islands (Elmer) ; Nigeria (Talbot) ;
Cameroons (Zenker); Liberia (Bunting) ; Angola (Gossweiler )
Mexico (Purpus) ; West Indies (Britton, Broadway, Metcalfe) ;
Sandwich Islands (Faurie).

Outstanding specimens from different collectors have been
incorporated in various families, especially Ranunculacez,
Leguminosz, Umbelliferze, Caprifoliaceze, Rubiacee, Composite,
Asclepiadacee, Boraginaceee, Cyperacee, and Graminez.

Progress has been made with the selection, determination,
and incorporation of the early Australian collections ; also with
the separation from the General Herbarium of the European
material (families Geraniacez to Rosacez) and its Bey
ment according to Nyman’s “Conspectus Flore Europe”
outstanding specimens have been incorporated in the families
dealt with.

-Work of revision and rearrangement has been done also
in the families Papaveraceze, Menispermacex, Simarubee,
Rubiaceze, and others, and in the genera Aconitum, Del-
phinium, Crotalaria, Dichapetalum, Cissus, Rhovrcissus,
Salacia, Senecio, Sabicea, Tarenna, Flagenium, Symphytum,
Ficus, and others, and as regards British species, Viola, Rosa,
Plantago, Atriplex, Polygonum, Betula.

A number of early collections from South America and
elsewhere have been sorted preparatcry to incorporation.
Duplicate specimens from the collections of Hartweg ( Mexico),
Gardner (Brazil), Schomburgk (British Guiana), Talbot
(Nigeria), and others have been arranged in sets for
distribution.

Ferns.—Additions to the genus Aspleniwm from numerous
collectors have beeu revised or determined and arranged for
incorporation ; also collections from North Borneo, Nigeria,
and South America.

Bryophyta.—A large portion of Wilson’s Moss Herbarium,
comprising the types and material treated in the volumes of
Hooker’s “Flora Antarctica” has been revised and incor-
porated. The cleistocarpous Mosses of the old herbarium of
Robert Brown have been incorporated. . <A large series of

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 205

Indo-Malayan, &c. species received from Levier, Duthie,
Fleischer, &c. has been arranged for incorporation. Various
genera—Phuscum, Bruchia, Macromitriwm, Trematodon,
Leucomium, Chiloscyphus, &c. have been in part revised.
Small collections from Africa have been determined, and
Dusén’s Cameroon Mosses revised.

Algce.—The additions to the Fucoidee have been laid out
and incorporated, including those from Roscoff and Barbadoes
(coll. Vickers). Work of rearrangement according to De
Toni’s Sylloge, and of incorporation of additions in the group
of the Floridez has been completed in the following families :—
Bangiaceze, Lemaneacez, Batrachospermee, and in the genera
Liagora and Galaxaura. Specimens of Liagora revised and
determined by Pilger and Zeh have been rearranged and
mounted. Work of rearrangement and incorporation of the
Codiaceee has been completed in accordance with the mono-
graph by A. and E. 8S. Gepp.

Fungi.—Progress has been made with the incorporation
of the Discomycetes, and all outstanding specimens have been
incorporated in the group Uredinez. Numerous British speci-
mens collected during the year have been determined and added
to the collection.

Lichens.— Progress has been made with the revision and
incorporation of the British Lichens, principally in the families
Collemacee and Cladoniew. Extra-Kuropean specimens from
the Shuttleworth Collection and those collected by the
“Challenger” Expedition have been incorporated with the
general series.

Mycetozoa.—Collections by Lister and Phillips have been
added to the general series.

Exhibition Series.— Various specimens have been added
to the general series in the Public Gallery ; the case illustrating
water-plants has been revised, and some work has been done
preparatory to the rearrangement of the exhibition of Alge.
The exhibition of the series of British Lichens has been
completed, and progress has been made with the preparation
of an exhibition of British Seaweeds. Progress has been made
with the exhibition of Cryptogams, chiefly in the Ferns, in the
Central Hall.

Catalogues and Guides.—Progress has been made with the
preparation, printing, and illustration of the continuation of
the Flora of Jamaica by Mr. Fawcett and Dr. Rendle, with
the preparation of the Catalogue of the Sloane Herbarium by
Mr. J. Britten, and with the revision of the first volume of
the Catalogue of British Lichens by Miss Annie Lorrain
Smith. A Catalogue of the plants collected by Mr. and
Mrs. P. A. Talbot in South Nigeria has been prepared for
publication, and progress made with its printing; progress
has also been made with the preparation of a Guide to the
exhibition of British Lichens.

206 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Il.— Investigation.

Collections have been determined either wholly or in part
from the following localities and collectors : — Manchuria
(Mrs. Stuart), Borneo (Miss Gibbs), Tropical Africa (Bunting,
Gossweiler, Kassner, Talbot, and others), Upper Egypt and the
Soudan (Sykes and MacDougal).

Mr. Baker has continued his critical study of the African
species of Crotalaria, and Mr. Wernham of several genera of
Rubiacee ; Mr. Fawcett and Dr. Rendle have continued their
work on the Jamaica species of the early families of Dicoty-
ledons ; and work on various families and genera has been
carried out by numerous British and foreign Botanists.
Numerous specimens and smal] collections have been determined
for students and collectors.

In connection with work done in the Department specimens
have been generously lent by the Directors of the Royal
Gardens, Kew, of the Royal Botanical Museum, Berlin, and of
the Botanicai Museum, Ziirich, the Regius Keeper of Botany,
Edinburgh, the Government of Jamaica, Prof. Ignatius Urban,
and Dr. De Wildeman.

Undetermined material has been lent for study and deter-
mination as follows:—Specimens of Urtica to Dr. Herman
Ross, of the Royal Botanical Museum, Munich; African
specimens of the family Euphorbiacee to the Director of the
Royal Gardens, Kew; specimens of the family Haloragez to
Dr. Anton Schindler, Posen; West Indian specimens of
Vernonia to the Royal Museum, Stockholm ; specimens of
Mycetozoa to Miss Lister; of Diosma to Mr. R. A. Dummer ;
and of Chinese Labiate to Mr. 8S. T. Dunn.

III.—Departmental Library.

1. Arrangement —Four presses have been enlarged and the
additional shelving thus provided has been used to relieve other
overcrowded presses. The accessions to the plate collection
of flowering plants and ferns have been mounted and incorpo-
rated. A number of autograph letters and portraits have been
added to the collection.

2. Cataloguing and Pressmarking.—The usual routine
work of registering, stamping, cataloguing and pressmarking
has been carried out; and Departmental work in connection
with the General Catalogue of Books has been continued.

3. Accessions.—The additions during the past year have
been, by donation, 55 volumes, 167 pamphlets; by purchase
160 volumes, 1 pamphlet—in all, 215 volumes, 168 pamphlets.
These include 30 periodicals in 133 parts, presented, and
90 periodicals in 713 parts, purchased—in all, 120 periodicals
in 846 parts.

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The following is a list of the principal donors:—J. W.
mderson, Hsq:; EF. M. Bailey, C.M.G., F.L.S.; Director,
Botanic Gardens, Berlin; Rev. E. Blatter, S.J.; Direccion
General de LEstadistica y Estudios Geograficos, La _ Paz,
Bolivia; Secretary, Botanical Exchange Club; G. 8. Boulger,
fees. ;' T. S: Brandegee, B.S.; J. Britten, F.L.8.; Dept.
de VAgriculture aux Indes Néerlandaises, Buitenzorg; E. A.
Bunyard, F.R.H.S.; Director, Botanical Survey, Sibpur,
Calcutta; F. E. Clements, A.M., Ph.D.; Dr. A. von Degen;
Prof. G. B. de Toni; Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic Garden,
Edinburgh ; Prof. A. J. Ewart, D.Sc.; J. Sykes Gamble, C.LE. ;
Lady Hanbury; Principal, College of Hawaii; Bunzo Hayata,
D.Se.; U. P. Hedrick, Esqg.; W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S. ;
Wore. Hiern, F.R.S.:,Dr. C. C. Hosseus; Prof. Heber Howe,
Jr.; Secretary of State for India; Dr. B. D. Jackson. F.LS.;
C. E. Jones, Esq.; Secretary of Kew Guild; Frau A. Koorders-
Schumacher; C. C.- Lacaita, F.L.S.; Prof. Henri Lecomte ;
the Secretary, Liverpool Botanical Society ; C. G. Lloyd, Esq. ;
Linnean Society of London; Royal Botanic Society of London ;
Royal Horticultural Society of PECAN Rev. S. A. M’Dowall;
Prof. J. M. Macfarlane, D.Se.; Mr. C. A. De Menezes ; Director,
Missouri Botanic Garden, i “Mo., WesiscAs ; Spencer Moore,
B.Se., F.L.8.; Herr Friedrich Morton ; Cy ‘E. Moss, D.Sc. ;
the Hon. Secretary for Agriculture, New South Wales;
Nederlandsche Botanische Vereeniging, Nijmegen; H. H. W.
Pearson, D.Se.; Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya,
Ceylon; Dr. Gy Perez ; Dr. A. A. Pulle; Director, Agricul-
tural Research Institute, Phe Bengal ; H. iN, Ridley, C.M.G.,
F.R.S.; C. B. Robinson, Ph.D.; Hon. W. Rothschild, F.R.S. ;
Director, Imperial Academy of Science, St. Petersburg ;
oe Salmon; F.L.S:;,.C..8. Sargent, )»A.B.;. LL.D.;. Mrs. A.
Stebbing, F.L.S.; Director, Storrs Agricultural Experimental
Station, Conn., U.S.A.: Director, Botanic Gardens, Sydney,
N.S.W.; Miss J. E. Tilden, M.S.; Tokyo Botanical Society,
Tokyo, Japan; Prof: J. W. H. Trail, F.R.S.; Prof. W. Trelease,
Se.D.; Dr. Kug. Warming; United States National Museum,
Washington, U.S.A.; Gurney Wilson, F.L.S.; J. Medley Wood,
Al. .45) Director, Botanic Garden and Museum, Zurich.

The following are the principal acquisitions other than
books that have been received :—350 photographs of Chinese
Vegetation by E. H. Wilson [purchased from The Arnold
Arboretum, Harvard University, U.S.A.]; 250 illustrations of
the New Zealand Flora, presented by W. Botting Hemsley,
¥.R.S.; 187 photographs of vegetation from gardens in or near
Algiers, by the Hon. W. Rothschild, F.R.S.; 63 vriginal drawings
of Potamogetons made by R. Morgan for A. Fryer’s untinished
monograph, presented by Miss Rose Fryer; 32 original water- .
eolour drawings figured in W. Wilson Saunder’s “ Mycological
Illustrations,” presented by Mrs. M. A. Stebbing, F.L.S.

4. Bonding.—180 volumes have been bound, including five
volumes of the Sloane Herbarium which have been rebound ;
several have been repaired.

208 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

IV.—Publications.

(1) Issued by the permission of the Trustees.—List of Plants
collected by Miss O. Macleod and Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Talbot in
West Central Africa. By Dr. Rendle, E. G. Baker, S. Moore
and H. F. Wernham (Appendix to Miss Macleod’s “ Chiefs and
Cities of Central Africa.” )

Notes on Tropical African Convolvulaceze. By Dr. Rendle.
(Journal of Botany.)

New Plants from Jamaica. By Dr. Rendleand W. Faweett.
- (Journal of Botany.)

Notes on Plantago macrorhiza Poir. By E. G. Baker.
(Botanical Exchange Club Report.)

Note on Plantago Serraria L. By E. G. Baker and Miss
R. M. Cardew. (Botanical Exchange Club Report.)

Notes on Plantago. By E. G. Baker and Miss R. M.
Cardew. (Journal of Botany.)

A Revision of the Genus Bertiera. By H. F. Wernham.
(Journal of Botany.)

New Rubiacee from Tropical America, I. By H. F.
Wernham. (Journal of Botany.)

Marine Alge of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition.
By A. and E. 8. Gepp. L

Some recent work on the cytology of Fungus-reproduction,
I. By J. Ramsbottom. (Mycologisches Centralblatt; and
Transactions, British Mycological Society.)

The Genus Crassocephalwm Moench. ByS.Moore. (Journal
of Botany.)

Alabastra Diversa, Part XXII. Asclepiadacee Africanze
Nove. By S. Moore. (Journal of Botany.)

Wayfaring Notes in Rhodesia (concluded). By Dr. R. F.
Rand ; with identifications by Members of the Staff. (Journal
of Botany.) .

(2) By Students of the Collections other than Members of
the Staf.—Two Linums of Miller's Dictionary, Ed. 8 (1768).
By Mr. J. Britten. (Journal of Botany.)

The History of Aiton’s “ Hortus Kewensis.” By Mr. J.
Britten. (Journal of Botany.)

Some Hybrids of the Genus Symphytum. By Mr. C. Buck-
nall. (Journal of Botany.)

An Enumeration of the Bruniacee. By Mr. R. A. Dummer.
(Journal of Botany.)

What is Astragalus Hypoglottis L.? By Mr. C. C. Lacaita.
(Journal of Botany.)

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 209

The Genus Fumaria L. in Britain. By Mr. H. W. Pugsley.
(Journal of Botany.)

New or rare Microfungi. By Miss A. Lorrain Smith.
(Transactions, British Mycological Society.)

An alien species: Xylobotryum cespitosum A. L. Sm. By
Miss A. Lorrain Smith. (Transactions, British Mycological
Society.)

Bryosedgwickia, novum genus Entodontacearum, with
further contributions to the Bryology of India. By Mr. H.
N. Dixon. (Journal of Botany.)

A remarkable form of Dicranella heteromalla Schimp.
By Mr. H. N. Dixon. (Journal of Botany.)

Alge Nove et Minus Cognite, I. By Prof. W. A. Setchell.
(University of California Publications in Botany.)

Algological Notes, V-IX. By Prof. G. S. West. (Journal
of Botany.)

V.— Acquisitions.
(1) By Donation.

Additions to the British Herbarium have been received from
the following donors :—A. 8. Hilton, Esq., the herbarium of the
late Thomas Hilton, comprising mainly Sussex plants; Miss
Rose Fryer, the herbarium of Potamogetons of the late Alfred
Fryer, containing 5,450 sheets of specimens; C. E. Salmon,
F.L‘S., 18 Phanerogams ; W. R. Sherrin, Esq., 36 Phanerogams ;
W. Barclay, Esq., 48 Phanerogams; Dr. C. E. Moss, 3 species of
Plantago; H. W. Pugsley, F.L.S., 8 specimens of Fumaria ;
Major A. H. Wolley-Dod, 46 specimens of Rosa; G. C. Druce,
F.L.S., 63 Phanerogams; Major O. C. Baker, cones of Abies
magnifica; Rev. E. F. Linton, 6 flowering heads of Hieracium
from Orphir, Orkney ; Miss Lilian Lyle, 4 marine Algz
from Guernsey ; Miss G. Lister, F.L.S., 103 Mycetozoa ;
C. P. Hurst, Esq., 4 Wiltshire mosses ; Messrs. F. R. Hinkins
and Son, 3 photographs of fungi, showing Boletus overgrown
with mycelium of Sepedonium ; G. F. Hook, Esq., 4 photographs
of Phallus imperialis; and single specimens from Messrs.
L. Cumming, P. Ewing, Rev. W. L. W. Eyre, A. S. Montgomery,
Canon J. Vaughan and A. E. White.

The following donations have been made to the General
Herbarium :—

Europe.

Major A. H. Wolley-Dod, 1,525 flowering plants from
Gibraltar and 18 Alpine Roses; H. S. Thompson, F.L.S.,
25 flowering plants; Prof. C. Sauvageau, 191 Brown Algz
(Cystosevra) chiefly from the French and Spanish coasts ; Rev.
P. G. M. Rhodes, 9 Swiss Lichens ; and single specimens from
the Hon. N. C. Rothschild and H. W. Pugsley, F.L.S.

0.44 6)

210 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Asia.

Mrs. B. Stuart, F.L.S., 162 Manchurian plants; Lieut. S. M.
Toppin, 7 species of Impatiens from N.E. Burma; H. N.
Ridley, F.R.S., 83 Phanerogams and 38 Cryptogams collected in
Selangor by C.. Bi Kloss; the Regius Keeper of the Royal
Botanic Gar den, Edinburgh, 303 Phanerogams and 18 Cryptogams
from China ; General Sir Robert Biddulph, a transverse section
of trunk of old Olive-tree from Cyprus; and single specimens
from Capt. A. F. Hodgins and H. N. Dixon, F.L.S.

Africa.

Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Talbot, 855 Phanerogams, 16 Fruits, and
22 Cryptogams from South Nigeria; R. H. Bunting, Esq.,
40 Liberian plants ; Dr.G. V. Perez, spirit specimens of Kleinia
nervifolia and Crassula quadrifida, and seeds of the former,
from Teneriffe ; the Hon. N. C. Rothschild, Ophrys fusca from
Algeria; Entomological Research Committee (Tropical Africa),
1 Phanerogam and 4 Fungi; C. F. H. Monro, Esq., 5 plants
from Rhodesia; the Percy Sladen Trustees, 29 plants collected
in South-west Africa by H. H. W. Pearson; R. Kirkpatrick,
Esq., 2 marine Algz from Madeira; G. Thorncroft, Hsq.,
40 Phanerogams and 1 Fruit from the Transvaal; Prof. J. W.
Gregory, F.R.S., 58 Phanerogams and a fern from Angola ;
Dr. G. B. Longstaff, 6 plants from Nubia; the Regius Keeper
of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 94 Phanerogams and
7 Cryptogams from tropical Africa; and a single specimen
from J. S. Masterman, Esq.

Australasia.

W. V. Fitzgerald, Esq., Ptilotus fasciculatus from West
Australia.

Oceania.

The Director of the Jmperial Institute, Fruits of Celococcus
solomonensis from the Solomon Islands; H. N. Dixon, F.L.S.,
Hymenophyllum from Samoa.

America.

The Colonial Secretary, through the Director of Agriculture,
Jamaica, 15 plants from that island ; Dr. C. Skottsberg, 10 speci-
mens of Senecio from Patagonia; Dr. M. A. Howe, an alga
(Neomeris mucosa) from South Caicos Islands.

Antarctica.

The Managing Committee of the British Antarctic Expe-
dition (1901-4), the freshwater Algze collected by the
Expedition.

General.

The Director of the New York Botanical Garden, 14 species
of Daltonia; Miss G. Lister, F.L.S., 365 exotic Mycetozoa ;
Dr. H. B. Guppy, 33 Drift-fruits and seeds from the coasts of
Europe and the West Indies.

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 211

Cultivated Plants. —

Rev. D. Miller, 3 Burmese Orchids; the Curator of the
Physick Garden, Chelsea, 44 specimens for exhibition ;
the Curator of the Botanic Garden, Cambridge, 2 species of
Peperomia; Lady Hanbury, 12 specimens of Mesembryan-
themum from La Mortola; J. O’Brien, Esq, 3 Orchids; Sir
Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Orchid; Hon. Walter Rothschild,
F.R.S., large inflorescence of an Orchid (Lissochilus).

{2) By Purchase.
British Isles.

W. H. Pearson, 100 Hepatice exsiccate.

Lurope.

Through Dulau & Co.—A. von Hayek, Flora Stiriaca, lief.
XXIII, XXIV, 182 specimens; O. Jaap, 50 Fungi selecti,
ser. XXIII, XXIV, and 20 Myxomycetes, ser. VI; Kabat and
Bubak, 50 Fungi Imperfecti, fase. XIV; <A. Kneucker,
60 Cyperacew & Juncaceze, lief. VIII, IX ; K. W. Krieger,
50 Fungi Saxonici, fase. XLIV; H. and P. Sydow, Mycotheca
Germanica, fasc. XXII, XXIII, 100 specimens ; A. Toepttfer,
Salicetum exsicc., fasc. VII, 50 specimens ; Tranzschel and
Serebrianikow, Mycotheca Rossica, fase. V-VII, 150 specimens ;
T. Vestergren, 50 Micromycetes rariores selecti, fasc. LXI,
LXII.

Through H. M. Reineck.—42 selected species, by various col-
lectors ; 108 Bulgarian plants prepared by V. Stribrny.

Through T. O. Weigel.—A. Degen, 350 Gramina Hungarica,
fasc. I-VII; A. Fiori and A. Béguinot, Flora Italica Cent.
XV, XVI; J. Nowopokrowsky, Herbarium Flore Tanaitice,
fase. I-III, 150 specimens ; F. Petrak, 300 Fungi Eichleriani,
lief. I-XV, and Flora Bohemie et Moravie, lief. I-XI,
1,100 specimens; E. Prager, Sphagnotheca Germanica, lief.
I-IV, 200 specimens.

From the Publishers.—H. Dahistedt, 100 Taraxaca Scan-
dinavica, fase. I, I]; H. Sudre, Herbarium Hieraciorum,
fase. II, 50 specimens, and Batotheca [uropea, fase. X,
50 specimens.

Asia.

The Arnold Arboretum, 751 Chinese plants collected by
K. H. Wilson; J. Bornmiiller, 363 Phanerogams and 53 Cryp-
togams from Syria; A. D. E. Elmer, 745 Phanerogams and
233 Cryptogams from the Philippine Islands; W. Siehe,
174 rare Oriental plants (selected).

Africa.

Dr. KE. Gilg, 307 Phanerogams and 20 Cryptogams from
the Cameroons, collected by Zenker; R. Maire, Mycotheca
Boreali-Africana, fase. I-III, 75 specimens (per T. O. Weigel) ;

Rev. F. A. Rogers, 270 plants, chiefly from Rhodesia.

212 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

America.

E. Bartholomew, Fungi-Columbiani, Cent. XXXV-XXXVII,
and North American Uredinales, Cent. IIJ-V; T. 8S. Brandegee,
415 Phanerogams and 45 Cryptogams from Mexico, collected
by C. A. Purpus; W. E. Broadway, 111 Phanerogams and
28 Cryptogams from Tobago ; O. Buchtien, 97 Phanerogams
and 3 Ferns from Bolivia (per T. O. Weigel); Collins, Holden,
and Setchell, Phycotheca Boreali-Americana, fasc. XXXVI,
XXXVII., 100 Alge (per Dulau & -Co.) 37 @: C. Haynes:
20 American Hepatice, decades IX, X ; G. K. Merrill, 50 Lichens,
mostly North American.

General.

H. Rehm, 102 Ascomycetes exsicc., fasc. XLIX—LI (per
Dulau & Co.); V. Schroeder, 77 Ferns, mostly tropical, deter-
mined by HE. Rosenstock ; Sydow, 100 Uredinee, fase. XLIX, L,
25 Phycomycetes and Protomycetes, fase. VII, and Fungi
exotici, fase. I (per Dulau & Co.).

(3) By Eachange of Duplicates.

A. B. Jackson, 227 British plants ; Director, Botanical
Museum, Christiania, 152 Lichens, mostly Norwegian; Curator,
Botanical Department, Hofmuseum, Vienna, 100 Kryptogamee
exsiccatze, mostly European; Director, Royal Gardens, Kew,
24 plants, mostly Arctic and Nigerian; Director, Botanic
Gardens, Ziirich, 147 South African plants, collected by
R. Schlechter ; Director, Bolus Herbarium, Kenilworth, Cape
Town, 68 South African plants; Director, Botanic Gardens,
Singapore, 132 Phanerogams and 2 Cryptogams from Malay
Peninsula; Director, National Herbarium, Sydney, 19 Austra-
lian plants; Director, U.S. National Museum, Washington,
623 Phanerogams and 11 Cryptogams, chiefly from Washington
and Oregon; Departinent of Botany, University of California,
208 Californian plants ; Director, Botanic Garden, New York,
5 South American Mosses.

Vi.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits to the Department for consultation
and research during the year was 3,962.

VII.—-Demonstrattons.

Demonstrations on the eollections have been given by
Dr. Rendle to the Geologists’ Association and the St. Olave’s
School Natural History Club.

A.B. Rendle.

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STOCK.
CASH. 24 °/, Consols.
£. 8. a, dell Ga. the
By AMOUNT paid to Dr, T. J. Jehu, for Lectures on
Geology in 1913 - - - - - Se es
— AMOUNT paid for advertising Ao pernieRY of
Swiney Lecturer - - - - - 8 2 =
- BALANCES ON THE 31sT MARCH 1914,
carried to Account for 1914-1915 - - = AA doe al DAs an

periciat 1. 6740 See

6 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

IV.—AN ACCOUNT of the ReEcEIPTs and ExrenpitTuReE of

STOCK,
CASH. 23 °/, Consols.
5s Sante poe ORs
To BALANCE on the Ist April 1913 - - - - se, RRR Sh
-— DIVIDENDS received on 565/. 3s. 9d. Stock in
2} per Cent. Consols, bequeathed
by Dr. Birch in 1766, for the three
Under Librarians of the British
; Meseum, viz. :
On the 5th April 1913 - -|£.3 10 $8
a 5th July 1913 - - 310 8
"3 Sth October 1913 - 3 LOLS
" 5th January 1914 - By 10)
== it 2 es
£. 14 2 8 bbayeo) 9

V.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recerprs and EXPENDITURE of the bequest

and Extension of the Library and Reading Room of the British

LocaL LOANS
CASH, STOCK.

oy od Seer Seer sued.
To AMOUNT of Local Leans Stock on Ist April
1913 - - - - - - - - — 14,447 1 7
- DIVIDENDS received during the year - - GINS
- AMOUNT of Local Loans Stock purchased with
the Dividends - - - - - - — Wo lr al
- NET PROCEEDS of sale of 14,573/7. 18s. 8d. Local
Loans Stock as per contra - - - - 12,570 - 4

£ 12678 7 4 “I seleess

VI.—AN ACCOUNT of the Rrcriprs and ExreNnpiIrureE of the bequest
1st April 1913 to

METROPOLITAN
CASH. 34 °/, STOCK.
Lnetee Ads ee eG.

To AMoUNT of Metropolitan 33 per cent. Stock on
Ist April 1913 - - - - - - — 9,291 16 5

— DIVIDENDS received during the year - - = 3929 11 <8

- AMOUNT of Metropolitan 34 per cent. Stock

purchased with the Dividends _ 338 11 §

— NET PROCEEDS of sale of 9,630/. 8s. 1d. Metro-
politan 33 per cent. Stock as per contra - - 9,726 4 2

£.10,055 1510 9,630 8 1

VIIL—AN ACCOUNT of the REcErrrs and EXPENDITURE of the
1st April 1913 to

CASH.
Es Ss Ch
To BALANCE on the Ist April, 1913 - - - - - - - 510 1 -
— DONATION (further anonymous contribution) — - - - - 2,364 1 7
£. 2,874 2d

=!

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

the BIRCH FUND, from the 1st April 1913 to the 31st March 1914

STOCK,
CASH. 23 °/, Consols.
eer San, pie St atl
By LreGacy paid to the three Under Librarians of
the British Museum, whose offices existed
in 1766, viz., the Keepers of the Departments
of Printed Books, Manuscripts, and Natural
History - - - - - - - - 14 2 8
- BALANCE ON THE 31st MarcH 1914,
earried to Account for 1914-1915 - - - — 565 3.9
Lyla 2" 8 565 3) .9

of the late MR. VINCENT STUCKEY LEAN (for the Improvement

Museum) from the 1st April 1913 to the 31st March 1914.
LocaL LOANS

CASH. STOCK.
2 ia a Li 8sgad,
By AMOUNT expended in the purchase of
1267. 17s. 1d. Local Loans Stock, Com-
mission, &e. - - - = > - 108 7 -
— Cost of Power of Attorney - - - - - 11 6
— STockK sold as per contra - — 14,573 18 8
- AMOUNT transferred to H.M. Ome of Works td
expenditure on British Museum Extension - 12,569 8 10

£. 12,678 7 4 14,573 18 §

of the late MR. CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM from the
the Slst March 1914.

METROPOLITAN
oBe 32 oh, SEOCK.
£. s. a. 38 Nae

By AMOUNT expended in the _ purchase of

3387. lls. 8d. Meopolies, 33 per cent.

Stock, Commission, &c. - - See oo) Ll
~ Cost of Power of Attorney - - - - - -~l1l 6 :
— STOCK sold as per contra - - - - — 9,630 8 |

— AMOUNT transferred to H.M. Paymaster- General

in aid of the Parliamentary Vote, 1913-1914 - 3,309 18 10
- BALANCE ON THE 31ST MARCH 1914, carried to

Account for 1914-1915 °- - Bas - 6,415 13 10
£.10,055 15 10 9,630 8 1

(mee

CARCHEMISH EXCAVATIONS FUND from the
the 31st March 1914.

CASH,
Se See
By AMOUNT expended on Excavations - Pe NEN 8)
— BALANCE on the 31st March 1914, carried to Weceent figs 1914— 1915 HAS 33 2h
£2874 DQe7

Prederic G. Kenyun,
Director and Principal Librarian.

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10 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The British Museum, Bloomsbury (including the Depart-
ments of Printed Books and Maps, Manuscripts, Oriental
Printed Books and Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings,
Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Greek and Roman
Antiquities, British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethno-
graphy, and Coins and Medals) is open to the public free
daily (except on Good Friday and Christmas Day and days
of Public Fast or Thanksgiving) as follows :—

On WEEKDAYS from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

After 4 p.m. in January, February, November, Decem-
ber, and after 5 p.m. in March, September, October, only
certain of the galleries remain open, viz. :—

Exhibitions of Manuscripts, Printed
Books, Prints and Drawings, Porcelain,

On MONDAYS,

Naat |
BERN OS OES, ( Glass and Majolica; Prehistoric, British,
and | Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Ethno-
FRIDAYS. | graphical Collections.
On Turspays, | _ Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman
Tara | Galleries; Gold Ornament Room,
>» American Prehistoric, British, Anglo-
and Saxon Collections, and the Waddesdon
SATURDAYS. Bequest Room.

On SunDay AFTERNOONS :—

From 2 to4 p.m.in January, February, November,
; December.

3s yp eetober.

» 9», March, September.

» », April, May, June, July, August.

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Persons applying for the purposes of research and reference
are admitted to the Reading Room under certain regulations
every weekday, except the days specified below, from 9 a.m,
until 7 pm. The Newspaper Room is open, under similar
regulations, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

The Reading Room, Newspaper Room, and Students’ Rooms
in the Library and Department of Manuscripts are closed on
Sundays, Good Friday, Christmas Day, and the first four
weekdays in March and September.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 11

Other Students’ Rooms are closed on Sundays, Good Friday,
and Christmas Day, and occasionally for cleaning.

Students are admitted generally to the several Departments
on weekdays, from 10 till 4 or 5 o’clock ; and to the Scuipture
Galleries from 9 o’clock till the hour of closing.

British Museum, : Frederic G. Kenyon,
f April 1914. | Director and Principal Librarian.

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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 13

The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural
History), Cromwell Road, South Kensington, including the
Departments of Zoology, Entomology, Geology and Palzon-
tology, Mineralogy, and Botany, are open to the public,
free, daily, except Good Friday and Christmas Day, and days
of Public Fast or Thanksgiving.

The hours of Admission are as under :—

On WEEKDAYS, throughout the year from 10 a.m.,

in
January and F ebruary - - Aah LO ye yom
March - = - - - - eR ee
April to August - - - - wae a
September = 2 - - - ie pup OD hat
October, November, and December - saa IB)

3

also, on MonNDAYS and SATURDAYS only, from the beginning
of May to the middle of July, to 8 p.m., and from the middle
of July to the end of August, to 7 p.m.

On SUNDAYS, in

January - - = TEOMA). bOi AN...
February 1st to 14th * - ute Shae

February 15th to end - - oat eat a

March - - - - Pays cr) eae

April - - - - - ee nO i.

May to August - - . ear: | ane 4

September - - - - BS ed Tee Daas tai?

October - - - - gee a as oe

November and December - al hays 4

Persons are admitted to study in these Departments every
weekday from 10 till 4 o’clock.

British Museum (Natural History),) L. Fletcher, |
28 February, 1914, j Director of the Natural
History Departments.

IX.—GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MuSEUM, BLOOMSBURY.

The year 1913 showed a very remarkable increase in the
number of visitors to the Museum, the total amounting to
947,090, as compared with 754,872 in the previous year. The
rise has been almost continuous since 1907, when the total
was. 646,300, but the present increase is greatly in excess of
any previously recorded. The total is the highest on record with
the exception of 1904, when the number returned was 954,551.
The figures for week-days only is 884,628, a total of over
100,000 having been reached in hoth August and September.

14 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The visitors on Sundays amounted to 65,062, but this figure
is lower than has been customary in recent years.

The number of visits by readers to the Reading Room
showed an advance of over 7,000 on the figures for 1912, which
were themselves higher than any previously recorded. The
precise figures were 243,659, as against 236,643 in 1912, and
the daily average 804, as compared with 778. The total
number of volumes supplied was 1;542,701, exclusive of those
on the shelves in the Reading Room to which readers have free
access. In the Newspaper Room the attendance again shows a
slight decline, the total number of visits being 17,938, as against
18,450, and the number of volumes used 67,568, as against
69,340. ‘The number of volumes of country newspapers brought
up from the repository at Hendon was 2,370, as compared with
2,642 in 1912.

The visits of students to other Departments of the Museum
show a slight decrease, the total being 37,688, as compared with
38,698 in 1912. This, however, is accounted for by the fact
that the Department of Prints and Drawings (the most largely
frequented after the Department of Manuscripts) was closed for
the last four months of the year, during the removal of the
collections to the new wing. Its figures are consequently lower
by about 2,400 than the average for the five preceding years.

During the year the main structure of the Extension Build-
ing was completed, and it was formally handed over by the
First Commissioner of Works to the Trustees of the British
Museum in October. Throughout the year the work of
supplying the fittings was in full progress, and by the
close of the year the main contracts were practically com-
pleted and the transfer of the collections had begun. His
Majesty the King having been graciously pleased to fix provi-
sionally a date in May 1914 for the opening of the building, it
was hoped that by that date the Department of Prints and
Drawings would be entirely installed in its new quarters, and
the Stein Collection displayed in the lower public gallery. The
preparation of the new Students’ Room and studies for the
Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities was also in
progress. —

No great change has been made in the exhibition galleries
during the year. The exhibition of drawings by European
artists acquired during the years 1904-1912 was closed in conse-
quence of the transfer of the Department to its new quarters.
A temporary exhibition of medical MSS. was prepared in
connection with the meeting of the International Medical
Congress in London in August. Minor rearrangements were
made in the Departments of Greek and Roman Antiquities and
of British and Medizeval Antiquities, the most important being
that involved in the display of the Barwell Bequest of enamels
mentioned below.

The lectures of the Official Guide continued to be popular,
the numbers attending them being sometimes embarrassingly
large. It is estimated that about 23,000 persons accompanied
his tours in the course of the year.

GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 15

The stall for the sale of photographs, guide-books, and
other official publications, mentioned in the Annual Report for
1912, has been strikingly successful. A return prepared in
November for the information of the Treasury showed an
increase of nearly 2,000/. in sales during the past 16 months,
as compared with the same period next preceding, The number
of picture post cards sold amounted to about 155,000. A
considerable extension of the stock of post-cards sold in sets to
illustrate particular subjects, and also of larger photographs,
was in contemplation. It is to be observed that the existence
of the stall has greatly stimulated the sales of guide-books and
catalogues, as well as photographs.

Excavations were continued at Jerablus, on the site of the
ancient Carchemish, during the spring and autumn, with most
successful results. Long ranges of bas-reliefs were discovered,
with figures and inscriptions in excellent condition, besides
some sculptures in the round and a considerable amount of
pottery. The continued generosity of the anonymous bene-
factor mentioned in the last Report makes it possible for the
Trustees to carry on these very important excavations.

An officer of the Department of Printed Books was sent to
America to study the latest developments in the methods of
transporting books from the shelves to the readers, and to
consider their adaptability to the conditions of the British
Museum.

Much inconvenience has been caused by the practice (due
to the suppression of the Stationers’ Hall Register by the
Copyright Act, 1911) of sending commercial papers (labels,
advertisements, handbills, &c.) to the Museum for registration

s “printed books” under the definitions of that Act.

The number of separate objects incorporated in the collec-
tions of the several Departments during the year 1913 is as
follows :—

Department of Printed Books :

Books and Pamphlets’ - - - =) 88,146
Serials and Parts of Volumes’ - - =. (8,597
Maps and Atlases - - - - - 3,741
Music - - - - - St Ail De
Newspapers (single numbers) — - - - 230,922
Miscellaneous - - - - - 8,624
Manuscripts and Seals - - - 1,475
Oriental Printed Books and Manuseripts - - 3,512
Prints and Drawings - - - 8,410
Egyptian and Assyrian Pee amiie: - - - 5,346
Greek and Roman Antiquities - - - 572
British and Medizval Antiquities - ae hy be 4,193

Coins and Medals” - = = - - 2560
Total - - - - 398,488

Full lists of all noteworthy objects added to the collections
in the course of the year are given below in the reports from

16 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

the several departments. The most important are summarised
here, and particular attention may be called to two notable
benefactions, namely, the Barwell bequest of Limoges enamels
and other specimens of medieval art, and the gift of the
Arthur Morrison collection of Japanese and Chinese paintings
by Mr. W. Gwynne-Evans (now Sir William Gwynne-Evans,
Bart.),

The Department of Printed Books has continued to pay
special attention to early printed books, the catalogue of which
is making steady progress. Sixty-one incunabula and thirty-
eight English books printed before 1640 have been acquired,
including exchanges of 31 volumes with the Bodleian Library,
and three with the Law Library of Harvard University, and
purchases at the Huth and Dunn sales. An almost unique
copy of an early (perhaps pirated) edition of ‘ Robinson
Crusoe” also deserves mention. The Department also received
‘by bequest the philatelic library of the late Earl of Crawford,
believed to be the most complete in existence.

The Department of Manuscripts likewise made some
valuable acquisitions at the Dunn sale, notabiy three 13th
century French Romance MSS. The gifts received by the °
Department include four remarkable letters of Charlotte
Bronte, presented by Mr. Paul Heger. Ameng the purchases
are a protest of the clergy in 1534 against the jurisdiction of
the Pope, John Locke’s autograph draft of his treatise on
education, and autographs of H. Hallam, Mrs. Gaskell,
Sir J. E. Millais, Holman Hunt, Robert Browning, C. S.
Calverley, and A. R. Wallace. The Department also received,
by bequest from Lady Layard, a large and important collection
of Sir H. Layard’s diplomatic papers and general correspon-
dence ; but the precise terms of the acceptance of the bequest
remain under consideration.

The Western section of the Department of Prints and
Drawings succeeded in acquiring two pen-and-ink sketches by
Leonardo da Vinci, and several valuable drawings and prints,
enumerated below. Some works of the first importance were
obtained from the Heseltine collection through the liberality
of Mr. Heseltine himself, Viscount: Iveagh, and Mr. Walter
Morrison. The National Art-Collections Fund continued its
valuable services to the Department, which likewise benefited
by the generosity of many private benefactors, whose names
are set out below.

The Oriental section of the Department received a gift of
quite exceptional value in the Arthur Morrison Collection, men-
tioned above, which was probably the finest of the kind in
Europe, and greatly enhances the importance of the already
fine collection of Oriental Art in the Museum. ‘Three Chinese
paintings of great importance were purchased, and the National
Art-Collections Fund presented a large painting of the Mogul
School, representing the House of Tamerlane.

The most noteworthy acquisitions of the Department of
Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities are the Canopic jars of a

GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. ly

queen of the XXIst Dynasty; a collection of 970 scarabs ;
a collection of nearly three thousand early Babylonian tablets ;
some important Hittite tablets; a bronze Egyptian serpent,
presented by the Earl of Carnarvon; and a remarkable
collettion of cylinder-seals acquired in Assyria by Sir Henry
Layard and bequeathed by Lady Layard. ;

The acquisitions of the Department of Greek and Roman
Antiquities include six fine bronze statuettes, a large bronze axe,
several interesting vases and fragments of early pottery, and a
fine mosaic pavement from the Rhone Valley.

The Department of British and Medizval Antiquities has
made the most valuable acquisition of the year in the splendid
collection of Limoges enamels and other examples of medieval
art bequeathed by the late Canon S. Barwell. This was the
finest private collection of these enamels in existence, and
correspondingly enriches the Museum. A full description of it
is given below. Another striking and important acquisition, of
a very different kind, is the seated figure of a Buddhist devotee,
in pottery of the T’ang period, of more than life-size, which has
no equal, and very few competitors, out of China. The
National Art-Collections Fund and several private friends have
been instrumental in obtaining this and many other valuable
additions to the riches of the Museum. Among the medieval
acquisitions attention may be called to the seal-matrices from
the Dimsdale sale, and a gilt pocket dial presented by
Mr. M. Rosenheim. His Majesty the King has been graciously
pleased to deposit in the Museum a number of objects presented
to him by the Dalai Lama of Tibet, including a remarkable
saddle, on which the first Dalai Lama rode into Lhasa.

In the Department of Coins and Medals special attention
is due to the unique gold coin of Offa, the first coin struck in
this metal by any English king, which was obtained at the
Carlyon-Britton sale, with several other interesting coins. A
silver tetradrachm of Timarchus (one of three known), and a
double denarius of Germanicus, of which only one other
specimen .is known, may also be mentioned, together with the
gift by Sir R. H. Lang of a collection of Greek coins from
Cyprus.

The special Parliamentary grant for the assistance of Schools
of Art has been devoted to the supply of (1) casts of ancient
sculpture, (2) facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts, (3) electro-
types of Italian Renaissance medals. Gifts of official publica-
tions have also been made to many local libraries and
museums.

The following are the publications issued by the Depart-
ments at Bloomsbury during the year :—

Catalogue of Egyptian Scarabs, Wce., in the British Museum.
By H.R. Hall. Vol. 1.: Royal Scarabs. With 1,518 illustra-
tions in the text. « 4to., 11. 15s.

Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stele, &c., in the British
Museum. Part IV. 50 plates. Folio, 7s. 6d.

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The Rosetta Stone. Collotype plate, with full descriptive
text by E. A. Wallis Budge, Litt.D. 4to., 6d.

Catalogue of Books printed in the 15th Century now in
the British Museum. Part III.: Leipzig-Pforzheim. German-
speaking Switzerland and Austria- Hungary. With 19 plates
of facsimiles. 4to., 1l. 15s.

Coptic Apocrypha in the Dialect of Upper Egypt. Edited,
with English Translations, by E. A. Wallis Budge, M.A., Litt.D.
With 58 plates. 8vo., 1l.

A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British
Museum. By F. C. Conybeare. To which is appended a
Catalogue of the Georgian Manuscripts in the British Museum.
By J. O. Wardrop. 4to., 21. 17s. 6d.

Catalogue of the Burmese Books in the British Museum.
By L. D. Barnett, M.A., Litt.D. 4to., 10. 5s.

A Supplementary Catalogue of Hindi Books in the Library
of the British Museum, acquired during the years 1893-1912.
By J. F. Blumhardt. 4to., 1. 7s. 6d.

The Ku K’ai-Chih Roll. Admonitions of the Instructress
in the Palace. <A Painting by Ku K’ai-Chih in the Department
of Prints and Drawings, British Museum. Reproduced in
coloured woodcut. Text by Laurence Binyon. (71. 7s.

Reproductions of Prints. ThirdSeries. Part VII. (Speci-
mens of Etching by the later Dutch Masters, 1640-1700.) 25
plates. 21.

A Guide to the Collection of Casts of Sculpture in the
Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British
Museum. 8vo., 6d.

A Guide to the Exhibition in the King’s Library, illus-
trating the History of Printing, Music-Printing, and Book-
binding. With illustrations. New edition. 8vo., 6d.

British Museum, Frederic G. Kenyon,
1 April 1914. Director and Principal Librarian.

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X.—PROGRESS made in the ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION
OF THE COLLECTIONS, AND ACCOUNT OF OBJECTS
ADDED TO THEM in the Year 1913 (Bloomsbury).

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED Books.

iL, Arrangement.---The works added to the collection during
the past year have, as far as possible, been placed on the
shelves of the Library, according to the system of classification
adopted in the Museum.

The press-marks, indicating their respective localities, have
been marked on the inside and affixed to the back of each
volume.

The total nuinber of these press-marks amounts to 83,328 ;
in addition to which 122,673 press-marks have been altered,
on books and in the catalogues, in consequence of changes and
re-arrangements carried out in the Library; 34,040 labels have
been affixed to books and volumes of newspapers, and 181,133
obliterated labels have been renewed.

The number of stamps impressed upon articles received is
568,195.

4,715 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in
the course of the year.

Il. Catalogues.—Cataloguing.—55,203 titles have been
written for the General Catalogue and for the Catalogues of
Maps and Music.

Printing.— 39,457 titles and index-slips for the General
Cataiogue, 1,917 for the Map Catalogue, and 12,650 for the
Music Catalogue have been prepared for printing during the
year; and 39,351 titles and index-slips for the General Cata-
logue. 1,681 for the Map Catalogue, and 15,650 for the Music
Catalogue, have been printed.

Reprinting.-—129 columns, including the headings Book of
the Dead (7 columns), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 columns),
Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, called El Cid (7 columns), Alexandre
Dumas (52 columns), Andrew Lang (19 columns), and Piranesi
(8 columns) have been revised and reprinted.

Incorporation.—General Catalogue.—39,179 title-slips and
index-slips have been incorporated into each of the three copies
of this Catalogue. This incorporation has rendered it necessary,
in order to maintain as far as possible the alphabetical arrange-
ment, to remove and re-insert 53,517 title-slips and index-slips
in each copy and to add to each copy 702 new leaves.

The system of fortnightly incorporation of accessions to
the Library has been carried out with perfect regularity during
the year.

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20,000 slips have been laid down to form 8 volumes of the
temporary Subject Index, 1911, &c., in use in the Reading
Room.

Map Catalogue.—2,683 titles have been written for this
Catalogue, and 1,476 title-slips have been incorporated into
each of three copies of it. This incorporation has rendered
it necessary to remove and re-insert 897 title-slips in each copy
and to add to each copy 14 new leaves.

Music Catalogue.—11,145 titles have been written for the
Music Catalogue, and 13,648 title-slips have been incorpo-
rated into each of the two copies of it. This incorporation
has rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 24,970 title-
slips in each copy and to add to each copy 548 new leaves.

Shelf Catalogue-—For this Catalogue, in which the title-
slips, mounted on cards, ave arranged in order of press-marks,
35,379 have been so mounted and 30,765 have been incorporated
in their proper order.

Catalogue of Books printed in the XVth Century. —
Part III. of this Catalogue, containing descriptions of the
books printed in the remaining towns of Germany, in German-
speaking Switzerland and in Austria-Hungary, together with
an Index to Parts IIII., and a typographical map, was
published by the Trustees in December 1913.

Guide to the Exhibition wm the King’s Library.—A revised
edition of this Guide was issued in July 1913.

III. Binding—The number of volumes and sets of
pamphlets sent to be bound in the course of the year was
11,484, including 3,245 volumes of newspapers. In conse-
quence of the frequent adoption of the plan of binding two.
or more volumes in one, the number of volumes returned
was 9,433. In addition to this, 915 volumes have been
repaired in the binders’ shops.

Besides this, the following binding work has been done in
the Library itself:—4,177 volumes have been repaired, 1,586
cleaned and polished, 200 broadsides have been bound in guard-
buvoks, and 3,340 volumes of reports, parts of periodicals, &c.,
have been bound in a light style of binding.

The following maps, charts, &c., have also been bound or
mounted during the year:—Thirteen atlases and 190 volumes
of the 6-inch and 25-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound ;
in addition, 230 general maps have been mounted on linen in
1,255 sheets, and 862 maps have been mounted on cards in
1,058 sheets.

48,258 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded
into 1,124 parcels, and 1,004 parcels have been tied up and
labelled.

54 volumes of the General Catalogue have been broken up
and re-bound in 76 new volumes. 77 columns have been re-laid,
owing to the accumulation of titles under certain headings, as
well as 150 columns of reprinted headings, in each of the

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three interleaved copies of the General Catalogue. 27 volumes
of the Music Catalogue have been re-bound in 32 new
volumes.

IV. Reading Room Service.—The number of volumes re-
placed in the General Library after use in the Reading Room
was 783,960; in the King’s Library, 24,363; in the Grenville
Library, 2,975; in the Map Room, 6,181; in the presses in
which books are kept from day to day for the use of readers,
722,223 ; and in the Oriental Department, 2,999; making a
total amount of 1,542,701 volumes supplied to readers during
the year, exclusive of those to which the readers have personal
access on the shelves of the Reading Room.

The number of readers during the year was 243,659, giving
an average of 804°15 daily, the room having been open
303 days, with an average of more than six volumes daily for
each reader.

Newspaper Room.—The number of readers during the
year was 17,938, giving a daily average of over 59, the room
having been open on 303 days. The number of volumes
replaced after use was 67,568, giving a daily average of
222, and of over three volumes for each reader, not reckoning
volumes, chiefly Parliamentary Papers, taken from the shelves
of the Newspaper Room by the readers themselves. In
addition 2,370 country newspapers were brought up to the
Library from the Repository at Hendon for the use of readers.

Map Room.—439 visitors were admitted to the Map Room
for the purpose of special geographical research.

Photography.—There were 488 applications for leave to
photograph from books in the Library, and 1,423 volumes
were supplied to the applicants for this purpose.

V. Aecessions.—General Library.—s38,116 complete volumes
and pamphlets have been added to the General Library in the
course of the year. Of these, 13,750 were presented ; 17,178
were received by Copyright ; 416 by Colonial Copyright ; 948
by International Exchange ; and 5,824 acquired by purchase.

78,597 parts or volumes of magazines and other serial
publications and of works in progress have been added to
the General Library. Of these, 7,164 were presented ; 46,356
received by Copyright ; 488 by Colonial Copyright; 1,980 by
International Exchange; and 22,609 acquired by purchase.

Maps.—119 atlases, 133 parts of atlases, and 3,489 maps in
8,953 sheets have been added to the collection during the
year. Of these, 39 atlases, 5 parts of atlases, and 2,159 maps
were presented ; 34 atlases, 16 parts of atlases, and 1,106 maps
received by Copyright; 29 atlases and 41 maps by Colonial
Copyright ; and 17 atlases, 112 parts of atlases, and 183 maps
acquired by purchase.

Music.—12,223 musical publications have been added to
the collection during the year. Of these, 12 books and

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pieces were presented, 9,669 books and pieces and 1,656 parts were
received by Copyright; 533 pieces by Colonial Copyright ;
and 86 books and 267 parts acquired by purchase.

Newspapers.—The number of newspapers published in the
United Kingdom, received under the provisions of the Copy-
right Act during the year, was 3,420, comprising 280,922
single numbers. Of these newspapers, 1,259 were published in
London and its suburbs; 1,634 in other parts of England and
Wales and in the Channel Islands; 292 in Scotland; and 235
in Ireland. Fourteen sets, comprising 3,545 single numbers,
were received by Colonial Copyright; 272 sets, comprising
41,577 single numbers, of colonial and foreign newspapers have
been presented ; and 80 sets, comprising 21 volumes and 14,801
single numbers, of current colonial and foreign newspapers have
been purchased.

Miscellaneous.—8,624 articles not included in the foregoing
paragraphs have been received in the Department. These
consist of Parliamentary Papers, single sheets, and other
miscellaneous items.

The total number of articles enumerated above as having
been received in the Department during the year, exclusive
of newspapers, is 141,301.

Acquisitions of Special Interest.—The following is a list of
the most important and interesting books acquired by purchase
during the year. It includes purchases from the third portion
of the Huth sale and from the first portion of the Dunn sale.

Foreign Books.—In addition to 31 foreign and two English
Incunabula mentioned below as acquired by exchange, the
following have been purchased :—

Thomas Aquinas: ‘‘ Catena aurea.” Sweynheim and
Pannartz, Rome, 7 December, 1470. Voi. 2.

Xenophon: “ Hiero, sive de vita tyrannica.” Adam of
Ammergau, Venice. [1471.]

St. Augustine: “Speculum peccatoris.” Giinther Zainer,
Augsburg [about 1472].

“Constitutiones Clementine.” Leonhard Pflug] and Georg
Lauer, Rome, 18 March, 1473.

Pope Pius II: “ De miseriis curialium.” Johannes Philippus
de Lignamine, Rome, 1473. In a contemporary binding.

b)

Georgius Trapezuntius: ‘Compendium orationis ex Pris-
ciano.” In the types of Christopher Valdarfer, Milan,
1 February, 1474.

Gratianus: “ Decretum.” Adam of Rottweil, Venice, [1480.]
With the arms of Pope Pius VI on the binding.

“ Etats tenus a Tours en 1483.” [Jean Dupré, Paris, 1483. ]

Franciscus de Mairone: ‘“ Sermones.” Printed by the
Brothers of the Common Life, Brussels, 1484. In the boards
of the original binding, bearing a monastic stamp. (Dunn
copy:)

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 23

Justinian : “Digestum vetus.” Johannes et Gregorius de
Gregoriis, Venice, 1484.

Vincent de Beauvais : “‘ Speculum morale.” Anton Koberger,
Nuremberg, 1485. In a fine contemporary binding.

“Statuta synodalia dyocesis Lexoviensis.” [Jean Dupré,
Paris, about 1485.] (Dunn copy.)

Petrus Hispanus (Pope John XXI.): “ Logicalia.” Gerard
Leen, Antwerp, 1486. (Dunn copy.) -

Johannes Gritsch: “ Quadragesimale.’ [Nicolaus Philippi,
Lyons], 1487. (Dunn copy.)

Aurelius Bienatus: Elegantiarun epitomata.’ Germani
fidelissimi, Naples, 1488. A hitherto undescribed book from
this press.

“ Poeniteas cito.” Johann Koelhoff, Cologne, 1489. (Dunn
copy.)

Cicero: “ Paradoxa.” Philippe Pigouchet, Paris [1490].
One of the earliest books printed by Pigouchet.

Jean Gerson: ‘‘ La confession de maistre Jehan Jarson.”
Denis Mellier [ Paris, about 1490].

Mancinellus: “Thesaurus.” Stephan Plannck, Rome,
6 December, 1490.

“ Biblia Latina.” Jacques Maillet, Lyons, 1490.

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y)

‘“ Breviarium Curiense, pars vstivalis. Adam of Speier,
Basel [1490]. A hitherto unknown printer. No other copy
is known.

“Le Songe du Vergier, qui parle de la disputation du clere
et du chevalier.” Jacques Maillet, Lyons, 1491.

Albertanus, Judex: “ De arte vivendi, loquendi et tacendi.”
Georg Wolf, ‘‘in edibus Sorbone,” Paris, 1491. (Dunn copy.)

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“Tenor Fraternitatis de memoria mortis.” Johann Reger,
Ulm, 28 September, 1491.

“Flores legum.” Danesius Hectoris, Bologna, 12 June,
1494.

Alexander de Villa Dei: “ Doctrinale cum glossis.” Preus
and Luschner, Barcelona, 9 July, 1495. The first book from
this press.

“La grant confession de Pasques.’’ Antoine Caillaut, Paris
[about 1495].

“Hug Schapler.” Hans Griininger, Strassburg, 1500. The
first edition of this romance. With numerous woodcuts.

(Huth copy.)

Also the following later foreign books :—

‘“Cato cum commento.” Laurent Hostingue for Michel
Angier and Jean Macé, Caen [about 1505]. One of the earliest
books printed at Caen in the 16th century. (Dunn copy.)

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* Missale ad usum Sarum.” Jamet Loys for Jean Heuvin,
Rouen, 1508. (Dunn copy.)

“ Le livre intituté Sydrach.” Raulin Gaultier, Rouen, 1516.
(Dunn copy.)

Erasmus: “Responsio ad annotationes Eduardi Lei.”
Johann Froben, Basel, 1520. The first edition. (Huth copy.)

“Von Ulenspiegel eins Bauren Sun des Lands Braunsch-

weick.” Melcher Sachssen, Erfurt, 1532. With numerous
woodcuts. (Huth copy.)
Cicero: ‘‘ Paradoxa.” Alexander Weissenhorn, Augsburg,

1538. A translation into German by Simon Minervius
Schaydenreysser, the author of a prose translation of the
Odyssey, already in the Museum. On the title page is a
woodcut by Hans Burgkmair.

“Le Jardin d’Honneur, contenant plusieurs apologues,
proverbes, etc.” Estienne Groulleau, Paris, 1549. Containing
72 woodcuts.

‘Processionarium ad usum Sarum.” Robert Valentin,
Rouen, 1555.

‘En ny Psalma Bok, med morgum andligum Psalmum, ete.”
Printed at Holar in Iceland, 1589. A very early specimen of
Icelandic printing. In a contemporary binding, with paintings
on the edges of the leaves. No other copy is known.

Francis Bacon: “Histoire des Vents.” Paris, 1650. A
translation of Bacon’s Historia Ventorum by Jean Baudoin.
The book did not appear in English until 1643.

“ Alethini Philaretae Epistole de Ven. Johannis Palafoxti
Orthodoxia.” Rome, 1772. With the arms of Pope Clement XIV
on the binding.

Alain René Lesage: “La Valise Trouvee.” [Paris,] 1740.
The first edition. :

English Books.

Besides the fragment of a Caxton and the book printed by
Pynson mentioned below as acquired by exchange, the following
English books printed before 1640 have been bought :—

Alanus: “De Parabolis, sive Doctrinale altum.” Wynkyn
de Worde, 1510. (Dunn copy.)

“The Four Leaves of Truelove.” Wynkyn de Worde
[about 1530]. The only printed copy known of this poem.
The poem exists also in manuscript. (The Huth copy.)

William Harrington : “ The Commendations of Matrimony.”
John Skot, 1528. (Huth copy.)

Cicero: ‘ The Paradoxa, or marvaylous Questions of Marcus
Tullius to his familiar Marcus Brutus.” Johan Redman for
Robert Redman [about 1540]. (Dunn copy.)

“A certayne treatye most wyttely devised, ete.” A trans-
lation by John Clere of Lamant mal traicté, originally written

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in Spanish by Diego de San Pedro. Robert Wyer [about 1543].
(Dunn copy.)

‘“* A Consultorie for all Christians.” John Oswen, Worcester,
1549. One of the earliest books printed at Worcester. (Huth
copy.)

Hermannus de Wida: “A brief declaration of the duty of
married folks, translated by Hans Dekyn.” Hugh Syngelton
[about 1550]. The first edition. (Huth copy.)

Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester: “De vera
obedientia.” Translated into English by Michael Wood.
Reuen, 1553. The first issue of the Rouen edition. (Huth
copy.)

Johannes de Indagine: “ Briefe introductions unto the arte
of Chiromancy.” John Daye for R. Jugge, 1558.

Thomas Harman: ‘A Caveat or Warning for common
Cursetors, vulgarly called Vagabones.” William Griffith, 1567.
A very rare book, of much interest as a picture of the life of
Elizabethan tramps. With woodcuts. (Huth copy.)

Sir John Conway: “Meditations and Praiers.’ William
How, 1571.

“The New Testament, translated by L. Tomson.” Chris-
topher Barker, 1577.

Joannes Piscator: “In Petri Rami Dialecticam Animad-
versiones.” Henry Bynneman, 1581.

Thomas Saunders: ‘“ A true Description of a most lamentable
Voyage to Tripolie.in Barbarie.” Richard Jones for Edward
White, 1587.

‘“A briefe and true report of the proceedings of the Earle

of Leycester for the reliefe of the towne of Sluce.” London,
1590.

George Giffard: ‘A Dialogue concerning Witches and
Witcheraft.” John Windet, 1593. The rare first edition.

“The Pathway to Knowledge.” [1596.] Translated into
English by W. P., 7.e., W. Peters or W. Phillips. A book on
arithmetic and book-keeping.

‘A short Introduction of Grammar.” The assigns of Fran.
Flower, 1597. (Huth copy.)

Henry Lok: “Ecclesiastes in English Poesie.” Richard
Field, 1597. With a supplement of sonnets not found in most
copies.

“Historia de Donne Famose, or the Romaine Jubile, 855.”
Edward White, 1599. The story of Pope Joan, ©

“The Flowers of Lodowick of Granada.” Translated by
Thomas Lodge. I. R, [i.e., James Roberts] for T. Heyes, 1601.

John Hanson: “Time is a Turne-Coate. Or England’s
Threefold Metamorphosis.” I. H., 1604. On the entry of
James I into the City of London. The first edition. No
other copy is known. (Huth copy.)

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Thomas Blundeville: - “Exercises.” John Windet, 1606.
The third edition.

Sir Hugh Platt: “ Delightes for Ladies to adorn their
persons, tables, closets and distillatories.” H. Lownes, 1609.

Henry Peacham: “The Gentleman’s Exercise.” For John
Brome, 1612.

Walter Quin: ‘Corona Virtutum Principe dignarum.”
John Bill, 1613. The first edition of a book written for the
use of Charles I by his tutor.

“The Father’s Blessing, or Sacred Councell to his Sonne.”
For L. Becket, 1616. An application of the Basilicon Doron of
James I to ordinary parents and children. (Huth copy.)

Richard Fowns: “Trisagion, or the three Holy Offices of
Jesus Christ.” H. Lownes for M. Lownes, 1618. The first
edition. (Huth copy.)

Matheo Aleman: “The Rogue, or the Life of Guzman de
Alfarache.” G. E. for Edward Blount, 1622. First issue of
the first edition.

Sir Philip Sidney : “ The Countesse of Pembroke’s Arcadia.”
H. L., 2.e., H. Lownes, for Matthew Lownes, 1622.

“A Journal of the Voyage of the young Prince Frederick
‘© Henry, Prince of Bohemia, taken in the sixth year of his age
‘“ from Prague in Bohemia to Luerden in Friesland.” London,
1623. (Huth copy.)

Edmund Gunter: “The Description and Use of the Sector.”
William Jones, for John Tomson and for Edmund Weaver,
1623. The first edition.

John Lewis: “The Unmasking of the Masse-Priest. By
C.A.” BR. Whittaker, 1624.

Richard Brathwait: “ Novissima Tuba.” Felix Kyngston,
1632.

Henry Harflete: “The Hunting of the Fox, or Flattery
Displayed.” London, 1632. (Huth copy.)

Kmanuel Ford: “The most pleasant History of Ornatus
and Artesia.” B. Alsopand T. Fawcet, 1634. The first edition.
(Huth copy.)

Also the following later books :—

Thomas Brugis: ‘The Discovery of a Projector, Shewing
“the beginning, progress and end of the Projector and his
“ Projects.” 1641. On the financing of inventions. The only
copy known.

Benedict Haeften: ‘‘Schola cordis, or the Heart of itself
gone away from God.” 1647. The first edition of this English
version, by Christopher Harvey.

“ Hell broke loose, or the notorious design of the wicked
Ranters.” 1651. An account of a raid on Blackfriars’ Church
by fanatics. (Huth copy.)

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Richard Flecknoe: ‘“ Heroick Portraits.” 1660. (Huth
copy.)

“The Gentleman’s Calling.” 1660. By the author of ‘The
Whole Duty of Man.” ‘The first edition. (Huth copy.)

A volume containing five chapbooks printed by Robert
Saunders at Glasgow, 1667-1669.

Elizabeth Atkinson: “A brief and plain discovery of the
““ Labourers in Mistery, Babilon, generally called by the name
“ of Quakers.” 1669. The only copy known.

Richard Flecknoe: “ Euterpe Revived.” 1675. A book of
epigrams. (Huth copy.)

George Fox : “Gospel Family Order, being a short discourse
“ concerning the ordering of families, both of Whites, Blacks,
“ and Indians.” 1676. The first edition. (Huth copy.)

Jeremy Taylor: “ Holy Living and Holy Dying.” 1680.
In an ornamental binding of the time.

George Granville, Lord Lansdowne: “ The British Enchan-
ters. A tragedy.” 1706. The first edition. (Huth copy.)

Daniel Defoe: ‘ Robinson Crusoe.” London, printed for
the Booksellers, 1719. This edition has many variations from
the text of the authorised first edition printed in the same
year. It was very possibly a piracy made from a stolen set of
proof-sheets, and printed to be sold by travelling chapmen.

Eliza Haywood: “The Injured Husband.” 1723. “The
Rash Resolve.” 1724. ‘The Unequal Conflict.” 1725. “The
History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless.” 4 vols. 1751. All first
editions. (Huth copies.)

Selections from the Hursley Magazine for the years 1848
and 1849. Privately printed at Hursley Park, 1861. One of
thirty copies.

A Collection of Programmes of performances at the Lyceum
Theatre during the management of Sir Henry Irving, i879-
1902, and Programmes of his performances in the provinces
and in America to the date of his death. 30 vols.

Hachanges.

An unusual number of interesting books has been acquired
during the year by exchanges with other libraries.

From the Bodlevan Library, 31 Incunabula.
Marchesinus: ‘‘Mammotrectus.” Peter Schoeffer, Mainz,
. 10 November, !470.

“De Judeorum et Christianorum communione.” [The
Printer of Henricus Ariminensis, Strassburg, not after 1476. ]

‘Gesta Romanorum.” [Martin Schott, Strassburg, about
1490.]

28 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Werner Rolewinck: “ Fasciculus temporum.” [Johann
Priiss, Strassburg, about 1490.]

Saint Augustine : *“‘ De fuga mulierum.” [Ulric Zel, Cologne,
about 1472. ]

Gulielmus de Gouda: ‘“Expositio mysteriorum missz.”
{Ulric Zel,] Cologne [about 14941].

Alexander de Villa Dei: ‘‘Sermo.” [Albrecht Kunne,
Memmingen,| 1496. In German.

Pope Sixtus IV: “De futuris contingentibus.” [Johannes
Philippi de Lignamine, Rome,] 1473.

“Constitutiones Clementine.” Leonhard Pflug] and Georg
Lauer, Rome, 15 June 1472.

Angelus Sabinus: “ Paradoxa in Juvenali.” Georg Sachsel
and Bartholomeus Golsch, Rome, 9 August, 1474.

Petrus Cadratus: “ Oratio ad Innocentium papam VIII.”
[Bartholomeeus Guldinbeck, Rome, about 1485. |

Franciscus Patritius: “ Oratio ad Innocentium papam VIII.”
[Bartholomeus Guldinbeck, Rome, about 1485.]

_ Bartholomeeus Scala: “ Oratio ad Innocentium papam VIII.”

[Bartholomzeus Guldinbeck, Rome, about 1485.]

Johannes de Targowissko: “Oratio ad Innocentium papam
VIIL.” [Bartholomeus Guldinbeck, Rome, about 1485.]

Bernardinus Caravajal: ‘Oratio in die circumcisionis.”
{Stephan Plannck, Rome, 1484. ]

Petrus Terrasse: ‘‘Oratio de divina providentia.” [Georg
Herolt, Rome, 1483. ]

Ludovicus Imolensis: “Oratio de nomine Jesu.” [Georg
Herolt, Rome, 1486. |

Leonellus de Chieregatis: ‘Sermo in die Palmarum.”
[Johannes Besicken and Sigismundus Mayr, Rome, 1495].

Andreoccius de Shinucciis: ‘“ Oratio pro republica Senensi.”
[Johannes Besicken and Sigismundus Mayr, Rome, about 1495.]

Justinian: ‘“‘ Digestum vetus.” Jacques Le Rouge, Venice,
21 November, 1477.

Varro: “De lingua Latina.” [Johannes de Colonia and
Johannes Manthen, Venice, 1474. ]

Bartolus de Saxoferrato: ‘Lectura super prima parte
digesti veteris.” Andreas Torresanus, Venice, 28 December,
1488.

Cicero: ‘Orationes.” [Antonius Zarotus, Milan, about
1480.]

Suetonius : “ Vite duodecim Cesarum.” Franciscus Plato
de Benedictis, Bologna, 23 February, 1488. .

Calderinus: ‘“Commentarium in Statii Sylvas.” Henricus
de Colonia, Brescia, 8 June, 1476.

Orosius : ‘‘ Historie.” [Leonardus Achates, Vicenza, about
1490. ]

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 29

Ludovicus Vicentinus: “ Vita beati Bernardini Senensis.”
Printed in Italy, perhaps at Venice, about 1483.

Petrus de Alliaco: “ Tractatus de anima.” Guy Marchant,
Paris, 24 September, 1494. With woodcuts.

“Os facies mentum.” [Felix Baligault, Paris, about 1495-
1500. |
~ Quintilian: “ Declamationes.’
Louvain, about 1475-1480.]

Gregory the Great: ‘Homeliz in Ezechielem.” [The
Brothers of the Common Life, Brussels. About 1476-1481. |

?

[Johannes de Paderborn,

From the Law Library of Harvard University.

Three English books from the collection of English law
books purchased en bloc at the sale of the library of Mr. George
Dunn.

William Lyndewode: “ Constitutiones provinciales Angliz.”
Richard Pynson, [about 1499.]

Year Book of Henry VI, year 3 [1424-1425]. Richard
Pyson, 1510.

Christopher St. Germain; “ The first and second Dialogues
“in English betwixt a Doctor of Divinity and a Student in

“the Laws of England.” Robert Wyer, London, and Peter
Treveris, Southwark, 1530.

From the Governors of St. Bride’s Institute.

Two copies of a sheet of Lydgate’s Life of Our Lady,
printed at Westminster by William Caxton about 1484.

Music purchased.

Nineteen part-books of Madrigals, motets and Ricercari,
printed at Venice between 1549 and 1562.

The “ Medius Decani” part of Barnard’s “ First Book of
Selected Church Musick,” London, 1641. One of the rarest and
most interesting English Music-Books.

‘“*Gaudii Paschalis Jesu Christi Redivivi . . . Relatio
historica Melodia harmonica adornata.” Breslau, 1612. The
music by Antonio Scandello (1517 ?—1580).

Donations.

The following is a list of the more important donations
received during the year :—

The Philatelic Library of the late Earl of Crawford, consisting
of nearly 4,000 volumes. This is believed to be the largest and
most complete collection in existence of books, pamphlets, and
periodicals on the subject of postage-stamps. Bequeathed by
the late Karl of Crawford, K.T.

30 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITJSH MUSEUM.

A complete set of French Parliamentary Papers from the
year 1830 onwards, in about 4,000 volumes. Presented by the
Right Honourable the Speaker of the House of Commons.

A volume containing four early editions of works by
Emanuel Swedenborg. On the wrapper of the “Summaria
Expositio Doctrine Nove Ecclesiz” is an autograph inscription
by Swedenborg: “ Hic liber est Adventus Domini, scriptum ex
mandato.” One of two copies so inscribed. Presented by
C.J. Whittington, Esq.

“Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and
Tragedies. The second impression.” Printed by Tho. Cotes for
John Smethwick, London, 1632. Presented by the Board of
Management of the London Institution.

. Thomas Wilson: ‘The Arte of Rhetorique.” John Kings-
ton, London, 1560. Presented by R. B. McKerrow, £Eszq.,
Mitt.D.

John Sanford: “ A Grammar or Introduction to the Italian
Tongue.” Joseph Barnes, Oxford, 1605. Presented by Paget
Toynbee, E'sq., Litt.D.

“A Collection of Old Ballads.” 3 vols. London, 1727.
With MS. notes by Bishop Perey. Presented by Mrs. Arthur
Broadwood.

A Facismile of the Washington Manuscript of the Four
Gospels in the Freer Collection. With an introduction by
Henry A. Sanders. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1912. 2 vols.
Presented by the University of Michigan.

“The Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ. A trans-
lation of the Latin work entitled ‘ Meditationes vitee Christi’,
attributed to Cardinal Bonaventura, made before the year
1410 by Nicholas Love, Prior of the Carthusian Monastery of
Mount Grace. Edited by Lawrence F. Powell.” Roxburghe
Club, 1908. Presented by the Lord Aldenham.

“Femina. Now first printed from a unique MS. in the
Library of . Trinity College, Cambridge, by William Aldis
Wright.” Roxburghe Club, 1909. Presented by William
Aldis Wright, E'sq., LL.D.

“Letters of the Sitwells and Sackeverells.” Edited by Sir
George Sitwell. 2 vols. Printed by the author at his private
press, Scarborough, 1900. Presented by Sir George Sitwell,
Bart.

‘Catalogue of the Collection of Watches, the property
of J. Pierpont Morgan. Compiled by G. C. Williamson.”
London, 1912. One of twenty copies, on Japanese vellum,
with hand-coloured illustrations. Presented by the late J.
Pierpont Morgan, Esq.

“Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelain.”
Vol. 2. Privately printed, New York, 1911. Presented by the
late J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq.

“DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. ol

“Babylonian Records in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan.
Edited by Albert T. Clay.” Parts 1, 2. Privately printed,
New York, 1912. Presented by the late J. Pierpont Morgan, ©
Esq.

“Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of
Charles T. Yerkes, Esq. 2 vols. New York, 1914. Presented
by W. L. Mandelick, Esq.

“Le Morte D’Arthur. By Sir Thomas Malory.” Printed at
the Ashendene Press, Chelsea, 1913. Presented by St. John
Hornby, Esq.

Les Grandes Heures de la Reine Anne de Bretagne et
Vatelier de Jean Bourchichon. Par Léopold Delisle.” 1913.
Presented by the Institut de France.

“Alumni Carthusiani. A record of the Foundation
Scholars of Charterhouse, 1614-1872.” Privately printed,
London, 1913. Presented by F. A. Crisp, Hsq.

“The Amherst Tablets, being an account of the Babylonian
Inscriptions in the Collection of Lord Amherst of Hackney.
By T. G. Pinches.” Part 1. London, 1908. Presented by the
Baroness Amherst of Hackney.

“Facsimile of the Archangel Gospels.” Moscow, 1913.
Presented by the Moscow Rumyantsov Museum.

“ Registo da Freguesia de Santa Cruz do Castello 1536 até
1628.” Edited by Edgar Prestage and Pedro d’Azevedo.
Coimbra, 1913. One of six copies on special paper. Presented
by Edgar Prestage, Esq.

“Major James Rennell’s Survey of the Ganges and Tribu-
taries.” A set of 33 maps lithographed from the originals,
- dated 1764, at the India Office. Presented by the Secretary of
State for India in Council.

A Collection of 1614 Maps and Charts, including 120 in
manuscript, mostly of the British Isles, ranging in date from
the end of the eighteenth century to recent years. Presented
by the Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

A Collection of more than 500 English Victorian Penny

Envelopes, mounted in three albums. Presented by C. Davies
Sherborn, Esq.

Arthur W. K. Miller.

3p ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS.

1. Catalogue of Additions.—The following MSS. acquired
in 1911 have been described and indexed: Additional 38136,
38139-38141, 38178-38181, 38379-38382, 38408-38415, 38417,
38418, 38443-38461, 88468-38489, 38492-38496, and Egerton
2892-2894.

Of those acquired in 1912, Additional 38531, 38536, 38539-
38581, 38591-38602, 38607, 38608, 38620-38624, 38635-38642,
38647-38651, and of those acquired in 1913, Additional 38653,
38655-38660, 38665-38670, 38672-38682, 38684, 38685, 3868S—
38691, 38693-38702, 38714-38719, 38726, 38728-38731, 38733,
38776 have been described and indexed.

The descriptions of Additional MSS. acquired in 1911 have
been printed.

2. Catalogue of Greek Papyri.—in preparation of Vol. V.
of the Catalogue, 1607-1768 (inventory-numbers), acquired in
1906 and 1907, have been examined and described, and a
selection transcribed. The whole of the material for Vols. V.
and VI. has been re-arranged; and for Vol. V., Nos. 1647-1717
(catalogue-numbers) have been described and copied, and the
other documents of the same classes as these have been
described.

3. Catalogue of the Royal MSS.—Sheets XX and YY of
_ Vol. II. have been revised. Descriptions of 20 A. 1-20 B. v1.
have been revised and sent to press.

4. Catalogue of Irish MSS.—The following MSS. have
been described :-—-Cotton, Vespasian E. 11.; Harley 1802, 5280;
Additional 4783, 18749, 38993 ; Egerton 126, 127, 146, 155, 171,
172, 174, 178, 1782.

5. Catalogue of Charters.—Additional Charters 55879-
56050, acquired in 1911, and 56433-57034, acquired in 1912, have
been described and indexed. °

6. Binding.—Two hundred and seventy-eight Additional
MSS. and two Egerton MSS. newly acquired, and ninety-four
MSS. of the old collections have been bound, repaired, or
lettered, together with seventy-three pieces of Papyri and
one hundred and forty-three Books of Reference, volumes of
Facsimiles, and Catalogues. Two Charters have been repaired.

7. Verification.—The entire collection of MSS. has been
verified by comparison with the Shelf-Lists.

8. Reproductions. — Part I. (Hiberno- Saxon and Early
English) of a series of reproductions, partly collotype and
partly in colour, from the various Schools of [Jlumination is in
preparation.

Part I. of a reduced facsimile of the Old Testament portion
of the Codex Alexandrinus has been commenced.

DEPARTMENT OF MSS. 33

The introduction by Sir George Warner to the facsimiles
from the Lindisfarne Gospels is in preparation.

9. Stamping, folioing, and placing.—Two hundred and
four Additional MSS., two Egerton MSS., nine hundred and
seventy-six Charters and Rolls, and one hundred and ninety-
four Books of Reference (all newly acquired) have been stamped.
The total of impressions made was 12,017.

Two hundred and forty-four MSS. have been folioed, with
a total of 40,332 folios. 402 sheets have been numbered.

Three hundred and eleven newly-acquired MSS. and 113
Papyri have been placed, and twenty-eight MSS. and seven
Papyri of. the old collections have been re-placed. All have
been press-marked and entered in Hand- and Shelf-Lists.
Eleven hundred and fifty-eight Charters and Rolls have been
placed and have been entered in the Hand-Lists. Numbers
have been written on 2,148 newly-acquired Charters. Sixty-
seven Seals and Casts have been provided with boxes, placed,
and entered in Hand-Lists.

10. Books of Reference. — One hundred and _ ninety-six
volumes and parts have been received, catalogued, and placed.

Highteen volumes and parts of Facsimiles were added to
the series now deposited in the Department and available for
the use of Readers.

11. Consultation of MSS.—31,554 MSS. and 5,357 Charters
and Seals have been consulted in the Students’ Room, and
one hundred and five MSS.in the Reading Room. The number
of Students was 12,090.

Magna Charta was exhibited to 19,382 visitors.

12. MSS. photographed._Eight hundred and ninety-six
MSS. (including Papyri, Charters and Seals) were allowed to be
photographed, with a total of 7,801 photographs taken.

13. Hahibitions.—A selection of medical MSS. was on
exhibition for the International Medical Congress.

14, Acquisitions.—The number of Manuscripts and Docu-
ments, &c., acquired during the year has been :—

Additional MSS. - - - = - - 144
Egerton MSS. - - - - - - - 8
Charters and Rolls’ - - - - : - 1,290
Papyri : - ~ - - - 3
Detached Seals a @ants = - - - = 30

Among the most interesting purchases during the year are
three 13th century MSS. (all formerly part of the same volume),
acquired at the sale of the library of the late Mr. George Dunn.
These are in old French and include the earliest known form
of the romance of Guillaume d’Orange, a poem the recent
discovery of which made a notable stir among Romance
scholars. The collection (in 37 volumes) of correspondence and
papers of the statesman William Huskisson, who was killed at

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34 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

the opening of the Manchester and Liverpool railway in 1830,
is also deserving of special mention.

The Museum has, as usual, benefited by the generosity of
private donors, especially i in the following instances :—

Four letters of Charlotte Bronté to M. Constantin Heger
(the original of M. Paul Emanuel in “ Villette”), 1844-1845.
Presented by M. Paul Heger, ex-president of the Royal
Academy of Medicine in Belgium, and his sisters.

Two volumes of Froissart’s History written and illuminated
in France early in the 15th century. Presented by the Pro-
prietors of the London Institution, on the occasion of the
winding-up of the Institution in its present form.

Ten autograph letters of Jonathan Swift, with other con-
temporary papers, jeux d’esprit, &c. Presented by Mrs. Edward
Bromley.

Polyglot fragments from the collections of George Borrow..
Presented by C. K. Shorter, Esq.

Two autograph ballads by the same. Presented by T. J.
Wise, E'sq.

Power of attorney by Lord Nelson, with other papers and
charters. Presented by Henry van den Bergh, Esq.

Among other acquisitions of the year, by donation or pur-
chase (many of which came from the Dunn sale, 13, 14 Feb., or
the Phillipps sale, 19-23 May), are :—

Vitae Patrum, translated by Pelagius,and others, 12th
century.

Constantine Africanus, Viaticum, written in Italy, 12th
century, with fine (14th century ?) binding. From the Farn-
borough Fund.

St. Augustine de Civitate Dei, written in the 12th century,
probably in Spain. From the Bridgewater Fund.

Decretals, an early collection, circ. 1190. From the Farn-
borough Fund.

New Testament in Latin, illuminated (in 8. France ?) in an
unusual style, circ. 1200. From the Bridgewater Fund.

Lectionary of German use, 12th—13th century.

Sacramentarium, early 13th century, with curious miniature
and initials in Italian style, calendar of French saints ; perhaps
written for use in Jerusalem. From the Farnborough Fund.

Epistolar of Italian origin, 13th century.

Paris missal, with music, 13th century.

Exilium conventus Cantuariensis: fragment of a life of
St. Thomas of Canterbury, 13th century.

Commentary of Rabanus Maurus on Deuteronomy and
Joshua, 13th century.

DEPARTMENT OF MSS. 35

Life of St. Sabas in Greek, colophon dated 1116, but probably
written in the 14th century.

Campanus de astronomia, early 14th century.

Jistercian ordinal, early 14th century.

Latin exempla, a collection of English origin, imperfect,
14th century.

Bernardus de Gordonio, Liber Vitae Humanae, ete., 14th
century.

Life and passion of Our Lord, English poem; 15th century.

Dutch Horae, with miniatures, diocese of Utrecht, 15th
century.

Prayers in Dutch, late 15th century, with contemporary
binding. From the Farnborough Fund.

Horae, written in the Netherlands, late 15th century, with
contemporary binding. From the same.

Slavonic gospels, 16th century.

Story of Arnalda de Rochis in Latin» prose and verse, 17th
century. Presented by C. Delaval Cobham, Esq.

Capitulare salinariorum maris Venetiae, 14th century.

Chronicle of Augustinian foundations in England, etc.,
partly in the hand of the chronicler John Strecch of Kenil-
worth, 14th—15th centuries.

Roll of copies of historical documents, temp. Hen. VI.

Thomas Wall, Compendium Historiale, 1528.

Original protest of English clergy against the Pope’s juris-
diction, 1534.

Nicholas Wotton, genealogical and historical collections,
16th century.

Documents relating to St. Teresa’s foundation at Avila, 16th
and 17th centuries. Presented by R. B. Cunninghame
Graham, E'sq.

“The five years of King James,” afterwards (1651) pub-
lished as “ The Truth brought to Light.”

Drafts of letters of G. Weckherlin as Latin secretary to
Charles I., 1627-1635.

War Office correspondence, from the Blathwayt papers, ete.,
1660-1759, in 20 volumes.

Certificates of penance performed at Westminster or
Rochester, 1669-1772.

Hugo Imolensis and others, Gesta pontificum Romanorum,
Leo IX.-Nicholas V., 17th century.

Accompt-book of the Smiths’ Company of Coventry, 1684—
1823. From the Bridgewater Fund.

Steffano di Zuanne di Michel, l‘Architettura navale, 1686.

Cc 2

36 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Executors’ accompts of Cardinal Howard, 1694.

Official copies of Treasury papers relating to the conversion
of the coinage, 1695-1696, in two volumes.

Copies of Lord G. Germain’s letters to Lord Macartney as
Governor of the Caribbees, and letter-book of the latter’s
replies, 1776-1779.

Letter-book and order-book of Vice-Adm. Sir G. Darby,
commanding the Channel Fleet, 1780-1782.

Sailing and Fighting Instructions for the Fleet, 1782.

Letter-book of Lord Northington, Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, 1783-1784.

Logbook of H.M.S. Eurydice, 1804-1805, and commonplace-
book of Andrew Pellat Green, 1808-1819.

Letters of Robert Stephenson the elder, relating to railways,
ete., 1818-1836.

Typewritten copy of the diary, written on the leaves of a
prayer-book now lost; of Capt. Arthur Conolly, murdered at
Bokhara, 1842. Presented by the late Col. HE. R. Conolly.

Letters of Sir J. Outram to Rev. G. P. Badger, 1856-1857.

Philosophical experiments made for Francis Bacon, and
miscellaneous tracts, 17th century.

John Locke, autograph Directions on Education, 1684.

Assignments of copyright, ete., 1704-1822, collected by W.
Upcott, three velumes.

Eleven letters of Wiliam Etty to his brother Walter, circ.
1811-1825.

Autograph letters of Joanna Baillie, Henry Hallam, and
James Martineau. Presented by P. W. Mallet, Esq.

Memoir by John Bruce on the diplomatic history of Great
Britain, 1834, two volumes.

Notebook of W. Maskell relating to his liturgical works, ete.
Presented by A. C. King, Esq.

Two letters of Mrs. Gaskell relating to Charlotte Bronté’s
marriage, 1854. :

Twenty-one letters of Sir J. E. Millais to the brothers
Dalziel, 1857-1863, on the engraving of his series of illustra-
tions of the Parables.

Twenty-four letters of Sir C. W. Dilke to W. Hepworth
Dixon on literary matters, 1866-1876.

Autograph poem by C. 8S. Calverley.

Autograph poem by Robert Browning (Soliloquy of
/Eschylus) and sonnet on Browning by W.S. Landor.

Letter by R. Browning to D. G. Rossetti, with note by the
latter, 1871. Presented by Henry Wallis, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF MSS. 374

Two letters of Holman Hunt to Ford Madox Brown, 1876-
1877.

Holograph scientific articles by W. H. Dallinger and Alfred
Russel Wallace. Presented by C. Davies Sherborn, Esq.

Transcript of a catalogue of Cotton Charters from a MS. at
Oxford. Presented by Rev. H. EH. Salter.

Transcripts of parish registers of Batley, co. York, by
M. Sheard. Bequeathed by the compiler.

Transcripts of parish registers of Clapham, co. York. Pre-
sented by Rev. H. Cookson.

Rental of property of Corpus Christi College in Cambridge,
16th century.

Plans of ancient earthworks in cos. Berks and Oxon, by
Rev. E. A. Downman.

About 630 charters relating chiefly to co. Stafford.
Bull of Urban II., 1096, and of Paschal IT., 1113.
Indenture for commercial treaty with Flanders, 1407.

A collection of charters ‘nearly 500) relating to various
parts of England, Scotland, the Channel Islands, ete.

Transcript in modern notation hy Dr. T. L. Southgate of
215 pieces of viol da gamba music by 17th century English
composers. Presented by Sur EL. EL. Cooper.

Autograph of Dr. William Croft’s service in B flat.

Autograph full score of F. Clay’s opera “The Bold Recruit.”

Memorandum by G. Thomson relating to the publication of
three sonatas of Beethoven, 1810.

English songs collected by William Chappell (Vol. I.).

J. P. Gilson.

38 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED Books AND MSS.

Arrangement and Cataloguing.—The numbers of the
sheets of the various Oriental Catalogues and other publica-
tions of the Department sent to press in 1913 are :—Armenian
and Georgian MSS. Catalogue, 9 sheets; Burmese Printed
Books Catalogue, 23 sheets; Coptic Texts, vols. i111. and iv.,
74 sheets; Hebrew MSS. Catalogue, 7 sheets; Hindi Printed
Books Catalogue, 4 sheets.

The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are :—
Amharic, 2; Arabic, 870; Armenian, 15; Assamese, 7;
Avestan, 10; Bengali, 414; Burmese, 507; Chin, 8; Chinese,
1,166; Ethiopic, 7; Gujarati, 384; Hausa, 4; Hebrew, 117;
Hindi, 301; Hindustani, 184; Javanese, 5; Kachin, 6;
Kanarese, 225; Karen, 2); Khasi, 10; Kurdish, 3; Kuyi,-2%
Lepcha, 2; Lushai, 6; Malayalam, 173; Marathi, 741;
Mikir,2; Naga,2; Oriya, 25; Pahlavi, 19; Palau, 2; Pali, 133;
Panjabi, 24; Persian, 1,083; Prakrit, 45; Pushtu, 5; Sanskrit,
802; Santali, 2; Savara, 3; Shan, 2; Siamese, 8; Sindhi, 37;
Sinhalese, 314; Syriac, 38; Tai, 4; Tamil, 461; Telugu, 284;
Mibetan, [a5 Lulu: Purkish,s7 —-Lotaly o569:

Twenty-nine Hebrew MSS. have been fully catalogued.

One hundred and sixty-six short descriptions of MSS. have
been entered in the Descriptive List, the Register, and the
Classed Inventory.

One hundred and seventy-four MSS. (36,622 folios) have
been folioed.

Publications.—A Hand-list of Arabic MSS. acquired since
1894, a supplementary Catalogue of Hindi Printed Books,
vol. iii. of the Coptic Texts, and a Catalogue of Armenian
and Georgian MSS. have been issued; and the Catalogue of
Burmese Printed Books is now being bound for publication.

Binding.—The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to
the binders are :—Arabic, Hindustani, and Persian Books, 176;
Chinese Books, 138; Hebrew Books, 38; Mongolian Books, 16;
Books in Sanskrit and other Indian languages, 141; Tibetan
Books, 52; MSS., 217.

Students.—The number of visits of Students working in the
Students’ Room attached to the Department during the year is
3,254. The numberof Oriental Printed Books read by them in
the Department is 10,743 (6,835 having been issued once only,
and 3,908 reserved), and of those used in the Reading Room,
2,999. The number of Oriental MSS. read in the Students’
Room is 7,431.

Photography.—One hnndred and forty-nine applications
have been made to photograph books and MSS. in this
Department.

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 39

Additions.—The number of volumes, pamphlets, &c., added
to the collections of the Department during the year is 3,512,
of which 3,346 are Printed Books and 166 are MSS.

Of the Printed Books, 1,351 were bought ; 1,432 were received
under the India Copyright Act; 207 were received under the
Colonial Copyright Acts from Ceylon and Hongkong; and
356 were presented. Of the MSS., 155 were bought and the
remainder presented.

The MSS. are as follows :—
Amharic - ~ = ™ - 2
Arabic - - ~ - ~ - =O
Arabic and Persian = = 2 Ec
Arabie and Turkish 2 = Es =
Aramaic and Arabic - - - =
Armenian = = - - 2 =
Chinese - - - = - e S|
Hebrew - < - - 2 : e
Hebrew and Arabie - =
Korean - ~ - - = if =
Persian - - - - - - =
Persian and Arabic 2 - = si
Persian and Turkish 2 = = 2
Shan - - = . < =
Sinhalese - - - = = e
Tamil - - = = “ “ =
Turkish - : 2 = Sate 5

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The most important acquisitions are :—

Arabic MSS.—(1) Sharh al-ghayah, a commentary by
Abu al-Hasan b.‘Umar on the Kitab al-ghayah of Imam Abu
Bakr, on the vocalisation of the Koran. Copied A.H. 443
(A.D. 1051), from an archetype dated a.H. 413. 12°. No other
copy is known.

. (2) Tarikh Madinat al-Salam, or Ta’rikh Baghdad, lives of
the scholars of Baghdad, by Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi. Vols. 13
and 14, extending from the names beginning with “Laith” to
the end of the work. Copied A.H. 625 (A.D. 1227). Fol. No
complete volumes of this great work are known to exist in
Hurope, except a copy of vol. 6 in the British Museum.

(3) Al-Jam‘ bain al-sahihain, a dictionary of names of
traditionists, compiled by Muhammad b. Abi Nasr al-Azdi from
works of Abu Nasr al-Kalabadi and Abu Bakr al-Isfahani,
which were derived from Bukhari and Muslim respectively.
Copied a.H. 656 (A.D. 1258). 4°.

(4) Mulhat al-i‘rab, a poem by Hariri on Arabic grammar,
with a commentary. Copied A.H. 685 (A.D. 1286). 8°.

(5) Makamat of Hariri. A made-up MS. in several hands,
the oldest and largest part being of the xilith century. 4°.

(6) A treatise on logic, apparently called Mukhtasar ;
abridged, as it would seem, from a longer work by the same

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author entitled Kashf asrar al-mantik, which is possibly
identical with the Kashf al-asrar ‘an ghawamid al-afkar by
Afdal al-Din Muh. b. Namawar b.‘Abd al-Malik Khutnji al-
Shafiid. xilith century. 12°. No other copy seems to be
known.

(7) Arba‘in al-yamaniyah, a catechetical treatise on Jslam
by Fakhr al-Din al-Razi. xiii-xivth century. 8° Very
rare.

(8) Talkhis fi al-tafsir, an abridged commentary on the
Koran by Ahmad b. Yusuf al-Kawashi. Vol. ii., from Strah xx.
to lxxvi. xii-xivth century. 4°. Very rare.

(9) Asas al-balaghah, the lexicon of Zamakhshari. Vol. i.
Copied A.H. 722 (a.D. 1322). Fol. Very rare.

(10) ‘Ibrat uli al-absar, a history from B.c. 331 to a.D. 1297,
by Isma‘il b. Ahmad Ibn al-Athir, Vol. ii. Copied a.H. 730
(A.D. 1329). 4°. No other copies of this important work are
known, except a MS. of vol. i. in the British Museum and a
fragment in Paris.

(11) Sharh al-isharat,a commentary by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
on part ii. of Avicenna’s Isharat, (on physics and metaphysics).
Copied A.H. 731 (A.D. 1330). 8°.

(12) A MS. containing :—(1) a kastdah rhyming in lam on
the seven Readings of the Koran, apparently based on Ibn
Kathir’s work, by Shihab al-Din Ahmad b.‘Imad al-Din
Isma‘il al-Akfasi (?); (2) Shudir al-durar, a poem in praise
of Muhammad, by ‘Ali b. Yahya; (3) anecdotes of Sasanian
and early Arab times, with occasional verses. xivth cen-
tury. 4°.

(13) Al-Daka’ik, glosses on the differences between
Nawawis Minhaj al-talibin and its original the Mukarrar of
Rafi. xivth century. 4°.

(14) Al-Hashiyah al-kazwiniyah, a supercommentary upon
a work on Shafit law apparently called Al-Sihah. Vol. i.
xivth century. 4°.

(15) Kitab al-hudid, part of a copious commentary upon
a work on Shafiii law, dealing with penalties. xivth cen-
tury. 4°. .

(16) Tafsir al-kabir, or Mafatih al-ghaib, Fakhr al-Din
Razi’s commentary on the Koran. Vol.i., from i. 1 to ii. 121.
xivth century. Fol.

(17) Al-Silah, a history of the scholars of Spain, by
Ibn Bashkuwal. The latter part, nearly corresponding to
p. 316 -end of the edition in Bibl. Arab. Hisp. xivth century.
4°, Very rare.

_ (18) Kitab subul al-khairat, part of a large collection of
traditions, by Abu Tammam Muh. b. ‘Abd Allah al-Bardani
al-Silafi al-Baghdadi. xivth century. 4°. Neither the work
nor the author seems to be otherwise known.

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(19) Tadkirat al-tanbih, a supercommentary by Jamal
al-Din al-Isnawi upon the Tashih al-tanbih, Abu Zakariya
al-Nawawi’s commentary on Abu Ishak al-Shirazi’s Tanbih,
a work on Shafi law. With note of collation dated A.H. 851
(A.D. 1447), 12°. Rare.

(20) Al-Badi‘tyah, a poem exemplifying various figures of
rhetoric, by Shams al-Din Muh. b. Jabir al-Andalusi ; with a
commentary, apparently by Shihab al-Din Abu Ja‘far Ahmad
b. Yusuf al-Andalusi. xiv—xvth century. 12°.

(21) A polemic against the Rafidites, styled on the flyleaf
Al-Nawakid ‘ala al-Rawafid, but earlier than Jurjani’s work
of that name. xiv—xvth century. 12°. No other copy is
known.

(22) Miftah al-‘ulam of Sakkaki. Bk. ii, with a com-
ae by ‘Abd al-Karim al-Rashidi. Copied a.H. 812
- (A.D. 1409). 4°, Only one other copy of this commentary is
is on record.

(23) Irtiyah al-akbad, a religious and ethical treatise in
* prose and verse, by Shams al-Din Muh. b.‘Abd al-Rahman
al-Sahawi, composed for the consolation of persons suffering
misfortunes, especially the loss of children, Copied A.H. 865
(A.D. 1460.) 12°. No other copy seems to be known.

(24) Dail wa-takmilah, a history of Spain and Spanish
scholars by Marrakushi. Vol. iv. xvth century. Fol. The
only other MS. of this work on record is in Paris.

(25) Al-Kawakib al-darari, a commentary by Muh. b. Yusuf
al-Kirmani on Bukhari’s Sahih. A detached volume. xvth
Sentury. 12°.

(26) Nuzhat al-nazirin, an encyclopedia of the sciences,
attributed on the title-page to Zain al-Din ‘Abd al-Malik
‘Ali b.Abi al-Manni (but according to Hajji Khalifah by Taki
al-Din) al-Halabi. xvthcentury. 4°. Very rare.

(27) Matali‘ al-anwar, a manual of logic and metaphysic by

rmawi, with Razi’s commentary. 2 pts. Copied a.H. 946
eb: 1539). 8°.

(28) Nafais al-‘irfan, a treatise on mystic religion by
Shams al-Din Muh. b.Wafa al-Iskandari. Copied a.H. 952
(A.D. 1545). 8°. The only recorded copy is in Cairo.

(29) Masalik ai-afham, a commentary by Zain al-Din b.
‘Ali al-Sha’mi al-‘Amili on Hilli’s legal treatise Shara’i‘ al-islam.
2 vols. (bks. ii-iv). Bk. ii (autograph) copied a.H. 956 (A.D.
meeo)s bk: 1,7 A. 1012. Cam» 1603) 5.-bk. iv), «4.8. 967 (A.D.
1559). 4° & Fol. No other MSS. of this work are on record,
except copies of bks. i and vi-vii at Leiden.

(30) Mukhtalif al-shi‘ah, a treatise on the differences of the
great Shiah jurists, by Jamal al-Din Hasan b. Yusuf al-Mutahhar
al-Hilli. Vols. iii, and vii. Vol. iii. copied a.n. 1026 (a.D.
1617), vol. vil. A.H. 974 (A.D 1566).. 4°. This work seems to be
otherwise unknown.

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(31) Risalat al-wazwvif, a treatise on syntax, by Fudail
b.‘Ali al-Jamali al-Bakri al-Rimi. Copied a.H. 985 (A.D. 1577).
12°. Only one other copy—in Cairo—is known to exist.

(32) Jami‘ al-nadirah, proverbs and apophthegms, abridged
from ‘Cha‘@libi’s Tamthil al-muhadarah ; followed by anecdotes
of Harun al-Rashid and Bahlul. xvith century. 8°.

(35) Luktat al-‘ajlan, a tract on Shafit Kalam by Zarkashi,
with commentary by Zakariya al-Ansari. xvith century. 12°.
Rare.

(34) Al-Mukhtasar, a compendium of Maliki law by Khalil
b. Ishak with commentary by Ahmad b. Muh. al-Dardair (?).
xvith century. 8°. The commentary seems otherwise un-
known.

(35) Tuhfat al-gharib, glosses by Muh. b. Abi Bakr al-
Malcheind (?) al-Dumamini on Ibn Hisham’s grammar Mughni
al-labib. xvith century. 4°. No other copy appears to be on
record.

(36) Safimat al-najah, a compendium of teaching on Shiah
religious practice and ethics, compiled at the instance of Muh.
Hashim b.Hajji Sultan Muh. by ‘Inayat Allah b.Muh. b.Husain.
xvi-xviith century. 12°. No other copy seems to be known.

(37) Al-Rashad, a commentary by Satyid Sharif al-Jurjani
on the grammar Irshad al-hadi of Mas‘ud b.‘Umar al-Taftazani.
Copied a.H. 1018 (A.D. 1609). 8°.

(38) Husn al-tanabbuhu, an anthology in prose and verse,
chiefiy based on tradition, on the dignity of man; compiled by
Najm al-Din al-Ghazzi al-‘Amiri al-Shafiil. Vol. v. Copied
A.H. 1038 (A.D. 1628). 8°. No other copy of the work is on
record.

(39) Muhaddab bari‘, a commentary on a compendium of
Hilli’s Shara’i‘ al-islam. Copied a.H. 1040 (a.D. 1630). 4° No
other MS. is recorded.

(40) Siraj al-kari, a commentary by Abu al-Baka ‘Ali
b.Uthman b. Al-Kasih on Shatibi’s Hirz al-amani, treating of
the readings of the Koran. Copied A.H. 1048 (4.D. 1638). 8°.

(41) Mukhtasar al-naki‘, a treatise on Shiah law. Copied
A.H. 1057 (A.D. 1647). 4° No other copy appears on record.

(42) Bahr al-ra’ik, Nujaim al-Misri1’s commentary on Nasafi’s
Kanz al-dakaik, a manual of law. Vol. i. Copied a.H. 1064
(A.D. 1653), in a small and very elegant hand. Fol.

(43) Zaharat al-dawiyah, a supercommentary by ‘Ali b.Muh.
b. Hasan al-‘Amili on Al-Raudat al-bahiyah, a commentary by
his great-grandfather Zain al-Din ‘Ali upon the Shiah law-book
Al-Lum/‘at al-dimashkiyah of Muh. b. Makki al-‘Amili. Copied
H. 1075 (A.D. 1664); autograph. 4°. No other copy of the
work is on record.
(44) ‘Iddat al-du‘a wa-najah al-sa, a work on conduct
proper during prayer, by Ahmad b. Fahd. Copied A.H. 1088
(ADIGA): 8°. No other MS. appears on record.

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(45) Tafsir al-kabir, or Mafatih al-ghaib, Fakhr al-Din Razi’s
commentary onthe Koran. A detached volume, covering Sutras
iv—-x. Copied A.H. 1093 (a.p. 1682). 4°.

(46) Halt al-ikal, stories of signal deliverances, by ‘Abd
Allah b.Muh. Ibn Kadib al-Ban. Copied a.H. 1094(a.D. 1682).
8°. Only one other copy is on record, viz. that in: Berlin.

(47) A MS. containing :-—-(1) a number of tracts by Ibn
al-‘Arabi ; (2) Hayat al-ma‘ani, a translation by Rukn al-Din
al-Samarkandi of the Amritakunda,a Hindu work on Yoga;
(3) al-Asrar al-‘ama’iyah, a Hurufi work xviith century. 12°.
Nos. 2 and 3 seem to be otherwise unknown.

(48) A MS. containing 5 tracts on theology and Sufism by
Ahmad al-Hamawi, and a sixth on the same by Shihab al-Din al-
Ramli with commentary by his son Shams al-Din Muhammad.
xviith century. 12°. Some of these are very rare.

- (49) Al-Faik, a dictionary of the Traditions, by Zamakh-
shari. Vol.i. xviith century. Fol.

(50) Irshad al-‘akl al-salim, a commentary on the Koran, by
Abu Su‘td Muh. b. Muh. al-‘Imadi, dedicated to Sultan Sulai-
manibn Salim. Vol.i. xviith century. 4°.

(51) Al-Jauhar al-mahbuk, a poem on the corruption of the
age, by ‘Alawan b.‘Alial-Hamawi al-Haithami. xviith century.
oS.

(52) Glosses upon a commentary on the Shiah work Al-
Lum‘at al-dimashkiyah of Muh. b. Makki al-‘Amili; ascribed to
a Shaikh Ja‘far. xviith century. 4°. No other copy seems to
be on record.

(53) Al-Mahasin al-mujtami‘ah, lives of the first four Caliphs.
Xvii-xvilith century. 12°. Only two other copies are recorded.

(54) Mukhtasar fi usul al-fikh, a compendium of Hanbali
law by ‘Ala al-Din Abu al-Husain ‘Ali b.‘Abbas. xviith cen-
tury. 12°. No other copy seems to be known.

(55) Al-Risalah al-kamiliyah, a tract on the prophetic office,
by ‘Ala al-Din Abu al-Hasan b. ‘Ali b.Abi al-Haram al-Karshi.
xviith century, 12°. One other copy—in Cairo—appears to be
known.

(56) Sahihat al-Warram, a collection of traditions by Al-
Sa‘id Warram b. Abi al-Firas. xviith century. 4°. No other
MS. appears to be on record.

(57) A commentary by ‘Ali b.‘Abd al-‘Ali on Hilli’s Kawa‘id
al-ahkam, a treatise on Shiah law. xviith century, 4°.

(58) Sirr al-maktim, a work on astrology by Fakhr al-Din
Razi. xviith century. 8°

(59) Tafsir al-Jalalain, a commentary on the Koran by Jalal
al-Din al-Mahalli, completed by Jalal al-Din al-Suytti. xviith
century. 12°.

(60) Al-Tashawwuf ila rijal al-tasawwuf, lives of nected
Sufis, by Ibn Ya‘ktb Yusuf b.Yahya Abu ‘Isa. xvii—xviiith

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century. 4°. No other copy of this valuable work appears on
record.

(61) ‘Umdat al-ahkam, a metrical summary of Hanafi law
by Muhibb al-Din b. Taki al-Din al-Hamawi. xviith century.
12°. No other copy is on record.

(62) Durrat al-taj, Druze biographies of prophets and
saints, with especial reference to ‘Abd Allah al-Tantkhi and
Shaikh al-Fazil, by Sulaiman b. Husain al-Raji. xviith cen-
UN Ve ea

(63) Al-Ikna‘, a manual of Shafia law by Muh. al-Khatib
al-Shirbini. xviith century, with later additions. 8°.

(64) Sharh al-khutub al-arba‘in al-wad‘aniyah, the 40
Traditions of Muh. b.<Ali b..<Abd Allah b. Wad‘an al-Mausili,
with commentary by Abu Nasr ‘Abd al-‘Aziz b. Ahmad al-
Barjilagi (Barjanlagi ?). xvii-xvilith century. 8°. No other
copy appears on record.

(65) A Sufic work on the religious life, styled on the flyleaf
Al-Wisa’i, by Abu ‘Abd Allah al-Harith b. Asad al-Muhasibi
al-Basri. xvil-xviith century. 12° Rare.

(66) A religious and ethical treatise, stated to be by ‘Abd
Allah al-Tantkhi. xvii-xviith century. 12°.

(67) A supercommentary by Abu Bakr b. Isma‘il al-Sharu-
wani upon Khalid al-Azhari’s commentary on his grammar Al-
Mukaddimah. Copied a.H. 1105 (A.D. 1693). 8°.

(68) Bulghat al-ghawwas, a mystical work by Ibn al-‘Arabi.
Followed by Kitab al-tahrir and other tracts. Copied A.H.
POS Ap. LE9G).. \S-

(69) Tabakat al-hanafiyah, notices of the lives and works of
eminent jurists and divines, by ‘Ali b. Amr [lah al-Hana’i.
Copied a.H. 1117 (A.D. 1705). - 8°.

(70) A commentary by Ibn Ya‘kub al-Maghribi upon the
Talkhis al-miftah of Kazwini, written for Sultan Muh. Isma‘il
al-Maghribi. Copied a.H. 1148 (4.D. 1735). 8°. No other
MS. seems to be on record.

(71) Al-Nur al-wahhaj, a work on the ascent of Muhammad,
by Abu al-Irshad ‘Ali al-Ujhtri. Copied a.H. 1158 (a.D. 1744).
on agente

(72) Bahr al-haka’ik, a treatise on Shiah law by Muh. b.
Ibrahim b. al-Husain al-Husaini al-Hasani. xvilith century.
Fol. No other MS. appears to be known.

(73) Diya al-lami‘, a commentary on an abridgment of Al-
Nafi‘, an epitome of Hillis Shara‘ al-islam. xvilith century.
8°. No other copy seems to be on record.

(74) Al-I‘lam fi fada’il al-Sha’m, an abridged recension by
Ahmad b. ‘Ali al-Manini of Fazari’s topography of Jerusalem,
ete. xviiith century. 8°. The only other copy on record is
that in Cairo.

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(75) Manakib ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab (here styled Kitab fi
al-akhbar al-Imam ‘Umar), a life of the second Caliph ‘Umar,
by Ibn al-Jauzi. xvilith century. 8°. Very rare.

(76) Mubahith sharifah fi manakib Abu Hanifah, a life of
Abu Hanifah, by Husain, an official of the Ottoman High
Court; composed in 1858. xixthecentury. 8°. No other copy
appears on record.

(77) Ghayat al-shahwat, a life of Abu Nuwas with extracts
from his poems. Copied A.H. 1328 (A.p. 1910). 8°. Rare.

(78) Diwan of Abu ‘Abd Allah Muh. b. Bakhtiyar, called
Ablah. xxth century. 8°. With the exception of a few of
this author’s poems in MSS. of the British Museum, no other
MSS. are known.

(79) Diwan of Shihab al-Din Ahmad b. Muh. al-Khayyat.
exth century. 8°. Very rare.

(80) A Samaritan commentary on the book of Genesis, by
Ibrahim, of the family of Murjan. xxth century. Fol.

Arabic and Persian MSS.—(1) Busiris Arabic poem
Al-Burdah in praise of Muhammad, with a Persian commentary
and translation by Abu al-Kasim Junaid b. Bahram al-Shirazi.
xvith century. 8”.

(2) Al-Du‘a al-sahitah al-kamilah, the prayer-book of Zain
al-‘Abidin, the fourth Imam, with Persian interlinear transla-
tion and marginal glosses. Copied A.H. 1079 (A.D. 1668). 8°.

(3) Nuzhat al-khatir, a lexicon of difficult words and
phrases of the Koran, ky Sijistani; with additions by Fakhr
al-Din Muhammad b.‘Ali al-Najafi. Followed by a fragment
of a similar work on Koran and Traditions, and preceded by
an <Arabic-Persian vocabulary of the Koran by ‘Saiyid
Shani. xviith century. 4°. Very rare.

Aramaic and Arabic MS.—(1) Marka’s Commentary on
the Pentateuch, in Samaritan script. Copied a.H. 1154 (A.D.
W741). 4°.

Chinese Books.—(1) A collection of some 30 Chinese works,
in over 200 volumes, dealing especially with history and
geography, and including topographies of Shao-chou Fu and
Hsin-hui Hsien, biographies of Taoist saints, a complete
history of China, and the collected works of the Tang poet
Chang Chiu-ling. Presented by Mrs. Selby.

Chinese MSS.—(1) A collection of 12 Chinese MSS. from
Korea, comprising two editions of the Tung ju shih yu lu
(biographies of Confucian teachers and their. disciples in
Korea), manuals for officials of the Korean Covernment,
itineraries, etc.

(2) Yii chih wén, miscellaneous essays by Ch‘ien Lung.
A calligraphic copy. Copied A.D. 1780 (?).

Hebrew MSS.—(1) The Liturgy for the New Year, according
to the Spanish Rite. xivth century. Vellum. Fol.

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(2) The Common Prayers of the Samaritan Liturgy.
Copied A.H. 1083 (A.D. 1672). Fol.

(8) The Samaritan Liturgy for the Day of Atonement.
xixth century. 4°.

(4) The Samaritan Liturgy of Commemoration for the
Prophet Moses. xix—xxth century. Fol.

Hebrew and Arabic MSS.—A collection of 20 fragments,
including portions of Maimonides’ Dalalat al-ha/irin, Sa‘adyah’s
translation of Exodus, liturgies, Talmud, and_ rabbinical
literature.

(2) A Samaritan Chronicle. xixth—-xxth century. Fol.

Persian MSS.-(1) Divan of Khakani. Copied A.H. 664
(A.D. 1265); with an illuminated colophon at the end of
Part i. stating that the book was incorporated in the library
of Yahya b. Hamid Khvarazmi in a.H. 594. Fol. This
appears to be the oldest and most complete MS. of the Divan
on record.

(2) A MS. containing 5 astronomical tracts by Nasir
ul-Din Tisi, Mubarak Ghauzi, Al-Amir, ete. Copied a.a. 728
(A.D. 1327). 12°. Some of these tracts are extremely rare.

(3) A MS. containing :—(1) Lama‘at, a work on mystic
love, in verse and prose, by Fakhr ul-Din ‘Iraki; (2) two
copies of an allegorical dialogue between Beauty, Grief, and
Love, styled on the flyleat Kissah i i Yusuf; (3) Kitab ul- anibat,
a manual of the mystic religious life, by Abu ‘Ali al- Hasan
b. Muh. al-Dakkak ; (4) Tuhfat ul-mulak, stories and maxims of
sages ; (5) the Zafar-namah of Buzurgmihr. Copied A.H. 761
(A.D. 1359). 4°. Only one other copy of No. 4 is otherwise
known.

(4) ‘Ibrat ul-nazirin, a general history from the earliest times
to the reign of Shah-rukh, son of Timur, a.H. 807, by
Muh. b. Mahmid Fakhr ul-Din al-Fusanji, called Masihi; com-
posed in A.H. 838. xvthcentury. 4°. No other copy appears
on record.

(5) Mihr va-vafa, an allegory in verse and prose; adapted
from an original poem of Mir ‘Ali Shir Nava’l at the instance of
Sultan Husain Abu ul-Ghazi Baikara. Copied a.H. 999 (A.D.
1590). 4°. No other copy is on record.

(6) Divan of Naziri Kuhistani. xvith century. Only one
other copy of this Divan appears to be known, although some
of the poems in it are quoted elsewhere. fe

(7) Bayan ul-vaki‘, a Hurwfi treatise. Copied a.H. 1059
(A.D. 1649). 8°. No other copy is on record.

(8) Anbiya-namah, a poetical account of all the prophets,
Caliphs, Imams, etc., from Adam to the Mahdi, by Ibrahim
Jabarti. xviith century. 4°. This appears to be the only
copy known.

(9) Kitab man li yahdaruhu al-fakih, a translation of a
treatise on Shiah jurisprudence by Ibn Babavaih al-Kummi.
xvith century. 4°.

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(10) Divan of Khakani, with commentary by ‘Abd ul-Vahhab
b. Muh. al-Husain al-Ghana’i. xviii-xixth century. Fol.

(11) Ta’rikh i karnamah i Sadasiv, a life of the Maratha
chief Bhau Sadasiv Rau. Early xixth century. Fol.

(12) A MS. comprising a number of Bahai tracts (lava’ih) :
illuminated with unvans, marginal decorations, etc. Copied
A.H. 1329(A.D. 1911). 8°. Presented by M. H. Dreyfus-Barney.

Persian and Arabic MS.—A volume containing a number
of Revelations communicated to Baha Ullah: illuminated.
Copied A.D. 1902. 8°. Presented by M. H. Dreyfus-Barney.

Persian and Turkish MS.—(1) I‘tikad-namah, a summary of
the Moslem articles of faith in Persian verse, by Jami, with a
Turkish translation by ‘Ali b. Muh. Dukhani Zadah Vali,
written under Murad III. Copied a.H. 979 (a.p. 1571). 8°.

Turkish MSS.—(1) Naksh i khayal, poems of Azari Chelebi
b.Ahmad Chelebi. Copied a.H. 995 (a.D. 1587). 12°.

(2) A commentary on the Koran xii. 1-102 by Muh. b. Muh.
Khadim (Alti Parmak). xviith century. 8°. No other copy
seems to be on record.

(3) Insha’, letters and other prose writings of Lami‘i Chelebi.
XVi-xvilith century. 8°.

(4) Works of La‘li Zadah Saiyid ‘Abd ul-Baki, and extracts
from writings of ‘Abd Ullah Efendi. Copied a.u. 1171 (aD.
gor). 8°:

(5) Anis ul-‘rifin, an ethical work by Fakir Husain, called
Hazar. xviiith century. 8°. Apparently very rare.

(6) A collection of anecdotes, compiled by ‘Azmi. xviiith
century. 8°. Very rare.

(7) Kunh ul-akhbar, a history by Mustafa b. Ahmad (‘Ali).
A detached volume, covering the reigns of Salim I., Sulaiman,
and Salim IJ, xviiith century. Fol.

(8) Zafar-namah, a history of the Ottoman Empire down to.
A.H. 886, by Hamdam. xvilith century. Fol. Apparently
very rare.

IL. D. Barnett.

48 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS.

lL—Arrangement and Cataloguing, ete.

The exhibition of drawings by masters of the British and
Continental Schools, opened in June 1912, was closed in August,
and the fittings of the exhibition gallery were taken down for
alteration. The Students’ Room was closed to visitors on
September 6th, for the removal of the fittings to the extension
building. The contents of the cases in that room were placed
for temporary storage in the exhibition gallery, and the
contents of the cases on the mezzanine floor were placed in the
old Students’ Room. The removal of the fittings and their
re-erection in the extension building was approximately com-
pleted by the end of the year.

The preparation of a critical and descriptive Catalogue of
the Dutch and Flemish Drawings has been continued, and
progress has been made, especially, with the section dealing with
Rembrandt and his school.

The preparation of a Catalogue of Portrait Drawings in the
Department has been continued, and the preliminary notes
have been compieted so far as regards drawings of the French,
German, and Italian schools.

Vol. IV. of the Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits
is in the press, and the portion extending from § to V has been
printed.

The card index to periodicals has been brought up to date.

All books of prints and books of reference recently acquired
have been catalogued, labelled, and placed.

The work of writing slips for the titles of prints after
English Masters, with a view to the preparation of a subject-
index of that division of the collection, has been continued.

Additions to the Indexes of Artists of the French, Dutch
and Flemish, and German schools have been printed with the
object of bringing up to date the copies of those indexes
intended for use in the Department.

The work of compiling a topographical slip-index of the
English Drawings in the Department has been continued.

An index to the collection of London Views, arranged as a
supplement to the Crace Collection, has been completed; the
London topographical prints contained in books in the Depart-
ment have been indexed, and progress has been made with an
index of the general collection of English topographical
prints.

The work of making an index to the artists represented in
the Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits has been coutinued,
and completed as far as the end of the letter O.

The engravings after Turner described in Vol. I]. of Mr.
W. G. Rawlinson’s Catalogue have been arranged in the order
described, and marked off in the Catalogue.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 49

The reproductions of drawings by Diirer have been rearranged
in an approximate chronological order.

The reproductions of drawings by Rembrandt have been
rearranged in accordance with the collections to which the
originals belong, and the prints after Rembrandt have also
been rearranged and provided with references to the standard
works on the master.

The work of making a duplicate set of index-slips to the
Foreign Portraits has been continued.

Three thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven prints and
drawings, recently acquired, have been incorporated with the
divisions of the Collection to which they severally belong,

Registration.—Five thousand and seventy-four items have
been entered in the Register of Acquisitions.

Stamping and Mounting.—Fourteen thousand three hun-
dred and seventy-two drawings, prints, etc., recently acquired,
have been impressed with the departmental stamp and references
to the Register.

One hundred and eighty-four drawings have been prepared
and mounted on sunk mounts, two hundred and five prints
have been mounted either on sunk mounts or in the ordinary
manner; nine hundred and eighty-three book-plates have been
placed on paper mounts. All the above have been lettered
with the artists’ names and references to the Register and to
catalogues.

The French book-plates in the Franks Collection have been
impressed with a special stamp.

All the drawings from the Salting Collection have been
mounted and placed.

Students.—The total number of visitors admitted to the
Print Room during the year ending 31 December 1913 was
7,064. The decrease since 1912 is accounted for by the closing
of the Students’ Room after September 6th.

Photographing.—Three hundred and sixty-four applications
were inade for leave to photograph, and 1,942 photographs
were taken. |

Il.—Acquisitions.

The total number of prints, drawings, etc., acquired during
the year was 4,397,* of which the following are the most
important :—

ITALIAN SCHOOL.

Drawings.

Anonymous, Roman School, early 17th century. Four
allegorical female figures; grisaille.

* This number does not include the separate items of the collection of wood-
engravings by the Brothers Dalziel (below, p. 64), each volume of which is here
counted as a unit.

0.75 D

50 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo. Design for the monument of an
ecclesiastic, pen and bistre and bistre wash, from the Rogers
Collection.

Carracci, Annibale. The Woman taken in adultery; pen
and bistre, heightened with white ; from the Heseltine Collec-
tion. Presented by the Viscount Iveagh.

Vinci, Leonardo da. Study of an angel kneeling among
rushes ; pen and ink. Study of a girl holding a child; pen and ©
ink.

Engravings.

Nielli, School of Bologna, 15th century. Three women
dancing, Duchesne 287. Arms of the Bentivoglio family,
Dutuit 606. From the collection of Dr. John Gott, Bishop of
Truro.

GERMAN SCHOOL.
Drawings.
Anonymous, South German School about 1530. Landscape,

pen and ink.

Beham, Hans Sebald. Poverty seated on the train of
riches ; pen and ink.

Lindmayer, Daniel. Heraldic drawing, signed and dated
1596; pen andink. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Major, Isaac. Elijah fed by ravens in the desert, signed and
dated 1618 ; pen and ink.

Engravings.

C. G., The Monogrammist (Nagler, Monogr. IT., p. 23). Six
of a series of the Seven Planets, the seventh being already in
the Department. Presented by J. P. Heseltine, Esq.

Gmelin, W. F. The Grotto of Neptune at Tivoli, proof
before letters.

Engraving of Ornament.

‘Flindt, Paul. -Design for a silver vessel, from the
“ Visierungsbuch,” 1593.

Etchings.

Cossmann, Alfred. Pinzgauerin.

Hirschvogel, Augustin. David with the Head of Goliath.
The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem.

Menzel, Adolf von. Radierversuche (1844), set of seven.
Presented by J. P. Heseltine, Esq.

Paeschke, Paul. Flugplatz. Presented by Campbell
Dodgson, Esq.

Svabinsky, Max. Grossmutter.

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DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 5]

Welti, Albert. Walpurgisnacht. - Portrait of F. Rose.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Zeising, Walther. Jahrmarkt in Dresden.

Inthographs.

Boehle, Fritz. Stall I. Ritter, proof; also the published
state, reduced in size.

Brauerei Binding, Kalender 1910, 1911, 1912 (proofs).
Klimsch’s Druckerei, Kalender, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912 (proofs).
Fuhrmann J. Tranke, Fuhrmann II. Stall Il. Leinreiter.
Presented by Campell Dodgson, Esq.

Menzel, Adolf von. Zwo6lf Neujahrswunsche. Presented by
J. P. Heseltine, Esq.

Woodcuts.

Anonymous, 15th century. The Annunciation. Dotted
print, undescribed.

Anonymous, 15th century. St. John the Baptist, Schreiber
1514. St. John the Evangelist, S. 1523. From the Huth
Collection. Presented by J. P. Heseltine, Esq.

Anonymous, 15th century. Christ on the Cross (Scheiber,
“Christus am Kreuz,” No. 33) from a Missal printed by G.
Stuchs at Nuremberg between 1494 and 1499.

Baldung, Hans. St. Jerome, 1511, B. 34.
Cranach, Lucas. The Apostles, set of thirteen ; copies.

Diirer, Albrecht. The Rhinoceros, B. 136; fine impression
in chiaroscuro.

Schatfelein, Hans. The Virgin and St. Joseph, B. 11.

Weiditz, Hans. Twenty-three illustrations to ‘“ Celestina,’
printed by Grimm and Wirsung, Augsburg, 1520. Presented
by Frau Olga Julia Wegener. Two illustrations to Faber,
“Oratio funebris in depositione Maximiliani,” Augsburg, 1519.

5)

Menzel, Adolf von. Fifteen India proofs of illustrations to
the works of Frederick the Great. Seven other proofs.
Presented by J. P. Heseltine, Esq.

Stoitzner, Josef. Aus dem Tauern, Hochgebirge im Winter,
woodcuts printed in colours.

SCHOOLS OF THE NETHERLANDS.

Drawings.

Anonymous, early sixteenth century. Men setting up an
idol or statue on a pillar ; round drawing in pen and ink.

Diepenbeke, Abraham von. A bishop blessing the people :
black chalk and bistre wash, heightened with white.

D 2

52 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Klotz, Valentyn (or Josua de Grave ?). Two views of Grave
on the Maas; pen and sepia and water-colour. From the
Heseltine Collection. Presented by Walter Morrison, Esq.

Swart, Jan. Scenes from the Story of Tobit. Pen and
Indian ink wash.

Velde, Esaias van de. Landscape with figures, signed and
dated 1623. Black chalk and bistre wash. From the
Heseltine Collection. Presented by the Viscount Iveagh.

Engravings.

Hecke, Abraham. Shadrach, Meschech and Abed-negoin the
fiery furnace.

Claessens, L. A. The Descent from the Cross, after
Rubens.

Etchings.

Angeren, A. Derkzen van. On the Maas. A Mill in the

country. Boats on the Maas.

Cock, Hieronymus. Landscape with the Good Samaritan.
Landscape with Mercury and Argus, 1558.

Jongkind, Jan Barthold. Démolitions de la Rue des Frances-
Bourgeois, L.D.,18 III. Canal prés de Rotterdam, Hiver, L.D.
19 SCDr:

Lithographs.
Toorop, Jan. Political cartoon. Presented by A. G. B.
Russell, Esq.

Veth, Jan. Thirty-two portraits, including those of August
Bebel, Wilhelm Bode, Josef Israels, J. Ph. van der Kellen,
William Maris, Adolf von Menzel, Prof. Tilanus, R. W. P. de
Vries, and Paul Verlaine. Presented by the Artist.

Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.

Rubens, Peter Paul. Elizabeth of Austria, etched by J.
Vyboud. Presented by Messrs. Frost and Reed.

FRENCH SCHOOL.
Drawings.

Callot, Jacques. Sketch book with forty-eight drawings, in
water-colour, red and black chalk, and pen and ink, recording a
cruise in the Mediterranean in 1620. Presented by Alfred de
Pass, E'sq., through the National Art-Collections Fund.

Géricault, Théodore. Sketch of a cavalry skirmish; pencil
and Indian ink wash.

Gillot, Claude. Mythological subject ; red chalk.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 53

Greuze, Jean Baptiste. Head of an old man (the father in
“L’Accordée de Mariage” in the Louvre) ; black and red chalk
with Indian ink wash.

Poussin, Nicolas. Mythological Group. Pen and _ bistre
wash. From the Heseltine Collection. Presented by the
Viscount Iveagh.

Engravings.

Beauvarlet, Jacques Firmin. The History of Esther, seven
engravings after J. F. de Troy, proofs before letters. From the
Gott Collection.

Boyvin, René. Six pairs of masks, after G. Arcimboldo.
Presented by Sir Harry Wilson, K.C.M.G.

Gaillard, Claude Ferdinand. Le Crépuscule, after Michel-
angelo, first state. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Landry, P. L’Opéra du Village.

Etchings.
Appian, Adolphe. Cabanes de Pécheurs. Plage de
Collioure.

Bracquemond, Félix. Le Pécheur a 1’Epervier, Ber. 189 II.
Le bord de l'fle Seguin. B. 191 I. and II.

Corot, Camille. Souvenir des fortifications de Douai, L.D.
12, Le Dome Florentin, L.D. 13.

Jacque, Charles. Forge, G. 256, III. Auberge, G. 257.
L’Abreuvoir, G. 259 II. Paysage, G. 267 I.

Lalanne, Maxime. Mantes la Jolie, after Corot; three trial
proofs. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Lepére, Auguste. La Seine au Pont National, first state.
Presented by Miss EL. P. McGhee.

Lunois, Alexandre. Fifty-two illustrations, each in two
states, to Hans Andersen’s ‘‘ Récits et Aventures.” Presented
by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Vyboud, Jean. The Laughing Cavalier, after F. Hals.
Presented by Messrs. Frost and Reed.

Lithographs.
Belleroche, A. Still life. Young lady ina hat. Presented
by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Carriére, Kugéne. La Consolation, L.D. 42. Marguerite
Carriere, L.D. 43.

Chéret, Jules. Three lithographs printed in colours.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Corot, Camille. Souvenir de Sologne, L.D. 34.

54 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Daumier, Henri. L’Histoire Ancienne, series of fifty
caricatures, H. & D. 1901-1950. Presented by H. van den
Bergh, E'sq., through the National Art-Collections Fumd. Les
Canotiers Parisiens, series of twenty caricatures, H. & D. 969-988.
Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund.

Delacroix, Eugéne. Le Lion de l’Atias, L.D. 79 II.

Forain, Jules Louis. Affiche pour La Vie de Bohéme, G. 88.
Affiches (3) pour le Salon des Humoristes, 1912. Affiche,
“ Servir,’ March, 1913. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Gavarni, Paul. Souvenirs de Carnaval, set of six lithographs
and cover. Par-ci, par-la, set of fifty. Physionomies Parisiennes,
set of fifty.

Isabey, Jean Baptiste. Portraits of A. Dubois, Sophie Gail,
and Evariste Parny.

Manet, Edouard. The Execution of Maximilian, Emperor of
Mexico. M-N.79II. Presented by Charles Ricketts, Hsq., and
Charles Shannon, Esq., A.R.A.

Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre. Le pauvre Pécheur.

Steinlen, Théodore, Portrait of the Artist. Les Veuves de
Courriéres.

Woodcuts.
Denis, Maurice (after). Six illustrations to “ L’Imitation
de Jésus-Christ.”

Desligneres, André. Old house at Montmartre; original
woodcut in colours. Presented by M. Eugene Rodrigues.

Lepére, Auguste. La Cathédrale de Rouen; final state.
Presented by Miss E. P. McGhee.

Lepére, Suzanne. Thirty-three vignettes designed by
A. Lunois. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.

Corot,. Camille. Mantes la Jolie, etching by M. Lalanne.
Twelve landscapes lithographed by Emile Vernier. Presented
by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

RUSSIAN SCHOOL.
Etchings.

Polunin, Vladimir. Arches of the Deanery, Winchester.
Chamber Court, Winchester College. Presented by the Artist.

SCANDINAVIAN SCHOOLS.

Etchings.

Zorn, Anders. ‘ Frightened.”

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 55

SPANISH SCHOOL.
Drawing.

Lucas, Kugenio. Group of figures. Indian ink wash.

AMERICAN SCHOOL.

Etchings.

Hurley, HE. T. Fourteen Etchings. Presented by the
Artist.

Pennell, Joseph. St. Paul Building, New York; touched
proof. Presented by Miss EL. P. McGhee.

Lithographs.

Hamilton, J. McLure. Portrait of an American Catholic
bishop ; proof heightened with gold. Presented by the Artist.
Sketch, No. 2. Sketch, No. 3. Sketch portrait of H.M.
George V.

Pennell, Joseph. Nineteen lithographs, including four
New York subjects, eight of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, two
of the Yosemite Valley, the rebuilding of the Campanile of
St. Mark’s, and the New Bay of Baiae. Presented by the
Artist. Set of twenty-six lithographs illustrating the con-
struction of the Panama Canal.

Whistler, James McNeill. Portrait of Walter Sickert,
Way 79.

Woodcuts.
Nine specimens of wood-engravings by modern artists,
including Thomas Johnson, R. G. Tietze, J. H. E. Whitney,
H. Wolf, and others, in proof state.

FoREIGN ARTISTS WORKING IN ENGLAND.
Drawings.
Dyck, Anthony van. Bacchanalian Group; pen and sepia

with indigo wash. From the Heseltine Collection. Presented

by the Viscount Iveagh.
Liotard, Jean Etienne. A Greek woman, 1739; black and

red chalk.

Engravings.

Le Blon, Jacques Christophe. The Temptation of Christ,
after Carlo Maratti; mezzotint in colours, very rare, only one
other impression being known ; this is, apparently, a trial proof
in two colours only.

Hichings.
Hollar, Wenzel. The Four Seasons, P. 610-13; first state.

56 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

ENGLISH SCHOOL.

Drawings.

Atkinson, J. A. Watchman. Punch and Judy Show.
Water-colours.

Beechey, Sir William, R.A. Pencil study for a portrait of
a lady.

Blake, William. Figure composition; Indian ink.

Bone, Muirhead. Miller Place, Glasgow; pencil study for a
dry-point. Presented by the Artist.

Bowyer, Robert. Portrait of himself; water-colour.

Burges, William, A.R.A. Woman’s head. Two studies of
costume ; pencil. Presented by S. Vacher, Esq.

Clennell, Luke. Portraits of Lord Hill and Alderman
Magnay ; water-colour.

Clint, George, A.R.A. Portrait of R. Clint, sculptor ; water-
colour.

Conder, Charles. Pan; black and red chalk, 1904.

Constable, John, R.A. View of Loudon Mill, near Campsea
Ashe, Suffolk; pen and ink and water-colour. Presented by
S. R. Thompson, Esq., FRCS.

Copley, John Singleton, R.A. Three studies for the Siege
of Gibraltar. Two studies for the Death of Chatham. Sketch
of one of the daughters of George III. Black and white
chalk.

De Wilde, Samuel. Portrait of Charles Kemble. Pencil,
red chalk and water-colour.

De Wint, Peter. Eighty-five sketches of landscape and
studies of trees; pencil and water-colour. Presented by Miss
Tatlock.

Etty, William, R.A. An Encounter; wash drawing made
at a meeting of the Sketching Club.

Fielding, Copley. A Calm. Ben Venue. Downs between
Lewes and Brighton, 1833 ; water-colour.

Gastineau, Henry. Mountain landscape. Views of Ulls-
water ; water-colour.

Gibbs, James. Design fora memorial column to Queen Anne
in the Strand, Design for three monuments, including that of
Ben Jonson. Four decorative and figure subjects. Pen and
ink and Indian ink wash.

Goodwin, Albert. Nine drawings, including views of
Engelberg, Lauterbrunnen, Naples, Hastings, and Dartmoor,
and a study of a young walnut tree ; water-colour and pencil.
Presented by Miss EL. P. McGhee. .

Hamilton, William, R.A. Portrait of Captain Cook ; black
and red chalk.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 57

Harlow, George Henry. Portrait of Miss Tickell. Portrait
of a Gentleman ; black and red chalk.

Hayter, John. Portrait of Malibran; chalk and water-
colour. Portrait of Mrs. Siddons, 1826; black, white and red
chalk.

Heath, James. A concert ; water-colour.

Hilton, William, R.A. One hundred sketches of figure
subjects ; pencil, chalk, and water-colour. Presented by Miss
Tatlock.

Holland, James. Clifton Baths, Margate; water-colour.
Portrait of a young lady in‘blue dress ; water-colour.

Holmes, Charles John. Soulby Fell; water-colour. Cobham ;
charcoal and water-colour. Presented by the Artist.

Johnson, Ernest Borough. Toil; charcoal. Presented by
Dr. Mark D’ Albon. Study ofa man’s head; pencil. Presented
by the Artist.

Kay, Joseph. The Arch of Trajan at Ancona; water-
colour.

Knight, John Prescott, R.A. Study of a boy’s head ; water-
colour.

Lawrence, Sir Thomas, P.R.A. Portrait of William Godwin ;
red and black chalk.

Lee, Frederick Richard, R.A. Woodland scene; water-
colour.

Lemon, Arthur. Ploughing; water-colour. Circus riders ;
monotype.

Lonsdale, James. Portrait of Susan Beckford, afterwards
Duchess of Hamilton; red and black chalk.

Nasmyth, Patrick. Three landscape sketches; pencil.
Barn with trees ; water-colour.

Palmer, Samuel. Windmill among trees; sepia. Cottage ;
sepia. Rising with the lark, study for the etching; sepia.

Penley, Aaron. Rydal Water, 1846; pencil. Shakes-
peare’s Cliff, Dover, 1838; pencil. At Inverannan, Glentalloch,
1856; water-colour. Four studies of trees ; water-colour.
Presented by Dr. Steegmann.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, P.R.A. Study of a portrait of a
lady ; pen and sepia.

Richmond, George, R.A. Study of children, 1869 ; pen and
ink. Girl in classical costume; pencil. Study of male figure ;
pencil. Various studies ; pen and ink.

Rothenstein, William. Portrait of Rabindra Nath Tagore ;
pencil. Presented by the Artist.

Shepherd, George. Dunstable Downs, 1813; water-colour.

Sickert, Walter. The Eldorado, Paris; black and white
chalk. Presented by the Artist. St. Jacques, Dieppe; pen

58 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

and Indian ink and sepia wash. Nude study ; black and white
chalk on green paper. Presented by Miss Sylvia Gosse.

Stanfield, Clarkson. Stormy weather; water-colour.

Thornhill, Sir James. Seven sketches for the paintings of
the life of St. Paul in St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Vincent, George. Trees and figures, 1823; pencil.
Webster, John, R.A. Boys leaving school; pen and ink.

Wright, John William. Summer and Winter costumes in
1824; water-colour.

Engravings.

Blake, William. Job (1793) and ae (1794). Original
engravings, Russell, Nos. 12 and 13.

Graskell, Percival. Five original mezzotints of landscape
subjects. Presented by the Artist.

Gibbs, James (after). Thirty-three shields and compart-
ments for monumental] inscriptions.

Kronheim & Co. The Wine-tasters. Proof, printed in
colours by the Baxter process.

Linnell, J. (after). Four designs for vases, engraved by
G. Smith (c. 1760).

Lupton, Thomas Goff. Eight proofs of engravings, &c.
Ruskin’s “ Specimens of the Architecture of Venice,’ with three
in the etched state, the work of T.S. Boys. Junction of Severn
and Wye, after J. M. W. Turner, R.A., unfinished mezzotint on
steel. Presented by W. G. Rawlinson, Esq.

Reynolds, Samuel William. Le petit Jour, mezzotint after
Freudeberg, Whitman 398. Le Restaurant, mezzotint after
Lavreince, W. 399. Les Joueurs, after Charlet, W. 342. Lady
at her devotions, after J. M. Granet, W. 388.

Short, Sir Frank, R.A., P.R.E. A selection of mezzotints.
Portrait of Tennyson, after Watts, Strange 139. ‘“‘ When the
weary moon was on the wane,’ 8.175. ‘A slant of light in
Polperro Harbour,” S. 227. Shap Fells, after P. Dewint, S. 232.
Portrait of Tennyson, after Watts, 8. 256, trial proof. A York~
shire Dell, after Turner, S. 264, with the preliminary etching.
A woody landscape, after P. Dewint, S. 284. The Blue Rigi,
after Turner, with the preliminary etching. Etching for a
mezzotint, not yet published, after Turner. The original plate
of the mezzotint of the “ Via Mala,” after Turner. Presented by
the Artist.

The West’s good night to the East, 8. 113. Diana and
Endymion, after Watts, 8. 138. Love and Death, after Watts,
S. 234. Presented by Miss EL. P. McGhee.

Simmons, William Henry. The Good Shepherd, after
W.C. T. Dobson, R.A.

Turner, J. M. W., R.A. (after). Four rare engraver’s proofs
of unpublished plates of the Liber Studiorum: Sheepwashing,

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 59

Windsor, Rawlinson 74. Crowhurst, Sussex, R. 76. Swiss
Bridge, Mont St. Gothard, R. 78. Stork and Aqueduct, R. 83.
Also modern impressions of the following: Calm, R. 44.
Ploughing, Eton, R. 7B, and the Felucca, R. 82. Presented by
W.G. Rawlinson, Esq.

Walker, William. Four progress proofs of the portrait of
Sir Walter Scott, after Raeburn. Presented by Messrs. F. B.-
Daniell and Son.

Etchings.

Baskett, C. H. Eleven original aquatints of landscape
subjects. Presented by Messrs. P. & D. Colnaght & Obach.

Bone, Muirhead. Tontine Gates, Glasgow ; dry-point, first
state. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Brangwyn, Frank, A.R.A. Thirty-four original etchings,
including: London Bridge, No. 3. The Storm. Breaking-up
the “ Hannibal.” Sawyers. Old Houses, Ghent. The Rialto,
Venice. Santa Maria from the Street. Windmill, Dixmuden.
The Feast of Lazarus. Church of Notre Dame, Eu. Old
Houses, St. Cirg. Il Traghetto. Valentré Bridge, Cahors.
A Mosque, Constantinople. Breaking-up of the “ Duncan.”
The Crucifixion. Browning’s House, Venice. The Tower
Bridge. Abbey of St. Léonard, L’fle Bouchard. Presented by
W. Tinker, Hsq. Meat Market, Bruges. Haycart. Cornfield.
Santa Maria. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward. The Ring given to Venus; dry-
point.

Cameron, David Young, A.R.A. Nithsdale, The Esk,
Aquamanile. Presented by an anonymous donor.

Dawson, Nelson. Yacht ashore, Whitby. Robin Hood’s
Bay. Turning to Windward. Eight soft-ground etchings of
coast scenes and shipping. Head wind up Channel; colour-
print. Spanish Schooner entering Boulogne; key-plate in
soft ground, proofs from the three colour-plates, and finished
proof. Marguerite daises; soft-ground etching and colour-
print.

Dawson, Edith Brearey (Mrs. Nelson Dawson). Three
colour prints: the Sussex Downs. Siberian crab apples.
Village in the Downs. |

Gaskell, Percival. Six etchings: Neuschwanstein. Hind-
head. Crowland Abbey. S. Maria del Sasso, Locarno.
Ploughing in Purbeck. The Mouth of the Wye. Five aqua-
tints: Poole Harbour. Twilight in an Alpiné Valley. The
noiseless music of the night. Evening, Derwentwater. Dis-
solving Mists. Presented by the Artist.

Hardie, Martin. Net poles, Studland Bay. The old harbour
light, N. Queensferry. A bit of old Portsmouth. The far
Prospect. A grey day, Newhaven. The boat yard, Rye. River
Meadows, Wareham. Presented by the Artist.

60 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Hankey, William Lee.- Six etchings: Le Retour. Les
Ouvriers. In the hill country. Boulogne Harbour. Staple Inn.
Old Court, E.C. Seven dry-points: The Spinning Wheel.
Gran’ Mere. Le Petit. The Monk and the Crucifix. The Prayer;
two states. The Cave. The Quiet Land; aquatint. Twenty-four
colour prints, including five progress proofs of “The Easter
Keg,” two of “The Patchwork Quilt,” and nine of “ Le Petit.”
Also: Dreaming. The Virgin and Child. The Cave Maiden.
Warwick’s Lane. Green and Black. The Fish Market, Etaples.

Hartley, Alfred. Six aquatints: Mooring post. Lake of
Como. The Bridge. At low tide. At the boat-builders’. The
capstan (in colours). Harvesting (in colours). Presented by
the Artist.

Hole, Wiliam. Two after J. F. Millet: The Wood Sawyer.
The Guardian of the Flock. Presented by W. B. Paterson,
Esq.

Laing, Francis James. Salmon nets. The Schooner in the
roads. From Dowine Mount. Departure of a Dundee Whaler.
Iona. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Lumsden, Ernest 8. En voyage, Tokyo, No. 1 and No. 2.
Five street scenes at Victoria, British Columbia. Presented by
the Artist.

McBey, James. Set of thirteen etchings of Morocco. Pre-
sented by the Artist.

Osborne, Malcolm. Timber Haulers, after C. W. Furse,
A.R.A. Presented by the Art Union of London.

Robins, William Palmer. The Canal. Old Barn. Canal near
Volendam. Rain Storm near Volendam. Presented by Messrs.
P, and D. Colnaghr and Obach.

Short, Sir Frank, R.A., P.R.E. Wrought Nails, Strange 62.
The Solway at Midday,8. 144. Volendam, 8. 173. The Dijk
Bell, 8. 183. Strolling Players, Lydd, S. 376. The head of
Langston harbour, 8. 281. The Street, Whitstable. Presented
by the Artist.

Strang, Ian. The Walls of Segovia. Presented by Camp-
bell Dodgson, Esq.

Strang, William, A.R.A. The Mourners. Presented by
W. B. Paterson, sq. Head of a Peasant. The Salvation Army.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Hsq. Spanish etchings (set of
seven in portfolio).

Synge, Edward Millington. Twenty-two etchings (land-
scapes, views in Holland, Italy, &c.). Presented by Mrs. #. M.
Synge. Dordrecht, Pont Neuf. Presented by Messrs. James
Connell and Son. Notre Dame. Courtyard, Rue St. Jacques.
Villa d’Este, Tivoli. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.
Courtyard, Venice. Ponte Foscari. Wheelwright’s Shop. Old
Chestnut Trees. Purchased.

Turner, J. M. W., R.A. Sand-bank with gipsies, aquatint ;
Unpublished Liber Studiorum plate, R. 91. One of the two

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. , 61

-impressions known to exist of the second state ; the first state,
unique, belonged already to the Museum.

Wright, John, The Pond. Canal at Sluys. Maria Castelli:
The Gondola. The Hautboy. Carabinieri. The Pond (dry-
point). Long Water. The Dark Pool. The Rialto. Venice
(aquatint).

Lithographs.

Bewick, William. Head of a Man. Presented by Campbell
Dodgson, E'sq.

Brangwyn, Frank, A.R.A. Tapping a furnace. Steel
making. The Feast of Lazarus.

Conder, Charles. The Salute. Presented by Mrs. A. Cecil
Lawson,

Jackson, F. Ernest. Roses.

Johnson, Ernest Borough. Aliens. Presented by the
Artist.

Lawson, James Kerr. A windmill in Kent. Two scenes in
Morocco. Presented by the Artist.

Pryse, Gerald Spencer. Destitution (in colours). Bathers
by the Atlantic (unique trial proof). Oceanides. The Meet.
Point-to-Point Races. Elms at Easton Grey. In the Butts.
Muriel.

Ravenhill, Leonard. Five studies of a baby. Presented by
Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Rothenstein, William. Sketches, including a portrait of
T. R. Way, the artist’s first attempt at lithography, 1893.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Shannon, Charles, A.R.A. Four unpublished lithographs.
Presented by the Artist. The Messenger, R. 19.

Sickert, Walter. Head of a girl. Head of a woman in furs.
Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq. ‘

Steer, P. Wilson. Head of Richard le Gallienne. Pre-
sented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Way, Thomas R. Eighty-seven lithographs, including
twenty-two illustrations in black and five in colour to “ The
Thames from Chelsea to the Nore,” twenty-four subjects, of
which eighteen are in colour, after Whistler, and others both in
colour and in black. Presented by Mrs. T. R. Way.

Woodcuts.

Bewick, Thomas. Two wood-blocks engraved with vignettes
for “The Fisher's Garland.” Presented by Alfred de Pass,
Esq.

Dodd, Francis. Animal alphabet. Presented by the Artist.

Ricketts, Charles. Proof frontispiece to John Gray’s
“ Spiritual Poems.” Two proofs of illustrations to Apuleius.

62 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Proof of Title-border to the Race of Leaves, with the original
drawing. Five trial proofs of woodcuts (three subjects) after
Alphonse Legros. Presented by the Artist.

Ricketts, Charles, and Shannon, Charles. Thirty-one trial
proofs on thin paper, and nine proofs on old paper, of illustra-
tions to “ Daphnis and Chloes.” Presented by the Artists.

Tenniel, Sir John. Thirty-two Punch cartoons in proof
state.

Thompson, John. Set of twenty-six vignettes to Fairfax’s
Tasso, 1817 ; proofs.

Verpilleux, Emile. The Tower Bridge. The North Side of
St. Paul’s. In colours. Presented by Messrs. P. and D.
Colnaghi and Obach.

Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.

Byron, F. G. Breakfast at Breteuil; aquatint by Lewis,
coloured.

Cooper, T. Sidney, R.A. The Monarch of the Meadows,
etched by T. George Cooper.

Frith, William Powell, R.A. The Railway Station, engraved
by Francis Holl; Salon d’Or, engraved by Charles G. Lewis.

Goodall, Frederick, R.A. Old Maid, engraved by Charles
A. Tomkins.

Herbert, J. R., R.A. Christ and the Woman of Samaria,
engraved by 8. Bellin.

Herring, J. F. Farmyard, engraved by J. B. Pratt.

Hunt, W. Holman. The Scape Goat, engraved by C. Mot-
tram.

Landseer, Sir Edwin, R.A. Highland Lassie, engraved by
J. Outrim. The Drive, engraved by C. G. Lewis.

Lawrence, Sir Thomas, P.R.A. Miss Croker. Elizabeth,
Countess Grosvenor. Mezzotints in colour, engraved by KE.
Jowett.

New, Edmund Hort. Trinity College, Oxford. Presented
by the Artist.

Rowlandson, Thomas. Nine caricatures, aquatints published
by Reeves and Jones, 1808-9. Presented by H. Van den
Bergh, Esq., through the National Art-Collections Fund.

Sant, James, R.A. The Infant Timothy, engraved by Samuel
Cousins.

Solomon, Abraham. Waiting for the Verdict. The
Acquittal. Engraved by W. H. Simmons.

PORTRAITS.

Foreign.
Gluck, Christoph. Etching by J. Groh after J.S. Duplessis.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 63

Kaunitz, Wenceslaus Anton Dominic. Engraving by J.
Schmutzer after Hagenauer, 1781.

Paganini, Niccolo. Mezzotint by H. Dawe.

English.

Carlyle, Thomas. Set of six etchings by H. Helmick, 1881.

Dawson, John, of Sedbergh. Mezzotint by W. W. Barney
after J. Allen.

Haden, Sir Francis Seymour, P.R.E. Mezzotint by Sir
Frank Short, R.A., after G. P. Jacomb Hood. Presented by
Miss E. P. McGhee.

Hood, Sir Samuel. Mezzotint by G. Clint after J. Hoppner.

James, Montagu Rhodes. Photogravure after W. Strang,
A.R.A., in colours.

Manners, Thomas, Ist Baron. Mezzotint by 8. W. Reynolds
after T. C. Thompson, W. 193 ; before all letters.

Raikes, Thomas. Mezzotint by C. H. Hodges after G.
Romney, R.A.

Russell, Samuel Thomas, actor. Stipple by Thomson after
Wageman, 1819 ; touched proof.

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. Mezzotint by Sir F. Short after
G. F. Watts, R.A.

Wright, W. Aldis. Photogravure after W. Strang, A.R.A.,
in colours.

BooOK-PLA'TES.

Badeley, H. J. F. Sixteen book-plates. Presented by the
Artist.

Cameron, D. Y., A.R.A. Plate of Harris B. Dick. Pre-
sented by H. B. Dick, E'sq. Plate of Dr. H. Nazeby Harrington.
Presented by Dr. Harrington.

Eve, Geo. W. Thirty-two etched plates, including a set of
three for King Edward VII. Presented by the Artist.

Sherborn, Charles Wiliam. Ernestina di Montagliari, first
state, rare. Five unfinished plates. Presented by C. Davies
Sherborn, Esq.

Seven hundred and seventy-four modern book-plates, of
which the majority (490) are German. Presented by Miss
A. M. Cust.

COLLECTIONS AND SETS.

One hundred and thirty-one proofs by English engravers
of the early nineteenth century, chiefly after P. Dewint and
W. Hilton, R.A. Presented by Miss Tatlock.

Twenty-seven publications of the Art Union of London,

including five engravings after W.P. Frith, R.A. Presented by
The Art Union of London.

64 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Sixty proof engravings before letters, chiefly after English
artists, from ‘“ Modern Art,” edited by James Dafforne, 1886.

A complete set of wood engravings by the Brothers Dalziel,
arranged in chronological order, from 1839 to 1893, in forty-
nine volumes, comprising upwards of fifty-four thousand proofs.

Thirty-one reproductions in colour, published by the Medici
Society. Presented by the Medici Society, Ltd.

Books OF PRINTS AND BooKS OF REFERENCE.

Ainslie, Sir Robert, Views of Turkey, 24 aquatint plates.
Views in Palestine, eight aquatint plates after Luigi Mayer,
1812.

Brangwyn, Frank. Catalogue of etchings by, published by
the Fine Art Society.

Caw, J. L. Scottish Portraits.

Constable, John. Various subjects of landscape, engraved
by David Lucas. Six parts in the original wrappers, presenta-
tion copy to P. Dewint. Presented by Miss Tatlock.

Guérin, Marcel. Forain Aquafortiste.

Hiilsen and Egger. Die Roémischen Skizzenbucher von
Martin van Heemskerk, Bd. I. Presented by Herr Julius
Bard.

Katalog der Ausstellung, Friedrich der Grosse in der Kunst.

Kurzwelly, J. Das Bildnis in Leipzig.

Lear, Edward. Views in the Idnian Islands, 1863 (20 litho-
graphs).

Lepere, Auguste. Cinquante Croquis.

Liebermann, Max. Hollandisches Skizzenbuch.

L’Image, 1896-7, illustrated with wood-engravings by
A. Lepére and others.

Moselly, E. La Charrue d’Erable. Illustrated with wood-
engravings, printed in colours, by Lucien Pissarro. Presented
by Le Livre Contemporarn.

Rovinski, Dmitri. L’Oeuvre Gravé d’Adrien van Ostade.

Zocchi, Giuseppe. Vedute delle Ville, e d’altri Luoghi della
Toscana (50 plates), Firenze, 1757.

Campbell Dodgson.

SUB-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 65

SuB-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS.
I.— Arrangement and Cataloguing, &e.

The large Chinese painting by Lin Liang, recently presented,
has been placed on exhibition in the King’s Library, on a screen.
A painting by Sesshi has been removed to make room for it.

The reproduction in colour-woodcut of the painting by Ku
K’ai-chih in the collection has been published, with a descrip-
tive and critical text.

The final revision and preparation for press of the Catalogue
of Japanese Woodcuts has been taken in hand. The chrono-
logical arrangement of the prints by each master has been
revised, and descriptions of all recent acquisitions incorporated
in their respective places. The catalogue has been set up in
type as far as the School of Utamaro, and sheets B—K have
been printed off.

Four Chinese paintings, recently acquired, have been cata-
logued.

The Arthur Morrison Collection of Japanese and Chinese
paintings has been temporarily arranged in boxes, according to
the several schools.

An index, in slip form, of the Oriental Artists represented
in the Collection, has been begun.

The nineteen volumes of “Selected Relics of Japanese Art,”
edited by Tajima, have been indexed.

Two hundred and twenty-one prints, paintings, &c., recently
acquired, have been incorporated with the divisions of the
collection to which they severally belong.

All books of prints and books of reference, recently acquired,
have been catalogued, labelled, and placed.

Registration.— Hight hundred and eleven items have been
entered in the Register of Acquisitions.

Stamping and Mouwnting.—Seventy-eight prints, paintings,
&c., recently acquired, have been impressed with the depart-
mental stamp, and references to the Register.

Two large Chinese paintings, recently acquired, have been
cleaned, repaired, mounted, and framed.

Thirteen Chinese and Japanese paintings have been cleaned,
repaired, and remounted.

Two sets of six Japanese paintings of the early Tosa School,
have been mounted on sixfold screens.
Four Indian drawings have been mounted on sunk mounts.

Thirty-four paintings from the Stein Collection have been
cleaned, repaired, and mounted on stretchers ; and five of these
have been framed.

Two paintings from the same collection have been mounted
as kakemono.

66 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

II. Acquisitions.

The first year of the newly-constituted sub-department has
been marked by an acquisition of the highest value and im-
portance; the gift, namely, by Sir William Gwynne-Evans,
Bart., of the entire collection of Japanese and Chinese paintings
formed by Mr. Arthur Morrison, and one of the finest of its
kind in Europe.

The total number of paintings, prints, &c., acquired during
the year was 1,013, of which the following are the most impor-
tant.

The Morrison Collection.
1.—JAPANESE PAINTINGS.

Five hundred and eighty-nine in all, divided among the
various schools as follows :—

EARLY BUDDHIST:

Six paintings, including beautiful and very ancient works,
attributed to Kanaoka (9th and 10th centuries) and to Yeshin
Sozu (11th century), besides important examples of the Kosé
School.

TosA SCHOOL:

Forty-six paintings, including, besides anonymous works of
early periods, examples of Takuma Choga (12th century) ;
Nobuzane (13th century) ; Mitsuhide (14th century) ; Yukihide
(15th century); Rinken (i6th century): Mitsuoki (17th cen-
tury); Totsugen (18th century); and other masters.

CHINESE SCHOOL:

Nineteen paintings, including exampies by Cho Densu
(14th century); Soga Shtbun, an excessively rare master,
Shibun the Priest, Noami, Soami, Sdga Jasoku, and Oguri
Sotan (all of the 15th century); Soga Chokuan, Shokwado, &c.

SESSHU SCHOOL.

Fifteen paintings and painted screens, including five
examples by Sesshiu (15th century) and works by Shugetsu,
Sesson, Yamada Doan, Unkoku Togan, and other early
masters.

KANO SCHOOL.

One hundred and thirty-eight paintings and screens, in-
cluding two examples by Masanobu and four by Motonobu,
the founders of the school (15th century); three examples by
Yeitoku and thirteen by Sanraku (16th century); eighteen by
Tanyu, some of exceptional quality and importance, four by
Naonobu, and seven by Yasunobu (17th century); ten by
Tsunenobu, two by Toun, and seven by Hanabusa Itcho (17th
-18th centuries); besides representative specimens of minor
masters,

SUB-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 67

KoRIN SCHOOL.

Twenty-five paintings and screens, including a screen by
Koyetsu, a master of extreme rarity and distinction; two
screens and five paintings by Sdtatsu; one screen and five
paintings by Korin; one painting by Kenzan; a pair of
screens and two paintings by Watanabé Shiko; and two
paintings by Hoditsu.

UKIY0-YE SCHOOL.

One hundred and thirty-two paintings, including a pair of
paintings by Matabei, the founder of the school (16th century) ;
-six paintings by Moronobu, one by Choshun, two by Kwaiget-
sud6 Ando, and two by Okumura Masanobu (17th—-i8th
centuries); three by Sukenobu, one by Harunobu, one by
Koriusai; two by Shunshé; two by Toyoharu; two by Shun-
man; nine by Yeishi; two by Tsukioka Sessai, and four by
Settei; two by Toyohiro; one by Toyokuni; thirty-six by
Hokusai, representative of various phases of the art of this
famous master; seven by Hokuba; thirteen by Hiroshige, as
well as four sketch-books of exceptional interest; two by
Yeizan; three by Kuniyoshi; besides specimens of the chief
followers of most of those masters.

LATER CHINESE SCHOOL,

Fifty-six paintings, including a series of works by the chief
masters of the school,—seven by Tani Bunchd, four by Sho-
haku, two by Jakuchiu, one by Buson, one by Chikuden, two
by Chinzan, two by Watanabé Kwazan, one by Taigado—and
examples of their principal followers.

MARUYAMA AND SHIJO SCHOOLS.

Eighty-five paintings, including five by Okio, the founder
of the Maruyama school; two by Rosetsu; six by Sosen, some
being of unusual beauty and interest; fifteen by Toyohiko;
one by Gessen; three by Nangaku; one by Goshun; two by
Ippo; seven by Keibun; eleven by Hoyen; one by Toénan;
one by Bunrin; and four by Zeshin ; besides works by minor
masters.

GANKU SCHOOL.

Nineteen paintings, including three by Ganku, three by
Gantai, three by Chikudé, five by Renzan, ete.

INDEPENDENT ARTISTS.

Forty-five paintings, including one by Ritsuw6d, one by
Hara Zaichu, eleven by Yosai, ten by Kydsai, ete.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Two albums and a makimono, each containing a number of
paintings by various artists.

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68 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

9.—CHINESE PAINTINGS.

Thirty-three in all, including one by Ch’én Yung, one by
Chang-ssu-Kung, one by MuCh’i, and one attributed to Chao
Ta-nien (Sung period); one attributed to Chao Méng-fu, and
two by Wang Jo-shui (Yiian period); one by Wu Wei, one by
Wén Ching-ming, one by Lin Liang, one by Ch’iu Ying, one by
Lii Chi, and one by Chou Chih-mien (Ming period); one
by Shén Nan-ping, and specimens of other masters of the
Ming and Ching periods.

MISCELLANEOUS ACQUISITIONS.
CHINESE.
Painting.

Wang Wei, attributed to.—Eight landscape sketches, on
silk, attributed to this famous master of the T’ang dynasty
(8th century), but probably copies made about the 13th century.
Of great rarity and interest. Presented by General Sir lan
Hamilton, G.C.B. Six sketches formerly belonging to the
same album as the preceding. Presented by F. E. Wilkin-
son, Esq.

Chou Weén-Chii, attributed to.—Makimono, on silk, in
colours. Ladies and children ona garden terrace. Probably
10th century. With certificate by a famous artist and critic
of the 13th century.

Anonymous, Sung period (10th-13th centuries).—Lotuses,
white heron, and kingfisher. Kakemono, on silk, in colours.

Fan Kuan (Sung period), attributed to.—Mountain scenery
in snow. Probably 14th century ; of unusual style and great
interest.

JAPANESE.
W oodcuts.
Kiyonaga. Girl walking on a river bank. Hashira-kake.

Kuniyoshi. Eight prints from the life of the Saint
Nichiren, completing the Museum set.

INDIAN.
Paintings and Drawings.

Mogul School. <A large painting in colours on fine cotton,
in the classic Persian style, though probably by an Indian
artist, painted early in the seventeenth century and repre-
senting Akbar, his father, his sons, and other princes of the
houses of Tamerlane, assembled in a landscape, with prepara-
tions for a feast. Apparently unique in point of size among
paintings of this school, and, though mutilated, of the finest
workmanship. Presented by the National Art-Collections
Fund with the aid of a contribution from W. Graham-
Robertson, Esq.

SUB-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 69

Mogul School. Sikander Shah on a hunting expedition ;
17th century, slightly coloured. Portrait of a prince, in
colours. Group of Yogis, slightly coloured.

Rajput School. The tryst; A girl dancing; Two lovers
riding by moonlight; Youth and girl letting off fireworks ;
Group in a forest clearing; Men and women at a picnic; Two
ladies on a garden terrace; A girl musician. All in colours,

Pahari School. Nala and Damayanti. A lady having her
feet washed by her maid. Drawn in ink.

BURMESE,
Painting.

A large unfinished painting of mythological scenes. Pve-
sented by Daniel Jones, Esq.

Books oF PRINTS aND Books oF REFERENCE.
Chavannes and Petrucci. Ars Asiatica. La Peinture
Chinoise au Musée Cernuschi.

Gookin, F. W. Japanese colour-prints and their designers.
Presented by Howard Mansfeld, Esq.

Keechlin, Raymond. Utamaro.

Sotatsu Gwashu. Master-pieces by Sotatsu (Japanese text
and reproductions).

Laurence Binyon.

70 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES.

I—Arrangement, Cataloguing, &e.

EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES :—

The general re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collections
has been continued and, as far as space has permitted, the
important objects acquired during the year have been incor-
porated and exhibited.

Several monuments in hard stone have been washed, and
the systematic cleaning of the limestone and sandstone statues,
stele, etc. has been continued. Many small vessels, bowls,
saucers, etc., have been treated for efflorescence of salt.

The labelling of the collections has been continued. Broken
numbers have been repaired and many labels have been re-
touched.

The Egyptian papyri have been removed from the cases in
the Assyrian basement to a room in the new building, and the
cases which contained them have been taken down and
rebuilt.

Sixteen granite plinths have been fixed in the Egyptian
Galleries, and sculptures, etc., mounted on them.

Six tablets for offerings, two capitals, five stele, and forty-
eight miscellaneous objects have been cleaned and repaired.

Seventy-seven Caen-stone, marble, alabaster, and slate
plinths have been prepared; one hundred and sixty-six
wooden plinths have been made; eight hundred and sixty
wooden tablets have been prepared and covered with paper, or
cloth, or velvet; forty-four labels have been prepared and
polished ; thirty-seven stands for vases, etc., have been made ;
and oak frames for forty stele and six tablets for offerings have
been made.

One thousand five hundred and seventy-four figures of gods,
sacred animals, amulets, objects in porcelain have been mounted,
and three hundred and seventy-eight scarabs have been cleaned
and re-mounted.

Three sculptures in the Egyptian Gallery have been backed
with slate.

Seventy-one labels have been drafted and painted on plinths,
frames, etc., and registration and collection numbers have been
painted on two thousand seven hundred and two objects.

One thousand four hundred and five objects have been
registered or re-registered, and the slip list of the exhibited
objects has been continued.

Drawings of the sculptured portions of about seventy-six

stele, and copies of the hieroglyphic and hieratic texts relating
to them, have been made,

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EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 71

Three hundred and twenty moulds and casts of the bases
of scarabs have been made for the Catalogue of Scarabs, which
is in course of publication, and the scarabs from which they
were made have been cleaned, re-numbered. and re-mounted.

Highty-two objects have been photographed, and about
thirty squeezes made.

Works in Progress.

1. Coptic MSS.—Three MSS. have been copied and the
copies collated and sent to the printer. Twenty sheets of
Vol. IV. have been revised and read in proof. An Introduction
to Vol. IV. has been written, and three indexes of words, names,
etc., have been compiled.

2. Catalogue of Scarabs.—An Introduction to Vol. I. has
been written, and the proof sheets read and revised, and an Index
has been compiled. ‘Two hundred and forty slips for Vol. II.
have been written.

3. Hgyptian Texts.—Material is being collected and several
plates have been prepared for Parts V. and V1.

ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES :—

The general re-arrangement of the unexhibited section of
the Babylonian and Assyrian Collections has been continued,
and several bas-reliefs and other sculptures have been washed.

The glass from the sculptures in the Nimraid Gallery has
been removed and cleaned, and photographs of the sculptures
for an official publication have been made, and the glass
replaced.

About one-half of the collection of tablets has been
removed upstairs from the Assyrian Saloon and their cases
taken down, and the rebuilding of these cases is now in
progress.

One hundred and fourteen tablets have been cleaned; one
hundred and twenty-one tablets have been repaired ; three
thousand and fifty-two tablets have been brushed; three
thousand and twenty-one tablets have been arranged in wool-
lined boxes; thirty-five fragments have been re-joined; and
three hundred and thirty joins have been verified.

One hundred and five casts of Babylonian seals have been
made; 1,288 casts of cylinder seals have been verified and
numbered; and four cases to hold these have been made.
Four hundred pin-numbers have been fixed.

Highty fragments of tablets have been identified, and their
numbers restored.

Thirty-three sheets of the Suppiement to the Ktydnjik
Catalogue have been read in proof, and passed for press, and
an Introduction has been written.

72 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

One hundred and five labels have been drafted and painted,
and registration and collection numbers have been painted on
about 4,446 tablets.

Highteen hundred and sixty tablets have been registered,
and about 1,200 slips have been written.

About seventy-one texts have been copied and collated; an
Index to the Supplement has been compiled; and a complete
Index to all the re-joined fragments has been made.

Hight hundred slips of the Catalogue of tablets have been
revised, and one hundred and forty slips of the Catalogue of
cylindrical seals have been written.

Works in Progress.

1. Cuneiform Texts.—Material is being collected for Part
XXXIV.

2. Kiytinjik Catalogue (Supplement).—The Introduction
to this volume is in the hands of the printer.

Publications.

1. Coptic Apocrypha in the Dialect of Upper Egypt.
2. Catalogue of Scarabs. Vol. I.

3. Rosetta Stone.

3. Egyptian Texts, Part IV.

Students.—About 3,860 visits have been made to the
Department by students and inquirers; and 20,849 objects
have been issued for the use of students.

Personally conducted Parties.—Seventy-two parties have
been personally conducted through the Department by members
of the staff, the number of persons being about 1,620, including
pupil-teachers and others from schools.

IL—A cquisitions.
ii— EGYPTIAN :-—

i--1. A wooden head-rest, or pillow, for placing under the
head of amummy. On one end of it is carved a
figure of Bes, a Stdani god, who is working magic

_ with a pair of snakes, and on the other end are
carved a figure of Bes holding the Eye of Horus,
and the symbol of the “fluid of hfe” of Ra.
XVIIIth dynasty. From Dér al-Bahari.

2. A steatite amulet of a fish (silwrus?), mounted
upon a pylon-shaped building, in front of which
are two urael. Archaic Period. From Upper
Egypt.

3. Green-glazed faience figure of the goddess Hatmehit
standing between the wings of the goddess Nut.
She is supposed to have given birth to Harpo-
krates, whose head adheres to her body. A rare
object. Date uncertain.

EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. “a

4. Fine bronze sacrificial drinking cup, plated with
silver-gold and fine copper. From Dér al-Bahari.

5. Fine bronze bowl of the same material as the
preceding, decorated with engraved patterns,
flowers, etc. From Dér al-Bahari.

6. Bronze obelisk, mounted on a stand, in front of
which is a pylon-shaped building, surmounted by
the figure of a cat. From Tell Bastah. XXIInd
dynasty.

7. A black painted wooden box for holding “ Canopic”
jars. In each of the four compartments is a
wooden jar containing a portion of the body of
the high-priestess Hentmehit, whose coffin is
already in the Museum. From Dér al-Bahari.
XXIst dynasty.

8. A black painted wooden box containing mummified
birds, legs of sheep, &c., each of which is wrapped
up in fine linen. These were intended to be the
funerary food of the high priestess Hentmehit,
and came from her tomb. From Deér al-Bahari.
XXIst dynasty.

iii—l—4, The set of four “ Canopic” jars, which were made
for Queen Henttaui, the wife of the high-priest
king Paiankh, who ruled at Thebes in the XXIst
dynasty. ‘The name of the Queen, written within
a cartouche, and her titles are cut upon each jar
in hieroglyphics, inlaid with blue paste. The
inscriptions contain the Addresses of the Four
Sons of Horus as found in Chapter CLI of the
Book of the Dead.

iiii—l. A valuable collection of 970 scarabs, forming a
section of a larger collection already in the
Museum, found in various places on the site of
Tanis, in the north-east of the Delta. The
scarabs, from which the green glaze has been
removed by the moist soil, belong to the period
immediately following the XIIIth dynasty, in-
cluding the reigns of the Hyksos kings. On the
bases of many of them are cut designs, figures
of gods, monograms, We., peculiar to the Hyksos,
XIIth-XVIIth dynasties.

2. A pair of fine limestone sphinxes, of unusual
character, which stood one on each side of the
statues of Ptolemy IX. and his Queen, and their
goddess, at the entrance to a small temple in
Upper Egypt. Second century B.c.

3-25. A collection of stelee inscribed in Coptic and Greek,
architectural ornaments, etc., from the Monastery
of St. Jeremiah at Sakkarah.

3. Rectangular slab with vine leaf decoration,

gee

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. Rectangular slab sculptured with wreath and eupids.

Rectangular relief; men gathering fruit.

. Rectangular relief; dolphin, wreath, cross, ete.

. Rectangular relief ; dolphin and wreath of flowers.

. Rectangular relief ; saint standing in a pillared niche.
. Rectangular relief; fish, vine leaves, grapes, ete.

. Part of an arch sculptured with an archangel,

wreath, etc.

. Part of an arch sculptured with a dolphin, ete.
2. Part of a relief; peacock carrying some object in its

beak.

. Part of a relief; bird seated on a branch of a fruit

tree.

. Part ofa relief ; two angles holding up palm branches

and a crown, which rests on pillars.

. Part of a relief ; military knight and an angel hold-

ing a wreath.

. Part of a sepulchral slab which has been pierced with

holes, aud used as a ventilator (?).

. Sepulchral stele, with Greek inscription written in

red ink.

; Red sandstone sepulchral stele, with wreath and

cross in relief.

. Sandstone sepulchral stele, with cross, crown, and

dove in relief.

20. Sepulchral stele sculptured with crown, annules, and

four crosses.

. Painted sepulchral stele with Greek inscription.
. Inscribed slab recording the dates of the deaths of a

number of monks, John, Sabinus, ete.

. Rectangular Coptic stele, with columns, cross, etc.,

in relief.

. A finely cut stele, with decorated borders, recording

the names of a number of monks. It seems to
have been inserted in the wall of a church.

. Slab, with inscription similar to that of No. 24.

A finely-painted stone relief which formed one side
of the coffin of Amenemhat, an official who
flourished about B.c, 1350. The deceased is seated
with his wife in a bower, and a harper is playing
to them.

. A relief similarin style to the preceding, with figures

of the sons of Amenemhat bearing offerings to
their father. XVIIIth or XIXthdynasty. From
Thebes.

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10.

11.

12.
13.

14.

15.

16.

17-21.
22-206.

EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 75

Limestone stele on which is sculptured a scene
representing Rameses II. adoring Amen Ra, King
of the Gods. The text contains a dedication of
temples and statues of Amen-Ra, Ptah, and Thoth.
On the back of the stele are a Coptic cross and
a rosette, which prove that it was used by the
Copts in building one of their churches. XIXth-
dynasty. From Thebes.

. Marble (?) door-socket and hub, set in a softer kind

of stone. From Karnak. A rare object.

Sepulchral limestone stele, with figures of the
deceased, his wife, and four sons and six daughters.
It belongs to the period between the XIIIth and
XVIIth dynasties. From Abydos.

. Upper portion of a limestone stele of a priestess.

XIXth dynasty. From Karnak.

. Sandstone stele sculptured with a scene representing

the Emperor Tiberius sacrificing before Horus and
Osiris ; the text records the restoration of a part
of a temple at Karnak. From Karnak.

. Massive stone stele sculptured with a figure of Isis

suckling Horus beneath a winged disk. This stele
was dedicated by one of the Roman Emperors,
but the cartouche which was prepared for his
name is blank. From Karnak.

. Sandstone obelisk, on which are sculptured a cross

and other Christian symbols; it was used as
a sepulchral monument by the Copts. VII-IXth
century. From Edfa.

Massive bronze mummy-case for kittens, surmounted
by a figure of a’cat. A rare object. XXIst
dynasty. From Gaw.

Bronze dagger, of unusual shape, with a long handle,
the sides of which were inlaid with ivory plaques.
XVIIIth dynasty.

Hardstone bottle, with a handle in the form of an
ape. XVIIIth dynasty.

A flint knife, of very archaic shape, in a complete
state of preservation. Predynastic Period.

A flint tool (?) with serrated edges. One of the
largest flint instruments yet discovered. Predy-
nastic Period.

Green stone pectoral inlaid with feldspar and car-
nelian. It contains the original heart-scarab.
XXIst dynasty.

Bluish-green glazed steatite pectoral in the form of
a pylon. A fine example, XIXth dynasty.

Five bone “ button seals.” Archaic Period.

Five cylinder seals. Archaic period. From Nakadah.

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27-52. A collection of bone amulets, figures of sacred
animals, etc. Found in a predynastic tomb at
Khizam.

v.—1. A massive Nubian sandstone capital of a pillar, from
the ruins of a Meroitic temple on the Island of
Faras on the Sudan frontier. Roman Period.

2. A smaller, but in other respects, similar capital.
From Faras. Late Roman Period.

ll,—_ ASSYRIAN :—

ii—1-35. A collection of fifteen fragments of baked clay
cylinders inscribed with texts recording campaigns
carried out by Sennacherib during the early years
of his reign, and describing his building opera-
tions at Nineveh. They belong to the cylinders
deposited by the king in the great north gate of
the city, behind the colossal bulls, and deal with
the year B.C. 705, and the following years.

16-136. A collection of one hundred and twenty-one Baby-

lonian tablets, inscribed with contracts, letters,
receipts, etc., dating from about B.c.2000. From
Larsa (Senkereh).

137-504. One hundred and sixty-eight Babylonian tablets

inscribed with contracts, etc. About B.c. 2000.
From Aba Ibrahim.

505-824. A collection of three hundred and twenty tablets

inscribed with texts relating to the distribution of
stores and rations to officials travelling between
Elam and Babylonia. The proper names are
especially valuable. About B.c. 2500. From
Telloh.

825-868. A collection of forty-four tablets inscribed with

commercial texts of the period of the Seleucide.

869-3853. A collection of two thousand nine hundred and

ejghty three tablets of a miscellaneous character,
but dealing with the agricultural operations
carried out on the great temple estates of Lower
Babylonia, about B.c. 2000. Some are from
Telloh andsome from Drehem, the latter being of
much importance, for they deal with a district of
which very little is known, and refer to the supply
of beasts for sacrifice in the temple of Enlil at
Nippur.

iii—l. A collection of eleven cylinder-seals in hematite,
carnelian, shel], etc., the oldest belonging to the
Babylonian Period, about B.c. 2300, and the latest
to the Persian Period, about B.c. 500.

iii—1. Sumerian clay sealing, of cylindrical form, dated
in the reign of Dungi, King of Ur, about
B.C. 2400.

8-22.

23-45,

46-55.

56-59.

60-66.

‘EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. TE

. Similar clay sealing dated in the reign of Bur-Sin I.

the son of Dungi.

. Clay sealing of conical shape. About B.c. 2000.
. Three tablets dated in the 4th, 7th, and 10th years

respectively of the reign of Nabonassar.

. Contract tablet dated in the first year of Cambyses,

12bey BO Oa

Fifteen letter tablets of the period of the First
Dynasty of Babylon, about B.c. 2000.

A collection of twenty-three contracts and accounts,
dating from about B.c. 2000.

A collection of tablets inscribed with agricultural
lists and accounts of the period of the Dynasty of
Ur, B.c. 2400. ;

Four tablets inscribed with lists and receipts of the
Neo-Babylonian Period.

Four fragments of inscribed tablets, and three
modern imitations.

111.— MISCELLANEOUS :—

i.—l.

iv.— 1-95.

A large baked clay tablet inscribed in Hittite
cuneiform with a text which probably contains a
tribute list for cities and towns in the Hittite
Empire. The importance of this text geo-
graphically is very great.

. One hundred and eighteen fragments of tablets

inscribed in Hittite cuneiform.

. A glazed Babylonian Amphora. From Niffer.

Karthenware jug, with designs in relief. Par-
thian (?).

Brownish-blue glazed ware saucer, with gilt bosses.
A very interesting object.

Blue ware saucer, with Cyprio-Egyptian design.

. Cream-brown saucer, with unusual design.

. Three bronze figures of warriors (?) of an unusual

character. They are said to have been found in
the neighbourhood of Aleppo. Date uncertain.

. Figure of a man standing on a lion. Date un-

certain. Found in Galilee.

. A miscellaneous collection of scarabs, stamps, seals;

ete., the earliest of which date from about B.c.
1400. From Gezer and sites in the neighbour-
hood.

A miscellaneous collection of bowls, bronze tools
and implements, iron weapons, alabaster vases,
terra-cotta figures, beads, etc., from Deve Huyuk,

78 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Tomb group :—
No. 18 i. Iron spear.
. Bronze bowl.
. Bronze strainer.
. Bronze fibula.
. Bronze plates.
. Bag of varia.
No. 8 7. Bronze mirror.
8. Bronze bracelet.
9. Bronze fibula.
10, 11. Two bronze rings.
12. Bronze pendant seal.
13. Beads.
No. 10 14, Bronze goblet.
15. Alabaster saucer.
16. Alabaster vase.
17, 18. Two iron spears.
19, 20. Two bronze bracelets.
21. One bronze kohl stick
22. One bronze mirror.
23. Beads.
24. Silver Persian coin.
No. 7 25. Bronze bowl.
26. Bronze pin.
27. Plain pottery handled vase.
28. Box of beads.

No. Y2 (Cremation grave) :— 3
29. Glazed amphora.
30. Box of beads, ete.

Uncertain tombs :—
31. Large bronze bowl.
32-39. Eight bronze bowls.
40. One bronze saucer lamp.
41. One bronze goblet.
42. One bronze vase.
43. One bronze decorated plate, with row of
perforations.
44. One stone bowl.
45. One rhyton.
46, One horn bracelet.
47. One blue glaze pilgrim-bottle.
48, 49. Two blue glaze vases.
50. One pottery Mother-goddess figurine
(‘‘ snow-man ” technique).
51. One Astarte figurine.
52. One horse with rider.
53. One zoomorphic “ram vase.”
54, One moulded terracotta “ duck ”’ filler.
55, Half moulded terracotta bird.
56. One imitation Cypriote handled vase with
bull’s eye circlets in black.
57. One small buff vase.

DOr ON er

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. Scarab; with an imitation cartouche. Hyksos

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58. One lekythos with ivy pattern.
59. One globose vase of plain brown ware.
60. One amphora, duck-egg green, with black
linear ornament.
61. One two-handled pot, buff, with black
linear ornament.
62. One buff jug with bearded face on front of
neck.
63. One buff spouted vase with loop on spout
and handle.
64, One earthenware lamp.
65. One-handled tall neck vase, buff with red
bands. :
66. Bronze kohl pot with chains.
67-72. Six bronze arrowheads.
73. Steatite tripod saucer.
74. Stone lamp with animal head on side.
75. Bronze bit.
76, 77. One pair bronze anklets.
78-83. Six bronze bracelets (various).
84, Iron axe.
85, 86. Two iron daggers.
87-89. Three iron spears.
90-92. Three iron arrowheads.
93. One iron knife.
94. Bronze spindle.
95. Bone kohl tube.

I1l.— Presents.
Scarab of King Pepi. Hyksos Period.

Period.

. Searab; with a figure of a man and two hawks.

Hyksos Period.

. Scarab inscribed Neferkhau kheperui. XIIIth

dynasty.

. Heart-scarab of Mai. XIXth dynasty.
. Blue paste scarab of Menkheperra. XXVIth

dynasty.

. Stone heart scarab of Paima XXVIth dynasty.
. Two steatite Phoenician scarabs.

. Heematite scarab. Achzemenian Period.

. Stone scarab, with Gnostic figures.

. Carnelian bezel of a ring, uninscribed.

. Red porphyry Syrian seal.

. Two plaques of verde antique.

. Red jaspar plaque.

. Chalcedony bezel of a ring.

. Agate bead.

. Amethyst scarab, inscribed in Roman times with

copies of the old Egyptian names, Antef, Men-
tuhetep, Khnemuabra, ete.

Presented by the late Sir Hamilton Lang, K.C.M.G.

80 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

u.—l, 2.

10-12.

Lys

Two fine limestone ushabtiu figures of the priest
Nefer. XVIIIth dynasty.

. Seated bronze figure of the goddess Sekhmet, with

a case for holding a small mummified animal.
XXVIth dynasty.

. Bronze figure of Amen-Ra, with disk and plumes,

holding a sceptre. A rare object.

. Blue glazed figure of Sekhmet. From Tinah.
. Green glazed figure of the ram of Amen. From

Ttnah. Very fine work.

. Scarab of Amenhetep IV. B.c. 1450.
. Scarab of Rameses II. B.c. 1300.

Presented by H. I. Hansard, Esq.

. Fragment of a stele of Antef. XIth dynasty.

From Thebes.

. Wooden Anubis sceptre, head wanting.
. Portion of a stone statue of the Ptolemaic Period.

Two slices of limestone, on each of which is cut the
prenomen of Queen Hatshepset. One is dated
on the 9th day of the fourth month of summer,
and the other on the 9th day of the second
month of summer. On No. 5 is the name of
Senmut, the architect (?).

. Stone fragment bearing the prenomen of Hat-

shepset.

. Stone fragment bearing the name Hatshepset.
. A bronze serpent 5 ft. 2 in. in length ; a very rare

object. From a tomb of the Middle Empire at
Thebes.

. Wooden ushabti figure of a king, with a cartouche

and titles cut down the front.

Three terra-cotta coffins, the first containing a
figure of Horus, the second a figure of Osiris,
and the third a figure of a king. Period between
the XIIIth and X VIIth dynasties.

Presented by the Earl of Carnarvon.

Rectangular limestone libation bowl, with dedica-
tion to Anubis. VIth dynasty.
Presented by G. M. Davis, Esq.

. Steatite scarab with figures of sphinxes and hawks

cut on the hase. Hyksos Period.
Presented by HE. S. Morphew, Esq.

. A collection of ostraka inscribed in hieroglyphic,

hieratic, and demotic characters. From Dér al-
Bahari.

. A statue of Heqab. XIIth dynasty.

. Ivory lion. Ist dynasty.

. Set of blue glazed amulets. IVth dynasty.
2. Head-rest. XVIIIth dynasty.

34,

Tomb group D. 211. XVIIIth dynasty.
Vase 8. 603. Ist dynasty.

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35. Vase D. 151. Ist dynasty.
36. Vase D. 208. VIth dynasty.
37-44, Eight vases. XIIth—-XVIIIth dynasties.
45,46. Two saucers. XIIth-XVilith dynasties.
47-50. Three saucers and a platter. XIIth-XVIIIth
dynasties.
51-55. Four vase stands, one stopper. XIIth-XVIIIth
dynasties.
56. Vase. XVIIIth or XIXth dynasty.
57, 58. Two Syrian vases. XVIIIth or XIXth dynasty.
59. Pot with graffito. Roman Period.
60. Pot with graffito. Roman Period.
61, 62. Two ibis TAC’. Roman Period.
63. Atef crown. Roman Period.
64. Ibis egg. Roman Period.
65. Hawk mummy. Roman Period.
66. Package of snake mummies.
Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund.

vi.—1. Skeleton of aman ina basket. Found in a grave
dug in the brickwork of a mastabah tomb of the
First dynasty. From Tarkhan.

2. A box coffin, with the bones of a female, complete,
showing the attitude of contracted burial. First
dynasty. From Tarkhan.

Presented by the British School of Archeology.

vili.—Topographical Map of Egypt, 2nd cue sheets :—
N.

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Presented by the Director of Surveys, Egypt.

ix. A sepulchral stele, with bilingual inscription in
Armenian and Arabic.

Presented by Sayyid Ali Koult of Bandar Abbas.

x.—l. Agate cylinder seal. Scene: Sacred tree and
disk, god and goddess standing on animals. The
priest of Ka wears a fish-skin garment.

2. Chaleedony seal. Scene: Priest ministering to
Ishtar, Scorpion-man, ete.

. Chalcedony seal, Scene: Priest before emblems
of the Moon, Marduk, ete.

4, Blackstone seal. Scene: Sacred tree, nude figure
of goddess, emblems, ete.

5. Chalcedony seal. Scene: Moon god seated, eagle-
headed deity and priest.

6. Hematite seal of Ur-Shulpae, son of Assanum.
Scene: Ur-Shulpae pouring out a_ lbation
before his god Shulpae and his consort Nin-
kharsag.

0.75 F

(oy)

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i
8.

2.

18.

Chalcedony seal. Scene: Sacred tree, winged
disk, priest and goddess.

Variegated stone seal. Scene: Figures of two
goddesses.

Chalcedony seal. Scene: Sacred tree. Ashur
rising out of a niche; Marduk in conflict with
two sphinxes.

. Chalcedony seal. Scene: Priest worshipping, ibex

and star.

. Marble seal. Scene: Two ibexes attacked by

lions.

. Chalcedony seal. Scene: Priests ministering at

sacred tree.

. Hematite seal. Scene: Offering of an ibex.
. Black stone seal. Scene: A goddess adoring a

god, nude goddess, ete.

. Chalcedony scaraboid with the figure of a goat.
. Chalcedony cone. Scene: Priest before a god.
. Chalcedony cone. Scene: A Persian king grasp-

ing lions by their tails.
Chalcedony cone. Scene: Priest standing before
the emblem of the weather god.

The above seals from Assyria belong to the period B.c. 650-
600.

Bequeathed by Lady Layard.

E. A. Wallis Budge.

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DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.

I.—Arrangement.

The Sculpture Gallerves.—The re-decoration and re-arrange-
ment of the Mausoleum Room has been completed; the
sculptures have been cleaned and uncovered, and a collection
of architectural fragments from various sites has been arranged
in one of the bays. Sixteen capitals, a torso and four coffers
were mounted and set in position. In the Mausoleum Annexe,
a large sarcophagus was repaired and mounted.

In the Ephesus Room two large fragments were fitted
together and shown to belong to the restored capital of the
Croesus Temple; the capital has been removed and a new

“restoration to include the new fragments, is in progress. In

the Ante-Room the pedestal of the Demeter of Cnidus has been
made 9 inches lower.

A re-arrangement of the Greco-Roman Basement has been
carried out ; 25 Etruscan sarcophagi have been brought from
the Annexe and mounted on steel shelves.

Two portions of a mosaic floor from Carthage have been
ve-united on the N.W. staircase. Twelve busts from the base-
ment have been placed on pedestals in the new Large Room
(Department of Printed Bocks).

The Upper Gallerves.—In the First Vase Room recent
accessions of Neolithic Thessalian sherds have been arranged in
drawers ; the Cycladic and Italic sections have been re- -arranged :
and a further series of electrotypes of Minoan and Mycenaean
objects has been placed on exhibition. A re-arrangement of
Corinthian vases was carried out in the Second Room and a
table-case fitted with drawers. The new standard case in the
Fourth Room was filled and the exhibition of late Italic wares
modified in consequence. Throughout the Vase Rooms the
vases and cases have been cleaned.

In the Bronze Room the head of Augustus from Meroe has
been mounted on a marble plinth and a chronological arrange-
ment of fibula in drawers has been undertaken. The sections
on Religion and Toilet in the Exhibition of Ancient Life were
re-arranged. The cases in the Terracotta Room have been
repapered and repainted, the mounts of the terracottas have
been repainted, and the terracottas have been replaced.

For the Catalogue of Lamps the proofs were corrected in
page and the illustrations were completed. New acquisitions
were incorporated into Vol. I. of the Catalogue of Vases and
the manuscript was completed to the end of the Geometric
Section; Vol. V. of the same Catalogue was completed in
manuscript to the end of the red-figure section. A Guide to
the Gallery of Sculpture Casts was published.

Moulds have been made of four slabs of the Parthenon
frieze, of the Strangford Apollo, of the Trentham mourning

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woman, of four marble busts, the bronze Marsyas, and bronze
Aphrodite head, and of the plaster cast fragments of the
Guilford puteal. Twenty-two pieces of sculpture and four @
inscriptions have been mounted on stone ped estals; 12 statuettes |
from the islands, 240 gems, 85 terracottas, 117 bronzes, 43 vases, —
1 gold and 1 silver object, and 4 electrotypes were mounted on
wooden bases. 572 objects were registered and 1,147 numbered:
147 labels were written and 13 printed.

The number of visits to the Departmental Library and :
Students’ Room for purposes of research was 934; there were
810 other visits to the Staff for enquiry or on departmental
business, and 1,945 attendances of students of art and
architecture in the Sculpture Galleries.

II.— Acquisitions.
I.—Gold.

1.—(a) Fifteen objects from a tomb of the Mycenzan period,
near Laksha, Cyprus; these include a diadem stamped with
rosettes, a fluted finger-ring and ear-rings of various types.

(b) Twelve ear-rings from other Cypriote sites. Presented
by the late Sir Robert Hamilton Lang, K.C.M.G.

9. Pair of Etruscan “trumpet” ear-rings from Orvieto.

II.—Silver.
3. Group of seven objects, comprising a mirror, pyxXis,
saucer, ladle, cup, spoon, and spindle; found together in a
tomb at Brusa.

Ill. Bronze.

4. Statuette of a barbarian with hands tied behind, wearing
tunic, cloak, and bracce. A work of great refinement and
delicacy. Height 4in. From Umbria.

5. Statuette of a Roman priestess with cup and incense
burner ; one of a group said to come from the Lake of Nemi;
see Reinach, Répertoire, 1V., p. 307; Revue Arch., 1909,
pls. XI., XIT.; Tilustrated London News, 11th January 1910.
Height 10 in. ©

6. Statuette of Zeus of Lysippian type, with left arm
raised, right hand holding a thunderbolt. Height 3°8 in. From
Umbria.

- Statuette of Victory with a wreath, standing on a clobe.
Height 54 in. Burlington Fine Arts Club Catalogue, pl. 46,
No. A 28A; Bourguignon Sale Catalogue. pl. VIII.; Reinach
Répertovre, II1., p. 116, No. 4; IV., p. 284, No. 5; Fitzhenry
Sale, lot 563.

8. Statuette of Triton with paddle and horn. Fitzhenry |
Sale, lot 566. |

9, Statuette of recumbent lion of archaic style. Length |
3°6in. From Macedonia. |

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GREEK 'AND ROMAN. ANTIQUITIES. 85

10. Etruscan mirror with design of two warriors supporting
a third. Found s rouesWies: della Teverina, 1877. Notizie
Meee, 18/(,..p, 142, pl. ,LV..;, Balls .d.. Last.) 1889, p.i,9.5
Gerhard, Ktrusk. conan beeps lls: Fitzhenry Sale, lot 568.

11. Etruscan. mirror with nee of Heracles and I[olaos.
Gerhard, Htrusk. Spiegel, IV., pl. 337, fig. 2

12: Greek mirror with incised design of Europa on the
bul].

13. Axe head of the late Bronze Age; the blade, which is
in form a flanged celt, is cast in one piece with a hollow tube,
into which a haft was fitted; the thongs, which united celt
and handle, are represented by bronze stays. Cf. Montelius,
Vorklassische Chronologie Italiens, pl. 40. Length 114 in.
From the neighbourhood of Orvieto.

14. Lamp with recurving handle terminating in a tragic
mask. Cf. Sammlung Niessen, 3779, 3780. Length 104 in
From Rome.

15. Pair of Hinges of singular construction, the hinge being
combined with a dowel, or ‘euide- eploees From Syria. Pre-
sented by HL. T. Steele, Esq.

16. Shovel (Batillum or Vatillwm); the handle is in the
form of a half Corinthian column, with palmette wrist-piece.
Cf. Museo Borvonico, X., pl. 64, figs. 3, 4. Length 194 in.
From Askalon.

17. Jug, with handle in the form of an ivy-tendril. Height
6°7 in.
18. Shallow dish with upright handles. Diameter 12-2 in.

19. Ladle; the handle terminating in a swan’ neck.
Length 23-6 in. No. 17-19 are from Beesan (Beth-Shan)
Palestine.

20. Shallow situla or bucket, the handle with palmette
attachments.

21. Harness buckle and clasp, the hooks of the latter
terminating in dogs’ heads. Cf. Montelius, Vorklass. Chrono-
logie, fig. 197. From the Cyrenaica (?).

22. Two candlesticks. Height 6:3in. From Tell Nimrin,
Syria.

23. Two strigils. From Damascus.
24. Fibula with two spirals. Length 4 in.
25. Fibula, bow pattern.
26. Penannular fibula. Cf. Paris, L’Hspagne Primitive, IT.,
pl. VIII, fig. 3.
IV.—Lead.

27. Weight inscribed with Cypriote characters. Presented
by the late Sir R. H. Lang, K.C.M.G.

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V. Marble.

28. Mosaic pavement ; in the centre a nude youth stands at
an altar beside trees; at the corners are medallions containing
Satyrs, Meenads, and shepherds; the whole enclosed by
meanders of guilloche and triangular patterns. Length
8 ft. 10 in. Excavated at St. Romain-en-Gal, near Vienne ;
see the Nouvelliste de Lyon and Le Progrés of 25th July, Lyon
Républicain of 26th July and Dépéche de Lyon of 2nd August:
1913.

VI. Gems and Glass.

29. Sard intaglo; head of river god. Newton-Robinson
Sale Catalogue, lot 59: Furtwangler, Antike Gemmen,
pl. LXV., No. 26; Burlington Fine Arts Club Catalogue,
pl. CX., No. H 174. Presented by the Rev. G. H. Johnson.

30. Sard intaglio : Diomede with the head of Dolon. Pre-
sented by Sir C. H. Read, P.S.A.

31. Sard intaglio ; female bust.

32. Plasma intaglio; youthful head wearing helmet.
33. Paste intaglio; Eros riding.

34. Sardonyx cameo; Eros running.

35. Fragment of paste cameo ; female head.

Nos. 30-35 from Cyprus. Presented by the late Sir R. H.
Lang, K.C.M.G.

36. Glass term of bald bearded man with cloak and money-
bag (?). Height 1°3 in.

Vil. Pottery.

37. A large series of sherds of prehistoric fabries from
excavations in Thessaly at Dimini, Sesklo, Lianokladi, Mezil}
Magoula, Mesiani, Rakhmani, Tsangli, Tsani, and Zerelia ;
with other objects of clay, stone, obsidian, and bone. Pre-
sented by the British School at Athens.

38. Three Minoan vases from Crete.

39. Bowl of late Minoan period from Crete. Presented by
Theodore Fyfe, Esq.

40. Jug of Dipylon style with bands of birds, horses, and
geometric patterns. Height 174 in.

41. Cup of Phaleron style; frieze of four horses and a
man. Height 4 in. Cf. Jahrbuch d. Arch. Inst., II., p.-50,
figs. 9, 10.

42, Two pyxides, with lids, of late Geometric style, the
decoration approaching the Protocorinthian type.

43. Four-handled bowl of Boeotian geometric style, with
decoration of bands and panels.

44, A series of sherds of early Lydian fabrics from the
excavations at Sardis of the American School at Athens.
Presented by W. Buckler, Esq.

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45. A series of sherds of Phoenician fabrics from Motya.
Presented by Dr. T. Ashby.

46. Lekythos of Protocorinthian style with friezes of lions,
goats, and hounds.

47. Cotyle of Protocorinthian fabric with a black figure
design of a pair of spearmen on each side. Under one handle
was a third pair, but one figure has been obliterated and
replaced by a large cantharos on which a jug is placed asa
mark for the other spearman. Presented by L. McCormick-
Goodhart, E'sq.

48. Kylix of Vourva style, with frieze of animals.

49. Etruscan red-figure amphora, with designs of a Satyr
and Meenad, and a Mzenad ; in each case the Mzenad is shown
as winged. Height 14°4in. From Civita Castellana.

50. Late Etruscan red-figure jug with a design of a female
head and palmettes. Height 12°3in. From Corneto.

51. Canosa askos with polychrome decoration including a
female head springing from a flower, among tendrils and winged
figures, in blue, pink, and brown; on each spout stands a
statuette of Eros. Height 12 in.

52. Cantharos of green glazed ware, with a frieze of Bacchic
figures in relief.

53. Two fragments of glazed ware with designs in relief.

54. Two amphorze of blue glazed ware with moulded
ornaments. Height 13°5 and 10:2 in. From a cemetery near
Selemia (North Syria); 2nd century A.D.

VIII. Terracotta.

55. Four primitive figurines from Kul Tepe, near Ceesarea. .
Presented by F. W. Hasluck, Esq.

56. Statuette of archaic style; a woman making bread ; at
her side is a dough trough and she kneads the dough on a
ledge in front of the oven.

57. Statuette of Eros bearing a kid on his shoulders.

58. Statuette of a boy seated on an altar with a gourd in
his hand. Cf. Winter, Typen, IJ., p. 257. Height 6in. Said
to come from Tanagra.

59. Group of Aphrodite with Eros astride a dolphin.
Height 6-6 in. From Asia Minor.

60. Veiled female head of 4th century type.

61. Relief of youth (upper part) modeled by hand. Height
Sin. From Rome. :

62. Two portrait busts; boy and woman, of the 2nd
century A.D. Height 9 and 9°7 in. From a cemetery near
Carchemish.

63. Fragmentary statuette of standing woman.
64. Roman lantern of perforated clay.

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IX. Plastercasts and Reproductions.

65. Casts of slabs XV. N. side and slab XIV. S. side of
the Parthenon Frieze. Presented by the Greek Government.

66. Set of John Henning’s miniature reproductions of the
Parthenon and Phigaleian friezes. Presented by Miss Marcus.

ie Cast of the statue of Myron’s Athena at Frankfort.

Cast of the “Eubouleus ” head at Athens. Presented
by Lady Owen-Mackenzve.

69. Cast of the sima of the Temple of these Polias at
Priene.

70. Cast of the relief of Athena at Lansdowne. House.

71. Electrotype reproductions of 27 Minoan and fh ga
objects of gold or bronze.

At, Smiath.

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DEPARTMENT OF BRITISH AND MEDIAVAL ANTIQUITIES AND
ETHNOGRAPHY.

1.—Arrangement, Cataloguing, ete.

Prehistoric Saloon.—The exhibition of Stone Age specimens
in drawers accessible to the public has been continued, and
a type series of the flints excavated for the Museum and H.M.
Geological Survey exhibited with photographs of the sections
in a desk-case.

Roman-British Section.—The exhibition drawers in the
Central Saloon have been overhauled periodically.

Anglo-Saxon Room.—The collection from Long Witienham,
Berks, has been remounted and grouped according to the
graves, and the general remounting of the larger series begun.

Medieval Room.—Two wall-cases and two table-cases have
been cleared, and the Barwell Bequest of Limoges enamels
exhibited. The watches, dials, and astronomical instruments
have been permanently labelled.

Glass and Ceramic Gallery.—Specimens from the Near
East, mostly fragments of pottery, have been exhibited in
drawers accessible to the public, and the Durighello collection
of ancient glass from Syria exhibited in a table-case cleared and
relined for the purpose. Inthe ante-room a loan collection from
Mr. Charles Borradaile has been exhibited in a wall-case.

Gallery of Religions.—The re-arrangement of the Buddhist
room has been continued, and a large number of labels provided
for the Buddhist and Hindu sections.

Asiatic Saloon.—The permanent labelling of the Chinese
wares has been continued.

Ethnographical Gallery.— Progress has been made with the
labelling and re-arrangement of the African section, and the
Macleod collection from West Africa has been exhibited in twe
wall-cases and a table-case. Three cases have been cleared and
the Torday collection from the Congo exhibited. Labels have
been added in the Asiatic section, and the King’s collection
from Tibet exhibited. A new collection from the South Pacific
has been arranged.

American Room.—A collection of Yea pottery from Peru
has been arranged, and pottery fragments and implements
exhibited in drawers accessible to the public. A series of
Peruvian textiles has been exhibited, and many permanent
labels have been added in this section.

Registration.—The registration of current acquisitions has
been continued, and 4,193 objects have been added, including
ethnographical specimens. Numbers have been painted on 4,340
specimens and 1,271 permanent labels written. Photographs
to the number of 161 have been prepared in the Department
for purposes of illustration and reference, 40 photographic

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prints, and 12 lantern slides prepared. Typewritten labels to
the number of 463 have been cut and bordered, and 12
printed on the hand-press; 183 mounting boards have been
papered, and 1,789 objects mounted. There have been prepared
400 trays, tablets, pedestals, labels, frames, plinths and
packing-cases, and certain cases refitted. A New Zealand canoe,
Egyptian head-rest, gourd, and food-bow] have been repaired.

Ancient Indian stone sculptures to the number of 109 have
been cleaned and wooden plinths provided. A large series of
photographic negatives have been classified and stored in cases,
and ethnographical documents examined and filed.

Excavations were conducted in conjunction with H.M.
Geological Survey at Swanscombe, Greenhithe, and Crayford,
Kent, on 11 days in the spring, and the Hull meeting of the
Museums Association was attended in July. A collection of
Frankish and other antiquities on the Rhine was inspected in
September.

Publications.—Current additions have been made to the slip
catalogue of Oriental pottery and porcelain, and the catalcgue
of Renaissance and later gems continued. Guides to the
Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon collections have been begun,
and a number of illustrations prepared. A slip catalogue has
been made of the Hindu collection, and another of the medieval
Buddhist collection begun.

Students.—Three thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven
students and visitors have been received in the Department,
and three demonstrations have been given by members of the
staff in the Prehistoric and Ancient American sections.

2. Acquisitions.
(1.) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities :—

(a) Stone Age.—Three paleolithic implements from the
gravel and an arrow-head said to be from the surface at
Kempston, Beds. Presented by J. Darrell Hill, Esq.

Paleolithic implement from Belbin’s pit, Test valley near
Romsey, Hants. Presented by W. M. Tapp, Esq., F.S.A.

Paleolithic implements and flakes from the gravel at
Kennet and Kentford, near Newmarket, and surface flints from
Tuddenham and other sites in N.W. Suffolk. Presented by
CO. R. Jennings, Esq.

Flint implement worked on surface, from Aylesbury, Kent.
Presented by B. Harrison, Esq.

An important series of implements and flakes from working-
floors in or below brick-earth at Round Green near Luton, and
Gaddesdon Row, Herts. Collected by Worthington G. Smith,
Esq. Also an exceptional flat implement from the Thames at
Tilbury, and other implements of special interest.

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Conical flint implement found ‘by the donor in clay-with-
flints at 400 ft. O.D., Blendworth, Hants. Presented by Col.
Jamieson.

Chopper from Cissbury, Sussex ; implements from Friston,
Sussex, and Icklingham, Suffolk, and blade with end-scra per
from Co. Antrim. Presented by J. Reid Moir, Esq.

Two stone anvils from the sandhills of Luce Bay, near
Glenluce, Wigtownshire. Presented by A. Henderson Bishop,
Esq.

Chipped flint celt of unusual form from the Thames at
Kingston.

Chipped flint celt found at St. Mary Cray, Kent. Presented
by J. S. Fearnley, Esq.

(b) Bronze Age.—Half-mould for casting looped palstaves,
found at Llwynmawr, Bala, Mericnethshire.

Portion of broad socketed spear-head from a hoard found
at Broadness on the Thames near Northfleet and described in
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London,
XXIII. 170.

Trumpet-ended penannular armlet found near Tullamore,
King’s Co.

(c) Karly Iron Age.—Dagger-sheath of bronze from West.
Buckland, Som., described in Proc. Soc. Antiqg., XXV. 58, and
iron spear-head of a rare type from the Avon near Clifton.
Presented by Maurice Rosenheim, Esq., FSA.

Iron dagger with debased anthropoid pommel from Sea-
Mills on the Avon near Bristol. Presented by Sir Hercules
Read, P.S.A.

Spur-shaped bronze pendent ornament, probably for a horse,
from Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.

(d) Foreign.—A series of stone implements, many of paleo-
lithic type, bronze axe-heads, daggers, and other weapons from
the neighbourhood of Jerusalem.

Quartzite implements of Le Moustier date from the Grotte
de Bize, Aude, France. Presented by M. Joseph Albaille.

Flint implements of late Le Moustier date from La Quina,
Charente, France. Presented by Miss A. U. Breton.

Stone axe-heads and bronze ring from lake dwellings on
Lake of Neuchatel, Switzerland.

Flint end-scrapers and blades from a grave at Tarkhan,
Egypt, middle lst dynasty. Presented by the British School
of Archeology in Egypt.

Iberian iron spear-heads, dagger, and knife from Spain,
described in Archwologia, LXIV. Presented by Horace
Sandars, Esq., F.S.A.

Pottery vessels, bronze sword and axe-heads, ornaments and
beads from Early lron Age graves in the Caucasus. Presented
by Prince Naourouz Onroushieve.

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Bronze axes, spear-heads, blades, armlet pottery bottle and
bronze vessels found at Khinaman, Persia, and partly described
in Archeologia, LVIII. 10. Presented by Major P. Moles-
worth Sykes.

Bronze razors and hairpins from Corea. Prepented by
G. Eumorfopoulos, Esq.

Pottery vase, probably prehistoric Japanese. Presented by
Mrs. John Dorey.

(2.) Romano-British :—

Inscribed stone altar (Corpus Inscr. Lat., VII., No. 291),
tombstone of Publius Aelius Bagsus of the 20th Legion (Corpus,
VII., No. 292), part of standing figure in niche, querns, lamps,
and cinerary urns from Watercrook, near Kendal, Westmorland ;
also:a sandstone altar dedicated to the Deae Matres, from the
beach at Skinburness, near Silloth, Cumberland (Corpus,
VII, No. 418).

(3.) Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic :—

Enamelled escutcheons and fragments of a bronze bowl
found with an iron sword in a grave at Barlaston, Staffs., and
described in Archeologia, LVI. 44.

Four gravestones with interlaced decoration of the early
11th century, from Bibury, Gloues., described in Proc. Soe.
Antiq., Vol. XXVI.. Presented by the Hon. and Rev. Canon
Ff. G. Dutton.

Irish bronze pins of various designs. Presented by Maurice
Rosenheim, E'sq., FSA.

Bronze penannular brooch from Lough Ravel crannog,
Randalstown, Co. Antrim, another from Mullingar, Co. West-
meath, and two “latchets”’ once enamelled from Newry, one
figured in Proc. Soc. Antiq., XXII, 79.

(4.) Medieval and Later :—

(a.) British —An important series of seal-matrices from the
Dimsdale collection: ‘1) Thos. Beaufort, K.G., Duke of Exeter
and Earl of Dorset, as Lord High Admiral, about 1416-1426,
engraved in Archeologia, XLVII. 278, Fig. 5 ; (2) John Holland,
Karl of Huntingdon, as Lord High Admiral (died 1446); (3)
Priory and Convent of the Holy Cross, Cottingham, E.R.
Yorks, dated 1322; (4) Priory of St. Mary, Langdon, Kent,
13th century ; (5) Guild of St. Helena at Colchester, late 14th
century.

Bronze seal-matrix, 14th century, said to have been found
on Salisbury Plain, with legend LEGE TEGE and IE SV SEL
IOLIS E GAI E LEL. |

Bronze bookbinding stamp with jewel of the Order of the
Bath and arms of Christopher Hatton, Ist baron (died 1670);
a silver ring for a hawk, engraved John Coventry, Esq., wm

Worcestershire ; and fourseal-matrices. Presented by Maurice
Rosenheim, Esq., FSA.

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A series of leaden pilgrims’ signs of various forms, mostly
of the 15th century.

Two bronze candlesticks found on the site of Lesnes Abbey,
Kent. Presented by the Woolwich Antiquarian Society.

Bronze stirrup, late 15th century, said to have been found
in the New Forestat Ringwood. Presented by A. D. Passmore,
Esq.

A collection of iron keys of various dates from the Thames,
formerly in the possession of Sir Chas. Reed, F.S.A. Presented
by William C. Chipper, Esq.

Ninety-six steel seal-matrices of the Exchequer ranging in

date between 1696 and 1840. Presented by the Lords of H.M.
Treasury.

Bronze seal-matrix of Maurice Swaby, Commissary of the
Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 1752-1820.

Gold badge for admission to Vauxhall Gardens, inscribed
Hogarth, vn perpetuam Beneficit memoriam, date about 1730.
Presented by C. Fairfax Murray, Esq.

Leather-covered étui, 18th century, and tortoise-shel] snuff-
box. Presented by Miss S. A. Bird.

(b.) Foreign.—Unfinished bronze seal-matrix, with Virgin
and Child and space for legend, probably Spanish. Presented
by Senor Don G. J. de Osma.

Bronze seal-matrix, St. George of Ferrara, 16th century.
Presented by J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq.

Gilt pocket dial made for Hans Rosenberger in 1557 by
Christopher Schissler, of Augsburg. Presented by Maurice
Rosenheim, Esq., F.S.A.

Gilt metal terrestrial globe with engraved legend, made by
Ferd. Frid. Waechtler, in Furth, 17th century. Presented by
Messrs. Durlacher Bros.

Cameo of a Roman imperial head, signed by Cerbara.
Italian, late 18th century. Presented by Mrs. Louis Fagan
through the National Art-Collections Fund.

Steel seal-matrix with handle in the form of the Bn
Napoleon. Presented by Miss Bird.

Silver pocket-case of circumcision instruments, with book
of the ritual, made for Asher Asher, Esq., M.D. Presented by
Abraham Cohen, Esq., M.D.

(5.) Ceramic and Glass Collections :—

(a.) Oriental Wares.—Figure of a camel and blue-glazed
vase from China. Presented by Dr. F. Buckens.

Pottery head and figure of hen and chicken from tombs in
Szechuan, collected by the late Lieut. Brooke. Presented by
Mrs. Brooke through Lt.-Col. H. H..Godwin-Austen, F.R.S.

Chinese pottery jar with turquoise glaze, perhaps used as a
crucible for enamels. Presented by A. W. Bahr, Esq.

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Earthenware pot froma grave of the Ming period in Fukien,
with inscription; and covered bowi and cup of the T’ang
dynasty. Presented by Rev. H. 8S. Phillips.

Stoneware pillow, Chinese Chiin Chow ware of the Sung
dynasty. Presented by G. Ewmorfopoulos, Esq.

Stoneware quatrefoil tray of Canton ware, signed and dated
1625 a.pv. Presented by Sir Arthur Church.

Green-glazed jar, crackled and powdered with blue, Chinese
Yi-hsing ware, 19th century. Presented by R. L. Hobson,
Esq.

Corean stoneware vase with green glaze. Presented by
Capt. Kenneth Dingwali.

Porcelain and pottery jars and hottles from Corea. Pre-
sented by Wm. Tapp, Esq., F.S.A.

Bottle of celadon ware with engraved pattern, 14th century.
Presented by C. L. Rothstevn, Esq.

Fragments of painted Persian pottery, tiles with human
heads and part of a pottery cup in relief. Presented by George
Tabbagh, Esq.

Three pottery bowls of Persian ware, 14th—15th century.

Pottery tiles, bottles, and bowls with a number of frag-
ments excavated at Sultanabad, Persia. Presented by S. S.
Bagge, Esq., C.M.G.

(b.) Continental.—Potiery bow! and six jugs, glazed and
ornamented in green and manganese, with devices, coats of
arms, and fir-cones in relief, Italian. 14th-i5th century, from
Orvieto.

(c.) English.—Pottery covered cup with cream glaze,
printed in black with figure subject and stamped CREIL, about
1800. Presented by J. Hdge-Partington, Esq.

Six cameos of Wedgwood ware with classical subjects.
Presented vy Maurice Rosenheim, Esq., FSA.

(d.) Glass.—An important series collected in Syria by M.
Durighello, comprising amphore, cups, flasks, vases, stibium-
pots and bowls, and illustrating the various kinds of decoration
in the Roman period. Presented by W. Lockett Agnew, Esq.,
and Fairfax Murray, Esq.

Various bottles and vases of the Romar period from Aleppo
and Samaria.

Green ewer with waved strip below the handle, found in
Dora.

Byzantine jug with cut pattern and medallions.

Inkpot with three loop handles and circular stamps of a
lion on the three indented sides, Arab, obtained at Beirit.
Presented by C. L. Woolley, Esq.

Standing cup with cover with cyphers of Augustus the
Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland and his queen,
Christine Eberhardine, married 1693.

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Six glass cameos and intaglio with classical subjects, 18th
century. Presented by Maurice Rosenheim, Esq., FSA.

Wine bottle, inscribed on medallion D. Davis 1801. Pre-
sented by Sir Hercules Read, P.S.A.

A flask of Nailsea glass. Presented by C. G. France, Esq.

(6.) Collection allustrating various Religions :—

(a.) Christianity:—Five pottery lamps with emblems, from
the Hauran, Syria.

Gold finger-ring with cornelian intaglio of the Good
Shepherd, from a monastery in Cyprus. Presented by Capt.
A. Egerton.

Coptic stone capitals from Memphis, and other antiquities
from Miniet-esh-Shurafeh, six miles south of Helouan, 3rd-6th
eentury. Presented by the British School of Ar cheeology wm

Egypt.

(b.) Buddhism.—Series of Gandhara sculptures with figures
and scenes from Jatakas. Presented by Lt.-Col. G. A. Dale.

Two bronze figures from Ceylon, one recumbent ; Sinhalese.

Presented by Mrs. Charles Lyon.

Gilt metal Buddhist figure on lotus throne, from the Malay
peninsula.

Recumbent alabaster figure of Buddha, found in a niche in
the foundations of an ancient tope at Old Pagan, Burma.
Presented by Mrs. McMahon.

(c.) Lamaism.—Three brass seated figures of deities, one
from the Tibetan palace at Lhasa and subsequently at Pekin.
Presented by 8S. G. Asher, Esq.

Brass shrine, stone tea-pot, horn, thunderbolt-daggers and
trumpet made of human thigh bone, from Tibet.

(d.) Mohammedanism.—Wooden prayer tablet from Persia.

(7.) The Barwell Bequest :—

The most important acquisition of the year is the collection
bequeathed by the Rev. Canon A. H. Sanxay Barwell, F.S.A.
The principal section is that comprising the Limoges enamels,
of which Canon Barwell had the finest series in Europe in
private hands. In addition to these the bequest includes some
fine pieces of silver plate, panels of English alabaster carving,
and a number of examples of pottery and porcelain, both
English and foreign.

Champlevé Enamel.—A square panel with busts of St.
James and St. John. Lorraine work of the 12tn century. A
panel from a Gospels’ cover with the Crucifixion; from the
Albert Way Collection; another similar with Our Lord in
Majesty ; a panel from a casket, with three angels, and a small
pyx; all of Limoges work of the late 12th and early 13th
century.

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Painted Enamels of Limoges.—Of the earlier type, the
most striking and important is a triptych by Nardon Penicaud,
with the Entombment, the Deposition, and the Resurrection.
For beauty and brilliancy of colour, and for the fine character-
istic drawing this piece is in the first rank ; and in these respects
is quite comparable with the triptych from the same hand in
the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection. The other pieces by
Nardon Penicaud are two panels of fine drawing, but more
quiet in their colouring, the Bearing of the Cross and. the
Resurrection. Of the same school is a leaf-shaped panel with
a Tree of Jesse, a smaller triptych, and a pax.

Several examples may be set down as from the hand of
Jean Penicaud II. One of them showing a miracle of St.
Martial is signed in full; of the others, three are in the peculiar
statuesque style, a figure of “Fides” and others of the
Evangelists SS. Matthew and John. The production of the
Penicaud school are represented by avery fine casket of gilt metal
with panels of very minute style illustrating the Labours of
Hercules, and a small and brilliant panel evidently from the
same hand; two panels from the Story of Psyche (after
engravings by the Master of the Die), an oviform vase with
combats of warriors, and two plates with the creation of Adam
and the Fall. The enigmatical artist known as Kip is repre-
sented by three good specimens, one of them a fascinating
composition with the Virgin and Child seated in a building.
Of the work of Pierre Reymond (whether one artist, or father
and son) there are 14 examples dating from 1538 to 1571. An
interesting and brilliant piece is a panel representing monks
playing bowls, another very attractive object is a ewer with
Moses striking the Rock, a second with the Exodus from Egypt,
a fine oval dish signed P, REXMO 1571 with the Creation of
Eve, &¢., in grisaille,a blue tinted grizaille tazza with Dido
entertaining Aeneas; five plates from. a set illustrating the
Story of the Golden Fleece, and a large rose-water dish with a
procession of the seasons. Leonard Limousin is represented by
eight pieces, of which six are copies of the engravings before-
mentioned of the Story of Cupid and Psyche, all in their
original frames; another shows St. Hubert and the miraculous
stag, painted in brilliant coiours, while the last and most
important is a portrait of one of the Reformers, said to be
Calvin himself, executed in the best style of the artist. OfJean
Court “ dit Vigier” there are two examples, both signea ; a tazza
admirably executed with marine deities, another with the falling
of the manna. Jean Courtois has four pieces, two of them of
exceptional brilliancy of colouring, one a tazza, shows the various
phases of the Deluge, the other Joseph receiving his brethren.
Pierre Courtois has five examples, of which two, again, are of
more than usual interest ; one shows a kneeling family of four
persons with the Annunciation in the background and. the
signature P. OVRTEYS, while the other has an allegorical
subject referring to the age of man. One important panel and
two lesser pieces are from the hand of Suzanne Court. The

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first represents the Adoration of the Magi, an admirably pre-
served piece, the others, though on a smaller scale, are both
characteristic and satisfactory. Leonard Limousin II. has only
a single specimen, a salt cellar richly decorated. _A mirror
back is signed by Jean Limousin, and a similar piece bears the
signature I.G. A fine and imposing triptych with the story
of St. John the Baptist, and a small panei showing Christ
before Pilate, are both signed by Martin Didier.

Among those that cannot with certainty be set down to a
particular artist, several deserve mention. One is a very small
panel with scenes from the Passion, exquisitely painted and
ornamented with leafy borders in a style quite original and full
of charm ; two others are larger panels with the Presentation
in the Temple and the Marriage of the Virgin, a fourth is a
medallion in quite an unusual style both as to drawing and
colour, representing Our Lord and the Virgin.

Crystals and Plate.—A curious goblet of crystal said to
have been given to the Abbey of Compiégne by Charles the
Bald; a crystal standing cross containing relics and mounted
in gold enamelled and set with jewels, probably by a Munich
artist of the 16th century ; a processional cross of silver parcel
gilt and set with translucent enamels on relief, an unusually
fine piece of Italian work of about the year 1400; a Sienese
silver chalice with enamels; a silver dish vigorously embossed
with figures, Portuguese, 16th century ; a silver panel embossed
with the Holy Trinity and signed by Van Vianen, 1670, a very
fine work, a silver gilt paten of the 17th century, and a
charming pectoral triptych of Flemish work of about 1470.

Alabaster Carvings.—Six panels of English work of the
15th century, two of them of unusually large size, one
representing a martyrdom; the other four are of the usual
dimensions, the subjects being the Entombment, the Betrayal,
and the Coronation of the Virgin. A smaller panel of French
work of the 15th century, with the Virgin and Child.

Pottery and Porcelain.—A ewer and dish of Persian ware ;
three mugs, a jug, and two dishes of Rhodian ware; seven
dishes of Italian majolica, two by Fra Xanto, and an albarello ;
a dish of Spanish Justre ware with a goose; a cup and saucer
of brown Bayreuth ware; a plate and jug of Rouen faience ;
five examples of fine Meissen porcelain; a cup and saucer of
Berlin porcelain ; a Sévres plate; a cylindrical vase and cover
of Mennecy ; a bowl, cover, and stand of Courtille porcelain ; a
_. plate, a dish, and a cup and saucer of Tournay porcelain; a
plate and a cup and saucer of Vienna; a fine large group of the
dead Christ of Italian ware ; an écuelle of Naples porcelain: a
covered jug of Capo di Monte and three pieces of Chinese
porcelain. .

The English porcelain includes two Chelsea plates, two late
groups of the same factory, a trellis basket, a bow! and cover,
three vases, and a cup and saucer of the finest period; a Bristol
cup and saucer of the service given by Champion to Mrs. Edmund
Burke.

0.75 G

98 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THK BRITISH MUSEUM.

Chinese Enamels.—A saucer, dish, and a covered bowl of
Canton enamel of unusual delicacy of execution.

(8) Chinese Buddhist Statue.

The most important single object acquired by the Depart-
ment during the year is a seated figure of a Buddhist priest in
pottery, attributed to the T’ang dynasty (618-906 a.p.). The
statue is slightly larger than life, and measures 43 inches in
height, seated in Buddhist fashion. It is made of a hard
pottery, covered with glazes of various colours, chiefly yellow
and green, the former being the colour of the characteristic
Buddhist patched robe ; the head is shaven and bare, and the
hands are folded in the lap with the palms upwards.

Works of art of the T’ang dynasty of any size are most
uncommon, and it is evident that statues of the proportions of
this example must necessarily be very rare. It is an astonishing
piece of work, even when regarded from the point of view of
the practical potter, to have dried and fired a figure of this size
with such conspicuous success, and it is somewhat of a revela-
tion to Europe that the Chinese were capable of such work in
the 9th century.

While the technical peculiarities are noteworthy, the artistic
side of the figure is fully as worthy of remark.

Hitherto in Eurupe students have been obliged to depend
upon the historic statues of Japan for an idea of the style of
the Chinese T’ang dynasty. This dynasty is regarded in Japan
as representing the highest ideal of art, and upon it is founded
the classical Japanese style. Now for the first time an original
statue of Chinese work, on a scale which is nearly monumental,
has been brought to Europe. It is clearly a portrait figure,
perhaps shewing some well-known Buddhist dignitary of the
time in the character of a Lohan, or apostle; but there is not
only a complete absence of conventionality in the modelling of
the head and face, but so personal.a character, that it is almost
certain that we have to deal here with a lifelike portrait of a
personage of distinction in the Buddhist hierarchy of the 9th
century.

Purchased with the help of contributions from the
National Art-Collections Fund and from private sources.

(9.) Oriental and Hthnographical :— ;
Asia.—Bronze votive axe, inlaid with silver, representing @
tiger attacking an ibex and being attacked by a boar, the back
of which forms the cutting edge; probably Bactrian work.
Presented by Henry Oppenheimer, E'sq., through the Nationat
Art-Collections Fund. (See Proceedings of the Society of
Antiquaries, Vol. XXV., p. 56, and Man, 1914-11.)

Bronze figure of a monstrous winged lion, cast and finished
by chiselling, probably Bactrian, and a stone bowl-shaped dise,
with a lion and buffalo confronted in relief, from the Helmund

BRITISH AND MEDIEVAL ANTIQUITIES. 99

River, Afghanistan. Presented by the National Art-Collec-
tions Fund. (For the lon, see Lssays and Studies presented
to William Ridgeway, p. 261.)

Specimens of Biloch pottery, and a glazed pottery lamp
from Seistan. + Presented by Lt.-Col. R. A. E. Benn.

A bronze duck on a hexagonal base. Presented by
Rh. Blumenfeld, Esq.

A series of annular and penannular brooches from India.
Presented by Mrs. Rivett-Carnac. (See Journal of Indian
Art, July 1913.)

An ethnographical series from the Lakher hill-tribes,
Burma.

A fire-devil and personal ornaments from Tibet.

Specimens of clothing from the Tungus and two bark
magical manuscripts from the Battak of Sumatra.

Bronze spoon, tweezers, and appliqué ornaments from Korean
graves. Presented by G. Eumorfopoulos, Esq.

A metal figure of Shou Lao, god of longevity, covered with
a mosaic of lacquer and realgar, Chinese. Presented by
J. Sparks, Esq.

Two bronze mirrors, T’ang period.

A series of miniature Japanese kimono. Presented by
Hisayoshi Kawamura and Washio Nakanwra.

A suit of Japanese armour of the 18th century. Presented
by Sir C. Hercules Read.

Two large standing figures of stone, Chinese, of the Ming
dynasty.

Africa.—A large series of ethnographical objects, including
a number of stone implements, from various Mohammedan and
Pagan tribes of Northern Nigeria. Presented by Mr. and Mrs.
Oi D. Temple.

An important Eiiieonapiion! series from Abyssinia, includ-.
ing a number of objects from the Pagan tribes of the interior,.
collected by the donor. Presented by Louis Clarke, Esq.

A hide shield with silver-gilt mounts and a velvet *lemd,”
from Abyssinia. Presented by The Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Grey,
Bart., K.G.

A series illustrating the methods employed by the Ancient
Egyptians in the manufacture of alabaster vases and stone
beads. Presented by the British School of Archeology vn
Egypt.

A type-series of stone implements from the French Sudar
Presented by Dr. F. de Zeltner.

A wooden figure from Mendi-land Sierra Leone.

A series of stone and glass beads, collected on the Gold
Coast. Presented by Dr. F. W. Moir.

A number of objects from various parts of Africa, including
two fine bronze plaques with figures in relief from Benin.
Presented by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Gq 2

100 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

A large fan, with amuletic inscriptions in Arabic, from
Nigeria. Presented by Colonel Beddoes.

A wooden fetish mask from the Yakoko Pagans, Yola
Province, Nigeria. Presented by J. Pollard, Esq.

A wooden mask covered with hide; from the*Munchi coun-
try, Nigeria.

A series of ethnographical objects, chiefly connected with
pagan worship from Nigeria.

A Series of ethnographical objects from the Bushongo,
Bashilele, and Baluba peoples of the Belgian Congo. Presented
by Mrs. Marguerite Roby.

A carved wooden staff from Uguha, and a neck-ornament of
hippopotamus-ivory from Ujiji.

A series of obsidian flakes from Kikuyu, East Africa Pro-
tectorate. Presented by C. W. Hobley, Esq., C.M.G.

A collection of weapons and other objects from. various
tribes in the Kenia Province, East Africa Protectorate. Pre-
sented by Lieut. G. S.J. Orde-Browne.

A set of divining-bones from the Wanki District, and two
Mashukolumbwe pipes. North-west Rhodesia; and a knife from
Mashonaland. Presented by F. W.T.& J. W. Posselt, Esqs.

A series of stone implements from Broken Hill Mine, and a

number of fragments of oriental pottery from the ruined sites,
Rhodesia. Presented by Sir C. Hercules Read.

Oceania.—A large and important collection illustrating the
ethnography of the mountain tribes of the interior behind Port
Moresby, British New Guinea. Presented by R. W. Williamson,
E'sq.

An ethnographical series comprising objects from various
“islands in Melanesia, principally New Caledonia.

An ethnographical series including objects from Australia,
New Guinea, New Britain, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Fiji,
Tonga, Samoa, and New Zealand.

A carved wooden club of remarkable form, probably for
splitting bread-fruit, from Tonga.

A dried human. head, showing tatued decoration, from New
Zealand. Presented by Miss Bacot.

A model canoe and a carved wooden bowl, from New
Zealand. Presented by Miss Godley.

Two feather cloaks from New Zealand. Presented by C. He
Waterlow, Esq.

Amevica—A series of stone implements from Greenland,
Bequeathed by the late Edward Whymper, Esq.

Specimens of shell beads from Yale and Lytton, British
Columbia. Presented by the Rev. H. J. Underhill.

An ancient obsidian breast-ornament, of remarkable form
and workmanship, and an obsidian spear head, from L. Chapala
Jalisco; an obsidian spear head from Azcapotzalco, Mexico;

BRITISH AND MEDIZVAL ANTIQUITIES. 101

a large and important series of embroidered textiles, chiefly
from the Zapotec and Mazatec of Oaxaca, Mexico. Presented
by J. Cooper Clark, Esq.

A native loom from the Mazatec country, Mexico.

Stone figure of a maize-deity, found at Minatitlan, near
Vera Cruz, Mexico.

A collection of ancient pottery from graves in the neigh-
bourhood of Buenos Aires, Costa Rica.

A large shell pendant, encrusted with mosaic of coloured
shell and malachite in the design of a human head with head
dress. This, one of the largest and finest specimens known of
ancient Peruvian mosaic work, was discovered in an early grave
in the valley of Nasca. A gold head ornament, from an ancient
grave at Huacho. And a large tapestry, woven in native style,
but with an escutcheon bearing a Spanish coat of arms in the
centre and the motto SI DIOS ES POR NOS QUIEN SERA CONTRA
NOS ; obtained in Cuzco. This tapestry was probably made for
some immigrant Spanish family not long after the conquest
(See the Burlington Magazine, Vol. XXIIL., p. 146). Presented
by Louis Clarke, Esq.

A large vase with painted design of tapestry workers ; from
an ancient grave at Trujillo, Peru. Presented by Herbert
Gibson, Esq.

A pottery vase with design in colours of humming birds and
flowers; from an ancient grave in the Nasca valley, Peru.
Presented by Colonel F. H. Ward.

A pendant and beads of turquoise, and a pottery disc, from
ancient graves at Chanaral, Chile; together with specimens of
unworked turquoise from the same locality. Presented by
Oswald H. Evans, Esq.

A shrunk human head, ornamented with feathers and
humming bird skins; from the Jivaro Indians of Ecuador.
Presented by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Plymouth.

A series of feather ornaments from natives of the upper
Purus river. Presented by W. H. Hildreth, Hsq.

CHRISTY COLLECTION,

During the year the Trustees have acquired by donation the
following objects, which have been transferred to the Trustees
of the British Museum :—

(1.) Hthnography of Africa :—
A writing-board from Algiers. Presented by Mrs. J. D.
Paul.
An ethnographical series from Mendiland, Sierra Leone
Presented by Philip Norman, Esq.
A perforated quartz pebble, found in the earth 20 miles
north of Accra, Gold Coast. Presented by Sergt. Palmer, R.E.

102 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

A state umbrella, formerly belonging to the chief of Hjissu,
Ashanti; taken during the expedition. Presented by Capt.
C. H. Armitage.

A stone celt, found in gravel on a 50 ft. cliff at Sekondi,
Ashanti. Presented by S. H. R. Beard, Esq.

A carved ivory tusk, from Benin. Presented by Lowis
Clarke, E'sq.

A hat and an ornamental “ tobe,’ from Northern Nigeria.
_ Presented by H. G. D. Pudsey, Esq. ?

An ethnographical series from Angola. Presented by Mrs.
Newton.

An ethnographical series from Bukedi, Uganda Protectorate.
Presented by R. B. Curwen, Esq.

A head-dress from the Lango tribe, Uganda Protectorate.
Presented by G. P. V. Gervoise, Esq.

A “simé” from the country inland of Mombasa, and a quiver
and arrows from Bagamoyo, East Africa. Presented by L. F.
Brady, Esq.

A lump of slag and an iron implement, found about 40 miles
south-east of Buluwayo, Rhodesia. Presented by F. E. B.
Fripp, Esq.

A series of jasper flakes from the Kalahari desert, half-way
between Prieska and Uppington. Presented by C H. Newberry,
Li'sq.

(2.) Ethnography of Asva :—

Specimens of clothing and a woman’s work-bag, from the
Samoyed tribes. Presented by R. Durand, Esq.

Sandals from Bilochistan ; boots and a whip’from Chitral.
Presented by M. Longworth Dames, Esq.

A series of model fish-traps, from Burma. Presented by
C. BE. Scobell, Esq.

A back-ornament of wood fringed with hair, from Assam.
Presented by H. B. C. Hill, Esq.

Four stone implements, from the Chittagong Hills. Pre-
sented by the Rev. W. J. L. Wenger.

- A wooden pillow, a piece of bark-cloth and two encrusted
teeth, from the Nicobar Islands. Presented by H. H. Man,
Esq.

An ethnographical series from the tribes of British North
Borneo. Presented by G. Cathcart Wooley, Esq.

(3.) Ethnography of Oceania :—

A. pendant of human hair, worn by the Munderry natives of
Western Australia. Presented by H. G. Beasly, Esq.

Hight spears, a bark basket and personal ornaments, from
North Australia. Presented by Dr. W. Collinigs Dawson.

BRITISH AND MEDIEVAL ANTIQUITIES. 105

Six stone implements from a deserted camp, Dinninup,
Upper Blackwood, Western Australia. Presented by J. M.
Whistler, Esq.

Three obsidian knives and two basket-bags, from the
Admiralty Islands. Presented by A. W. F. Fuller, Esq.

An implement of flaked stone, found, together with two
others, at Malekula, New Hebrides. Presented by Norman H.
Hardy, Esq.

Clubs from the Marquesas and Fiji Islands, and a ceremonial

paddle from High Island. Presented by W. L. Hildburgh, Esq.

(4.) Antiquities and Ethnography of America :—
A shell pendant in the form of a human head, from Mexico.
Presented by Miss Thornton.

Two small stone celts found in a kitchen-midden in Jamaica.
Presented by G. C. Longley, Esq.

A vase of black pottery, coast style, from Peru. Presented
by L. F. Brady, Esq.

A pottery vase found in a grave, Peru. Presented by Mrs.
Newery.

Pottery fragments and quartzite flakes, from ruins near
Chilecito, La Rioja, Argentine Republic. Presented by W. R.
Schoeller, Esq.

Specimen of “ maté,” with carved gourd and metal tube for
drinking, from Paraguay. Presented by Prof. S. G. Shattock.

C. Hercules Read.

104 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS.
I].— Registration and Arrangement.

1. Greek Series :-—

Hight hundred and one coins of various parts of the
Greek world, recently acquired, have been registered and 809
incorporated, while 60 coins previously set aside as duplicates
have been re-incorporated.

The early electrum coinage of Asia Minor, the smallest
denominations of Athens, and the series of the “ Trésor
d’Auriol” class have been transferred into trays protected
with glass lids. The satrapal coinage of Babylon has been
re-arranged according to Imhoof-Blumer’s classification, and all
the gold and silver issues in the name of Alexander the Great
have been re-arranged under symbols and monograms in
alphabetical order, the gold being transferred to a more
convenient cabinet. The Bactrian series has been re-arranged
under monograms instead of denominations as formerly, the
Ptolemaic according to the classification in Svoronos’ work
Nonmicpata tov IroXsuaiwy, to which a reference number has
been placed under each coin. Thick heading-cards have been
written for the Ptolemaic, Syracusan, Seleucid, Pamphylian
and Pisidian series and a concordance of the coins described in
the Catalogue under Elis and Sicyon has been drawn up to
indicate their present position in the trays. ‘The Mysian series
as far as Cisthene has also been examined and references to the
Berlin Corpus inserted. In the Cyrenaic series casts and
electrotypes of coins not in the British Museum have been
temporarily incorporated in the collection for the purposes of
study and the whole has been expanded into two cabinets.

Two hundred and ninety-six casts have been incorporated
in the collection of casts of coins not in the British Museum.

The following collections have been examined and a
selection made for purchase (a) Four dealers’ stocks of Cyrenaic
coins, (b) three collections submitted by Levantine dealers,
(c) various Sale Catalogues British and Continental.

The MS. Bibhography of Numismatics has been brought up
to date, and the Card Index of Coins arranged according to
types has so grown as to necessitate expansion into another
cabinet. An index of the city names in the genitive case on
Greek coins, arranged according to terminals to assist in
identification, has been completed, to which a supplement of
Doric genitives has been added.

Considerable selections of casts have been oe for foreign
scholars.
2. Roman and Byzantine Series :—

Two hundred and ninety-six coins, Republican and Tmperial,
have been registered and 298 incorporated.

DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. © 105

The copper of the lst, 2nd and 3rd centuries after Christ
has heen carefully examined and re-arranged, and the coinage
of the Constantinian period has also been re-arranged in the
light of modern researches, heading cards bearing the emperor’s
name, types, mintmarks and—where possible—dates being
added. The Wigan collection of Roman brass has _ been
incorporated in the general collection.

A beginning has been made with the examination and
arrangement of duplicates and of casts of coins not in the
British Museum.

The coins found during various excavations at Wroxeter
have been looked through and identified and the same has been
done for two collections in the Gravesend and Southampton
Museums.

A selection of Roman portraits on coins and medallions for
electrotyping has been made for the Departmental Exhibition,
and another for the Society of Roman Studies.

A dealer’s stock of 2nd brass has been inspected and a
selection made, and many sale catalogues British and foreign
have been examined with a view to acquisitions.

The Bibliography of Roman Numismatics has been brought
up to date and progress has been made with the Card Index of
Coin-types.

3. British and Colonial Series :-—

Six hundred and sixty-five coins, tokens and medals have
been registered and 680 incorporated, and 320 casts have been
incorporated in the collection of casts of coins not in the
British Museum.

The coins of Edward I., Il. and Henry III. and of Charles I.
have been re-arranged and expanded, additional heading cards
being inserted, while the whole series from Edward IV. to
Henry VII. has been arranged in more convenient cabinets.
The ordinary tokens and ‘‘medley ” tokens of Canada have
been re-arranged according to the general classification in use.
The English medals have been in part transferred into new
cardboard trays.

A further examination of the Steppingley hoard of
Henry III. pennies has been made, and the collection
bequeathed by Caroline Lady Ramsay examined, while several
sale catalogues have been studied with a view to acquisitions.
A selection has also been made from a collection of Canadian
tokens offered to the Museum.

4, Medieval and Modern Series :—

Four hundred and forty coins medals and jetons have been
registered and 576 incorporated.

The collation of the proof sheets of H.M. the King of Italy’s
Corpus of Italian coins with the British Museum Collection
has been continued and the series of Mantua has been expanded.
The Italian medals of the 15th and 16th centuries have been

106 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

transferred into cardboard trays in more convenient cabinets
and the series lettered throughout. Progress has been made
with the card index of foreign personal medais after 1600, in
the course of which the whole series has been expanded and
made more accessible.

The following collections have been examined with a view
to purchase or presentation : (a) a dealer’s stock of medizval
Italian coins, (b) several small collections of miscellaneous coins
and medals, (c) the bequest of Caroline Lady Ramsay.

5. Oriental Series: —

Two thousand four hundred and forty-three coins have been
registered and 2,316 incorporated.

The incorporation of the Van den Bergh gift of 2,556 coins
has been completed ; the series of the Pathan Sultans of Delhi
has been expanded from one to two cabinets and that of the
Moghul Emperors of India from 2} to 5 cabinets. In both
series the coins of each reign have been classified under mints.
Additional heading cards have been written and inserted in the
series of the Moghuls and of the Shahs of Persia, and the coins
of Mysore and. of other Native States of India have been
studied and rectifications made. The Sassanian series has been
examined on behalf of a foreign scholar and casts made and
sent of all rare or unpublished coins. Three small collections
have been examined and a selection made.

6. General Arrangement :-—

The summary inventory of the contents and position of the
cabinets has been checked.

II.—Catalogues.

1. CATALOGUES OF GREEK COINS.
Coins of Palestine (Galilea, Samaritis, and Judea), by
G. F. Hill
Sheets A-Ll] of the text and slips I-31 of the Introduction
have been passed for press ; further sheets and slips have been
sent forrevise. Anindex has been compiled for the introduction
and the text as far as paged.

Coins of Cyrenaica, by EK. 8. G. Robinson.

The early coins of the Ptolemies, struck in Rhodes, Cos and
the Cyclades, the coins of the early Seleucids and coins of Crete
and Syracuse have been carefully examined, in view of their
relations to coins of Cyrenaica. In the series of Cyrenaica
itself, the silver coinage of. the 3rd Century B.c. has been
re-arranged, casts of coins not in the collection have been
inserted and the succession of a series of magistrates has been
determined by the comparison of their dies.

Coins of Arabia, Mesopotamia, ete.

A special bibliography of coins of this district has been
compiled, and 87 coins have been weighed.

DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 107

2. CATALOGUE OF RoMAN COINS.
Coins of the Harly Roman Empire, by H. Mattingly.

Four hundred and sixty coins have been weighed and
described. <A close study has been made of the coinage of
Augustus, Nero, and Galba and his successors, with a view to
determining time and place of minting of various series. The
brass of the Ist century after Christ has been re-arranged ; a
classification of finds of Imperial coins has been begun, and a
rough draft of a section of the Introduction (on the period of
Galba) has been written.

3. CATALOGUE OF ENGLISH COINS.
Coins of the Norman Kings, by G. C. Brooke.

One hundred and twelve coins have been weighed and
described. Information about the provenance, history and
meaning of particular coins has been collected from various
sources, detailed notes on epigraphy have been made with a
view to determining the order of types, the coins of the
Norman Kings have been carefully examined for evidence of
the methods of die-producticn then in use, progress has been
made with the attribution of irregular issues of Stephen, and
the Anglo-Saxon Laws and the Charters of William I. and Ii.
have been searched for information about coins.

_ A large part of the Introduction has been written, including
the Sections on Finds and Epigraphy, and casts of Pl LVE
have been mounted.

4, CATALOGUE OF ORIENTAL COINS.
Coins of the Guptas, by J. Allan.

The Introduction has been revised and continued, and
624 tickets for the Catalogue have been written and placed
under coins. Sheets A-T have been passed for press, and of the
Introduction slips 1 to 30 are in type. The 24 Plates have been
passed for press.

III.— Acquisitions.

The total number of coins and medals added to the
Department during the year 1913 was 2,757, of which 97 were
gold, 1,717 of silver, 871 of bronze, and 72 of other metals.

The following table shows the numbers of the new acqui-

sitions, classified according to the several series to which they
belong :—

| E Other
Class. Gold. | Silver. | Bronze.} Metals, | Total.
5 etc.

Greek - - - - 5 613 150 3 771
Ron:an - - - 8 37 246 — 291
British and Golem! = = 32 460 163 37 692
Medizval and Modern - - 33 236 220 27 516
Oriental - - - 19 371 92 5 487
Total 2 ah eo 717 871 TOOTS T

108. ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Of the above, 1,328 have been presented, viz., 68 of gold,
754 of silver, 448 of bronze, and 58 of other metals.

The following is a list of benefactors to the Department
of Coins and Medals during the past year :—

His Majesty Victor Emmanuel III.. King of Italy; H.R.H.
the Duke of Cumberland, through K. K. Regierungsrat Eduard
Fiala ; the American Numismatic Society ; the Bombay Branch
of the Royal <Asiatic Society ; the City of Nottingham Arts
Museum; the Deputy Master of the Mint ; the Eoypt Explora-
tion Fund; the Government of Behar and Orissa; H.M. First,
Commissioner of Works; Generalverwaltung der Koniglichen
Museen, Berlin; Koninkhjke Akademie van Wetenschappen,
Amsterdam ; the National Art-Collections Fund; the Resident
at Jaipur; Sociedad Economica de Amigos del Pais de la
Habana, Cuba; the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery ;
E. Heron Allen, Tisq.; H. F. Amedroz, Esq.; Sir Athelstane
Bames,: Cass lec A. ih Baldwin, Esq.; HE. M. Beloe, Esq. ;
Frederick Cavendish Bentinck, Esq. ; His Excellency General
A. L. Bertier-de-la-Garde ; Colonel Gerard Boyle; F. Bowcher,
Esq.;° LL. E.. Bruun, Esq.:;; W..H..Buekler, Esq: ; Rey. 2. Me
Burton; Captain J. 8. Cameron; Mr. Chai Chang Wu; Miss
K. Clarke; Colonel E. R. Conolly ; the late Lieut.-Colonel R.
Manifold Craig, R.A.M.C. ; C. Dack, Esq. ; R. Dalton, Esq.; Miss
Florence Davidson ; Campbell Dodgson, Esq. ; J. C.J. Drucker,
Esq.; F. J. Dryhurst, Esq., C.B.; Evelyn Grant Duff, Esq.,
C.M.G.; MM. L. Duval et L. Janvier ; Mrs. Arundel Esdaile ;
General Giuseppe Ettorre; Miss Helen Farquhar; A. Fel-
senthal, Esq.; Lionel L. Fletcher, Esq.; Dr. M. Gaster ;
Commendatore Francesco Gnecchi; H. A. Grueber, Esq. ;
Dr. Georg Habich; F. W. Hasluck, Esg.; Major W. N. Hay;
A. G. Heaton, Esq. eee iid Ee Henderson, Esq. ; Miss Hewett;
W. E. Hidden, Ksq.; G. F. Hill, Esq.; W. R. Hubbard, Esq. ;
Professor H. L. Hutt, B.S.A.; T. A. Joyce, Esq. ; Alfred Jones,
Esq.; the Hon. A. Keppel; the late Sir R. Hamilton Lang,
K.C.M.G.; L. A. Lawrence, Esq.; Dr. Philip Lederer; Pro-
fessor J. Leite des Vasconcellos; S. Littlejohn, Esq.; Alex-
ander Mann, Esq.; H. Mattingly, Esq.; L. Messenger, Esq. ;
Sir George Meyrick, Bart.; P. E. O’Brien-Butler, Esq. ;
H. Oppenheimer, Esq.; M. Alexey V. Oreshnikov; J. Edge
Partington, Esq.; W. R. Paton, Esq.; Mrs. J. D. Paul; S. E.
Pears, Esq., I.C.S.; John R. Preece, Esq.; M. 8S. Pritchard,
Hsq.is (HA. Rabino, Esq.; S. Raffaeli, Esq.; the late Caroline
Lady Ramsay; W. iu Ready, Hsq.; Sir Hercules Read, P.S:A.;
John Robinson, Esq.; Maurice asec Hsqa7 Ruzicka,
Esq.; G. L. Shackles, Esq. ; Heer van Sousbeeck ; H. Symonds,
Esq.; L. O. Th. Tudeer, Esq.; Henry Van den Bergh,: Esq. ;
R. Whittall, Esq.; J. W. Wilson, Esq.; P. Woods, Esq., C.B.

IV.—Remarkable Coins and Medals.
1. Greek Series :—-
(a) Europe :—
Italy.—Campania.—Fistelia.—A silver obol (8 grs.} of the
first halt of the fourth century ; obv. Head of Athena r.; rev.

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Fore-part of human-headed bull r.; inscription in Oscan
characters.

Neapolis.—8 silver didrachms of the fourth-third cen-
turies; obv. Head of the nymph Parthenope; rev. Human-
headed bull.

Presented by the late Sir Robert Hamilton Lang, K.C.M.G.

Calabria. — Tarentum. — A silver “horseman” stater
(100-9 grs.) of the period 272-235 B.c., with the magistrate’s
name Heracletos (Evans VIII. G2).

Lucania.—Metapontum.—aA silver stater (116 grs.) of fine
style of the fourth century B.c.; cbv. Head of Persephone I. ;
rev. Ear of barley ; symbol, alabastos.

Thurium.—A silver didrachm of reduced weight (98°8 ers.)
but with the old fourth century types (head of Athena in Attic
helmet, rev. ®A between the legs of the bull).

A silver didrachm (96°4 grs.) of the third century; obv.
Head of Athena r. in crested Corinthian helmet; rev. Bull
charging r.; above, owl flying. (Cp. Evans, Horsemen of
Tarentum, p. 228, no. 1.) Found at Taranto in 1912.

Bruttium.— Caulonia.—A silver didrachm (113 gers.) of

the early fifth century, struck over an archaic stater of
Corinth.

Croton.—-A silver quarter-stater (27°4 grs.) of the earliest
period (550-480 B,c.), obv. Tripod, rev. Tripod incuse.

A silver diobol (13°2 grs.) of the fifth century ; obv. Tripod,
rev. Kagle and value-mark OO.

Rhegium.—A silver hemiobol (4°4 gers.) of the fifth century ;
obv. Lion’s scalp, rev. H within O.

Sicily.—Gela.—A rare silver tetradrachm (261°3 grs.) of
the fifth century ; obv. Four-horse chariot, rev. Fore-part
of human-headed bull with a wreath round his neck.

Messana.—A silver tetradrachm (265°5 grs.) of the fifth
century B.c.; oby. Mule-chariot, rey. Hare, with the letter B
in the field.

Presented by Sir Athelstane Baines, CSI.

Syracuse.—A_ silver tetradrachm (268°8 grs.) of the time
ef Gelon I.; obv. Chariot, rev. Head of Arethusa surrounded
by dolphins.

Presented by the late Sir R. Hamilton Lang, K.C.M.G.

Pannonia.—A silver stater (156°5 grs.); obv. Human head
r., rev. Horse 1., with wheel above and traces of inscription
below. ,

Presented by Alexander Mann, Esq.

Thraco—Macedinian.—The Orrhescii.—A silver didrachm ;
obv. Centaur carrying nymph, rev. Incuse square quartered.
Differing from the usual series in its low weight (122°5 grs.),
most of the coins like it being struck on the Babylonic
standard.

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Thrace.—Abdera.—A. silver triobol (42°8 grs.) of the late
fifth century, with the name of the magistrate Hieromnemon
( Berlin Corpus IL., p. 75, no. 112).

Mesembria.—A bronze coin (29°1 grs.) of the fourth cen-
tury ; obv. Helmeted head to r., rev. Pelta-shaped shield (ep.
Berlin Catalogue I., 189).

Macedon.—Alexander the Great.—Two gold staters from
the hoard found at Dali, in Cyprus, by the late Sir R. H. Lang.

89 silver tetradrachms from the hoard found at Damanhur,
in Egypt.

A silver drachm (64°6 grs.) of unusually fine style of the
usual types ; symbol, star between crescents.

Beroea.—A bronze coin of the Macedonian Koinon (second
Neokorate); obv. Head of Alexander the Great, rev. Two
temples (ep. Vomisma 1., Pl. IIT. 5).

Corinth.—A silver stater (128°8 grs.) of the period 400—
350 B.c.; obv. Pegasus r., rev. Head of Athena r.; symbol,
pileus and letter E.

Two silver staters of the fourth century B.c., of the usual
types (symbols, amphora and Victory).

Presented by the late Sir R. Hamilton Lang, K.C.M.G.

Melos.—Three specimens of the rare staters of the fifth
century coinage, before 416 B.c., from the hoard discovered
in 1908 (Revue Numismatique, 1909, pp. 188ff.). All three
have the same obverse type, a quince; they differ in their
reverses, which bear respectively a triskeles of human legs
( 216 grs.), a wheel (212°1 grs.), and a crescent (212°1 grs.).

Presented by Henry Oppenheimer, Esq., FSA.

Spain.—Carthago Nova.—A rare silver tridrachm of the
Bareid period (221--209 B.c.), weighing 172°3 grs. Obv. Beard-
less head of Heracles, with club over shoulder. Rev. African
elephant. See Berichte der k. preuss. Akad. der Wiss.,
11 June 1863, pp. 248ff.

(b) Asia and Africa :—

Tonia.—A rare electrum one-third stater of the Milesian
standard (73°0 grs.) of an uncertain mint; obv. Pegasus, rev.
Two ineuse squares. Of this piece only two other specimens
are known.

Presented by W. H. Buckler, Esq.

Colophon.—A silver drachm (52°5 gers.) of the fourth
century B.c.; obv. Head of Apollo l., rev. Lyre; magistrates’
name Aristeid(es).

Evythrae.—A silver drachm (55:4 gers.) of the fourth
century B.C., with the magistrate’s name Diopeithes.
Presented by Sir Athelstane Baines, C.S.I.

Lydia.—Hypaepa.—A bronze coin of Antoninus Pius, with
the temple of the goddess Artemis-Anaitis.
Presented by W. H. Buckler, Esq.

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Nysa.-—A silver cistophorus (160°4 gers.) of the year 6 of the
Asian era (129-8 B.c.); magistrate’s name An. izpéwe.

A bronze coin of the Emperor Valerian; rev. Prize crown
inscribed Osoyayea Oixoupevixa, and magistrate’s name emt yp. M-
Avp. Aatavov.

Philadelphia in alliance with Smyrna.—A bronze coin of
Commodus, with the name of the magistrate Oresteinos. This
coin proves that the word ’Opeoravorv, which was read on
another specimen and supposed to indicate the existence of
a mint called Oresteia, is a mistake.

Tripelis.—Fifteen bronze coins of Imperial date.
Presented by W. R. Paton, Esq.

Cyprus.—394 silver coins of Citium, Amathus, Paphos,
and Salamis, all small denominations, from the Dali hoard
discovered in 1869, representing the small currency of the
island towards the end of the fifth century B.c.

Presented by the late Sir Robert Hamilton Lang, K.C.M.G.

Lapethus.—A bronze coin of King Praxippos, who was
deposed by Ptolemy in 313-2 B.c. Obv. Head of Apollo.
Rev. Krater.

Presented by the late Lt.-Col. R. Manifold Craig, R.A.M.C.

Syria.— Seleucus I.— A silver tetradrachm (259°5 grs.)
with the types of Alexander the Great and the mint-marks
AZT and a monogram in the field, and A under the throne.

Antiochus IT. or Antiochus Hieraxz (246-227 B.c.).—A
silver tetradrachm (262 grs.); rev. Apollo on omphalos; in
exergue, humped bull (?).

Seleucus III. (226-223 B.c.).— A silver tetradrachm
(260°5 grs ); rev. Apollo on omphalos; in field 1., uncertain
symbol.

Timarchus (162 B.c.).—A silver tetradrachm (256 grs.) ;
obv. Head of Timarchus r. helmeted, rev. Dioscuri on horseback ;
inser. [BaotA ]éwe Meyadov Tysapxov. This is the third known
specimen of the tetradrachm coinage of this usurper, the other
specimens being that which was restruck by Demetrius and
Laodice (British Museum Catal. Seleucid Kings, p. 50), and one
formerly in the EH. F. Weber Collection. The types and style
of title are borrowed from Eucratides, of Bactria, on one of
whose coins it is possible that this specimen was actually
struck.

Paltos.—A bronze coin of Julia Maesa or Mamaea; rev.
A temple of four columns containing the seated figure of the
City-goddess, with a half-figure of a swimming river-god at
her feet.

Phenicia.—Sidon.—Strato I. (370-358 B.c.).—A bronze
coin (38 grs.); obv. Head of King Strato r., rev. Galley, and
date 12.

Presented by W. R. Hubbard, Esq.

Tyvre.—A silver quarter-stater or half-shekel (49°3 grs.) of
the first coinage (second half of the fifth century). Obv.

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Dolphin ; Pheenician inscription ma-hatsi (“half”) followed
by the date 11 (7). Rev. Owl with crook and flail.

Cyrenaica.—Barce.—An archaic silver tetradrachm of Attic
standard (249 gers.) and two silver tetradrachms of Phcenician
standard (201°6 and 196°4 grs.), all of usual types; obv.
Bearded head of Zeus Ammon, rev. Silphium plant.

Cyrene.—A gold stater of the fourth century; obv. Four-
horse chariot driven by the Nymph Cyrene, rev. Zeus seated
(133°6 grs.) with magistrate’s name Jasonos. Another with
similar obverse ; rev. Zeus Ammon pouring a libation with magis-
trate’s name Poliantheus (132°7 grs.). Two silver tetradrachms
of Pheenician standard; obv. Bearded head of Zeus Ammon
with the magistrate’s name Nikis: rev. Silphium plant (201°6
and 203 grs.); another of slightly earlier style of the same
types. without imagistrate’s name (201°5 grs.) Two tetra-
drachms of similar types and of Rhodian weight, one with
symbol cornucopiz (203°5 grs.), the other with symbol crab
and monogram reading KYPH (222°6 grs.). Three didrachms
of Rhodian standard; obv. Head of beardless Ammon, rev.
Silphium plant, one with symbol star (117-4 grs.), two with
symbol cornucopie (119 and 115:1 grs.). One didrachm of
Rhodian standard; obv. Head of beardless Ammon resembling
Ptolemy Soter, rev. Silphium plant and inscription BAZI (Aéwe)
(110°7 grs.).

2. Roman Series :—

Republic.—A quinarius of the moneyer Tampilus (e. 196-
173 B.c.). Obv. Head of Roma r. V, Rev. Roma and mono-
gram of TAMP. The Dioscuri on horseback.

From the Prowe Collection.

A denarius of Sextus Pompey, struck in Spain, 45-44 B.c.
Obv. Head of Pompey the Great r.; SEX MAG PIVS IMP.
Rev. PIETAS. Pietas standing 1. ;

From the Prowe Collection.

An aureus of the moneyer C. Vibius Varus, struck c. 38 B.C.
Obv. Head of Mark Antony r. Rev. Two right hands clasped.
One of a series of coins showing on the obverses the heads of
the three triumvirs, Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus.

From the Prowe Collection.

Empire—Augustus.—A denarius of the moneyer L. Ca-
ninius Gallus, struck at Rome c. 14 B.c.; rev. A bisellium
with the apparitor’s staff on the 1.

From the Prowe Collection.

Germanicus.—A double denarius (wt. 113 grs.), struck by
Germanicus as proconsul in the East, in the years 18-19 a.p.
Only one other specimen of this coin is known, and is in the
Berlin Cabinet. Apart from its rarity, the coin has great
historical interest, in that it commemorates the coronation of
Artaxias at Artaxata as king of Armenia by Germanicus. The
place of minting is not quite certain, but is probably Caesarea
in Cappadocia.

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Septimius Severws.—An interesting aureus, with the rev.
FVNDATOR PACIS, Emperor, veiled, standing 1., holding
branch, probably struck in the years 200 to 201 a.p. The type
alludes to the establishment of peace, after the conclusion of the
civil wars against Niger and Albinus and the Parthian war.

Presented by J. R. Preece, Esq.

Honorius.—A gold solidus struck at Ravenna, and found at
Richborough Castle.

Presented by H.M. First Commissioner of Works.

Byzantine —Basiliscus and Marcus.—A solidus, with the
rev. type SALVS REIPVBLICA: Easiliscus and Marcus seated
facing on throne, struck in the years 476-477 a.p., during
which the usurper held Constantinople. The reverse type is
new to the collection.

Artavasdes and Nicephorus (A.D. 742?-744?). A silver
siliqua struck at Constantinople.

In connexion with the Roman Series, mention should be
made of the extensive series of casts of Roman medallions,
illustrating the work “J Medaglioni Romani,” by Comm.
Francesco Gnecchi, presented by the author.

3. British and Colonial Series :—
(a) Coins and Tokens :—

A selection of early British coins (gold, silver, bronze, and
potin), including some unpublished varieties, from the
excavation at Hengistbury Head.

Presented by Sir George Meyrick, Bart.

A unique gold coin of Offa, king of Mercia 757-796, from
the P. W. P. Carlyon-Britton sale, lot 269. This coin has been
one of the most famous of the English Series since its acquisi-
tion in Rome by the Duc de Blacas in 1841. The importance
and interest of the coin lie largely in the fact that it is the
first gold coin that can be attributed to any Anglo-Saxon king.
The introduction of the silver penny by this same king, Offa,
following the example of Pepin le Bref, was the foundation of
- one of the most famous of the world’s currencies. If this gold
coin illustrates an attempt to establish a gold currency, the
attempt was a failure; but it is more probable that the gold
coinage was issued for some special purpose. The opinion was
long held that this piece belonged to an issue of gold struck
expressly for the purpose of the yearly payment to the Pope
of 565 mancuses in accordance with the King’s vow, but the
use of Muslim types in unmodified form makes it unlikely that
the coin can have been struck for this purpose. The designs
of both obverse and reverse consist of Arabic inscriptions
closely imitating those of an Arabic dinar of the year 774, but.
differing from them in style of lettering and in the dotted
border, and most notably in the addition of the words OFFA
REX which appear upside down within the central Arabic
inscription of the reverse. The Arab dinar, which with the
besant formed the main gold currency of the world at this

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petiod, probably came to England through relations with
Charlemagne, whose intercourse and exchange of lavish gifts
with Haroun-al-Raschid must have introduced a very large
number of Arabic gold coins into circulation throughout the
European continent. To both numismatists and historians,
therefore, this unique gold coin of Offa is, perhaps, the most
interesting piece in the whole English Series.
Purchased with the help of Henry Van den Bergh, Esq.,
Prof.W. H. Woodward, Mrs. Hustace Smith, Edward
P. Thompson, Esq., Horace Sandars, Esq., F.S.A.,
Alfred A. de Pass, E'sq., F. A. Walters, Esq., F.S.A.

Some early English pennies from the E. K. Burstal Collec-
tion, including rare coins of Cnut struck at IIchester, of
William II. at Southwark, of Henry J. at London and
Sudbury.

Some Anglo-Saxon pennies of the 10th and 11th centuries,
including one of Edward the Confessor struck at the rare mint
of Romney and another of the same reign showing the ninth
type (see P. W. P. Carlyon-Britton in Num. Chron. 1895,
pp. 179 ff.) overstruck on the seventh.

An unpublished penny of the fifth type of William I. struck
at Warwick. Presented by A. H. Baldwin, Esq.

A unique penny of Henry I. of the Ilchester mint ; another
of the same king’s twelfth type (Hawkins, 264) struck at
Dorchester. é

A large selection of pennies of the second issue of Henry III.,
from the Steppingley find.

Twelve rare coins from the F. A. Walters collection.
including a York farthing of Edward L., four half-groats and
two pennies of London of the last issue of Edward III., a
unique half-groat of Henry IV. of the light coinage, a London
transitional groat of Henry IV.-V. and another from the same
obverse die with a mullet added on the king’s breast, a London
farthing of Henry V., a halfpenny of the rose and sun issue
attributed to Edward V.

Presented by Alexander Mann, Esq.

Seven gold and five silver coins from the F. A. Walters
collection, including half-nebles of Edward III. (Calais),
Richard II., and Henry VI., nobles of Henry IV. and Henry V.,
a half-sovereign (probably unique) of the first issue of Elizabeth,
eroats of Edward I., Henry VI., and Henry VII.

Presented by Henry Van den Bergh, Esq., through
the National Art-Collections Fund.

A very rare half-angel of the first issue of Henry VII., from
the F, A. Walters collection.

Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund.

Two rare gold coins, unpublished varieties of the angel and
half-angel of Henry VII. from the F. A. Walters collection.

Presented by Miss Helen Farquhar.

A great of Henry VII. with Inverted Anchor mint-mark.

Presented by W. H.. Hidden, Esq.

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A muled groat of Henry VIII. combining an obverse of the
third coinage with a reverse of the second.

Colonial coins from the J. B. Caldecott collection, including
a very rare Portuguese dobra countermarked for Essequibo
and Demerara, and several countermarked Spanish dollars and
eeits:?’

XVII. century tokens of the Minories, Corfe Castle, and
Taunton. Presented by H. Symonds, Esq., F.S.A.

A shilling Charing Cross token with statue of Charles I.
Presented by F. Cavendish Bentinck, Esq.

A rare silver token of the Adelphi Cotton Works, Perth-
shire.

(6) Medals :—

An unpublished lead medal of John Prideaux, Regius
Professor of Divinity and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford,
made by the French medallist Claude Warin in 1638.

A bronze medal on the death of John Jervis, Earl of St.
Vincent, 1797. Presented by C. Woods, Esq., C.B.

A silver medal by Dauert, with portraits of George III.
and Christian VII. of Denmark.
Presented by L. LE. Bruun, Esq.

A silver-gilt specimen of the medal of the Franco-British
Exhibition, 1908, by F. Bowcher.
Presented by Sir Isidore Spielmann, C.M.G., through
the National Art-Collections Fund.

A bronze medal of the Royal Academy of Arts, executed by
the donor after designs by Sir Thomas Brock, R.A,
Presented by Frank Bowcher, Esq.

Reverse for a bronze medal, in the style of Matteo de’ Pasti,
by Harold Stabler. Presented by the artist.

A bronze medal of Murray Marks, by Cecil Brown.
Presented by Murray Marks, Esq.

A bronze medal by F. W. Doyle Jones commemorating the
swimming of the Channel by W. T. Burgess in 1911.
Presented by Alfred Jonas, Hsq., Hon. Sec. Webb
Memorial Fund.

4. Medieval and Modern Series :—
(a) Coins :—

A rare demi-salut d’or struck by Charles d’Anjou as king
of Naples (1266-1285), bearing on the reverse a_ pictorial
representation of the Annunciation.

A copper “minuto” of Alghero in Sardinia, struck by
Alfonso V. of Aragon (1416-1458).

Presented by G. L. Shackles, Esq.

Various Italian coins, among which are 12 gold pieces:
a zecchino of Leo X., seudi of Paul III. and Paul IV., a double
zecchino of Pius VI., an imitation of the Florentine florin,
probably struck by Florent d’Hainault, prince of Achaia,

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1289-1297. (see F. Alvin, Revue Belge, 1907,- pp. 19 dF); 4
Genoese ducat of Filippo Maria Viscenti (Lord of Genoa,
1421-1425), a Milanese florin of Bernabd Visconti (1354-1385),
ducats and a double-ducat struck at Rome by Calixtus III. and
Alexander VI.

Sixteen silver medizeval German coins, including two
Augsburg bracteates of Udalschalk von Eschenlohe. -

Presented by Dr. Georg Habich, Director
of the Munich Coin-Cabinet.

A gold ducat of Zeeland imitating the escudo type of
Ferdinand and Isabella, with inscription of Philip il. as Count.
of Zeeland.

A rare silver Mexican dollar of Philip III., found at Selsey

in March 1911. Presented by EH. Heron Allen, Esq.

A miscellaneous collection of coins and medals, English and
foreign, and a large series of Nuremberg counters (14th-L5th
centuries ). Presented by Sir Hercules Read, P.S.A.

Various silver and bronze European coins.
Presented by Evelyn Grant Duff, E'sq., C.M.G.

A large collection of European and English coins.
Bequeathed by the late Caroline Lady Ramsay.

A Dutch XVII. Century money-changer’s box of scales and
coin-weights.

Presented by L. A. Lawrence, Hsq., F.R.C.S, PSA.

(b) Medals :—

Bronze Italian medals of Lodovico Scarampi, patriarch of
Aquileia, made by Cristoforo di Geremia at Rome shortly
nefore Scarampi’s death in 1465, and of Giovanni Fondati, in
classicizing Paduan style, about 1560.

Presented by the National Ait-Collections Fund.

A late 15th-century Italian medal cast in silver, in imita-
tion of the antique, bearing the head of Augustus with the
reverse of clasped hands holding a double cornucopie and
caduceus.

A lead medal of Marco Girolamo Vida, bishop of Alba from
1533 to 1568, with signature of Tegniza of Uremona, an artist
otherwise unknown (see Burlington Magazine, Dee. 1912,
2 137).

A “ahs bronze medal of Antonio Calmone, about 1570,
signed P. P. R. (Pietro Paulo Galeotto, called Romano).

Two rare bronze Italian medals: one of Elia Delatas and
Rica his mother, of North Italian, probably Venetian work,
dated 1552; the other of Pietro Monti, a Milanese scholar
and soldier, of the end of the 15th and beginning of the
16th century.

Presented by Maurice Rosenheim, Esq., through
the National Art-Collections Fund.

A Dutch or Flemish cast bronze medal dated 1544, bearing
reversible heads of the Pope and Devil, Cardinal and Jester.

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Gold and silver medals and a silver armorial jeton com-
memorating the betrothal of Prince Ernest Augustus of
Brunswick-Liineburg with Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia.

Presented by H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland.

Bronze medal commemorating the LHighteenth Inter-
parliamentry Conference at The Hague.

Presented by the Committee of the Congress.

Specimens in gold, silver, and bronze of the medal of the
Centenary of the Independence of the Netherlands.

Presented by J. C. J. Drucker, Esq.
A bronze portrait-medal of Viscount Dillon, by S. W. Car-
line.
Presented by the Trustees of the National
Portrait Gallery.
5. Oriental Series :—

A series of 289 silver Sassanian coins; with the exception
of an unpublished tetradrachm of Bahram II. with portraits of
himself, his queen and his son afterwards Bahram III., and two
fine drachms of Sapor II., these are drachms of the later
Emperors Kobad, Khusru I., Hormazd IV. and Khusru IL.,
chosen for mints and dates unrepresented in the Museum
collection ; the condition of these coins is remarkably fine, and
they fill many gaps in the Museum collection.

A very rare copper coin of the Sassanian emperor Khusru II,

Presented by Major W.. N. Hay.

Two dirhems of the Abbasid Caliph al Mansur (712-775 A.D.)
of Baghdad 152 4.H. and Basra 153 4.4.

Presented by H. L. Rabino, Ksq.

A dirhem of the Abbasid Caliph al Mutazz (866-869 a.p.)
of Sarra min rai 251 A.H.

Presented by W. R. Hubbard, Esq.

A rare dinar of the Hafsid Sherif of Morocco, Abu Ishak
Ibrahim II., 13850-1368 a.p.

A copper coin of the Bulghars of the Danube, Xth century.

- Presented by Evelyn Grant Duff, Esq., C.M.G.

A silver coin of Timur (Tamerlane) and his nominal
suzerain the Chaghatai Khan Mahmud (1389-1398 a.p.) struck
at Yezd. Presented by W. R. Hubbard, Esq.

Nineteen copper autonomous coins of Persia of the mints
Iran, Ja’afarabad, Kazwin, Lahijan, Resht, Tabaristan and
Teheran. Presented by H. L. Rabino, Esq.

Hight gold, 4 silver and 38 copper coins of the Sultans of
Turkey Mahmud II., Abd al-Majid and Abd al-Aziz.

Bequeathed by Caroline Lady Ramsay.

A series of coins of the sultanates of South Arabia, including
2 silver and 2 copper coins of Makalla, and copper coins of Oman,
Tarim and Lahej.

A rupee of Ahmad Shah Durrani of Dera, year 9.

Presented by &. EH. Pears, Esq., I.C.8.

PESs, ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Two gold coins of Kumaragupta II., new varieties of the
Horseman and Lion-slayer types.
Four uncertain gold coins of Medizval India with the legend
Sri-Svvasya.
Presented by the Government of Eastern Bengal.
A gold hun of Pratapa Deva Raya of Vijayanagara.
Presented by the Bombay Branch of the
Royal Asiatic Society.

A gold tanka of Nasir Shah Khalji (1500-1512 4.p.) of
Malwa 912 A.H.
A rare billon coin of Mahmud Damaghan Sultan of Madura
1344 a.D., dated 745 a.H., the second known coin of his reign.
A rupee of Akbar of Lahore, Hlahi 40: Bahman.
Presented by S. EF. Pears, Esq., I.C.S.

Rupees of Akbar of Akbarnagar, [lahi 50 and Lahore
1007 A.H.

Fourteen rupees of Shah Jahan of the mints Ahmadabad,
Allahabad, Akbarnagar, Patna, Tatta and Delhi.

A number of coins of Aurangzib of Ahsanabad, A.H. 1118-50.

A siiver four lari piece of the Maldive Islands, 1320 a.u.

6. Chinese Series :—

Two specimens (round and square) of the recently discovered
4 chu pieces of Lin-Tzu; two metallic cowries issued by
Chwang, king of Tsu, 612-589 B.c. ; a large knife-coin of Tsih-
Moh, c. 400 B.c.; 3 pu-coins of the towns of Chung-tu, Koh and
Tao-Yeng of the fourth century B.c. ; a specimen of the very
rare 10 hwa piece of Wang Mang 14-21 a.D., and other early
Chinese coins.

A silver dollar of Kuang Hsu of Kiang-Nan province, and a
Chinese imitation of the Indian rupee with “ Yun-Nan Province”
and “Silver coin” in place of the original obverse and reverse

legends. Presented by P. E. OBrien Butler, Esq.
A dollar of the Chinese Republic with portrait of President
Yuan Shih. Kai. Presented by Mr. Chai Chang Wu.

A dollar with the portrait of Sun Yat Sen, 5 other silver
and 6 copper Chinese coins of the Republic.

A dollar of the Chinese Republic with portrait of General
Li. Bequeathed by Caroline Lady Ramsay.

A bank note of one kwan of the Hung Wu period (1368-1398)
of the Ming Dynasty and a collection of 48 Japanese notes.

A tree of cash of the Emperor Kuang Hsi, illustrating the
method of casting coins in China.

V.—Books, &c., presented to the Departmental Library.

The following, among other books have been received as
donations to the Departmental Library.

Corpus Nummorum Italicorum, Vol. IV.
From His Majesty the King of Italy.

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Materials for the Stathmological Investigation of the Coins
of the Ancient Greek Cities and Kings of Sarmatia and Tauris.
From His Excellency General A. L. Bertier-de-la-Garde.

Die Munzen der grossen Kurfirsten.
From the Generalverwaltung der
Koniglichen Museen, Berlin.
Numismatichesky Sbornik, Tom. II.
From M. Alexey V. Oreshnikov.
Die Tetradrachmenpragung von Syrakus.
From L. O. Tudeer, Esq.
The British Numismatic Journal, Vol. VIII., and the
Catalogue of the C. R. du Rosey Collection.
From Maurice Rosenheim, Esq.
Beschreibung der griechischen autonomen Miinzen der kon.
Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Amsterdam.
From the Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen.
American Numismatic Journal, Vol. XLVI., and the
Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Contemporary

Medals, 1911. From the American Numismatic Socrety.
Zwei Funde Schwedischer Mtinzen des XV-XVI Jahrhun-
derts. From the Coin-Cabinet of the

Imperial Unwersity, Helsingfors.
A portrait in oils of Taylor Combe, who was from 1803
Keeper of Coins and from 1807 to 1826 Keeper of Antiquities
in the British Museum, presented by the Rev. F. M. Burton,
LL.D., has been hung in the Medal Room.

VI.—Studerts and Visitors.

The number of visits made to the Department of Coins.
and Medals by students and others during the year 1913.
was 3,565, the average tor the previous ten years being 4,263°7.

Owing to repairs to the electric light installation, the
Exhibition Corridor was closed to the public from the 13th
August to the 16th September, and the Medal Room (partially),
from the 13th to the 16th September.

G. F. Hill.

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a

STATEMENT of PRoGRESS made in the ARRANGEMENT and
DESCRIPTION of the COLLECTIONS, and AccouUNT of OBJECTS
added to them, in the Year 1913.

GENERAL PROGRESS.
Visitors.

The total number of visits made by the public to the
Natural History Museum during 1913 was 486,320, as compared
with 455,613 in 1912, an increase of over 30,000.

The attendance on Sunday afternoons was 53,301, as against
50,765 in the previous year.

The average daily attendance for all open days was 1,539 ;
for week days only, 1,392; and for Sunday afternoons, 1,025.

Swiney Lectures.

Dr. Jehu gave his fifth and final course of Swiney Lectures
on Geology during November and December, the subject being
“The Natural History of Minerals and Ores.”

The lectures were delivered in the Metallurgical Lecture
‘Theatre in the Exhibition Road, by permission of the autho-
rities of the Imperial College of Science and Technology.

The total number of attendances for the 12 lectures was
1,177, an average of 98 persons per lecture.

The Trustees have appointed Dr. J. D. Falconer, F.R.S.E.,
Lecturer in Geography at the University of Glasgow, to succeed
Dr. Jehu as Swiney Lecturer on Geology for the two years,
1914-15, and he will give a course of Jectures on ‘“‘ Land Forms
and Landscapes: Origin and Classification,” in November and
December next.

CS Electric Lighting: Hatension of Hours of Opening.
Electric light having been installed in the public galleries
on the ground floor, these galleries have been kept open
to the public till 5 o’clock daily, except Sundays, since the
Ist December.

Destructive Action of Light.

For the better protection of the specimens, dark blinds
have been fitted to the windows of the Bird Gallery and the
Mammal Galleries, so as to exclude all light during the time
that the galleries are closed.

Experiments are being continued with special kinds of
glass manufactured for anti-fading purposes, with a view to

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ascertaining their worth in modifying the deleterious effects of
light on specimens.

Spirit Building and Western Hatension.

The Trustees have given further consideration to the question
of the site for the new building to contain specimens preserved
in spirit. They never regarded with favour the proposal to
place an underground building between the main structure and
Cromwell Road. After conference with the First Commis-
sioner of His Majesty’s Works, &c., that project has been
abandoned. The position now proposed for the new spirit
museun is on the north side of the western ground.

The Office of Works has been asked to prepare a plan for
the western extension of the Natural History Museum, of
which the new spirit building would form the northern side.
The growth of the Museum in every direction, which is only
partly reflected in the congested state of the exhibition
galleries, makes it necessary to proceed without delay with a
scheme to provide additional accommodation, not only for the
collections, but also for study and research purposes. The want
of room is being seriously felt in all the Departments, but is
a matter of urgency especially in the Departments of Zoology
and Entomology, which, under present conditions, are not
able to provide adequate study accommodation or tables for
research work either for the staff or for students. The Trustees
are anxious, therefore, that the building of the West Wing of
the main Museum intended for the extension of the two
Departments should be commenced as soon as possible.

Ghent Exhibition.

As mentioned in the last Annual Report (1913), the Trustees
agreed, on the invitation of the Board of Trade, to the Natural
History Museum participating in the organisation, by that
Department, of a Tropical Diseases Section in the British
Pavilion of the International Exhibition held at Ghent. The
Museum exhibits were intended to illustrate by means of
specimens, drawings, &c., some of the species of animals which
are known to have, or are supposed to have, an influence on
the spread of human diseases.

Certain species of antelopes and other “ Big Game” were
represented in the Exhibition as examples of the animals which
are believed by some inquirers to act as the “reservoir” con-
taining the deadiy species of Trypanosomes which give rise to
Sleeping Sickness. It has been maintained that the extermina-
tion of the big game in areas infected by Tsetse-flies would
result in a diminution, or even in the disappearance, of Sleeping
Sickness. Opinions on this subject are, however, divided, and
the British Museum (Natural History) by exhibiting specimens
of the species in question, must not be considered to have given
its assent to the view that the extermination of big game is

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desirable. The conclusion recently published by the Com-
mission presided over by Sir David Bruce, that the human
trypanosome disease of Nyasaland is Nagana, shows that the
problem may be complicated by factors which have not been
taken sufficiently into consideration up to the present time.

The small mammals exhibited belonged to species which have
been recorded as “ hosts” of the fleas which transmit plague in
India and elsewhere.

The predaceous birds and the Indian cobra were illustrated
as some of the enemies of these small mammals, or of insects
which transmit diseases.

A number of species of blood-sucking insects and ticks (the
latter a group which is more nearly related to the spiders than
to the insects) were illustrated by means of specimens.

Another part of the exhibit consisted of maps illustrating
the geographical distribution of blood-sucking insects instru-
mental in the spread of disease, particularly Tsetse-flies,
Plague-fleas, and Stegomyia fasciata, the species of mosquito
which disseminates yellow fever.

Some of the publications of the Museum which include
accounts of blood-sucking insects of economic importance were
shown.

The Board of Trade have reported that the Museum exhibit
attracted considerable and wide interest, and that it was visited
by many medical men and experts on the subject, British and
foreign.

Mr. C. E. Fagan, L.S.0., was appointed to act as one of the
members of the Organizing Committee of the British Section,
and Mr. E. E. Austen and Dr. W. G. Ridewood were associated
with him in the work, and supervised the preparation of the
specimens.

The British Antarctic “ Terra Nova” Hapedition, 1910.

The collections brought home by the Antarctic 8.8. “Terra
Nova” have been handed over to the Trustees, who have
undertaken to prepare and publish the report of the natural
history results of this Expedition on the same lines as the
report of the collections of the ‘ Discovery” Antarctic
Expedition, which was also published by the Trustees.

The present work will certainly run into several volumes,
and, when completed, it should be a worthy and fitting memorial
of the natural history explorations in the Antarctic made by
the late Captain Scott and his companions.

Investigation of Antarctic Whales.

The Trustees have continued to give their attention to the
subject of the protection of Whales in Antarctic Seas with a
view to measures being taken to prevent the extinction of
these animals. In this connection, the importance of obtaining
a further knowledge of the life-history and habits of the whales

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has, among other reasons, led the Trustees to agree to collabo-
rate with a Swedish Committee in carrying out a scheme for
the establishment of an Anglo-Swedish Scientific Station in
Graham Land for a survey of the geology of the district and of
the rich marine fauna and flora in the surrounding waters. The
specimens obtained during this investigation, which it is hoped
will extend over a period of five years, will be shared between
the Natural History Museum and the Swedish Committee.

In the mean time, the Museum has co-operated with the
Colonial Office in the despatch of a marine biologist to South
Georgia to study whales in the Antarctic. Major G. E. H.
Barrett-Hamilton, the gentleman appointed to this mission,
left England in the first week of October, and was accompanied,
as his assistant, by Mr. P. Stammwitz, the Museum taxidermist.
Major Barrett-Hamilton unhappily died suddenly, from heart
failure, on the 17th January 19i4, when he had been at work
in South Georgia for nine or ten weeks, but he was able in that
short time to make a number of observations which cannot
fail to be of value in any future work of inquiry in connexion
with the subject.

Stranded Whales.

The action taken by the Museum under the arrangements
made with the Board of Trade for obtaining prompt informa-
tion of the stranding of whales, porpoises, &c., on the British
coasts has resulted in nearly 80 such records during 1913.
It is proposed to print and issue a summary of these observa-
tions, together with outline maps of Great Britain and Ireland,
on which the records will be marked. The observations are to
be continued, and the leaflet issued last year to aid coastguards
and others in identifying specimens is to be supplemented by a
further leaflet.

Army Biscuit Inquiry.

During the past few years considerable damage has been
done to stocks of Army biscuit by various insect pests, especially
by the “Imported Flour-Moth” (E£phestia kiihniella Zeller).
At the request of the War Office a joint investigation has been
undertaken to ascertain how and where infestation vccurs, and
whether any steps can be taken to avoid or minimise such
infestation in the future. A Preliminary Report, by Mr. J.
Hartley Durrant, of the Department of Entomology, and
Lieut -Col. W. W. O. Beveridge, D.S.O., R.A.M.C., has been
published, giving the results of their investigations, and
demonstrating that the “Imported Flour-Moth” (previously
known as “The Mediterranean Flour-Moth”) is a species of
American origin. Having determined the internal temperature
of biscuits during baking, it has been endeavoured to ascertain
the temperature which can be relied upon as the “lethal point”
(2.e., the lowest temperature fatal to the ova), and preliminary
recommendations have beenmade. An exhibit fully illustrating
this inquiry was on view in the Museum for some months.

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Consequent on the publication of the Preliminary Report, a
small Committee has been formed in connection with the Army
Medical Advisory Board, and the various questions involved
are being studied for further report. Mr. Durrant has been
appointed to serve on this Committee.

Museums Association.

Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S., Assistant Keeper of the Department
of Geology, attended, as the delegate from the Natural History
Museum, the annual conference of the Museums Association
held at Hull in July.

Mr. J. H. Leonard, the Official Guide, also attended the
meeting, and read a paper on his work in the Museum.

Ninth International Congress of Zoology.

Lord Walsingham, F.R.S.,the Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.R.S.,
and Dr. 8. F. Harmer, F.R.S., represented the Natural History
Museum at the Ninth International Congress of Zoology held at
Monaco, in March, under the Presidency of H.H. the Prince of
Monaco.

An important result of the deliberations ot this Congress
was an agreement arrived at on the troublesome question of
Zoological Nomenclature, on which zoologists had been divided
for a long time past.

Representation on Committees.

On the invitation of the Colonial Office, the Trustees
allowed Mr. KE. H. Austen, the Museum. Dipterist, to serve on a
Committee appointed by the Secretary of State, to consider the
question of the relationship between wild animals and the try-
panosome diseases conveyed by tsetse-flies to man and beast.

Mr. Austen has also, at the request of the High Commis-
sioner for New Zealand, been permitted to act as the representative
of the Dominion on the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.

At the request of the Office of Works, Mr. C. J. Gahan,
Keeper of Entomology, has, with the approval of the Trustees,
joined a Committee to advise as to the hest method of over-
coming the ravages of the larvee of a wood-boring beetle in the
timber roof of Westminster Hall.

Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Assistant-Keeper of Zoology, has
been permitted to serve ona Departmental Committee appointed
by the Home Secretary to inquire into the administration of
the Wild Birds Protection Acts.

In connection with the question of Bird Protection and with
a-view to promoting legislative action in the Crown Colonies,
lists of plumage birds with their English and scientific names
requiring protection in these Colonies and Protectorates have
been prepared and printed for use by the Museum and the
Colonial Office.

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Uganda Flag.

At the request of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a
coloured drawing of the Golden Crested Crane was prepared
at the Museum, to serve as a device for the badge on the flag
of the Uganda Protectorate. His Majesty the King has
approved of the adoption of the drawing for this purpose.
It will also be embodied in the design of the Public Seal of
Uganda.

Bequests.

The late Mr. James Rowland Ward, who died on 28 December
1912, left a sum of money (500/. a year for ten years) out of
his estate to his Trustees, to be expended by them in the
purchase from Messrs. Rowland Ward, Ltd., of mounted speci-
mens to be offered as a present to the Natural History Museum
for exhibition therein.

A marble bust (by Thomas Thornycroft) of the late Brian
Hodgson, a generous benefactor of the Museum, was bequeathed
to the Museum by his widow, the late Mrs. Susan Hodgson.

Presents.

The total number of gifts received during the year by the
several Departments was 2,546, as compared with 2,444 in 1912.
Many of these comprised large numbers of individual specimens.
The details of all the more important of them will be found in
the reports of the Keepers of the Departments, but the following
are mentioned here also, as being of special interest or value :—

From His Majesty the King.—The skin of one of the tigers.
shot by His Majesty in India; also a head of Indian Rhinoceros.
Both these specimens have been mounted for exhibition. The
tiger has been stuffed and placed in a case at the top of the
stairs on the second floor in the immediate neighbourhood of
the Hume Collection of Indian Horns.

From His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Sweden.—
An interesting series of Rhetic plants collected by His Royal
Highness on his own estate in Scania.

From Mr. George M. Maryon-Wilson.—A remarkable human
skull and mandible, associated with mammalian fragments and
flint implements, discovered by Mr. Charles Dawson in an early
Pleistocene gravel near Piltdown Common, Sussex. These
remains are of high scientific interest, and form one of the
most important gifts ever received by the Geological Depart-
ment of the Museum.

From the Earl of Denbigh, C.V.O.—-The Zoological, Geological
and Mineral Collections made by the distinguished naturalist.
Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). These collections are of great
historic interest, including, as they do, many types and

126 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

specimens figured in Pennant’s works, or labelled or described
in his original catalogues, which also form part of the gift.

From the Subscribers to the Wollaston Expedition to Dutch
New Guinea.—An important collection of zoological and botanical
specimens made by the Expedition, whose leader, Dr. A. F. R.
Wollaston, is the first explorer who has succeeded in reaching
the snows of Carstensz Peak at an elevation of about 15,300 feet.

This is the second expedition to Dutch New Guinea by which
the Museum has benefited, the first one having been sent out
in 1909 by the British Ornithologists’ Union under the leader-
ship of Mr. W. Goodfellow (see B. M. Return, 1912, p. 105).
As in the previous case, Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant acted as
Hon. Secretary to the Expedition, while Mr. C. E. Fagan acted
as Hon. Treasurer. The total results of the two expeditions
constitute a magnificent collection of the fauna and flora of
south Dutch New Guinea, and will form the basis of a mono-
graph which is in preparation for publication.

From Mr. R. J. Balston.—His valuable collection of Humming
Birds, consisting partly of mounted specimens, in cases for
exhibition, and partly of skins, with a MS. catalogue of the
collection.

From Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker.—A beautiful series of Eggs
of Asiatic parasitic Cuckoos, in association with the foster
parents.

From Lord Walsingham.—250 specimens of Lepidoptera.

From Mr. F. D. Godman.—Further valuable collections of
insects, consisting of 11,260 butterflies, chiefly American, named
and labelled, including 249 types; 1,700 Hymenoptera from
Mexico and Central America; and 675 specimens of named
Odonata, or Dragon-flies, mostly from Mexico or Central
America, all completely labelled and arranged.

By this last gift Mr. Godman has completed the ‘ Biologia
Centrali-Americana ” series of insects to come to the Museum.
Special acknowledgments are due to this generous friend of the
Museum for the many extremely valuable collections with which
he has enriched the Entomological Department, and for the help
which, in other ways, he has always been so ready to give.

From Mr. F. H. Sikes.-—His collection of British Mollusea.

From Mrs. Emily Owen.—A collection of the Medals and
Orders which were bestowed on various occasions on her
father-in-law, the late Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., formerly
Superintendent of the Natural History Departments.

From Mr. 8. Cowper.—55 Portfolios of botanical plates and
drawings, collected by the .late Dr. Isaac Swainson, who died
in 1812.

From the Hon. Walter Rothschild.—A number of separate
parts in original wrappers, as issued, of Godart and Duponchel’s
‘Histoire Naturelle des Lépidoptéres 0u Papillons de France,”
1830-35.

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Purchases.

Among the more important purchases made during the
year, special attention may be drawn to the following :-—-

The fourth and final instalment of the George Lewis collec-
tion of Coleoptera from Japan and Ceylon, consisting of
11,000 specimens from Japan; the third instalment of the
Distant collection of insects, namely, 5,000 specimens of Rhyn-
chota and Hymenoptera, including 250 types ; the first half of the
Koch collection of Arachnida, comprising 1,246 species of
named Myriopoda, Isopoda, Argiopide, and other Arachnida,
and 973 tubes of unnamed species; human and other remains of
pre-Inca times, from Peru, collected by Dr. H. O. Forbes;
important collections of birds made by Mr. W. Goodfellow i in
New Guinea and Formosa, by Mr. G. W. Bury in Yemen,
Arabia, by Mr. D. A. Bannerman in the Canary Islands, and
by Mr. J. D. La Touche in China ; reptiles and fishes from the
Cameroons, collected by Mr. G. L. Bates; moths from New
Guinea and Formosa; 760 fossil fishes, chiefly Carboniferous
and Devonian, selected from the collection of the late Dr. R. H.
Traquair, F.R.S.; mammalian remains and bird-bones obtained
by Miss D. M. A. Bate from Pleistocene deposits in the caverns
of Majorca; an important series of fossil reptiles and fishes
from the Chalk of Kansas; rare crinoids from the Middle
Devonian of Gerolstein, Eifel ; a collection of about 1,500 fossils
from the Carboniferous Limestone of Ireland, including 16 types
and 73 figured specimens ; also collections of Cretaceous fossils
and Post-Pliocene shells from Ireland ; 1,280 tubes of Microzoa,
comprising several thousand specimens from the Jurassic,
Cretaceous, and Tertiary formations of Russia; native gold
from California ; a very fine specimen of a faceted pink beryl,
from Madagascar; three meteoric stones from the fall on
June 28, 1911, at El Nakhla el Boharia, Egypt; a fragment
of the meteoric stone which fell on July 12, 1910, at St.
Michel, Finland; a slice of a meteoric iron found 60 miles
east of Ahumada, Chihuahua, Mexico; a polished and etched
slice of the meteoric iron found January 4, 1902, at Chinautla,
Guatemala; the Braithwaite Herbarium of British mosses, con-
sisting of about 5,300 specimens, representing 600 species ; and
collections of plants from San Domingo, Natal, Uganda, North
Africa, Bolivia, and Paraguay.

Hachanges and Gifts of Duplicates.

Exchanges of duplicate specimens have been made with
various institutions and individuals.

The Zoological Museum of Sheffield University has been
placed on the list of institutions to receive grants of duplicate
specimens.

Stuffed specimens (duplicates) of five Antarctic animals (a
seal, two penguins, a skua, and a petrel) were lent for

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exhibition in the Antarctic section of the Imperial Services
Exhibition held in the summer at Earl’s Court.

Selections of duplicate specimens have been presented as
follows :—

Of zoological specimens (other than entomology) — to
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Stockport Museum ;
the Albert Institute, Dundee; Rochdale Museum and Art
Gallery ; the American Museum of Natural History, New
York; Prof. J. W. Spengel (Giessen); Prof. A. Dendy, F.R.S. ;
Prof. 8S. J. Hickson, F.R.S.

Of entomological specimens — to Bristol Museum; the
Albert Institute, Dundee; the American Museum of Natural
History, New York ; the State Microscopal Society of Illinois,
Chicago; Mr. H. Boileau (Bois de Colombes, France); Dr. E.
Zavattari (Turin) ; Mr. Herbert Campion ; Sefior R. P. Longinos
Navas, S.J. (Saragossa); Mr. George Lewis; Mr. A. M. hea
(Adelaide) ; Mr. A. Grouvelle (Paris); Dr. Malcolm Cameron ;
Mr. J. Chatanay (Chalons s. Marne); Mr. H. J. Carter
(Sydney); “Mr. H. ‘d’Orbieny (Paris); Mr. F.’ Hi “Gravely
(Calcutta) ; Captain Ch. Kerremans (Brussels); Dr. Walther
Horn (Berlin) ; Dr. A. Mocsary (Budapest) ; and Dr. F. Ris
(Zurich).

Of fussils and casts of fossils—to University College,
London; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Dr. G. 8.
Shattuck; Mr. Robert Bruce; Mr. P. Fallot (Grenoble); and
Dr. E. A. Newell Arber.

Of minerals—to Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S.; Mr. F. N. A. Fleisch-
mann; and Mr. A. M. d’Oliveira Bello (Lisbon).

(N.B.—All the individuals named have presented specimens
or otherwise benefited the Museum.)

Publications.

The following works on Natural History have been published
during the year :—

Catalogue of the Library in the British Museum (Natural
History). By B. B. Woodward. Vol. IV. Pp. 1495-19506.
Ato. £1.

Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals. Vol i. By R.
Lydekker, F.R.S. Pp. xvi, 249; 55 text-figures. 8vo.
7s. 6d.

Catalogue of the Heads and Horns of Indian Big Game
bequeathed by A. ©. Hume, C.B., to the British Museum
(Natural History). By R. Lydekker, F.R.S. Pp. xvi, 45:
16 text-figures and a portrait of Mr. Hume. 8vo. 2s.

Catalogue of the lritish Species of Pisidium (Recent and
Fossil), with notes on those of Western Europe. By B. B.
Woodward. Pp. ix., 144: 30 plates. Svo. 10s. 6d.

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Revision of the Ichneumonide. By Claude Morley.
Part II. Tribes Rhyssides, Echthromorphides, Anomalides, and
Paniscides. Pp. viil., 140; 1 coloured plate. 8vo. 5s. 6d.

Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalene (Moths). By Sir George
F. Hampson, Bart. :—

Vol. XII. Noctuidae (Sub - families Catocaline, part).
Pp. xili., 626 ; 134 text-figures. Svo. i7s. 6d.

—— Atlas of 30 coloured plates. S8vo. £1 5s.

Vol. XIII. Noctuide (Sub-families Catocaline (remainder),
Momine, and Phytometrine). Pp. xiv., 609; 130 text-figures.
Svo. 16s.

—— Atlas of 18 coloured plates. S8vo. 16s.

Catalogue of the Plants collected by Mr. and Mrs. P. Amaury
Talbot in the Oban district, South Nigeria. Pp. x., 157;
17 plates. 8vo. 9s.

Descriptive Catalogue of the Marine Reptiles of the Oxford
Clay. By C. W. Andrews, D.Sc., F.R.s. Part II. Families
Pliosauridee, Teleosauride, and Geosauridee. Pp. xxiv., 206:
73 text-figures, 14 plates. 4to, £1 5s.

Catalogue of Mesozoic Plants, Part V. The Cretaceous
Flora, Part I. Bibliography, Algz, and Fungi. By Marie C.
Stopes, D.Se., Ph.D. Pp. xxiii., 285: 25 text-figures and
2 plates. 8vo. 12s.

Guide to the Exhibition of Specimens illustrating the
modification of the structure of animals in relation to Flight.
Pp. viil., 80: 44 text-figures, 1 plate. 8vo. 6d.

The House-Fly as a danger to health. By KH. E. Austen.
Pp. 12: 2 plates and 3 text-figures. 8vo. Id.

New editions have been issued of the following Guide-
books :—

General Guide. Thirteenth Edition. Pp. x.,121: 58 text-
figures, 2 plans, and 2 views of the building. 8vo. 3d.

Guide to the specimens of Great Game Animals (Ungulata).
Second Kdition. By R. Lydekker, F.p.s. Pp. 95: 53 text and
other figures. 8vo. Is.

Guide to the Gallery of Reptilia and Amphibia. Second
Edition. By R. Lydekker, F.R.s. Pp. iv., 85: 76 text and
other figures. S8vo. Ils.

Guide to Exhibition of Animals, Plants, and Minerals
mentioned in the Bible. Third Edition. Pp. vil, 78: 7 text-
figures. S8vo. 6d.

Selections of the natura] history publications of the Museum
have been sent to free libraries and other institutions in
Great Britain and Ireland, to Colonial, Indian, and foreign
museums, libraries, and scientific societies, and to persons
who have benefited the Museum by helping in the publication
of the volumes, or in other ways: and additions have been
made to the publications exchange-list.

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The under-mentioned works are in preparation :--
Catalogue of the Library, Vol. V.
Catalogue of Bats, Vol. II., by Dr. Knud Andersen.

Catalogue of Ungulates, Vols. II. and III., by R. Lydekker,
F.R.S.

Catalogue of the Freshwater Fishes of Africa, Vol. III.,
by G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S.

Report on the Natural History of the British Antarctic
(“Terra Nova”) Expedition, 1910.

Third Report on Economic Zoology.
Illustrations of British Flies, Second Series.

Illustrations of Oriental Blood-sucking Flies, by E. E.
Austen.

Illustrations of African Blood-sucking Flies, Vol. II., by
K. E. Austen.

Revision of the Ichneumonide, Part III., by C. Morley.

Catalogue of Moths, Supplement, Vol. I., by Sir G. F.
Hampson, Bart.

Flora of Jamaica, Vol. II., by W. Fawcett.
Monograph of the Genus Sabicea, by H. F. Wernham.
Catalogue of the Sloane Herbarium, by J. Britten.

Catalogue of Fossil’ Fishes, Part V., by Dr. A. S.
Woodward, F.R.S.

Guide to British Lichens.

Guide to British Seaweeds.
Economic Series, No. 2.—The Furniture Beetle, by C. J.
Gahan. .

GENERAL LIBRARY.

The additions to the General Library during the past year
have been :—

By purchase __ - - - 292 volumes.

By transference from other ;
departments - - - 1 volume, 101 maps.

By donation - - - 608 volumes, 19 maps, and

34 photographs.
Tore - 901 volumes, 120 maps, and
34 photographs.

All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press-
marked, and put in their places; whilst 1,707 volumes have
been bound in 559, and two have been repaired.

The extent of the collection on the 31st of December was
42,942 volumes, 5,910 maps, and 798 photographs (not including ©
those in the Owen Collection of Drawings, etc.).

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The accessions to the Departmental Libraries have also been
catalogued as they came in, and duplicate transcripts of the
titles have been returned with the books.

Altogether 3,105 title-slips have been written, 134 re-
written, and 5,560 revised (independently of those prepared for
printing).

There are now, on a rough estimate, 93,435 volumes (ex-
elusive of continuations and minor separata) and 6,210 maps
in the whole building.

The number of visits paid to the General Library during
the year by students and others (irrespective of the staff and
persons to whom the use of a key is granted) was 2,279,

Donations have been received from a great number of
Museums, Academies, and other corporate bodies, as well as
from the following personal donors :—

Lord Sudeley. Maiden, J. H., Esq.

Bather, Dr. F. A. Migeod, F. W. H., Esq.
Balch, E. 8., Esq. Morgan, Mons. J. de.

Déprez, Mons. G. Oakenfull, J. C., Esq.

Glen, J., Esq. Owen, Mrs. E. and the Rev. R.
Gude, G. K., Esq. Sherborn, C. D., Esq.
Harmer, Dr. S. F. Stock, Mons. P. V.
Hopkinson, J., Esq. ° Whitaker, W., Esq.

Madrolle. Mons, C. Woodward, H. B., Esq.

The printing of the Catalogue was proceeded with, and the
work at the end of the year stood as follows :—

Number of sheets passed for press (A—STY) - =. 256

Number of title-slips set up in type (A—SWITZ) - 58,162

INDEX GENERUM ET SPECIERUM ANIMALIUM.

During the year considerable progress has been made with
this Index, under Mr. C. Davies Sherborn’s charge. and some
18,000 slips have been compiled and incorporated.

Daily inquiries from members of the staff and students
have been satisfied, whilst the foreign correspondence has
greatly increased.

The extremely scarce paper by Faure-Bignet, “Sur les
Belemnites,’ 1819, was secured by Mr. Sherborn, and added to
the Library of the Geological Department. Several other rare
works were acquired for the General Library, including a copy
of J. B. Blank’s “ Naturalen-Cabinett in dem Minoriten-
sogenannten Franciscaner-Kloster zu Wiirzburg,” 1795.

In co-operation with Mr. L. B. Prout, a biblicgraphic “ Note
on Fischer de Waldheim’s ‘ Oryctographie du Gouvernement de
- Moscou,’ &c.,” was published in the “ Annals and Magazine of
Natural History,” Ser. VIIL, vol. xi., 1913. Much other biblio-
graphic work has been done, and is available in MS., including
the dates of issue of the various parts of the publications of
the ‘“ Musée d’Histoire Naturelle,” Paris.

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132 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

INDEX MUSEUM AND MORPHOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS.

All the dissections exhibited in the Hall have been examined
during the course of the year; 23 preparations of parts of
vertebrate animals and 23 preparations of Mollusca have been
re-mounted in alcohol.

In the Tropical Diseases section of the Ghent Exhibition,
which was open from May to November 1913, were shown
specimens and enlarged models of mosquitoes, tsetse-tlies, house-
flies, fleas, Gc., to illustrate the methods adcpted at the British
Museum (Natural History) for explaining the manner in which
insect-borne diseases are disseminated, and the measures to be
recommended for checking the spread of such diseases. The
preparation of these exhibits was controlled partly in the
Index Museum and partly in the Zoological Department.

The series of Animals and Minerals that are mentioned in
the Bible, placed on exhibition, in June 1911, as a supplement
to the Biblical Exhibition at the British Museum (Bloomsbury)
on the occasion of the tercentenary of the issue of the Autho-
rised Version, was dispersed in March 1918; the series of Bible
Plants, however, still remain on view in the Central Hall, and
and that of Bible Minerals in the Mineral Gallery.

A series of specimens illustrating modifications of structure
of animals in relation to flight has been prepared and set out in
Bay VII. in the Hall. The exhibition was opened to the public
on August 15th, 1913. The series comprises 166 mounted
objects and 12 microscopic specimens, and explains in a popular
manner the adaptation of each kind of flying animal for aerial
locomotion, and indicates the changes that must have taken
place in the structure of the body before the animal could fly.
The exhibition is not limited to animals that can truly fly by a
beating of wings, 2.e., birds, bats, pterodactyles, and insects,
but includes also examples of animals which move through the
air by scudding or gliding, such as the so-called flying squirrels
and flying phalangers. An illustrated guide-book of 80 pages
has been issued in explanation of the series.

Of interest in connection with the damage done by certain
moths and beetles to biscuits supplied for army service, a series
of injured biscuits and the insects causing the damage was
exhibited in the Hall from August 15th to November 13th,
1913, together with the apparatus employed by Mr. J. Hartley
Durrant and Lieut.-Colonel W. W. O. Beveridge in their investi-
gations to determine, firstly, the temperature of the interior of
biscuits at the successive stages of baking; and, secondly, the
possibility of the eggs of moths and beetles surviving these
temperatures.

A selection of the specimens collected on the British Antarctic
(‘Terra Nova”) Expedition, 1910, was placed on exhibition in
the Hall on November 25th, 1913. The specimens displayed
comprise marine animals obtained in the Antarctic seas, off

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 135

New Zealand, and off the East Coast of South America ; repre-
sentatives of Antarctic diatoms, algz, lichens, and mosses ; a
selection of the Antarctic birds and seals collected; specimens
of the large hexactinellid sponges of the Antarctic seas ; samples
of the fossil plants collected in New Zealand; pieces of fossil
wood and fish remains from Victoria Land ; specimens of lava
and crystals of felspar from Mount Erebus; some of the rock
specimens from the Beardmore Glacier collected by the South
Pole party; a map of the route of the South Pole party, and
20 photographs taken on the expedition.
L. Fletcher,
. Director.

British Museum (Natural mee 8
28 February 1914.

134 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY.
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.
MAMMALIA.

Mammal Galleries.

The skulls and horns of Indian Big Game Animals bequeathed
by the late Mr. A. O. Hume, C.B., were arranged during the
early part of the past financial year on the south and west
walls of the corridor on the second floor, between the Botanical
Department and the Upper Mammal Gallery, where they make
a striking display. Near by have been placed the Nepalese
Tiger and the Rhinoceros head presented by H.M. the King.

The bust of Mr. Brian Hodgson, the donor of a large collec-
tion of Indian specimens, has been mounted on a pedestal; and
this, and the bust of Dr. J. E. Gray, sometime Keeper of the
Zoological Department. have been placed on either side of the
statue of Sir Joseph Banks.

Another important addition to the exhibition-series is the
new Giraffe case in the East Corridor. At present this contains
only two comparatively small Giraffes, but it will doubtless be
well filled in due course.

Mention may likewise be made of new fittings to the Sea-
Elephant case in the Lower Mammal Gallery. The addition of
a second tier has admitted of the exhibition of another entire
adult specimen.

Black blinds have been fitted to the windows in the Upper
Mammal Gallery, in continuation of the work referred to in the
last Annual Return.

Apart from the foregoing, little change has been made in
the galleries and corridors, the work of arrangement and con-
servation being, in the main, restricted to keeping the specimens
in proper order, the incorporation of new ones, and the writing
of such new labels as were required. It may, however, be
mentioned that the specimen of the Falkland Islands Wolf,
as representing an extinct species, has been withdrawn from
. exhibition.

One volume of the Catalogue of Ungulates has been
published during the year, and a second is in an advanced state.
A new edition of the Mammal Guide has been prepared for
publication.

To the Anthropological scries have been added two busts
of North American Indians, received in exchange from the
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, U.S.A.

The additions by presentation to the Mammal Galleries
include the following :—

A Tiger (Felis tegris) and the head of an Indian Rhinoceros
(Rhinoceros unicornis), from Nepal, presented by H.M. the
King. The animals were shot during the Royal tour in India.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 135

An Ashy Bamboo Rat (Lhizomys canescens) from the Shan
States, presented by the Bombay Natural History Society ; skull
and tusks of Pacific Walrus (Odobenus pacificus), the gift of
Col. H. W. Feilden, C.B.; a young Brazilian Tapir (Tapirus
terrestris), from British Guiana, given by the Zoological
Society ; horns of Caucasian Tur (Capra caucasica), presented
by R. Lydekker, Esq., F.R.S.; horns of Chialtan Markhor,
the type of Capra falconeri chialtanensis, from Baluchistan,
the gift of Col. H. Appleton; a Nilgiri Tahr (Hemitragus
hylocrius), presented by the Hon. Sir Arthur Lawley, G.C.LE. ;
a Western Hartebeest (Bubalis major), from Nigeria, presented
by M.P. Hyatt, Esq.; the horns of a Lelwel Hartebeest (Bubalis
lelwel) and of a Reedbuck (Redunca, or Cervicapra, arun-
dinum), presented by Messrs. W. and E. Trollope; a Hawash
Bushbueck (Tragelaphus multicolor) from Abyssinia, given by
Lord Wodehouse; horns of Somali Kudu (Strepsiceros strep-
siceros chora), given by Guy Chetwynd, Esq. ; a young Kordofan
Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis antiquorum), an Okapi
(Okapia johnston), and a skeleton of the latter, presented by
the Rowland Ward Trustees ; a young Malay Elephant (Hlephas
maximus, subsp.) from the Negri Sembilan Province, Malay
Peninsula, likewise the gift of the Rowland Ward Trustees,
exhibited in the Central Hall.

In addition to the above, as being of more than ordinary —
interest, reference may be made to a specimen of the Patagonian
Sea-Elephant (Mirounga leonina patachonica), from the
Falkland Islands, acquired by purchase. Specimens of four
races of these giant Seals are now exhibited in the big case in
the Lower Mammal Gallery.

Whale-Room.—By blocking up the double decors at the
north end of the building, and strengthening them with
additional timber, the casts of the paddles of three species of
Rorqual (Balenoptera) referred to on p. 112 of the Return for
the previous year have been affixed to the wall in such a
manner as to display them with excellent effect. Two casts of
a paddle of the Sperm-Whale (Physeter catodon) have also
been prepared for exhibition, and installed on the floor of the
gallery.

The other additions to the Whale-Room include one-half of
the eye of a Humpbacked Whale (Megaptera), in spirit, from
South Africa, the gift of S. B. Goodall, Esq.; and casts, pre-
pared in the Osteological Room, of the head of a White-beaked
Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) and of an_ entire
common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis). The original from
which the first of these was made came from Islay, Inner
Hebrides, and that of the second from Donegai.

British Saloon.—The only addition to the Mammal series.
are two newly-born Badger-cubs (Meles taxus), presented by
Addis Price, Esq.

Study Series.—The usual work of labelling, registering, and
incorporating the mammals added to the collection has been
continued.

136 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Two cabinets for storing small mammals have been added,
and two blocks of cabinets for storing medium-sized mammal
skins have also been acquired.

The collections of New World Monkeys, Lemurs, small
Carnivora, and Ungulates have been entirely re-arranged.

The Department is again indebted to volunteer helpers for
much valuable assistance in working out new forms of Mammals
and in the preparation of manuscript lists of various groups.

The following should be specially mentioned in this con-
nection :—Mr. G. Blaine, Dr. K. Andersen, the late Major
G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, Mr. Martin A. C. Hinton, Dr. R. E.
Drake-Brockman, Mr. T. B. Fry, and Miss Kathleen V. Ryley.

The Department is further indebted to Mr. Gilbert Blaine
for having kindly continued his work with the manuscript List
of Ungulates, and for having assisted in the preparation of the
Second Volume of the Catalogue.

- In connection with the Bombay Natural History Society’s
Survey of the Mammals of India, Miss Kathleen V. Ryley, in
the absence of Mr. R. C. Wroughton, has worked out the various
collections, published reports on them, and selected series for
registration. The thanks of the Department are due to Miss
Ryley for the great assistance thus rendered.

The services of Dr. Knud Andersen have been continued
for the preparation of the second volume of the new Catalogue
of Bats.

A Catalogue of the Heads and Horns of Indian Big Game,
bequeathed by A. O. Hume, C.B., to the British Museum
(Natural History), has been prepared by Mr. R. Lydekker,
F.R.S., and has been published by the Trustees.

The first volume of the Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals,
by Mr. R. Lydekker, has been published ; the second volume is
now in the press, and will be published early in 1914.

Osteolagical koom.—The arrangement of the skeleton-collec-
tion in the Osteological Room has made steady progress. A
new cabinet for the reception of large Ungulate skeletons has
been added, so that this group is now almost completely housed,
and for the first time in an easily accessible form.

The Marsupials and Rodents have als@® been re-arranged in
cabinets.

Various dissections aud casts of Whaie-paddles have been
made during the year, and casts have been taken of the heads
of smaller Cetacea.

Work on Cetacea has been facilitated by an instruction to
Coast Guards issued by the Board of Trade in 1912, as the
result of which Whales and other Cetacea stranded on the
British coasts have been reported to the Museum by telegram.
Several interesting specimens have been acquired as the result

of the information thus given,

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 137

_ The skull and vertebral column ofa North Atlantic Right
Whale (Balena glacials), from the Shetlands, have been
suspended from the ceiling of the Osteological Room, thereby
making them more available for study, and economising floor
space.

Additions of special interest to the Osteological and Anthro-
pological collections: nine skeletons and 15 skulls of Peruvians,
and the skeleton of a Peruvian dog from a burial ground dating
from pre-Inca times; purchased. A skull from an ancient
burial ground at Quiagua, N. Chili; presented by W. C. Pringle,
Esq. Four paddles of Sperm Whales (Physeter catodon); two
of which were presented by Mr. Carl F. Herlofson, and two
were acquired by purchase. The skeletons of a Bottle-nosed
whale (Hyperoodon rostratus), a White-sided Dolphin (Lagen-
orhynchus acutws), and an adult female and calf of Risso’s
Grampus (Grampus griseus). The head of a White-beaked
Dolphin ( Lagenorhynchus albirostris), and the skeleton of a
lesser Rorqual (Balenoptera acutorostrata), presented by the
Board of Trade; and the skeleton of the celebrated Borzoi
hound, Ramsden Rajah, presented by Major S. Borman.

Abnormal Coloration.

This series has been enriched by an albino Chevrotain

Tragulus napu), from the Malay Peninsula, presented by
Mungo Park, Esq.

AVES.

_ The remounting of specimens in the General Gallery has
been continued, and the family Tyrannide completed. Various
missing types have been added, notably a fine adult pair of the
remarkable Mikado Pheasant (Calophasis mikado) and a male
of the Pheasant Grouse (Tetr aophasis obscurus). The Fly-
catchers (Muscicapidze) are now in hand.

The Balston Collection of Humming-birds has been named
and arranged and has been placed on exhibition in the Corridor
leading to the Whale Gallery.

In the Bird Room the re-labelling of the Bird-Cabhinets
necessitated by the re-arrangement of the bird-skins has made
good progress, and the Index to the special reference Catalogue
has been nearly completed. The Swans and Geese have been
re-arranged in new cabinets.

Mr. D. A. Bannerman gave valuable assistance between the

Ist of January and the 2nd April, and helped in the relabelling
of the cabinets.

The more notable presents were the following :—

From Mr. R. J. Balston a large collection of 3,315 Humming-
birds, a number of which are mounted in cases and placed in
one of the corridors. From Col. H. W. Feilden, C.B., Nesting
groups of the Turnstone, Little Stint, Grey Plover and Dotterel.
From Mr, E. C. Stuart Baker 433 eggs, including those of various

138 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

species of Indian Cuckoos with the eggs of their foster-parents.
From Mr. L. M. Seth-Smith 246 birds and 100 eggs from
Uganda.

Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston’s Expedition, which sueceeded in
reaching almost the summit of the Snow Mountains (Mt.
Carstensz), brought home a large and valuable collection of
bird-skins formed by trained Dyaks under the direction of
Mr. C. B. Kloss, Curator of the Kuala Lumpur Museum.

Mr. D. A. Bannerman’s Expedition to the Eastern Canary
Islands has resulted in a valuable series of specimens, mostly
obtained in their breeding plumage; these were much needed
for the collection.

Among the more important purchases are :—

Valuable collections of birds from British New Guinea and
Mt. Arizan, C. Formosa, made by Mr. Walter Goodfellow.

A very valuable collection of birds from the highiands of
Yemen, including the types of a number of newly described
species collected by Mr. G. W. Bury.

234 birds from the Canary Islands collected by Mr. D. A

Bannerman.

152 birds from the Guano Islands off the Coast of Peru
collected by Dr. H. O. Forbes.

During the year the collection has been regularly consulted
by a large number of visitors; and systematic work has been
done on various groups by Mr. W. L. Sclater, Major H. H.
Harington, Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker, Mr. J. P. Cook, Mr. C. H.
B. Grant, Mr. D. A. Bannerman, Lord Brabourne, Mr. G. M.
Mathews, Mr. T. Iredale, Dr. P. R. Lowe, Major H. J. Kelsall,
Mr. Witherby, and Mr. Lucas.

Various artists engaged in preparing drawings for forth-
coming works have also made regular use of the collection,
viz.:—Mr. H. Grodnvold, Mr. G. E. Lodge, Mr. Archibald
Thorburn, Mr. R. Green, Mr. H. Goodchild, Miss Medland, Major
Hi. Jones, Mr. W. Foster, Mr. Bernard Shaw, Miss Winifred
Austen, and Mr. A. W. Seaby.

The whole collection of bird-skeletons has been re-arranged
in the new room made by cutting off a portion of the basement
for its reception. But the cabinets in which they are kept are
of an obsolete type, being far from dust-proof, and in other
ways inconvenient.

The most valuable addition to this part of the collection
during the year was the skeleton of the Shoe-billed Stork,
(Baleniceps rex) acquired by purchase.

DOMESTICATED ANIMALS.

North Hall.—The additions include the head of a Kathiawar
Buffalo, presented by the Zoological Society. The skull and
horns of a Cape Trek Ox, the gift of Col. H. W. Feilden, C.B.,

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and those of a Lake Chad Ox, given by Capt. A.C. Aubin. A
dwarf Indian Humped Bull, presented by the Duke of Bedford,
K.G. A Circassian Goat, and a Dinka Maned Sheep, presented
by the Egyptian Government. A Norfolk Ram and a Herdwick
Ram, the former presented by Dermot McCalmont, Esq., and
the latter by L. C. Howard, Esq. Skulls and horns of Walla-
chian and of Black-faced Hungarian Sheep, presented by the
Royal Hungarian Minister of Agriculture. The dogs presented
during the year comprise an Irish Wolfhound, presented by
Miss E. M. Galloway, a Laverack Setter, by F. Forester, Esq.,
and a Lhasa Terrier, by Mrs. Webster.

A white canary, the first bred in England, presented by
W. Kiesel, Esq.

Central Hall.—To the case of Pigeons has been added a
White Dragon, the gift of W. E. Hewitt, Esq., and an Egyptian
Swift, presented by R. Leslie, Esq.

REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA.

Reptile Gallery.—The most interesting addition is a coloured
plaster cast of a Giant Tortoise presented by the Hon. Walter
Rothschild, F.R.S. The original was brought from the Gala-
pagos Islands, and was presented to the Scarborough Museum
in 1840 by John Wharton, Esq. It apparently represents a
species new to the collection. The only other addition is a
Gabun Puff-Adder ae gabonica), the gift of C. C. Gowdey,
Esq.

Study Serves.—All additions have been, named, registered
and incorporated, and part of the collection has been attended
to as regards the renewal of the spirit and the replenishment of
the jars.

PISCES.

No changes have been made in the Exhibition Gallery.

The additions have been registered and incorporated in the
collection so far as its congested state has allowed. Not only
is there no room for additions in the majority of the cupboards
in the Spirit Building, but the space on the tops of the table-
cases is fully occupied with specimens that cannot be put away
in their places.

The card catalogue has been continued.

The work of replenishing the spirit has been carried on.

TUNICATA.

Six large plates, with forty figures representing typical
examples, in their natural colours, of the main groups have
been exhibited in the case for Tunicata in the Shell Gallery.

MOLLUSCA.

In the Shell Gallery arrangements have been made for the
exhibition of the Sikes collection of British Land and Fresh-
water Shells. The present disposition is temporary and the

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collection will be rearranged when .the special cases are received.
Part of this collection has been relabelled and remounted. A
catalogue of the Norman collection has been prepared, following
the present arrangement of the cabinets. The model of
Torsion in the Gastropoda has been replaced by a stronger
one in metal executed by Messrs. Basset Lowke. The rearrange-
ment, remounting and renaming of the exhibited Zonitidae have
been considerably advanced, the Department having obtained
the services of Mr. G. K. Gude for this purpose; while the
economic exhibit has been rearranged and preparations made
for its extension.

Detailed reports, with descriptions of new and interesting
forms, have been prepared upon collections from South Africa,
Madayascar and New Guinea (Utakwa Expedition). Apore-
modon, a curious genus presumably allied to Vallonia and a
Paleozoic Chiton from the Lower Ordovician have been
examined and described. A collection from Henderson Island
has been worked out and an account of it published. The
anatomy of Veronicella nilotica has been further investigated
and an account supplementary to the type-description has been
prepared. Collections from West Australia, the Solomon
Islands, Goodenough Island and Peru have been reported upon
and incorporated. The Japanese species of Hqliotis have been
studied and a note upon H. sieboldii has been prepared. A
number of smaller collections and series have been worked over.
The Mollusca from an Azilean shell-mound on the Island of
Colonsay are under examination and a report is being prepared.
The registration of the Norman collection has been completed,
a total of 51 ,051 specimens having been entered. A number of
species from the Sikes collection ‘have been critically examined
and verified. The arrangement and preparation of the Blan-
ford and Godwin-Austen collections of Indian Land Mollusca
have been continued by Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S.

MYRIOPODA AND ARACHNIDA.

Special attention was given during the year to the study of
the parasitic forms of Acari; a large number of species belong-
ing to this order were determined and a short preliminary
report on some species found on rats was published. A second
consignment of Arachnida from the Seychelles, received from
Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., has been reported upon.
Nearly all the first half of the Koch collection of Myriopoda
and Arachnida has been arranged in systematic order and
registered. About two-thirds of the spirit collection of
Myriopoda ane Arachnida has been re-spirited. A second model
of a tick (gorged female of Amblyomma hebreum) is now
ready for exhibition and a third model is being prepared.

CRUSTACEA AND PYCNOGONIDA.

In the exhibited series of Crustacea, British specimens of
the Fairy Shrimp (Chirocephalus diaphanus) and specimens

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illustrating the destruction of submarine woodwork on the
coast of Natal by Sphewroma terebrans have been mounted and
placed in the Gallery.

Of the Norman collection, received in 1911, 18,718 specimens
have been registered during the year; and the tubes, as far
as registered, have been sealed with paraffin wax to delay the
evaporation of the spirit. The Koch collection of Wood-lice,
contained in 259 tubes, was received during the year, but it has
not yet been possible to begin its arrangement or registration.
The Budde-Lund collection, received in 1912, also awaits label-
ling and registration. The remaining accessions have been
registered and incorporated as far as the congested state of the
Crustacea Room would allow.

ECHINODERMA.

The exhibited collection of Stalked Crinoids has been re-
spirited and the labels and covers restored. The congestion of
the study series in the Spirit Building is becoming more acute.
Most of the specimens obtained during the year have been
determined, and all have been incorporated. Owing to the
destruction of valuable property in various places, the rare
Holopus has been withdrawn from the Gallery.

WORMS.
The MS. list of the Chaetognatha has been completed.

The appointment of a new Assistant has given the opportu-
nity of passing over to him the care of the collections repre-
senting some of the groups of “worms.” He has devoted
special attention to the Nemathelminthes, but other groups,
and particularly Platyhelminthes and Nemertinea, will probably
be taken over by him in due course.

With the help of Mr. W. A. Harding for Leeches, and of
Dr. Cognetti di Martiis for Oligochaeta, nearly all the worms
obtained during the year have been determined, and they have
all been incorporated.

Some improvements have been made in the exhibited series
of parasitic worms, and numerous bottles in the study-series
have been re-spirited, while the systematic arrangement of the
microscopic slides has been continued.

POLYZOA.

The arranging and registering of 373 spirit specimens of the
Norman collection of Polyzoa have been completed.

The conservation of the slide-collection of Polyzoa has been
begun, many of the preparations preserved in fluid having been
stained where necessary and remounted in glycerine or Canada
Balsam.

ANTHOZOA.

The MS. Catalogue of the Pennatulida has been completed.
Nearly all the specimens of the Anthozoa added during the

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year have been named, and have been incorporated in their
systematic position.

Owing to a slight curtailment of space in both galleries in
which corals are exhibited, several interesting and instruc-
tive specimens and pictures have had to be put in reserve, and
cannot be exhibited until more space is available.

The ‘‘Sea-Shore” case in the British Room has _ been
thoroughly overhauled, and the necessary spirit added.

The congestion in the Spirit Room is now so great that
some of the bottles are being put on the top of others. It is
extremely difficult to maintain an orderly arrangement, and
the collection becomes more and more difficult of access to
students.

HYDROZOA.

The arranging and registering of the spirit part of the
Norman collection of Hydrozoa, comprising 740 specimens,
have been carried out.

PORIFERA (SPONGES).

Small collections of marine sponges from Natal, West
Australia, Masqat, and the West Indies, and one of fresh-water
sponges from the Volga have been examined and partly
mamed.

Il.—Duplicates and Exchanges.
(a) Duplicates.

Duplicates have been distributed among museums, scientific
institutions, etc., as follows :—

Mammalia. — Albert Institute and Victoria Galleries,
Dundee ; Art Gallery and Museum, Rochdale.

Duplicates have been lent to the British Antarctic Expe-
dition, 1910 (Exhibition held at Earl’s Court, London, 8.W.)
and to the Ghent Exhibition (British Section, Tropicai
Diseases).

Aves.—Albert Institute and Victoria Galleries, Dundee ;
Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh.

Reptilia, Batrachia.—Albert Institute and Victoria Gal-
jJeries, Dundee.
Pisces.—Albert Institute and Victoria Galleries, Dundee.

Pterobranchia. — Professor A. Dendy, F.RBR.S.; Professor
S. J. Hiekson, F.R.S.

Mollusca.—Albert Institute and Victoria Galleries, Dundee ;
Art Gallery and Museum, Rochdale; Stockport Municipal
Museum.

Arachnida.-—Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham; Albert
Institute and Victoria Galleries, Dundee; American Museum
of Natural History, New York.

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Crustacea.—Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham ; Albert
Institute and Victoria Galleries, Dundee.

Echinoderma.—: Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham ;
Albert Institute and Victoria Galleries, Dundee.

Worms.—Professor J. W. Spengel.
Polyzoa.—Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham.
Celenterata.—Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham.

Povrifera and Protozoa.—Museum and Art Gallery, Bir-
mingham ; Albert Institute and Victoria Galleries, Dundee.

(b) HKachanges.

Exchanges have been made with the following institutions
and individuals :—

Mammalia.—With the Zoologisches Museum, Berlin; the
Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, Mass.; the
Christiania Museum ; the American Museum of Natural History,
New York; and the Rikmuseum, Stockholm.

Aves.—With the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam-
bridge, Mass. ; the Tring Museum ; Dr. Louis B. Bishop; Mr. W.
Cross ; and Mr. J. H. Fleming.

Reptilia and Batrachia. — With the Naturhistorisches
Museum, Basel; the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cam-
bridge, Mass.; Mr. L. A. Lantz; and Dr. J. C. Thompson.

Pisces.—With the Zoologisches Museum, Berlin ; University
Museum of Zoology, Cambridge; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle,
Paris.

Arachnida.—With Mr. Nathan Banks; and with Dr. W.
Sorensen.

Crustacea.—With the Durban Museum; Western Australian
Museum and Art Gallery, Perth; and Dr. R. P. Cowles.

III.— Departmental Library.

The acquisitions for the Departmental Library (including
the Entomological Department) during the year, obtained by
purchase, presentation and exchange, consist of 101 separate
works in 128 volumes, and 1,955 parts of periodicals and
works in progress.

Five hundred and eight volumes, including those belonging
to the Walsingham Library, have been bound.

The work of collating, stamping, press-marking and entering
all additions in the Catalogue has been performed as usual.

The Attendant in the Library, with the aid and supervision
of an Assistant, has checked all the entries of Zoological
Works in that portion of the General Catalogue of Books which
has been printed during the year.

144: ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Among the donations the following are worthy of special
mention :— The Birds of Australia, Vol. 3, parts 1-4; presented
by G. M. Mathews, Esq. An engraving of Thomas Pennant,
and a specimen of his handwriting; presented by the Earl of
Denbigh, C.V.O. A series of original water-colour drawings
and pencil-sketches made by Dr. E. F. Kelaart, and used by
him in connection with his report on Ceylon Nudibranchiate
Molluses and Zoophytes ; presented by Miss Kelaart.

Among the purchases the following are worthy of special
notice :—Folin, A. G. L., ‘and Perrier, L., “ Les Fonds de la
Mer,” Tom. 1-3; Latreille, P. A., “ Précis des Caractéres
génériques des Insectes”; the original drawings, in four
volumes, made for Cramer, P., “ Papillons exetiques.”

The works relating to the Mollusca (about 800 volumes)
and the collection of reprints of Molluscan papers (about 1,000)
have been rearranged upon a definite system, and a slip-
catalogue has been prepared for use in the Mollusca Rooms.

List of Donors to the Departmental Library during the
year, 1915 -—

Agricultural Experiment Station, Bozeman, Montana.

Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, Behar, British India.

Agriculture and Fisheries, Board of.

Alvarez, T.

American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Anthropological Society, Bombay.

Arrow, G. J.

Australian Museum, Sydney.

Avicultural Society, London.

Barnes, Dr. W.

Barton, Dr. E. A.

Baumann, F.

Behning, Dr. A.

Brabeurne, Lord.

British Ornithologists’ Union.

Broun, Maj. T.

Buearest, Academia Romana.

Bureau of Productive Industry, Government of Formosa,
Japan.

Bureau of Public Health, Washington.

Chapman, §, C.

Chubb, C.

Colombo Museum, Ceylon.

Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Conseil permanent International pour |’Exploration de la
Mer.

Denbigh, Earl of, C.V.O.

Département van Landbouw, Nijverheid en Handel, te
Buitenzorg, Java.

Department of Agricultural Entomology, Manchester Uni-
versity.

Department of Agriculture, Edmonton, Canada.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 145

Department of Agriculture, Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay
States. ;

Department of Agriculture, Madras Presidency.

Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada.

Department of Agriculture, Sydney, N.S.W.

Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction,
Ireland.

Department of Agriculture, Victoria.

Department of Agriculture, Wellington, New Zealand.

Department of Commerce and Labour, Bureau of Fisheries,
Washington.

Dognin, Mons. P.

Dove Marine Laboratory, Cullercoats, Northumberland.

Edwards, F. W.

Entomological Society, London.

Entomological Society, Ontario, Canada.

Field, Editor of the.

Fishery Board for Scotland.

Foreign Bird Club.

Gardiner, Prof. J. Stanley, F.R.S.

Griffini, Dr. A.

Gude, G. K.

Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association.

Hewitt, Dr. C. Gordon. ;

Howard, Dr. L. O.

Hutchinson, Messrs.

Ichthyologisches Laboratorium der Kaspi - Wolgaschen
Fischerei-Verwaltung in Astrachan.

India, Secretary of State for.

Imperial Bureau of Entomology.

Imperial Bureau of Fisheries, Department of Agriculture
and Commerce, Tokyo.

Imperial Department of Agriculture, West Indies.

Indian Museum, Calcutta.

Jardine, N. K.

Kelaart, Miss F.

Kirkpatrick, R.

Kommissionen for Havundersogelser, Kjobenhavn.

Koningsberger, Dr. J. C.

Linnean Society, London.

London School of Tropical Medicine.

Lyell, J. C.

Magyar Kiralyi Ornithologiai Kozpont, Budapest.

Mathews, G. M.

Mauritius, Governor of.

Methuen, Messrs.

Miers, Miss.

Morse, E: S.

Mullens, W. H.

Musée Zoologique de l’Académie Imp. St. Pétersbourg.

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova.

Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Harvard College.

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146 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel.

Nederlandische Entomologische Vereeniging.

New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station.

Nichols, J. T.

Norman, Rev. Canon A. M., F.R.S.

Ogilvie-Grant, W. R.

Parry, J.

Poulton, Prof. E. B., F.R.S

Rockefeller Foundation, International Health Commission,
Washington, D.C.

Rowland- Brown, i;

Sanitary Commission, Government of India.

Sars, Prot. G. 0;

School of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt.

Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Sherborn, C. D.

Smith, E. A., 1.8.0.

South, R.

Socicté Entomologique de Belgique.

Société Entomologique de France.

Société Entomologique de Russie.

Société Royale de Zoologie, Amsterdam.

South African Ornithologists’ Union.

Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, India.

Technical Education Branch, Technological Museum,
Sydney.

Thomas, O., F.R.S.

Tropical Diseases Bureau, Imperial Institute, London.

United States Department of Agriculture, Washington.

University of California.

University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge.

University of Pennsylvania.

University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming.

Urich, F. W.

Western Australian Museum, Perth.

Wilson Ornithological Club.

Zoological Museum, Copenhagen.

Zoological Soziety, London.

Zoological Society, New York.

Zoological Society, Philadelphia.

Zoological Society, Tokyo.

Zoologische Staatssammlung, Miinchen.

1V.—Publications.

In addition to the official Catalogues and other volumes
published by the Trustees (see pp. 128-9), various reports and
descriptive papers have been prepared in connection with the
different branches of the collection ; and have been published for
the most part in scientific journals,

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 147

For the convenience of reference the following list is
appended :—

Mammalia.

By OLDFIELD THomMAS, F.R.S. :—

“Two New Australian Mammals.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi., p. 79.
“On some rare Amazonian Mammals from the Wollackon

of the Para Museum.” Tb... petsa,
“On Small Mammals collected in Jujuy by Senor E.
Budin.” Ib., p. 136.
“On some specimens of Glauconycteris from the
Cameroons.” Ib., p. 144.
“ Notes on §. American Leporide.” ToS p2209.
“ Four new Shrews.” Ib., p. 214.
“Ernst Hartert’s Expedition to the Central Western
Sahara.” Novitates Zoologice, xx., p. 28.

“On African Bats and Shrews.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi, p. 314.
“New Forms of Akodon and Phyllotos, and a new

Genus for ‘ Akodon’ teguina.” Ib., p. 404.
‘On a remarkable new free-tailed Bat from Soncbern
Bombay.”

Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xxii., p. 87.
“ A new Shrew from the Adaman Islands.”

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi. p. 468.
“New African Lpimys and Jaculus.” Ib., p. 482.
“On some Mammals from Bali and Mysol, collected by
I. Stresemann during the Frieburger Molukken-
Expedition.” Ib., p. 504.

“ On certain of the small S. American Cervide.”
Ib., p. 585.
“Some new Fere from Asia and Africa.” Jb., xii, p. 88.
“On new Mammals obtained by the Utakwa Expedition

to Dutch New Guinea.” 1b5, p, 205,
“Some new species of Uromys.” LO sap. 202
“The Geographical Races of the Woolly Opossum.”

Ib., p. 358.
“ A new species of Dwarf Potto.” Ib., p. 387.

“List of Mammals obtained by the Hon. Walter Roths-
child, Ernst Hartert, and Carl Hilgert in Western
Algeria during 1913.”

Noyitates Zoologice, xx., p. 586.

“New Mammals from South America.”

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, (8), xii., p. 567.

By OLDFIELD THOMAS, F.R.S., and KATHLEEN V.
RYLEY :—

“Scientific results from the Mammal Survey.”
Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xil., p. 242.

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148 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MAMMALIA—continued.
By Guy DOLLMAN :-—

“On the Langurs (Presbytis) of Central and Southern
India.” Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xxii, p. 439.

By R. LYDEKKER, F.R.S. :—

“The Dwarf Buffalo of Southern Nigeria; with a revision
of the Dwarf Buffaloes of Western Africa.”
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1913, p. 234.
“ The Transvaal Race of the Cape, or Khama, Hartebeest.”
Ib., p. 818.
By Dr. KNuUbD ANDERSEN :—

«A new Pteropus from the Polynesian Sub-region.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi., p. 469.

By GILBERT BLAINE :—
«A new Oribi from the Galla Country to the North of

Lake Rudolf.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi., p. 146.
“Some Notes on the Reedbucks, with a description of two
new Sub-species.” ? Ib., p. 287.

“On the Relationship of Gazella isabella to Gazella
dorcas, with a description of a new Species and Sub-
species.” lb, p- 291.

By KATHLEEN V. RILEY :—

“ Bombay Natural History Secciety’s Mammal Survey of
India, Report No. 9, Mysore Collection.”

Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xxii., p. 283.

“ Scientific Results from the Mammal Survey.”
Ib., p. 434.
“ Bombay Natural History Society’s Mammal Survey of
India, Report No. 10 (Kathiawar) and Report No. 11
(Coorg).” Ib., p. 464

By R. C. WRoUGHTON and KATHLEEN V. RYLEY :—

“Scientific Results from the Mammal Survey, Part III.”
Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xxii, p. 13.

By Martin A. C. HINTON :--

‘“ Note on the Voles of the orcadensis Group.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xii., p. 452.

By G. E. H. BAarrett-HAmMILTON, F.Z.S., and Marrin A. C.
HINTON :—

“On a Collection of Mammals from the Inner Hebrides.”
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1913, p. 821.
“Three new Voles from the Inner Hebrides, Scotland.”
Ann. Mag. Nat, Hist. (8), xii., p. 361.
By W. P. PycRAFT :—

“The Courtship of Animals,”

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, 149

Aves.
By W R. OGILVIE-GRaNT :—
** Notes on the Birds collected by the B. O. U. Expedition

to Dutch New Guinea.” Ibis, 1913, p. 76.
“On asmall collection of Birds from Henderson Island,
South Pacific.” Ib., p. 343.

“On a collection of Birds from S. Abyssinia, presented
to the British Museum by Mr. W. N. Macmillan.”
Part I. Passeres. Ib., p. 550.

‘Remarks on a specimen of Lagopus scoticus.”

Ball 7b) O. CY xxxi sp. 4,

“ Remarks on a small collection and descriptions of new
species of Birds (Acrocephalus taiti, Vini hendersona
and Porzana murrayt) from Henderson Island, S. ~
Pacific.” Ib., p. 58; corrections, p. 76.

“ Remarks on an abnormally coloured Rook.” Jb., p. 76.

“ Description of and remarks on new species of Birds col-

.lected by Mr. G. W. Bury in the Highlands of Yemen
(Turdus menachensis, Parisoma buryi, Ananthe
yemenensis, Accentor fagani, Poliospiza mena-
chensis, Cryptolopha umbrovirens menachensis), also
onanew genus and species, Pseudacanthis yemenensis,
p- 86; also a new sub-species of Grosbeak, Rhyncho-
struthus percivali yemenensis, p. 112; and a Shrike,
Lanius yemenensis ; Xxxiii., p. 91.”

“On the Mongolian Black Grouse (Lyrurus tetria mon-
golvcus).” HOT pL O%,

“ Remarks on the Birds obtained by Mr. Wollaston and
Mr. Kloss during their ascent of Mt. Carstensz, Dutch
New Guinea, with descriptions of the following new
Birds: Rallicula klosst, Melopitta lugubris rostrata,
Edoliisoma utakwensis, Anthus wollastoni, and
Paradigalla intermedia.” Ib., p. 103.

“On the Nest and Eggs of the Hebridean Song-Thrush.”

FGA. VTA

“Exhibition of, and remarks on the Spitsbergen Ptar-
migan Lagopus hyperboreus.”’ LDL PRX, De, 2

“Remarks on the Starling breeding in the Orkney and
Shetland Islands, with reference to the peculiar sooty-
black plumage of the young.” BO 03.

“Remarks on Barrow’s Golden-eye (Clangula islandica),
and the Scaup Duck (NVyroca marila) in eclipse-
plumage.” 1b., p. 64.

“On an example of the Carolina Crake from the Island
of Lewis, Outer Hebrides.”

Ib., p. 82., also British Birds, vii., p. 202.

“The Kclipse-plumage of the Capercaillie with a note on
the Capercaillies in the Pennant Collection.”

British Birds, vii., p. 2.

“Red-footed Faleon reported from Aberdeenshire.”

L6., p= 199);

150 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

AVES— continued.
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club. Vols. xxxi.,
xxxll. (Report on the Immigration of Summer Resi-
dents), and xxxiii. (edited).

By W. P. PycRraFt :—
“Qn the Eclipse Plumage in Ducks.” Bull. B. O. C.,

XXXiil., p- 66.
By C. CHUBB :—

“On the priority of Myiospiza humeralis (Bosc) over
M. manimbe (Licht.) Topaza smaragdulus (Bose) is
the female of 7. pella (Linn.).”

Bull. BO. Cycxexissp. 39.

“Exhibition and descriptions of two new forms of Dar-
win’s Rhea from Tarapaca and Bolivia.”

1b.g ZXxiMep: £93

By Lorp BRABOURNE and C. CHUBB :—

“A Synopsis of the genus Tinamus.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xii., pp Ord

Reptilia and Batrachia.
By G. A. BoULENGER, F.R.S. :—
‘The Snakes of Europe.” London: 1913, 8vo.
“Second contribution to our knowledge of the Races of
Wall-Lizard (Lacertu muralis).”
Trans. Z. Sj xx4) p. 135,
‘Ona collection of Batrachians and Reptiles made by
Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell in the Choco, Colombia.”
PZ. 8:1 Slee pal O19,
“On the Geographical Races of Vipera ammodytes.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi., p. 283.
‘On the presence of two closely allied species of Toads
of the genus Nectophryne in Cameroon.”
Op: cit. ay ps0
“ Description of a new Snake discovered by Mr. A. EH.

’ Pratt in Eastern Peru.” FE. 6p. 72a
“Descriptions of new Lizards in the collection of the
British Museum.” T. CGp. 10 6am

“A List of the Reptiles obtained by Mr. H. Stevens in
Upper Assam and the Eastern Himalayas.”
Rec. Ind. Mus., ix., p. 337.
Pisces.
By G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. :—
‘Descriptions of three new Fishes discovered in the Gold
Coast by Dr. H.'G..F. Spurrell.” Po ZS.) 19 la, pao
‘Descriptions of four new Fishes discovered by Mr. G.
L. Bates in the Nyong River, South Cameroon.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xii., p. 67.
‘Descriptions of five new Cichlid Fishes from Africa.”
T. ¢., Pp: 4028
“ Descriptions of a new Cyprinodont Fish from the Sobat
River,” T. c., p. 566.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 151

PIscEs—continued.

“ Description d’un Poisson nouveau recueilli a Luluabourg
(Congo Belge).” Rev. Zool. Afr., ii., p. 394.
‘“ Descriptions de deux Poissons nouveaux provenant des

récoltes de M. E. Luja a Kondué, Kasai.”
Bull. Soc. Nat. Luxemb., No. 3.

By C. TATE REGAN :—

* The Antarctic Fishes of the Scottish National Antarctic
Expedition.” Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb., xlix., p. 229.
“A Collection of Fishes made by Prof. Francisco Fuentes

at Easter Island.” Proc. Zool. Soe., 1913, p. 368.
“A Revision of the Fishes of the genus Kuhlia.”
I Gy p: oie
“A Revision of the Cyprinodont Fishes of the sub-family
Poeciliinee.” Tee p. OF 7:
“A Deep Sea Angler Fish, Welanocetus johnston.”
Tae: ep -sb096,

“ Raia undulata, Lacep., and its. distribution on the
British Coasts.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi., p. 80.
“The Osteology and classification of the Teleostean
Fishes of the order Scleroparei.” He G5, pe UGS:
“Descriptions of two new Fishes from Paranagua, Brazil,
presented to the British Museum, by Herr A.

Rachow.” Ee Gs, pe 20k,
“The Poeciliid Fishes of the genus Jenynsia.”
TCs Ps 202:
“Description of a new Cyprinid Fish from Singapore.”
T. c, p. 894.
‘A Revision of the Myxinoids of the genus Myaine.”
DGape oops
“The Fishes described by Carmichael from Tristan da
Cunha.” T. c., p. 466.
“A Synopsis of the Cichlid Fishes of the genus Creni-
cichla.” TT, ¢., pr 498.
“ 4 Synopsis of the Siluroid Fishes of the genus Liocassis,
with descriptions of new species.” Pi p. 544:

“The classification of the Percoid Fishes.”
Tb. ie. VD
“Note on Myxine capensis.” ARC oa
‘Fishes from Peru, collected by Dr. H. O. Forbes.”
ees pe 28s
“Fishes from the River Ucayali, Peru, collected by Mr.
Mounsey.” Dre.) De 2a le
‘““The Fishes of the San Juan River, Colombia.”
Esics- p. 462,
“ Phallostethus duneckert, a remarkable new Cyprinodont
Fish from Johore.” LT. @.; p. 548,
“ Description of a new Loricariid Fish of the genus Ple-
costomus from Rio Janeiro.” Tgp ps 20a:

152 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Pterobranchia.
By 8. F. Harmer, F.R.S., anD W. G. RIDEWooD :—
“The Pterobranchia of the Scottish National Antarctic
Expedition (1902-1904).”
Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb., xlix. Pt. iii., p. 531.

Mollusca.
By G. C. Rosson :—

“On Aporemodon, a remarkable new Pulmonate genus.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), x., 1913, p. 425.

“ Helminthochiton equivoca, n. sp. from the L. Ordovician,
Bohemia.” Geol. Mag., Dee. 5, x., 1913, p. 302.

‘‘On some remarkable Shell monstrosities.”
Proc. Malac. Soc., x., 1913, p. 274.

“Note on Glyptorhagada silvert.” Lbs ip. 265.
By E. A. Suita, 1.8.0. :—
“ Note on Murex mancinella, Linn.” Ib., p. 287.

“On a small collection of marine shells from Henderson
Island.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), xil., 1913, p. 409.

Myriopoda.
By A. 8S. Hirst :—
“On a second Indian species of the genus Termitodesmus

(T. fletchera sp. n.).”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi., p. 481.

Arachnida.

By A. S. Hirst :-—

‘“ Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in
1905. Second Report on the Arachnida—The Scor-
piones, Pedipalpi, and Supplementary Notes on the
Opiliones and Pseudoscorpiones.”

Trans. Linn. Soe. (2), xvi., p. 31.

‘‘On three new species of Gaiasid Mites found on Rats.”
Bull. Ent. Res., iv., p. 119.

Crustacea.
By Dr. W. T. CALMAN :—
‘Note on the Brachyuran genera Micippoides and

Hyastenus.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi., p. 312.
“Two cases of Abnormal Appendages in Crabs.”
Tc. p. 399.

“A new species of the Crustacean genus Thaumastocheles.”

Op. cit. (8), xii, p. 229.

“On Aphareocaris, nom. nov. (Aphareus, Paulson) a
genus of the Crustacean family Sergestide.”

A Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., xxxi., p. 219.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 153

CRUSTACEA— continued.

“On Freshwater Decapod Crustacea (Families Pota-
monidee and Palemonide) collected in Madagascar
by the Hon. Paul A. Methuen.”

Proc. Zool. Soc., 1913, p. 914.
By Dr. W. A. CUNNINGTON:

“ Zoological Results of the third Tanganyika Expedition.

Report on the Branchiura.”
Proce. Zool. Soc., 1913, p. 262.
By G. P. FaRRAnN;
“ Plankton from Christmas Island, Indian Ocean.—ii. On
Copepoda of the genera Ovthona and Parowthona.”
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1913, p. 181.

The following paper is based partly on material in the
British Museum :-—

By STANLEY KEMP :—

* An account of the Crustacea Stomatopoda of the Indo-
Pacific Region.” Memoirs Indian Museum, iv., No. 1.

Polyzoa.
By 8S. F. HARMER, F.R.S. :--
“The Polyzoa of Waterworks.”
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1913, p. 426.

Porifera.

By R. KirnKPATRICK :—

“ Note on the occurrence of the Euplectellid Sponge
Regadrella phenia O. Schmidt, off the South African
Coast.” Ann. South African Museum, xiii., 1913.

V.—Acquisitions.*
MAMMALIA.

The additions to this class during the past year number
two thousand one hundred and twenty-nine :—

Special attention may ‘be directed to the large collections
of Indian Mammals presented by the Bombay Natural History
Society ; to the collection of New Guinea Mammals presented
by the Subscribers to the Utakwa Expedition; to a collection
of Mammals from Algeria presented by the Hon. Walter
Rothschild, F.R.S8.; to the large collection of East African
Mammals presented by Mr. G. P. Cosens ; and to the collection
of Mammals from Ecuador presented by Mr. Oldfield Thomas,
F.R.S.

* A table showing the number of specimens added during the year is
given on page 174,

154 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MAMMALIA—continued.

Europe.

Two paddles, two scapule and other portions of the skeleton
of a Sperm Whale, Physeter catodon, from near Rockall ; pre-
sented by Carl #. Herlofson, Esq.

Two paddles of a Sperm Whale, Baja catodon, from
Lochend, Shetland ; purchased.

The skeleton of a Bottle-nosed Whale, Hyperoodon
rostratus, from Unionhall, co. Cork; presented by the Board
of Trade. ,

The skeleton of a White-sided Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus
acutus, from Fair Isle; presented by the Board of Trade.

The head of a Common Dolphin, Delphinus delphis, from
Achill Island, co. Mayo; presented by the Board of Trade.

A female and calf of Risso’s Dolphin, Grampus griseus, from
Torbay, Devonshire; presented by the Board of Trade.

The skeleton of a Lesser Rorqual, Balenoptera acutoros-
trata, from Arbroath; presented by the Board of Trade.

Two flippers, and a piece of baleen of a Lesser Rorqual,
Balenoptera acutorostrata, from Crail, Fife; presented by the
Board of Trade. |

Portions of the skeleton of ‘‘ Imelda,” a thoroughbred mare
claiming descent ‘“ Stockwell,” “Hermit” and “ Voltigeur ” ;
presented by A. G. Burchardt, Esq.

A Fox from Waterford, Ireland; presented by the late
Major G. EB. H. Barrett-Hamilton.

A Polecat from Radnorshire ; presented by Capt. C. Venables
Llewelyn.

Three Badgers from Surrey; presented by Addis Price,
Esq.

An Albino Mole from Cornwall; presented by Messrs.
Matthias Dunn and Sons. —

A Pigmy Shrew from Lundy Island; presented by H. St.
J. K. Donisthorpe, Esq.

Two Water shrews from Marlow; pr esented by Major E. W.
Mayor.

A Vole from Texel Island; presented by F. H. Stvkes, Esq.

Asia.
Four cats from Persia; presented by Major P. M. Sykes.

A Tiger and a head of an Indian Rhinoceros, from Nepal ;
presented by His Majesty the King.

Six hundred and twenty mammals collected by Messrs.
G. C. Shortridge and C. A. Crump in India ; ie Sik by the
Bombay Natural History Socvrety.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 155

MAMMALIA—continued.

Highteen mammals from Simla; presented by P. T. L. Dods-
worth, sq.

Five mammals from India; presented by J, H. M. Mellor,
Esq.

Forty-five mammals from Ceylon; presented by J. C. F.
Fryer, Esq.

Ten mammals from Siam; presented by T. H. Lyle, Esq.

Four Langur Monkeys from Siam; presented by K. G.
Gairdner, Esq.

Four mammals from Turkestan; presented by the Hon.

N.C. Rothschild.

Twenty-three mammals from Perak and Ceram; presented
by H. Stresemann, Esq.

A Shrew from the Andaman Islands; presented by @. G.
Rogers, Esq.

A Tarsier, Tarsius spectrum, from Sarawak; presented by
J.C, Swayne, Esq.

Forty mammals from China; presented by EL. B. Howell,
E'sq.

Nineteen mammals from China; received in exchange from
the Harvard Museum.

Twenty mammals from Sze-chwan, China; presented by
W. R. Brown, Esq.

Nineteen mammals from Korea; received in exchange from
the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Africa,
- Five mammals from Algeria; presented by P. A. Bucton,
sq.
Ninety mammals from 8.W. Algeria; presented by the Hon.
Walter Rothschild, F.R.S.
Twenty-two mammals from Liberia; purchased.
Fifteen mammals from Kabwir, Northern Nigeria; pre-

sented by J. C. Fox, Esq.

Two Gorilla skulls from Southern Nigeria; presented by
Elphinstone Dayrell, Esq.

Fourteen mammals from the Cameroons ; purchased.

Hight mammals from Angola; presented by H. F. Varian,
Lisq.

The type of a new Cat, Felis servalina larsent, from Angola ;
presented by J. Sidney Bowskill, Esq.

Nine mammals from the Sankuru River, Congo; presented
by H. Wilson, E'sq.

Three mammals from Port Sudan; presented by Dr.

Waterfield.

156 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MAMMALIA— continued.

Six mammals from Abyssinia; presented by L. C. G.
Clarke, Esq.

Two hundred mammals from East Africa; presented by
G. P. Cosens, Esq.

Ten mammals from East Africa; presented by Gilbert
Blaine, Esq.

Four mammals from Nyasaland; presented by Colonel
Manning.

Four mammals from Uganda; presented by C. C. Gowdey,
Esq.

Five mammals from Uganda; presented by Dr. R. van
Someren.

Five mammals from Zanzibar; presented by Dr. W. M.
Aders.

Four mammals from Lake Kivu; presented by Sir Alfred
Sharpe, K.C.M.G.

Ten mammals from Jubaland; presented by I. N. Draco-
poli, Esq.

Nine mammals from Angoniland ; presented by Surgeon-
General Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S.

America, South.

Fifteen mammals from South America ; received in exchange
from the Berlin Museum.

Thirty-eight mammals from British Guiana; presented by
F. V. McConnell, Esq.

Nine mammals from the Lower Amazons; presented by the
Goeldi Museum, Para.

HKighteen mammals from St. Catharina; presented by the
Hon. N. C. Rothschild.

Twelve mammals from Argentina; presented by F. H. F.
Parkes, Esq.

Forty-two mammals from Buenavista and the Rio Toche ;
received in exchange from the American Museum of Natural
History, New York.

One hundred and thirty-seven mammals from Ecuador ;
presented by Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S.

Sixteen mammals from: Choco, Colombia ; purchased.

Four mammals from Quilpue, Chili; presented by J. A.
Wolffsohn, Esq.

Nine skeletons and fifteen skulls of Peruvians and the
skeleton of a Peruvian dog, all from a burial ground dating
from pre-Inca times; purchased.

A human skull from an ancient burial ground at Quiagua,

N. Chili; presented by W. C. Pringle, Esq.

i DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 157
* MAMMALIA—continued.

Australasia.
One hundred and twenty-seven mammals from the Utakwa

and Setakwa Rivers, New Guinea; presented by the subscribers
to the Wollaston Expedition to Dutch New Guinea.

Thirty-nine mammals from Melville Island ; purchased.

AVES.

The acquisitions number eight thousand seven hundred and
fifty-five. Of these, the most noteworthy are as follows :—

Europe.

Sixty eggs of British birds; presented by J. H. Jobson, Esq.

Fourteen examples of British birds ; presented by Geoffrey
Harley, Esq.

Fourteen birds from county Waterford; presented by the
late Major G. EF. H. Barrett-Hamulton.

Parent bird and three young of Strepsilasinterpres : parent
birds, young, and egg of Tringa minuta from Kolguevy Island ;
parent, young, and egg of Squatarola helvetica from Waigats
Island; parent bird, young and eggs of Hudromias morinellus
from Dolga Bay ; presented by Colonel H. W. Feilden, C.B.

Six nestling examples of the Woodcock and four hybrid
ducks—Mareca penelope x Dafila acuta, Anas boscas x Mareca
penelope, Mareca americana x Anas boscas, Mareca ameri-
cana x Mareca sibilatria; presented by Sir Richard
Graham, Bart.

Forty-one birds from Hungary; presented by the Hon.
_ N.C. Rothschild.

Forty birds from various localities in Scotland and the
adjacent islands; presented by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Esq.

Fifty-six birds from Inverness, collected by Mr. C. H. B.
Grant ; purchased.

Twenty-one birds from the Outer Hebrides, collected by
Mr. D. Anderson, presented by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Esq.

Twenty-nine birds from the Inner Hebrides, collected by
Mr. P. D. Montague; presented by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Esq.

One hundred and twenty-four British birds, collected by
Mr. D. A. Bannerman ; purchased.

Thirty-seven birds from Somersetshire, collected by Mr.
F. H. Laurence Whish; purchased.

An immature male example of the Carolina Crake (Porzana
carolina) from Stornoway, N.B.; collected and presented by
A. Blain, Esq.

An example of the St. Kilda Wren (Troglodytes hirtensis)

received in exchange from the Royal Scottish Museum,
Edinburgh.

158 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

AVES—continued.

Asia.

Thirty-nine birds, including the type specimen of Oreocincla
whiteheadi, from the North-west Frontier Provinces of India ;
presented by Capt. C. H. T. Whitehead.

Four hundred and thirty-three eggs from North Cachar and
Khasia Hills, N.E. India; presented by E. C. Stuart Baker, Esq.

Fourteen birds from Burma, including the type specimens
of Suya criniger cookr and Prinia inornata burmanica ;
presented by Major H. H. Harington.

Six birds from the Chin Hills, Burma; presented by C.
Hopwood, Esq.

Twenty-one birds from the Shan States, Burma; presented
by J. P. Cook, Esq.

One hundred and twenty-eight birds from the Shan States,
Burma; presented by Capt. F. H. W. Venning, I.A.

Hight birds, including examples of Acrocephalus tangorum,
not previously represented in the Collection, and 12 eggs from
China; presented by J. D. La Touche, Esq.

Eleven birds from Yunnan ; presented by E. B. Howell, Esq.

Highty-three birds from Mount Arizan, Formosa, including
the types of four newly described species, collected by Mr.
W, Goodfellow ; purchased.

A male example of Calophasis mikado, and an egg of Gen-
neus swinhoer, from Formosa; presented by Walter Good-
fellow, Esq.

A female specimen of the Mikado Pheasant (Calophasis
mikado), from Mount Arizan, Formosa; presented by Mrs.
EL. J. Johnstone.

Africa.

A Shoe-bill Stork (Balenicps rex) from Khartoum;
purchased.

The type specimen of Caprimulgus ludovicianus from
South West Abyssinia; presented by Colonel R. Stevenson
Clarke.

Highteen birds from British Hast Africa; presented by the
Rev. F.C. R. Jourdain.

Two hundred and forty-six birds, 144 egos, and one nesi,
from Uganda; presented by L. M. Seth-Smith, Esq.

Twenty-six birds from Mabira forest, Uganda; collected by
Mr. J. Hughes ; purchased.

Two hundred and seventy-one birds from Equatorial Africa ;
presented by S. A. Neave, Esq.

Thirteen birds from Zanzibar; presented by W. M. Aders,
Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 159

AVES—continued.

Two hundred and eighty-seven birds from Southern Arabia,
including the type specimens of eight newly described species ;
collected by Mr. G. W. Bury ; purchased.

One hundred and forty-five eggs from South Africa; col-
lected by the late Mr. Bertram E. Jupp; purchased.

‘Eleven birds from the South Congo State; presented by
Mrs. M. Roby.

Thirty-two birds, including the type specimen of Laniarius
helene, also seven eggs and three nests from Sierra Leone ;
pr esented by Major H. Kelsall, R.A.

Twenty-five birds and three eggs from Gambia; presented
by Gilbert Blaine, Esq.

Two hundred and thirty-four birds from the Canary
Islands, including the type specimens of newly described sub-
species ; collected by Mr. D. A. Bannerman ; purchased.

The skeletons of three Laughing Gulls, Larus cachinnans,
from the Canary Islands; presented by D. A. Bannerman,
Esq.

The skeletons of seven Ringed Plovers, #gialvtis, fon the
Cape Verde Islands ; presented by D. A. Bannerman, Esq.

America, North.

Fifteen birds from Alberta, Western Canada; presented by
A. Thornburn, Esq.

Sixty birds from Colorado; collected by Mr. W. Cross ;
exchanged.

Fifty-eight birds from British Columbia; collected by
Mr. J. Wynne; purchased.

Six hundred and one birds from the United States ; collected
by Willoughby P. Lowe, Esq.

One hundred and seventy-eight birds from the United
States and British Columbia; received in exchange from J. H.
Fleming, Esq.

Seven birds from North-West Mexico and other localities,
including an example of Lagopus welchi, which was previously
unrepresented in the Museum series; received in exchange
from the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, Mass.

America, Central and South.

Three hundred and seventeen birds from British Honduras ;
presented by F. D. Godman, Esq., F. RS.

One hundred and sixteen birds from Costa Rica ; presented
by F. D. Godman, Esq., F.R.S.

Four birds from British Guiana; presented by F. V.
McConnell, Esq.

Sixty-six birds from Miritiba, N.E. Brazil; collected by
‘Mr. F. Schwanda; purchased.

160 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

AVES—continued.

Two hundred and twenty-seven eggs from Buenos Aires ;
presented by Krnest Gibson, Esq.

Three thousand three hundred and fifteen Humming-birds,
seven hundred and twenty of which are mounted in forty-
nine cases and placed in the Exhibition Galleries ; presented by
R. J. Balston, Esq. :

An immature Rhea; presented by Sir Edmund Loder,
Bart.

Nine birds from Trinidad; presented by Collingwood
Ingram, Esq.

Forty-six birds from the West Indian and Bermuda Islands,
including the type specimen of Carduelis carduelis bermudt-
ana; presented by John N. Kennedy, Esq.

Forty-five eggs from the Falkland Islands; presented by
Rupert Vallentin, Esq.

One hundred and fifty-two birds and fifty-seven eggs from
the islands off the coast of Peru; collected by Dr. H. O.
Forbes ; purchased.

Australasia and Pacific Ocean.
Seven birdsfrom Australia ; presented by Miss A. Chirnside.

Three hundred and fifty-nine birds, one egg, and one nest
from New Guinea: collected by Mr. W. Goodfellow; pur-
chased.

A mounted example of Casuarius intensus from Southern

Dutch New Guinea; presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild,
DL SC5 FF Bus.

One hundred and seventy-four birds from Amboina; col-
lected by Mr. C. Boden Kloss; presented by the subscribers to
the British Ornithologists Union Expedition to New Guinea.

Thirty birds from the Monte Bello Islands, W. Australia -
presented by P. D. Montague, Esq.

Twenty-one birds from Henderson Island, South Pacific,

including the types of three newly described species ; presented
by D. R. Tait, H'sq., and T. R. Jamieson, Esq.

REPTILIA.

The additions number one thousand one hundred and
thirty-seven, of which nine hundred and seventeen were
received by presentation, one hundred and thirty-seven by
purchase, and eighty-three by exchange.

The following are the most important :—

Europe.
Seven Reptiles from Montpellier; presented by Prof.
Duboscq.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 161

REPTILIA—continued,

Examples of a small Gecko, Phyllodactylus europaeus,
from a small island near Hyéres; presented by Prof. L.
Leger.

Fourteen Lizards from Switzerland ; received in exchange
from the Basel Museum.

Ten Lizards from Italy and Dalmatia; presented by M. G.
de Southoff.

Twenty-six Snakes from Italy; presented by the Doria
Museum, Genoa.

Asia.

Examples of the rare Lacerta brandti, from Persia;
presented by Mr. L. A. Lantz.

A remarkable variety of Vipera ammodytes from Trans-
caucasia ; presented by Col. A. Kaznakoff.

Ten Reptiles from China, including a Snake (Simotes
vaillanti) new to the Museum; presented by the Shanghai
Museum.

Thirty-seven Reptiles from Formosa and the Loo Choo
Islands; received in exchange from Dr. J. C. Thompson.

Four Snakes from Nepal and Assam; presented by H.
Stevens, Esq.

Hight Reptiles from Northern India and Burma, including
the type of anew Blind Snake (7'yphlops venningi) ; presented
by Major F. Wall, I.M.S.

Seven Reptiles from Kelantan, Malay Peninsula; presented
by Dr. J. D. Goimlette.

Africa.

One hundred and two Reptiles from the Province Oran,
Algeria; presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.R.S., and
Dr. EL. Hartert.

Sixteen Reptiles from Tripoli, collected by Dr. A. Andreini ;
presented by the Doria Museum, Genoa. |

Sixteen Reptiles from the Egyptian Sudan and the Red Sea
Province, collected by Capt. 8S. 8S. Flower; presented by the
Egyptian Government.

Seventy-four Reptiles from the Trarza Province, Mauritania,
collected by Mr. Audan ; purchased.

Three Reptiles from Northern Nigeria, one being a snake
(Hlapechis moebit) new to the collection; presented by J. M.
Dalziel, Esq.

Seventeen Reptiles from South Cameroon, collected by
Mr. G,. L. Bates; purchased.

Twelve Reptiles from British East Africa, collected by
Willoughby P. Lowe, Esq.; presented by Gordon P. Cosens,
Esq.

0.75 L

162 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

REPTILTIA—continued.

America.

A Lizard (Neoseps reynoldsi) from Florida, new to the
collection ; presented by the United States National Musewm.

The skeleton of a rare fresh-water Turtle (Vermatemys
maw?) from British Honduras presented by the Zoological
Society of London.

One hundred and forty-seven Reptiles from Mexico and
Central America; presented by F. D. Godman, Esq., F.E.S.

Thirty-one Reptiles from the Bahamas, Cuba, San Domingo,
and Porto Rico, including examples of several species new to
the collection; received in exchange from the Museum of
Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, Mass.

Twenty-six Reptiles from various parts of South America;
presented by the Doria Museum, Genoa.

Eleven Reptiles from Brazil; presented by Miss Kingsmill.

Seventy-eight Reptiles from the Choco, Colombia, including
types of six new species (Cinosternum spurrelli, Anolis
breviceps, Anadia vittata, Homalocranium coralliventre,
Elaps microps, Leptognathus spurrellr); presented by Dr.
H. G. F. Spurrell.

Five Reptiles obtained in Eastern Peru by Mr. A. E. Pratt,
including the type of anew Snake (Leptognathus latifasciata) ;
purchased.

Australasia and Pacific Ocean.

One hundred and fifty-one Reptiles from Dutch New
Guinea, among them several species new to the collection or
to Science; presented by the Subscribers to the British Orni-
thologists’ Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea.

One hundred and thirteen Reptiles from Dutch New Guinea,
including examples of several species new to the collection or
to Science; presented by the Subscribers to the Wollaston
Expedition to Dutch New Guinea.

Seventy-three Reptiles from Amboina; presented by the
Subscribers to the British Ornithologists’ Expedition to Dutch
New Guinea.

Eight Reptiles from Hermite Island, W. Australia, including
a Lizard (Ablepharus muelleri) new to the collection, and the
type of a new Blind Snake (Typhlops ammodytes) ; presented
by P. D. Montague, Esq.

The types of two new Lizards (Gymmodactylus asper and
Pygopus schraderv) discovered by Mr. P. Schrader in Western
New South Wales; purchased.

Ten Lizards from Henderson Island, S. Pacific; presented
by D. R. Tait, E'sq., and T. R. Jamieson, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 163

BATRACHIA.

The additions number four hundred and four, three hundred
and nineteen of which were obtained by presentation and
eighty-five by purchase. The following are worthy of
notice :—

Europe.

Twenty-six Newts from Brittany; presented by Prof. F.
Guitel.

Twenty-two Batrachians from the Charente; purchased.

Eleven Batrachians from Montpellier ; presented by Prof.
Duboscgq.

Ten Batrachians from Moscow; presented by Mr. L. A.
Lantz.

Asia.

Hight Toads from N. E. Persia; presented by Capt. H. H.
Thoburn.

Fifteen Frogs from 8. Waziristan ; presented by Major G.
E. Bruce.

Three Batrachians from China; presented by the Shanghai
Museum.

Africa.

Ten Toads from the Trarza Province, Mauritania, collected
by M. Audan ; purchased.

Thirty-one Batrachians from South Cameroon, collected by
Mr. G. L. Bates, including the type of a new Toad (Nectophryne
batesi) ; purchased.

Ten Batrachians from British East Africa, collected by
Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe; presented by Gordon P. Cosens, Esq.

Ten Frogs from Lake Matanda, Uganda; presented by
Major Jack.

T he co-type of a new Frog, Heleophryne regis, discovered

at Knysna, Cape Colony, by Mr. J. A. Rex; presented by
J. Hewitt, Esq.

America, South.

Thirty-one Batrachians from various parts of South America,
among them a Frog (Paludicola henselz) new to eke collection ;
presented by the Doria Museum, Genoa.

A rare Caecilian (Typhlonectes compressicauda) from
Manaos, Brazil; presented by J. Paul Arnold, Esq.

The co-type of a new Frog (Telmatobius luseni) from
Parana, Brazil ; presented by Pr rof. E. Lonnberg.

Sixty-eight Batrachians from the Choco, Colombia, includ-
ing the types of five new species (Dendrobates aurotenia,

bE 2

164 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
BATRACHIA—continued.

Bufo hypomelas, Agalychnis spurrelli, Cecilia intermedia) ;
presented by Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell.

Twenty-two Batrachians collected in Peru by Mr.J. Mounsey ;
purchased.

Ten Batrachians collected in Peru by Messrs. H. and
C. Watkins ; purchased.

Australasia.

Twenty-eight Batrachians from Dutch New Guinea, among
them examples of a Frog (Chaperina brevipalmata) new to the
collection, and the type of a new species (Liophryne kampent) ;
presented by the Subscribers to the British Ornithologists’
Union Eapedition to Dutch New Guinea.

Forty-eight Batrachians from Dutch New Guinea, among
them examples of three species new to the collection (Rana
grisea, Cophiaalus crucifer, Hyla rhacophorus, and the types
of three new species (Sphenophryne klossi, Hyla wollastont,
Nyctimantis granti); presented by the Subscribers to the
Wollaston Haupedition to Dutch New Guinea.

PISCES.

The additions number one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine, of which one thousand six hundred and eighty-one
were acquired by presentation, one hundred and one by
purchase, and eighty-seven in exchange. The following are the
rost important :-—

From various Localities.

Seventy-eight fishes from various localities, including the
types of three new Cyprinodonts (Limia arnoldi, L. ornata
and ZL. nigrofasciata) from Haiti; presented by Herr J. P.
Arnold.

Europe.

A rare deep-sea Angler Fish (Melanocetus johnsonit) from
the North Atlantic ; presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild,
ATES

Three Hag-fishes (Myaine glutinosa) from deep water of the
Faroe-Shetland Channel; presented by Professor D'Arcy W.
Thompson, C.B.

A semi-albino Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) from Aber-
deen; presented by F. Cooke, Esq.

An albino Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) from the Dogger
Bank ; presented by Messrs. J. W. Stookes & Co.

A Char (Salmo willughbii), from Loch Quoich ; presented
by Captain E. Ellice.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 165
Pisces—continued.

A Vendace (Coregonus gracilior) from Derwentwater ;
purchased.

Two Sting-Rays (Trygon pastinaca) from Christchurch
Bay; presented by E. H. Pearson, Esq.

A Pelamid (Pelamys sarda) and a Boar Fish (Balistes
apace) from Weymouth; presented by W. Moggeridge,

sq.

Twenty-three Scald-fish (Arnoglossus laterna, A. lophotes
and A.grohmanni) from Plymouth; presented by R. S. Clark,
Esq.

The cast of a large Salmon (Salmo salar) from the Wye ;
presented by J. A. Hutton, Esq.

Three Sea-trout (Salmo labrax) from the Black Sea; pre-
sented by Dr. Sergius Sernov.

Asia.

Forty-eight fishes from Waziristan, including the types of
two new Cyprinids (Schizocypris brucei and Discognathus
wane); presented by Major G. EB. Bruce.

Twenty-three fishes from Southern Asia, including the types
of a remarkable new Cyprinodont (Phallostethus dunckeri)
from Johore ; received in exchange from Dr. G. Duncker.

The types of a new Cyprinid (Rasborichthys altior) from
Singapore ; presented by Herr Hans Gaukel.

Two specimens of a Fighting-fish (Betta bellica) from
Sumatra, new to the collection; presented by Herr E. Hoff-
mann.

Africa.

One hundred and seventy-six marine Fishes from Mombasa,
including examples of Clupea punctata, Lethrinus insulindicus
and Chetodon biocellatus, new to the collection ; presented by
R. J. Cuninghame, Esq.

Twenty-six Fishes, including the types of a new Cyprinodont
(Haplochilus kingiv) from the Nile; presented by H. H.
King, Esq.

A Cat fish (Parauchenoglanis macrostoma) from the Ogowe,
new to the collection ; presented by the Paris Museum.

Thirteen specimens of Polypterus from the Lower Niger ;
presented by W. J. Crocombe, Esq.

Thirty Fishes from the Nyong River, South Cameroon,
including the types of four new species (Clarias oxycephalus,
Auchenoglanis longiceps, Synodontis sterndachnerr and
Pelmatochromis caudofasciatus), collected by Mr. G. L.
Bates ; purchased.

166 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Pisces—continued.

Ten Fishes from the Upper Congo, including the types of a
new Cichlid (Tilapia stigmatogenys) ; presented by the Congo
Museum, Tervueren.

Twenty-nine Fishes from Kasai, Congo, including the types
of two new species (Barbus luje and Haplochilus multifascia-
tus); presented by the Luxemburg Museum.

Two Hag-fishes (Myxine capensis) from the Cape, and six
Fishes representing three species new to the collection
(Labrichthys ornatus, Bovichthys diacanthus and Chilodactylus
monodactylus) from Tristan da Cunha; presented by the
Director of the South African Musewm, Cape Town.

_ America, North.
Six Fishes from North Carolina, including examples of a
Ray (Rhinobatus lentiginosus) and a Flat-fish (A ncylopsetta

quadrocellata) new to the collection; presented by R. J.
Coles, Esq.

America, Central and South.

Two co-types of a Cyprinodont (Limia dominicensis) from
Haiti, received in exchange from the Paris Museum.

Two hundred and twenty-five Fishes from Mexico and
Central America, including examples of three species (Chirostoma
labarcae, Cichlosoma punctatum and Batrachordes goldmannt)
new to the collection; presented by F. D. Godman, Eszq.,
PANS.

Three examples of a Cyprinodont (Gambusia episcopt) from
Panama, new to the collection ; presented by Herr G. Gerlach.

Sixty-three fresh-water Fishes from South America,
including the types of five new species (Plecostomus rachovw,
Corydoras macropterus, Characidium rachovivi, Poeciliopsis
isthmensis, and Crenicichla notophthalmus) ; presented by
Herr A. Rachow.

Eight Fishes from Manaos, including specimens of Cynodon
gibbus and Loricaria nudirostris, new to the collection ;
presented by EH. Stanley Sutton, Esq.

Seventy-six Fishes from off Cape Frio, Brazil, including the
types of three new species (Malacorhina cirrifer, Prionotus
brachychir and Xystreurys brasiliensis); collected by the
British Antarctic (“ Terra Nova”) Expedition, 1910.

Ninety-nine Fishes from the San Juan River, Colombia,
including the types of twelve new species; presented by Dr.
HH. G. F. Spurvrell.

Forty-seven Fishes from the River Ucayali, Peru, including
the types of twonew Siluroids( Rhamdia mounseyi and Loricari-
ichthys ucayalensis) ; collected by Mr. Mounsey ; purchased.

Seventy-three Fishes from Peru, including the type of a

new Angler (Chirolophius forbesii); presented by Dr. H. O.
Forbes.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 167
PiscEs—continued.

Australasia and Pacific Ocean.

Twelve Fishes from Easter Island, including the types of
four new species (Acanthistius fuscus, Anampses pulcher.
Labrichthys fuentest and Monacanthus paschalis) ; presented
by Professor Francisco Fuentes.

Forty fresh-water Fishes from New Guinea, including several
co-types and examples of species new to the collection ;
received in exchange from Professor Max Weber.

Seven Fishes from the Stekwa and Utakwa Rivers, Dutch
New Guinea, including examples of Ambassis reticulatus and
Anisocentrus rubrostriatus new to the collection ;. presented
by the Subscribers to the Wollaston HKupedition to Duteh New
Guinen.

Two hundred and sixteen Fishes from New Guinea, Goram
and Ceram, including examples of several species new to the
collection; presented by the Subscribers tothe British Orwitho-
logists Union Hapedition to Dutch New Guinea.

Sixteen Fishes from the Monte Bello Islands, Western
Australia; presented by P. D. Montague, Esq.

Ninety-four Fishes from New Zealand, including the types of
ten new species; collected by the British Antarctic (‘Terra
Nova”) Expedition, 1910. |

Antarctica.

One hundred and fifty Fishes from Victoria Land, including
the types of twelve new species; collected by the British
Antarctic (“ Terra Nova”) Expedition, 1910.

Twenty-one Fishes from Wilhelm Land, including co-types
of Trematomus brachysoma, Austrolycichthys brachycephalus
and Lycodichthys antarcticus ; received in exchange from the
Berlin Museum.

A co-type of a recently described Notothenioid Fish
(Dolloidraco longidorsalis) from Graham Land ; received in
exchange from the Paris Museum.

HEMICHORDATA and PHORONIDEA.

The only additions of Pterobranchia are four specimens of
Cephalodiscus agglutinans Harmer and Ridewood, a species
recently described from Station 346, 56 fathoms, of the “ Scotia ”
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition; presented by the
Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory.

Another interesting addition is Phoronis ovalis 8. Wright,
from the Northumberland Coast; presented by Professor
A. Meek.

168 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MOLLUSCA.

The collection of British land and fresh water Molluscan
shells formed by F. H. Sikes, Esq., and presented by him to the
Museum, constitutes the most important addition to this part
of the collection during the year. It consists of some three
thousand one hundred shells, and is rich in named varieties
obtained from celebrated collectors. ‘The whole of the collection
is carefully labelled and should be of considerable value to
workers on variation in the Mollusca.

A collection of Nudibranchia from the Red Sea, purchased
from Dr. EK. Bannwarth, calls for special attention, as the
specimens have been preserved by a method which appears to be
successful in maintaining the brilliant colours of these animals
and should render them an attractive exhibit for the Shell
Gallery.

In addition to the above, four thousand and nine specimens
have been presented, and one thousand four hundred and
eighty-eight purchased during the year, of which special
mention may be made of the following series :—

General.

A collection of “Trade Shells”; presented by the Port of
London Authority.

A collection of two hundred and eighty-nine shells from
Japan, the Malay Archipelago, and Australia; presented by
C. 8S. Betton, Esq.

Europe.

One thousand one hundred and thirty-four shells of Pisi-
dium, the figured specimens in “The Catalogue of British
Species of Pisediwm” ; presented by B. B. Woodward, Esq.

Asia.
Thirteen shells (all co-types) from the Lake of Tiberias;
presented by Dr. N. Annandale.

Four examples including the type of Aporemodon tomlini
from Singapore; presented by J. R. le B. Tomlin, Esq.

Fourteen shells, including types, from Beilan-Beilan Id.,
Moluccas ; purchased.

One hundred and seventy-four land and fresh-water shells
from Chungking; presented by W. R. Brown, Esq.

Fifteen type shells from Japan; purchased.
Africa.

One hundred and seventy-two land shells from various
localities in Algeria; presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild,
FBS.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 169

MoLLusca—continued.

One thousand three hundred and forty-four Jand and fresh-
water Mollusca (mainly shells) from the Upper Nile, including
types of new species ; presented by Mrs. J. Longstaff.

Sixty-four Mollusca from the Cameroons; purchased.

One hundred and nine land and fresh-water shells from
the Mabira Forest, Uganda; presented by R. L. Harger, Esq.

America, Central and South.

One hundred and fifty-nine Lamellibranch shells from the
Falkland Islands ; presented by J. HL. Cooper, Esq.

Eleven shells of Uvrocoptis, Ramsdenia, and Brachypo-
della, from Cuba ; presented by C. T. Ramsden, Esq.

One hundred and sixty-eight marine Mollusca, from Peru ;
purchased.

Australasia and Pacific Ocean.

Twenty-three land and marine Mollusca from Easter I.; -
presented by Professor Francisco Fuentes.

One hundred and sixty-eight shells, principally marine, from
the Solomon Is. ; purchased.

One hundred and forty-five marine shells from Henderson
Island; presented by J. R. Jameson, Esq., and D. R. Tait,
Lisq.

Forty-two land and fresh-water Mollusca from Dutch New
Guinea, including types of new genera and species; presented
by the Subscribers to the Wollaston Expedition to Dutch New
Guinea.

Two hundred and fifty-two shells from North-West Austra-
la; purchased.

MyYRIOPODA.

The acquisitions number three thousand seven hundred and
-eighty-eight. The following are worthy of special notice :—

The Koch collection of Myriopoda, consisting of three
thousand seven hundred and thirty-three specimens from
various localities; including the types of eighty species;
purchased.

Seven specimens (the types) of a new species (Termito-
desmus fletcheri) of Millipede found in the nests of an Indian
termite; presented by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, Esq.

PROTOTRACHEATA.

The only examples added to the collection are specimens of
Opisthopatus cinctipes, from Durban; presented by the Durban
Museum.

170 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

ARACHNIDA.
Miscellaneous.

The accessions number ten thousand five hundred and four-
teen, of which the following are the most important :—

The first part of the Koch collection of Arachnida, numbering
eight thousand six hundred and fifty-nine specimens, including
the types of numerous species ; purchased.

Five hundred parasitic Acari; presented by the Hon. N. C.
Rothschild.

Three hundred and eighty-two Arachnida from various
localities; nresented by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.

Thirty-nine mounted preparations of Acari, chiefly of the
family Gamaside ; purchased.

Europe.

Prot. Berlese’s ‘Acarotheca Italica,” consisting of two
hundred species of Italian Acari mounted as microscopical
preparations, with a volume of explanatory text ; purchased.

One hundred and seventy-six Arachnida, collected by
Dr. Anton Krausse in Sardinia, including the types of two new
Mites of the family Trombidiide described by Prof. A. Berlese ;
purchased.

Asia.

Forty-two parasitic Acari, including the types of a new
species (Dermanyssus muris), captured on the species of rats
frequenting human habitations in Madras City and Colombo ;
presented by Dr. L. F. Hirst.

Africa and Indian Ocean.

Five hundred Mites, including the types of two new species,
captured on Rats and other Rodents frequenting human
habitations in Egypt; presented by the Lister Institute of
Preventive Medicine.

Twenty-one Arachnida from Cape Colony, including co-types
of four species; presented by John Hewitt, Esq.
Seventeen Arachnida from the Seychelles, including the

types of two new species; presented by Professor J. Stanley
Gardiner, F.R.S.

America.

Forty-seven Ticks from North America, including co-types of
two new species; received in exchange from Mr. Nathan Banks.

Pacific Ocean.

Thirty-three Oribatid Mites from Hawaii, including the type
of a new species; presented by the Joint Committee of the
Royal Society and British Association for the Exploration
of the Sandwich Islands.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. u lg

CRUSTACEA.

The principal additions made during the year were the
Koch collection of Woodlice, estimated to contain about one
thousand three hundred specimens ; and a collection of Copepod
parasites of Fishes, comprising five hundred and fifteen speci-
mens, presented by Dr. Thomas Scott. and Mr. Andrew Scott,
being the material described in their recent Monograph ‘“ The
British Parasitic Copepoda,” Vol. I. The other accessions
number one thousand one hundred and twenty, of which the
following are the most important :—

Europe.

Five specimens of a Well-shrimp from Chertsey ; presented
by T. J. Leney, Esq.

Ten specimens of a Well-shrimp from Clerkenwell; pve-
sented by H. F. Fermor, Esq.

Ten specimens of a Peruvian crab (Pilumnoides perlatus)
found living in empty shells of a Barnacle at Plymouth ;
purchased.

An abnormal specimen of the Edible Crab from Dartmouth ;
purchased.

Six specimens of a terrestrial Amphipod from Bournemouth ;
presented by W. Omer Cooper, Esq.

Claw of a very large Lobster from Mull; presented by
Miss C. A. Bell.,

Two specimens of a Whale-parasite from a Finner Whale,
taken off St. Kilda; presented by Carl F. Herlofson, Esq.

Asia.

Twenty-three specimens of fresh-water Crustacea from
Palestine ; presented by Dr. N. Annandale.

Four River-crabs from Persia; presented by Major P.
Molesworth Sykes and Captain Wilson.

Twenty co-types of a new species of Myside from Bombay ;
presented by Dr. N. Annandale.

Two paratypes of a new species of River-crab from Cochin ;
presented by Dr. J. R. Henderson.

Seventy-seven River-crabs and Prawns from Chungking ;

presented by W. Rh. Brown, Esq.

Africa and Indian Ocean.

Eleven specimens of Wood-lice and twelve of Fish-parasites
from Africa; presented by the Imperial Bureau of Entomo-
logy.

Eight co-types of a new River-shrimp from Morocco ;
presented by Professor E. L. Bouvier.

Two specimens of River-crabs carrying young, from Nigeria;

presented by Major W. A. C. Cockburn.

172 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

CRUSTACEA—continued.

Thirteen specimens of Crustacea taken from a submarine
telegraph cable between Bathurst and Sierra Leone; presented
by I. H. Preston, Esq.

One hundred and twelve specimens of Fish-parasites

(Argulide) from Central Africa; presented by the Tanganyika
EL«ploration Committee.

Nine specimens of Crustacea from the Sudan; presented by
G. W. Grabham, Esq.

Sixty-seven specimens of Crustacea from Suez; purchased.

One hundred and sixty-one terrestrial Isopoda (comprising
co-types of eleven species) from the Islands of the Western
Indian Ocean (“ Sealark ” Expedition); presented by Professor
J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S.

One hundred and forty specimens of fresh-water Shrimps from

the Seychelles; presented by Professor J. Stanley Gardiner,
F.RS., and the University Museum of Zoology,. Cambridge.

America.

Eleven parasitic Crustacea from the West Indies ; presented
by Captain A. Morrell.

Thirty-four terrestrial Isopods from Trinidad ; presented
by Collingwood Ingram, Esq.

Twenty-eight specimens of Crustacea from Vancouver
Island and Puget Sound ; presented by F. A. Potts, Esq.

Three River-crabs from Colombia; presented by Dr. H. G. F-
Spurrell.

One hundred and sixty-nine specimens of Crustacea from
the Peruvian Coast, collected by Dr. H. O. Forbes ; purchased.

Australasia and Pacific Ocean.

Twelve specimens of Crustacea, including the type of a new
species, from Torres Straits ; presented by Dr. J. R. Tosh.

Nine River-crabs from New Guinea; presented by the Sub-
seribers to the Wollaston Hupedition to Dutch New Guinea.

Nineteen specimens of Crayfishes from Western Australia ;
received in exchange from the Western Australian Museum,
Perth, W.A.

Four specimens of Phyllopoda from Australia; nresented by ~
Fred Whitteron, Esq.

Twenty specimens of a Brine-shrimp from Australia; pre-
sented by A. W. Sheppard, Esq.

Ten Crustacea from Henderson Island; presented by D. R.
Tait, E'sq., and J. R. Jamieson, Esq.

PYCNOGONIDA.

The Norman collection of Pycnogonida, numbering about
three hundred and twenty-five specimens, was received in 1911,
with the Crustacea, but has not been previously reported.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 17

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ECHINODERMA.

As the Assistant in charge worked out, some years since,
the Echinoderm fauna of South Africa, it has been of great
interest to obtain from the Natal Museum a collection from
German East Africa. Though this collection includes nothing
new, interesting forms such as Astropyga radiata, Echino-
metra oblonga, Tripneustes gratilla, Hchinoneus cyclostomus,
may be mentioned.

The presentation, by Captain A. Morrell, of a Pentacrinus
from off St. Thomas, W.I., deserves to be recorded, as well as
four specimens of the little-known Porocidaris elegans from
deep water off Sydney; presented by Prof. W. A. Haswell,
Ht.

WoRMS.

Among the EARTHWORMS, attention should be called to the
co-types of Beddardiella dalzielt, presented by Dr. J. H.
Ashworth ; to Dichogaster itoliensis, from Uganda, presented
by Sir F. J. Jackson, K.C.M.G.; to the types of Pheretima
hendersoniana, described by Dr. Cognetti di Martiis, from
Henderson Island, presented by the late Sir John Murray,
K.C.B.; and of Parapheretima outakwana, collected in Dutch
New Guinea, shortly to be described by Dr. di Martiis.

Of the LEECHES, mention should be made of Helodrilus
lacustris and Criodrilus lacwwm, from the edge of Lake
Tiberias; presented by Dr. N. Annandale. Dina quadri-
striata was obtained by purchase from Sardinia; Hemopis
sanguisuga was taken from the mouth of a buffalo; and

Whitmannia acranatula, from Central China, was presented
by Dr. Maxwell.

The widely-spread Placocephalus kewensis has been
obtained from the Azores.

Two sets of ROTIFERS, containing respectively 24 and 21
slides, were purchased during the year from Mr. C. F.
Rousselet.

BRACHIOPODA.

Only one specimen was added to the collection during the
year, viz., an example of the rare form Macandrevia diamen-
tina,, obtained in Coates Land, Antarctica; presented by J. W.
Jackson, Esq.

POLYZOA.

The following fresh-water polyzoa, rare or from interesting
localities, were added viz. :—Pottsiella erecta, from Penn-
sylvania, presented by C. F. Rousselet, Esq.; Victorella
continentalis Braem, from Lake Issyk Kul, Central Asia,
presented by Dr. D. Pedaschenko ; Fredevricella sultana, var.
jordanica, from Lake Tiberias, presented by Dr. N. Annandale.

174 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH ‘MUSEUM.

ANTHOZOA.

The additions to this group are very few, but those from
Suez, purchased from Dr. Bannwarth, are remarkable for their
state of preservation, which is far better than that of most
Anthozoa. Among them may be mentioned Alveopora
dedalea, Sclerophyllia margariticola, Xenia umbellata, and
Paractis erythrosoma.

PORIFERA.

The following specimens may be specially mentioned :—
Ten specimens of fresh-water Sponges from the River Volga ;
presented by Dr. A. Behning, Director of the Biological Station.
Saratow, Volga.

Six specimens of fresh-water Sponges, including three
co-types, from Lake Tiberias and the channel of the Jordan,
described by the donor; collected and presented by Dr. N.
Annandale.

Summary of the Acquisitions im the Department of Zoology
during 1913.

|
—_—— | Donations. Purchases,/Exchanges.| Totals.
|
( Anthropology - - | 11 23 —- 34
ana d Cetacea - - - 16. 2 | — 18
~ \ Other Mammals ; Skins - 1,773 | 150 106 2,029
ee weet » 3 skeletons 48 | -- — 48
( Skins - - - - SALS || eeezeZ 06m 186 7,573
Aves Eggs and Nests - - 9657. 204 | — 1,169
' Skeletons 2 = =| 12. | ae = 13
Domesticated Animals = - aH | — | — 33
Reptilia - - - -| Oi. Weipa 83 1,137
Batrachia - - - - 319 ery | — 404
Pisces Z : é 3 1,681 101 87 1,869
Tunicata - - - - | GE Ge — 32
Hemichordata and Phoronidea - | 5 | — — 5
fe ( Sikes Collection - - 3,200 | — | = =
Behe Other sources - - 4,009 | 1,488 | = 8,697
a ‘( Koch Collection - - — oioon | — (| sites
Missropees 1 Other sources - - 21 | 34 | — f oes
Prototracheata - - e 3 = pas 3
.4. { Koch Collection - = | . 8,659 =
Arachnida ) Other sources - c 1,324 480 51 10,514
Koch Collection - - — 1,300 — |
Crustacea } Scott Collection - - 515 _ — > 2,935
| Other sources - - 841 260 19 J :
Pycnogonida, Norman Collection - = 325 — 325
Kchinoderma - - - - Dae Zoo Dies 34
Worms - - = - - 4] | 56 | -- 97
Brachiopoda - - - - tel — | — i
Polyzoa - - - - 42° | 10 — 52
Anthozoa - - - - 6 | TTA ta eae 33
Hydrozoa - - - - 13 3 = 16
Porifera - - - - 42 a — 45
Protozoa - - - - 14 AL Feil — 15
| ie th, oral ena
Totals - - - 21,054 19,306 539 40,919

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175

The following Donors presented specimens to the Depart-
ment of Zoology during the year 1913 :—

H.M. The King

Aders, Dr. W. M.

Aleock, Col. A., C.1.E., F.R.S.

Anderson, Lieut.-Col., I. H.
Abbot

Annandale, Dr. N.

Appleton, Col. H.

Armitage, Capt. C. H.

Arnold, J. P.

Ashworth, Dr. J. H.

Assheton, R., F.RS.

Atkinson, W. H.

Aubin, Capt. A. C.

Baker, E. C. Stuart
Bale, W. M.
Balston, R. J.
Bannerman, D. A.
Barclay, Dr. A. H.
Barrett-Hamilton,
Major G. E. H.
Barton, Miss M. L.
Bedford, His Grace the Duke

the late

oF KG... FE R.S.
Bell, A.
Bell, Miss C. A.
Beste, F. V.
Blackburne-Maze, C. I.
Blaine, G.

Board of Trade

Bombay Natural
Society

Borman, Major S. P.

Bourne, Prof. G. C., F.R.S.

Bouvier, Prof. E. L.

Bowskill, Rev. J.S.

Bridgeman, F. G.

Bright, Mrs. W. R.

Brincker, Miss

British Antarctic (“Terra
Nova” ) Expedition, 1910

British Ornithologists’ Union
Expedition to Dutch New
Guinea, Subscribers to

Broom, Dr. R.

Brown, W. R.

Bruce, Surgeon-General
David, C.B., F.R.S.

Bruce, Major G. E.

History

Sir

Burnett, C. 8S.
Burnup, N. C.
Burr, Malcolm
Butcher, A. J. B.
Buxton, P. A.

Cairo, Public Works Depart-
ment

Calcutta, Indian Museum

Calman, Dr. W. T.

Cambridge, University Museum
of Zoology

Cape Town,
Museum

Can, Dr. D.. W.

Chapman, 8S. C.

Chaves, Col.

Chetwynd, G.

Chick, W. H.

Chirnside, Miss A.

Chubb; E. C.

Clark, R. C. Graham

Clark, R. F.

Clark, R. S.

Clarke, L. C. G.

South African

Clarke, Col. R. Stephenson

Cockburn, Major W. A. C.
Cockerell, Prof. T. D. A.
Coles, R. J.

Combridge, A. J.

Cook) JP:

Cooke, F.

Cooper, J. EH.

Cooper, W. Omer
Cosens, G. P.

Crisford, G. N.
Crocombe, W. J.
Cruden, F.
Cuninghame, R. J.
Cunnington, Dr. W. A.

Dall, Dr. W. H.

| Dalziel, Dr. J. M.

Davey, W. J.
Davies, G. E.
Davison, J. F.
Dayrell, Elphinstone
de Winton, W. E.

176

Dean, J. D.

Dehaut, E. G.

Denbigh, Earl of, C.V.O.
Digby, Basset

Distant, W. L.

Dobell, C.

Dobson, Mrs. F.
Doddington, G. W.
Dodds, E. Hugh
Dodsworth, P) Tol.
Doneaster, Dr. L.
Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K.
Dracopoli, I. N.

Drége, J. L.

Duboseq, Prof.

Dunn, Matthias, & Sons
Dunne, J. W.

Durban Museum

History Society
Egyptian Government
Ellice, Capt. E.

Elliot, Capt. C.

Faber, 8S. E.

Feilden, Col. H. W., C.B.
Fermor, Herbert F.
Fisher, Capt.

Fletcher, T. Bainbrigge
Flower, Capt. 8S. 8.
Forbes, Dr. H. O.
Forester, F.

Foster, F. W.

Hox. Cs

Fryer, J. C. F.
Fuentes, Prof, F.

Gabriel, C. J.

Gaillard, Dr. C.

Gairdner, K. G.

Galloway, Miss E. M.

Gardiner, Prof. J. Stanley,
F.R.S.

Gaukel, H.

Genoa, Doria Museum

Gerlach, G.

Gibson, E.

Gimlette, Dr. J. D.

Godfrey, Rev. R.

Godman, F. D., F.R. 8.

Goodall, T. B.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH

| Hanitseh, Dr.

MUSEUM.

Goodfellow, W.
Gowdey, C. C.

| Grabham, G. W.

Graham, J.
Graham, Sir Richard
Grahamstown, Albany Museum

irre” OnE i;

Graves, Dr. Montague
Gude, G. K.
Guitel, Prof. F.

| Gunter, Major C. P.
| Giinther, the late Dr. A., F.R.S.

Haldane, the late R. C.
| Hamilton, C. A.

Hamilton, Major J. Stevenson
R.

| Harger, R. I.
East Africa & Uganda Natural

Harington, Major H. H.
Harley, G.

| Harmer, Dr. S. F.

Hartert, Dr.
Hartley, A.
Harvey, Henry

Haswell, Prof. W. A., F.R.S,

K.

| Hawker, H.
| Hedley, C.

Henderson, Dr. J. R.

| Herdman, Prof. W. A., F.R.S.

Herlotson, Carl F.
Hewitt; J.

| Hickson, Prof. S..J., FiuRS:
| Hall, AcyW:

\ Atl Prot: J. Po Woes

) Hirst, A.S.

Ries § elie.) Hi.- We
Hoffmann, E.
Hopwood, C.
Howard, H. C.

| Howard, L. C.

Howell, E. B.
Hungarian Minister of Agri-
culture

| Hurrell, H. E.

Hurst, G. H. R.
Hutton, J. A.

| Hyatt, M. P.

' Imperial Bureau of Entomology
| Ingram, Collingwood

DEPARTMENT

Jack, Major

Jackson, Sir F.J.,C.B.,K.C.M.G.
Jackson, J. W.

Jamieson, J. R.

Jobson, J. H.

Johnston, Mrs. E. J.

Jones, Mrs. Spencer

Jourdain, Rev. F. C. R.
Jukes-Browne, A. J., F.R.S.

Kaznakoff, Col. A. N.
Keen, Rev. J. H.
Kelsall, Major H.
Kennedy, J. N.

King, H. H.
Kingsmill, Miss
Kinnear, N. B.°
Kirkpatrick, R.
Knox, Major S. G., C.I.E.
iKimox, S. G: I. E.
Kriiger, B.

Lanz, L. A.

La Touche, J. D.

Lawley, Hon.
G.C.LE.

Léger, Prof. L.

Leney, T. J.

Leonard, J. H.

Lewin, Dr. L.

Lister Institute of Preventive
Medicine

Littledale, St. George

Llewelyn, Capt. C. Venables

Loder, Sir E. G., Bart.

Longstaff, Mrs. J.

Lonnberg, Prof. E.

Lowe, W. P.

Luxemburg Museum

Lydekker, R., F.R.S.

Lyell, J. C.

Lyle, Th. H.

Sir Alfred,

McCalmont, Dermot
McConnell, the late F. V.
Manning, Col.

Marré, E.

Marston, R. B.

Martin, H. A.

Massey, Dr. A. Yale
Matthews, A.

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Maxwell, Dr. J. P.

Mayor, Major E. W.

Meade-Waldo, E. G. B.

Meek, Prof. A.

Mellor, J. E. M.

Merkwitz, Dr.

Miers, Miss

Moggeridge, W.

Montague, P. D.

Monterosato, il Marchese di

Morrell, Capt. A.

Muir, G. J.

Miilleger, S.

Munt, H.

Murray, the late Sir John,
KCB. ERS:

Neave, S. A.
Nuttall, Prof. G. H. F., F.R.S.

Ogilvie-Grant, W. R.

Pallis, Miss M.

Pam, A.

Panama Telegraph Company
Para, Goeldi Museum
Park, Mungo

Parkes, F. H, F.

Pearce, F. H.

Pearson, E. H.
Pedaschenko, Dr. D.
Peile, Major A.

Penton, Col. R. H.
Péringuey, Dr. L.
Philpott, Miss
Pietermaritzburg Museum
Ponsonby, J. H.

Port of London Authority
Potts, F.. A.

Preston, F. H.

Preston, H. B:

Price, Addis

Pycraft, W. P.

Quelch, J. J.

| Rachow, A.

Ramsden, C. T.
Rendall, Dr. Percy
Reuter, Dr. F.
Roberts, D. Gwyn
Roberts, F- Russell

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Roby, Mrs. M.

Rogers, C. G.

Roper, R. EH.

Rothschild, Hon, N. C.

Rothschild, Hon. Mrs. N. C.

Rothschild, Hon, Walter,
F.R.S.

Rousselst, C. F.

Royal Society and _ British
Association, Joint Com-
mittee of, for the Explora-
tion of the Sandwich Islands

Schroder, B.

Scott, Andrew

Scott, Dr. Thomas

Scottish Oceanographical La-
boratory

Serena, Miss Marie

Sernov, Dr. S.

Seth-Smith, L. M.

Shanghai Museum ;

Sharpe, Sir Alfred, K.C.M.G.

Shepherd, Col. C. W.

Sheppard, A. W.

Sikes, F. H.

Smith, R. Bosworth

Smith, Stuart

Someren, Dr. R. van

Southoff, G. de

Spurrell, Dr. H. G. F,

Stanley, W. B.

Stephens, Miss J.

Stevens, H.

Stiles, Dr. C. W.

Stockholm, Riksmuseum

Stookes & Co., Messrs. J. W.

Stresemann, E.

Sutton, E. G.

Sykes, Major P. M.

Tait, D. R.

Talbot, P. A.

Tanganyika Exploration Com-
mittee

Telegraph Company, Eastern
and Associated

Telegraph Construction and
Maintenance Company

Tervueren, Congo Museum

Thoburn, Capt. H. H,

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Thomas, N. W.
Thomas, O., F.R.S.
Thompson, M.,
Thompson, Prof. D’Arcy W.,
C.B.
Thomason, R. M.
Thorburn, A.
Tomlin, J. R. le B.
Tosn; dred. aly,
Trollope, E.
Trollope, W.
Turner. irae

Vallentin, R.

Varian, H. F,

Venning, Capt. F. E. W.

Verco, Dr. J.C,

Vipan, Captain

Waddington, H, J.

Walker, A. O. ©

Wall, Major F.

Ward, Ltd., Rowland

Ward Bequest, Trustees of the
Rowland

Washington, U.S. National
Museum

Waterfield, Dr.

Watson, Hugh

Webster, Mrs. E. T.

Wertheimstein, Fraulein
Sarolta von

Whitehead, Capt. C. H. T.

Whitteron, Fred

Wilmer, Miss M.

Wilmer, Col. W.

Wilson, Captain

Wilson, H.

Winton, W. E. de

Wodehouse, Lord

Wolffsohn, J. A.

Wollaston Expedition to Dutch
New Guinea, Subscribers to

Wolterstorff, Dr. W:

Wood, Col. C. B.

Woodward, B. B.

Wynne, Lieut. O. HE.

Zimmerman, Major
Zoological Society of London

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VI.—Economic Zoology.
J. MAMMALIA.

The question of the protection of Whales has received much
attention during the year. The rate at which these animals
are being destroyed in Subantarctic waters gives rise to serious
anxiety ; and the Department has taken various measures with
the view of calling attention to the subject and, it is hoped, of
assisting in the preservation of these animals.

The Expedition undertaken by the late Major G. E. H.
Barrett-Hamilton to South Georgia was one of the results of
the action thus taken. It was sent out in the autumn of 1913
by the Colonial Office, with the view of obtaining accurate
information with regard to the species of whales and their
mode of life and migrations. Major Barrett-Hamilton, who
was accompanied by P. Stammwitz, Taxidermist to the Depart-
ment, most unfortunately died on January 17,1914; and many
of the results which it was hoped to obtain will thus not be
available. He had left a number of notes on his observations ;
and an attempt will be made to work these up as far as
possible.

A Memorandum on the serious destruction of Whales in the
past, principally in Northern waters, was prepared by the
Keeper for the use of an Interdepartmental Committee which
is inquiring into this subject; and the Keeper also gave
evidence before the Committee.

II, AVEs.

The Department has assisted the Colonial Office by sup-
plying information with regard to the species of Birds
requiring protection in various British Colonies and Pro-
tectorates.

III. Piscks.

The greater part of the work done by the Assistant in
charge of the collection of Fishes had a direct or indirect
bearing on economic problems.

As examples may be mentioned that inquiries have been
answered from, and specimens determined for, the Board of
Agriculture and Fisheries, the Fisheries Assistant of the
Marine Biological Laboratory, Plymouth, the Imperial Iusti-
tute, &e.

Two Companies engaged in the fishing industry. were given
information as to the fishes of West Africa likely to prove
of economic value.

The monograph of the Cyprinodont Fishes of the sub-
family Peeciliinee was undertaken largely because several of the
species are known to eat mosquito-larve and thus help to
check malarial fever.

M 2

180 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The revision of the Hag-fishes (Myaxine) may be men-
tioned, as a knowledge of the species and their distribution
is important on account of their destructiveness to food-
fishes.

ITV. Mouuvusca.

Advice and assistance has been given on the following
questions :—

Destruction of woodwork of piers and jetties by Teredo
and other boring Mollusca in Burma and in the Red Sea.

Methods of “controlling and exterminating the Grey Slug
(Maryland Agricultural Station).

Growth of Anomza upon submarine cables.

V. ARACHNIDA.

1. Gamasid mite (Leivognathus sp.) attacking a woman in
the Deccan, India; the specimen sent for identification was
badly mounted and the species couid not be determined.

2. Mite (Tarsonemus) causing considerable damage to
ferns in London Nursery-gardens; short report sent to the
Board of Agriculture.

3. Mite (Pediculoides ventricosus) attacking dock labourers
at Greenwich, and preventing the unloading of cargoes of
Egyptian cotton-seed. Information sent to the Board of
Agriculture, in reply to a letter.

4. Tyroglyphid mites (Glycyphagus domesticus and Tyro-
glyphus sp.) infecting houses.

VI. CRUSTACEA.

Advice has been asked for, on matters relating to Crus-
tacea, by members of the scientific staffs of the Board of
Agriculture and Fisheries, the Fishery Board for Scotland,
the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for
Ireland (Fisheries Branch), and the Marine Biological Asso-
ciation. Inquiries by members of the public on the following,
among other points, have been answered :—

Occurrence of Well-shrimps in a water-supply.

Destruction of submarine timber by boring Crustacea at
Ilfracombe and at Rangoon.

VII, Potyzoa.

A paper calling attention to the serious troubles caused
by the growth of Polyzoa in waterworks has been published
by the Keeper; and various enquiries on this subject have
been answered. ;

VIII. OTHER INVERTEBRATES.

Injuries to submarine cables, apparently due to Polychet
worms, have been investigated; and information has been
given to Telegraph Companies.

A number of determinations have been made of specimens
found injuring plants in the Royal Gardens, Kew,

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VIl.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits paid to the Zoological Department
during the year 1913 by Students and other persons requiring
assistance or information amounted to 9,982. This number
includes the visits paid by Students holding tickets entitling
them to do special work in the Exhibition Galleries.

In the 10 previous years, during which the present Depart-
ment of Kntomology was included in the Department of
Zoology, the numbers were :—

12,564 in the year 1912.

12,175 1911.
12,443 a 1910.
11,461 is 1909.
10,220, -.%,, 1908.
11,043 ": 1907.
10,813 % 1906.
11,811 2 1905.
Teoh. 1904.
LUCA res 4 1903.

Sidney Ff. Harmer.

182 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY.

The Department of Entomology was not established as a
Department distinct from Zoology until the Ist of April 1913,
but the particulars relating to it which follow are to be under-
stood as extending over the whole of that year.

L—Arrangement and Conservation.

Insect Gallery.—Except for the addition of a number of
representative species to illustrate the order Orthoptera, which
have been placed in one of the side cabinets, there is no change
to record in the exhibited series in the public gallery. The
ceiling of the gallery was re-painted during the year, necessi-
tating the temporary removal of some of the wall frames and
specimens. Leakage by evaporation from some of the glass
jars had been noticed, and the jars were re-filled with spirit.

Study Serves.—iIn the Coleoptera, the sub-families Opa-
trine, Pedinine, Tenebrioninez (in part), Cyphaleine, and
Cnodalonine of the Tenebrionide have been re-arranged and
all accessions incorporated. The following families and sub-
families have been worked out by specialists to whom they
were sent and on their return have been re incorporated in the
collection together with all accessions; namely, the Anthicidee
by Herr von Krekich Strassoldo, the Australian Amarygmine,
Tenebrionine and Cyphaleine by Mr. H. J. Carter, and the
East African species of Zophosis by M. Chatanay. These include
many types of new species and varieties. The Palezactic
Lagriidz are being worked out by Herr Borchmann. Many
sub-families, including the Eurychorine, Asidine, and Nycte-
liinee of the Tenebrionide, have been revised and transferred to
the new pattern cabinets. A synoptic revision of the Pyro-
chrvidew has been prepared and considerable progress made
with a similar revision of the genus Gonocephalum, for which
purpose special visits have been undertaken to the Paris
Museum and to the collections of M. Maurice Pic. Among the
Staphylinide, Dr. M. Cameron has worked out the genus
Atheta which has been re-incorporated, together with
, accessions. The re-arrangement of the Lucanide has been
completed, and that of Dermestide begun and completed, many
new species of the latter family having been incidentally
described. The whole of the Australian Cryptorhynchine
weevils, sent to Mr. Lea of the South Australian Museum, have
been named by him and on their return have been incorporated
and arranged. A collection of Brazilian Lamellicorns made by
the Stanford University Expedition has been worked out and
several new species described, the types of which have been
placed in the Museum collection. The Lamellicornia in the
collections made by Mr. A. F. R.‘Wollaston on his expedition to
Dutch New Guinea have also been worked out. Lieut.-Colonel
F, Winn Sampson has continued voluntarily to devote a

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considerable part of his time to naming and arranging the
Scolytidee.

In the Hymenoptera, the re-arrangement of the Apide has
been continued, the sub-family Nomadine being completed and
considerable progress made with the sub-family Anthophorine.
A. number of accessions has also been incorporated in other
families, and in the Vespide a partial re-arrangement has been
effected. The collection has continued to benefit very much by
the help of specialists, loans of specimens having been sent to
Dr. A. Mocsary (Chrysidide), and Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell
(Apidee), who have returned them, to Dr. Franklin (Apide),
and Herr Bischoff (Mutillide), who are still engaged on their
respective consignments. Mr. Claude Morley has continued the
work of determining, re-arranging and incorporating the
Parasitic Hymenoptera (Ichneumonide), special attention
having been given to various tribes in the sub-families
Pimpline, Tryphonine, and Cryptine. Part II. of the
“Revision of the Ichneumonide” was published during the
year.

In the Neuroptera, a considerable amount of material of
the sub-family Calopteryginv (Odonata) has been studied by
Dr. Ris. of Rheinau, Switzerland. Setior R. P. Longinos Navas,
S.J., of Saragossa, has continued to work out the Chrysopide
and Mantispide of the Neuroptera Planipennia, and _ has
described a great number of new genera and species from the
Museum collection. Among the accessions, a considerable
number of valuable British Phryganeide, Ephemeride, and
Sialide have been presented by Mr. Martin E. Moseley and the
specimens prepared for exhibition. A study of various diag-
nostic characters used in the classification of the Phryganeide
has been made.

The collection of the Anoplura and Mallophaga continues
to grow, large numbers of specimens having been presented by
the Hon. N. C. Rothschild. The whole of the types have been
transferred from cards to slides and mounted in Canada balsam.
Several new species have been described, the specimens in the
slide cabinet re-arranged and an index commenced. Some time
has also been devoted to the study of Denny’s types.

The large collection of Rhynchota made in the Seychelle
Islands by the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition has been partly
worked out, the whole of the Heteroptera having been incor-
porated. A considerable number of new species and genera
of Cicadide from Indo-China, New Caledonia, British India,
Australia, and Tropical Africa has been received. Another
instalment of the Distant collection has been purchased. A
large number of Coccide on slides, determined by Prof. Robt.
Newstead, F.R.S.. and presented by the Imperial Bureau of
Entomology, are being arranged in the further cabinet accom-
modation provided.

In the Thysanoptera, many valuable and important new
species and genera have been deseribed by Mr. R. 8S. Bagnall
and incorporated on their return.

184 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

In the Lepidoptera, the sub-families Heliconiine, Melani-
tinze (Elymnine), Riodinine (in part), and the Acreine have
been re-arranged and all the accessions incorporated as far as
cabinet space would allow. In the Satyride all the accessions
of the Amathusiine and, except for the Godman and Salvin
collection, of the Morphine and Brassolinz have been incor-
porated. The genus Papilio has been entirely re-arranged on
a geographical basis and is now much more readily accessible.
A large number of accessions have been incorporated in all
families such as the Neave collection, the Godfrey collection,
and the Elwes collection (Formosa). Mr. South has continued
the arrangement of the Hesperiidv, and the incorporation of
the Hewitson, Godman-Salvin, and other collections and
accessions.

During the year, Volumes XII. and XIII. of the Catalogue
of Moths have been published and the re-arrangement of the
Syntomidze has been commenced with a view to the publication
of a supplementary volume on this family and the Arctid sub-
families Noline and Lithosianz which has been sanctioned by -
the Trustees. The re-arrangement of the Noctuid sub-family
Catocaline has been completed, also the sub-families Mominz
and Phytometrine. In the Geometride the re-arrangement of
Geometrinz and Cinochromine has been completed, whilst in
the Pyralide the Chrysaugine and Epipaschiane have been
arranged.

In the Tineina the revision of the Olethreutide, Tortricide,
Phaloniadze, Carposinide, Hemerophilide, Coleophoride, Helio-
dinide, Hyponomeutide and Tineide has been continued in
connection with work on the Neotropical genera of these
families ; many types have been identified and labelled, pro-
gress has been made in the re-arrangement, and the collection
of slides has been augmented.

In the Diptera, the determination and working out of the
Tabanidze of Tropical Africa (presented chiefly by the Imperial
Bureau of Entomology) was continued, and a considerable
amount of recently acquired material from various localities,
belonging to this as well as other families, has been incor-
porated. A number of small collections from various localities
(Gold Coast, Philippine Islands, Natal, South Queensland,
Falkland Islands), have been worked out and incorporated.
Considerable additions have been made to the collection of
British Diptera especially in the family Mycetophilide. The
Mycetophilide, British and Exotic, have been arranged and
expanded and some notes published thereon. Some work has
also been done upon Oriental Culicide and the results of the
study of the Museum material published.

IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.

The work of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology (formerly
the Entomological Research-Committee of the Colonial Office)
has continued to be carried on to a large extent within the

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Museum, and with considerable benefit to the Entomological
Department, notwithstanding the inconvenience caused by the
lack of sufficient accommodation for all the workers engaged.

The number of specimens received from the Imperial Bureau
in the course of the year amounted to 64,736, or nearly haif of
the total number acquired from all sources during the year. A
considerable proportion of the material had been named by the
staff of the Bureau, or by specialists outside, before presenta-
tion to the Museum, and included several types and other
specimens of more than ordinary value, in addition to a large
number belonging to species of economic importance.

Il.—Duplicates and Hachanges.
(a) Duplicates.

Duplicates have been presented to the following museums
and scientific institutions :—

Albert Institute and Victoria Galleries, Dundee ; American
Museum of Natural History, New York; Bristol Museum and
Art Gallery ; State Microscopical Society of Illinois, Chicago.
Duplicates have also been sent to the following gentlemen, who
have assisted in naming specimens :—M. Henri Boileau, Dr. Mal-
colm Cameron, Mr. H. Campion, Mr. H. J. Carter, M. J.
Chatanay, Mr. F. H. Gravely, M. Ant. Grouvelle, Dr. Walther
Horn, M. le Capitaine Ch. Kerremans; Mr. A. M. Lea, Mr. G.
Lewis, Dr. A. Mocsary, Senor R. P. Longinos Navas, S.J., M.
H. @Orbigny, Dr. F. Ris, Dr. Edoardo Zavattari.

(b) Hachanges.

Exchanges have been made with the following institutions
and individuals :—

The Hungarian National Museum, Budapest ; Museum
d’ Histoire Naturelle, Paris; and with Mr. G. Arnold (Rhodesia
Museum), M. André Avinottl, Professor C. F. Baker, Mr. Nathan
Banks, Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno, Mr. H. St. J. K. Donis-
thorpe, Herr H. Fruhstorfer, Herr H. Gebien, Professor G.
Hauser, Colonel S. W. Lincoln, Mr. W. M. Mann, Mr. F. W.
Nunenmacher, M. René Oberthur, M. A. d’Orchymont, Baron
Gustav von Plessen, Dr. B. Poppius.

IIl.—Departmental Library.

A type-written list of the books and separata contained in
the Walsingham Library (presented by Lord Walsingham along
with his collectior. of Micro-lepidoptera) was prepared during
the year.

As no change has been made in the general arrangements
with regard to the Library which were in force before Entomo-
logy bécame a distinct Department, other matters relating to
the Entomological Library may be looked for, under the above
heading, in the statement by the Keeper of Zoology.

186 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

1V.—-Publications.

In addition to the official publications issued by the Trustees
(see pp. 128-9), the following papers and reports have been pre-
pared in connection with different branches of the collection,
and have been published for the most part in scientific
journals :—

By G. J. Arrow.

“Synopsis of the Melolonthid Genus Ancistrosoma with
descriptions of new species and an allied new Genus.” Ann.
Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xii, p. 425.

“Notes on the Lamellicorn Coleoptera of Japan and
descriptions of a few new Species.” Ib., p. 394.

“ Notes on the Lamellicorn Genus Popillva and descriptions
of some new Oriental Species in the British Museum.” JD.,
p. 38.

“Some new Species of Lamellicorn Beetles from Brazil.”
LO. (3), a, ps 456.

By K. G. Blair.

“On the Systematic Position of the Coleopterous Genus
Lemodes (Heteromera) with notes on some allied Genera.” Ib.,
p- 207.

“A new Species of Rhysodina (Coleoptera Heteromera).”
Ib., p. 303.

‘“ Some new Species of Indian Tenebrionide.” Tb., (8), xii.,
p. 56.

“« Tribolium castanewm, Herbst. = ferrugineum, auct. (nec.
Fab.).” Ent. Mo. Mag., (2), xxiv., p. 222.

By C. J. Gahan.

‘¢ Mimicry in Coleoptera.” Proce. South London Ent. and
Nat: Histt-Soe.s- 1913, ip. 26.

By Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart.
“New Pyralidee, Sub-family Pyraustine.” Ann. Mag. Nat.
Hists(8); x.jp..322. fb. p. 509. b., xi, p. 1... Toga
“New Genera and Species of Noctuide.” Ib., p. 580.

By J. Hartley Durrant.
“Ernst Hartert’s Expedition to the Central Western Sahara,
Micro-lepidoptera.” Novitates Zoologice, xx., p. 142.
‘Descriptions of two new Tineina (Lepidoptera), from the
Lagos District.” Trans Ent. Soc. Lond, 1913, p. 513-4.
(Notes on a series of specimens of British Lepidoptera of
great historical interest, presented to the British Museum

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(Natural History) by Mrs. W. C. Boyd.) Proc. Ent. Soe. Lond.,
1913, p. lxxi-ii.

By J. Hartley Durrant and Lieut.-Col. W. W. C. Beveridge.

‘A Preliminary Report on the Temperature reached in Army
Biscuits during baking, especially with reference to the destruc-
tion of the imported Flour-Moth (HL phestia Kuhniella, Zeller).”
Journ. Roy. Army Med. Corps, xx., p. 615.

By Lord Walsingham.

The Peon of the following series of descriptions has
been continued :—

“ Biologia Centrali-Americana. Zoologia. Insecta. Lepi-
doptera. Heterocera (continued). Tineina.” Vol. iv., p. 169,
pl. 6 (pp. 225-327, pl. 7-10-——2n the press).

By G. Meade-Waldo.

“ New Species of Diploptera in the collection of the British
Museum, pt. iv.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi., p. 44.

“Notes on the Apidee (Hymenoptera) in the Collection of
the British Museum, with descriptions of new Species. Prt. ii.,
Nomadine.” Jb., p. 92.

“Four new species of Apidee (Hymenoptera), with notes on
other Species.” Jb., p. 491.

By E. E. Austen.

“Notes on the Synonymy contained in Dr. Bequaert’s
recently published paper on Tabanide collected in Belgian
Congo.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi., p. 560.

“Diptera from the Falkland Islands, with deseriptions of a
new Genus and two new Species.” Ib., xii, p. 498.

“The present position of the Pr a et of Big Game, Tsetse
Flies, and Sleeping Sickness.” Journ. Soc. for the Preserva-
tion of the Wild Fauna of the Empire, vi., p. 57.

“On Diptera collected in the Western Sahara by Dr. Ernst
Hartert, with descriptions of new Species.” Pt. I. Bomby-
liide.” Novitates Zoologice, xx., p. 460.

By F. W. Edwards.

‘ Further Notes on African Culicide.” Bull. Ent. Res., iv.,
p. 47. ;
“ New Saou y in Oriental Culicida.” Jb., p. 221.

Ba Propated a pabhennon ee Mr. mak by permission of tlie
Trustees.

188 ACCOUNTS, EITC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

“The Identity of Culex geniculatus, Oliv.” Ent. Mo. Mag.
(2); XxIV.,p.-LO7: ;

“Sexual Dimorphismm in a Species of Sciara.” ILb., p. 209.

“Some Mycetophilid Synonymy.’ Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.
(8)j xil., p. 55:

“ New and little known Diptera Nematocera from Ceylon.”
LO.5 po Loo.

“Culicidee and Tipulide from the Lake of Tiberias and
Damascus.” Journ. Proc. Asiatic Soc., Bengal, ix., p. 47.

‘Notes on British Mycetophilide.” ‘Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,
1913, p. 334.

By Bruce F. Cummings.
“On some Points in the Anatomy of the Mouth parts of the
Mallophaga.” Proce. Zool. Soc., 1913, p. 128.
“On some Nondescript Anoplura and Mallophaga.” Bull.
Ent. Res., iv., p. 35.
“Apropos of the Maxille in the Genus Dipseudopsis,
Walk.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi., p. 308.

“Note on the Crop in the Mallophaga and the arrangement
and systematic value of the Crop Teeth.” Jb., xii., p. 266.

By Prof. Robt. Newstead, F.R.S., and Bruce F. Cummings.

“On aremarkable Psyllid Galil from Palestine.” Ann. Mag.
Nat. Hist. (8), x1, p. 306.

By W. L. Distant.

oe Perey Sladen Trust Expedition, Seyschelle Islands, Rhyn-
chota. Pt. 1.” Trans. Linn. Soe., xvi. Pt. II.

“Hixpedition to the Central Western Sahara by Ernst
Hartert. Ithynchota-~Homoptera.”. Novitates Zoologice, xx,,
p- 465.

“On a collection of Javanese and Sumatran Cicadide.’
Tijdschr. voor Entomologie, lvi, p. 38.

“ Synonymical Notes on some recently described Australian
Cicadide.” Proc. Linn. Soc., N. S. Wales, xxxvii., p. 600.

“A Bug attacking Sesamum indicum.” Bull. Ent. Res.,
iv., p. 143.

“ Description of a Parasitic Lepipopterous larva on a South
African Fulgorid insect (Ahinortha guttata).” Zoologist, 1913,
p. 289.

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY.

189

“On asmall collection of Rhynchota made at Henderson’s

Island.”

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi., p. 554.

“Descriptions of new Species belonging to the Homopterous

Family Cicadide.”

LD., Xi., ps 76:

“Contributions to a Knowledge of Oriental Rhynchota.”

9b. p. 283.

“ Undescribed Species of Cicadide.”
“On some recently received Rhynchota.”

V.—Acqusitions.

Lb.

, p. 485.

16... 556,

The number of specimens added to the Insect collection
during the year is 140,535, made up as shown in the following

table :—
— Donations. | Exchanges. | Purchases. Totals.
Coleoptera - - - 42,797 596 11,626 55,019
Lepidoptera - - - 27,723 861 4,752 33,336
Hymenoptera - - - 17,780 229 1,929 19,938
Diptera” - - - - 7,370 113 3 7,486
Rhynchota - - - 12,988 95 3,352 16,435
Orthoptera - - - 3,692 — 24 3,716
Neuroptera - - - 1,907 104 = PAXUIETL
Mallophaga, Anoplura, and 2,064 — 51 2,115
other orders.
Nests, Eggs, Larvee, Pups, A71 -—— 8 479
&e.
Totals - . - | 116,792 1,998 21,745 140,535

The most important of these accessions are the following :—

From various localities—

Eleven thousand two hundred and sixty Lepidoptera,
chiefly American, and containing numerous types; presented by

F. Du Cane Godman, Esq., D.C.L

peli!

Four hundred and fifty-two Lepidoptera, including about

190 types ; presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild.

Nine thousand four hundred Coleoptera; presented by

Dr. Harold Swale.

One thousand three hundred and two Mallophaga and
Anoplura; presentéd by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild.

A third instalment of the Distant Collection, containing
3,322 Rhynchota and 1,678 Hymenoptera.

Europe. .

One thousand three hundred and ninety British Diptera ;
presented by Lieut.-Col. J. W. Yerbury.

One thousand three hundred and fifty British Diptera ;
presented by the Hon, N. C. Rothschild.

190 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Kight hundred and fifty-five Lepidoptera from Hungary ;
presented by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild.

Four hundred and three Insects of various Orders from
Germany ; presented by S. G. HL. J. Knoa, Esq.

Two hundred and fifty Lepidoptera from France; presented
by Lord Walsingham.

Fifty-five historical specimens of British Lepidoptera ; pre-
sented by Mrs. W. C. Boyd.

Asia. ?

The fourth and final instalment of the George Lewis
collection, containing 11,000 Coleoptera from Japan.

Five hundred and seventy-five Hymenoptera from Java ;
presented by Claude Morley, Esq.

Three hundred and twenty Lepidoptera from Pekin ; pre-
sented by the Rev. F. 8. Hughes.

Two hundred and forty-five Rhynchota from Ceram, ete. ;
presented by L. Stresemann, Esq.

One hundred and seventy-five Lepidoptera from Siam ;
presented by H. J. Godfrey, Esq.

Three thousand one hundred and nineteen Lepidoptera from
Formosa,

Africa.

Sixty-four thousand seven hundred and thirty-six Insects
of all Orders from various parts of Africa, containing much
valuable named material; presented by the Imperial Bureau
of Entomology.

One thousand two hundred and ten Insects of various
Orders, collected by the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the
Seychelles; presented by Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S.

Seven hundred and cight Insects of various Orders from
British East Africa; presented by Willoughby P. Lowe, Esq.

Four hundred and twenty-two Insects of various Orders
from Northern Rhodesia; presented by F. V. Bruce-Miller,
Esq.

Two hundred and ninety-seven Lepidoptera from British
Kast Africa; presented by John Arnsworth, Esq.

Two hundred and thirty-one Lepidoptera from Ashanti;
presented by J. D. G. aes Esq.

America.

One thousand seven hundred Hymenoptera and 675 named
Odonata from South and Central America; presented by
F. Du Cane Godman, E'sq., D.C.L., FBS.

Hight hundred and twenty-six Micro-lepidoptera from
French Guiana.

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 191

Five hundred and two Lepidoptera from the Rio Madeira,
Brazil; presented by R. U. Moffat, Esq., M.D.

Three hundred and eight Lepidoptera from the Rio Madeira,
Brazil; presented by HK. H. W. Wickhum, Esq.

Three hundred and ten Jnsects of various Orders from North
America; presented by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell.

Two hundred and thirty-three Insects of various Orders
from North America; presented by K. G. Blair, Esq.

Two hundred and twenty-five Coleoptera from Arizona ;
presented by F. Du Cane Godman, Esq., D.O.L., F.RS,

Australasia and Pacific Ocean.

Three thousand three hundred and forty-seven Hymenoptera
and 616 Insects of other Orders from Australia and South
Tasmania; presented by R. LE. Turner, Esq.

One thousand four hundred and fifty-one Rhynchota,
977 Coleoptera, 11 Insects of other Orders, and 2 Microscope
slides from the Sandwich Islands; presented by the Jovnt
Committee of the Royal Society and the British Association
for the Exploration of the Sandwich Islands.

Two hundred and forty-four Coleoptera, 52 Rhynchota,
71 Orthoptera, and 3 Diptera, from the Utakwa River, Dutch
New Guinea, collected on Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston’s Second
Expedition to Dutch New Guinea; presented by the Subscribers

to the Hxpedition.

One hundred and forty-nine Insects of all Orders from
Henderson I., South Pacific; presented by David R. Tait, £sq.,

and J. kh. Jamieson, Esq.

The following is a list of

donors who have presented

specimens to the Department of Entomology in 1913 :—

Adams, F. C,

Adkin, R.

Ainsworth, J.

Aleock, Lieut.-Col. A., F.R.S.
Anderson, Dr. D. E.
Andrewes, H. E.
Annandale, Dr. N.
Appleyard, A.
Armstrong, L. (the late)
Ashworth, Dr, J. H.
Atmore, K. A.

Avinoff, A.

Babington, Major W. H.
Bagnall, R. 8.

isahr, Dr. P; H.
Bancroft, Dr. Tt. LL.
Banks, C. S.

Barber, H. S.

Barber, Mrs, M. L.

Barnard, K. H.

Barnes, Dr. W.

Barry, B.

Baylis, H. A.

Beck, R.

Bell, Lieut. E. J.

Bell, T. R.

Belcher, T.

Benderitter, E.

Bergroth, Dr. E,

Betton, C. S.

Beutenmuller, W.

Bird, H.

Black, J. E.

Blair, K. G.

Bloomfield, Rev. E. M.

Boag, G.

Bombay
Society

Natural History

192

Boucomont, H.

Bourgoin, A.

Boyd, Mrs. W. C.

Braithwaite, O.

Brincker, Miss J.

British Antarctic
Nova”) Expedition

Broadway, W. E.

Brown, W. R.

Browne, Major F. G.

Bruce, Major G. E.

Bryan, J. M.

Bryant, G. E.

Buchholz, Otto.

Bucknill, Capt. L. M., R.F.A.

Burr, Dr. Malcolm

Bury, G. W.

Butler, E. A.

Buxton>P.%.

Cairo, Department of Agri-
culture

Cambridge, University Mu-
seum of Comparative Zoo-
logy

Campion, F. W.

Cardew, J.

Carpenter, Prof. G. H.

Carter, H.. J:

Challis, A.

Champion, G. GC.

Chapman, Dr. 'I. A.

Chetwynd, G.

Chubb, E. C.

Clarence, G. C.

Claydon, B.

Cockerell, Prof. T. D. A.

Collins, Miss F.

Comstock, W. P.

Copeman, Hi. A. -

(“ Terra

Corte). i:
Crawford, D. L.
Crawley, W. C.

Cumming, C. H.

Dawson, Capt. A., R.A.M.C.
Distant, W. L.

Dod, F. Wolley

Dognin, Paul

Doncaster, —.

Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K.
Dudgeon, G. C.

Durrant, H.

Dutton, J. F.

ACCOUNTS, ETC, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

| Dziedzicki, Dr. H.

Haton, Rev. A. E.
Evans, Capt. W. H.

Faber, H.

Faber, S. E.

Finch, J.

Flower, Capt. Stanley S.
Forbes, Dr. H. O.
Forbes, S. A.

Fountaine, Miss M. E.
Frey, Miss F. H.
Froggatt, W. W.

Fryer, J. C. F.

Gairdner, K. G.

Gardiner, Prof. J. Stanley,
F.R.S.

Gaye, J. A. de

Gibbs, A. E.

Gibson, A.

Gillet, Dr. J: J:

Glennie, R. F.

Godfrey, E. J.

Godman, Dr. F. Du Cane,
E.R.S

Gough, Dr. L. H.

Gounelle, E.

Grant, WR. O,

Graves, P. P.

Green, E. E.

Grosvenor, T. H. L.

Grouvelle, A.

Hamilton, C. de Courey.
Hampson, Sir G. F.
Hancock, R. C. J.
Hart, Lt.-Gen. Sir R.
Hayward, H. C.
Haywood, C. W.
Hingston, Capt.
I.M.S.
Horn, Dr. Walther.
Howard, Mrs. A.
Howes. G.
Hughes, Rev. F. 8.
Hunt, B. C. Holman
Hurst? 2.

Imms, Dr. A. D.

Imperial Bureau of Entomo-
lo

Imperial Institute

Ri, ~ SY oleae

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 193

Indian Museum, Calcutta
Ingram, C.

Jackson, Dr. F. W.
Jacobs, Capt. J. J.
Janson, O. E.
Jeffreys, G.
Jenkinson, F.
Joannis, L’Abbe J. de
Johnson, Dr. M. B.
Jones, A. H.
Jones, E. Dukinfield

Kaye, W. J.
King, G. B.
ino, Ss. GCG. BK. J.
Kumm, Dr. H. K. W.
Laidlaw, Dr. F. FE’.
Lawson, Mrs. A. M.
Lea, A. M.

_ Lefroy, H. M.

Lewis, E. A.

Lewis, G.

Lewis, J. E. A.
Lincoln, Col. W. S.
Longstaff, Dr. G. B.

Loughnan, Capt. W. F. M.

Lowe, W. P.

Ludlow, Miss C. 8.
Luvoni, A. B.

Lynes, Capt. H., R.N.

MacDougall, Prof. R. 8S.
Mann, W. M.
Markhan, F. R.
Marshall, G. A. K.
Mathers, Rev. H.
McDunnough, J.
Meade-Waldo, E. G. B.
Miller, F. V. Bruce
Mitzmain, W. B.
Mocsary, Dr. A.
Moffat, Dr. R. U.
Monro, C. F. H.
Montague, P. D.
Morford, Rev. A.
Morley, Claude

Mosely, M. E.
Moulton, J. C.
Muir, F.

0.75

Naturhistorisches Museum,
Basle

Navas, R. P. Longinos, S.J.
Neale, Dr. A. E.

Newstead, Prof. R., FR.S.
Nicholson, Dr. G. W.

Nurse, Col. C. G.

Oberthiir, René
Ohaus, Dre ¥-.
Oswald, Dr. F.
Owen, E. J.

Paris, Muséum d’ Histoire Na
turelie

Peile, Major H. D., LMS.

Picado, C.

Pilcher, Col. J. G.

Poles:

Poulton, Prof. E. Bi, F.R.S::

Prall, Lt.-Col. S. E., I.M.S.
Pratt, A. E.

Prowity LenB.

Quelch, J. J.

Rainbow, W. J.

Rake, Mrs. A.

Redmayne, W. B.

Rhodesia Museum

Riedel, M. P.

Roby, Mrs. M.

Rogers, C. G.

Rosenberg, W. F. H.

Rothschild, Hon. Ih. Walter

Rothschild, Hon. N. C.

Round, Dr. J. Cornwell

Rowley, F. R.

Royal Society and _ British
Association, Joint Committee
of, for the Exploration of
the Sandwich Islands

Sanders, Lieut. J. D. G.
Sarawak Museum
Schaeffer, Chas.
Schaus, W.

Schrottky, C.
Schwetz, Dr. J.

Scott, H.

Selous, F. C.

194 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Sheldon, W. G. Villeneuve, Dr. J.
Sicard, Dr. A. Vitalis de Salvaza, R.
Silvestri, Prof. F.
Smith, A. Bernhard

South, R. Wakeling, Dr. T. J.
Spurrell, Dr. H. G. F. Walker, Commander J. J.
Stanton, Dr. A. T. Walsingham, Lord, F.R.S.
Stockall, Miss Warren, E.
Strachan, Dr. H., C.M.G. Waterhouse, F. H.
Stresemann, E. Waterhouse, C. O., 1.8.0.
Swale, Dr. H. Waterston, Rev. J.
Swinhoe, Col. C. Watson, Dr. C. E. S., W.A.M.S
Sykes, F. A. Watson, Dr. M.
Weller, E. H.
Wellington, Dr. A. R.
Tait. sR: West, W.
Terzi, A. J. E. | White, A.
Thornburn, Capt., I.M.S. | Wickham, E. H. W.
Turner, Dr. A. J. Willcocks, F. C.
Turner, H. J. | Williams, C. B.

Turner, R. E. Wollaston,A. F. R., Subscribers
to Second Expedition to
Dutch New Guinea of

United States National Wood, Dr. J. H.

Museum Wrightmann, 8S.

Wroughton, R. C.

Vallentin, R. |
Vergara, J. M. Vargas |
Verity, Dr. R. | Yerbury. Lt.-Col. J. W.

VI.—Lconomic Entomology.

The work of the Department in Economic Entomology was
carried on with the assistance of specialists in that branch,
the services of Professor H. Maxwell Lefroy having been
engaged during the first three months of the year, and those
of Mr. C. A. Ealand during the last two months.

Satisfactory progress has been made in arranging the
Economic collection, in bringing the card index up to date, and
in incorporating the accessions received during the year, the
chief of which were those presented by the Imperial Bureau
of Entomology. In order to facilitate the identification of the
commoner insect pests of plants, the formation of a separate
collection of these insects, arranged in their systematic order,
was commenced and brought to a fairly advanced state before
the end of the year.

Work in connection with the Army Biscuit Inquiry
initiated by the War Office, and having reference chiefly to
damage by moths and beetles, has been continued. A pre-
liminary Report on the subject by Mr. J. H. Durrant (Assistant
in the Department) and Lieut.-Col. W. W. O. Beveridge,
D.S.0O., R.A.M.C., has been published in the Journal of the

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 195

Royal Army Medical Corps; and an exhibit illustrating the
report was placed on view in the Central Hall of the Museum
from the 15th of August until the 12th of November.

By direction of the Trustees, a comprehensive Exhibit of
“Insects in Relation to Disease,” illustrated by large- and
small-scale maps, large-scale models and photographs, and
provided with a series of explanatory labels in French and
English, was prepared and installed in the Tropical Diseases
Gallery of the British Section at the Ghent International
Exhibition, where it formed part of the British Government
exhibit.

The meetings of the Departmental Committee of the Colonial
Office on Sleeping Sickness were, by special leave of the
Trustees, attended by Mr. E. E. Austen, Assistant in the
Department, and a series of questions relating to the bionomics
of Tsetse flies were put by him to witnesses.

Inquiries on matters of economic interest have continued
to come in from various parts of the world. Amongst the
objects on which information or advice have been sought, and
as far as possible given, the following may be mentioned :—

DipTERA (Flies).

(1) Plague of “ large and small flies,” usually in September
and October, in one room of a country house near Edinburgh.—
Measures for treating possible breeding-places suggested.

(2) Inquiry as to best means of getting rid of flies col-
lecting in May on the ceiling of one of the rooms of a house
in Yorkshire.

(3) Inquiry as to the identity of a Tsetse-fly found at Dares-
Salam, German East Africa.

(4) Species of Simuliwm found at Lymington, Hants, and
possibly connected with a case of pellagra in the vicinity.

(5) Plague of Mosquitoes and Midges at Blackmoor, Liss,
Hants.—Information supplied as to best method of dealing
with same.

(6) Semulium reptans, Linn., and S. nigrum, Mg., “a terrible
pest to man, dogs and cattle’ at Bassenthwaite Lake, Cumber-
land, in May 1913. The flies were stated to have become
troublesome “only within the last three years.” —Identifications
and other information supplied.

(7) Inquiry as to best means of preventing House-flies from
breeding.—Information supplied.

(8) Two species of Muscidee (Philematomyia crassirostris,
Stein, and Lyperosia exigua, de Meijere) possibly concerned
in disseminating Surra disease among domestic animals in
the Philippine Islands. (Inquiry from Veterinary Research
Laboratory, Alabang, Rizal, Philippine Islands. )

(9) Bot-fly (Oestris ovis, L.) larve in nostrils and crania of
sheep slaughtered in Valparaiso, Chili.

N 2

196 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

(10) Bionomies of Stomoxys calcitrans, L., in connection
with possible agency of this insect in producing a small
epidemic of Anterior Poliomyelitis in Oxfordshire.

(11) A Cecidomyid attacking seed-pods of cabbage at
Kelvedon, Essex.

LEPIDOPTERA (Moths, ete.).

(12) Corcyra cephalonica, Stn., injurious to chocolate, in
the United States.

(13) Ephestia kuhniella, Z., — Parasitic Hymenoptera
attached to this species: Bracon brevicornis, Wesm., bred
freely ; Nemeritis canescens, Gravenh., taken at Bermondsey,
5.xii.1913—-an Ichneumon new to the British list.

(14) Pyroderces simplex, Wlsm. (= gossypiella, Wlsm.) in
cotton-bolls injured by Gelechia gossypiella, Sndrs., etc.,
Egypt.

(15) Gelechia gossyprella, Saunders, damaging cotton-bolls,
in Egypt.

(16) Prays citri, Mill., very destructive to lemon blossoms,
at Petah-Tekorah, near Jaffa.

(17) Hyponomeuta padella, L., damaging Hawthorn, at
Nottingham.

(18) Tortriz podana, Sep., injuring vines, at Upper
Edmonton.

(19) Tortriz callopista, Drnt., sp. n.: larve devouring
Coccids (Stictococcus sjdstedii, Ckrll.) on Triumfetta cordi-
folia, near Lagos, W. Africa.

(20) Hucosma solandriana, L., and Pinaris conterminella,
Z., damaging Osiers, at Bridgewater.

(41) Rhyacionia buoliana, S-D., in pine-shoots, Delamere,
Cheshire.

(22) Hreunetis aenica, Meyr., injurious to tobacco, at
Amani, German West Africa.

(23) The Potato Moth (Phthorimea opercullella).—Infor-
mation supplied. —

(24) Information supplied concerning fine thread spinning
silk worms.

CoLEOPTERA (Beetles).

(25) A Longicorn bettle (Geloharpya murrayt) damaging
rubber plantations, in W. Africa. -

(26) Seolytidz destructive to forest lands in British East
Africa. .

(27) Damage to French beans in India by Blister beetles
(Mylabris macilenta).

(28) Boring beetles in telegraph cables. (Inquiry from the
Western Electric Company. )

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 197

(29) Larvee of Otiorrhynchus attacking Huonymus plants.
(30) Dermestes beetles injuring silk-cocoons in India.

(31) Injuries to Cacao wood by Bostrichus theobrome in
S. America. (Inquiry from the Ministry of Public Works,
Bogota, Colombia.)

(32) Various inquiries concerning the Flour beetle (7Tr-
boliwm ferrugineum).

(33) Several inquiries concerning Wood-boring beetles:
Xestobium tessellatum, in oak beams ; Bostrichids, damaging
timber in 8. Nigeria; and Anobium domesticum, in furniture.

(34) An inquiry was received through the Botanical De-
partment and information supplied concerning Xestobiwm
tessellatum infesting the timbers in the roof of Westminster
Hall.

(35) Ptinus tectus in flour at Bermondsey.

ORTHOPTERA and ANOPLURA.

(36) A swarm. of cockroaches (Piyllodromia germanica)
in a house at Chislehurst.

(37) Pediculus vestimenti infesting a house in Sussex.

RHYNCHOTA.

(38) Inquiry from the Chief of Agriculture, Ministry of
Publie Works, Bogota, Colombia, with regard to a species of
Tomaspis (T. bogotensis, Dist.) which was damaging roots of
grasses in Colombia.

(39) Lachnus piceew swarining in spruce fir in Cumberland.

(40) Orange trees damaged by Dactylopius longispinus.

(41) A spruce plantation in Surrey injured by Chermes
abvetis.

(42) Inquiry from the Government Gardens, Delta Barrage,
Egypt, with regard to a disease in Ficus presumably caused by
a fungus strongly resembling scale insects.

MISCELLANEOUS.

(43) Thysanoptera in apple-buds at Eastbourne.
(44) Collembola and Psocids in drinking water.

VII.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits paid to the Department during the
year by students and other persons seeking information or
assistance was 4,837.

C. J. Gahan.

198 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY.

L—Arrangement and Conservation.

Mammalia (Galleries 1 and 2).—A special case has been
temporarily arranged for the exhibition of plaster casts of the
Piltdown skull (Loanthropus dawson‘) and associated remains.

A special case has been provided for a larger exhibit of the
Lower Pliocene bone-bed, with Mammalian remains, from
Pikermi, Greece.

Pier-case 13, containing the remains of Suide, Camelide,
etc., has been cleaned and re-arranged ; and recent acquisitions
of Hlotheriwm have been mounted and added.

Labels have been prepared for the newly-described skulls of
Bos in pier-case 19.

A fine skull of Hlephas meridionalis, from the Forest
Bed, Bacton, Norfolk, has been prepared for study and
exhibition.

Numerous Tertiary Mammalian remains from Baluchistan
have been prepared for study.

A restored plaster cast of the skeleton of Arsinoithervum
has been completed for exhibition.

Number of specimens of Mammalia registered, 62.

Reptilia and Batrachia (Galleries 3, 4, 5, 11).—A skeleton
of Pteranodon and a skull with anterior vertebre of Plate-
carpus, from the Chalk of Kansas, U.S.A., have been prepared
and mounted for exhibition in wall-case 1.

Wall-case 3 has been completely re-fitted and re-arranged
to accommodate recently-acquired Crocodilia. The most im-
portant specimens added are skeletons of Mystriosawrus from
the Upper Lias of Wiirtemberg, Geosawrus from the Litho-
graphic Stone of Bavaria, and Goniopholis from the Wealden
of the Isle of Wight.

A plaster cast of the largest known Dinosaurian humerus
(Gigantosaurus africanus), from the Lower Cretaceous of
German East Africa, has been mounted on a special stand near
wall-case 4. The original specimen is in the Royal Natural
History Museum, Berlin.

Progress has been made in the preparation and arrange-
ment of the Leeds Collection of Oxfordian Marine Reptiles in
wall-cases in the S.E. Basement, and a skeleton of Ophthal-
mosaurus is being mounted for exhibition.

The Triassic and other reptilian foot-prints in wall-cases
8 and 10, Gallery 11, have been partly re-arranged to admit a
large slab from the Permian near Exeter, which is now
exhibited in wall-case 8.

Numerous Reptilian remains, from the Karoo Formation of
South Africa, have been prepared for study.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 199

Number of specimens of Reptilia and Batrachia registered,
159.

Pisces (Gallery 6).— A series of large specimens of
Chimeeroids and Batoid Selachians have been mounted on one
side of the new upright case in the middle of the gallery.

Numerous Chalk Fishes, both English and American, have
been extricated from the matrix and prepared for study.
Specimens of Sawrodon and Stratodus have been added to the
exhibited collection in wall-case 16.

Number of specimens of Pisces registered, 222.

Mollusca (Galleries 7 and 8, and Workroom).—-The Cepha-
lopoda registered and labelled include: -— Ordovician and
Silurian Nautiloids from Bohemia (Klouéek & Mascke colls.) ;
Devonian Ammonoids from the South of France (C. Escot
eoll.); Ammonoids from the Carboniferous Limestone of
Ireland, including several types and many figured specimens
(Joseph Wright coll.) ; Cephalopodafrom the Trias of Germany ©
(Mascke coll.) and Asia Minor (W. Endriss coll.) ; Jurassic
Ammonites from France (Valabrégue coll.); Asia Minor
(Manissadjian coll.) and Chile (Michael coll.) ; a Dibranchiate
Cephalopod from the Lithographic Stone of Bavaria; speci-
mens from the Cretaceous rocks of England (Kent, Oxford-
shire, and Yorkshire), Ireland (Donaldson and J. Wright colls.),
Germany (A. Schrammen and E. Mascke colls.), Tunis (Spath
coll.), and the Lebanon (Gollmer coll.).

Additions to the exhibited series include :—A Jarge British
Chalk Ammonite, mounted in a special case between wall-cases
3 and 4; a large Ammonite (wall-case 4), a Scaphite (wall-case
3), a Turrilite (wall-case 3), and a Nautilus (wall-case 2), from
the Cretaceous rocks of Hanover ; and various British Carboni-
ferous Nautiloids (table-case 2).

The portion of the Gilbertson Collection of Carboniferous
Cephalopoda removed from Gallery 11 has been incorporated
with the General Collection in Gallery 7, and some of the
specimens have been mounted and exhibited in table-case 4.

The slip-catalogue of type and figured specimens of
Cephaiopoda has been continued.

The Paleozoic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia registered,
labelled, and incorporated include:—Gastropoda from the
Ordovician of Bohemia, including the type of Helminthochiton
equivoca, Robson (Klouéek coll.); Gastropoda and Lamelli-
branchia from the Carboniferous Limestone of Ireland,
including several types and many figured specimens (Joseph
Wright coll.), and Lamellibranchia from the Devonian rocks
of Devon.

All the British Devonian Mollusca have been examined and
their nomenclature revised; of these, 136 have been mounted,
labelled, and arranged in table-case 15, Gallery 8, and the rest
are being arranged in drawers beneath table-case 16, Gallery 8.

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The unexhibited Gastropoda belonging to the Gilbertson
collection of Carboniferous fossils, removed from Gallery 11,
have been re-labelled and incorporated with the General
Collection ; while the unexhibited Lamellibranchia from the
same collection have been re-labelled and are ready for
incorporation.

Considerable progress has been made with the determi-
nation and re-arrangement of all the British Carboniferous
Gastropoda.

The Mesozoic and Tertiary Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia
registered, labelled, and incorporated include :—Non-marine
shells from the Eocene, Oligocene, and Miocene of France
(Valabregue coll.), the Miocene of Germany (K. Fischer coll.),
the Post-Pliocene of Corsica and France (Caziot coll.), and the
Holocene of Newquay, Cornwall (B. B. Woodward coll.) ; also
various Cretaceous shells.

The arrangement of the European non-marine Tertiary
Mollusca has now been completed, and a slip-catalogue of the
collection has been made.

The Pliocene Mollusca from Lenham, Kent, have been
determined and catalogued.

Number of specimens of Mollusca registered :—Cephalopoda,
1,241; Gastropoda, 1,260; Lamellibranchia, 339.

Arthropoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The acquisitions
registered, labelled, and incorporated include :—Among Trilo-
bites, an important series from the Cambrian rocks of Comley,
Shropshire, including specimens described in the Quarterly
Journal of the Geological Society, 1910 (Cobbold coll.), a large
series from the Lower Carboniferous of Ireland, including
several originals of H. Woodward’s Monograph (Joseph
Wright coll.), a large number from the Lower Paleozoic rocks
of France, especially Hérault (Valabrégue and Escot colls.),
and fine specimens from the Devonian of the Eifel; also
plaster casts of specimens described by Richter, 1912 ; among
Insecta and Arachnida, a number in nodules from the Coal
Measures of Staffordshire (H. Johnson and other colls.) ; among
Ostracoda, carefully-determined sets from the Paleeozoic rocks
of the United States (Bassler coll.), the Lower Carboniferous
of Ireland (Joseph Wright coll.), and the Pliocene of Moravia
(Dabell coll.) ; among Cirripedia, important series from the
Chalk Marl of Cambridgeshire (Méckler coll.), the Senonian
of Riigen (Laur coll.), the Bryozoa Limestone of Faxe
(Mineralog. Mus., Copenhagen), the Miocene of Burma (Dalton
coll.), and the Pleistocene of Antrim (Donaldson coll.).

Many of the old collections of Cirripedia have been worked
through, determined, and re-registered, ¢.g., from the Neo-
comian of Germany (Darwin, Damon, A. Krantz colls.), the
Danian of Belgium (Van Breda coll.), the Maestrichtian of
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(W. Mantell coll.); plaster casts of important specimens have
also been added.

Considerable progress has been made with the mdunting of
the amber inclusa in glass cells, and experiments are now being
undertaken to overcome difficulties met with in similarly
mounting the gum-copal inclusa.

The exhibited series of Balani from the British Crag has
been revised and provided with new printed labels. The
whole of the exhibited series of Cirripedia from Foreign
Mesozoic rocks has been removed from the wall-case and
incorporated with the collection in the drawers, its place being
taken by a specially-selected series of the more instructive
specimens newly labelled.

A few additions have been made to the exhibited series of
Trilobita and Arachnida.

The slip-catalogue of exhibited specimens has been con-
tinued.

Number of specimens of Arthropoda registered, 775.

Echinoderma (Gallery 8).—The acquisitions registered,
labelled, and incorporated during the year include :—Kchinoidea
from the Lower Carboniferous rocks of Ireland (Joseph Wright
eoll.), the Upper Carboniferous of Staffordshire (J. Ward coll.),
the Mesozoic of France (Valabrégue and Lissajous colls.), the
Cretaceous of England (Treacher and Mockler colls.), the
Senonian of Ireland (Joseph Wright and Donaldson colls.),
of Westphalia (Bather coll.), of Tunis (Spath coll.), and of
Algeria (Edgar coll.); the Tertiary of Malta (Hitchins coll.),
of France (Valabrégue coll.), and of Egypt (G. W. Murray coll.) ;
Asteroidea from the Cretaceous rocks of England (Mockler,
Bather, and Faber colls.), of Westphalia (Bather coll.), of
Riigen (Laur coll.), of Charente (Welsch coll.), and of Egypt
(electrotypes of R. Fourtau’s type-specimens) ; Ophiuroidea
from the Carboniferous rocks of Ireland (Joseph Wright coll.)
and the Bathonian of Ardéche (Lissajous coll.); Crinoidea
from the Paleozoic rocks of various foreign localities (Krantz),
the Ordovician of Ohio (Dyche coll.), the Silurian of Shrop-
shire (Bather coll.) and of Gotland (Jas. Wright coll.), the
Devonian of the Eifel (Hopmann coll.), the Carboniferous of
England (D. M. 8, Watson and Spencer Perceval colJs.) and of
Ireland (Joseph Wright and A. S. Woodward colls.), the
Callovian of Ardéche and Neocomian of Isére (Lissajous coll.),
the Cretaceous of England (Méckler, Withers, and J. P.
Johnson colls.), and of Tunis (Spath coll.); Blastoidea from
the Carboniferous rocks of Yorkshire (D. M. S. Watson coll.)
and of Ireland (Joseph Wright coll.); Cystidea, comprising
Edrioasteroidea, from the Ordovician of Shropshire (Bather
coll.) and of the United States (Krantz and Crane colls.), as
well as a number of reproductions, mostly made in the
Department, of historical specimens.

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The chief additions made to the exhibited series are :—A
set of Cidaris from Faringdon described by H. L. Hawkins,
newly-described Blastoids from Somerset, and an example of
Paleaster, associated with its molluscan prey, from New York
State. All the specimens in table-case 29 have been removed,
the floor of the case raised, and the Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea
re-arranged ; the British Paleozoic Echinoidea are being
re-arranged in accordance with Prof. R. T. Jackson’s recent
monograph.

The slip-catalogue of exhibited specimens has _ been
continued.

Progress has been made in the revision and re-arrangement
of the Cystidea and Edrioasteroidea, and with the slip-catalogue
of genera and species.

Number of specimens cf Echinoderma registered : Echinoidea,
263; Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea, 3,843; Crinoidea, 288;
Blastoidea, 31; Cystidea and Edrioasteroidea, 99. Total
4,524.

Annelida (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The acquisitions
registered, labelled, and incorporated include specimens from
the Cambrian of Bray Head (Bather coll.), the Silurian of
Staffordshire (Wickham King coll.), the Cretaceous of England
(Mockler and G. Sheppard colls.j, Ireland (Joseph Wright,
R. Bell, and Donaldson colls.), France (Valabrégue coll.),
Westphalia (Bather coll.), and India (W. E. Crane coll.).

The type-specimen of Pharetriwm fragile, Konig, 1825,
figured in ‘“ Icones Foss. Sect.,” No. 80, asa supposed Pteropod,
has been identified among the foreign Annelida and re-labelled
for exhibition. It is Pyrgopolon mose, Montfort.

The slip-catalogue of exhibited specimens has been kept up
to date.

Number cf specimens of Annelida registered, 95.

Brachiopoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The registration
of the foreign Brachiopoda in the Walker collection has been
continued and is approaching completion.

Number of specimens of Brachiopoda registered, 1,420.

Polyzoa (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—One side of an
upright case in Gallery 10 has been arranged to exhibit the
development and leading structural features of fossil Polyzoa.
Recently acquired specimens of Cretaceous Polyzoa, chiefly
from Seaford, Boxmoor, and Burnham have been cleaned,
mounted, and registered as a preliminary to cataloguing. Of
specimens from other formations registered and incorporated,
the chief are those, mainly Carboniferous, of the collection of
S. G. Perceval, Esq.

Number of specimens of Polyzoa registered, 1,443.

Anthozoa and Hydrozoa (Gallery 10).—A large collection
of Carboniferous and Devonian Corals, presented by S. G.
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recently acyuired specimens, chiefly from the Upper Cretaceous
of Gosau and France and the Tertiary of France, and Tertiary
specimens presented by the Geological Survey of Egypt, have
been registered and incorporated. A beginning has been made
of a revision of the Museum Collection of Carboniferous Corals,
in connection with which many thin sections have been
prepared.

Number of specimens of Anthozoa and Hydrozoa registered,
P67.

Porifera (Gallery 10).—Newly acquired specimens, chiefly
from the Cretaceous of England and Egypt, have been registered
and incorporated.

Number of specimens of Porifera registered, 37.

Protozoa (Gallery 10).—Foraminifera and Foraminiferal lime-
stones from the Chalk of England (Gamble ccll.), the Cretaceous
of France, the Oligocene of France, the Tertiary of Egypt
(Geological Survey of Egypt), the Tertiary of Tripoli (J. W.
Gregory coll.), the Tertiary of Tunis (Spath coll.), and of
Christmas Island (C. W. Andrews coll.), have been registered
and incorporated.

Number of specimens of Protozoa registered, 674.

Plante (Gallery 10).—The collection of Silurian and
Devonian plants has been examined, re-arranged, and re-labelled ;
and a selection has been mounted for exhibition in wall-case 18
and table-case 32.

Progress has also been made with the revision of the
unexhibited Lower Carboniferous plants.

Some Rhetic plants from Sweden, collected and presented
by H.R.H. the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, have been mounted
for exhibition in table-case 24.

In connection with the Catalogue, progress has been made
with the revision of the Cretaceous plants, and numerous
microscope-sections of Cretaceous woods have been prepared.

iNumber of specimens of Plante registered, 398.

Tracks and Rock-Specimens (Gallery 11).—Several small
additions have been made to the exhibited coliection in
wall-cases 6, 7.

Number of specimens registered, 19.

Old Collections (Gallery 11 and Workroom).—The greater
part of the Pennant collection has been arranged in drawers
in table-case 16, and a selection of the more important specimens
has been mounted for exhibition in the same table-case.

Much progress has been made in cleaning and arrangilg

the Geological Society’s collection in the cabinets in the
Workroom.

204 ACCOUNTS, ETC.; OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

II.—Duplicates and Eachanges.

Duplicate fossils have been presented to University College,
London; the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; and (in
return for services rendered to the Department of Geology) to
Dr. E. A. Newell Arber, Dr. P. Fallot, and Dr. S. G. Shattock.

Exchanges of duplicate fossils have been made with the
University Museum of Otago, New Zealand; Smithsonian
Institution, Washington; the Geological Survey of Prussia,
Berlin; the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt; and the
Geological Museum, University of Lemberg, Austria.

Ill.— Departmental Library,

The additions to the Library which have been registered,
stamped, catalogued, and press-marked, comprise 223 new works
and pamphlets, of which 48 were purchased and 175 presented ;
708 parts of serials in progress, of which 319 were purchased
and 389 presented. One hundred and twenty-five sheets of maps
were acquired, 43 by purchase and 82 by donations. Ninety-
_ eight photographs were presented. Six volumes and 30
pamphlets were obtained by transfer from other Departments.

Two hundred and forty-four volumes have been bound,
press-marked, and returned to the shelves. One thousand
nine hundred and fifty-six visits were made to the Library
by students and others.

The following is an alphabetical list of personal donors to
the Library :—

Andrée, Dr. K.

Lissajous, M., Esq.

Andrews, Dr. C. W. | Maine, H. C., Esq.
Baker, E. G., Esq. | Miller, Dr. L. H.
Bather, Dr. F. A. Miquel, J., Esq.

Bradley, F. L., Esq.
Cobbold, E. S., Esq.
Cockerell, Prof. T. D, A.
Cossmann, M., Esq.

Monckten, H. W., Esq.
Murray, G. W., Esq.
Newton, R. B., Esq.
Nowak, Dr. Jan

Crick, JG. C;, Esq. | ‘Osborn, Prot. . FH;
Dal Piaz, Prof. G. | Passmore, A. D., Esq.
Darken, E. M., Esq. Prankerd, Miss T. L.
Dawson, C., Esq. Ravn, Dr. J. P. Jz
Fischer, Dr. K. Rupert Jones, C., Esq.
Fraine, Dr. E. de | Serivenor, J. B., Esq.

Green, Upfield, Esq. | Seward, Prof. A. C.
Guppy, R. J. Lechmere, Esq. | Sherborn, C. D., Esq.

Howorth, Sir Henry Shufeldt, Dr. R. W.
Jackson, J. W., Esq. Sinclair, Dr. W. J.
Johnson, Prof. T. Sollas, Prof. W. J.
Jongmans, Dr. W. J. | Sardina, Count J. B.
Kisch, Miss M. Standing, Dr. H. F.

Lang, W. D., Esq. | Stopes, Dr. M. C.

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Thomas, H. Hamshaw, Esq. | Withers, T. H., Esq.
Tutcher, J. W., Esq. | Woodward, Dr. A. 8.
Watson, D. M: S., Esq. | Woodward, B. B., Esq.
Weiss, Prof. F. E. | Woodward, Dr. Henry

1V.—Puwublications.

The second part of the Catalogue of Marine Reptiles of the
Oxford Clay, and the first part of the Catalogue of Cretaceous
Plants have been published.

Progress has been made with the proparaacie of Guide
Books to Fossil Man and to Fossil Plants.

Apart from the official publications issued by the Trustees,
the following descriptive papers dealing with different
parts of the collection have been contributed to scientific
journals during 1913 :— :

By Dr. A. S. Woodward.

1. Note on the Fish-remains from the Upper Devonian (in a
Boring at Southall, near Ealing). Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,
vol. xix, pp. 81-83, pl. x.

2. [With Mr. C. Dawson.] On the Discovery of a Paleolithic
Human Skull and Mandible in a Flint-bearing Gravel overlying
the Wealden (Hastings Beds) at Piltdown, Fletching (Sussex).
Loe. cit., vol. ]xix., pp. 117-147, pls. xv—xxi.

3. Note on the Piltdown Man (Loanthropus Dawson‘).
Geol. Mag. [5], vol. x., pp. 433-434, pl. xv.

4. On a New Specimen of the Cretaceous Fish, Portheus
molossus, Cope. Ibid., pp. 529-531, pl. xviii.

By Dr. F. A. Bather.

1. Caradocian Cystidea from Girvan. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin-
burgh, vol. xlix., p. 359-529, pls. i—vi.

2. Psalidocrinus: a new genus of Crinoidea from the
Tithonian of Stramberg. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. x., pp. 348-352.

3. Cydonocrinus parvulus, n. g. et sp. Ann. Mag. Nat.
Hist [8], vol. xii., pp. 388-394.

4. The Trenton Crinoid, Ottawacrinus W. R. Billings.
Bull. Victoria Mus., Ottawa, vol. i., pp. 1-10, 15, pl. 1.

5. Note on Merocrinus Walcott. Ibid., pp. 11-14.

6. The fossil Crinoids referred to Hypocrinus Beyrich.
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1913, pp, 894-913, pl. xe.

By Mr. R. B. Newton.
1. On Some Kainozoic Shells from South Africa. Rec.
Albany Museum, vol. il., pp. 251-285, pls. xvii-xxiv.

2. The Thomas Pennant Collection of Fossils. Geol. Mag.
fol, vol.:x., p: 192:

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By Dr. C. W. Andrews.

1. On the Skull and part of the Skeleton of a Crocodile
from the Middle Purbeck of Swanage, with a Description of a
new Species ( Pholidosaurus levis), and a Note on the Skull
of Hylwochampsa. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [8], vol. xi., pp. 485-
494, pl. vill.
| 2. On some Bird Remains from the Upper Cretaceous of

Transylvania. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. x., pp. 193-196.

. By Mr. W. D. Lang.
1. The Lower Pliensbachian —“ Carixian ’”—of Charmouth.
Geol. Mag. [5], vol. x., pp. 401-412.

2. Report of a Visit to the Exhibits of Polyzoa and Corals
in the Geological Department. Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xxiv.,
pp. 169-173.

By Mr. T. H. Withers.
1. Verruca prisca from the Chalk of Norwich. Geol.
Mag. [5], vol. x., pp. 103-106.
2. Some Miocene Cirripedes of the Genera Hexelasma and

Scalpellum, from New Zealand. Proc. Zool. Soc., 1913, pp.
840-854, pls. Ixxxv., lxxxvi.

3. Cirripedes from the Cenomanian Chalk Marl of Cam-
bridge. Jbid., pp. 937-948, pls. xciv., xev.

By Mr. D. M. S. Watson.
1. On some Features of the Structure of the Therocephalian
Skull. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [8], vol. xi., pp. 65-79.

2. Further Notes on the Skull, Brain, and Organs of Special
Sense of .Diademodon. Loe. cit., vol. xil., pp. 217-228.

3. The Limbs of Lystrosaurus. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. x.,
pp. 256-258.

4. Micropholis Stowi, Huxley, a Temnospondylous Amphi-
bian from South Africa. Loe. cit., vol. x., pp. 340-346.

By Mr. R. W. Hooley.

1. On the Skeleton of Ornithodesmus latidens, an Orni-
thosaur from the Wealden Shales of Atherfield (Isle of Wight).
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe., vol. Ixix., pp. 372-421, pls. xxxvi.—xl.

By Mr. H. 8. Goodrich.

1. On the Structure of Bone in Fishes, a Contribution to
Paleohistology. Proc. Zool. Soc., 1913, pp. 80-85.

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By Mr. G. A. Frost.

1. The Internal Cranial Elements and Foramina of Dapedius
granulatus, from a specimen recently found in the Lias at
Charmouth. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lxix., pp. 219-222.

Byrbr. G. Winer.

1. Die Trichopteren des baltischen Bernsteins. Schrift.
phys.-oekon. Ges. Konigsberg, pt. 10, 1912.

By Prof. P. P. Calvert, Ph.D.

1. The Fossil Odonate Phenacolestes, &c. Proc. Acad. Nat.
Sci. Philadelphia, 1913, pp. 225-272, pl. xiv.

By Mr. F. J. North.

1. On the genus Syringothyris, Winchell. Geol. Mag. [5],
vol. x., pp. 393-401.

By Mr. H. L. Hawkins.

1. On Lanieria, Dunean, a remarkable Genus of the
Holectypoids. Geol. Mag. [5], vol. x., pp. 199-205.

By Dr. K. Andrée.

1. Weiteres iiber das carbonische Arthrostraken-Genus
Arthropleura, Jordan. Paleontographica, vol. 60, pp. 295-310,
ple xxii.

Various fossils in the Department of Geology have also been
described and figured by Miss Elles, Mrs. Shakespear, Mr. F.

W. Harmer,and Mr. W. K. Spencer, in the Monographs of the
Paleontographical Society, vol. Ixvii., for 1913.

V.—Acquisitions. -
A.—By Donation.

Mammalia.—A humerus of Macrauchenia from Uruguay.
Presented by Joseph Mawson, Esq.

Six plaster casts of teeth of Ursus etruscus from the
Pliocene, Tegelen, Holland ; originals described by the donor
in Verhandl. Geol. Myn. Genootsck. Nederland en Kolonien,
Geol. Ser., 1913. Presented by EH. T. Newton, Esq., F.R.S.

Portion of mandible of Mastodon, from Nevada. Presented
by Captain Cecil Banbury.

One molar tooth of Mastodon? shepardi, from the Pleisto-
cene of Lacualpan, Mexico. Presented by M. Macfarlane, Esq.

A collection of fossil Mammalian bones from Homa Mt.,
Kavirondo Bay, British East Africa. Presented by A. Milliken,
Esq., per C. W. Hobley, Esq., C.M.G., and the Manager of the
Uganda Railway.

Mandibular ramus of Mustela martes from Paviland Cave,
Gower. Presented by Walter Baker Gabb, Esq.

Neural spine of a dorsal vertebra of Hlephas, dredged from
the North Sea. Presented by R. Kirkpatrick, Esq.

208 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

A molar of Llephas primigenius that appears to be noticed
by Pennant in his “ Synopsis of Quadrupeds,” 1771, p. 90.
Presented by the Right Hon. the Earl of Denbigh, C.V.O.

A tooth of Hlephas primigenius from Bracklesham Bay,
Sussex, and one similar tooth from Alaska. Presented by the
Revd. A. Fuller, M.A.

Four pieces of human skull and an associated mandibular
ramus, with ten Mammalian remains (Mastodon. Stegodon,
Hippopotamus, Cervus, Equus, and Castor), three Palzolithic
Implements and ten Eoliths, from a gravel on the farm of
Barkham Manor, adjoining Piltdown Common, Fletching,
Sussex. Presented by George M. Maryon-Wilson, Esq., and
Charles Dawson, Esq.

Aves—Tracheal rings of Dinornis from New Zealand.
Presented by Jacob Flett, Esq.

Reptilia and Amphibia.—A slab of footprints in Red
Sandstone from Poltimore Quarry, near Exeter. Presented by
the Governors of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum,
Exeter.

Two specimens of Stereosternum from the Permian, Rio
Claro, San Paulo, Brazil. Presented by Beeby Thompson, Esq.

A series of thirty-nine plaster casts of remains of Reptiles
and Labyrinthodonts from the Upper Permian of the N. Dwina,
Russia (including Pareiasaurus, Inostransevia alexandri,
Gordonia anne, Dwinosaurus primus, and D. secundus).
Presented by Prof. W. Amalitzky.

One Chelonian from the London Clay of Sheppey. Pre-
sented by Lieut. H. L. Hitchins, RN.

Scutes of Psephophorus calveriensis from the Upper
Eocene, Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, U.S.A. Presented by Dr.
W. Paliner.

Nine plaster casts of bones of Z'estudo from a rock-fissure
at Corradino, Malta. Presented by Prof. N. Tagliaferro,
TSO:

Pisces.—One Microbrachius dicki from the Middle Old
Red Sandstone, Deerness, Orkney. Presented by D. M. S.
Watson, Esq.

A Paleoniscid fish (Hlonichthys brown2) from the Lower
Carboniferous near Hillsborough, New Brunswick. Presented
by George Howell, Esq.

Counterpart of the type specimen of Calacanthus
africanus, Broom, Rec. Albany Mus., vol. 1 (1905), from Upper
Trias, Caledon River, Cape Colony. Presented by Dr. Robert
Broom.

A specimen of Dictyopyge macrura obtained by Sir Charles
Lyell from the Trias of Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A., described
and figured by Egerton, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xii
(1847), p. 276, pl. vili and pl. ix, fig.1. Also four Ganoid fishes

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from the Trias of Durham, Connecticut, U.S.A., and five
Palezoniscid Ganoid fishes from the Lower Permian of Autun,
France. FPresented by Sir Leonard Lyell, Bart.

A fin-spine of Nemacanthus and coprolite from Rheetic
bone-bed, Aust Cliff. Presented by C. Davies Sherborn, Esq.

A skull of Dapedius from the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis,
described and figured by the donor in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,
1913. Presented by G. Allan Frost, Esq.

A skull of Dapedius from the Lower Lias of Stonebarrow
Cliff, Lyme Regis. Presented by W. D. Lang, Esq.

Three Jurassic fish-teeth. Presented by Spencer G. Perceval,
Esq.

A fossil fish (Lycoptera davidi), probably Jurassic, from
China. Presented by Mrs. Robert Bruce.

One Wealden Sphenonchus. Presented by Ineut. H. L.
Hitchins, RN.

Seales of Neorhombolepis from Lower Cretaceous, 8. Amaro,
Bahia, Brazil. Presented by Joseph Mawson, E'sq.

Rostrum of Protosphyrena stebbingi from the Lower Chalk,
Betchworth, Surrey. the type specimen described by A. S.
Woodward, “Foss. Fishes English Chalk” (Mon. Pal. Soc.,
1909). Presented by W. P. D. Stebbing, Esq.

A specimen of Hnchodus from the Upper Cretaceous of
_ Austin, Texas. Presented by Walter E. Koch, Esq.

A Teleostean fish from the Upper Hocene, Monte Bolea,
Verona. Presented by W. HE. Balston, Esq.

Seven fish-remains from the oil shales, Taubaté, San Paulo
Brazil. Presented by H. T. Burls, Esq.

Mollusca.—One Hyolithellus from the Cambrian, Comley,
Shropshire. Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.RS.

Two specimens of Myalina from the Devonian, Woodlands
Lane, Holford, Somerset. Presented by C. Davies Sherborn,
Esq.

One Grammysia from the Lower Devonian of Lynton,
N. Devon. Presented by Kingsland Jutsum, Esq.

One Cucullea unilateralis from the Upper Devonian of
Braunton. Presented by Miss Caroline Shuckburgh.

Four Vephalopoda, one Lamellibranch, and one Gastropod
from the Carboniferous Limestone of Ireland. Presented by
Joseph Wright, Esq.

One Cephalopod from the Permo-Carboniferous of the Salt
Range, India. Presented by Captain F. W. Parish.

Seventy-two Gastropods and Lamellibranchia, chiefly
Liassic, and seventeen Liassic Ammonites. Presented by
Spencer G. Perceval, Esq.

Five Belemnites from the Pliensbachian of Robin Hood’s
Bay, Yorkshire Presented by C. Thompson, Esq., B.Sc.

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210 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

One Dactylioceras semicelatum from the Upper Lias of
Port Mulgrave, Yorkshire. Presented by James Francis,
Esq.

Twelve portions of Belemnites oweni, each with a Lamelli-
branch in the alveolus, and twelve Lamellibranchs from the
Oxford Clay of Fletton, Peterborough. Presented by Thomas
Plowman, Esq.

An undetermined Cephalopod from the Oxford Clay,
Peterborough. Presented by Alfred N. Leeds, Esq.

Ten Belemnites from the Kimmeridge Clay of Chapman’s
Pool, Dorset. Presented by W. Wright, £sq.

One Ammonite from the Kimmeridge Clay, five miles east
of Weymouth. Presented by CO. S. Hitchins, Esq.

Plaster cast of portion of an Ammonite found near
Mombasa, British East Africa. Presented by Dr. A. H.
Foord.

Two Ostreiform shells from the Greensand of Farringdon.
Presented by Ll. Treacher, Esq.

Four Gastropods, twenty-two Lamellibranchs, two Brachio-
pods, and one Polyzoan from the Barremian Beds of Sandown
Bay, I. of Wight. Presented by Lieut.-Col. L. Worthington
Wilmer.

Forty-five Lamellibranchs and six Cephalopoda, collected
by the donors from the Senonian (Marsupites zone) of
Recklinghausen, Westphalia (see Geol. Mag., 1896, pp. 443, 445).
Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S., and Mrs. Bather.

An Ammonite and a Baculite from the Chalk (zone of
A. quadratus), E. Leys, Yorkshire. Presented by George
Sheppard, Esq.

Three pieces of Nautilus from the Upper Chalk “sponge
bed” of Trimingham, Norfolk. Presented by R. M. Brydone,
Lisq.

Three Lamellibranchs (Plicatula), collected by W. H.

Edgar, Esq., in the Cretaceous, near Biskra, Algeria. Pre-
sented by C. Griffith, Esq.

Thirteen Ammonites, thirty-one Lamellibranchs, and six
Gastropods from a Mesozoic formation in the workings of the
Tarapaca Waterworks Co. Presented by Frederick Michael,
fisq.

A slab of London Clay Basement Bed from Denham,
Middlesex, containing Panopea intermedia and other shells.
Presented by W. D. Lang, Esq. .

One Lamellibranch from the Miocene of Malta. Presented
by Lieut. H. L. Hitchins, RN.

One Pecten from the Miocene of Jamaica. Presented by
A. C. Bancroft, Esq.

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Twelve Gastropods and twenty-five Lamellibranchs froi
the Pliocene of Panama. Presented: by ILeut.-Col. Lb.
Worthington Wilner.

Five sandstone-casts of Helix from the Pliocene of Algeria.
Presented by C. Griffith, Esq.

Two hundred and seventy-one Gastropods and seven
Lamellibranchs from Holocene deposits, Newquay, Cornwall,
illustrating the donor’s paper, Geol. Mag., 1908, p. 10; twenty
Gastropods and two Lamellibranchs from the Pliocene of
St. Erth, Cornwall. Presented by B. B. Woodward, Esq.

A series of non-marine Mollusca from British Holocene and
Pleistocene deposits; also ten Mollusca from the Pliocene of
St. Erth, Cornwall. Presented by J. P. Johnson, Esq.

A collection of non-marine Tertiary Mollusca from Germany
and thirteen Gastropods and one Lamellibranch from the
German Tertiary. Presented by Dr. K. Fischer.

A collection of thirty-nine Mollusca from the Cainozoic
formations of Redhouse, 8. Africa, illustrating (but not the
originals of) a paper by R. B. Newton in Rec. Albany Museum,
vol. 2 (1913), pp. 315-352, pls. xvii-xxiv. Presented by John
Hewitt, Esq.

One Tertiary Ostrea from Alberta. Presented by W. J.
Greenaway, Esq.

Portions of shells of Macoma calcarea from a Post-Pliocene
deposit near Reikiavik, Iceland. Presented by F. H. Sikes,
Esq.

Two Lamellibranch shells of late Pliocene or Post-Pliocene
age from Brimstone Hill, St. Kitts, Leeward Is. Presented by
J.J. Quelch, Esq.

A named collection of Holocene (Neolithic) non-marine
Mollusca from northern Ireland. Presented by R. Welch, Esq.

Arthropoda. — Thirteen Trilobites from the Cambrian of
Comley, Shropshire. Presented by E. S. Cobbold, Esq.

Two Cyprids (Beyrichia) from the Ordovician of Shropshire.
Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.BRS.

A plaster cast of Kampecaris from the Lower Old Red
Sandstone, Balgavies Quarry, Forfar. Presented by George
Hickling, Hsq., D.Sc.

Six plaster casts of Trilobites from the Devonian Stringo-
cephalus-Limestone. Presented by Dr. Rudolf Richter.

One Crustacean and one Cirripede, collected by the donors
from the Senonian (Marsupites zone) of Recklinghausen,
Westphalia (see Geol. Mag., 1896, pp. 443-445). Presented by
Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S., and Mrs. Bather.

Seven valves of the Cirripede, Pollicipes dorsatus, from
the Danian of Faxe, Denmark. Presented by the Mineralogical
Museum of the University, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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212 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

A lobster (Thalassina scorpioides) from the Pleistocene of
Arson Bay, Northern Territory, Australia. Presented by
E. W. H. Graham, Esq.

Echinoderma.— Ten Cystids (Cheirocrinus) from the
Ordovician, Shropshire ; and twenty-seven Crinoids from the
Wenlock series, Wenlock district. Presented by Dr. F. A.
Bather, F.R.S.

Three Crinoids (Cyathocrinus, Hucalyptocrinus, and Litho-
crinus) from the Silurian of Gotland. Presented by James
Wright, Esq.

One Crinoid (Calpiocrinus) from the Silurian of Gotland.
Presented by James L. Begg, Esq.

Five Cystids (Trematocystis) from the Niagara Group,
Jefferson County, Missouri. Presented by W. EL. Crane, Esq.

One Actinocrinus from the Lower Carboniferous, Avon
Gorge, Bristol. Presented by R. P. Sinor, Esq.

One Blastoid (Acentrotremites ellipticus) obtained by the
donor from the Carboniferous Limestone, Wrington, Somerset.
Presented by J. W. Tutcher, Esq.

One Blastoid (Orophocrinus orbignyanus) obtained by the
donor from the Carboniferous Limestone, Waterlip, near
Shepton Mallet, Somerset. Presented by J. T. Underhill, Esq.

One Crinoid (type specimen of Cydonocrinus parvulus,
Bather, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Oct. 1913), and twenty-two
Blastoids, collected by the donor from the Yoredale Rocks of
Nidderdale, Yorkshire. Presented by D. M. 8S. Watson, Esq.

Two fragments of the “shell-bed” with Crinoid columnals
from the Lower Coal Measures, Ashton Vale Colliery, Bristol ;
described by Dr. F. A. Bather in the donor’s paper, Quart.
Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lxiii (1907), p. 456. Presented by
H. Bolton, Esq.

Two Echinoids, six Echinoid radioles, two Ophiuroids, and
thirty-eight Crinoid remains from the Jurassic of France.
Presented by Monsieur Marcel Lissajous.

One Echinoid (Pygurus) from the Callovian of Sumatra,
Cutch. Presented by J. H. Smith, Esq.

The type and fifteen figured specimens of Cidaris coxwel-
lensis, Hawkins; also twenty specimens of Cidaris faring-
donensis, H. L. Hawkins, Geol. Mag., Dec. 1912. Presented by
Ll. Treacher, Esq.

One Asteroid ossicle (Stawranderaster bulbiferus) from
the M. coranguinum zone of Whitchurch, Oxon., figd. by W. K.
Spencer, Phil. Trans., ser. B., vol. 204, pl. 13, figs. 1-3, 191s.
Presented by Mr. T. H. Withers.

Two type-specimens of Stauwranderaster giubbosus, Spencer,
1913, found by the donor in the Upper Chalk, Rottingdean.
Presented by Harold Faber, Esq.

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Two hundred and eighty-five Crinoidea, including the
second known example of Uintacrinus westphalicus, ten
Asteroidea, and eleven Echinoidea, collected by the donors
from the Senonian (Marsupites zone) of Recklinghausen,
Westphalia (see Geol. Mag. 1896, pp. 443-445). Presented by
Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S., and Mrs. Bather.

Three Kchinoids (Holectypus, Bothriopygus, Hemiaster),
collected by W. H. Edgar, Esq., in the Cretaceous near Biskra,
Algeria. Presented by C. Griffith, Esq.

Five Kchinoids from the Miocene of Malta. Presented by
Lieut. H. L. Hitchins, RN.

Sixty-two Echinoids from Tertiary deposits at Ras Abu
Mingar, Red Sea. Presented by George W. Murray, Esq.

One Echinoid (Clypeaster) from the Miocene of Minorca.
Presented by Miss D. M. A. Bate.

One Echinoid (£chinocardiwm bordatim), with spines,
from the Red Crag, Walton-on-the-Naze. Presented by Mrs.
A. C. Hay. |

Annelida.— One worm-burrow from the Cambrian of Bray
Head, near Dublin. Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.RB.S.

A pebble of Carboniferous Limestone bored by Polydora,
from the Rhetic Conglomerate near Hapsford Mills, Vallis,
Frome. Presented by L. Richardson, Esq.

Two worms from the Lower Lias of Cherrington, Warwick-
shire. Presented by S. G. Perceval, Esq.

Twenty-five Annelids (7ubulostiwm) from the Cenomanian
(Utatur Group), Odium, 8. India. Presented by W. E. Crane,
E'sq.

Five Annelida, collected by the donors from the Senonian
(Marsupites zone) of Recklinghausen, Westphalia (see Geol
Mag., 1896, pp. 443-445). Presented by Dr. Ff. A. Bather, F.B.S.,
and Mrs. Bather.

A supposed Worm-tube from the Chalk (zone of A. quad-
ratus), White Hill, N.W. of Bridlington, Yorkshire. Presented
by George Sheppard, Esq.

Brachiopoda.—One Brachiopod from the Cambrian, Comley,
Shropshire. Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S.

Two Brachiopods from the Upper Devonian, Snapper
Quarry, Barnstaple. Presented by Miss Caroline Shuckburgh.

Four Brachiopoda from the Permo-Carboniferous of the Salt
Range, India. Presented by Captain F. W. Parish.

A slab of Paleozoic Sandstone with Brachiopoda from
15,000 feet above the sea, Zlulluchani, near Crucero, Peru.
Presented by Dr. J. Santiago Cardwell-Quinn.

Eleven Brachiopoda from the Paleozoic and Lias of 8.W.
England. Presented by S. G. Perceval, E'sq.

Two Brachiopods (Misolia) from Upper Trias, Tifu, Island
of Buru. Presented by Prof. W. Deecke.

214 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Two Brachiopoda from the Barremian beds of Sandown
Bay, I. of Wight. Presented by Ineut.-Col. L. Worthington
Wilmer.

One Brachiopod (Verebratula capillata) from the Red
Chalk of Lincolnshire. Presented by C. 8. Carter, Esq.

Twenty Brachiopods from the Chalk of Aston Rowant,
Oxon. Presented by Mr. T. H. Withers.

One Brachiopod obtained by the donors from the Senonian
(Marswpites zone) of Recklinghausen, Westphalia (see Geol.
Mag., 1896, pp. 443-445). Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather,
F.R.S., and Mrs. Bather.

Seven Brachiopoda from a Mesozoic formation in the work-
ings of the Tarapacé Waterworks Co. Presented by Frederick
Michael, Esq.

Polyzoa.— Three Polyzoa from the Wenlock series, Wenlock
district, and three Polyzoa from the Carboniferous Limestone
of S.W. England. Presented by S. G. Perceval, Esq.

One Polyzoan from the Barremian beds of Sandown, I. of
Wight. Presented by Lieut.-Col. L. Worthington Wilmer.

Twelve Polyzoa from the Bargate Stone near Godalming.
Presented by the Rev. W. A. Shaw.

About 50 Polyzoa from the Chalk Marl of Cambridge and
one Polyzoan from the Chalk of Wilts. Presented by Mr. T.
H. Withers.

Ninety Polyzoa from the Senonian Chalk of the Chatham
district. Presented by W. Gamble, Esq.

Five Polyzoa, collected by the donors from the Senoniaz
(Marsupites zone) of Recklinghausen, Westphalia (see Geol.
Mag., 1896, pp. 443-445). Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather,
F.RS., and Mrs. Bather.

One Polyzoan from the London Clay, Wokingham, Berks.
Presented by Ll. Treacher, Esq.

Six Polyzoa from the Tertiary (Aquitanian) of Kach. Pre-
sented by the Director of the Geological Survey of India.

Celentera.—Five Graptolites from the Ordovician of
Shropshire and four Corals from the Wenlock series, Wenlock
district. Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S.

One Coral (Rhipidophyllum) from the Lower Devonian of
the Eifel. Presented by Upfield Green, Esq.

Five hundred and sixty-three Carboniferous and three
hundred and seventy-four Devonian Corals, and fifty-seven
Corals from other formations, chiefly collected by the donor in
the S.W. of England. Presented by S. G. Perceval, Esq.

Four sections of the Carboniferous Coral Aulophyllum figd.
in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lxix. (1913), pl. viil., figs. 1, 2,
and 4. Presented by Prof. H. J. Garwood.

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s

Thirty-four sections of the Carboniferous Coral Aulophyl-
lum described and figured by the donor in Quart. Journ. Geol.
poe., vol. lxix. (1913), pp. 51-77, pls. v-ix.; and one Coral
(Lonsdaleia) from the Carboniferous Dryburn Limestone of
Scremerston, Northumberland. Presented by Stanley Smith,
Esq.

Four Corals from the Chalk of Kent and Surrey. Presented
by Mr. T. H. Withers.

One Coral (Aspidiscus), obtained by W. H. Edgar, Esq.,
from the Cretaceous near Biskra, Algeria. Presented by C.
Griffith, Esq.

One Coral from the Miocene of Minorca. Presented by
Miss D. M. A. Bate.

Six Corals of Pliocene or Post-Pliocene age from Brimstone
Hill, St. Kitts, Leward Isles. Presented by J. J. Quelch, Esq.

Four pieces of Coral-bearing Limestone from the Tertiary of
Kirk Killissé, Thrace. Presented by Major HE. T. F. Birrell.

Protozoa.—Two pieces of Foraminiferal Limestone from the
Carboniferous, S.W. England. Presented by S. G. Perceval,
Esq.

Five Foraminifera from the Reading Beds, Eascote, Middle-
sex. Presented by A. V. Prior, Esq.

Two Foraminiferal rocks of late Plocene or Post-Pliocene
age from Brimstone Hill, St. Kitts, Leeward Isles. Presented
by J. J. Quelch, Esq.

Miscellaneous Invertebrata.—The Thomas Pennant collec-
tion of fossils, comprising upwards of 1,000 specimens from
various localities, British and foreign. Three Silurian Corals
are described and figd. by Pennant in Phil. Trans., vol. 49
(1757), p. 513, pl. 15, figs. 1, 3, and 4. Presented by the Right
Hon. the Karl of Denbigh, C.V.O.

A series of about two hundred and seventeen fossils collected
by E. Eggleston Smith, Esq., from Liassic, Oolitic, Cretaceous,
and Tertiary formations between Tangier and Fez, Morocco,
namely, fifty-two Cephalopoda, twenty-four Gastropoda, eighty
Lamellibranchia, thirty Brachiopoda, ten Echinoderma, twelve
Corals, &c., and one Plant. Presented by Lieut.-Col. the Hon.
A. B. Bathurst, M.P.

Incertce sedis.—Four specimens of Oldhamia from the
Cambrian of Bray Head, near Dublin. Presented by Dr. F. A.
Bather, F.R.S.

Plante.—Twenty-four fossil plants from the Middle or
Lower Carboniferous (chiefly Interconglomerate Shales) of
Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Presented by William Cash, Esq.

One plant (Conostychia) from the Upper Coal Measures,
Vernon Co., Missouri. Presented by W. EL. Crane, Esq.

Six pieces of Permo-Carboniferous fossil wood from Brazil.
Presented by Joseph Mawson, Esq.

216 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Twenty-one Rheetic plants collected by the donor at Palsjé,
near Sophiero, Scania. Presented by H.R.H. The Crown
Prince Gustaf Adolf.

One Williamsonia from the Inferior Oolite of Ravenscar,
Yorkshire. Presented by James Francis, Esq.

Two specimens of Hretmophyllum pubescens from the
Inferior Oolite (Middle Estuarine Shale), Cayton Bay, near
Scarborough. Presented by H. Hamshaw Thomas, Esq.

Four specimens of a Jurassic leaf-bed at Roseberry Topping.
Presented by H. Hamshaw Thomas, Esq.

Twenty plant-remains from the London Clay, Shoeburyness,
collected by Quartermaster-Sergeant J. J. Gurnett, School of
Gunnery. Presented by Major A. J. Peile.

Slab of Fucoides from the Eocene Flysch of Dusmana,
North Albania. Presented by Baron Francis Nopesa.

A piece of fossil wood, part of a tree found in a railway
cutting at Mariquita, near Honda, Colombia, S. America.
Presented by T. Miller, Esq.

Diatomaceous earth from Teaneraki, Oamaru, New Zealand.
Presented by Jacob Flett, Esq.

A piece of petrified Palm-rootlets, locality unknown.
Presented by A. LH. Ruxton, Esq.

Rock specimens.—A piece of basal conglomerate of the
Llandovery Beds. Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.B.S.

A piece of Rheetic Limestone (Sully beds), Lilstock Point,
near Watchet, Somerset. Presented by C. Davies Sherborn,
Esq.

An Ironstone concretion, simulating a mammalian heart,

from the Lower Greensand, near Westcott. Presented by
W. D. Waterhouse, Esq., LL.D.

A piece of conglomerate, showing jointing, from Fortescue
River, N.W. Australia. Presented by R. S. Newall, Esq.

A concretion from Tychow, Pomerania. Presented by
Dr. W. Gothan.

A concretion from yellow clay, Ballyhooly, Co. Cork.
Presented by Herbert Beddington, Esq. sf

B.— By Purchase.

Mammalia._Jaws of Zeuglodon isis from the Eocene of
the Fayum.

Skull of Hlephas meridionalis from Forest Bed, Bacton.
Molar of Hlephas namadicus from Johore, India.

Three hundred mammalian bones (including the type and
other specimens of Myotragus balearicus) from the caverns of
Majorca (D. M. A. Bate coll.).

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Aves.—Fifty bird-bones from the caverns of Majorca
{D. M. A. Bate coll.). .

Reptilia.—Rostrum of Ichthyosaurus from the Lower Lias,
Wilmcote.

Hind paddle of Ichthyosaurus longirostris from the Upper
Lias, Holzmaden, Wiirtemberg.

Skeleton of Pteranodon, portion of mandible and various
wing-bones of Pteranodon, and pectoral arch of a Mosasaur,
from the Chalk of Kansas (H. T. Martin coll.).

Pisces.—Twenty-two Carboniferous fish-remains.

A collection of about 760 specimens of Carboniferous and
Devonian fishes, made by the late Dr. R. H. Traquair, F.R.S.

One Saurostomus esoconus and one Caturus sp. from the
Upper Lias, Holzmaden, Wiirtemberg.

One Selachian (Crossorhinus?) from the Lithographic
Stone, Bavaria.

Twelve fossil fishes from the Chalk of Kent, including the
mandible of Gyrodus cretaceus described and figured by
A. 8S. Woodward, “ Fossil Fishes of the English Chalk” (1911),
pecot. pl. liv.; fig. 5.

Jaws of Sawrodon, skull, etc., of [chthyodectes, and skull, etc.,
of Stratodus from the Chalk of Kansas (H. T. Martin coll.).

Holosteus esocinus, Mesogaster, Naseus rectifrons, Naseus
nuchalis, Diodon tenuispinus, Gobius macrurus, and Aulo-
stoma bolcense, from the Eocene of Monte Bolea.

Mollusca.—Thirty Cephalopods from the Paleozoic of
Cabriéres, Hérault, France (C. Escott coll.).

Fifty-seven European Lower Paleozoic Cephalopoda.

Three Cephalopods from the Middle Devonian of the Eifel.

Five hundred and fifty-four Mollusca from the Carboniferous
of Ireland (Joseph Wright coll.).

Three Jurassic Ammonites from San Pedro, Chile.

One Brasilina tutchert from the Jurassic.

One group of Cyrena from the Wealden.

One Hxogyra from the Lower Greensand.

One Ammonite from the Neocomian of Switzerland.

One Ostrea leymeried, from the Aptian, Aylesford.

Mollusca from the Cretaceous of Ireland (J. Wright and
G. Donaldson colls.).

Three Ammonites from the Chalk of Kent.

About two hundred and forty fossils, chiefly Mollusca, from
the Tertiary and Cretaceous of Tunis (lL. Spath coll.).
Two hundred and eighty Cretaceous fossils and one hundred

and two Post-Pliocene shells from Ireland (J. Wright and
G. Donaldson colls.).

218 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Arthropoda.—Seven ‘Trilobites from the Paleozoic of
Cabriéres, Hérault, France (C. Escott coll.).

Trilobites from the Middle Devonian, Eifel.

Fifty-four Trilobites from the Carboniferous Limestone of
Ireland (Joseph Wright coll.).

Twenty-seven Arthropoda from the Coal Measures, Coseley,
Dudley.

Specimens of a new Cirripede from the Chalk Marl of
Cambridge.

Crustacea from the Upper Eocene, Monte Bolea.

Echinoderma.—Two specimens of Paleaster, one Aristo-
cystis, one Spheronites, two Spherocystites, three Caryo-
crinus, from the Ordovician.

Four Cystids from the Paleozoic of Cabriéres, Hérault,
France (C. Escott coll.).

Four electrotypes of Microcidaris and one of Taxocrinus.
Cystids from the Wenlock Limestone of Dudley.
Twenty-eight Crinoids from the Middle Devonian, Eifel.

Forty Echinoderms from the Carboniferous Limestone of
Ireland (Joseph Wright coll.).

Seven Crinoids from the English Chalk.

Twenty-six electrotypes of fossil Asteroids from Egypt
(types of R. Fourtau).

Brachiopoda-—Two Brachiopods from the Paleozoic of
Cabriéres, Hérault, France (C. Escott coll.).

Six hundred and fifty-four Brachiopoda from the Carboni-
ferous Limestone of Ireland (Joseph Wright coll.).

Brachiopoda from the Chalk Marl of Cambridge.
Polyzoa.—Sixteen Jurassic and Cretaceous Polyzoa from
Dorset.

Polyzoa from the Chalk Marl of Cambridge, and from the
English Chalk.

Cretaceous Polyzoa from Russia.

Celentera.—Five Graptolites and two Corals from the
Paleozoic of Cabriéres, Hérault, France (C. Escott coll. ).

Plewrodictywm from the Devonian of the Eifel.

A hundred and three Corals from the Carboniferous Lime-
stone of Ireland (Joseph Wright coll.).

Two specimens of Lithodendron rheticum from the Rhetie
of Bavaria.

Dendrohelia from the Corallian, Saaiaeclemel

Parasmilva and Celosmilia from the Upper Cretaceous of
Germany.

Porifera.—Hight Sponges from the English Chalk.

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Protozoa.—Two Foraminifera from the English Chalk.
Twelve hundred and eighty tubes, chiefly of Foraminifera
from the Cretaceous of Russia (Toutkowski coll.).

Miscellaneous.—Highty fossil Invertebrata from the Ordo-
vician of Girvan, Ayrshire (W. McPherson coll.).

Incerte Sedis.—Two specimens of Archwocyathus from the
Cambrian of Sardinia.

Ten specimens of Rhizocoralliwm from the Trias and
Cretaceous of Germany.

“ Plewrodictyum ” from the Eocene of Trieste.

Plantce.—Microscope slides of Stigmariopsis and Rhitenan-
giwm from the British Coal Measures.

One Medullosean stem and Cordaites from the Coal
Measures, Bolton.

Twenty-four Lower Jurassic plants from Cleveland, York-
shire, described and figured by H. Hamshaw Thomas, Quart.
Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lxix, 1913 (G. J. Lane coll.).

A fossil plant from the Chalk of Kent.

Fifty-eight European Cretaceous plants.

Nitella stacheana from the Lower Eocene, Austria.
Thirty Oligocene plants from Bohemia.

Rock Specimen.—A Paramoudra from the Upper Chalk,
Squire’s Hill, Belfast.

The total accessions during 1913 are as follows :-—
A.— VERTEBRATA.

By Donation - - - - - 169
; Purehase - = i, - : - 1,190
, Hxehange - ~ - - = A
——— 1,3¢1
B.— INVERTEBRATA.
By Donation - - - - - - 4,317
., Purchase - - - - - - 6,898
» Exchange = = = = - 163
——-— 11,378
C.—PLANTA.
By Donation - - - - - . 85
» Purchase - - - - - Pree iA!
oa 206
D.—Rock SPECIMENS.
By Donation - - - - ~ - 10
»» Purchase - - - - - - il
—— 11

TOTAL - - - 12,966

220 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

ViI.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits paid to the Department by students
and other persons for the purpose of consultation or study
during 1913 was 5,613.

VIL-—Demonstrations.

Nine parties were received in the Galleries of the Depart-
ment of Geology, and demonstrations were given as follows :—

February 15th.—Geologists’ Association (382 members) ;
Mr. Lang.

April 12th.—Essex Field Club (32 members) ; Dr. Wood-
ward.

July 7th.—Geologists’ Association (69 members) ; Dr. Wood-
ward.

July 19th—Windsor and Eton Scientific Society (S mem-
bers); Dr. Woodward.

August i1th.—International Medical Congress (46 members);
Dr. Woodward. .

November Ist. — Battersea Field Club (25 members) ;
Dr. Andrews.

November 15th.--Lambeth Field Club (18 members) ;
Dr. Woodward.

December 6th.-— Geologists’ Association (30 members) ;
Dr. Andrews.

December 13th.—South Western Polytechnic Geological
Field Club (15 members) ; Dr. Andrews.

Arthur Smith Woodward.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. Zo

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY.

L—Arrangement.

A small series of specimens to illustrate the minerals
mentioned in the Bible have been selected from the General
Collection, and placed on exhibition in a case in the Pavilion.

The large Crocoite specimens from Tasmania have been
cleaned and mounted for exhibition in a special case on the
wall in the Gallery.

The Pennant collection of minerals, has been arranged in its
origina] cabinet as nearly as possible in the order in which it
was catalogued by Pennant. The Pennant cabinets have been
carefully restored and are placed in the rock-room. }

The arrangement of a Students’ Series of minerals and rocks
in two new cabinets has been commenced.

The Asiatic rock-specimens belonging to the Geological
Society’s Collection have been arranged topographically, partly
in the new cabinets in the basement corridor and partly in
drawers in the gallery.

In connection with the examination of rocks from various.
countries the following collections have been re-arranged :
—Rock-specimens from Madagascar, Sir Martin Conway’s
collection from the Karakoram Himalayas, Sir J. C. Ross’
collections from the Antarctic, W. K. Loftus’ collection from
Persia, and various sets of rocks from India.

Many specimens have been removed from the collection
of “rock-species” to their places in the topographical
collections.

The french-polishing of the Meteoric Irons which showed
signs of rusting has been continued.

Highty-eight boxes or parcels of mineral and rock-specimens
have been unpacked and examined; ninety boxes have been
despatched.

Il.— Registration, Indexing, and Cataloguing.

All the specimens of minerals, rocks, and meteorites acquired
during the year have been registered, numbered, labelled, and
incorporated with the Collection, and many specimens belonging
to the Geological Society’s Collection have been registered.

The preparation of the slip-catalogues of the mineral-
' specimens in the Collection, species by species, and of permanent
labels giving all available information for each specimen, has
been continued for the Divisions of the Haloids, Oxides, and
Carbonates. In the course of this work slips have been prepared
for the specimens of ilmenite, pseudobrookite, goethite, diaspore,
manganite, gibbsite, limnite, turgite, and limonite; topo-
graphical lists have been prepared for all the species in the
Haloids and Oxides Divisions which have been catalogued ; the

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slips for hematite, ilmenite, pseudobrookite, and goethite have
been checked, and the specimens re-arranged ; labels have been
written for the specimens of corundum (in the drawers),
hematite, ilmenite, and pseudobrookite, and have been placed
with the specimens ; 250 specimens of the species aragonite to
cerussite belonging to old collections have been entered in the
General Register ; and permanent labels have been written and
placed with all the specimens of the species aragonite to
strontianite.

Slip lists have been made of all specimens not entered in the
General Register amongst the doubtful species of minerals in
the drawers (Case G), and in the Introductory and Species
Collections of Rocks, and their history has been traced as far
as possible. Of these specimens one hundred and fifty-five
minerals and eighty-eight rocks respectively have been regis-
tered and labelled.

A list of specimens in the Collection of which figures have
been published, more especially in the older literature, has been
-commenced.

Labels have been affixed inside the doors of the various old
cabinets in the Department, stating the history of each.

The preparation of labels for printing has been commenced,
locality labels already in stock have been placed in the cases
to replace written ones, and the corresponding entries have been
made in the alphabetical and topograpical indexes of localities.

The slip-catalogues of the topographical collections of rocks
and of the rock-sections have been kept up to date.

Slips have been written for the rocks in the species
collection, to form the basis of a list of rock-names.

An index to the foreign rock collections giving the position
of the various collections in the gallery, has been prepared.

Three hundred and eight thin-sections of rocks have been
microscopically examined and labelled.

The preparation of a copy of the register of the specimens
in the Collection has been completed to Vol. XVIII., and the
current volume has been copied and brought up to date.

The collection of meteorite sections has been numbered and
arranged.

IIl.—Preparation.

Two hundred and twenty-four thin-slices of rocks and
meteorites have been prepared.

TV.—Investigation.

Twinned crystals of felspar from Portugal and of bertrandite
from Cornwall have been measured and described. Crystals
of crocoite from Tasmania, brookite from Switzerland, calcite,
anglesite, chabazite, copper pyrites, sapphire, datolite, anatase,

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corundum, garnet, mimetite, proustite, wulfenite, and zircon have
been measured. Doubtful specimens of jade have been
determined, and experiments have been made on the effect of
heat on the specific gravity of that mineral. All the specimens
under “ wollastonite” have been carefully determined.

Minerals from the Okehampton district (scapolite, scheelite,
idocrase, wollastonite, apatite, &c.), ‘““smaragdite” from Burma,
specimens belonging to the halloysite group, anthophyllite and
other minerals from Madagascar, and zeolites from Iceland and
Ireland have been examined.

Collections of rocks from the Azores, British Hast Africa,
Christmas Island (Indian Ocean), Iceland, Madeira, Sumatra,
and Var (France), have been examined ; and special reports
have been prepared on :—Magnetic basalts from Flores, Azores ;
rocks from North-West Mongolia; and rocks collected by the
Bullock-Workman Expedition to the Siachen Glacier, Himalayas,
1912.

Investigations have been made of the meteoric stones of
Baroti and Wittekrantz, and the chemical composition of
chondritic meteorites has been studied.

A new stereographic protractor has been designed.

- In the chemical laboratory, quantitative analyses have been
made of gmelinite from Co. Antrim, and the Baroti and
Wittekrantz meteorites; and quantitative determinations of
titanic acid have been made in priorite and zirkelite; many
doubtful minerals have been qualitatively analysed.

V.— Departmental Irbrary.

Arrangement.—Letters relating to the business of the
Department have been arranged.

Cataloguing and Press-marking.—170 volumes and 83
title-slips have been press-marked. All the accessions, including
1,756 plates, have been catalogued and stamped.

Proofs of the Library Catalogue have been read and checked
against the slip-catalogue in the Department.

Particulars relating to the books received in the Department
in the years 1859 to 1882 have been added to the back of the
title-slips.

Accessions.—37 volumes of separate works, 32 periodicals
(in 411 volumes and parts), 28 pamphlets, 15 parts of works,
42 mining and survey reports, and 9 sheets of maps have been
added to the Library. These were acquired as follows :—

By presentation.—5 volumes of separate works, 12
periodicals (in 145 volumes and parts), 21 pamphlets,
4 parts of works, 28 mining reports, and 9 sheets of
maps.

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By purchase. — 32 volumes of separate works, 20
periodicals (in 266 volumes and parts), 3 pamphlets,
and 9 parts of works.

By transfer.—4 pamphlets, 2 parts of works, and 14 mining
reports.

Binding.—71 volumes have been bound.

Assistance has been given in the General Library during
16 days and 3 half-days.

V1.—Publications.

The following papers most of which relate to specimens in
the Collection have been published during the year in the
“ Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical
Society,” 1913, vols. xvi and xvii :—

“The Meteoric Stones of Baroti, Punjab, India, and
Witterkrantz, South Africa”: by G. T. Prior (xvii, p. 22).

“On the remarkable similarity in chemical and mineral
composition of chondritic meteoric stones”: by G. T. Prior
(xvii, p. 33).

“ A (sixth) ist of new mineral names”: by L. J. Spencer
(xvi, py aon).

‘‘Noteson theoccurrence of Bertrandite at some new localities
in Cornwall”: by Arthur Russell (xvii, p. 15). The paper
contains descriptions of Museum specimens by L. J. Spencer.

“On varieties of Zirkelite from Ceylon.” With crystallo-
graphic notes by G. F. Herbert Smith: by G. S. Blake (xvi,
p. 309).

“Description of an apparatus for preparing thin-sections of
rocks”: by G. F. Herbert Smith (xvi, p. 317).

“The graphical determination of angles and indices in
zones”: by G. F. Herbert Smith (xvi, p. 326).

“A new stereographic protractor”: by G. F. Herbert Smith
(xvii, p: 46).

“The mineral collection of Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) ”:
by W. Campbell Smith (xvi, p. 331).

| VII.— Acquisitions.
1,780 specimens have been acquired, namely :—

1,187 minerals, 585 rocks, and 8 meteorites.

The most interesting of these acquisitions, from a historic
point of view, is the old collection of Minerals formed by
Thomas Pennant (see p. 225). With the exception of a few
specimens, this has not been distributed in the General Collec-
tion, but has been retained in its original oak cabinet as a
collection of historic interest, illustrating an old natural history
system of classification.

Exchanges of specimens have been arranged with Dr.
fuatteux, of Paris, and Mr. James Broadhead, of Darlington.

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The following mineral names added to the Museum List
were previously not represented by specimens in the
collection :—

Ampangabeite, barbierite, barytbiotite, betafite, chalco-
morphite, chillagite, cupromagnesite, delafossite, epidesmine,
fizeleyite, guanapite, hatchite, hokutolite, klementite, krugite,
lyonite, molysite, pyknochlorite, schuchardtite, vrbaite.

The specimens acquired by presentation (arranged alpha-
betically according to donors) and by exchange, and a
selection of the more important of those obtained by purchase,
are as follows :—

Minerals.
By Presentation :

Calcite pseudomorphous after aragonite from north-west
Oklahoma, U.S.A.: by Dr. T. J. Anthony.

A unique group of ruby erystals from Upper Burma:
by A. L. Bacon, Hsq.

Plumosite from Foxdale mine, Isle of Man: by Dr. John
Balt.

Orthoclase (Baveno-twin) and muscovite from new Portu-
guese occurrences: by Antonio Maria ad’ Oliveira Bello, Esq.

Iron-pyrites with chalk and flint from Bognor, Sussex:
by F. A. Bowyer, Esq.

Hematite (‘kidney-iron-ore”) from Pawton mines,
St. Breock, Cornwall: by James Blake Brown, Esq.

Fibrous calcite from Hilborough gravel pit, Great Yarmouth :
by Col. E. A. Butler.

Proustite crystals from Copiapo, Chili: by F. H. Butler,
Esq.

Graphite from Monte Brazil, Terceira, Azores: by Col. F. A.
Chaves.

A polished slice of green zircon, showing banding, from
Ceylon: by Six Arthur H. Church, K.C.V.0., F.B.S.

Alstonite on barytes from New Braneepeth Colliery,
Durham: by Messrs. Cochrane & Co., Ltd.

A large group of crystals of smoky quartz from Bloomdale
China Clay Works, St. Stephens, Cornwall: by J. M. Coon,
Esq.

A mounted plate of phlogopite, showing pseudo-pleochroism
and absorption-figure: by T. Crook, Esq.

Pennant Collection :—A collection of minerals formed
between the years 1746 and 1798 by Thomas Pennant (1726-
1798), of Downing, Holywell, Flintshire, contained in an old
oak cabinet of 38 drawers. About 340 numbered specimens
are referred to in 3 vols of MS. Catalogue, written by T.
Pennant in 1757, which accompanied the collection, and about
430 unnumbered specimens are also preserved. The collection

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includes :—Minerals from Flintshire, described by Pennant in
“The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell”
(1796); specimens from Cornwall given to Pennant by: the
Rev. Wm. Borlase, author of “The Natural History of
Cornwall” (1758); specimens given by Emanuel Mendes da
Costa, author of “A Natural History of Fossils” (1755) ;
specimens given by Erich Ludvigsen Pontoppidan, Bishop of
Bergen, author of “The Natural History of Norway” (1755).
Several of the specimens in the collection are mentioned in
these books: by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Denbigh, C.V.O.

An isolated twinned crystal of quartz: by Dr. Julien
Drugman.

A number of exceptionally fine specimens, including :—
Crystallized gold from Neveda Co., California; a large crystal
of phosgenite from Monteponi, Sardinia; a fine crystal of
rubellite from Barra de Salinas, Brazil; a large block of
granite with a crystal-lined cavity containing pollucite, tour-
maline, foresite, &c., from Klba; pseudomorphs of malachite
after chessylite from Tsumeb, German South-West Africa; a
large series of fine crystallized specimens of barytes, quartz,
and pyrites from the iron mines of west Cumberland ; alstonite
and witherite from Nenthead, Cumberland ; groups of twinned
crystals of quartz from the Aosta valley, Piedmont; chalcedony
from Carmean, Co. Londonderry ; rock-salt from Duncrue,
Co. Antrim; galena pseudomorphous after pyromorphite
(“blue lead-ore”’) from Berncastel, Rhenish Prussia: by Ff. N. A.
Fleischmann, Esq.

Garnet (almandine) from Danbury, New MHampshire,
U.S.A.: by George M. Flint, Esq.

A large specimen of adularia, showing Manebach and
Baveno twinning ; three large specimens of calcite with quartz ;
brookite on quartz; rutile on ilmenite; and a large anatase
crystal; all obtained by the donor in Switzerland: by the Rev.
J. M. Gordon.

Felspar:(oligoclase) erystals from Canisp, Sutherland: by
Prof. J. W. Gregory, £:B.S.

Gypsum enclosing sand, from the Caspian Sea: by Francis
A. Holiday, Esq.

A faceted yellow heryl, weighing 2°821 grams, from
Madagascar; a set of eight cut turquoises from the Sinai
Peninsula ; four faceted specimens of manufactured corundum,
two of them parti-coloured, and one faceted specimen of artificial
spinel: by EL. Hopkins, Esq. |

A specimen of crystallized basic copper phosphate from
Bwana M’ Kubwa copper mines, Rhodesia: by Dr. A. Hutchinson.

Sulphur from Japan: by Dr. K. Inowye.

Hokutolite from Formosa: by Prof. K. Jimbo (through Dr.
A. K. Coomaraswamy).

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Colourless fluor from West Burton, Aysgarth, Wensleydale,
Yorkshire ; chessylite from Hell Gill, Mallerstang, Westmor-
land: by W. B. R. King, Esq.

Gypsum (artificial crystals) from a Cornish engine boiler ;
two isolated crystals of tantalite from South Africa: by
Benedict Kitto, Esq.

A carved specimen of calcined jade from China: by Madame
EL. Langweil (through Rufus H. Moore, E'sq.).

Chromite and celestitefrom Baluchistan: by C. R. Lindsey,
Esq.

Chalcedony (agate, &c.) pebbles from Jamaica: by R. @.
MacCormack, Esq.

Diopside in calcite from Upper Burma: by Lieut.-Col.
F. G. L. Mainwaring.

Garnet (hessonite) with pyrites from Meldon, Okehampton,
Devonshire; stibiconite from Rhodesia: by F. P. Mennell,
Esq.

A series of specimens illustrative of the products of the
Burma Ruby Mines, comprising :—Precious rubies graded into
five qualities, a rare specimen of ruby-sapphire, ruby in calcite,
clear isolated octahedra of ruby-spinel, spinel in limestone,
sapphire in the matrix, moonstone, pink scapolite, and loose
specimens of the minerals associated with precious ruby in the
gravels: by A. H. Morgan, Esq.

Native sulphur from Ras Gimsha, Red Sea, Egypt: by
G. W. Murray, Esq.

Sapphire crystal in matrix from Yogo Fork, Montana: by
the New Mine Sapphire Syndicate (through F. H. Wood, Esq.).

Cassiterite crystals, of elongated pyramidal habit, from
Northern Nigeria: by Dr. Richard Pearce.

Chacedony stained by copper, three drilled and roughly-
polished dises, from Tarapaca, Chili: by Mrs. Renforth Scarr.

Bismutite and tourmaline in bismutite from Northern
Rhodesia: by the Rhodesia Katanga Junction Railway and
Mineral Company.

A large specimen of hiibnerite from Huara wolfram mine,
Prov. Pallasea, Dept. Ancachs, Peru: by Messrs. Résing Brothers
& Co.

Hydrozincite from Van mine, Llanidloes, Montgomeryshive ;
six specimens of fluor and calcite from Halkin mine, Flint-
shire: by Arthur Russell, E'sq.

Chaleedony with curious hacked enclosures: by A. LE,
Ruxton, Esq.

Striiverite from the river Sebantum, Salak North, Perak ;
corundum boulders from the Gopeng beds, Kinta, Federated
Malay States; garnet (andradite) from China: by J. B.
Scrivenor, Esq.

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A number of cut sheets of mica (muscovite) from Chutia
Nagpur, India, illustrating trade varieties: by Harry N.
Sherman, Esq. ,

Four polished slices of chalcedony: by Miss Caroline
Shuckburgh.

Kpistilbite and other zeolites collected by the donor in
Iceland: by F. H. Sikes, Esq.

A series of specimens collected by the donor near Oke-
hampton, Devon, including:— Chalcedony from Gooseford
mine ; chabazite from Ramsley mine; garnet and axinite from
Belstone mine; garnet and actinolite from Redaven Brook;
axinite, garnet, and heulandite from Wheal Forest; datolite,
apophyllite, chabazite, and wollastonite from quarries at
Meldon: by W. Campbell Smith, Esq.

Crystals of hatchite, the original material described by the
the donor: by R. H. Solly, Esq.

Witherite and aragonite from Arkengarthdale, Reeth,
Yorkshire; witherite from Nenthead, Cumberland, collected
by the donor: by L. J. Spencer, Esq.

A series of jadeite specimens, also wolframite and smoky
quartz, from Burma: by Rodway C. J. Swinhoe, Esq.

Rutile pseudomorphous after anatase from the Sopa
diamond mine, Rio das Petras, Minas Gereas, Brazil: by Percy
C. Tarbutt, Hsq.

Chalcedony from Droogveldt, South Africa; by L. D. C.
Thomas, Esq.

Fine crystal of scheelite from the Ulu Piah Company’s tin
mine, Kinta, Federated Malay States: by the Ulu Piah
Company.

By Huchange:

Pectolite, calcite, and pyrites on basalt, and garnet in meta-
morphosed limestone, from Middleton, Teesdale, Co. Durham.

Chessylite from Richmond, Yorkshire.

By Purchase :

Beryl, a fine, flawless, faceted stone of a rich pink colour,
weighing 119°74 grams, from Madagascar.

Gold, twolarge crystallized plates from Nevada Co., California.
Five pieces of riband gold from Colombia, South America.

Crocoite, three large groups of fine crystals from Tasmania.

Beryl, two isolated crystals of the vorobyevite variety from
Savateyevo, Siberia. Idocrase, in large well-defined crystals,
and achtaragdite, in simple and interpenetrating triakisocta-
hedra, from River Vilyui, Siberia.

Dioptase, a large group of brilliant crystals, and plancheite,
from Guchab, Otavi, German South-West Africa. Mimetite,
in large crystals, wulfenite, tsumebite, brochantite, cerussite,
ete., from Tsumeb, in the Otavi district.

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Barytes, several finely-crystallized groups and one crystal
112 inches in length; also calcite, marcasite, and pyrites ; from
the iron mines of west Cumberland.

Barytes, a large isolated crystal from Puy-de-Dome,
France.

Copper and silver (native) in sharp crystals and native copper
enclosed in a clear crystal of calcite from Lake Superior,
Michigan; chiastolite crystals from Fresno Co. and Madera Co.,
California; baddeleyite from Montana; stibiotantalite from
California ; crystallized plattnerite from Idaho; delafossite
crystals from Bisbee, Arizona; and various other minerals from
American localities.

Cassiterite, large isolated crystals, from Portuguese East
Africa.

Tourmaline (rubellite), clear crystals and cut slices from
Barra de Salinas, Minas Geraes, Brazil.

Blende, groups of large twinned crystals (spinel-twins), from
Shiraita, Japan; also crystallized hematite and galena from
Japanese localities.

Corundum (sapphire), simple and twinned crystals from
Kashmir.

A series of gem-stones from Queensland and New South
Wales, including “ black” opal, diamond crystals, zircon, olivine,
sapphire, and garnet. 3

Crystals of betafite, bastnasite, columbite, monazite,
ampangabeite, and cut slices of tourmaline crystals from
Madagascar.

Euclase and fluor from Epprechtstein, Bavaria ; jade, orthite,
brunsvigite, rhodonite, wollastonite, etc., from the Radauthal,
Harz : rhodochrosite, a fine specimen, and cuprite from the
Wolf mine, Siegen, Westphalia; strontianite, an aggregate of
distinct prismatic crystals from Hamm, Westphalia; and various
minerals from other German localities.

Rocks.

By Presentation :

Volcanic lapilli and palagonite-tuff from Monte Brazil,
Terceira, Azores: by Col. F. A. Chaves.

A series of rock specimens (esterellite, etc.) collected by the
donor in the Esterel Mountains, Cannes, France: by Dr. Julien
Drugman.

Spheroidal granite (4 large blocks) from Mullaghderg, Co.
Donegal, and microgranite from Oritor, Co. Tyrone: by F. NV. A.
Fleischmann, E'sq.

Six specimens from Mt. Kinabalu, British North Borneo: by
Miss L. 8. Gobbs.

Kleven rocks from Karungu, Uganda, British East Africa ;
by C. W. Hobley, Hsq., C.M.G.

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Rocks (31, with 20 thin-sections) from between Machakos and
Lake Magadi, British East Africa. (Collected and described by
J. Parkinson, Esq.): by the Magadi Soda Co. Ltd. (through
John Parkinson, Esq.).

Country rock from the Hampden Cloncurry copper mine,
N. W. Queensland: by C. Maitland, Esq.

A series of 332 specimens collected by the donor, mainly
from mines in Southern Rhodesia, but including a few from
North-Western Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Transvaal, and Natal:
by John L. Popham, Esq.

Gravels and sands from gem-washings on the Jiblong River,
Liberia, West Africa: by Henry Reeve, Esq.

Serpentine breccia, etc., from Gwinnings mine, Mullion,
Cornwall: by J. B. Rule, Esq.

Hornfels with garnet from Walkhampton, Devonshire :
by Arthur Russell, Esq.

Tourmaline-corundum rocks from Kinta, Federated Malay
States: by J. B. Scrivenor Esq.

Five rocks from the Concordia silver-lead mines, Cerro
Bayo, Argentine, collected by the donor: by Ralston C.
Sharp, Esq.

Boulder of Shap granite from Withernsea, Yorkshire: by
G. Sheppard, Esq.

A large basalt stalactite from the Vidgeymir cave near
Gilsbakki, and 15 other rock specimens collected by the donor
in Iceland: by F. H. Sikes, Esq.

A series of rocks collected by the donor near Okehampton,
Devon: by W. Campbell Smith, Esq.

A collection of 22 specimens, each polished on one surface,
illustrating the different varieties of serpentine from the Lizard,
Cornwall: by F. W. Timmis, Esq.

By Purchase :

A series of 110 specimens collected by the late Edward
Whymper during his travels in 1879-80 in the Andes of
HKicuador.

A series of 13 typical specimens (with corresponding thin-
sections) of the platinum-bearing rocks of the Urals.

Meteorites.
By Exchange :

Lonaconing, Maryland, U.S.A., an etched slice weighing
74 grams of the iron found in 1888.

By Purchase:

Chinautla, Guatemala, Central America, an etched slice
weighing 189 grams of the iron found in 1902.

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Ahumada, Chihuahua, Mexico, a slice weighing 606 grams of
the siderolite found in 1909.

FE] Nakhla El Baharia, Egypt, three complete stones weighing
respectively 641, 313, and 110 grams from the fall of June 28,
weal t.

St. Michel, Finland, a fragment weighing 958 grams of the
stone which fell on July 12, 1910.

Tennasilm (Sikkensaare), Esthonia, Russia, a fragment
weighing 177 grams of the stone which fell on June 28, 1872, ~

Those meteorites of which the names are italicized belong
to falls hitherto unrepresented in the Museum Collection.

VIII.—Donation of Duplicates.

Duplicate specimens of minerals have been given to Mr.
Antonio Maria d’Oliveira Bello, Mr. F. N. A. Fleischmann, and
Prof. J. Joly.

1X.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits recorded as made to the Department
for the purposes of consultation or study is 641. Minerals
and rocks have been identified for the Devizes Museum and for
the Cheltenham Museum, and many specimens of minerals have
been determined for visitors and correspondents.

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DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY.

I— Arrangement and Conservation.

During the past year 30,350 specimens have been incor-
porated with the Herbarium. This number includes 23,825
Flowering Plants, 2,742 Vascular Cryptogams, 1,687 Mosses,
65 Hepatics, 762 Lichens, 417 Alge, and 852 Fungi.

Flowering Plants. — Collections acquired during the year
by donation and purchase have been mounted and incorporated
wholly or in part. Outstanding specimens have been mounted
and incorporated in various families, especially Rubiacez,
Ericaceze, and other families of Gamopetale, Orchidacee,
Graminez, .and other families of Monocotyledons; and the
selection, determination, and incorporation of the early
Australian collections has been continued. Progress has been
made with the separation of the European material (families
Rosaceze to Umbelliferze) and its re-arrangement according to
Nyman’s “Conspectus Flore Kuropee” ; outstanding specimens
have been incorporated in the families dealt with. The Fryer
Collection of British Potamogetons has been in part selected.

Work of revision and re-arrangement has been done in
various families, especially Geraniaceze, Rubiaceze, Ebenacee,
Sapotacez, and in the genera Millettia, Alchemilla, Bombaa,
Rhododendron, Solanum, and the Tropical African genera of
Ulmacez and Moracee.

Cryptogams.—Various early sets of exsiccata have been
investigated, identified, and labelled with the author’s name.

Ferns.—Progress has been made with the sorting, mounting,
and incorporation of outstanding specimens from all sources,
especially in the genera Asplenium, Aspidium, Nephrodium.
A representative series of N.W. Indian Ferns, selected from the
late Mr. Hope’s herbarium, has been prepared for imcorpora-
tion, and a corresponding revision of the species already in the
general collection has been made. Small collections from
North Borneo (Gibbs), Perak (Sheffield), and elsewhere
have been determined.

Bryophyta.—Collections of Mosses from India, China, and
Guatemala (Levier), India (Duthie, Roberts, King), Malay
Islands (fleischer, Elmer), have been in part mountéd and
incorporated. Various sets of North American Mosses have
been sorted into series ready for incorporation. Small collec-
tions from North Borneo (Gibbs), Perak (Sheffield), and the
British Isles have been determined.

Algce.—tThe re-urrangement of the Floridez according to
De Toni’s Sylloge, including incorporation of additions, has
been completed in the following families :—Helminthocladiacee,
Chetangiacee, Gigartinacez, Gelidiacee, Rhodophyllidacee,
and in the genera Callithamnion, Antithamnion, and
Spermothamnion. Small collections, chiefly British; have

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been determined. The box-collection of Algz has been
re-arranged and labelled.

Lichens.—Progress has been made with the revision and
incorporation of the British Lichens, principally of the families
Cladoniacez, Parmeliaceze, Stictacez, Pannariaceze. Small
collections from the British Isles and from Perak have been
determined.

Fungi.—Progress has been made with the sorting, mounting,
and incorporation of exotic Fungi. All outstanding specimens
of the Discomycetes have been incorporated, and progress has
been made with the Pyrenomycetes. Numerous specimens and
small collections have been determined and added to the
British series. The box-collection of Fungi has been re-arranged
and labelled.

Mycetozoa.—Collections by Miss G. Lister have been prepared
for incorporation.

Exhibition Series.—Various specimens have been added to
the general and special series of Exhibits, and two of the large
wall-cases have been repainted and the specimens cleaned.
An illustrative collection of plants from Cape Colony, pre-
sented by Mrs. W. E. Balston, has been placed on exhibition,
progress has been made with the exhibition of British Sea-
weeds, and a small series of colour photographs of British
flowering plants, taken and presented by Mr. Essenhigh Corke,
has been placed in position. In the Index Museum, in the
Central Hall, the exhibition of Ferns and Fern allies has been
completed, and progress has been made with the preparation of
the exhibition of Mosses and Liverworts.

Catalogues and Guides.—A Catalogue of the plants col-
lected by Mr. and Mrs. P. Amaury Talbot in South Nigeria has
been published, and a Monograph of the genus Sabicea by Mr.
H. F. Wernhain has been prepared for publication. Progress
has been made with the preparation, printing, and illustration
of the continuation of the Flora of Jamaica by Mr. Fawcett
and Dr. Rendle, with the preparation of the Catalogue of the
Sloane Herbarium by Mr. J. Britten, with the revision of the
first volume of the Catalogue of British Lichens by Miss
Annie Lorrain Smith, and with the preparation of a guide to
the exhibition of British Lichens.

II.— Investigation.

Collections have been determined wholly or in part
from the following localities and collectors :— New Guinea
(Wollaston expedition), South Nigeria (Amaury Talbot),
Belgian Congo (Rogers), Rhodesia (Monro), Uganda (Diimmer),
Bolivia (Herzog), and Columbia (Sprague).

Dr. Rendle has devoted some time to the study of the
Tropical African species of Ulmaceze and Moracee, and Mr.
Fawcett and Dr. Rendle have continued their work on the
Jamaica species of the families of Dicotyledons, Mr. Baker

234 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

has completed his critical study of the African species of
Crotalaria, and Mr. Wernham his monographic study of the
genus Sabicea. Mr. Ramsbottom has devoted some time to
the investigation of the British Uredineze and Discomycetes ;
and work on various families and genera has been carried on
by numerous British and foreign botanists. By the permission
of the Trustees, Mr. Wernham was enabled to spend some
weeks in study at the important herbaria in Paris, Madrid,
Geneva, and Brussels; and Mr. Ramsbottom similarly at
Berlin. Numerous specimens and small collections have been
determined for students and collectors.

In connection with work done in the Department, specimens
have been generously lent by the Director of the Royal
Gardens, Kew ; the Director of the Botanical Department of the
Naturhistoriska Riks-Museum, Stockholm; the Director of
the Botanical Museum of the Royal Bavarian University of
Ludwig-Maximilian; the Regius Keeper of Botany, Edin-
burgh ; the Government of Jamaica; and Dr. E. De Wildeman.

Undetermined material has been lent for study and deter-
mination as follows :—22 specimens of Utricularia to Prof. H.
Glick, Botanical Institute, Heidelberg ; 302 specimens of South
American Solanum to the Director of the Botanic Garden,
Bremen; specimens of Mycetozoa to Miss G. Lister ; 127
specimens of Tropical African Ficus to the Director, Royal
Gardens, Kew; 21 specimens of Derris and 17 South Indian
specimens to Mr. 8. T. Dunn; 76 specimens of Bidens to Prof.
J. M. Coulter, University of Chicago; and one specimen of
Indigofera to Mr. W. Craib.

IIl.—Departmental Library.

1. Arrangement, Cataloguing, and Pressmarking.—The
registering, stamping, and cataloguing of additions to the
library and other routine work has been carried out. Depart-
mental assistance in connection with the Catalogue of the
Library published by the Trustees has been continued. Over
1,300 plates have been mounted and incorporated with the
General Collection.

2. Accessions.—The additions during the past year have
been, by donation, 107 volumes, 115 pamphlets; by purchase,
150 volumes, 2 pamphlets—in all, 257 volumes and 117 pam-
phlets. These numbers include 25 periodicals in 1,012 parts
presented and 84 periodicals in 566 parts purchased—in all 109
periodicals in 1,578 parts.

The following is a list of the principal donors: — His
Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S.; C. A.
Backer, Esq.;..F. M. Bailey, C.M.G., F.ES.; R. YT. Baker
F.L.S.; W. Barclay, Esq.; The Minister for the Colonies,
Belgium ; Royal Botanical Society, Belgium: Director, Botanic
Gardens, Berlin; Dr. F. C. E. Bergesen; J. Britten, F.L.S.;
Director, Léo Errera Botanical Institute, Brussels; Director,

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Botanic Gardens, Brussels; Dept. of Agriculture of the Dutch
East Indies, Buitenzorg; J. Burtt-Davy, F.L.8.; Director,
Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta; Hon. Secretary, Catholic
Truth Society; Director of Agriculture, Ceylon; Director,
National Museum, San José, Costa Rica; W. G. Craib, M.A.;
Dr. K. Dowin; Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic Garden,
Edinburgh; Prof. A. J. Ewart, D.Sc, Ph.D.; W. Fawcett,
B.Se., F.L.S.; Curator, Dept. of Botany, Field Museum,
Chicago; J. Sykes Gamble, C.I.E., F.R.S.; Government of the
Gold Coast; T. H. Goodspeed, HEsq.; Dr. Hans Hallier ;
Curator, Gray Herbarium, Harvard University; Board of
Agriculture and Forestry, Hawaii; Principal, College of
Hawaii, Honolulu; Dr. Bunzo Hayata; Hearst Laboratory,
University of California ; R. Selby Hole, F.L.S.; J. Hopkinson,
Hetioss, Ck, Jones, FL:S.5 Dr. W..J..Jongmans; A. §S:
Kennard, F.G.S.; Secretary of the Kew Guild; Frau A.
Koorders-Schumacher; Prof. F. Kranzlin; C. C. Lacaita,
F.L.S.; Prof. Henri Lecomte; Director, Ryks Herbarium,
Leiden; C. G. Lloyd, Esq.; Linnean Society, London; Royal
Botanic Society, London; Royal Horticultural Society,
London; C. A. de Menezes, Esq.; Directcr, Missouri Botanic
Garden, St. Louis; Spencer Moore, B.Sc.; the Hon. the
Secretary for Agriculture, New South Wales ; Nederlandsche
Botanische Vereeniging, Nijmegen; Prof. F. W. Oliver, F.R.S. ;
Morten P. Porsild, M.Sce.; Director, Agricultural Research
Institute, Pusa, Bengal; Prof. F. Ramaley; H. N. Ridley,
C.M.G., F.R.S.; Director, Imperial Academy of Science,
St. Petersburg; Prof. C. S. Sargent; Dr. H. G. Simmons ;
H. G. Smith, Esq.; Editor, Agricultural Journal of the Union
of 8. Africa, Pretoria; Director, Botanic Gardens, Sydney,
N.S.W.; W. M. Tattersall, D.Se.; Tokyo Botanical Society ;
Royal University, Upsala; U.S. National Museum, Washing-
ton; Hon. Secretary, Watson Botanical Exchange Club;
J. Medley Wood, A.L.S.; Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock ;
Prof. E. P. Wotschall; and Director, Botanic Garden and
Museum, Ziirich.

The following donations other than books have been
received :—A collection of 11,325 plates and original drawings
formed by Isaac Swainson in the eighteenth century was
presented by H. 8. Cooper, Esq.; a series of pencil sketches,
principally of pollen grains, with MS. notes and observations
by the Jate Francis Buckell, was presented by his son Edward
Buckell, Esq.

3. Binding.—164 volumes have been bound and several
others repaired.

LV.—Publications.

(1) Isswed by the Trustees—Catalogue of the Plants col-
lected by Mr. and Mrs. P. Amaury Talbot in the Oban District,
South Nigeria. By Dr. Rendle, E. G. Baker, H. F. Wernham,
S. Moore, and others.

236 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

(2) Issued by the permission of the Trustees.—Plants of
the Sudan collected by Dr. D. T. MacDougal. By Dr. Rendle,
S. Moore, H. F. Wernham, A. J. Wilmott, and A. Gepp.
(Journal of Botany.)

New Plants from Jamaica, II. By Dr. Rendle and Mr. W.
Fawcett. (Journal of Botany.)

The Genus Flagenium. By H. F. Wernham. (Journal of
Botany. )

New Rubiaceze from Tropical America, II-III. By H. F.
Wernham. (Journal of Botany.)

The Mussendas of the African Continent. By H. F.
Wernham. (Journal of Botany.)

Alabastra Diversa, Part XXIII. Plantarum novarum
Africanarum Pugillus. By 8. Moore. (Journal of Botany.)

Some notes on the history of the classification of the
Uredinales. By J. Ramsbottom. (Transactions, British
Mycological Society.)

New or rare Microfungi. By J. Ramsbottom and Miss A.
Lorrain Smith. (Transactions, British Mycological Society.)

Bibliographical Notes:—*The Botany of the Antarctic
Voyage.” By F.G. Wiltshear. (Journal of Botany.)

(3) By Students of the Collections other than Members of
the Stafi—Philip Miller's Plants. By Mr. J. Britten. (Journal
of Botany.)

John Frederick Miller and his “Icones.” By Mr. J.
Britten. (Journal of Botany.)

Two South African Plants. By Mr. R. Dummer. (Journal
of Botany.)
The British Species of Arctium. By Mr. A. H. Evans.
(Journal of Botany.)

The British Willows. By Rey. E. F. Linton. (Journal of
Botany.)

Some Bornean Aroidee. By Mr. H. N. Ridley. (Journal
of Botany.)

A New Alpinia from Borneo. By Mr. H. N. Ridley.
(Journal of Botany.)

Hypericum Desetangsit Lamotte in Britain. By Mr. C. E.
Salmon. (Journal of Botany.)

Drosera macrantha and D. strictecaulis. By Mr. O. H.
Sargent. (Journal of Botany.)

A Revision of the Genus Symphytum Tourn. By Mr. C.
Bucknall. (Journal of Linnean Society.)

The Banana: its Cultivation, Distribution, and Commercial
Uses. By Mr. W. Fawcett.

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Pheangella Empreti Boud. and some forgotten Discomy-
cetes. By Miss A. Lorrain Smith. (Transactions, British
Mycological Society.)

Thuidium recognitum Lindb. and its Allies. By Mr.
H. N. Dixon. (Journal of Botany.)

Miscellanea Bryologica, I-II]. By Mr. H. N. Dixon.
(Journal of Botany.)

Studies in the Bryology of New Zealand, Part I. By Mr.
H. N. Dixon. (Bulletin, New Zealand Institute.)

V.— Acquisitions.

(1) By Donation.

Additions to the British Herbarium have been received from
the following donors:—The Council of the South London
Botanical Institute, seeds of 101 species, mainly British; H.C.
Baker, Esq., 2 Phanerogams; H. J. Bedford, Esq., 4 Orchids ;
C. E. Britton, Esq., 148 Phanerogams; C. Bucknall, Esq.,
3 species of Symphytum ; E. M. Day, Esq., 2 Phanerogams ;
G. C. Druce, Esq., 62 Phanerogams; Mrs. F. L. Foord-Kelcey,
2 species of Galium; Miss G. Lister, 167 Mycetozoa; J. E.
Little, Esq., 2 Phanerogams; Rev. E. 8. Marshall, 200 Phanero-
gams; Mrs. Evelyn Northcote, 2 species of Plantago; Rev.
H. J. Riddelsdell, 152 Phanerogams; H.N. Ridley, Esq., C.M.G.,
9 Phanerogams from Cornwall ; Rev. W. M. Rogers, 4 species
of Rubi; C. E. Salmon, Esq., 41 Phanerovams; W. R. Sherrin,
Hsq., 3 Moss-slides for microscope, 2 Mosses, and 5 Hepaties ;
the Watson Botanical Exchange Club, 71 Phanerogams ; also
single specimens from Messrs. H. A. Britten, E. W. Hunnybun,
C. P. Hurst, R. C. Lucas, J. W. White, and Misses E. F. Noel,
J. M. Roper, and K. Skinner.

The following donations have been made to the General
Herbarium :—
Europe.

Miss L.S. Gibbs, 24 Phanerogams and 2 Ferns from Iceland ;
H. F. A. Mallock, Esq., F.R.S., diatom-material (Gomphonema
capitatum) from South of Spain; Hon. N. C. Rothschild,
7 Phanerogams chiefly from Hungary; C. EK. Salmon, Esq.,
4 Phanerogams; W. R. Sherrin, Esq., 3 Alpine Mosses; H. 8.
Thompson, Esq., 2 Phanerogams from South of France; Major
A. H. Wolley-Dod, 20 Gibraltar plants; also single specimens
from Prof. A. X. P. Coutenho and F. Raine, Esq.

Asia.

Prof. F. O. Bower, specimens of a new species of Fern
from Darjeeling (Matteuccia) ; S. T. Dunn, Isq., Fruits of
Dervis parviflora from Ceylon; Miss L. 8. Gibbs, 304 Phane-
rogams and 128 Cryptogams from British North Borneo; Sir
E. G. Loder, Cones of Pinus pumila from 8S. Yakutsk in
Siberia; Dr. E. D. Merrill, 9 Photographs of Philippine

238 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Rubiacee ; the Director of the Imperial Botanic Gardens,
St. Petersburg, 2 new species from E. Asia; J. N. Sheffield,
Esq., 10 Ferns, 24 Mosses, 24 Hepatics, and 10 Lichens from
Perak ; and 1 Fungus from C. G. Lloyd, Esq.

Africa.

Mrs. W. E. Balston, 113 Phanerogams from vicinity of Cape
Town ; Lieut. G. St. J. Orde Browne, 32 Phanerogams from
Kenya Province, Brit. E. Africa ; R. H. Bunting, Esq., 50 Phane-
rogams from Liberia; Col. F. A. Chaves, sample of Coorongite
containing Diatoms from Lake Furnas, Azores; T. F. Chipp,
Esq., 52 Phanerogams and 2 Ferns from the Gold Coast: Dr. D. T.
MacDougal, 195 Phanerogams and 6 Cryptogams from Egypt
and Red Sea Province; R. E. Massey, Esq., 150 Flowering
Plants from the Soudan; C. F. H. Monro, Esq., 452 Phane-
rogams and 6 Ferns from Rhodesia; Hon. W. Rothschild, 23
Phanerogams and 1 Fern from N.W. Algeria and 8 enlarged
photographs of trees in the Public Gardens, Algiers; the
Percy Sladen Trustees, 22 plants collected in South West
mires by wrote, bt. y i. W. Pearson; Mr. and Mrs. P. Amaury
Talbot, 738 Phanerogams and 3 Ferns from the Eket District,
South Nigeria ; also : single specimens from Mrs. M. Burnie, the
Director, Royal Gardens, Kew, Dr. E. De Wildeman, Dr. R.
Marloth, and E. Warren, Esq.

Australasia.

Miss B. de Pledge, specimen of Verticordia Forrestiana
from Western Australia.

Oceania.
Miss L. S. Gibbs, 8 Phanerogams and 3 Ferns from Hawaii.

America.

Mr. R. Heber Howe, Junr., 24 Lichenes Nove Angliz ; Prof.
H. Lecomte, 3 Rubiacez from Tropical America; Rev. A.
Miles Moss, 35 Brazilian plants; T. A. Sprague, Esq., 21
Rubiacez from Venezuela; the Director, University Botanic
Garden, Pennsylvania, 26 North American Scrophularinex ;
also single specimens from Prof. G. B. De Toni, the Director of
Agriculture i in Jamaica, Messrs. A. ete W. Sands, G. E. H.
Wilson, and Prof. I. Urban.

General.
Miss G. Lister, 340 exotic Mycetozoa.

Cultivated Plants.

W. E. Balston, Esq., 3 Orchids; R. H. Beamish, Esq.,
inflorescence of Furcrea and 3 other plants; EH. A. Bowles,
Ksq., 2 Phanerogams; Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 10 Orchids ;
J. O’Brien, Esq., 2 Orchids; D. M. Moss, Esq., some abnormally
developed pears; Hon. N. C. Rothschild, 29 Orchids ; also
single specimens from W. E. Ledger, Esq., Rev. E. F. Linton,
Messrs. Sander & Son, and 8. K. Williams, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 239

Specimens for Hahibition—Myr. H. Essenhigh Corke has
presented for exhibition 20 colour photographs on glass of
British Flowering Plants; the Director, Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew, 11 species of Flowering Plants; the Curator,
Physick Garden, Chelsea, 71 specimens.

(2) By Purchase.
British Isles.

Botanical Exchange Club, 108 Phanerogams; Rev. E. F.
Linton, 17 specimens of British Willows; C. E. Hartley Smith,
10 specimens of prepared British Fungi. Special mention
should be made of the Moss-Herbarium of Dr. R. Braithwaite,
estimated to contain 5,300 specimens, representing 600 species,
the types of his British ‘ Moss-Flora” (1880-1905).

Europe. :

Through Dulau & Co.—O. Jaap, 50 Fungi selecti, ser.
XXV, XXVI, and 20 Myxomycetes, ser. VIL; J. KE. Kabat and
Bubak, 50 Fungi Imperfecti, fase. XV; K. W. Krieger, 50
Fungi Saxonici, fase. XLV; A. Paulin, Flora exsiccata Car-
niolica, cent. IX, X; D. Saccardo, 169 Fungi, Mycotheca
Italica, cent. XVII, XVIII, Part I; J. Schiller, H. Cammerlohe,
and G. Seefeldner, 30 Algz Adriatice, cent. I, fasc. 2; H. and
P. Sydow, 50 Fungi, Mycotheca Germanica, fase. XXIV; A.
Toepffer, 50 specimens, Salicetum exsiccatum, fase. VIII ;.T.

Vestergren, 150 Micromycetes rariores selecti, fase. LXIII-
LXVIII.

Through R. Friedlander & Sohn.—M. Britzelmayr, 144
Lichenes Bavarie exsiccati, with figures.

Through T. O. Wergel.—V. F. Brotherus, 100 Mosses,
Bryotheca Fennica, fase. III; A. Fiori et A. Béguinot, Flora
Italica exsiccata, cent. XVII, XVIII; A. von Hayek, 50 speci-
mens, Centaurez exsiccate critics, fase. I; F. Petrak, 100
specimens Flora Bohemiz et Moravie exsiccata, lief. XII.

From the Publishers.—H. Sudre, Batotheca Europea, fase.
XI, 50 specimens, and Herbarium Hieraciorum, fase. III, 50
specimens.

Asia.

S. T. Dunn. 40 Chinese plants collected by E. E. Maire; W.
Siehe, 250 rare Oriental plants (selected).

Africa.

K. Chiovenda, Flora della Colonia Eritrea, cent. I, II,
prepared by A. Pappi; E. Gilg, 290 Phanerogams and 10
Vascular Cryptogams from Cameroons, collected by G. Zenker ;
HE. M. Reineck, 312 Algerian plants collected by A. Faure, and
276 plants collected in Morocco and Tunis by C. J. Pitard ;

240 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Rev. F. A. Rogers, 120 Phanerogams from Rhodesia and Congo
District ; T. O. Weigel, 25 Fungi, Mycotheca Boreali-Africana,
fasc. lV, prepared by R. Maire; F. Wilms, 399 Phanerogams
and 69 Cryptogams collected in Natal by H. Rudatis, and 93
Phanerogams collected in Uganda by G. Scheffler.

America.

EK. Bartholomew, 500 Fungi Columbiani, cent. XXX VIII-
XLII, and 300 North American Uredineales, cent. VI-VIII ;
K. W. Berger, exhibition specimens and photographs of para-
sitic Fungi on Scale Insects; T. S. Brandegee, 302 Phanero-
gams and 30 Ferns collected in Mexico by C. A. Purpus; W. E.
Broadway, 273 Phanerogams and 27 Cryptogams from Tobago ;
O. Buchtien, 147 Phanerogams and 53 Vascular Cryptogams
from Bolivia ; Collins, Holden, & Setchell, 50 Algz, Phycotheca
Boreali-Americana, fase. XXXVIII (per Dulau & Co,); E.
Hassler, 402 Phanerogams and 11 Cryptogams from Paraguay ;
C. C. Haynes, 20 American Hepatice, decades XI, XII; E. M.
Reineck, 10 selected species of Mosses, mostly from Central
America ; H. von Tiirckheim, 226 Phanerogams and 15 Vascular
Cryptogams from Guatemala (per T. O. Weigel) ; I’ Urban,
633 Phanerogams and 142 Cryptogams collected in St. Domingo
by M. Fuertes.

General.

Through Dulau & Co.—H. Rehm, 118 Fungi, Ascomycetes
exsiccati, fase. LII, LIII; H. Sydow, 150 Fungi exotici exsiccati,
fasc. II-IV; P. Sydow, 50 Uredinee, fase. LI, 25 Ustilaginee,
fase. XII, and 25 Phycomycetes and Protomycetes.

Through V. Schroeder.—101 Ferns, mostly tropical, deter-
mined by E. Rosenstock.

(3) By Huchange of Duplicates.

Oakes Ames, 102 Orchids from the Philippine Islands ;
Director, .Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Flora
Hungarica exsiccata, cent. I; Prof. K. Domin, 100 Phanero-
gams from Montenegro; Director, Royal Gardens, Kew, 11
plants from Keeling Island; Botanist, Bureau of Science,
Mauila, 1,779 Phanerogams and 868 Cryptogams, mainly from
the Philippine Islands ; Director, Botanical Garden, New York,
625 Phanerogams and 31 Cryptogams from Bermuda, Cuba,
and Jamaica; Department of Botany, Riksmuseet, Stockholm,
159 Brazilian Grasses; Director, National Herbarium, Sydney,
48 Australian plants; Curator, Botanical Department, Hof-
museum, Vienna, 100 Kryptogame exsiccate, cent. XXI, mostly
European; Director, Botanic Garden and Institute of the
University, Vienna, 400 plants, Flora exsiccata Austro-
Hungarica, cent. XXXVI-XL; Curator, U.S. National
Herbarium, Washington, 141 West Indian Grasses ; Director,
Botanic Gardens, Ziirich, 3 plants from Cameroons.

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V1.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits to the Department for consultation
and research during the year was 3,455. This is less than the
number recorded for 1912, as during that year an attempt was
made to record the considerable number of students who work
systematically at the British collections and other educational
exhibits in the Public Gallery. It was, however, found
impracticable to keep such a record.

VII.—-Demonstrations.

Demonstrations on the collections have been given by Mr.
Ramsbottom to members of the Selborne Society and to
students from the Southlands College. Facilities for a demon-
stration to students from the Royal College of Science have
also been given.

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BRITISH MUSEUM.
ACCOUNTS (SPECIAL TRUST Su 1914- ,

BRIDGEWATER - -

FARNBOROUGH - - - - -
SWINBY - - - - - - -
BIRCH - - - - - -
CHARLES eee EDWARD FORTNUM -
CARCHEMISH EXCAVATIONS - - -

NUMBERS OF PERSONS ADMITTED:
BRITISH MUSEUM - - -
BRITISH MusEUM (NATURAL HISTORY)

HOURS OF ADMISSION :
BRITISH MUSEUM - - - -
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL History)

GENERAL SEs TEMENT OF PROGRESS:
VISITORS - - - - -
READING ROOM AND NuWSsPAPER Room
HXTENSION BUILDING - ~ - -
OFFICIAL GUIDE = 2 -
THE WAR- - - - = -
EXCAVATIONS - - = = = =
PRINCIPAL ACQUISITIONS - - -
GRANTS OF REPRODUCTIONS, &c, - -
PUBLICATIONS - - - - - -

ARRANGEMENT OF erty nc St &C) :
PRINTED BOOKS - =
MANUSCRIPTS - - - - - =
ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. -
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS - - - -
ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS -
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES - = - =
ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES - - - =
GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES - -
BRITISH AND MEDIM@VAL ANTIQUITIES
Coins AND MEDALS = = z =

ACQUISITIONS :
NEWSPAPERS - - - - - -
PRINTED BOOKS - - - = -
MAPS - - - - - - -
MuSsICc - - : - - - -
MANUSCRIPTS - - - - -
ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS, -
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS - - = -
ORIENTAL PEINTS AND DRAWINGS -
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES - - - -
ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES - - - -
GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES - -

PREHISTORIC, EARLY BRITISH AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES

CERAMIC AND GLASS OBJECTS -

ORIENTAL AND HETHNOGRAPHICAL Onrcrs
ADDED TO THE CHRISTY Cee OND)

CoiINs AND MEDALS e = 2

(INCLUDING

THOSE

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2)

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY).

GENERAL STATEMENT CF PROGRESS :

VISITORS - - -
OFFICIAL GUIDE =
SWINEY LECTURES -
ELECTRIC LIGHTING
EXTENSION OF MUSEUM
THE WAR =
ANIMAL PROTECTION

ANTARCTIC SCIENTIFIC STATION -
INVESTIGATION OF ANTARCTIC

STRANDED WHALES

INDIAN MAMMAL SURVEY

EXPEDITIONS - -
BEQUESTS AND GIFTS
PRINCIPAL PURCHASES
DUPLICATES - -
PUBLICATIONS - -
INDEX MUSEUM - -
ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY
ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

ARRANGEMENT AND CONSERVATION

ZOOLOGY - - -
ENTOMOLOGY - -
GEOLOGY - - -
MINERALS - -
BoTANY - + =
ACQUISITIONS :

ZOOLOGY - - :
ENTOMOLOGY - -
GEOLOGY - - -
MINERALS - -
BOTANY - -

WHALES

DUPLICATES AND EXCHANGES:

ZOOLOGY -
ENTOMOLOGY - =
GEOLOGY - - -
MINEROLOGY - -
Bovany - - =
LIBRARIES:

GENERAL - -
ZOOLOGICAL - =
ENTOMOLOGICAL -
GEOLOGICAL - =
MINERALOGICAL =
BOTANICAL =

PUBLICATIONS, DEPART M. EN age

ZOOLOGY -
ENTOMOLOGY -
GEOLOGY - s =
MINERALS - - :
(OMAN. = = Ey
STUDENTS :
ZOOLOGY - = =
ENTOMOLOGY - =
GEOLOGY - - =
MINERALS - - -
BoTANY - - =
INVESTIGATION -
MINERALS - - -
BOTANY - - -
DEMONSTRATIONS:
GEOLOGY -
MINERALS - -
BOTANY - - “

IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY -

INDEX GENERUM ET SPECIERUM ANIMALIUM -

o (190.69 750 7/15 E&S

4 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

L—AN ACCOUNT of the Recerpts and EXPENDITURE of the

STOCK,
CASH. 24 °/, Consols.
Lites. Ud: &. SOE
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1914 - - - AS Spl 13,659 3 2

- DivipENDS received on 13,659]. 3s. 2d. Stock
in 24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed
by the Earl of Bridgewater, viz.:

On the 5th April1914 - <£.85 7 4

5 5th July 1914 PSB Te!

“ 5th October 1914 ei ak

3F 5th January 1915 co te) Yee
341 9 4

- RENT OF A REAL Estate, Whitchurch,

bequeathed by the Hast of Bridgew ater r (less
repairs, &c.) - - Gye

eg, 39214 1 ° 13669 3 2.

IL—AN ACCOUNT of the Recerprs and EXPENDITURE of the

STOCK,
CASH. 24°], Consols.
£. 8. d. £.. 8. a.
To BALANCES on the Ist April 1914 - = = 1213 4 2879, 10° 7

~ DIVIDENDS received on 2.8792. 10s. 7d. Stock in
24 per Cent, Consols bequeathed by
Lord Farnborough, viz. :

On the 5th April 1914 - AS Uf WG) I
+). Ubthtul vino . ae RRR 19. 117
bth October 1914 ela 1910
53 5th January 1915 =) de alts) otal ;

———-——__ 7119 8

65-184 13° 0 2,879 10 7

LiI—AN ACCOUNT of the RgcEIPTS and EXPENDITURE of the

STOCK,

CASH. 23 °/, Consols.

f. Sed See a ee

To BALANCES on the Ist April 1914 - ~ - - 2 Oe 744 - 8
— DIVIDENDS received on 5,744/. - 8d. Stock in
24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed by
Dr. George ney ‘for Lectures on

Geology, viz.
On the 5th April TOL ie Me. Se agu=
: 5th July 1914 - - 35:18 =
5th Octover 1914 - 3518 -
Fs oth January 1915 - 35.18 =
———_ 143 12 -

Soup fh DO eal 5,744 - §&

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

on

BRIDGEWATER FUND, from the 1st April 1914 to the 31st March 1915.

CASH.
ESB bey uietee
By One Year's SALARY of the EgertonLibrarian - 175 - -—
- BALANCES ON THE 31ST MarcH 1915,
calried to Account for 1915-1916 - eA Ufa baal
fu) “302 Tat

FARNBOROUGH FUND, from the 1st April 1914 to the 31st March 1915.

CASH,
Sm 8s. 1d
- BALANCES ON THE 31ST MaArcH 1915,
carried to Account for 1915-1916 - e : 8413 -
£, 8413 -

STocK,

23 °/, Consols.

An Sacre

STOCK,
23 °/, Consols.

Bis tends

2.879) 107

2,879 10 7

SWINEY FUND, from the 1st April 1914 to the 31st March 1915.

CASH.
Spaul Sa ibe
By AMOUNT paid to Dr, J. D. Falconer, for Lectures
on Geology in 1914 - - - - = Spader l=
—- BALANCES ON THE 31st MarcH 1915,
carried tu Account for 1915-1916 - - =H Ge dal” EL
$35 ABS BU

STOCK.
23 ?/, Consols.

£589 Bas

6 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

IV.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recerprs and ExpenpitTureE of

STOCK,
CASH. 24 °/, Consols.
SEU SuaRCs £.. (aaa:
To BALANCE on the Ist April 1914 - - - : 23 BGR S..
- DIVIDENDS received on 565/. 3s. 9d. Stock in
24 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed
by Dr. Birch in 1766, for the three
Under Librarians of the British
Museum, viz. :
On the 5th April 1914 - = BETO: 9 8
9 5th July 1914 - - 310 8
ss 5th October 1914 - aL OES
* 5th January 1915 - 3 L098
——— 14 6248
£ 14 2 8 bon or

V.—AN ACCOUNT of the Recrezprs and ExPENDITURE of the bequest
1st April 1914 to

CASH.

fa se gt
To BALANCE on Ist April 1914 - - - - - - - - 6,415 13 10

£. 6,415 13 10

VWI.—AN ACCOUNT of the ReEceErIrrs and EXPENDITURE of the
1st April 1914 to

CASH.

x.

Ss
To BALANCE on the ist April, 19i4 - - - - - - - 756 38 4

£. 756 3 4

“I

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

the BIRCH FUND, from the 1st April 1914 to the 31st March 1915

STOCK,
CASH. 23 °/, Consols.
Faw Sad. Ley Sunpas
By LeG@acy paid to the three Under Librarians of
the British Museum, whose offices existed
in 1766, viz., the Keepers of the Departments
of Printed Books, Manuscripts, and Natural
History - - - - - - - - 1 Zid
- BALANCE ON THE 38lsT MaRcH 1915,
carried to Account for 1915-1916 - : - — £65 3°99
£ V4) 27-8 BS BY)

of the late MR. CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM from the
the 51st March 1915.

CASH,

£. s.-d,

By AMOUNT transferred to H.M. i ea in aid of the
Parliamentary Vote, 1914-1915 - - - - - - 3,700 13 10

- BALANCE ON THE 31ST MARCH 1915, amied: to Account for 1915-
a ne a a ht ein Oe

£.6,415 13 10

un ee

CARCHEMISH EXCAVATIONS FUND from the
the 31st March 1915.

CASH.
£.., am
By AMOUNT expended on Excavations, authorship of Report, &c.- - 267. Saas
— BALANCE on the 31st March 1915, carried to Accovnt for 1915-1916 488 14 1

£.756 3 4

Frederic G, Kenyon,
Director and Principal Librarian.

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10 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The British Museum, Bloomsbury (including the Depart-
ments of Printed Books and Maps, Manuscripts, Oriental
Printed Books and Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings,
Tigyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Greek and Roman
Antiquities, British and Medizval Antiquities and Hthno-
graphy, and Coins and Medals) is open to the public free
daily (except on Good Friday and Christmas Day and days
of Public Fast or Thanksgiving) as follows :—

On WEEKDAYS from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

After 4 p.m. in January, February, November, Decem-
ber, and after 5 p.m. in March, September, October, only
certain of the galleries remain open, viz. :—

On Monpays, Exhibitions of Manuscripts, Printed
Wee Books, Prints and Drawings, Porcelain,

j Glass and Majolica; Prehistoric, British,
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and LEthno-
graphical Collections.

and
FRIDAYS.

On TUESDAYS, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman
THURSDAYS Galleries ; Gold Ornament Room,
d >) American Prehistoric, British, Anglo-

a Saxon Collections, and the Waddesdon

SATURDAYS. Bequest Room.*

On SuNDAY AFTERNOONS :—

From 2 to4 p.m.in January, February, November,
December.
2 5 5» 59, Wetober.
» 2 », 930 .,, ,, March, September.
2 6 » » April, May, June, July, August.

Persons applying for the purposes of research and reference
are admitted to the Reading Room under certain regulations
every weekday, except the days specified below, from 9 a.m.
until 7 p.m. The Newspaper Room is open, under similar
regulations, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

The Reading Room, Newspaper Room, and Students’ Rooms
in the Library and Department of Manuscripts are closed on
Sundays, Good Friday, Christmas Day, and the first four
weekdays in March and September.

* From October 1914 to the end of March 1915 it was necessary to close the
exhibition galleries at dusk. »

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Tf

Other Students’ Rooms are closed on Sundays, Good Friday,
and Christmas Day, and occasionally for cleaning.

Students are admitted generally to the several Departments
on weekdays, from 10 till 4 or 5 o’clock ; and to the Scuipture
Galleries from 9 o’clock till the hour of closing.

British separa Frederic G. Kenyon,
1 April 1915. Director and Principal Librarian.

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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. ie

The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural
History), Cromwell Road, South Kensington, including the
Departments of Zoology, Entomology, Geology and Palzon-
tology, Mineralogy, and Botany, are open to the public,
free, dailv, except Good Friday and Christmas Day, and days
of Public Fast or Thanksgiving.

The hours of Admission are as under :—

On WEEKDAYS, throughout the year from 10 a.m., in

January and February - - SOLPEOO TO: “Deane
March - = - - - OOM EL:
April to August - - ator SG *
September - - - - - a ac) ae
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33

also, on MONDAYS and SATURDAYS only, from the beginning
of May to the middle of July, to 8 p.m., and from the middle
of July to the end of August, to 7 p.m.

On SUNDAYS, in

January - - - = (Mifonif 2 (bea sept
February Ist to 14th - - sa 2 ori4us0) sj
February 15th to end - - Kat KO and By
March - - - - Pee ts alt. Sia 0b 4)!
April - - - - - ee fotG se
May to August - - - Sir ace Obiss) Vt Fr
September - - - = RODE |, @oso0l hs
October = - - - oe rh stl y
November and December’ - ii oo 4

Persons are admitted to study in these Departments every
weekday from 10 till 4 o’clock.

British Museum (Natural History), ] L. Fletcher,
27 February, 1915. J Director of the Natural
History Departments.

VIII.—GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM, BLOOMSBURY.

The figures of attendances at the Museum during the year
1914 were naturally affected very materially by the war.
Up to the end of June the number of visitors showed a
considerable advance (amounting to over 31,000) even on the
exceptionally high figures of 1913. In August and September,
however, there was a falling off of more than 100,000, and
considerable reductions in each of the following months, with
the result that the year closed with a total of 814,517 visits,
or 132,573 less than in 1913, though still in excess of all the
years from 1905 to 1912 inclusive.

14 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The visits of students to particular Departments likewise
show reductions in nearly every instance, though to a less
marked extent. The visitors to the Reading Room numbered
224,560, as against 243,659, those to the Newspaper Room
16,704, as against 17,938, and those to the Students’ Rooms
of the other Departments 31,949, as against 37,788. The only
item which shows an increase is the number of students
working in the Sculpture Galleries.

Owing to the continuous and increasing demand for the
services of the official guide-lecturer, a second guide was
appointed provisionally in May, and his appointment was
made permanent in November. The number of persons attend-
ing the guides’ lectures during the year was approximately
20,300.

The extension building, officially known as King Edward
the Seventh’s Galleries, was opened to the public on May 7th,
by His Majesty the King, accompanied by Her Majesty the
Queen and H.R.H. Princess Mary, in the presence of more
than 800 invited guests, including the Trustees and their
friends, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, representatives of
Government Departments and other distinguished persons,
benefactors of the Museum, and past and present members
of the Museum staff, both at Bloomsbury and at the Natural
History Museum. A bust of H.M. King Edward VII. was
unveiled by H.M. the King, and His Majesty was graciously
pleased to declare the building open. Their Majesties then
proceded to view the new exhibition galleries, which were also
visited in the afternoon by a large number of invited guests,
and were thrown open to the public on the following day.

The new building contains five floors, of which one and the
greater part of another are exhibition galleries, while the
others are devoted to working rooms for the staff and for
students, and to purposes of storage. The Department of
Prints and Drawings has its exhibition gallery and Students’
Room on the upper floor, and its working rooms in part of
the floor below, the remainder of which is assigned to a
Students’ Room for the Department of British and Medieval
Antiquities, and to the storage and study of Maps and Music.
The Ground Floor Gallery was occupied during 1914 by an
exhibition of the paintings, manuscripts, and miscellaneous
antiquities brought from Central Asia by Sir Aurel Stein,
but will eventually contain the Glass, Ceramic, and Medizval
collections. The Sub-Ground Floor will contain the office
for the receipt of publications under the Copyright Act, the
Newspaper Students’ Room, and the storage of newspapers ;
while the Basement is available for purposes of storage,
especially of printed books. The block of building which
forms the connection between King Edward the Seventh’s
Galleries and the rest of the Museum contains on the ground
floor a supplementary Reading Room, and on the upper floor
working rooms and an additional exhibition gallery for the
Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities.

GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 15

The process of transferring the collections from the old
building to the new, and of re-arranging the galleries in the
old building thus vacated has been greatly delayed, first by
the dispute in the building trade in the early months of 1914,
and secondly by the outbreak of war.

.The war has affected the Museum in many ways. Over
60 members of the staff at Bloomsbury, and over 30 of those
at the Natural History Museum, have taken service in the
naval or military forces of the Crown. _Others have been
attached to the War Office and the Foreign Office for special
duty, while many of those who could not be accepted or
granted leave for active service have joined various volun-
tary organisations for military, protective, or hospital work.
Special precautions have been taken to protect the collections
in the event of raids by hostile aircraft. At an early stage in
the war a large number of the more portable objects of special
value were removed to positions of greater security in safes or
in strong rooms, their places in the exhibition galleries being
taken by objects of lesser value or by facsimiles. Additional
measures, including the protection of certain objects which
cannot safely be removed, have been taken since the close of
the year to which this report relates.

The war has further affected the Museum by the reduction
of the number of visitors, which involves a reduction in the
receipts from the sale of publications, and by the lessening of
correspondence, as well as visits, from foreign scholars. On
the other hand the Museum has been much utilised by Belgian
and French refugees, for whose benefit special lectures have
been arranged by the official Guides.

Progress with official publications will be seriously delayed,
both by the absence of members of the staff on military duty
and by the inevitable curtailment of expenditure on such
objects. In particular, the consideration of a scheme for a
re-issue of the General Catalogue of Printed Books will have
to be indefinitely postponed.

Outside the Museum, excavations were continued at Jerablus
during the spring and early summer, with satisfactory results.
A preliminary volume, giving an account of the site and
reproductions of the principal monuments and inscriptions
hitherto discovered, has been published. The continuance of
this work is mainly due to the liberality of an anonymous
benefactor, who has already contributed 5,000/. towards it, and
has recently conveyed a further sum of 10,000/. to trustees to
provide for its further progress. Excavations are now neces-
sarily in abeyance, but there is no reason to suppose that the
site or the antiquities discovered there have suffered since the
outbreak of war. The disposition of the natives has always
been friendly towards the British excavators, and they appear
to have continued to safeguard the site.

16 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The number of separate objects incorporated in the collec-
tions of the several Departments during the year 1914 is as
follows :—

Printed Books:

Books and Pamphlets - - - - 32,539
Serials and Parts of Volumes~ - - = uel Sel
Maps and Atlases - - - - - 2,942
Music - - - - - ={ i239
Newspapers (single numbers) = - - - 231,882
Miscellaneous - - - - - 8,734
Manuscripts and Seals - - - 1,353
Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts - - 4,626
Prints and Drawings - - - 6,657
ie ( Quiemial - - - 386

Key ptian and Assyrian Antiquities - - - 5,454
Greek and Roman Antiquities . - - 146
British and Medieval Antiquities - - - 3,072
Coins and Medals’ - - - e - 3,090
Total - - = - 385,103

The most noteworthy of these accessions have been the
Hazlitt bequest, which will ultimately provide a fund of about
10,0001. for the purchase of early English printed books; the
printed books and manuscripts ,purchased at the Dunn sale;
several large collections of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities,
inciuding a valuable bequest from H. F. B. Lynch, Esq.; and
a selection from the remarkable find of Jacobean jewellery, of
which the greater part is in the London Museum, presented
by the Right Hon. Lewis Harcourt, M.P.

From the Dunn sale the Department of Printed Books
acquired (with the assistance of friends) the Commentary of
Servius on Virgil, printed at Florence in 1471, being the first
book printed in that town, and a very fine volume; also 82
other volumes of incunabula which fill gaps in the Museum
collections. Particulars of these will be found in the Depart-
mental report below. The Department also acquired from the
Chapter of Lincoln an interesting collection of musical works
(chiefly madrigals, motets, etc., by Italian composers of the
16th and early 17th centuries), The most interesting among
the remaining acquisitions of the Department is perhaps the
sheet of four Indulgences, printed in Caxton type by Wynkyn
de Worde in 1498.

The Department of Manuscripts has received, under the
will of the late Lady Layard, as was briefly mentioned last
year, the whole of the diplomatic papers and general corres-
pondence of her husband, Sir A. H. Layard, G.C.B. In
addition to the political importance of these papers (which will
necessitate the withholding of certain portions from public
access for some time, 1n accordance with the wishes or the
Foreign Office), they contain a good deal of matter relating to
the excavations which Layard, in his earlier days, conducted

GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 17

at Nineveh on behalf of the British Museum. Another
important correspondence is that of George Canning with
J. Hookham Frere, consisting of 160 letters. Some illuminated
MSS. were acquired at the Dunn sale, and some interesting
state papers at the Hodgkin sale. One of the three known
copies of an early draft of Sidney’s “ Arcadia” was purchased
from the late Mr. B. Dobell; and a book of interesting associa-
tions is the copy of Pope’s “ Iliad,” in six volumes, presented by
the author to Gilbert White, and containing two pen-and-ink
sketches of the latter, which are the only known portraits of
him in existence. In addition, several valuable Greek papyri
from Uxyrhynchus have been presented by the Egypt Explora-
tion Fund; and two vellum Greek documents of the first
century B.C., discovered in Western Media and hence of unique
character and special palzographical interest, have been
acquired by purchase. It should also be noted that the
Department has received two deposits of exceptional interest,
which, it is hoped, will be permanent. One consists of the
journals and memoranda of the late Captain R. F. Scott during
his South Pole expedition, including the diary of the final
journey to and from the Pole up to the date of his death,
which have been deposited in the Museum by Lady Scott; and
the other of the musical autographs belonging to the Royal
Philharmonic Society, including works by Beethoven, Haydn,
Mendelssohn, Spohr, and other famous musicians.

The Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts
has acquired by purchase a volume of Syriac theological
writings, dated in the year 721, and several Arabic, Persian,
and Turkish MSS., many of which are unique.

The Department cf Prints and Drawings secured several
very fine early German engravings, together with two excep-
tionally rare metal-cuts in the “ dotted ” style; also 95 etchings
by Piranesi; two drawings by Whistler; an etching by
Josef Israels, presented by J. C. J. Drucker, Esq.; and
several interesting examples of contemporary etchings, litho-
graphs, and woodcuts. In the Oriental section the principal
acquisition was a Chinese painting of great antiquity, probably
of the llth century, which was purchased with the help of the
National Art-Collections Fund and private benefactors.

The acquisitions of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities have
been very numerous, and include pre-dynastic objects from
Upper Egypt, a granite statue of a chief, a portrait in sunk relief
of Amen-hetep LY., a blue glazed coffin with figure inside it,
a sandstone sarcophagus of the XIXth dynasty, 875 scarabs
mostly of the Hyksos period, several bronze figures of gods,
a large basin for libations, a fine black basalt head of one
of the Ptolemies, a large stele in Meroitic script, a tablet with
an important list of early Babylonian kings, a hundred contract
tablets of the first dynasty, a collection of over 3,000 early
Babylonian tablets trom Tell Lo, a foundation cylinder of
Nabonidus, and many others, which are more fully set out in
the Departmental report.

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The Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities has
secured several interesting bronzes, including a 5th century
statuette of Hephaestus, and a remarkable bronze steelyard ;
an alabaster statuette of Aphrodite; a marble votive relief
of Zeus of Labranda, from Caria, associated with the sculptures
of the Mausoleum; a series of sculptures brought from Rome
to England in the 18th century; a large amphora of Dipylon
style, and a number of other vases.

The Department of British and Medieval Antiquities
received an important accession of arms and armour as the
result of the labours of a committee appointed to report on
the various collections in the armouries of the Tower, Wool-
wich, and elsewhere. The Byzantine Research Fund placed
at the disposal of the Trustees all the results of its excavation
of a Coptic site in Hgvpt. The gift of a selection from a
remarkable “find” of Jacobean jewellery by the Right Hon.
Lewis Harcourt has been mentioned above, and a fine English
astrolabe of the 14th century was presented by Mr. Maurice
Rosenheim. Another acquisition was a fine cameo of Queen
Elizabeth. A Persian pottery bowl and cup was the gift of
Mr. Van den Bergh, and a large Persian dish was acquired by
purchase. The second portion of a large collection of ancient
Peruvian pottery was also acquired in the course of the year ;
and among a large number of additions to the ethnographical
collections the most noteworthy was an elaborately carved
ivory tusk from Benin.

In the Department of Coins and Medals the principal
accessions were a unique Paphlagonian coin of Attalos
Epiphanes ; an almost unique tetradrachm of Orodes II. of
Parthia; a group of gold staters of Cyrene; an unique bronze
coin of Carausius, and a selection of early English coins from
the Carlyon-Britton collection ; a selection of English coins
of the 14th and 15th centuries from the Walters collection ;
a fine and unique medal by Simon Passe; and a very fine
collection of over a thousand coins of the Frankish rulers of
Athens and Achaia and of the semi-bracteate coins of Switzer-
land, presented by Mr. Maurice Rosenheim.

The special Parliamentary grant for the assistance of Schools
of Art has been devoted to the supply of (1) casts of ancient
sculpture, (2) facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts, (3) electro-
types of Italian Renaissance medals. Gifts of official publica-
tions have also been made to many local libraries and
museums.

The following are the publications issued by the Depart-
ments at Bloomsbury during the year :—

Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stele, &c., in the British
Museum. Part V. 50 plates. Folio. 7s: 6d.

Wall Decorations of Egyptian Tombs. Illustrated from
examples in the British Museum. With8 plates and descriptive
letterpress. 5s.

Carchemish. Report on the Excavations at Djerabis on
behalf of the British Museum, conducted by C. Leonard Woolley.

GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 19

M.A., and T. E. Lawrence, B.A. Part I. Introductory, by
D. G. Hogarth, M.A., F.B.A. With frontispiece and 27 plates.
4to. lds.

Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, &e., in the British
Museum. Part XXXIV. 50 plates. Folio. 7s. 6d.

Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik
Collection of the British Museum. Supplement. By L. W.
King. With 6 collotype plates. 4to. 10.

Catalogue of the Greek and Roman Lamps in the British
Museum. By H. B. Walters, M.A., F.S.A. With 43 plates and
352 illustrations in the text. Svo. 1s. 6d.

Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Palestine (Galilee, Samaria,
and Judea). By G. F. Hill, M.A. With one map, a table of
the Hebrew alphabet, and 42 plates. 8vo. Il. 10s.

Catalogue of the Coins of the Gupta Dynasties and of
Sasanka, King of Gauda. By John Allan, M.A. With 24
plates. 8vo. 1. 5s.

Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts deposited on loan in the
British Museum by the Royal Philharmonic Society of London.
8vo. 6d.

Schools of Llumination. Reproductions from Manuscripts
in the British Museum. Part 1. Hiberno-Saxon and Early
English School, A.D. 700-1100. 16 plates. Folio. 17s. 6d.

Coptic Martyrdoms, W&e., in the Dialect of Upper Egypt.
Edited, with English translations, by E. A. Wallis Budge, M.A.,
Litt.D. With 32 plates. Svo. 17s. 6d.

Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the
Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
By Freeman O’Donoghue, F.8.A. Vol. IV. (S-Z). 8vo.
1l. 2s. 6d.

The Buildings of the British Museum, illustrated from
Prints and Drawings. Prepared by order of the Trustees on
the occasion of the Opening of King Edward the Seventh’s
Galleries, May 1914. 25 plates. Folio. 20.

Summary Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British
Museum. With plans and illustrations. Svo. 2d.

Guide to an Exhibition of Paintings, Manuscripts, and other
Archeological Objects collected by Sir Aurel Stein, K.C.I.E., in
Chinese Turkestan. 8vo. 4d.

‘Guide to an Exhibition of Drawings and Sketches by Old
Masters and by Artists of the British School acquired between
1912 and 1914. 8vo. 3d.

Guide to an Exhibition of Japanese and Chinese Paintings,
principally from the Arthur Morrison Collection. 8vo. 2d.

Guide to an Exhibition of Woodcuts and Metalcuts of the

XVth century, chiefly of the German School. 8vo. 4d. 4to.
with 48 plates. 7s. 6d.

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20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM,

Guide to the Processes and Schools of Engraving represented
in the Exhibition of Select Prints, with notes on some of the
most important masters. 8vo. 3d.

Various reproductions have been put on sale singly or
collected in volumes, viz. :—

Greek Marbles and Bronzes. 50 plates. Photogravure. 11.

Keyptian Sculptures. 54 plates. Photogravure. 1. 5s.

Assyrian Sculptures. 53 plates. Collotype. I/ 5s.

British Museum, Frederic G. Kenyon,
1 April 1915. Director and Principal Librarian.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 21

IX.—PROGRESS made in the ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION
OF THE COLLECTIONS, AND ACCOUNT OF OBJECTS
ADDED TO THEM in the Year 1914 (Bloomsbury).

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS.

i, Arrangement.—The works added to the collection during
the past year have, as far as possible, been placed on the
shelves of the Library according to the system of classification
adopted in the Museum.

The press-marks, indicating their respective localities, have
been marked on the inside and affixed to the back ef each
volume.

The total number of these press-marks amounts to 75,605 ;
in addition to which 91,566 press-marks have been altered,
on books and in the catalogues, in consequence of changes and
re-arrangements carried out in the Library; 28,650 labels have
been affixed to books and volumes of newspapers, and 113,904
obliterated labels have been renewed.

The number of stamps impressed upon articles received is
539,856.

4,525 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in
the course of the year.

Il. Catalogues.—Cataloguing.—42,063 titles have been
written for the General Catalogue and for the Catalogues of
Maps and Music.

Printing.—41,856 titles and index-slips for the General
Cataiogue, and 16,041 for the Music Catalogue, have been
prepared for printing during the year; and 41,360 titles and
index-slips for the General Catalogue. 1,917 for the Map
Catalogue, and 12,901 for the Music Catalogue, have been
printed.

Reprinting.-——500 columns, including the headings America
(77 columns), Honoré de Balzac (16 columns), Canada (67
columns), and United States of America (309 columns) have
been revised and reprinted.

Incorporation.—General Cataiogue.—41,777 title-slips and
index-slips have been incorporated into each of the three copies
of this Catalogue. This incorporation has rendered it necessary,
in order to maintain as far as possible the alphabetical arrange-
ment, to remove and re-insert 52,406 title-slips and index-slips
in each copy and to add to each copy 576 new leaves.

The system of fortnightly incorporation of accessions to
the Library has been carried out with perfect regularity during
the year.

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22 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Map Catalogue.—2,851 titles have been written for this
Catalogue, and 1,858 title-slips have been incorporated into
each of three copies of it. This incorporation has rendered
it necessary to remove and re-insert 1,459 title-slips in each
copy and to add to each copy 22 new leaves.

Music Catalogue.—7,170 titles have been written for this
Catalogue, and 10,768 title-slips have been incorporated into
each of the two copies of it. This incorporation has rendered
it necessary to remove and re-insert 10,973 title-slips in each
copy and to add to each copy 160 new leaves.

Shelf Catalogue.—For this Catalogue, in which the title-
slips, mounted on cards, are arranged in order of press-marks,
37,440 have been so mounted and 25,205 have been incorporated
in their proper order.

Catalogue of Books printed in the XVth Century. —
Progress has been made with Part’ IV. of this Catalogue,
containing descriptions of the books printed at Subiaco, Rome,
and Venice.

Handlist of Sale Catalogues.—A Handlist of Sale Cata-
logues, chiefly of booksaies, has been in preparation during the
year, and part of it is now in print.

III. Binding.—The number of volumes and sets of
pamphlets sent to be bound in the course of the year was
17,115, including 4,891 volumes of newspapers. In conse-
quence of the frequent adoption of the plan of binding two
or more volumes in one, the number of volumes returned
was 11,341. In addition to this, 475 volumes have been
repaired in the binders’ shops.

Besides this, the following binding work has been done in
the Library itself :—4,204 volumes have been repaired, 11,630
cleaned and polished, and 3,183 volumes of reports; parts of
periodicals, &c., have been bound in a light style of binding.

The following maps, charts, &c., have also been bound or
mounted during the year :—20 atlases and 86 volumes of the
6-inch and 25-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound; in
addition, 124 parts of the l-inch Ordnance Survey and 181
general maps have been mounted on linen in 1,148 sheets, and
428 maps have been mounted on ecards in 457 sheets.

46,621 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded
into 1,194 parcels, and 1,395 parcels have been tied up and
labelled.

99 volumes of the General Catalogue have been broken up
and re-bound in 164 volumes. 121 columns have been re-laid,
owing to the accumulation of titles under certain headings, as
well as 484 columns of reprinted headings, in each of the
three interleaved copies of the General Catalogue. 18 volumes
of the Music Catalogue have been re-bound in 19 new
volumes.

IV. Reading Room Service.—The number of volumes re-
placed in the General Library after use in the Reading Room

DEPARTMEN'T OF PRINTED BOOKS. 23

was 751,279; in the King’s Library, 22,079; in the Grenville
Library, 3,364; in the Map Room, 5,529; in the presses in
which books are kept from day to day for the use of readers,
689,142; and in the Oriental Department, 3,042; making a
total amount of 1,474,435 volumes supplied to readers during
the year, exclusive of those to which the readers have personal
access on the shelves of the Reading Room.

The number of readers during the year was 224,560, giving
an average of 741 daily, the room having been open
308 days, with an average of more than six volumes daily for
each reader.

Newspaper Room.—The number of readers during the
year was 16,704, giving a daily average of over 55, the room
having been open on 303 days. The number of volumes
replaced after use was. 52,099, giving a daily average of
172, and of over three volumes for each reader, not reckoning
volumes, chiefly Parliamentary Papers, taken from the shelves
of the Newspaper Room by the readers themselves. In
addition, 1,840 country newspapers were brought up to the
Library from the Repository at Hendon for the use of readers.

Map Room.—400 visitors were admitted to the Map Room
for the purpose of special geographical research.

Photography.—There were 424 applications for leave to
photograph from books in the Library, and 1,093 volumes
were supplied to the applicants for this purpose.

V. Accessions.—General Library.—32,539 complete volumes
and pamphlets have been added to the General Library in the
course of the year. Of these, 5,560 were presented ; 16,194
were received by Copyright ; 529 by Colonial Copyright ; 1,159
by International Exchange ; and 9,097 acquired by purchase.

71,831 parts or volumes of magazines and other serial
publications and of works in progress have been added to
the General Library. Of these, 4,877 were presented ; 47,655
received by Copyright ; 517 by Colonial Copyright ; 2,193 by
International Exchange; and 16,559 acquired by purchase.

Maps.—131 atlases, 113 parts of atlases, and 2,698 maps in
6,328 sheets have been added to the collection during the
year. Of these, 10 atlases, 31 parts of atlases, and 492 maps.
were presented ; 52 atlases and 1,915 maps received by Copy-
right; 45 atlases and 51 maps by Colonial Copyright; and
24 atlases, 82 parts of atlases, and 240 maps acquired by’
purchase.

Music.—12,391 musical publications have been added to
the collection during the year. Of these, 20 books and
pieces were presented ; 10,298 books and pieces and 1,138 parts
were received by Copyright ; 594 pieces by Colonial Copyright ;
and 59 books and 282 parts acquired by purchase.

Newspapers.—The number of newspapers published in the
United Kingdom, received under the provisions of the Copy-
right Act during the year, was 3,495, comprising 231,882

24 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

single numbers. Of these newspapers, 1,306 were published in
London and its suburbs; 1,647 in other parts of England and
Wales and in the Channel Islands; 302 in Scotland ; and 240
in Ireland. Fourteen sets, comprising 2,607 single numbers,
were received by Colonial Copyright; 310 sets, comprising
39,482 single numbers, of colonial and foreign newspapers have
been presented ; and 88 sets, comprising 24 volumes and 13,333
single numbers, of current colonial and foreign newspapers have
been purchased.

Miscellaneous.—8,754 articles not included in the foregoing
paragraphs have been received in the Department. These
consist of Parliamentary Papers, single sheets, and other
miscellaneous items.

The total number of articles enumerated above as having
been received in the Department during the year, exclusive
of newspapers, is 128,437.

Acquisitions of Special Interest.—The following is a list of
the most important and interesting books acquired by purchase
during the year. It includes purchases from the second portion
of the Dunn sale, from the fourth portion of the Huth Sale,
and from the Pearson sale.

Foreign Books.

Guido de Monte Rocherii. Manipuluscuratorum. Beyamus
and Glim, Savigliano [about 1471]. One of five books printed
at Savigliano, probably the first. (Dunn copy.)

Bartolus de Saxoferrato. Lectura super i & ii partes
Codicis. Sixtus Riessinger, Naples [1471]. Probably the first
book printed at Naples. (Dunn copy.)

Servius. Commentarius in Vergilium. Cennini, Florence,
1471. The first book printed at Florence. (Dunn copy.)

Donations of 1001. each were given by two friends of the Museum
towards the purchase of this book.

Boceaccio. Filocolo. (G. di Pietro, Venice, 1472.

Augustinus. De mirabilibus Sacrae Scripturae. Ketelaer
and Lumpt, Utrecht [about 1473]. One of the earliest books
printed at Utrecht. (Dunn copy.)

Varro. De Lingua Latina. Sachsel and Golsch, Rome
[about 1474].

Datus. Elegantiolae Latini Sermonis [about 1475].
Attributed to the press of L. Palmart, Valentia, the first set
up in Spain. (Dunn copy.) .

Breviarium Ratisponense. J. Pfeyl, Bamberg, 1475. A
fine copy of a very magnificent book. (Dunn copy.)

Leonicenus. De octo partibus orationis. J. P. de Lignamine,
Rome, 1475

Breviarium Hospitalis S. Johannis Hierosolymitani, Mainz
[about 1476]. (Dunn copy.)

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 25

Ovidius. Metamorphoses and Fasti. Brothers of the
Common Life, Rostock [about 1476]. Two important additions
to the representation of this interesting press. (Dunn copies.)

Pontanus. Singularia. M. Huss, Toulouse [about 1476].
One of the earliest Toulouse books. (Dunn copy.)

Valla. Elegantiae. H. Alding, Naples, 1477. (Dunn
copy.)

Jacobus de Erfordia. De contractibus. Attributed to
Neumeister, Albi [about 1480]. In a fine Gothic type. (Dunn
copy.)

Wiirzburg Missal. G. Reyser, Wiirzburg, 1481.

Cordiale. Louis Cruse, Geneva [about 1485]. A very rare
work. (Dunn copy.)

Guido Vincentinus de Pileo. Margarita ad retinendum
memorie omnia capitula S. Scripture [about 1485]. Probably
printed in Spain. (Dunn copy.)

Boethius. De disciplina Scholarium. G. Le Roy, Lyons,
1486. With MS.notes by William Drummond of Hawthornden.
(Dunn copy.)
_ Itinerarium Beatissime Virginis Marie. LL. Ysenhut [Basle,
‘about 1489]. In a fine binding by Niedrée. (Huth copy.)
Catholicum Parvum [about 1490]. A Latin-French dictionary
of philological as well as typographical interest. (Dunn copy.)

Bartolus de Saxoferrato. Tractatus judiciorum. H. Mayer,
Toulouse [about 1490]. (Dunn copy.)

Quiricus de Augustis. Lumen Apotecariorum. P. Maufer,
Cremona, 1494. From a press hitherto unrepresented in the
Museum collection. (Dunn copy.)

Angelus de Clavasio. Summa Angelica. J. Le Bourgeois,
Rouen, 1495. No other specimen of this type in the Museum
collection. (Dunn copy.)

Gregorius Ariminensis. Quaestiones. Valentia, 1500.

Also the following later foreign books :—
Missale Maguntinense. J. Schoffer, Mentz, 1515.
Coustumes du Mayne. Paris, 1535.

Moustiers. Des estats et maisons de la Chrestienté. Paris,
1549.

Taillemont. Discours des Champs. Lyons, 1553.

Stevin. De Thiende. Leyden, 1585. The first systematic
treatment of decimal fractions.

Pitiscus. Canon Sinuum. Frankfort, 1613. The first
realiy accurate astronomical tables. )

Castillo Solorzano. La Foyne de Seville. Paris, 1661

26 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

English Books.

Two copies of each of two issues of an “ Indulgence,” printed
on one sheet. Wynkyn de Worde, 1498.

The Boke of Surveying. R. Redman [about 1535].

Acte for kepynge of mileche kyen. 1555.

Psalter. J. White [about 1560].
Lyly. Euphues. T. East for G. Cawood, 1587-88. (Huth
copy.) "

Charles Gibbon. A work worth the reading. T. Orwin,
1591. Only one other copy recorded.

Chapman. Ovid’s Banquet of Sence. R. Smith, 1595.

Munday. <A true knowledge of a man’s own self. (From
the French of Du Plessis Mornay.) I. R. for W. Leake, 1602.

Norden. A Pensive Man’s Practice. 1610.

Taylor, the Water Poet. The Nipping or Snipping of
Abuses. KE. Griffin, 1614.

Webster. The most pleasant historie of Curan. B. Alsop,
1617.

Greene. Thieves falling out. For Henry Bell, 1617.
Ford. The Famous History of Parismus, 1636.

Bunyan. I will pray with the Spirit. Second edition, 1663.
No copy of the first and no other copy of this edition is
recorded.

Cardinal Mazarin. Last Will and Testament. P. Lillicup,
1663. In a fine binding by Bedford.

Maps.

Cosmographie Blaviane. J. Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1663. A
fine copy of the French edition of Blaeu’s “Atlas Major” in
twelve large folio volumes.

A map of part of Dutch Guyana. W. Faden, London, 1804.
An important map of the Dutch Settlements in South America,
showing the produce of the country.

The United States of North America, &c. <A series of six
“Treaty Maps,” showing the boundaries between the United
States and Canada from 1783 to 1841.

Music.

The purchases of music have been unusually important.
Chief among them was the acquisition of a collection of 158
part-books of madrigals. motets, psalms, &c. published in
England, the Netherlands or Italy between 1565 and 1620.
Among the many rarities in this collection especial mention
may be made of the Tenor, Quintus and Sextus parts of Cosyn’s.
Psalms (London, 1585) and complete sets of the “Cantica
Sacra” for six voices (Antwerp, 1618) and the “Canzonette ”
(Antwerp, 1620) of Richard Dering. Other rare works acquired

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 27

are: The Tenor-part of the ‘‘ Moteti de la Simia,” printed at
Ferrara in 1539; a complete set of Book II. of Gastoldi’s
Psalms for 6 voices (Venice, 1607); a copy of Georg Muffat’s
rare and important “ Apparatus Musico-Organisticus ” (Vienna,
1690); a complete set of the “Sinfonie da Chiesa, op. 2” of
Francesco Manfredini (Bologna, 1709); Francesco Soriano’s
“Canoni sopra l’Ave Maria” (Rome, 1610); Frescobaldi’s
“Canzoni alla Francese” (Venice, 1645); and several single
part-books of madrigals which completed imperfect sets already
in the library.

Donations.

The following is a list of the more important donations
received during the year :—

Catalogue of a Collection of Karly German books in the
Library of C. Fairfax Murray. Presented by C. Fairfax
Murray, Esq.

Monumenti Vaticani di Paleogratia Musicale Latina, Testo
& Tavole. Raccolti ed Illustrati da Enrico Marriott Ban-
nister, M.A., 1913. Presented by the Vatican Library, Rome.

Catalogue of a Collection of Miniatures belonging to H.R.H.
the Duke of Cumberland, K.G. Presented by H.R.H. The
Duke of Cumberland, K.G.

Mr. J. W. Croker’s own copy of the Manuscript Catalogue
of Works relating to the French Revolution. Presented by
Wo DyWeaver, Esq.’

The Edmondes Papers, Edited by Geoffrey G. Butler,
Printed for the Roxburghe Club, 1913. Presented by the
Roaburghe Club.

A Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts of Robert Louis
Stevenson in the Library of the late Harry E. Widener, 1913.
Presented by A.S. W. Kosenbach, Esq.

Temples and Images, principally in Eastern India, by
Pees. ©.» £905, 2 vols. Presented ‘by Sor H."Hvan M.
James.

Catalogue of the printed books in the Library of the
~Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, by C. E. A. Bedwell.
Vols. 1-3, 1914. Presented by the Society of the Middle
Temple.

Extracts from Journals, 1880-1895. Presented by Viscount
Esher.

Catalogue of Twenty Renaissance Tapestries from the
collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, compiled by Seymour de
Ricci. Presented by J. Prerpont Morgan, Esq

Copies of Proclamations and Orders in Council, 1901 to
1914. Presented by the Clerk of the Council, Privy Council
Office.

G. F. Barwick.

28 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS.

1. Catalogue of Additions.—The following MSS. acquired
in 1912 have been described and indexed: Additional 38521,
38527, 38528, 38603, 88604, 38618, 38619, 38643-38645.

Of those acquired in 1913, Additional 38652, 38654, 38671,
38692, 38703-38713, 38720-38724, 38727, 38734-38775, 38777-
38781, 38783-38789, 38792-38795, and Egerton 2906, and of
those acquired in 1914, Additional 38796-38806, 38809, 38810,
38812-38820, 38823-38825, 38831-38837, 38839, 38843-38864
have been deseribed and indexed.

The descriptions of Additional MSS. acquired in 1912 have
been printed.

2. Catalogue of Greek Papyri.—tin preparation of Vol. V.
of the Catalogue, 1718-1808 (catalogue-numbers) have been
revised, and introductions and commentaries written to them;
1809-1910 have been described; 1647-1769 have been finally
revised for press. Sheets B—D have been printed off.

3. Catalogue of the Royal MSS.—Descriptions of 20 B. vii
—end of Appendix have been revised and sent to press. Sheet
ZZ of Vol. II. has been revised, and Sheets 3 A-3 E one
the Royal Appendix) are in print.

4. Catalogue of Irish MSS.—The following MSS. have
been described :— Additional 17847, 18746, 18747, 18749, 18945-
18948, 18954, 31874, 31876, 31877, 33196, 34119; and Egerton
106, 110, 114, 118, 128, 183, 135, 139, 140, 145, 147-150, 156, 158,
162, 164, 165, 171, 172, 174, 179-185, 188-193, 196-198, 208,
211, 662, 663.

5. Catalogue of Charters.—Additional Charters 570355-
57360, acquired in 1912, have been described and indexed.

6. Binding.—One hundred and sixty-seven Additional
MSS. newly acquired and one hundred and fifty-two MSS. of
the old collections have been bound, repaired, or lettered,
together with two hundred and seventy-eight pieces of Papyri
and one hundred and eighty-one Books of Reference, volumes
of Facsimiles, and Catalogues. One Charter has been repaired.

7. Verification.—The entire collection of MSS. has been
verified by comparison with the Shelf-Lists.

8. Reproductions. — Part I. (Hiberno-Saxon and Early
English) of the Schools of I]lumination has been completed and
issued, and Part II. (English, 12th and 13th centuries) is in
preparation.

Part I. of a reduced facsimile of the Codex Alexandrinus
(Old Testament) is in progress; ff. 1-164b have been passed.

The introduction by Sir George Warner to the facsimiles
from the Lindisfarne Gospels is in preparation.

9. Stamping, folioing, and placong—Two hundred and
seven Additional MSS., four Egerton MSS., two Royal MSS.,

DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS. 29

eighteen hundred and thirty-nine Charters and Rolls, and two
hundred and four Books of Reference have been stamped.
The total of impressions made was 12,293.

Two hundred and eleven MSS. have been folioed, with
a total of 33,765 folios., Three hundred and fourteen sheets
have been numbered.

One hundred and seventy-six newly acquired MSS. and
three hundred and seventeen Papyri have been placed. All
have been press-marked and entered in Hand- and Shelf-Lists.

Six hundred and seventy-seven Charters and Rolls have been
placed and have been entered in the Hand-Lists. Numbers have
been written on seven hundred and forty-six newly acquired
Charters. Seventy-eight Seals and Casts have been provided
with boxes, placed, and entered in Hand- and Drawer-Lists.

10. Books of Reference. — One hundred and_ eighty
volumes and parts have been received, catalogued, and placed.

HKighteen volumes and parts of Facsimiles were added to
the series now deposited in the Department and available for
the use of Readers.

11. Consultation of MSS.—27,947 MSS. and 2,106 Charters
and Seals have been consulted in the Students’ Room, and
thirty-four MSS. in the Reading Room. The number of
Students was 19,277.

Magna Charta was exhibited to 16,400 visitors.

12. MSS. photographed.-Seven hundred and sixty-five
MSS. (including Papyri, Charters, and Seals) were allowed to be
photographed, with a total of 6,633 photographs taken, of
which 688 were for official purposes.

13. Acquisitions.—The number of Manuscripts and Docu-
ments, Wc. acquired during the year has been :—

Additional MSS. _~ - = : : : Ba:
Egerton MSS. - - : = = Z : 2
Charters and Rolls - - = = x = *860
ReMi eM eee are eeee | Hs AR: LO RIE ES SF
Detached Seals and Casts = : - - 81

The most considerable addition to the collections results
from a bequest, briefly mentioned in the last report, from the
late Lady Layard, widow of Sir Austen Henry Layard, G.C.B.,
of her husband’s Diplomatic Papers and General Correspond-
ence. This has now been arranged in 234 volumes, but
certain portions will not, for some time to come, be available
for public use without special permission. A-collection of
about 160 letters of George Canning to J. Hookham Frere,
acquired by purchase. forms, in conjunction with the Huskisson
Papers acquired last year and other correspondence already in
the Museum, a most valuable series for the history of Canning’s
career. A bequest of 16 volumes of selected private corre-
spondence has been accepted under the terms of the will of the
late William Carew Hazlitt. The dispersal of the late Mr. J

30 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Eliot Hodgkin’s extensive collection of historical autographs
and papers gave opportunity for the purchase of a useful
selection of documents, which are now arranged (except the
charters) in twelve volumes. Among them are original state
documents of Edward III. and Edward IV., an original letter
signed by Melancthon and other leading reformers, a holograph
letter of Henri IV. (as King of Navarre) to James VI., original
documents illustrative of Pepys’ Diary and other military and
naval papers of the 17th century, original letters of the Earl of
Danby, including those for which he was impeached, letters of
the later Stuarts, many letters illustrative of the changes in
social conditions, Xe.

Among acquisitions other than those noticed above are the
following, many of which are due to the generosity of private
donors (others have been purchased at the Dunn, Hodgkin, and
Dowden sales), viz. :—

A collection of 36 Greek and Latin Papyri from Oxyrhynchus,
including portions of the Ichneutae and Eurypylus of Sophocles
(these two have been allotted to the Museum, but not yet
actually delivered), the Meliambi of Cercidas, Phaedrus of
Plato, some speeches of Cicero, and documents, both Greek
and Latin, of interest. Presented by the Egypt Exploration
Lund.

Two Greek vellum documents (title-deeds of a vineyard) of
the Ist cent. B.c., recently found (with one document in an
Aramaic script) in a dry cave in Western Media. The material
and the part of the world from which they come give to these
a unique paleographic interest.

Passio S. Paneracii, with neums, 10th-llth cent. Presented
by Mrs. Ambrose Heal.

Miracles of Hexham saints, metrical summary of the Bible
from Byland Abbey, and Foundation charters of St. Mary’s,
York: three 12th cent. MSS. bound together.

Beda’s Historia Ecclesiastica, 12th cent. MS. from Kirkham
Abbey, with a story of the invention of St. Ragnar at
Northampton.

Palladius de Agricultura, Vitruvius, and Vegetius, 12th
cent.

Two Latin Psalters written in England, 12th and 13th-14th
centt. respectively.

Latin Bible, illuminated in Italy, 13th cent. From the
Bridgewater Fund.

Proverbia Seneeae, etc., MS. written at Tournai, 13th cent.,
with interesting early stamped leather binding.

Registrum Brevium, with notes for pleading in the local
court at Lincoln, 13th cent.

Fragment (with 18 miniatures) of a fine but damaged MS.

of the Apocalypse in French, executed perhaps in England in
the 14th cent.

DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS. Bi

Terence, written in Italy, 1419. From the Farnborough
Fund.

La Danse Macabre, 15th cent. French poem.
Epitaphium Missae, etc.; poems of the Reformation.
Horae of Paris use, with arms of the Dauphin, 16th cent.

La Nativité Nostre Sire Jesucrist, 19th cent. transcript of a
rare French mystery play.

By transfer from the Department of Prints and Drawings
the Department has acquired seven Italian and French minia-
tures of the 14th and 15th centt., chiefly from the Samuel
Rogers Collection. ,

_ Commonplace-book of Sir Edward Hoby, of the end of the
16th cent., containing, among many interesting entries, instruc-
tions to British seamen sailing to America, 1582, as to observa-
tions to be made of the country, and other notes relating to
colonisation.

Relazione d’Inghilterra e Scozia, 1606, by a secretary of
Pietro Duodo, Venetian Ambassador.

Relazione of G. L. Durazzo, Genoese Ambassador to
Charles II., 1662.

Three volumes of East India Company records, including
lists of governors, 1658-1858, and of ships, 1653-1832.

Privy Council papers from the Southwell and Phillips
collections, 1664-1714.

Register of Privy Seals passed by Sir E. Dering, 1669-1675.

Establishment-book of James II.’s nousehold as Duke of
York, 1682.

Household-book of the Earl of Powis, 1686-1700.

Account by J. Kakabelas of the siege of Vienna, 1683, in
modern Greek.

Precedent-book of a Berkshire Justice of the Peace, 1710-
LBBR

Precedents of Royal letters, temp. George I.
Orders for a Venetian governor, 18th cent.

Naval signal-book, care. 1790.

Naval commonplace-book, with signals, circ. 1797.

Diary of Lieut. James as a prisoner of war in France, 1804-
1814.

Autograph letter of Gen. Picton, shortly before the campaign
of Waterloo.

Autograph letter of Dr. (afterwards Sir) Alexander Arm-
strong, surgeon on the Franklin Relief Expedition, 1853.
Presented by Miss Sophie Simpson.

Papers of Sir L. Mallet, relating to the commercial treaty
with Austria, 1866.

32 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Autograph letter of Queen Victoria to Lord Palmerston on
the subject of his reports of Cabinet proceedings, 1856.

Original letter of Prince Bismarck, 1875, relating to the
Scottish Covenant. Presented by T. Ogilvie Smith, Esq.

Parliamentary journals and character-sketches of statesmen,
1885-1895, by the late Sir Richard Temple. Presented by Sir
R. Carnac Temple, Bart.

Autograph letters of Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen, relating to the
Revolution in China, 1909-1910.

Sir Philip Sydney’s Arcadia, MS. of the earlier form of
the novel, never published in its integrity.

Pope’s Iliad in 6 volumes, presented by the author to
Gilbert White of Selborne, with inscriptions by and sketch-
portraits of White.

William Hayley’s memorials of his efforts to befriend
William Cowper.

Sir Wiliam Congreve, A Second Century of Inventions.
Presented bythe Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich.

MS. ballads in the hand of John Payne Collier, with
alterations introduced by him before printing.

Autograph poems by Wordsworth (“ Two voices are there’’),
Blanco White (Sonnet on Night and Death), and Walt Whitman
(“O star of France”).

Draft by E. J. Trelawny of his narrative of the cremation
of Shelley and Williams. Presented by Percy E. Williams
and J. W. Williams, Esquires.

Autograph letters of John and Charles Wesley, B. R.
Haydon, Alfred Russel Wallace, Laurence Oliphant, Sir E.
Burne-Jones, G. F. Watts, and others.

Guild-book of the Company of Smiths, &c. of Bridgnorth,
1598-1752.

Court-book of Poole, co. Dorset, 1616-1630.

Court-rolls of Shipton-on-Cherwell, co. Oxon., 1569-1659,
and Abbotts Manor, Kensington, 1601-1611, and other manorial
rolls.

Index-transcript of parish registers of Bramford, co. Suff.
Presented by Rev. Edw. Cookson.

Marriages, extracted from parish registers of Barbados,
1643-1700.

Form of consecration of Dore church, co. Heref., 17th cent.
Presented by J. Wickham Legg, E'sq., M.D.

Map of Northstead manor, co. Kent, 1717.

Plans of ancient earthworks in several English and Welsh
counties, by Rev. E. A. Downman.

DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS. 33

118 charters, mostly dated, from Tournai, of the 13th and
early 14th centt.

13 charters relating to Staffordshire, 1333-1446. Presented
by Mrs. Town Attree.

57 charters, including many wills, 1539-1806. Presented
by L. A. Lawrence, Esq.

About 150 charters, 16th-19th centt., relating to various
English counties. Presented by A. W. Marks, Esq.

Minutes of the “‘ Virtuosi of St. Luke,” an artistic lottery
society, 1698-1743.

Minutes of the Art Union of London, 1837-1847. Presented
by the Society.

Correspondence of the St. Mark’s, Venice, Committee,
founded in 1880. Presented by Henry Wallis, Esq., R.W.S.

Facsimile of a Mexican MS. (Codex Rickards). Presented:
by Miss A. Breton.

“The Oeconomy of Human Life”: a treatise written in
shorthand by John Brown, 1778. Presented by J. Sterry, Esq.

“Internacional Proverbs,” by the late Abbé Marchand,
inventor of the artificial language “Dilpok.” Presented by
T. G. Kyne, Esq.

Viol sonatas by W. Young, transcribed from a rare edition
at Upsala.

Litany by Domenico Feo and other music. Presented by
W. Barclay Squire, Esq.

By the kindness of Lady Scott the Department has been
able to place on exhibition in the Grenville Library the auto-
graph Antartic journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., 1910-1912.
Among the pages shown are the record of his arrival at the
South Pole and his last ‘‘ Message to the Public.”

The Department has also taken charge, on deposit, of a
valuable collection of autograph and other music belong-
ing to the Royal Philharmonic Society, including scores by
. Beethoven, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Spohr, Weber and others. A
catalogue of this collection has been printed.

J. P. Gilson.

34 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED Books AND MSS.

Arrangement and Cataloguing.—The numbers of the
sheets of the various Oriental Catalogues and other publica-
tions of the Department which were sent to press in 1914 are :—
Arabic Printed Books Catalogue, 6 sheets; Coptic Texts,
vols. 4 and 5, 75 sheets; Hebrew MSS. Catalogue, 15 sheets;
Marathi and Gujarati Printed Books Catalogue, 19 sheets.

The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are :—
Arabic, 726; Armenian, 2; Assamese, 4; Avestan, 5; Bengali,
349; Burmese, 149; Chin, 3; Chinese, 1,884 ; Coptic, LO;
Ethiopic, 1; Gujarati. 844; Hebrew, 393 ; Aandi 3305; Hin-
dustani, 420; Kachin, 2;. Kanarese, 140; Karen, 9; Kashmiri,
21; Kuvi, 2; Malayalam, 23; Manipuri, 2; Marathi, 298;
Pahlavi, 27; Pali, 168; Panjabi, 98 ; Persian, 937; Prakrit, 40;
Pushtu, 27; Sanskrit, 1,032; Savara, 2; Siamese, 7; Sindhi, 12;
Sinhalese, 153; Syriac, 35; Talaing, 5; Tamil, 357; Telugu,
358 30 libetan 21; Turkish, 22.

Forty-six Hebrew MSS. have been fully catalogued.

One hundred and sixty-seven short descriptions of MSS.
have been entered in the Descriptive List, the Register, and
the Classed Inventory.

One hundred and seventy-four MSS. (24,475 folios) have
been folioed. 3

Publications.—A Catalogue of Burmese Printed Books and
vol. 4 of the Series of Coptic Texts edited by Dr. E. A. Wallis
Budge have been issued.

- Binding.—The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to
the binders are :—Arabic, Hindustani, and Persian Books, 162;
Chinese Books, 55; Hebrew Books, 95; Books in Sanskrit and
other Indian languages, 233; MSS., 431.

Students.—The number of visits of Students working in the
Students? Room attached to the Department during the year is
2,968. The numberof Oriental Printed Books read by them in
the Department is 12,968 (7,595 having Leen issued once only,
and 5,373 reserved), and of those used in the Reading Room,
3,042. The number of Oriental MSS. read in the Students’
Room is 7,191.

Photography.—Two hundred and eight applications have
been made to photograph books and MSS. in this Department.

Additions.—The number of volumes, pamphlets, &c. added
to the collections of the Department during the year is 4,626,
of which 4,461 are Printed Books and 165 are MSS.

Of the Drated Books, 2,256 were bought ; 1,349 were received
under the India Copyright Act; 162 were received under the
Colonial Copyright Acts from Ceylon and Hongkong; and
674 were presented. Of Bas MSS., 120 were bought and the
remainder presented.

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 35

The MSS. are as follows :—
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Arabic and Persian = = " ”
Arabic and Italian = = as e
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish - = a
Hebrew - - - Sa as te Z
Hindustani and Persian - = . -
Italian and Hebrew - = 5 =
Karshuni = = = . s =
Persian - - 2 - - £
Prakrit and Curent - - - :
Prakrit and Sanskrit - = G 5
Syriac - - - - - - -
Syriac and Karshuni_- - - -
Turkish - - - - - - 3
Turkish and Persian = : 2 s

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The most important acquisitions are :—

Arabic MSS.—1. Kitab al-rijal, alphabetically arranged
lists of Shi‘ah traditionists, by Abu Ja‘far Muh. b. Hasan al- Tusi
(died A.H. 460). Copied A.H. 533 (A.D. 1139). 12% Very rare.

2. Mukhtasar al-Kudiri, a commentary by Ahmad b. Muh.
al-Baghdadi (died a.H. 474) on Kudiuri’s manual of Hanafi law.
Vol. ii., beginning with the Kitab al-nikah. Copied A.H. 537
(A.D. 1142). 4°. No other MS. appears to be on record.

3. Part of a large treatise on Traditions. Copied a.H. 611
(A.D. 1214), 4°.

4. Sharh ifrab ‘an kawa‘id al-i‘rab, a commentary by Abu
al-Hasan ‘Ali b. A. al ahidi al-Nisabtri on Ibn Hisham’s
manual of syntax. xil-xllith century. 8°. No other copy
seems to be recorded.

5. Part iii. of Al-Sam‘ani’s Kitab al-ansab in the recension
of Al-Shaibani, with many marginal notes in the handwriting
of Ibn Khallikan. xiith century. 4°.

6. Vol. i. of Sharh al-sunna, a collection of Traditions by
Al-Farra al-Baghawi. xiith century. 4°.

7. Another copy of the same. xivth century. 4°.

8 Al-‘Akidah, a Hanafi compendium of Islam by Abu
Jafar Ahmad b. Muh. al-Tahawi, with a commentary by Najm
al-Din Abu Fada’1l Mankburuni (2), Copied A.H. 708 (A.D. 1308).
4°, Rare.

9. Al-Kunyah fi al-fatawi, a treatise on the doctrines of
Abu Hanifah, by Najm al-Din Mukhtar b. Mahmud al-Zahidi.
Copied A.H. 723 (A.D. 1323), .4°. The only other copies on
record are in Constantinople.

10. A copious commentary on single words and phrases of
the Koran, described in u note on a piece of paper attached to

0 0.69 1)

36 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

the cover as the Kitab al-fusul wa’l-ghayat of Abu al-‘Ala
al-Ma‘arri. Copied A.H. 731 (A.D. 1330). 4°.

11. Ta’rikh Isfahan, a history of Ispahan and notices of the
most famous natives of that town, with poems in praise of it,
&e., by Mufaddal b. Sa‘d al-Husain al-Mafarrukhi. Apparently
this work was composed in its original form in A.H. 421, and
was later expanded into the recension represented by this
MS. Colophon dated a.H. 732 (A.D. 1332). 12°. Extremely
rare.

12. Al-Isharat, Ibn Sina’s manual of philosophy, with
commentary by Nasir al-Din al-Tisi. Copied a.H. 738
CAND. 1339). a?

13. Sharh ‘umdat al-‘aka’id, a commentary on the ‘Umdat
al-‘aka’id of Al-Nasafi, treating of the Sunni tenets. Copied
A.H. 782 (A.D. 13880). 12°. No other copy of this work appears
to be on record.

14. A MS. containing (i) a Kasidah by Muh. b. Mas‘ud,
addressed to a vizier on his recovery from illness; (ii) the
poems of ‘Urwah b. al-Hizim ; (111) the poems of Al-Muthakkib,
with a commentary. xivth century. 8°. Several of the
verses of the last two poets, who are ancient and important, do
not appear to be found in any other MS.

15. Tahdib al-ahkam, a work on the traditional basis and
harmony of the authorities for Shi‘ah jurisprudence, by Abu
Jafar Muh. b. al-Hasan al-Tusi (died 4.H. 459). Part iii. xivth
century. 4°. Rare.

16. Kitab bada’i‘ ifham al-albab, a work on abrogative and
abrogated verses of the Koran, by Abu Muh. Ibrahim b. ‘Umar
al-Ja‘barl. xiv-xvth century. 12°. No other copy seems to
be on record.

17. A MS. containing (i) Kitab faisal al-tafrikah bain
al-islim wa’l-zandakah, a _ refutation of gnosticism, by
Al-Ghazzali; (ii) 8 tracts, the second of which is ascribed to
Al-Ghazzali; (iii) Bustan al-‘arifin, a work on Sufism and
asceticism attributed to the same author. No. 2 copied
A.H. 870 (A.D. 1465). 12°. Rare.

18. Vol. ii. cf Durr al-anis, a life of Imam Shafi, by Ytsuf
b. Hasan ‘Abd al-Hadi. The author’s autograph, written in
Damascus and finished A.H. 888 (A.D. 1483). 12°. No other
copy of the work seems to be known.

19. Ta’rikh al-Dimashk (Ta’rikh al-Sha’m), a history of
Damascus and Syria by Ibn ‘Asakir. Two detached volumes,
copied respectively in the xvii-xvilith and the xvth centuries.
4°. No other copies are known to be preserved in Europe.

20. Kitab al-iman wa’l-islam, a work on the fundamentals
of Islam by Ibn Taimiyah. xvthcentury. 4°.

21. Nazm al-juman, biographies of Abu Hanifah and the
jurists of his school, by Ibrahim b. Muh. Ibn Dukmak. Vol. iii,
beginning with the life of Ibrahim b. Ahmad al-Mausili.
xvth century. 4°. Rare.

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 37

22. Niswat al-‘abidat, lives of famous Muslem women, by
Taki al-Din Abu Bakr b. Muh. al-Hisni. xvth century. 12°.
Rare. |

23. Al-Mu‘jizat wa’l-khasa’is, an account of the earlier
propaganda of Muhammad, his miracles, and his characteristics,
by Al-Suyuti. xvith century. Fol.

24. Risalah fi ithbat al-wajib, a Sufic tract by Jami. xviith
century. 12°.

25. Kaukab al-raudah, a description of the island Al-Raud
in Cairo, by Al-Suyiati, with a coloured plan of Cairo. Copied
A.H. 1009 (A.D. 1600). 4°.

26. Collected poems of Muh. b. ‘Umar al-Kudsi al-‘Alami
(died A.H. 1038). Copied A.H. 1029 (a.D.*1619). 8°. No other
equally extensive collection of this poet’s works is on record.

27. Tabakat al-‘ulama al-hanafiyah, lives of Hanafi jurists,
by Kamal Pasha-zadah Ahmad. Copied a.u. 1035 (A.D. 1625).
8°,

28. Glosses by Muh. b. Husain Fakhr al-Din al-Husaini on
Al-Maibudi’s commentary on Al-Abhari’s Hidayat al-hikmah.
Copied a.H. 1058 (a.D. 1648). 8°. No other copy appears to be
on record.

29. Diwan or poems of Abu Bakr b. Hijjah al-Hamawi.
Followed by part of the Diwan of Ibrahim b. ‘Ali Jamal al-Din
al-Mu‘ammar, The former copied s.H. 1062 (A.D. 1651). 8°.
Neither of these works appears to be on record.

30. Nur al-thakalain, a Shi‘ah commentary on the Koran,
by ‘Abd al-‘Ali b. Jum‘ah ‘Arisi Huwaizi al-Shirazi. Vols. i-iv.
Fol. Rare.

31, Asrar al-talibin, a tract on the religious life, attributed
on the first page and flyleaf of this copy to Amir Khusrau
Dihlawi. xviith century. 8°. Very rare.

32. Majma‘ al-muhimmat al-diniyah, a Hanafi work on the
fundamentals of Islam, by Mulla Husain b. Iskandar. xvii-
Xvilith century. 8°. Extremely rare.

33. Al-Nawakid li-bunyan al-Rawafid, a polemical work
against the Rafidis by Ashraf Mu‘in al-Din Mirza Makhdim
al-Shirazi. xvilith century. &’.

34, Ithar al-hakk, a treatise on Zaidi dogmatic theology,
by Muh. b. Ibrahim Ibn al-Wazir. Copied A.H. 1100 (A.D. 1688)
4°,

35. Kasidah poems of ‘Izz al-Din ‘Abd al-Hamid b. Abi al-
Hadid, with a commentary. Copied a.H..1112 (a.p. 1700). 8°,
No other copy appears to be on record,

36. Asrar al-anwar, a theological tract, by Al-Ghazzali.
Xvilith century. 8. Very rare.
37. Nahj al-hakk, a polemic against the Sunni tenets, by
Ibn Mutahbhar al-Hilli. xviiith century. 8°. Rare.
DZ

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38. ls‘af al-mubatta, alphabetical lists and brief biographies.
of traditionalists mentioned in Malik’s Muwatta, by Al-Suyuti.
xvilith century. 8°. Only one other copy appears on record. |

39. Kitab al-hamasah, a collection of ancient poems.
arranged in seven chapters according to subject ; different from
the Hamasas of Al-Bukhturi and Abu Tammam. xviiith cen-
buy pea".

40. Al-Risailah al-makkiyah, a treatise on Sufism, by ‘Afif
al-Din ‘Abd Allah b. As‘ad al-Yafii al-Shafit al-Tamimi
xvuith century. 8°. Very rare.

41. Sufie poems of ‘Abd al-Ghani b. Ismail al-Nablusi.
xvilith century. 8°. Very rare.

42. A collection of tracts ascribed to Aristotle, Al-Farabi,
Yahya b. ‘Adi, Avicenna, ete. xviiith century. 8°. Some of
these seem to be very rare.

43. Asrar al-lughah, a vocabulary of words and phrases
with explanations, by Ahmad b. Muh. al-Isfahani. xixth cen-
tury. 8° No other copy seems to be on record.

44, Mizan al-‘ukul, a manual of logic, by Muh. b. Yunus
al-Shuwaiil. COcpied a.H. 1221 (4.p. 1806). 8°. No other copy
is on record.

45. A commentary by Abu Bakr Zakariya Yahya al-Tibrizi
(A.H. 421-502) on the Kitab al-ikhtiyarat or Mufaddaliyat, an
anthology of ancient poetry compiled by Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman
al-Mufaddal al-Dabbi (died 4.H#. 170), with the text of the latter
This commentary was composed, according to the colophon,.
in A.H. 486 ; and the archetype of the present copy was written
in the same year, xixth century. 8°. No other copy is-
recorded.

46. Nineteen MSS., chiefly of works of history and gram-
mar, of which the most important are the following: (4):
Akhbar al-duwal, a general history by Abu al-‘Abbas Ahmad
b. Sinan al-Karamani; xviiith century; 8°; (ii) part of Kitab
al-raudatain, a history by Abu Shamah of ‘Imad al-Din Zinki
and his son Nur al-Din, Atabaks of Mausil, and of Salah al-Din,
Sultan of Egypt and Syria; copied A.H. 675; fol. ; (111) Kurrat
al-‘uyun, a history of Yemen to A.H. 923 by Ibn Daiba‘ ; copied
A.H. 10235 8°; (iv) part of a history of Bagdad and the
neighbouring country under Murad IV.; copied A.H. 1227;
fol. ; (v) a history of Oman, in 40 chapters ; copied a.H. 1097 ;
fol. Presented by the widow of the late Colonel S. B. Miles.

Arabic and Persian MS.—1. The Makamat of Al-Hariri,.
with an interlinear Persian translation of the greater part of
the work, completed in A.H. 587. Copied A.H. 662 (a.D. 1263).
Fol. ‘This translation seems to be otherwise unknown.

Arabic and Italian MS.—1. Dialogues in Arabic with
Italian translation, compiled by Giuseppe Carassi. Written at.
Malta ‘in A.D. 1808. 12°.

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 39

Hebrew and Italian MS.—1. Matteh Dan, by HWaham David
‘Nieto, in an Italian version. xvilith century. 8°. No other
copy of this version is known.

Hindustani and Persian MS.—1. A Masnavi poem by

Hasan ‘Ali Dihlavi. Early xixth century. 8°. Rare. Pre-
sented by R. KR. Steele, Esq.

Karshuni MSS.—1. Seven MSS. on Christian doctrine and
Bible exegesis. xvili-xixth centuries. Presented by the widow
of the late Colonel S. B. Miles.

Karshuni and Syriac MS.—1. A liturgy of the Syrian
Christians. xviiith century. 12°. Presented by the widow
of the late Colonel S. B. Miles.

Persian MSS.—1. Al-Madkhal, a tract on the conjunctions
of the planets, by Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi; probably abridged
from his Kiranat. Copied A.H. 685 (A.D. 1286). 12°. Exceed-
ingly rare.

2. Mityar ul-sidk, a work on Sufic mysticism, by Najm
ul-Din Razi (Dayah). Copied a.H. 772 (A.D. 1371). 12°.

3. A MS. containing three works on prosody, viz.: (i) an
anonymous tract; (ii) Kivami’s Kasidah, with notes ;
(iii) Nuzhat ul-absar, by Fazl Uilah b. Muh. Shirazi. Copied
A.H. 864 (A.D. 1460). 8°.

4, ‘Avarif ul-ma‘arif, a treatise on Sufism, by Shihab ul-Din
al-Suhravardi, in a Persian translation by Isma‘l b. ‘Abd
ul-Mu’'min b. Abi Mansur al-Isfahani. Hlegantly written ;
copied a.H. 897 (A.D, 1492). 4°. | No other copy of this version
seems to be on record.

_ 5. Discourses by Shaikh ‘Aziz ul-Din al-Nasafi on theology
and Sufism. Copied a.H. 990 (A.D. 1582). 8°.

6. Gulshan i insha, a treatise on epistolary style, originally
written in Turkish for Bayazid II. by Mahmud b. Adham,
and thence done into Persian by Hashimi. xvith century.
fo. Hare,

7. A collection of poems by a poet styling himself Jamali,
who is perhaps to be identified with Hamid b. Fazl Ullah,
commonly called Darvish Jamali (died a.H. 942). xvith
century. 12°. Apparently not recorded elsewhere.

8. Risalah fi kalimat ul-tauhid, a Sufice tract by Jami.
xviith century. 12°.

9. A MS. containing the following works of Jami:—
(i) Nakd ul-nusis, a commentary on Ibn ul-‘Arabi’s Fusts
ul-hikm ; (i1) Isbat i vahdat ul-vujud, a work on the unity of
God; (ii1) the Lava’ih; (iv) a commentary on two Kasidahs of
Ibn ul-Fariz; (v) a commentary on ‘Iraki's Lama‘at. Copied
A.H. 1014 (A.D. 1605). Fol.

10. Collected poems of Fighani and Humayun. xviith
century. 12°.

40 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

11. An abridgment of Kazvini’s ‘Aja’ib ul-makhlukat, with
numerous good sepia drawings in Indo-Persian style. xviith
century. 4”.

12. Poems of Abu Turab Beg (calling himself Kami, Firkati,
and Kashi). xviith century. 12°.

13. Ruba‘iyat of Muh. Salih (Kashfi). xviith century. 8°.
No other copy seems to be recorded.

14. Astar-namah, a mystic masnavi poem. xvilith century.
12°. No other copy appears to be on record.

15. Manakib ul-auliya, lives of famous Sufis. xviiith
Cenvury... O:-

16. An account of the capture of Haidarabad in A.H. 1030.
Copied a.H. 1216 (A.D. 1801). 8°.

17. The collected poetical works of Ta’ir (Hasan Khan).
xixth century. Fol. No other collection seems to be recorded.

18. Kulliyyat i Darvish, the collected writings in prose and
verse of Muh. Hashim Darvish. xixth century. Fol. No
other collection appears to be on record.

19. Four MSS., viz.:—(i) a volume containing odes of
Hafiz, lives of Muhammad, Fatimah, and the Martyrs, and
Shajarat ul-atrak, a history of Chinghiz Khan, We.; (ii) a
Persian version of Tabari’s history ; (ili) the Ta’rikh i Guzidah ;
(iv) the Anvari Suhaili. xvii-xixth centuries. Presented by
the widow of the late Colonel S. B. Miles.

Syriac MSS.—1. Five MSS., comprising (1) four volumes
on the doctrines and rituals of the Christian Church, and
(ii) the shorter Grammar of Bar-Hebreus. xvith—xixth
centuries. Presented by the widow of the late Colonel
S. B. Miles.

2. Epistles, discourses, and other theological writings of
Athanasius the Great, Basilius, Amphilochius, Proclus, Ephraem,
John of Constantinople, Severianus, leo, Felix, and Sophronius.
Copied at Edessa in A.D. 721; vellum. Fol.

3. Fourteen fragments of MSS. of Biblical, liturgical, and
homiletic literature, on vellum, the oldest being of the sixth
century. Fol.

Turkish MSS.—1. A MS. containing (i) Gulshan i raz, a
mystic masnavi poem written for Murad II. by the Shaikh ul-
Islam Dasitazi, and (ii) Risalah i gulshani, a similar poem,
written under Muhammad II. Copied a.w. 925 (A.D. 1519).
12°. Rare.

2. ‘M’mdat ul-hisab, a work on the Jaw of inheritance, with
problems formulated in arithmetical figures, by Nasth al-
Salahi al-Matraki. Copied a.H. 950 (a.D. 1543). 12°. No
other copy seems to be recorded.

3. Poems (Divan) of Hairati. Copied a.H. 961 (A.D. 1554).
or

4. Mahmudiyyah, a vocabulary with explanations by
Firishtah Oglu. Copied A.H. 997 (a.p. 1588). 8°.

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 41

5. Mukaddimah i Kutb ul-Din, a Hanafi catechism of Islam
by Kutb ul-Din b. Muhammad Nakidi. xvith century. 4°,

6. Nazair ul-ash‘ar, a collection of ghazals by about 200
poets, compiled and arranged according to metre by Nazmi of
Adrianople. xvith century. 8°.

7. Divan of Khayali. xviith century. 8°.

8. Divan of Sani. xvilith century. 8°. Complete Divans
of this poet seem to be exceedingly rare.

9. Kitab i Husain, poems on Husain, by divers. xvii-xviiith
century. 8°.

10. Tazkirat ul-khattatiyyah, notices of calligraphers, by
Nafsi Zadah. xviiith century. 8”.

11. A MS. containing three mystic writings, viz. :—Ganj ul-
salikin; (G1) Asrar-namah of [lahi; and (iii) Ghazzali’s Kimiya
isa‘adat. xvilith century. 8°.

12. Two tracts on the Khalvati order of dervishes. xvilith
century. 8°.

13. Adab i islamiyyah, a work on Moslem customs. xviii-—
xixth century. 8°.

14. A MS. containing (i) Kitab durr i maknun, or Khizr-
namah, a mystic work, and Manakib or life of Shaikh Safi
ul-Din. xixth century. 8°.

15. Kitab i ‘anka 1 mashrik, a Huruafi composition in prose
and verse, by Hashim Baba. xixth century. 12°.

16. Makaiat or discourses of Hajji Bektash of Khurasan.
xixth century. 8°.

17. Kitab i hadis i arba‘in, a metrical account of the
person and characteristics of Muhammad, by Muh. Beg Khakani.
xixth century. 8°.

18. Divan of Raghib. xixth century. 8°.

19. A collection of official letters. Copied A.D. 1748. 12°.
Presented by J. Frowde, Esq.

20. Two collections of popular songs. xixth century. 8°.

21. A miscellany, containing poems by Baki and others, the
Divan of Yahya, genealogical tables, Hamdi’s Book of Predic-
tions, and other works on divination, a metrical work on
medicine by Nida’i, &c. 8°.

Turkish and Persian MSS.—1. Anis ul-‘arifin, a work on
morals and religion, translated from Persian into Turkish by
Ja‘far Tughra’i. Copied a.H. 1080 (a4.p. 1669). 8°. No other
copy of this version seems to be on record.

2. Kitab i tavaif i ‘ashrah, or Kitab i ieajan i jahan
va-natijah i jan, an account of ten religious sects and orders,
composed in A.H. $29. xvi-xvilth century. 8°.

3. Divan of Fardi. xixth century. $°. No other copy
seems to be on record.

L. D. Barnett.

42, ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS.

lL—Arrangement and Cataloguing, &e.

The entire collection of prints and drawings was transferred
during the early months of the year to the new Students’ Room
and mezzanine floor in the Extension Building, and there
re-arranged before the re-opening of the Department, which
was visited by H.M. the King on May 8th, and opened to
students on the following day.

The following exhibitions were arranged in the new Exhibi-
tion Room in King Edward VII.’s Galleries : (1) Woodcuts and
Metal-Cuts of the xv century, chiefly of the German School.
(2) Drawings and Sketches by Old Masters and by Artists
of the British School, acquired between 1912 and 1914.
(3) Japanese and Chinese Paintings, principally from the
Arthur Morrison Collection. (4) Select. Prints illustrating
the Processes and Schools of Engraving. (5) Recent Acquisi-
tions. Printed guides to Exhibitions 1-3 have been issued,
while Exhibitions 4*and 5 are of a more informal character
and their contents are varied from time to time. A guide has
been issued, however, as an introduction to Exhibition 4,
explaining the processes and schools of engraving, of which
selected specimens are always on view. The exhibition of
recent acquisitions has included as special features a group
of rare engravings of the xv century, ornament prints of
the xvi century, rare engravings by Blake and proofs of
the unpublished subjects of the Liber Studiorum, book plates
by Sherborn, modern etchings of the French, Dutch, and
Swedish schools, portrait lithographs of the early Victorian
period by R. J. Lane, a large selection of modern English
lithographs, and modern colour prints by English and German
artists.

The preparation of a critical and descriptive Catalogue of
the Dutch and Flemish Drawings has been continued, and
the section dealing with Rembrandt and his school is approxi-
mately completed.

Vol. 1V. of the Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits
(S—Z) has been published, and Vol. V., containing the Catalogue
of portrait groups and a supplement and index to the main
work, is in course of preparation.

The card index to Periodicals has been brought up to date.

The books of reference have been completely, and the books
of prints partly, re-arranged.

A new card index to. the entire collection of books of
reference is in course of preparation. About 3,250 cards have
been written, representing the letters A, B, C, and E, with full
cross references under the rest of the alphabet.

All books of prints and books of reference recently acquired
have been catalogued, labelled, and placed. The English and
Foreign Sale Catalogues have been re-arranged.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 43

The work of writing slips for the titles uf prints after
English Masters, with a view to the preparation of a subject-
index of that division of the collection, has been continued,
and a similar index to prints after Masters of the Dutch and
Flemish schools has been commenced.

The index to the collection of English topographical prints
has been continued.

The index to the artists represented in the Catalogue of
Engraved British Portraits has been continued, in manuscript,
to the end of the letter Z.

The work of making a duplicate set of index slips to the
Foreign Portraits has been continued.

The re-mounting of the etchings and lithographs by Goya
has been completed, and they have been arranged in the order
of Hofmann’s Catalogue in five solander cases.

The arrangement of the book-plates by CO. W. Sherborn has
been completed.

The arrangement of the French pommenit: and of several
classes of the For eign Royal Portraits has been revised.

A large collection of drawings and engravings of natural
history, from the Banks Collection, transferred from the Depart-
ment of Printed Books, has been arranged and prepared for
‘binding, where necessary.

Two thousand five hundred and sixty-nine prints, drawings,
and books, recently acquired, have been incorporated with the
divisions of the collection to which they severally belong,

Registration.—Six thousand six hundred and three items
have been entered in the Register of acquisitions.

Stamping and Mounting.—Fourteen thousand two hundred
and seventeen drawings, prints, &c., recently acquired, have
been impressed with the departmental stamp and references to
the Register.

Two hundred and fifteen drawings have been prepared
and mounted on sunk mounts, thirty-three prints have been
mounted on sunk, and one hundred and fifty-one on plain,
mounts; three hundred and fifty-six book-plates have been '
placed on paper mounts. All the above have been lettered
with the artists’ names and references to the Register and to
catalogues.

One hundred and seventy-four drawings by E. H. Bailey
and one hundred and thirty-four etchings ~ by A. Lunois have
been mounted in readiness for binding.

Five hundred and ninety-seven drawings, four hundred and
seventy-five prints, and a large number of mounts have been
cleaned.

Students.—The total number of visitors admitted to the
Print Room during the year ending 3lst December 1914 was
5,406. The Students’ Room was closed from January Ist to
May 8th.

4A ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Photographing.—Two hundred and seventy-six applications
were mnade for leave to photograph, and 1,292 photographs
were taken.

Il.—Acquisitions.

The total number of prints, drawings, books, &c. acquired
during the year was 6,657,* of which the following are the
most important :—

ITALIAN SCHOOL.

Drawings.

Cambiasi, Luca. Two women attacked by soldiers. Black
chalk, pen, and sepia wash. Presented by Walter Sickert, Esq.

Engravings.

Perfetti, Antonio. Sibylla Persica, after Guercino. Proof
before letters.

Etchings.

Mitizanetti, G. Twelve etchings of landscape and Venetian
subjects. Presented by Sydney Vacher, Esq.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista. Ninety-four subjects of the
“Vedute di Roma” in early states, before the plates were
re-worked. Interior of the Temple of Neptune at Paestum ;
unpublished and probably unique trial proof of a rejected
plate, corresponding in subject to Pl. 12 of the published
series of twenty views of Paestum.

Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.

Dorelli, Carlo. The Certosa of Pavia, engraved by
J. Coney.
Vecellio, Tiziano. Danaé, engraved by G. Folo; proof.

GERMAN SCHOOL.
Drawings.

Leu, Hans II. St. Bartholomew, signed and dated 1521;
pen and ink. Presented by the National Art-Collections
Fund.

Menzel, Adolf von. Workman grasping a hammer; black
chalk.

Wichter, Georg Friedrich Eberhard von. Mercury and
Argus, 1798; pen and bistre and bistre wash. Presented
by J. R. Saunders, Lsq.

Werner, Carl Friedrich Heinrich. The House of Pilate,
Jerusalem ; water-colour. Presented by H. HE. Leggatt, Esq.

* This number includes 4,014 items, chiefly prints and drawings, from the Banks
and Ashbee bequests, transferred from the Department of Printed Books.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 45

Engravings.

Anonymous engraver, called ‘“ Der Meister mit den Blumen-
rahmen ” (15th cent.). The Betrayal of Christ.

Anonymous engraver, called “The Master of the St.
Erasmus.” The Betrayal of Christ. Christ in the wine-
press.

Monogrammist A G. Nine of the Passion series copied
from Martin Schongauer (B. 3, 4, 6-10, 12, 13). Fine im-
pressions, from the Huth Collection.

Meckenem, Israhel van. The Flight into Egypt. Geisberg
37, first state; from the Huth Collection.

Beham, Hans Sebald. The Judgment of Paris. B. 89,
Pauli 92, second state. Hercules and Iole. B. 99, Pauli 107,
third state.

Engravings of Ornament.

Anonymous engraver, Nuremberg, c. 1570-80. Vase and
three beakers.

Solis, Virgilius. Five vases and ewers. B. 514, 516, and
three undescribed.

Etchings.

Amman, Jost. Portrait of Hans Sachs, B. 19, first state. .

Kasimir, Luigi. View of Vienna, printed in colours.

Laske, Oskar. Fishmarket at Bruges. Daniel in the lions’
den.

Lux, Richard. Tower at Innsbruck, printed in colours.

Struck, Hermann. Portrait of Marius Bauer.

Uhl, Joseph. Portrait of the Artist.

| Iithographs.
Thoma, Hans. Christ on the Mount of Olives. Presented
by Campell Dodgson, Esq.

Metal-cuts.

The Virgin and Child. Coloured dotted print of the
15th century (mamniere criblée) with the name of Bernhardinus
Milnet on the ornamental border. Schreiber 2482. A. cele-
brated and unique example of this style. From the Atkinson
Collection at Manchester.

The Virgin in a robe embroidered with ears of corn.
Coloured dotted print, undescribed ; from the same collection.

Woodcuts.

Cranach, Lucas. Portrait of Georg Rhaw, printer, first
state. Presented by Sydney Vacher, Esq.

Schaufelein, Hans. The fable of the miller and his ass,
B. 108.

Thiemann, Carl. Tulips (printed in colours). Rdodergasse,
Rothenburg. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq. Clivia.
_ Winter in Amsterdam (both printed in colours).

45 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

SCHOOLS OF THE NETHERLANDS.
Drawings.
Mauve, Anton. Cow and herdsman; pencil. Man-watering
his horse ; pencil. Swine in a farmyard; pencil.

Wyck, Thomas. Gate and walls of an Italian town; pen
and bistre and Indian ink wash.

Engravings.
Claassen, Allaert. Woman and dragon (round), B. 34.
One of the rarest and most important works of this engraver.

Hondius, Willem, Frans Franck, after Van Dyck (one of
the portraits of the Iconography), Wibiral 28. Undescribed
and probably unique first state, before all letters.

Sadeler, Egidius. The Fates, an allegcrical composition
after Hans van Achen. Presented by Canvpbell Dodgson, Esq.

Etchings.
Angeren, A. Derkzen van. Nine etchings, chiefly views
on the Maas. Presented by J. C. J. Drucker, Esq.

Bauer, Marius A. J. A Prince. A Bazaar in Damascus.
Street in Damascus. Colonnade. Jeypore. Presented by
J. C. J. Drucker, Esq.

Israels, Josef. The Smoker. Presented by J. C. J. Drucker,
Esq.

Maris, Matthys. The Lady of Shalott. The Bride. The

Shepherdess. The Enchanted Castle. Romantic Landscape.
Presented by J. 0. J. Drucker, Esq.

Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.
Bloemaert, Abraham. The Raising of Lazarus. Rare copy
in reverse of the engraving by Jan Muller.

Bol, Hans. Kermesse. Published and engraved (?) by
El Cocks ;

Goes, Hugo van der. The Adoration of the Shepherds.
Reproduction in colours of the important picture recently
acquired in Spain by the Kaiser Friedrich Museum at Berlin.

FRENCH SCHOOL.
Drawings.

Géricault, Théodore. Troophorses in stable; sepia wash.
From the collections of Sir Richard Wallace and Sir J. Murray
Scott.

Steinlen, Alexandre-Théophile. Studies of figures and
hands; blue chalk. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 47

Engravings.
Gaillard, Claude Ferdinand. Bust of Dante; unfinished
proof. Presented by EL. EL. Leggatt, E'sq.

St. Aubin, Augustin de. Portrait of the actor Le Kain,
after S. B. Le Noir, Bocher 128, first state.

Etchings.
Chassériau, Théodore. Twelve illustrations to Othello.

Lithographs.

Chassériau, Théodore. Apollo and Daphne.

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille. Saules et peupliers blancs.
Delteil 30, second state.

Steinlen, Alexandre-Théophile. Two cats, poster.

Toulouse-Lautrec, F. de. La Partie de campagne. Sur le
pont (both in celours). Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Véber, Jean. Hight war cartoons, August 1914. Presented.
by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Vernier, Charles. Les Troupiers Frangais (set of fifty).

SCANDINAVIAN SCHOOLS.

Hichings.

Larsson, Carl. “ Brita and I” (the artist and his daughter),
large and rare etching. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

A.collection of 116 etchings, engravings, lithographs, and
woodeuts by Scandinavian artists, chiefly Swedish (A. Anders-
son, A. Bergstrom, F. Boberg, A. Edelfelt, Prince Eugene of
Sweden, C. S. Flodman, G. V. Forssell, A. T. Gellerstedt,
R. Haglund, A. Haig, D. Ljungdahl, H. Molin, E. Norlind,
A. Osterlind, C. 0. Petersen, A. Tallberg, C. Wilhelmson, &c.),
published by Foreningen for grafisk Konst, Stockholm, 1888—
1914. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

AMERICAN SCHOOL.

Drawings.

Whistler, J. A. McNeill. Study for the portrait of Rosa
Corder. Study for the picture of Connie Gilchrist with a
skipping-rope; pen and sepia and sepia wash.

Lithographs.

Sargent, John Singer, R.A. Study of a young man drawing.

Presented by C. C. Carstairs, Esq.

FOREIGN ARTISTS WORKING IN ENGLAND.

Drawings.

Anrooy, Anton van. Scene outside the town hall at
Louvain; pencil (published in The Graphic, Aug. 29, 1914).

48 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Refugees flocking into the Grand’ Place, Antwerp ; pencil
(published in The Graphic, Nov. 7, 1914). Presented by
Marion H. Spielmann, Esq., £.S.A.

Engravings.
Blondel, Jacques-Frangois. Interior of St. Stephen’s,
Walbrook ; mezzotint.

Le Blon, Jacques-Christophe. The Temptation of Christ.
after Carlo Maratti; rare mezzotint printed in colours.

Etchings.

Hollar, Wenzel. The north side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
Undeseribed and probably unique.

Legros, Alphonse. Portrait of A. Poulet-Malassis (Cat. 9 II.).
Téte de Modéle (Cat. 44). La Mort de St. Francois (Cat. 56 I.).
Téte de vieillard (Cat. 231 II.). All rare, from the Arthur
Collection. Frontispiece to a book of modern Greek poems,
1883 (Cat. 264).

Lithographs.

Legros, Alphonse. Portrait of -Champfleury (Cat. 35).
La piéce aux six sujets (Cat. 112). Both rare, from the Arthur
Collection.

Prints arranged to vllustrate the Works of Masters.
Martin, Elias. The cabinet-maker enjoying his tippling
time. Engraved by J. F. Martin.

Rigaud, Jean-Francois. Gualtherus and Griselda. Griselda
returning to her father. A pair engraved by Pastorini, printed
in colours. Bequeathed by Miss E. M. C. Foster.

ENGLISH SCHOCL.

Drawings.

Alexander, Robert Graham Dryden. A country road;
water-colour. Presented by the Artist.

Bacon, John Henry Frederick, A.R.A. Soldiers shouting ;
water-colour sketch. Illustration ; Indian ink wash. Sketch
for an illustration ; black chalk.

Beerbohm, Max. Five caricatures of Walter Sickert; pen
and ink. Presented by Walter Sickert, Ksq.

Bone, Muirhead. Street in Viterbo; charcoal. Presented
by W. Cleverly Alexander, Esq.

Bonington, Richard Parkes. The Luxembourg Gardens ;
water-colour.

Collins, William, R.A. Four sketches near Norwich and
Torquay ; water-colour.

Cooke, Edward William, R.A. Twenty-two pencil drawings
of colossal Egyptian sculpture in process of removal within

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS, 49

the British Museum, in May and June 1834. Presented by
Sir Frederic Kenyon, K.C.B.

Cooper, Thomas Sidney, R.A. Study of sheep; pencil.

Crofts, Ernest, R.A. Six studies of soldiers of the period of
Waterloo; pencil, heightened with white and body-colour.

Dadd, Richard. The crooked path ; body-colour on vellum,
dated 1866. Presented by Mr. S. W. Littlejohn.

Fulleylove, John. The plain of Attica, looking towards
Salamis; water-colour. Mycenze; pencil. Mars Hill and
Theseum ; pencil. South door of the Holy Sepulchre ; pencil,
The Jews’ Wailing Wall, Jerusalem ; pencil. Dogana, Genoa ;
pencil. The Hague; pencil. Old Port, Marseilles; pencil.
Two sketches in Paris; pencil. Pola; pencil. Venetian Gate,
Nauplia; pencil and water-colour.

Gainsborough, Thomas, R.A. Lad carrying faggot; black
chalk.

Gardner, Daniel. Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk ;
pastel, unfinished.

Hartrick, Archibald Standish. Seven drawings of Cotswold
country types. The Man with the Wassail Bowl, The Hedger
and Ditcher, The Son of the Prodigal, Ploughman, Old Ikey the
Sexton, The Farmer’s Boy, The old English Yeoman; coloured
chalks and water-colours. Presented by Maurice Hewlett,
E'sq., and other subscribers, with the aid of a grant from the
National Art-Collections Fund.

Hogarth, William. Sketches for two engravings in the
series, ‘‘ Industry and Idleness.” Pl. 1, The Fellow ’Prentices
at their Looms ; Pl. 2, The Industrious Apprentice performing
the duty of a Christian; pen and bistre and Indian ink wash.
Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund.

Holland, James. View of Lynmouth, 1849 ; water-colour.

Leech, John. Portrait of the artist, 1862; black and red
chalk and water-colour.

Lucas, John Seymour, R.A. Study for a figure in the
picture of Martin Luther’s works being burnt outside old
St. Paul’s, 1521; red and black chalk. Presented by H. J.
Pfungst, Esq., FSA.

Mulready, William, R.A. Figure seated in a wood, 1845 ;
pen and ink and sepia wash. Presented by H. EH. Leggatt,

Esq.
| Murray, Miss EK. E. Woodcock feathers; water-colour.

Feathers of Banksian cockatoo; water-colour. Presented by
the Artist.

Paton, Sir Joseph Noel. A Midsummer Night’s Dream :
Bottom and Titania ; pen and ink.

Romney, George. Group representing Emma Hart seated
at her spinning wheel, with William Hayley, George Romney,
and the Hon. Charles Greville ; pen and bistre and Indian ink

wash. Presented by J. P. Heseltine, Esq.

50 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Romney, George. Seventy sketches for portraits, composi-
tions, &c., extracted from sketch-books. Presented by J. P.
Heseltine, Esq.

Rothenstein, William. Life study of a female model;
black chalk. Presented by Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Sickert, Walter. Interior of the old Bedford Music-hall ;
black and red chalk and pen and ink. Presented by the
Artist.

Smith, Joseph Clarendon. View of Waltham Abbey, 1807 ;
pen and sepia.

Stevens, Alfred. Two round designs for decoration in
relief on doors in Dorchester House ; water-colours.

Strang, William, A.R.A. Study of a labourer; coloured
chalk. Study of a young woman; coloured chalk. Presented
by H. J. Pfungst, Ksq., S.A.

Tenniel, Sir John. Design for title-page to Punch, vol.
xliii. (1862); pencil. Sketch for an illustratio pencil.
Drawing for Punch cartoon, Sept. 2, 1593, ying her
Strength”; pencil.

Webster, Thomas, R.A. Twenty-three drawings of old men
and women, boys and girls, mostly studies for pictures of
village life ; pencil, red and black chalk, and pen and ink.

Engravings.

Lucas, David. Three views in Norway, after E. Price;
proofs before letters. Sunset, after W. van de Velde. Dieppe,
after C. Tomkins. Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock, after Sir W.
C. Ross; proof before title. Portrait of Mrs. D. Lugas ; proof.
All mezzotints.

Pratt, Joseph Bishop. Miss Pollock, after Hoppner. Lady
Raglan, -after Lawrence. Miss Ross, after Raeburn. Maria,
Duchess of Gloucester, after Gainsborough. Mezzotints, un-
finished proofs. Presented by E. E. Leggatt, Esq.

Pratt, Stanley Claude (1882-1914). Seven engravings in
the mixed manner, after J. Farquharson, J. F. Herring, F. Paton,
H. Wardle, and others. Presented by L£. E. Leggatt, Esq.

Reynolds, S. W. (sen.). Death of Dido, after Sir J. Reynolds,
P.R.A.; proof. George Webb Hall, after J. Lonsdale (W. 125) ;
before letters. Hugh Leycester, after W. Owen (W. 179);
before letters. Mezzotints.

Ward, William Thomas Chalmers, D.D., after A. Geddes ;
undescribed state before all letters. Portrait of Gen. Sir
Ronald Crawford Ferguson, G.C.B.; proof touched by J. R.
Smith, with a letter from Smith to Ward in red chalk upon the
margin, referring to the corrections made.

Etchings.

Anderson, Stanley. Rue St. Romain, Rouen. Somerset
House. Head studies, Nos. 5 and 6. Casual labour, Billings-

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 51

gate. What is Art? A windy Day. Kidbrooke. Carting
Hay. Presented by the Artist.

Baskett, C. H. Nine Aquatints. Landermere. Low Tide.
The Mill by the Sea. Limehouse. Rochester. St. Ives. The
early Tide. Quai du Rosaire, Bruges. The Gateway of the
City. Presented by Messrs. P. and D. Colnaghi and Obach.

Bone, Muirhead. A Tuscan Farm; 6thstate. Presented by
James MacLehose, Esq. Montalban Tower, Amsterdam; trial
proof. Presented by the Artist.

Cameron, D. Y., A.R.A. Shuna. Loch-en-dorb. Carselands.
Appin Rocks. Presented by an anonymous donor.

Crome, John. Road Scene, Trowse Hall; trial proof, touched
by the Artist.

Dyce, William, R.A. Five etchings, modern impressions.
Presented by Miss Dyce.

East, Sir Alfred, R.A. River Scene. Station Platform.
Sunrise, Japan. Farm End. Farm End (soft ground).
Aqueduct. Normandy Road. Evening Glow. In the Heart of
the Cotswolds. Edge of the Forest. Corner of. the Coppice. A
Cotswold Village. The Avenue, Montreuil. The Park. A
Garden, Taormina. Old Church. The Pool. Gloucestershire
Landscape. Evening (Herkomer’s process). Presented by Lady
East. St. Ives. On the Banks of the Seine.

Frood, Hester. Cottages inthe Camargue. Farmyard near
Caen. Entrevaux. Chateau de Gratot. An old French Town.
Albi Cathedral. Presented by the Artist.

Gethin, Percy Francis. The Coliseum. Auxerre. Presented
by Messrs. P. and D. Colnaghi and Obach.

Gosse, Sylvia. Girl sitting up in Bed. Presented by
W. Sickert, Esq.

Griggs, Frederick Landseer. Prior Farm. Maur’s Farm.
Presented by the Artist.

Hole, William. Seven etchings after Bosboom, Corot, Diaz,
Jacque, J. Maris, M. Maris,and Monticelli. Presented by M. H.
Spielmann, Esq., F.S.A.

James, Hon. Walter. Wool Law. The Carrara Mountains.
The Wire Fence. Moorland. Hill Country, Italy. Group of
Trees. The Bather. The Huel Crags, Northumberland. Redes
dale Birches. The Pine Wood. Presented by J. C. J. Drucker,
Esq.

McBey, James. Portrait of Disraeli. Presented by W.
Hutcheon, Esq. Portrait of the artist in his studio. Presented
by the Artist.

Robins, W. P. An old Willow. Marshes at Lea Bridge. A
Lock on the Stour. Staples Farm. The Barn by the Stream,
Presented by Messrs. P. and D. Colnaghi and Obach.

Shrimpton, A. M (Mrs. W. Giles). Hazy Morning in June ;
aquatint.

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52 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Sickert, Walter. Upper portion of the portal of St. Mark’s,
Venice. Presented by Miss Sylvia Gosse. Old Bedford Music-
hall. Hotel Royal, Dieppe. Attack and Defence. The passing
Funeral. Noctes Ambrosianae. The Middlesex Music-hall.
Presented by the Artist.

Strang, William, A.R.A. Ceres (Cat. 305); second and third
states. Presented by Miss E. P. McGhee. —

Verpilleux, HK. A. The Cross Roads; aquatint printed in
colours. Presented by Messrs. P. and D. Colnaghi and Obach.

Walcot, W. The Trojan Horse.

Lithographs.

Brangwyn, Frank, A.R.A. “War. To arms, Citizens of the
Empire!” (poster). Presented by F. Pick, Esq.

Clausen, George, R.A. An Old Horse. Presented by Campbell
Dodgson, E'sq.

Copley, John. Florence, the Grain Market. Presented
by the Artist. Anger. Une Grande Dame. The Surgeon.
Hammers. A Dancer. Pavlova. Albano, the water carrier.
Culla, the olive pruner. Monte Pisano, olive gatherers.

Gabain, Ethel (Mrs. John Copley). The White Door. Le
jupon rayé. La Chambre déserte. The Outcast. Lecture.
Toilette. Sylphide. Les Petits Amours.

Hartrick, A. S. Calvary (two early proofs). The Forges.
Betsy.

Jackson, F. Ernest. Church of St. Riquier, Chartres (trial
proof). Presented bythe Artist. Dorothy Fitzgerald. Philip
Sargant Florence. The Front Door. The Buccaneer. Sir F.
Macmillan. Rev. Adrien Fortescue. Bill. <A. F. Petersen,
K.C. Mrs. Hamilton Fox. Effet de lumiére. Miss Ethel
Sargant. |

Pryse, Gerald Spencer. Bathers by the Atlantic. Pre-
sented ‘by. the Artist. The Workers’ Way (poster); proof.
Eights taking the Water.

Ricketts, Charles. Poster for the ‘‘ Dynasts,” by Thomas
Hardy (proof). Presented by the Artist.

Thrupp, Frederick. Outlines from Coleridge’s “ Ancient
Mariner” (set of five). Presented by E. LE. Leggatt, Esq.

Set of lithographic posters for the Underground Railway,
in proof state, by Anthony R. Barker, Harry Becker, Frank
Brangwyn, A.R.A., A. 8S. Hartrick, F. Ernest Jackson, J. Kerr-
Lawson, Joseph Pennell, and G. Spencer Pryse. Presented by
F. Ernest Jacksow, Esq.

Woodcuts.

Gere, C. M. (designed by). Set of twenty-nine illustrations
to Malory’s “Morte d’Arthur,” printed at the Ashendene
Press ; engraved by W. H. Hooper and J.B. Swain. Presented

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 53

by C. H. St. John Hornby, Esq. Also a set of engravers’
proofs, with one unpublished engraving by Hooper.

Giles, William. Our Lady’s Birds. The Sources of the
Clitumnus. Both printed in colour, the former from wood, the
latter from zinc blocks.

Seaby, Allen William. Eleven woodcuts of birds, printed
in colours. Presented by the Artist.

Shrimpton, A. M. (Mrs. W. Giles). Vetches in Rye. Hazy
Morning in June. Both printed in colours.

Tenniel, Sir John (designed by). 109 proof woodcut illus-
trations to Punch’s Pocket- book, 1865-1881 (an almost complete
set for these years), cut by J. Swain.

Verpilleux, E. ‘A. Edinburgh Castle. King’s College
Chapel, Cambridge. Entrance to the British Museum, All

printed in colours. Presented by Messrs. P. and D. Colnaghi
and Obach.

Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters.
Brangwyn, Frank, A.R.A. Venice; photogravure printed in
colours.

Frith, W. P., R.A. “Sherry, Sir?” engraved by Frank
Holl. Presented by EH. EL. Leggatt, Esq.

New, Edmund Hort. View of Florence. Presented by the
Artist.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, P.R.A. Elizabeth, Countess of Pem-
broke; rare etching by J. Bretherton.

Turner, J. M. W., R.A. Thirty-seven unfinished proofs, by
J.C. Allen, G. Cooke, W.B. Cooke, H. Le Keux, R. Wallis,
and other engravers, Presented by W.G, Rawlinson, Esq.

Woolmer, A. J. Day Dreams; line engraving, proof before
all letters.

PORTRAITS.
Foreign.
Adelaide of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Princess of Schleswig-

Holstein. Anonymous.

Benedict XV. Coloured photogravure. Presented by
Campbell Dodgson, Esq.

Caroline Amalie, Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
Lithograph by Hanfstiing]. |

Elizabeth Louise, Queen of Prussia. Lithograph.

Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Lithograph by Hanf-
stangl.

Prederica Sophia Wilhelmina of Prussia, wife of William V.,
Prince of Orange. Engraved by R. Vinkeles after J. J. C. Haag.

Friedrich Wilhelm IV., King of Prussia. Lithograph.

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54 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Maria Wilhelmina, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
Lithograph.

Sophia Wilhelmina, Grand Duchess of Baden. Lithograph
by T. H. Maguire after F. Winterhalter.
Stephanie, Queen of Portugal. Anonymous.

William II., King of the Netherlands. Engraved by B.
Taurel after J. A. Kruseman.

English.
Ball, Sidney, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of St. John’s College,

Oxford. Etching by Stanley Anderson. Presented by F. W.
Hall, Esq.

Beresford, William Carr, Viscount. Line and stipple by
F. Bartolozzi.

Buller, Gen. Sir Redvers. Stipple by G. J. Stodart after
H.T. Wells.

Carson, Sir Edward, K.C. Etching by Col. John Day.
Presented by the Artist.

Champion, Joseph. Line-engraving by J. Hulett.

Chetwynd, Richard, 5th Viscount. Stipple by A. Fogg
after Sir W. Beechey.

Cholmondeley, George James, Ist Marquess of. Mezzotint
by W. Brett after J. Simpson.

Clarke, Sir Charles, Bart. Mezzotint by D. Lucas after
S. Lane.

Cook, Eliza. Lithograph by H. B. Willis after J. Watkins.

Copley, Lady Charlotte. Lithograph by T. 8S. Robins.

Curzon of Kedleston, Earl. Photogravure after Sir George
Reid. Presented by the Rt. Hon. Earl Curzon of Kedleston.

Dufferin and Ava, Frederick, lst Marquis of. Stipple by
C. Hole after H. T. Wells.

Forster, William Edward. Stipple by C. Holt after H. T.
Wells.

Fox, Charles James. Stipple by T. Gaugain after Nol-
lekens.

Fox, Charles James. Mezzotint by J. Young after Nol-
lekens.

Goodwin, Harvey, D.D., Bishop of Carlisle. Mezzotint by
T. L. Atkinson after G. Richmond, R.A. Presented by Miss
Goodwin.

Howard, Lord Henry. Lithograph.

Hume, Joseph, M.P. Mezzotint by F. Bacon after G. A.
Healy.

Jackson, Francis James. Mezzotint by V. Green after
L. F. Abbott.

Jolland, Wolley, Vicar of Louth. Mezzotint by D. Lucas
after A. Jones.

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Spooner, Archibald William, D.D. Mezzotint by J. Cother
Webb after Hugh G. Riviere. Presented.

Wellington, Arthur, 1st Duke of. Stipple by Constantino
de Fontes, Lisbon, 1811.

Wellington, Arthur, Ist Duke of. Line and stipple by
F. Bartolozzi.

Whitechurch, Alexander. Mezzotint by W. Humphrey
after J. Shoulor. ,

BooK-PLATES.

Bone, Muirhead. 8S. V. Pearson. Presented by Dr. 8S. Vere
Pearson.

Cameron, D. Y., A.R.A. J. Craig Annan. J.J. MacLehose.
Presented by Stewart Dick, Hsq. D, W. Catalani, M. F. Yorke.
Presented by Frank Rinder, Esq. RB. Y. Pickering (No. 2).
Presented by T. P. Cameron, Esq. Eve, G. W. Queen
Victoria (in three sizes). Presented by the Artist. Ras-
senfosse, Armand. A. Mockel. A. Rassenfosse. A. von
Winiwarter. Presented by Stewart Dick, Esq.

Sherborn, C. W. Rev. Clements O. Bond. Presented by the
Rev. C. O. Bond.

COLLECTIONS AND SETS.

‘Two hundred and nineteen engravings by Bernard Picart,
including many early states and counterproofs.

Seventy-five mezzotint engravings (portraits) by Edward
Burton of Edinburgh (1820-1899) ; a collection formed by the
engraver himself.

Highty-two proof lithographs (portraits) by R. J. Lane, A.R.A.
Presented by Mrs. Reginald Poole and Austin Lane Pouvle,
Esq.

One hundred and sixty engraved portraits of members of
the House of Medici; a collection formed by J. T. Simes
in 1836.

Fifty-eight India proofs before letters of the engraved

portraits in Finden’s “Female Aristocracy of the Court of Queen
Victoria,” 1849.

One hundred and ninety-three engraved English portraits,
including many from La Belle Assemblée, Court Magazine,
The Lady's Monthly Museum, The Portrait Gallery of
Distinguished Females, and other publications of the early
nineteenth century. Presented by LH. EH. Leggatt, Esq.

Fifty-seven photogravure reproductions of pictures in the
Pitti and Uffizi Galleries, Florence.

Nineteen reproductions of pictures in colour, published by
the Medici Society. Presented by the Medici Socrety, Ltd.

56 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Books OF PRINTS AND Books OF REFERENCE.
Brangwyn, Frank. Work (ten reproductions in colour of
drawings).

Canale, Antonio. Ten engravings of the ceremonies
attending the Election of a Doge of Venice, engraved by
G. B. eeeolont.

Corbould, Edward. The Tournament at Elgin Castle, 1839 ;
lithographs. Presented by C. F. Corbould-Ellis, Esq.

Donati, Antonio. Thirty-six views of the Monastery of
Vallombrosa, 1784.

Friedlander, Walther. Nicolas Poussin.

Guiffrey, Jean. Le Voyage d’Eugéne Delacroix au Maroc.

Kristeller, Paul. Die Lombardische Graphik.

Loutherbourg, P. J. de. Scenery of England and Wales
(coloured aquatints).

Mercati, Giovanni Battista. Alcune vedute e prospettive di
luoghi dishabitati di Roma (1629). Fifty etchings (B. xx. 143.
12-63) in undescribed first state.

Ruskin, John. Example of the Architecture of Venice,
1887.

Schrey, Rudolf. Das graphische Werk Fritz Boehles.

Steinmann, Ernst. Die Portraitdarstellungen des Michel-
angelo.

Campbell Dodgson.

SUB-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 57

SUB-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS.

I.— Arrangement and Cataloguing, ke.

Early in the year the transference of the collections to the
extension building was completed; and the Chinese and
Japanese paintings which had been on exhibition in the King’s
_ Library were removed.

An exhibition was prepared, and opened to the public in
May, of Chinese and Japanese pictures selected from the
Morrison Collection, together with a selection of Oriental
paintings intended for permanent exhibition.

An exhibition of the more important of the paintings,
drawings and woodcuts in the Stein Collection, from Chinese
Turkestan, was prepared, and was opened to the public at the
same time.

Guides to both of these exhibitions have been written,
printed, and put on sale.

The cases in the department containing, or destined to
contain, Oriental paintings or prints have been newly
numbered as a separate series.

The collections have been largely re-arranged. The
Chinese pictures from the Anderson, Wegener, Franks, and
Morrison Collections have been brought together, and the
Japanese pictures from the Morrison Collection have been
arranged in the large cabinet containing the rest of the
Japanese pictures in the department.

Twenty Chinese paintings, and six Japanese paintings,
recently acquired, have been catalogued.

The final revision, preparation for press, and printing of
the Catalogue of Japanese Woodcuts have been continued.
Sheets L—U have been printed off. Sheets X—Z and 2 A—
2 B have been printed, and the proofs corrected. The revision
of the catalogue of prints by Hiroshige has been begun.

All paintings in the Stein Collection bearing dates or
inscriptions have been studied and annotated in connection
with Chinese MS. rolls in the same collection, 1,310 of which
have been sorted and listed.

The preparation of an index of the Oriental Artists
represented in the collection has been continued ; the Chinese
section of the index has been completed, and considerable
progress has been made with the Japanese section.

A subject-index has been made for Tajima’s “ Selected
Relies of Japanese Art.”

An index has been made of the Buddhist images in the
work called Butsu-zd-zur1; the Buddhist paintings in the
Anderson Collection have heen examined, and the catalogue,
where necessary, corrected.

58 : ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

An index has been made of the contents of Hsuan Ho Hua
P‘u and other Chinese and Japanese works on art.

‘A list bas been made of the Chinese paintings in the
Wegener and Morrison Collections; and a large number of
signatures and seals on paintings in the former collection have
been deciphered.

One hundred and eight prints, paintings, &c., recently
acquired, have been incorporated with the divisions of the
collection to which they severally belong.

_ All books of prints and books of reference, recently acquired,
have been catalogued, labelled, and piaced.

The collection of books of reference has been re-arranged.

Registration.—One hundred and seventy-eight items have
been entered in the Register of Acquisitions.

Stamping and Mounting.— One hundred and fifty-four
prints, paintings, &c., recently acquired, have been impressed
with the departmental stamp and references to the Register.

The paintings by Ku K‘ai-chih and another ancient Chinese
painting have been cleaned, repaired, remounted and framed.

Twenty-four Japanese drawings have been mounted on
sunk mounts.

Three Chinese paintings have been remounted on sunk
mounts, and twenty-two Chinese and Japanese paintings have
been remounted as kakemono or makimono: one Japanese
screen has also been remounted.

Two Japanese paintings have been framed.

Two hundred and twenty-eight Japanese woodcuts have
been mounted on sunk mounts, and fifty-two of these have
been specially cleaned and repaired.

Two Persian paintings have been mounted on sunk mounts.
Ten Indian paintings and drawings have been mounted on sunk
mounts, and four of these have been specially cleaned and
repaired.

Thirty-two silk paintings in the Stein Collection have been
cleaned, repaired, backed, mounted and framed; twenty
frescoes have been backed with plaster, framed and glazed,
and two others have been backed and framed.

Twenty banner-paintings from the same collection have
been mounted on sunk mounts, three banners have been
cleaned, and twenty-four drawings have been cleaned and
mounted on sunk or ordinary mounts.

Thirty-two photographs illustrating the sites explored by
the Stein Expedition have been mounted for exhibition,

IT.— Acquisitions.

The total number of paintings, prints, &c. acquired during
the year was 386, of which the following are the most impor-
tant.

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CHINESE.
Paintings.

Anonymous, Northern Sung.—Lady Fong, a heroine of the
Ist century B.c., throwing herself in the path of an escaped
bear, to save the Emperor’s life. A painting of great importance
in view of the extreme rarity of figure-paintings, other than
Buddhist, of so early a period (10th—11th century), and remark-
able for beauty of colour as well as for energy of design.
Acquired partly by purchase, but chiefly by the aid of the
National Art-Collections Fund, and of private subscribers.

Chao Pai-chii, attributed to. Demons attacking the Bowl
in which Buddha had hidden Pingala, the child of the Demon-
Goddess. Makimono, painted in colours.

Anonymous, Ming dynasty. Cranes and camellia flowers.
Kakemono, painted in colours.

W oodcuts.

. Battle-scenes from a play; print in four colours. Two
sages, after Ch’ien Ta-hsin; upright panel print in white on
black. Fairies and cranes on a mountain ; upright panel print
in white on blue. Presented by Prof. W. Bateson.

Stone Prints.

Sage with a scroll. Fudd. Prints in white and black.
Presented by Prof. W. Bateson.

Tree and hut, after Yen Hui; Peonies, after Chao Po-chii ;
Yellow Roses, after Ma Kung-hsien.

JAPANESE.
Paintings.
Kan Densu. Kanzan and Jitoku. Kakemono, painted in
ink.
Kano Takanobu. Plum and Bamboo. ‘Two-fold screen,
painted in colours on a gold ground.

Iwasa Matabei, attributed to. Reishojo, a single standing
figure. Kakemono, painted in colours.

Karly Ukiyo-yé School, 17th century. Groups of men and
women playing games, Wc. A pair of paintings in colours and
gold. .

Kano School, 18th century. The Life of Sakyamuni.
Twenty-six paintings in colours and gold, with MS. text, in five
volumes. Presented by Mrs. Moseley.

Kisui. Two sketch-books. Presented by Mrs. Moseley.

: W oodcuts.
Buncho, Ippitsusai. Sh6j6 drinking saké.

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Harunobu. Watonai killing a tiger, one of the artist’s very
rare early prints of actors. Beni-yé.
Harushige. Two girls and a youth.

Hokusai. Danjuro, the actor, in character: signed Shunro.
“ The Bewitching Fox of the Three Kingdoms,” diptych. Both
presented by R. Levcester Harmsworth, Esq.

Dragon-fly and Kikyé flower: one of the series of Large
Flowers. Meguro, one of the Thirty-six Views of Fuji.
Presented by Arthur Morrison, Esq.

Kiyohiro. Awabi fisher. Beni-yé.

Kiyonaga. Scene from a play. Presented by R. Leicester
Harmsworth, Esq. Beauties with attendants.

Koriusai. Tiger and Dragon fighting; very rare print in
the Chinese manner, embossed. Hashira-kaké, Heron and
crow on a snowy branch.

Koriusai, attributed to. Falcon on rock. Kakemono-yé.

Kuniyoshi. Seaweed-gatherers in a boat.

Masanobu, Kitao, attributed to. Group of girls. Presented
by R. Leicester Harmsworth, Esq.

Shunyei. Girl in Sarashi dance.

Utamaro. Girl on verandah steps. Girl with a fan, in
flowered dress; one of the very rare set, “ New Pattern of
Brocade after Utamaro’s style.”

PERSIAN.

Paintings.

Joseph and Zuleika. Miniature painting in colours and
gold; 16th century.

Mahomet and the Camels. Miniature painting in colours
and gold; 17th century.

INDIAN.

Paintings and Drawings.

Mogul School. Two girlsin a lotus pool; 17th century ; in
colours. Presented by W. C. Alexander, Esq.

Kangra School. The Messenger of Krishna; in colours.
Girl on a terrace listening to an old woman; in colours. Two
girls with gazelles; in colours. The Thunderstorm ; in colours.
Krishna and Radha; outline drawing, slightly coloured. Siva
and Parvati; outline drawing. All 18th century.

Jaipur School. Lady and gazelles; in colours. Presented
by W. C. Alexander, Esq. Ladies and a peacock outside
a palace; in colours; early 17th century. Five portrait
drawings.

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TIBETAN.
Painting.

Scenes from the Buddha legend, grouped round a figure of
Buddha. One of a set of three; the other two being already
in the Museum Collection.

Books OF PRINTS AND BooKS OF REFERENCE.

Chin Shih So, 1821. Presented by Mrs. Moseley.
Hua-hsueh Hsing-yin.

Kashira-gaki Sdho Kunmo-zui, 1789. Presented by
Mrs. Moseley.

Koechlin, Raymond. Yeishi, Choki, Hokusai.
Kogwa Biko.
Lange, R. Thesaurus Japonicus, Bd. I.

Morikuni, Tachibana. Yehon Sha-ho Fukuro. Presented
by Mrs. Moseley.

Shunyo. SannoShingei. Presented oy Mrs. Moseley.
Succo, F. Toyokuni und seine Zeit. :

Sung Yiian i-lai (encyclopedia of artists).

Tchang, Father Matthias. Synchronismes Chinois.

Yoshio, Tanaka. Somoku Zusetsu. Presented by Mrs.
Moseley.

Laurence Binyon.

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DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES.

I—Arrangement, Cataloguing, &e.

EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES :—

The general re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collections
has been continued, and the greater number of the objects
acquired during the year have been cleaned and repaired (where
necessary) in readiness for exhibition, when the installation of
collections in the new Extension is effected.

The washing and cleaning of monuments in hard stone
and the cleansing of limestone and sandstone statues of salt
deposits have been continued. Many stele have been removed
from their frames and examined, and arrangements made
for ventilating the frames. Earthenware bowls, pots, &c.,
saturated with salts have been soaked and cleaned.

The Egyptian and other papyri have been removed to a
series of wall-cases specially prepared in the Carthaginian
Basement. Several collections offered for purchase have been
removed to cases in the new Extension. King Edward’s
Papyrus has been removed to the Assyrian Saloon.

The labelling of the Collections has been continued, and good
progress has been made with addition of custody numbers.
Many labels have been retouched or repainted, and several
new and fuller labels have been prepared and attached to
the objects.

Five hundred and fifty-five scarabs have been cleaned,
moulds and casts of the bases have been made for the Catalogue
of Scarabs, which is in course of publication, and the scarabs
have been remounted and renumbered. One thousand and
eighty-five numbers have been attached to scarab mounts,
and nine hundred and three scarabs have been specially
mounted.

Kighty-two labels have been painted, two thousand nine
hundred and ten objects have been numbered, and fifty-four
objects have been photographed.

Sixteen terra-cotta figures, vases, and bowls have been
cleaned and repaired.

Thirty-four marble and alabaster plinths have been prepared ;
twenty-four Caen-stone pedestals and plinths have been pre-
pared; nine hundred and twenty-two wooden tablets have
been prepared and covered with cloth ; ninety-five satin-wood
plinths have been prepared ; fourteen stele frames have been
made and painted, and stele fitted in them; fourteen stands
for earthenware vessels have been made and painted; two
oak rests for a sarcophagus cover have been made, and twenty-
two lengths of wood for labels have been prepared and
ebonized.

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Forty-eight figures, statues, and other objects have been
mounted on marble or alabaster or granite plinths; nine
hundred and twenty scarabs have been mounted ; and fourteen
terra-cotta bowls, &c. have been mounted on stands.

A granite sarcophagus has been taken to pieces, the old
dowels have been removed and new copper plugs inserted, and
the monument has been mounted on granite plinths.

A pyramidal sepulechral stele has been repaired and
mounted; three stele have been repaired, and six stele have
been cleaned.

The store-moulds for casts have been taken out where
required, and replaced after use.

Several collections of antiquities which have been offered
for purchase have been examined, and repacked.

Eighty-two labels have been drafted, one thousand four
hundred and nine objects have been registered or re-registered,
and the slip list of registered objects has been continued.

Drawings of the sculptured portions of about seventy-six
stele, and copies of the hieroglyphic texts which they illustrate,
have been made.

Works in Progress.

1. Coptic MSS.—Six manuscripts for Vol. V. have been
copied and the copies collated and sent to the printer, and
fifteen sheets of sixteen pages have been read and printed off.
Indexes to these sheets have been compiled. A _ preface and
introduction have been written to Vol. IV.,.and the translation
has been read and passed for press.

2. Catalogue of Scarabs.—Nine hundred and eighty slips
for Vol. II. have been written, and eighty-five have been
revised. Selections of scarabs for reproduction have been
made.

3. Egyptian Texts.—An introduction and description of
plates for Part V. have been written, and the bulk of the
material for Part VI. has been copied and arranged.

ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES :—

The general re-arrangement of the unexhibited section of
the Babylonian and Assyrian Collections has been continued,
and bas-reliefs, stele, &c., have been cleaned.

The remainder of the tablets which were housed temporarily
in the Assyrian Saloon have been brought upstairs, the wooden
cases in which they were have been taken down, repaired, and
rebuilt, and the tablets replaced in them.

A number of important cylinders, both Babylonian and
Assyrian, have been removed to a case in the Basement, and
two of the Table-Cases from the Nineveh Gallery have been
transferred to the Basement.

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The marble statue of Ashur-nasir-pal has been taken to
pieces, and plugged with copper in several places and recon-
structed.

The bases of two colossal winged figures have been faced
with granite, and the plinths of the wall sculptures in the
Assyrian Saloon have been cleaned, and the labels re-written.

Two sections of the Kfytinjik Collection have been num-
bered and arranged, and eighty labels have been painted.

One hundred and eighty-three tablets have been cleaned;
and one hundred and sixty-two tablets have been repaired,
twenty-one fragments of an inscribed cylinder have been
rejoined, and five thousand boxes have been lined with cotton-
wool.

Registration numbers have been painted on five thousand
seven hundred tablets; fifty-seven objects have been photo-
graphed ; and casts of seventy-one cylinder seals have been
made,

Ten satin-wood plinths have been prepared, thirty-nine cloth-
covered mounts, thirty-four ebonized labels, lengths of wood
for seventy-two labels, and a box for Assyrian squeezes have
been made. Forty-nine objects have been mounted. Eight
hundred and eighty number labels have been painted and
affixed to the trays. Twenty boxes to hold cylinders have
been prepared.

Seven sheets of the Supplement of the K. Catalogue have
been passed for press, and eighty plates of the Bronze Gates
of Shalmaneser have been labelled, and half titles and an
introduction written.

Four thousand two hundred and three tablets have been
registered, and material for about sixty plates of text has been
arranged.

One hundred and forty-two Hittite and other tablet frag-
ments have been copied; sixty-one cylinder seals have been
catalogued; and thirty-eight groups of cylinders have been
selected for plates.

Works in Progress.

1. Cuneiform TLexts.—Thirty-five plates for Part XXXV.
and twenty-five plates for Part XXXVI. have been copied.

2. Bronze Gates of Shalmaneser.—Eighty plates in collo-
type have been passed for press.

Publications.

1. Egyptian Sculptures in the British Museum. With
54 plates. Ato.

Wall-paintings from Egyptian Tombs. Coloured plates.

. Egyptian Texts. Part V.

Coptic Martyrdoms in the Dialect of Upper Egypt.

Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum. With
53 plates. Ato.

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6. Cuneiform Texts. Parts XXXIV.

7. Sets of Pictorial Post Cards :—
Portraits of Egyptian Kings.
Egyptian Sculpture.
Egyptian Coffins and Sarcophagi.
Egyptian Mummies.
Babylonian Antiquities.
Assyrian Antiquities illustrating Bible History.
Assyrian Sculptures—reign of Ashur-nasir-pal.

Students.—About 3,000 visits have been made to the
Department by students and inquirers; and 18,922 objects
have been issued for the use of students.

Personally conducted Parties.—Thirty parties have been
personally conducted through the Department by members of
the staff, the number of persons being about 815, including
pupil-teachers from schools.

Il.— Acquisitions.

i.— EGYPTIAN :—

I.—1. Massive head and shoulders of a black basalt statue

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of one of the Ptolemies. It was found among the
ruins of a small temple which had been built by
the side of a well in the Delta by Ptolemy IX.
and had been repaired by Ptolemy XIII. Itis a
fine example of a royal portrait statue of the
period, and is the best example of its class in the
Museum. Ist century B.c.

massive quartzite, sandstone sarcophagus made
for Tehuti-hetep, a royal scribe, and superinten-
dent of the cattle-breeding establishment of a
king of the XI Xth dynasty. On the outside are
cut in outline figures of all the great gods of the
dead, and the usual texts in which protection for
the deceased is promised, From the Northern
Delta. About B.c. 1300.

brightly painted wooden coffin of Tcheher (Teds),
an official who flourished in the early part of the
Roman Period. ‘Che details and method of decora-
tion are copied from coffins of the Ptolemaic
Period, and the single line of inscription down
the front contains Demotic forms of words. This
is the only funerary monument from the Great
Oasis in the British Museum. From Khargah.
Ist or 2nd century A.D.

4, Limestone pyramidal sepulchral monument of Bak-

en-pa-Ra, with a beautifully sculptured portrait
figure of the deceased standing in the hollow at
the base that represents the door of the tcemb.
From Memphis. XVIIIth or X1Xth dynasty.

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12.

13.

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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

. Black granite portrait figure of an Egyptian official ;

very fine work. Found near the Serapeum at
Sakkarah. Ist or 2nd century A.D.

Two painted coffins in a rather poor state of pre-
servation, but of importance because of their form
and decoration, and because they help to fill the
gap in the series between the XIIIth and the
XVIIIth dynasties. They are the only examples
of their period in the British Museum. From the
Earl of Carnarvon’s excavations at Thebes.
XVIIth dynasty.

. Slice of calcareous stone with the representation of

the head of Amen-hetep IV., the “heretic king,”
in sunk relief. The face is clearly a portrait, and
was intended to serve as a model for the sculptors
in the new capital of Khut-en-aten. From Tell-
el-Amarna, XVIIIth dynasty.

. A group of wooden figures representing men plough-

ing with-oxen. From a tomb at Al-Barshah.
XIIth dynasty.

A group of painted wooden figures representing a
company of men winnowing corn. From a tomb
at Al-Barshah. XIIth dynasty.

Bronze figure of Khensu Nefer-hetep, inlaid with
gold. This god was a popular favourite at Thebes
about B.c. 1000, and he was believed to drive away
evil spirits and cast out devils. A very rare
bronze. from Thebes. XXth or XXIst dynasty.

Alabaster pillow or head-rest of Seni, a high official,
who flourished at Memphis under the Vth or VIth
dynasty. Traces of the lapis-lazuli paste where-
with the hieroglyphs were inlaid are still visible.
From Gizah.

Alabaster writing tablet, or palette, of the scribe
Seni, with hieroglyphs inlaid with lapis-lazuli
paste. Vth or VIth dynasty. From Gizah.

A collection of 778 scarabs, being a section of a large
collection of which the greater part is already in
the Museum. The scarabs, from which the greater
part of the blue and green glaze has been removed
by contact with the soil, belong to the period
immediately following the XIIIth dynasty, in-
cluding that of the reigns of the Hyksos kings.
On the bases of many are cut the names, devices,
figures of gods, monograms, &c. peculiar to the
Hyksos Period, and showing the influence of
Semitic ideas and beliefs. Chiefly from the
neighbourhood of San (Tanis).

A collection of 95 scarabs belonging to various
periods, and containing many very fine examples

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of artistic cutting and design. From Upper and
Lower Egypt. B.c. 1600-800.

II.—1. Complete cover of a massive limestone sarcophagus,
on which are cut a long funerary inscription and
figures of the principal gods of the dead. It was
mace for a high official called Aahartas, and was
found at Xois in the Delta. About 3.c. 650.

2, Large mottled granite circular basin, nearly five feet
in diameter, with the red granite pedestal on
which it’ stood. It was placed in one of the
courts of the great temple of Ptah at Memphis,
and received the libations poured out to the gods.
From the ruins of the temple of Ptah. Roman
Period.

collection of bronze figures of the late forms of
Egyptian gods, examples of which are exceedingly
rare:
i. Snake-headed god with left arm out-
stretched.
ii. An-Her, with the urzeus of a king.

ii. A god with two faces, one of a ram and one
of a jackal; the former is that of Ra,
or Amen-Ra, and the latter that of Anpu
(Anubis). ‘The god wears the plumes of
Amen,

iv. Harpokrates in the character of Ptah-Seker.

v. A moon god, with the head of Thoth in
the Atef Crown.

vi. Horus Tema, 7.¢., the slayer.

vii. Harpokrates or Horus the Child, as the new
moon.

viii. Anubis with tambourine.
ix. Horus with the khepesh scimitar.
From the Oasis of Khargah. Late Period.

4, A collection of miscellaneous objects in glazed porce-
lain, plaques, beads, cylinders, &c. XVIIIth to
XXIInd dynasties.

5. A wooden sickle, with several of its original flint
teeth still remaining in their groove. The inscrip-
tion upon it proves that it was made for Prince
Amen-nekht, who added to his name the royal
prenomen of “Amenemhat.” This object is pro-
bably unique. Found at Thebes in a cemetery
belonging to the XI-XVIJIth dynasties. XIIth
dynasty.

III.—1. Red and black ware vase with a floure of a lizard or
crocodile in relief around it. Rare. Predynastic
Period.

2. Red and black ware vase with a figure of a serpent
or eel in relief. Rare. Predynastie Period.

3. Red ware vase ornamented with figures of a hippo-
potamus in white outline.

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4, Red ware flat-bottomed vase, with line decorations.
5. Long, narrow, red ware jar, with decorations in white

outline. Rare.

6. A stone vase in the form of a hippopotamus.
7. Stone vase, with small base, and two “ ear” handles.
8, 9. Mud figures of a woman lying back with her arms

raised ; the hair is dressed in curls. These may
be intended for standing nena? of the steatopy-
gous class.

10, 11. Two baked mud figures of girls with bodies

decorated and painted, and wearing headdresses of
unusual form. Each clasps a wine jar with her
left arm.

12. Painted baked mud figure of a man of the “‘ cane-

phoros”’ class.

13. Upper part of a mud figure of a woman carrying a

pot on her head.

14. Rough figure of a man standing on some object.

Nos. 3—14 belong to the Predynastic or Archaic
Period, and Nos. 1— 14 all come from a very early
cemetery in Upper Egypt.

IV.—1. Portion of a painted stele of an official, with the pre-

nomen of Nebhepra (Mentuhetep).

2. Portion of a votive figure of King Nebhepra, which

was dedicated by the Ami-ast priest, Nekht-en-
Amen. On the back are four lines of text con-
taining a prayer for the union of soul and body.

3. Portion of a stele witha representation of Nebhepra

presenting wine to Hathor, Lady of Thebes.

The above three objects came from the temple of
Mentuhetep at Thebes. Xith dynasty.

4. A massive red and yellow breccia bowl for holding

unguents or food. This is one of a series of which
three others are in the British Museum. From
the tomb of Khent at Abydos. Ist dynasty.

5. Grey granite kneeling figure of Mentu-em-hat, the

son of Nes-Ptah, a tribal chief, duke, mayor and
phylarch, and fourth prophet of Amen-Ra, king
of the gods at Thebes. The figure holds a tablet,
on which the worship of Tem and ''em-Khepera is
represented, and below the reliefs are cut several
lines of a hieroglyphic version of a hymn to Ra.
From Karnak: XVIIIth dynasty.

6, Blue glazed porcelain coffin and cover, and shabti

figure of Amen-mes, a royal scribe, governor of
the palace, overseer of the Treasury, and fan-
bearer at the right hand of the king, who
flourished about B.c. 1500. This coffin is of the
shape and style of the large anthropoid coffins

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which became fashionable under the XIXth
dynasty. A unique object. From Dér_ al-
Bahari.

7. A massive hard-stone stele on which is cut an in-
scription in Meroitic characters. Height 8 ft.
6 in. From the Stidan. Ist century, A.D.

i).—ASSYRIAN :—

A collection of 166 tablets and other antiquities,
among which the following may be specially
mentioned :—

I.—1. A tablet inscribed with a lst of early Babylonian
kings, the names being arranged in dynasties. It
restores the order of the kings of the dynasty of
Akkad, and settles the order of events between
the fall of this dynasty and the rise of the
dynasty of Ur (B.c. 2400), and supplies the names
of 26 kings and rulers in Babylonia, whose names
are not otherwise known. A valuable authority
for the history of the period.

2. Tablet inscribed with omens derived from incidents
that take place during the sacrificing of victims.
Copied from a text of the reign of Melishikhu,
B.C. 1220.

3. Tablet inscribed with along Syllabary of the Second
Class, giving the pronunciation and meanings of
the Babylonian characters. From this tablet
gaps in the Kuytnjik Syllabaries may be

restored.
4-6. Three explanatory lists of plants. From Kalat
Sherkat.

7. An explanatory list of titles. From Kalat Sherkat.

8. Inscription from a brick of Sin-shar-ishkun, the last
king of Assyria, which proves that he was a son
of Ashur-bani-pal (B.c. 668-626).

9. Clay sealing with the seal of Naram-ilishu, an
official of Dungi, B.c. 2400.

10. Clay cone with votive inscription of Ashduni-arim,
king of Kish. B.c. 2000.
11-30. Twenty Babylonian letters relating to commercial
matters. From Abi Habbah.
31-65. Thirty-five contract tablets of the period which lies
between B.c. 2000 and the reign of Nebuchad-
nezzar II.. B.c. 604.
66. Clay plaque with a figure of a musician playing.
67. Bronze foundation cone of Ur-nina, patesi of
Lagash, about B.c. 3000.

68. Boundary stone of the Kassite period, from which
the inscription has been erased.
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69. Slab with a copy of the Standard Inscription of
Ashur nasir-pal, B.c. 860.

70. A group of terra-cottas and bronzes, the latter
including a plaque for exorcising the demon of
Sickness, 9)

71. A miscellaneous collection of commercial tablets.

II.—1. Clay cylinder inscribed with the copy of a charter
granted by Kuri-galzu I., a Kassite king about
B.c. 1400. The charter conferred land and
offerings of corn, oil, and dates upon a goddess.

2. Foundation cylinder of Nabonidus, King of Babylon,
B.C. 555-538, recording the restoration of E-Bab-
bara, the great temple of the Sun-god in Sippar.
The inscription contains important variants of
the texts already in the Museum. From
Babylon.

3. A collection of about 115 contract tablets and
accounts of the period of the First Dynasty of
Babylon, about B.c. 2000 ; they are fine examples
of this class of document. From Southern Baby-
lonia.

IIJ.—1. A bronze lamp, with seven wick-holders. From
Northern Mesopotamia. Late Period.
2. A bronze adze. Early period.

3-5. Three terra-cottas, 7.e., a plaque and two figures of
Babylonian goddesses. From Southern Baby-
lonia.

6-9. Four terra-cotta bowls, which were used for divining
purposes, with Mandaitic inscriptions of a magical
character. Probably from Tell Ibrahim.

10-15. Six clay sealings of jars. From Babylonia. About
B.C. 2000.
16-135. A collection of 120 tablets and fragments of tablets,
inscribed with contracts, deeds of sale, loans, &c.
From Senkerah, the site of the ancient city of
Larsam. Period of the First Dynasty of Babylon,
about B.c. 2000.

136-170. A valuable coilection of 40 tablets, being supplement-
ary toa collection of similar documents already
in the Museum. The inscriptions deal with the
sale and transfer of property, the division of an
inheritance, deeds of gift, sales of slaves, leases
of house property, &c. From Warka, the site of
the ancient city of Erech. Era of the Seleucid
2nd and 3rd centuries before Christ.

17i1-3,220. A large collection of 3,050 tablets inscribed with
texts dealing with temple accounts, agricultural
and business receipts, lists and memoranda for
incorporation into the larger tablets on which
summaries of all temple properties were drawn
up. From Tell Lo, Drehem and other sites,
B.C. 2500-2000.

IV-l.

2-3

12-14.

15-114.

115-355.

356-383.

384-825.

827.

828.

829.

830.

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Upper part of a bronze figure of a Sumerian priest-
king, perhaps Gimil-Sin or Kudur-Mabug.

. Two cones of Galu-Babbar, patesi of Umma, record-

ing the dedication of a temple.

. Four cones of Gudea, patesi of Lagash, B.c. 2400.

. Plaque with a nude figure of a goddess.
. Three Sumerian religious texts of the early Baby-

lonian period.
Three Babylonian Letters of the time of Khammu-
rabi. About B.c. 2000.

A collection of one hundred tablets of the Period of
the First Dynasty of Ur. About B.c. 2000.

A miscellaneous collection of tablets and fragments :
44 are fragments of tablets of accounts, 43 are
case-tablets, and 154 refer to ordinary business
matters.

A collection of 28 Neo-Babylonian contracts of the
reigns of Nabonidus, Darius, and Cambyses.

A collection of about 442 small account tablets,
receipts and memoranda, and six dockets.

. Cappadocian tablet recording the sale of 12 gan of

land for 2 talents and 30 manehs of silver. The
seal impressions are valuable for dating purposes.
Before B.c. 2000. [ No. 108,924. ]

Case-tablet, unopened, with seal-impressions, con-
taining a letter from Tutu-nasir, the son of Imlik-
ilu, a commander of royal troops. Period of the
First Dynasty of Babylon. [No. 108,962. |

Fine Neo-Babylonian tablet recording the sale of
certain landed property in Nippur, in the presence
of 13 witnesses, on the 23rd day of Adar, in the
14th year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar IL., 7.e.,
Bens. [No. 108,935. ]

Tablet recording the sale of landed property at
Erech, on the 8th day of Tebet, in the 16th year
of Kandalanu, King of Babylon, 7.¢., B.c. 631.
Documents belonging to this reign are uncommon.

[No. 108,858. ]

Marriage contract, with the names of 8 witnesses,
dated in the reign of Ammi-zaduga, King of
Babylon, about B.c. 2060. In it the penalty for
breach of contract by the woman is drowning, and
by the man, a fine of two manehs of silver.

| No. 208.9010]

831.Tablet recording the division of certain property

into five shares, and attested by 14 witnesses.
Dated in the reign of Rim-Sin, King of Larsam,
about B.C, 2200-2150. [ No. 108,902.]

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32. Deed recording the purchase of Shad mami, a female

slave, by Adda-Kalla, for 44 shekels of silver, in
the 7th year of the reign of Bur-Sin 1¢., about
B.C. 2350. [No. 108,908.]}

. Two case-tablets recording the adoption of Sin-

rimeni, by Ana-pani-il and his wife Kubbutum,
in the reign of Samsu-iluna, Le son of Khammu-
rabi, King of Babylon, about B.c. 2145.

[Nos. 108, 904 and 108,906. |

. Tablet recording the purchase of a female slave by a

priestess of Marduk for two manehs of silver, in
the reign of Samsu-iluna, about B.c. 2145.
[ No. 108,909. ]

5. Tablet recording the renting of a house from Bau-

khegalli by Kunnutum, at a rent of half a shekel
per annum, in the reign of Samsu-iluna, about
B.C. 2145. [No. 108,910.]

. Tablet recording a loan of grain in the eighth year

of Cyrus, 2:.¢., B.c. 530. [No. 108,911.]

. Babylonian letter addressed by Ibni-Amurru to his

sister asking her to send one of his tenants and
two other men with him, apparently to bear
witness in a dispute which had arisen about
certain property. About B.c. 1900. [No. 108,883. |

Letter addressed to a certain Izannia by an unknown
writer, who assured him that the contents of a
letter which he had received from Izannia were
‘not pleasing to God.” About B.c. 2000.

[No. 108,890. ]

Babylonian letter from Shamash-nishu to a person
not named, with instructions about the irrigation
of certain land near the Sakilatum Canal, from
the mouth of which obstructing soil had been
removed. About B.c. 2200. [No. 108,887.]

Babylonian letter from Etilka-Sin and Sin-ishmeani
to a lady, instructing her to bring her “ tablet”
with her, probably for production at the hearing
of the law suit to which reference is made in the
letter. About B.c. 2200. [No. 108,898. ]

. Letter from the wealthy usurer Tarribum to Baba,

with instructions concerning certain grain. About
B.C. 2200. [No. 108,896. ]

. Account-tablet with an inventory of the flocks and

herds being reared on temple property in the
neighbourhood of Lagash. Dated in the 7th year
of Bur-Sin, King of Ur, about B.c. 2350.

[No. 108,954.]

. Account-tablet dated in the reign of Dungi, King of

Ur, about B.c. 2375. [No. 108,944. |

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844. Account-tablet containing a list of various classes
of men and women who were probably temple
servants. Drawn up at Lagash in the reign
of Urukagina, about B.c. 2800. [No. 108,956.]

845. Tablet containing a list of victims, or sacrifices for
various gods, including the deified kings of Ur,

Dungi and Gimil-Sin. About B.c. 2300.
[No. 108,958.]

Ill.— Presents.

I.—1. A baked terra-cotta barrel cylinder inscribed with
a summary of the conquests of Sargon II., King
of Assyria, from B.c. 721-705.
2, Portion of an Assyrian relief from the palace
of Ashur-nasir-pal, King of Assyria, B.c. 860-
825.

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. A group of seven terra-cotta bowls inscribed with
magical texts written in late Hebrew and
Mandaitic. About A.D. 200.

4. Alabaster vase of the late period.

Or

. Three small figures of the Mother-goddess com-
monly called the ‘Syrian Venus.”

6. Six bronze figures of the Babylonian Period from
Tell Lo. About B.c. 3000.
7. Three Sumerian stone cylinder seals. Early Period.
8. A Babylonion cylinder seal. Early Period.
9. Seven hematite cylinder seals (1 broken).
10. Seven cone seals. |
11. Eleven Sassanian gems on which are cut figures of
animals, birds, Xe.
12. Three Gnostic gems, one bearing a magical name.
3. A bronze bull. Late period.
14. A miscellaneous group consisting of a contract
tablet, an inscribed fragment, a crystal cylinder
seal, a cast of an inscribed object, and a fragment

of a brick.
Bequeathed by H. F. Blosse Lynch, Esq.

II.—1. A collection of maps of the Sidan and Egypt showing
the positions of the principal Coptic monuments
therein.

2. A collection of miscellaneous papers on the subject
of Coptic churches.

3. A collection of photographic negatives, drawings,
&e. of Egyptian tombs at Al-kab in Upper

Egypt. |
Presented. by Somers Clarke, Hsq., F.S.A.

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A glazed porcelain sceptre symbolic of “serenity.”
From Napata. About B.c. 720.
Presented by the Right Hon. the Earl
Kitchener.

. A small Egyptian basket. From Thebes.

Presented by Mrs. W. Edwards Miller.

. Upper part of a wooden figure of Horus.

Presented by Herbert Ingram, Esq.

. Part of an alabaster jar inscribed with the name of

Per-ab-sen, a king of the IInd dynasty.
Presented by W. IL. Nash, E'sq., M.D.

. A Babylonian gate-socket on which are cut the

name and titles of King Gudea.
Presented by Sir John Rf. Ellerman, Bart.

. Stele of Antef-nekht.

Presented by A. Gardiner, Esq., D.Litt.

A gold ring bearing the name Patpep.
Shabti figure, late period.
Fragment of a wooden figure.

Bequeathed by Mrs. LE. B. Ede.

Two mud balls, with marks upon them. Early
Period.
Presented by H. E. Peet, M.A.

A fine bronze figure of Osiris. XXVIth dynasty.
A fine bronze figure of Isis. XXVIth dynasty.
Presented by the Countess Bathurst.

A fine alabaster Egyptian bowl. Ancient Empire.
Presented by H. L. Hansard, Esq.

A blue glazed figure of an Egyptian woman.

Fine bronze razor. Period between the XI1Ith and
XVIIth dynasties.

A painted wooden coffin, of unusual shape and
decoration, with one line of inscription of the
usual character. Found at Thebes. Period
between the XIIIth and the X VIIIth dynasties.

Presented by the Right Hon. the Earl of
Carnarvon.

. Terra-cotta lamp on a stand.
Two pieces of Coptic cloth.
Specimens of glazed fragments.
Vase with spout and handles.
Stocking and sandal.

Small stocking and sandal.
Coptic cap.

Coptic hair net.

Coptie doll.

10. Coptic bag.

11. Coptic shoes.

12. Coptic book-binding.

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13. Lamp.

14. Lamp with places for pega wicks.

15. Cut leather shoe ornaments.

16. Bags of seasoning ingredients, salt, cummin, co-
riander.

18. A smail stele.

19. A mummied ibis from Abydos.
Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund.

16—1. Topographical Map of Egypt, Scale 1: 50,000, 2nd
edition, sheets :—

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Presented by the Director of Siar veys, Egypt.

17.—Topographical catalogue of the private tombs at
Thebes, by A Gardiner.
Presented by Robert Mond, Esq.

18.—A collection of pamphlets dealing with early
attempts to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs :—
. Palin, Lettre sur les Hieroglyphes, 1802.
Belzoni, Description of an Egyptian Tomb, 1821.
. Champollion (le Jeune), Lettre a M. le Duc Blacas,
Paris, 1824.
Champollion — Figeac, Lettre a M. le Duc Blacas
Paris, 1826.
5. Seyffarth, Replique aux Objections, Leipzig, 1827.
6. Prospectus of Les Monuments de VHgypte. Paris,
1831.
7. Sotheby’s Catalogue of the Barker Antiquities.
London, 1833.
8. Sotheby’s Catalogue of the Burton Antiquities.
London, 1836.
9. Salvolini, Campagne de Rhamsés-le-Grand. Paris,
1835.
10. Williams, Essay on Hieroglyphics. London, 1836.
it? heperus, sur Ordre’ ‘des'’Colonnes ~ Piliers™ en
Egypte. Rome, 1838.
12. Lepsius, Notice sur deux Statues. Rome, 1838.
13. Analise des Inscriptions (2 copies).
14. Simonides. A brief description. London, 1860.
Presented by the Rev. G. Horner M.A.

19.—Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nos.
9—12.
Presented by the Direction, New York.

EL. A. Wallis Budge.

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DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.

lL—Arrangement.

1. The Sculpture Galleries.—In the Elgin Room a recon-
struction of the frieze and cornice of the EKrechtheum has been
completed ; casts of fragments of the frieze have been mounted
against a background of black marble and combined with slabs
of the architrave and cornice.

The Ionic capital of the archaic Temple of Ephesus,
dismantled last year, has been restored, with two newly-fitted
fragments, and replaced. In the Mausoleum Room three slabs
of the cornice from the Temple of Athena Polias at Priene
have been completed with the aid of casts from Berlin. A
newly-acquired sarcophagus front and two lions’ heads have
been mounted in the Mausoleum Room passage.

A number of sculptures and casts of sculpture have been
removed to the King Edward VIJ. Galleries and set in
position on the staircase. Two casts of large Romano-British
reliefs have been temporarily mounted on the wall of the
Gallery of Casts, and other re-arrangements have been made.

2. The Upper Galleries.—A_ re-arrangement of sherds and
vase fragments of various periods, in drawers, has veen carried
out in the Second Vase Room. The unexhibited lamps have
been set out in drawers in the Fourth Vase Room according to
the order of the Catalogue. In the Bronze Room some of the
unexhibited bronzes have been re-arranged. A. finding list of
bronzes was compiled, and the finding lists of vases and terra-
cottas revised.

The section dealing with Public Games in the Exhibition
of Greek and Roman Life has been recomposed and re-
arranged; and the section dealing with the Theatre has been
remounted. The renumbering and repainting in the Terra-
cotta Room, after the repapering carried out last year, has
been completed.

The publication of the Catalogue of Lamps was completed.
Vol. I., Part I., of the Catalogue of Vases was completed ;in
proof to the end of the Mycenaean Section; Vol. V. of the
same catalogue was completed in manuscript. The volume of
Select Bronzes was completed in proof, and progress was made
with the Catalogue of Silver Plate, with the Greek Inscrip-
tions, and with the revised edition of Vol. I. of the Catalogue
of Sculpture. The collection of photogravures of select Marbles
and Bronzes was published, and the Postcard series was largely
increased.

Moulds have been made of three slabs of the Frieze and
part of the Llissos from the West Pediment of the Parthenon ;
of one head from Ephesus, and of part of the cornice of the
Mausoleum. The storecasts of the Athena and Poseidon of

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the Parthenon west pediment have been re-mounted and re-
moulded; casts from the Nereid Monument have been repaired.
Thirty-nine pieces of sculpture and fragments and three inscrip-
tions have been mounted on stone pedestals; one medallion
bust has been fixed in the Roman Gallery; one alabaster
statuette, six gems, forty-four bronzes, and twenty-one terra-
cottas have been mounted on wooden bases. Sixty-nine vases
and three series of vase fragments, eleven terraco ttas, seventeen
bronzes, three objects of alabaster, one of gold and one of
glass have been cleaned and repaired. 146 objects were
registered and 813 numbered; 142 labels were written and
244 printed.

The number of visits to the Departmental Library and
Students’ Room for purposes of research was 574; there were
992 other visits to the Staff for enquiry or on departmental
business, and 2,138 attendances of students of art and
architecture in the Sculpture Galleries.

II.—Acquisitions.

I.—Sculpture in stone or marble.

1. Marble altar dedicated to Hercules Augustus by Primi-
genius [uvencianus, keeper of the marbles of the Emperor
Vespasian ; in front is carved in low relief the club and
lionskin of Hercules, at the sides the cup and bow and quiver.
2 In,

Found in April, 1737, at the marble wharf (La Marmorata)
on the bank of the Tiber at Rome. C.J.L. VI. 301.

2. The front of a marble fluted sarcophagus, of the type
called Lenos, with two lions’ heads, with rings. L. 5 ft. 2 in.

3. Marble portrait bust, probably of Ist cent. A.D., in high
relief within a medallion formed by an oak wreath.

4. Marble sepulchral cippus dedicated by Valeria Donata
to her husband Tiberius Claudius Corinthius and herself.
Ht. 28% in. Found about 1731 at the Capene Gate, Rome.
C.I.L. VI. 14,979.

5. Inscribed marble sepulchral chest of Piotia Lesbiana,
with lid; on each side of the inscription are dolphins. C.J.L.
VI. 24,339. Ty

6. Inscribed marble sepulchral chest of Nicephoros, with lid.
This is the missing original from which the modern inscription
C.I.L. VI. 35,916 is copied. ;

7. Inscribed marble sepulchral chest of (Cn. Cornelius
Secundus ; around the inscription is:a swag of foliage suspended
from masks of Ammon.

8. Inscribed marble sepulchral chest of M. Vipsanius
Primigenius.

9. Two marble brackets with acanthus and _ palmette
decoration. Found at Ostia.

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10. Two (modern) reliefs of trophies ; brought from Rome,
1754.

11. Marble sepulchral urn, fluted.

Nos. 1—11 were brought from Rome to England about the
middle of the eighteenth century and are said to have been
once the property of General Sir H. T. Montresor (1767-1837)
of Denne Hill, Dover.

12. Marble stele with pediment and acroteria ; the lower
part broken away. In the centre is a relief of Zeus Stratios of
Labranda many-bréasted and holding spear and shield, with a
woman (Ada) on his right and a man (Idrieus) on his left, both
worshipping. Ht. 1 ft. 53 in.

Found in 1868 near the Temple of Athena Alea, Tegea.
IG. V. 2; No. 89; Mon. Prot. XVI. “p. 145" te Seoscher,
Lexicons. v. Stratios. col. 1548. Idrieus succeeded Artemisia,
widow of Mausolus of Halicarnassus, in 351 B.c., and died 344 B.c.
Ada, sister of Mausolus and Idrieus, reigned in Caria 344-340
and 334-323 B.c. In view of the fact that Scopas, who built
and decorated the temple at Tegea, was afterwards employed
on the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, it has been suggested
(Mon. Piot, l.c.) that the relief is the work of one of Scopas’s
assistants on his return from Asia. Cf. an inscribed base
at Delphi published in Bull. de Corr. Heli. XXIII., p. 384.

13. Basalt slab, having on one side a relief of the upper part
of a figure wearing a radiate crown and traces of a second
figure ; on the side and back an inscription of King Antiochus,
of Commagene. Ht. 2 ft. 7 in. From the banks of the
Euphrates, near Samosata. Published in J. H. 8S., XVIIL.,
pp. 312 ff; compare a relief published by Humann-Puchstein,
Reisen im Kleinasien, pp. 368 ff. Bequeathed by the late
Ho JB. Lynch i sq.

14. Alabaster group of Aphrodite and Eros; Aphrodite
stoops to untie her sandal, her left hand resting on a steering
paddle, which is supported by a rock; against this rock
crouches:a sleeping Eros. The group has preserved consider-
able traces of its original colour; red drapery, black eyebrows,
gold belts and wings. Ht.10}in. Found near Bvblus.

15. Marble fragment of relief showing the head of an actor
wearing a mask; the eyes and mouth appear through the
apertures of the mask. Presented by L. C. R. Messel, Ksq.

16. Steatite flat-bottomed bowl, the sides carved in the form
of six petals. From Crete. Hall, Aegean Archaeology, p. 66,
fig. 11.

Il.—Gems.

17. Chalcedony scarab, with intaglio design of an Oriental
monarch and a rampant lion; between them a dog; above,
dise and crescent. From Halicarnassus.

18. Chalcedony group carved in the round; on an acanthus
base is a hare captured by an animal, now missing, except for

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one claw, perhaps that of an eagle. From the neighbourhocd
of Smyrna.

III.—Gold.

19. Crescent pendant, with chain, set with three garnets.
Ist or 2nd century a.D. Found near Taormina, Sicily.

20. Ring with flat oval bezel on which is incised a design of
Artemis.

21. Double ring ; each ring is set with a sardonyx, and at
the junction is an oblong paste.

22. A series of ear-rings of the 35rd century a.p., from
Samsun; also a finger-ring with a sardonyx intaglio of a
parrot and ear of corn.

23. A series of beads and pendants in gold, jasper, and
carnelian, including two beads in the form of hands clasping
breasts. Found with the Mycenaean treasure said to have come
from Aegina (Cat. of Jewellery, Nos. 683-768) and detached
from it at the time of finding.

IV.—Lead.
24. Votive figurine of horseman with floating chlamys.

V.—Bronze.

25. Primitive statue of swordsman, wearing tunic, corselet,
and gorget, greaves, and crested cap. From Sardinia.
Ht. 104 in.

26. Winged figure, of Assyrian type, from the rim of a large
lebes. Length 63 in. From Olympia; 7th century B.c. Cf.
Olympia, Bronzen, pl. 44, Nos. 783, 784; Bull. de Corr. Hell,
XII., p. 12; Perrot-Chipiez, Histoire de l Art, II., p. 584; and
an example from Armenia in the Assyrian Room (No. 242).

27. Statuette of Hephaistos, wearing the chiton exomis and
peaked cap, about which is a delicately executed laurel wreath ;
compare heads of Cabeiros on coins of Lampsacus (B.M.
‘Catalogue of Greek Coins, Mysia, pl. AIX. 3). From Elis.
Ht. 5}in.

28. Statuette of a goddess (so-called Athena Neith) with the
snake head-dress, the right hand holding a lance. Ht. 82 in.
with the original pedestal. From the Fitzhenry Collection
_ (Lot 557); Burlington Fine Arts Catalogue of Greek Art,

p. 36, pl. 41.

29. Small statuette of draped female figure with arms
extended; the sprue (or waste material of the.casting) still
adheres to the feet. Presented by H. F. Bosanquet, Esq.

30. Helmet of the so-called Island type, with square face-
aperture and long cheek pieces; along the edge runs a border
of silver studs and palmettes, and on each cheek piece remain
traces of a silver relief of a horseman. From the Alpheus,
Olympia; cf. Olympia, Bronzen, IV., pl. 62, no. 1080; Arch.
Anzeiger, XX., p. 18.

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31. Steelyard with two suspension hooks and a double
graduation, from zero to 11 ibs. by ounces and from 8 to
38 pounds by quarter pounds. The suspension hooks terminate
in snakes’ heads, the chains in eagles’ heads; the weight
consists of a bust of Silenus, wreathed and wearing a nebris,
treated with great vigour. Found near Smyrna.

32. Terminal ornament of a chariot pole, consisting of two
grotesque heads tied back to back, with projecting thumbs
below; the eyes have been inlaid with silver. Cf. Bronzes de
la Bibl. Nat., 1979.

33. Flat dish with broad rim and centre boss; the handle
terminates in the figure of a panther issuing from a calyx.
Found in Palestine.

34. Ladle, the handle terminating in a dog’s head. From
Orvieto.

35. Lamp with two nozzles. From North Syria.

V I.— Vases.

36. Series of Minoan sherds from Kahun, Egypt. Presented
by Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie.

37. Sherd of Minyan ware. Presented by A.J. B. Wace,
Esq.

38. Series of sherds of early fabrics from Senirdje, S.W.
Asia Minor; cf. B.S.A. Ann., XVIII, pp. 80 ff. Presented
by H. A. Ormerod, Esq.

39. Two-handled cup of late Troian bucchero fabric; from
Troy. Formerly in the Calvert and Franks Collections.
Presented by Sir C. H. Read.

40. Small two-handled cup of sub-Mycenaean style, with
‘decoration of dots and rosettes; from Athens. Presented by
J. D. Beazley, Esq.

41. Large amphora of Dipylon Geometric style: the
principal band of ornament consists of a frieze of six chariots
and eight armed men on foot. On the handles are snakes in
relief. Ht. 2 ft, 34 in.

42. Kylix of Boeotian fabric on a high stem with
decorations of nine flying birds, rosettes and zig-zags.
Height 84 in.

43. Kylix of Vourva style: in the interior, a design of a
kneeling spearman; on the exterior, a band of palmettes and
lotos.

44, Amphora of Corinthian style: on the body, five friezes
of animals with rays below; on each side of the neck panels
containing a boar and a Sphinx respectively. Height,
1 ft. 54 in. ;

45. Jug of Etruscan bucchero ware: round the body, two
bands of lions and Sphinxes in relief; a Gorgoneion medallion
on each side of the handle, a lion on the back of the handle:
incised bands of rosettes. Height, 122 in.

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46. (a) Lekythos of transitional Attic style with decoration
in opaque red and incision on black ground ; design of Athena
holding heimet and shield. Height,&8}in. (b) White lekythos,
with design in black glazed outline; a youth leaning on a staff
and a girl holding out a flower and a mirror.

These two vases were excavated from a tomb at Himera,
Sicily, before 1870.

47. Amphora of green glazed ware; on the neck each side
are medallions with reliefs of Eros holding birds and a warrior ;
on the body are raised bands of ornament. Height 14 in.
Found at Selemieh, North Syria.

VIl.—Terracotta.

48. Statuette of Pan seated on a rock, holding a drinking-
horn, his head resting on his left hand. Height, 4$ in. From
Cyprus; cf. Winter, J'ypen I., p. 221, No. 3.

49. Group of two draped standing women, one playing the
double flutes, the other with a drum. Height, 7 in. From
N. Syria.

50. Series of animal figurines and grotesque human heads,
found near Smyrna. Presented by Cyril van Lennep, Esq.

51. Statuette of standing figure with unusual drapery,
from Cyprus; cf. Froéhner, Tyszkiewicz Coll. pls. 30, 31.
Presented by H. Holmes Orr, Esq.

52. Fragment of corrugated tile from the floor of the
Palaestra of Olympia. Presented by A. F. Somerset, Esq.

53. (a4) Pyramidal loomweight with two suspension holes.
(b) Clay bell with bands of black paint on exterior. Both
from Ephesus. Presented by H. B. Neison, Esq.

VIII.— Miscellaneous.

54. (a) Wooden doll. (6b) Wooden child’s clapper.
(c) Leathern slipper with covered toes and purple edging.
(d) Similar slipper with purple embroidered rosette.
(e) Similar slipper without toe-covering. (jf) Fragment of
silk embroidery. Al] from Antinoe. Presented by the Egypt
Heploration Fund.

A. H. Smith.

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DEPARTMENT OF BRITISH AND MEDIZVAL ANTIQUITIES AND
ETHNOGRAPHY.

1—Arrangement, Cataloguing, ke.

Prehistoric Saloon.—A special exhibition of flints from
Northfleet, Kent, has been arranged in a desk-case; the
exhibition drawers have been overhauled, and several additions
made of flint and bronze implements.

Romano-British Section.-—The exhibition drawers in the
Central Saloon have been overhauled periodically ; and plinths
provided for labelling the pottery exhibited and in storage.

Anglo-Saxon Room.—Several groups of specimens exhibited
on boards have been remounted and relabelled.

Medieval Room.—The permanent labelling of the dials
and mathematical instruments has been completed; a series
of colonial seals cleaned, and extra plate-glass protection
provided for three table-cases.

Glass and Ceramic Gallery.— The collection of Italian
maiolica has been relabelled, and the exhibition cases in the
ante-room dismantled, the specimens being exhibited elsewhere
or stored in the King Edward VII. Galleries.

Gallery of Religions.—Coptic frescoes and six terra-cotta
vessels from Egypt have been restored for exhibition; and
three inscriptions from Egypt mounted. The Buddhist section
has been re-arranged after the structural alterations, and 63
Gandhara sculptures cleaned.

Asiatic Saloon.—Two sections have been re-arranged to
accommodate recent acquisitions, and the labelling of three
standard cases of porcelain revised. Hight wall-cases were
cleared for repairs to the glass, and the English porcelain
removed temporarily into wall-cases. Three large Chinese
box-bricks have been cleaned.

King EdwardVT1. Gallery (Ground floor).—The temporary
exhibition of Sir M. A. Stein’s Collection from Chinese Turkestan
was partly arranged by the Department ; and after the closing of
the gallery, the standard cases for the Waddesdon Collection
were transferred. The bays and cases in this gallery have been
lettered, and a screen erected behind the Lohan pottery-figure.

Ethnographical Gallery.— Three large standard cases
(containing Japanese armour, objects frcm Torres Straits and
N. American dresses) as well as a wall-case, have been cleaned.
Three wall-cases in the African section have been arranged, and
the African and Polynesian sections labelled. Three stone idols
from Tahiti anda series from Wallis Island have been exhibited:

American Room.—The re-arrangement and the permanent
labeiling of the various series of pottery have been continued.

Registration.—The registration of current acquisitions has
been continued, and 3,072 objects have been added, including

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ethnographical specimens. Numbers have been painted on 2,830
specimens and 758 permanent labels written.

Photographs to the number of 81 have been prepared in the
Department for purposes of illustration and reference, and 34
photographic prints and 11 lantern slides made. Typewritten
labels to the number of 538 have been cut and bordered; 39
mounting-boards covered with paper and two with velvet, and
1,784 objects mounted. There have been prepared 281 trays,
tablets, pedestals, labels, frames, plinths and packing-cases, and
several exhibition cases re-fitted. Further progress has been
made with the classification and storage of photographic
negatives and ethnographical documents.

The departmental offices were transferred to the White
Wing in August, and the library re-arranged in newly erected
book-cases and cupboards. A slip catalogue of books is in
preparation. The ceramic library and stored pottery specimens
have been removed to the King Edward VII. galleries.

Excavations were conducted in cravels at Rickmansworth,
Herts, on 10 days in the autumn, and the Swansea meeting of
the Museums Association was attended in July. A large
collection of flints from Northfleet was classified and removed
from Gravesend to the Museum, where type series were
selected and despatched to 22 provincial museums, with
portions of the Stone Age collection bequeathed by Mr. Richard
Jones, of Welling. The inventory of ancient and foreign
specimens in the Tower Armoury has been checked, and those
sections removed to the Museum, where a selection has been
made.

Publications.—Current additions have been made to the slip
catalogue of Oriental pottery and porcelain, and the Catalogue
of Renaissance and later gems completed. Further illustrations
have been prepared for the Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon
guides; and the photographs and text provided for series of
pictor ial postcards representing objects in the Department. A
report of the excavations conducted in conjunction with H.M.
Geological Survey in 1912 has been prepared and published in
Archeologia, vol. LXV.

Stwdents.—Two thousand eight hundred and seventy-three
students and visitors have been received in the Department,
and a demonstration given in the Prehistoric Room by a member
of the staff.

2. Acquisitions,
(1.) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities :—

(a) Stone Age.—A large series of palolithic implements
and worked flakes chiefly from gravel-pits at Kennet and Kent-
ford, near Newmarket, and from the surface at Tuddenham,
near Mildénhall, Suffolk. Presented by C. R. Jennings, Esq.

Seven paleoliths from gravel near Grove Park Station
Mottingham, Kent. Presented by Harry Muller, Esq.

0.69 G

84 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Flint chopper of quadrant form from Southfleet pit, North-
fleet, Kent. Presented by J. Reid Moir, Esq.

Series of 139 flint specimens excavated by a committee of
the East Anglian Prehistoric Society at Grime’s Graves,
Weeting, Norfolk.

Large flint core and two implements made from thick flakes,
from the surface near Grime’s Graves. Presented by Miss
Nina Layard.

The flint specimens illustrated in Archeological Journal,
LXX., being a selection from a large number excavated by the
donor at Peppard Common, Oxon. Presented by Dr. E. A.
Peake.

Two flint implements of unusual form and uncertain date,
from the surface at Winterslow, Wilts. Presented by Dr. T.G.
Longstaff.

Two flake implements of local chert from Portland. Pre-
sented by G. J. B. Fox, Esq.

Flint celt with cutting-edve polished, from Washing Bay,
Lough Neagh, N. Ireland. Presented by the Rt. Hon. the
Viscount Charlemont.

Half a polished flint axe-hammer, with a natural perforation
adapted for use, found near Gloucester. Presented by Dr.
Corner.

(b) Bronze Age.—A hoard of 48 pieces, including winged
and socketed celts, gouge, chape, sword-fragments and copper
cake, found at Addington, Surrey. Presented by Sir Hercules
Read, LL.D.

Looped and socketed spear-head found on Brighton Down,
Sussex.

Cylindrical cinerary urn with lattice pattern on body and
depressions below the lip, found at Icklingham, Suffolk. Pre-
sented by the Rt. Hon. the Viscownt Iveagh.

Cinerary urn, covered with finger-nail indentations, found
at Brantham, near Manningtree, Essex. Presented by John R.
Keeble, Esq.

(c) Harly Iron Age.—Urn of reddish ware, with conical
bosses at irregular intervals between incised panels on the
shoulder, from Loudwater, High Wycombe, Bucks. Presented
by Sir Hercules Read, LL.D.

Pottery fragments of an urn with debased fret pattern and
of a larger vessel with zones of incised ornament, found at Deal,
Kent, and described in Proceedings of the Socrety of Anti-
quarves, XXVI., 129. Presented by S. Hazzledine Warren,
fisq., F.G.S.

Iron lance-head with round hole at base of blade, found at
Scarborough, Yorks. Presented by Thos. Boynton, Esq.,
ESAs

(d) Foreign.—Thirteen flint and chert implements of paleo-
lithic forms, from the surface near Samaria, Palestine. Pre-
sented by Herbert EH. Clark, Esq.

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A large series of flint, quartz, chert, and sandstone imple-
ments and flakes from the Western Sahara. Presented by Dr.
R. J. Fromholz.

Five implements of rock-crystal and one of chert from various
sites in Ceylon. Presented by HE. J. Wayland, Esq.

A large series of pygmy rock-crystal implements collected
by the donor in the province of Uva, Ceylon. Presented by
Principal Hartley, of Colombo.

Two bronze halbert-blades with archaic Chinese inscrip-
tions. Presented by S. M. Eveleigh, Esq.

Four Danish urns of the Early Iron Age, from the Jensen
Collection.

Gold bar and four Celtic coins from the Vetulonia find,
Etruria, about 150 B.c.

(2.) Romano-British :—
Two pottery vases found at Burnham, Bucks.

Bronze key with barrel and flat looped handle, said to be
from Thames Ditton.

Massive bronze handle of key, found near Canterbury.
Presented hy Col. Copeland, F.S.A.

Bronze padlock in the form of a horse, found at South Gate,
Chichester. Presented by Rk. Martin Holland, Esq.

(3.) Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic :—

Bronze “hand-pin” of the 7th or 8th century, said to have
been found on Brighton Down, Sussex.

Two bronze buckle-plates of the Visigothic period, from the
province of Jaen, Spain. Presented by Horace Sandars, Esq.,
FSA.

(4.) Medieval and Later :—

(a.) Brotish —Amber matrix of seal of the 13th century,
with spring, fish, bird and lion.

Brass astrolabe for the latitudes of Berwick, Newcastle,
York, Nottingham, Oxford and Dover, 14th century ; described
in Ar cheeologia, LIL, 75. Presented by Maurice Rosonherm,
Esq., PSA.

Ivory leaf of writing tablet, with standing figures of the
Virgin and Child with St. Peter and St. Eanswith, 14th century.
Presented by the National Art Collections Fund.

Alabaster panel of St. Catharine refusing to sacrifice to an
idol, with traces of colour, from Yarnton Church, Oxon (Soe.
Ants , Cat. Alabaster Huhibition, No. 60).

Cast of a tilting-helm in Birling Church, Kent, known as
the Nevill Heaume, about 1490. Presented by F. H. Cripps
Day, Esq.

Crossbow bolt of the 15th century. Presented by C. T.
Smithers, Esq.

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Bronze bell engraved with tau-cross, found at Boxgrove,
Sussex. Presented by A. W. F. Fuller, Esq.

Contemporary cameo portrait of Queen Elizabeth on onyx.

Silver badge of horse-shoe form with gryphon and SRR
engraved, with chain attached, from Sheffield, date about 1600
(Treasure Trove).

Heraldic signet-ring, with engraved legend, Tried with the
giver’s love the gold but drosse will prove, said to have been
found at Grittleton, near Chippenham, early 17th century.

Twenty pieces from a jeweller’s stock of the early 17th cen-
tury, foundin London. Presented by Rt. Hon. Lewis Harcourt,
MAPS D.GaE.

Gold watch, the cover chased with shells and flowers, 18th
century. Presented by Mrs. Crawford Hayes.

Thirty-one colonial and official seal-matrices, now obsolete.
Presented by the Lord President of the Cownerl.

(b.) Foreign.—Italian spur and two padlocks of the 17th
century.

Two wafering irons, central Italian, early 16th century.
Presented by Dr. Hildburgh.

A. sporting crossbow of the 17th century. Presented
anonymously.

Pair of German pewter altar cruets, marked A and V, early
19th century. Presented by C. Lund, Esq.

(5.) Ceramic and Glass Collections :—
(a.) Oriental Wares.—Four large pottery - box-tiles with
diaper and architectural decoration, of the Han dynasty.
Glazed pottery pillow, with Chinese inscription, dated
A.D. 1071.
Four glazed pottery specimens of the Sung or Yiian period.

Two blue and white Chinese plates and Japanese pottery
vase with mark of the Ota factory. Presented by Capt.
K. Dingwall, D.S.O.

Celadon-ware bowl with 8-pointed star, Chinese or Siamese,
13th century. Presented by Rev. Canon EL. H. Fellowes.

Celadon-ware dish spoilt in firing, and series of pottery
vessels from Sawankhalok, Siam.

Chinese porcelain wine-cup with mark of the Ch’éng Hua
period (1465-87). Presented by F. C. Harrison, Hsq.

Two vases of pottery and porcelain from ruins of pagodas
in Ayuthia, the ancient capital of Siam, late Ming period.
Presented by Jas. McCurthy, Esq.

Pottery bowl and cup, the former with long inscription of
the 13th century, from Rhages, Persia. Presented by H. van
den Bergh, Esq.

(b.) Continental.—Part of a large pottery dish with figure
of horseman in lustre, found on the site of a pottery at Valencia.
Presented by M. Stora.

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Porcelain saucer, probably Limoges, marked C in blue.
Presented by W. S. de Winton, Esq.

Porcelain coffee-pot with floral design, probably early
Meissen. Presented by H. Green, Esq.

_ Four dishes and two jugs of North Hungarian peasant
pottery, 18th century. Presented by HE. Torday, Esq.

Series of Balkan pottery vessels. Presented by Miss
M. EL. Durham.

Hispano-Mexican oval pottery dish with yellowish green
glaze. Presented by Sir William Crookes, O.M., P.B.S.

(c.) English.— Pottery fragments with different glazes, found
on the site of old potteries at Brislington and Crew’s Hole,
Bristol. Presented by W. Pountney, Esq.

Pottery group in an arbour, green glaze, 18th century.

Stoneware mug with silver mount, probably made by
Dwight of Fulham about 1680, and pitcher-mould for making
slipware dishes, inscribed—William Bird made this mould
in the year of our Lord 1751. Presented by B. T. Harland,
Esq.

Delft drug-pot found at the Mansion House, City of London.
Presented by G. HE. Builen, Esq.

_ Pottery drug-pot, unglazed, found in Southwark Presented
by W. J. Pavyer, Esq.

(d.) Glass—Blue jug with threads on body and tooth-
pattern helow the handle, Roman period ; from the Kast.

Bottle and phial, both pale green, of the Roman period, from
Crete. Presented by Lady Brackenbury.

Diminutive jug, blue with openwork threads, Roman period.
Presented by L. McCormick Goodhart, Esq.

(6.) Collection illustrating various Religions :—

(a.) Christianity:—Bronze censer with scenes from the life
of our Lord in relief, Byzantine, 6th-7th century.

Silver chalice inscribed in Greek with the names of Sergius
and John, from Aleppo.

(b.) Buddhism.—Four Greeco-Buddhist carvings. Presented
by Ineut.-Col. G. A. Dale.

Bronze head of Buddha, from the Shwé Dagon pagoda,
Rangoon, about 16th century. Presented by Mrs. Hustace
Smith.

Bronze head of Buddha with traces of yellow, obtained in
Pekin. Presented by Mrs. Florence.

Four dises of clay and composition from the collection of
the late Dr. Brighouse. Presented by A. G. L. Gamlen, Esq.

Three ficures of wood, bronze, and alabaster, and a bronze
head from Burma. Presented by Miss E. M. M Rae.

Coloured wooden seated figure of Buddha, from Theebaw’s
palace. Presented by Mrs. Greenhill.

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Five figures of wood and alabaster from Burma. Presented
by S. #. FP. Jenkins, Esq.

Marble standing figure with traces of paint. Presented by
Mrs. Winch.

Four jade cylinders squared outside, Chinese ritual objects
used in the worship of Heaven, first millennium B.c.

Brahmanism.—Marble panel with monster and two human
figures in relief, on a corbel with elephant’s head.

Series of Hindu figures and Jain Tirthankaras, of the 12th
and later centuries. Presented by Henry Oppenheimer, Esq.,
through the National Art Collections Fund.

(7.) Oriental and Ethnographical :—

Hwrope.—Various articles of dress, musical instruments,
and other objects from the Balkan States. Presented by Miss
M. E. Durham.

A type-series of Cypriote textiles, together with specimens
of pottery.

Asia.—Two gold belt-clasps, a fine collection of silver bowls
and other vessels, and a series of weapons from the Malay
States. Collected by the late Hon. Martin Lister, British
Resident at Negri Sembilan, and presented by the Hon.
Adelaide Lister.

Two sabres of Indian type; one inscribed “ Taken by
Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni from India to Afghanistan,” the
other ‘‘ Usman, Ispahan.” Presented, on behalf of Mohammed
Maghul Husain Khan, by Sir James Weston, K.C.1L4., 0.8.1,
through Capt. C. Watson Smyth.

An Indian land-grant, on copper plates.

A pack of Indian playing-cards, made of ivory.
Two bronze figures of deer, from Western Asia,
A Saracenic lamp of Coptic type, from Egypt.

Oil-bottle, snuff-box, eye-shade and other objects from
China. Presented by Charles Lund, Esq.

An oriental bronze mirror of medizeval workmanship.

An extensive ethnographical collection from the Philippine
Islands.

Africa.—An important ethnographical series, illustrative
chiefly of the Pagan religion of the lbibio people of the Eket
district of Southern Nigeria. Presented by P. Amaury
Talbot, Esq.

A key, paint-brush, unfinished stone bow] and amber beads
from graves of the Roman period at Lahun, Egypt. Presented
by the British School of Archeology in Egypt.

A wizard’s bag, containing medicines and charms, from the
Embu of the East Africa Protectorate. Presented by Lieut.
G. S. J. Orde Browne.

BRITISH AND MEDIAVAL ANTIQUITIKS. 89

A silver comb, partly overlaid with gold leaf, from Lamu,
being one of six made for the harem of Sultan Hamoud bin
Mohammed of Zanzibar. Given by Clarke Thornhill, Esq.

A large series of obsidian flakes and implements, from a
site until recently covered with thick forest at Njoro, East
Africa Protectorate. Presented by W. A. Tunstall, Hsq.

A series of ethnographical objects from the Uganda Pro-
tectorate. Presented by Major Ashburnham.

An ethnographical series, principally from the Swahili,
Pokomo and Galla tribes of the East Africa Protectorate.

A series of domestic utensils from the Kikuyu and Kamba
tribes of the East Africa Protectorate.

A collection of pottery pipe-bowls, from the Angas on the
south-eastern slope of the Central Nigerian Plateau. Presented
by F. C. Fou, Esq.

A carved ivory tusk, from Benin,
A series of stone axes, found on the surface; Northern
Nigeria. Presented by Henry C. Collyer, Esq.

A large stone axe, regarded by the natives as a thunder-
fetish, from Ninkada, Northern Nigeria. Presented by the

’ Rev. J. J. Crathorne.

A series of stone celts from a number of localities in
Northern Nigeria. Presented by FE. A. Langslow Cock, Esq.

An ethnographical series from Northern Nigeria. Presented
by J. M. Fremantle, Esq.

Fetish objects from the Makangara and Kamuku pagans of
Northern Nigeria.

A state sword, formerly belonging to the chief of Apollonia,
obtained by the late Mr. F. Swanzy about the year 1844.
Presented by Iieut.-Col. G. S. Parry.

A series of quartzite implements and flakes, from an
undisturbed bed of gravel near Accra, Gold Coast. Presented
by H. B. Popham, Esq.

Two steatite heads from Mendi-land, Sierra Leone. Pvre-
sented by R. M. J. Baynes, Esq.

Carnelian beads from Sierra Leone. Presented by the Hon.
A.C. Hollis, C.M.G.

Oceania.—Three stone images from Tahiti. Presented by
ELE. L. Gruning, Esq.

A stone figure from Easter Island and a lava figure from
Hawaii. Presented by Commander F. St. G. Brooker.

A kiwi-feather cloak from New Zealand. Presented by
Mrs. H. J. Tozer.

A ceremonial mace and a lime-spatula, both inlaid with
pearl-shell, from Malanta, Solomon Islands, Presented by Sir
Everard im Thurn, K.C.M.G., CB.

90 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

A ceremonial figure in the form of a seated man, from
the New Hebrides. Presented by Sir Henry Evan James,
KC Joh, CiSa0

A series of ethnographical specimens, chiefly from Fiji.

A series of masks and weapons from the Gulf of New
Guinea, collected by the late Rev. J. Chalmers.

America.—A gold finger-ring of unusually fine workman-
ship, Ancient Mexican. Presented by Miss Mary Grace
Thornton.

A series of stone figurines, ear-ornaments, beads, and other
obiects from Copan, Honduras, and a large silver pin from
Patagonia. Presented by Louis C. G. Clarke, Esq.

Two harpoons, probably from Hudson Bay, and a shell
spoon from Alert Bay. Presented by Commander F. St. G.
Brooker.

A pair of turquoise mosaic ear-ornaments, from the Hopi;
and a basket ornamented with feather-work from the Pomo.
Presented by W. Crewdson, Esq., F.S.A.

A fine pottery head, probably part of a censer, in early
Maya style. Presented by Sir Henry H. Howorth, K.C.LE.

Two stone carvings and two pottery fragments in Maya
style. Presented by Alfred P. Maudslay, Esq., D.Sc.

Plaster cast of an obsidian bowl with a human head in
relief, and the name-glyph of Tizoc, the 7th Aztec king
(c. 1482 a.D.) Presented by Senor Adolphe Best.

A stone statuette, ancient Mexican.

A series of painted pottery from graves in the “Chiriqui”
region, with a few pieces from the Ecuadorian coast.

A collection of remarkably fine painted pottery, textiles,
and ornaments, principally from very early graves in the
Valley of Nasca, but also from other cemeteries on the Peruvian
coast.

A series of unusually fine specimens of Inca pottery,
collected at Cuzco.

A series of pottery fragments, plain and with impressed
designs, from the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina,

_ An ethnographical collection from the Rio Igara Parana,
Rio Negro, Putumayo, and Ucayale.

CHRISTY COLLECTION.

During the year the Trustees have acquired by donation the
following objects, which have been transferred to the Trustees
of the British Museum :—

(1.) Ethnography of Africa :—
Two pottery vessels from the Shilluk of Renk on the White
Nile. Presented by G. W. Grabham, Esq.

BRITISH AND MEDIEVAL ANTIQUITIES. 91

A bow, quiver, bag and other objects obtained from Somali
hunters in the East Africa Protectorate. Presented by R. B.
Woosnam, Esq.

A pierced stone, used in taking oaths, and a stone ear-
ornament, from the A-Kikuyu, East Africa Protectorate.
Presented by the Hon. Charles F. Dundas.

A native-made model outrigger canoe, of the type used
at Malindi, though manufactured on the Comoro Islands,
Presented by T. A. Dickson, Esq.

A copper jug of Arab workmanship, from Mombasa.
Presented by Stanley Sanderson, Esq.

An A-Ngoni dancing-dress, from British Central Africa.
Presented by Fred A. Coe, Esq.

A string of blue beads, from Nanji, Cameroons. Presented
by G. S. Hepburn, Esq.

A wooden bull-roarer (Oro), obtained from the Ibadan
people, Southern Nigeria. Presented by L. J. Harris, Esq.

Two wooden masks, obtained at Iju, Southern Nigeria.
Presented by Mrs. Lang.

A series of quartzite flakes, from an undisturbed bed of
gravel near Accra, Gold Coast. Presented by Sir Hugh
Clifford, K.C.M.G.

A series of stone celts from the Gold Coast. Presented by
J. Dalrymple, Esq.

An iron knife with inlaid handle, from Sierra Leone.
Presented by S. Desylla, Esq.

Two iron rods used as currency, from Kanre Lahun, Sierra
Leone. Presented by the Hon. A. C. Hollis, C.M.G.

(2.) Ethnography of Asia :—
A reed for a loom, modern Chinese. Presented by the
Rev. Dr. John Steele.

A plaited grass band, from the Abor of Assam. Presented
by EL. Denison Ross, E'sq., CLL.

A series illustrating the methods of native basket and lace
manufacture, from Malacca. Presented by Mrs. Bland.

(3.) Ethnography of Oceanva :—

A sketch in oils of a sacred enclosure, Hawaiian Islands.
Presented by Francesco P. del Mar, Esq.

A wooden club from Tonga, one from Fiji, and two dance-
clubs from Santa Cruz. Presented by B. T. Lang, Esq.,
oad. .MC,

A wooden canoe-ornament, representing two fishing spirits
(Kesoko), from Rubiana, Solomon Islands. Presented by A.
M. Hocurt, Esq.

An ovoid object of gypsum, found in an aboriginal] grave at
Tilpa, New South Wales. Presented by J. Edge-Partington,
Esq.

92 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

(4.) Antiquities and Ethnography of America :—

An ethnographical series collected by Mrs. Cordelia L. M.
Noble, of Nome, Alaska. Presented by Mrs. E. Mathilde
Claridge.

A model totem pole, carved from shale, from Queen
Charlotte Island. Presented by Miss Adam.

A wooden ceremonial mask from the North-west Coast.
Presented by St. George Littledale, Esq.

A stone hammer, from Binscarth, Manitoba. Presented by
A. W. Sumpson, Esq.

A series of stone arrow-heads found in the Missouri Valley,
as far down as St. Louis. Presented by A. W. Westhorpe, Esq.

Two fragments of ancient pottery, one with painted orna-
ment, the other with impressed designs, from Coban, Guatemala.
Presented by C. Fleischmann, Esq.

A series of stone implements and pottery fragments from
Grande Carinage, SantoDomingo. Presented by His Excellency
Mr. Stephen Leech.

A series of stone arrow-heads and a fragment of pottery,
from Kstancia La Blanca Grande, San Luis, Argentina. Pre-
sented by Ronald E. Cotton, Esq.

A number of stone arrow-heads from Patagonia. Presented
by J. Dalrymple, Esq.

A. raw-hide bag containing maté, from Paraguay. Presented
by J. Busch, Esq.

C. Hercules Read.

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DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS.

J.— Registration and Arrangement.
1. Greek Series :—

Four hundred and ninety coins of the Greek series, recently
acquired, have been registered and incorporated. | Fifty-five
coins, previously classed as uncertain, have been identified and
incorporated in the collection. Four hundred and thirty-one
casts and electrotypes have been incorporated in the collection
of casts and electrctypes of coins not in the British Museum,
in addition to several hundred casts of coins of Palestine which
were obtained for study in connection with that volume of the
Catalogue of Greek coins. A beginning has been made in the
classification of Mionnet’s miscellaneous sulphur casts.

The coinages of the Ptolemies, of Palestine and of Gades
in Spain have been arranged, fresh heading cards inserted and
fresh labels written; the cabinet of unidentified Greek coins
has been re-arranged in uniformity with the card-index of
types. Fresh heading cards have also been written and
inserted in the coinages of Calabria, Samos, Lucania, Caria,
Ionia, Pisidia, Cilicia, Lycaonia, &c., Galatia, &c., Cyrrhestica,
&e. The imperial series of Ionia has been specially studied
with reference to cultus-statues.

The MS. Bibliography of Greek Numismatics has been
brought up to date; progress has been made with the Card
Index of Coins arranged according to types; a terminal index
of ethnics on Greek coins has been completed.

Several collections of coins and Sale Catalogues have been
examined with a view to selection for purchase or donation.

2. Roman and Byzantine Serves :-—

Ninety-six coins, recently acquired, have been registered
and incorporated. The collection of casts of coins not in the
British Museum has been increased and arranged on the system
of the coin collection.

The series of gold coins from Hadrian to Romulus
Augustulus has been arranged in new cabinets and new
heading cards written. The imperia] series from Gallienus
to Diocletian has been re classified to facilitate reference, and
the series is being carefully studied with a view to a more
scientific arrangement in accordance with the mint-marks on
the coins.

Collections have been examined and selections made with
a view to acquisition by purchase and donation.

The Bibliography of Roman Numismatics has been brought
up to date.

D4 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

3. British and Colonial Series :—
One thousand and seventy-one coins and medals, recently
acquired, have been registered and incorporated.

A find of coins of Henry III. from Slype (West Flanders)
has been examined and described and a selection made for
purchase ; selections for purchase have also been made from
a hoard of pennies of Edward I. and II., found at Carsphairn
(Galloway) and from a hoard of sixteenth century Scottish
coins found at Ayr.

Collections have been examined with a view to selection
for purchase by the British Museum.

The series of tradesmen’s tickets has been re-arranged and
increased by a recent donation.

4. Medieval and Modern Series :—

One thousand three hundred and thirty-two coins and medals,
recently acquired, have been registered and incorporated.

A large collection of European coins, chiefly of the Latin
Kast, has been examined, and a numerous selection made
which has been presented to the British Museum. Other
smaller collections have been examined with a view to
selection for acquisition by purchase or donation.

The series of coins of the Dukes of Athens has been
expanded and new heading cards inserted. The transference
of the Italian medals of the Renaissance to cabinets of a new
pattern has been completed, and the series re-arranged and
freshly labelled.

The Card Index of personal foreign medals has been com-
pleted, and an index of artists of this series has been made.

5. Oriental Series : —

Three hundred and forty coins, recently acquired, have been
registered and incorporated.

The series of the Sassanian kings of Persia has been
expanded. The coinages of the Indo-Greek and Kushan rulers
of India have been carefully studied and classified. A general
examination of the Oriental series has been made with a view
to making notes of coins at present unpublished. The arrange-
ment of the coins of the Medizval Mohammedan States and
of the Moghul Empire has been rectified, and new heading
cards inserted. The series of coins of the Shahs of Persia,
the Buwayhids, Ayyubids, Timurids and Shaybanids have
been re-arranged under mints and new and additional heading
cards written.

New heading cards have heen inserted in the Gupta series.

Collections and Sale Catalogues have been examined and
selections made for acquisition by purchase and donation.

An exhibition was arranged of coins illustrating the history
of Persia on the occasion of the visit of the Persia Society to
the British Museum.

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6. General Arrangement :--

Selections of coins have been made for future exhibition in
electrotype, and for casting for educational purposes.

II.—Catalogues.

1. CATALOGUES OF GREEK COINS.

Coins of Palestine (Galilee, Samaritis and Judea), by
GF. Hill.

The text from sheet Mm onwards and the whole of the
introduction and indexes have been passed for press, and the
volume published.

Coins of Cyrenaica, by E. 8. G. Robinson.

The early coinage of Cyrenaica has been studied and biblio-
graphical, metrological, and historical notes have been made ;
a connected account of the first three periods of this coinage
has been prepared; the coinage of Syrtica and Byzacene has
been examined and re-arranged. The verification of the coins
of the Cyrenaica series with the registration books is completed.
402 coins have been weighed and 217 described.

Coins of Arabia, &c., by G. F. Hill.

One hundred and sixty-one coins have been weighed and 295
arranged and catalogued. Casts of coins of this series not i
the British Museum have been incorporated with the collection
of coins for purposes of study. The coinages of Nabatea, the
cities of Arabia, and the Himyarite rulers of South Arabia have
been arranged and described, and the historical introduction to
these portions written ; facsimile drawings have been made of
the inscriptions on coins of Nabatza, and of the inscriptions
and monograms on coins of the Himyarite rulers of South
Arabia.

2. CATALOGUE OF ROMAN COINS.
Coins of the Harly Roman Empire, by H. Mattingly.

Two hundred and sixty-three coins have been weighed and
described. The coins down to the accession of Vespasian have
been verified with the registration books. <A special study has
been made of the period A.D. 68-70 and the gold and silver
coins of Vespasian and his sons have been re-arranged.
Literary sources have been studied and progress has been made
with assigning dates and places of minting to various issues ;
the issues of silver in the provinces under the empire have
been carefully examined in the light of historical authorities.
The section of the Introduction dealing with the general
principles of arrangement has been written. The descriptions
of coins from Augustus to Claudius have been revised and

amplified.

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3. CATALOGUE OF ENGLISH COINS.
Corns of the Norman Kings, by G. C, Brooke.

The sixty-two plates have been passed for press and worked
off, and references to the plates have been inserted in the text
of the catalogue. Drawings for founts and devices and for the
epigraphical tables have been sent to press, the founts and
devices have been made and the epigraphical table printed. The
manuscript of the catalogue has been revised and the numbers
of coins inserted and the bibliographical notes completed ;
the text to the end of the reign of Henry 1. has been sent
to the printers. Signatures A to M (pages 1-176) have been
passed for press and N for revise. A special study has been
made of the baronial and irregular issues of the reign of
Stephen. The manuscript of the greater part of the Introduc-
tion has been written and revised.

4. CATALOGUES OF INDIAN COINS.
Coins of the Gupta Dynasties, by J. Allan.
The indexes have been prepared, signatures U-Aa have
been printed. The introduction has been completed and
printed (signatures a-s), and the whole work published.

Ancient Hindu Coins, by J. Allan.

The series and its bibliography have been studied and the
descriptions of 89 coins have been written.

5. MEDALS,
Select Italian Medals, by G. F. Hill.

The 50 plates have been mounted and sent to the printers,
and 31 have been sent for revise.

IlI.—Acquisitions.

The total number of coins and medals added to the
Department during the year 1914 was 3,090, of which 61 were
of gold, 2,170 of silver, 701 of bronze, and 158 of other metals.

The following table shows the numbers of the new acqui-
sitions, classified according to the several series .to which they
belong :—

eee Other

Class. Gold. Silver. | Bronze. Metals. Total.

Greek - - - = 21 193 464 49 727
Ronan - - - - 4 34 64 3 105
British and Colonial = = 10 745 129 92 976
Medizeval and Modern - - 6 1,175 42 10 1,233
Oriental - - - -— 20 22 1 t AT
Chinese - - - - —_— . 1 1] — 2
Total - - 61 2,170 701 158 3,090

Of the above, 1,914 have been presented, viz., 6 of gold,
1,295 of silver, 527 of bronze, and 86 of other metals.

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The following is a list of benefactors to the Department
of Coins and Medals during the past year :—

His Grace the Duke of Portland ; H.M. First Commissioner
of Works; the Deputy Master of the Mint; the Director of
Agriculture for the Central Provinces of India; the Govern-
ment of Madras; the National Art Collections Fund; the
Keypt Exploration Fund; the Directors of the Bank of British
West Africa; the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic
Society ; the American Numismatic Society; E. D. Adams,
Esq.; James Anderson, Esq.; Miss Agnes Baldwin; V. C.
Bentinck, Esq.; E. M. Beloe, Esq.: Henry Van den Bergh,
Ksq.; J. Berry, Esq., F.R.C.S.; Dr. John Brighouse (Executors
of the late); W. H. Buckler, Esq.; R. O. Burnett, Esq. ;
Prof. V. Casagrandi; W. Charlton, Esq., J.P.; Lieut.-Colonel
G. B. Croft-Lyons, F.S.A.; H. D. Curtis, Esq.; Richard Dalton,
Esq.; Prof. Hermann Dessau (Komitee zur Feier von Otto
Hirschfelds 70. Geburtstage); Count Miklos Dessewffy ;
Messrs. O. M. and R. Y. Eidlitz; Miss A. M. Elverson; Miss
Helen Farquhar; A. Felsenthal, Esq.; K. u. K. Regierungsrat
Eduard Fiala; Andrew Forgan, Esg.; Dom D. T. Fournier ;
A. G. L. Gamlen, Esq.; R. L. Gamlen, Esq.; T. Whitcombe
Greene, Esq., F.S.A.; Julius Hannes, Esq.; F. W. Hasluck,
Esq.; Edward Hawkins, Esq.; G. F. Hill, Esq.; Madame H.
Hymans; H. Davis Ives, Esq.; P. W. Jarvis, Esq.; Signor
Stefano Johnson; Homer Lane, Esq.; L. A. Lawrence, Esq.,
F.S.A.; Prof. Dr. J. Leite de Vasconcellos ; H. Lowerison,
Esq.; Dr. R. Main ; Alexander Mann, Hsq.; 8. F. May, Esq. ;
Alfred Meigh, Esq. ; Direktor Dr. Julius Menadier ; J. Grafton
Milne, Esq.; W. Minet, Esq., F.S.A.; J. Pierpont Morgan,
Esq.; M. A. Muchmoff; Dr. R. Miinsterberg ; Paul Neff Verlag ;
R. Newstead, Esq.; Edward T. Newell, Esq.; M. Alexis V.
Greshmikoy; M.°S: Prichard, “Esq.; Kev. F. D,) Ringrose
(Executors of the late); Maurice Rosenheim, Esq., F.S.A. ;
Horace Sandars, Esq., F.S.A.; E. J. Seltman, Hsq.; C. Davies
Sherborn, Esq.; E. B. Smith, Esq.; Messrs. Spink & Son;
Henry Symonds, Esq., F.8.A.; J. R. Taylor, Esq., M.A., F.R.G.S. ;
C. Thackray, Esq., M.D. ; Charles Tite, Esq.; W. H. Valentine,
Esq.; Percy H. Webb, Esq.; F. Parkes Weber, Esq., M.D. ;
R. B. Whitehead, Esq., I.C.S.; R. J. Whittall, Esq.

IV.—Remarkable Coins and Medals.
1. Greek Series :—-
(a) Hurope :—

Italy. — Etruria.—Populonia.—Silver didrachm (20 units),
of the 4th-8rd cent. B.c. Obv. Gorgoneion and mark of
value. Rev. “ Pupluna” in Etruscan characters around star.
(Sambon, 59.)

Hiruria, Uncertain mint.—Bronze coin of the third cent.
B.C. Obv. Female head and remains of inscription. ev. Plain.

Campania.— Capua.—-Bronze uncia of the third cent. B.c,
Obv. Head of Heracles. Rev. Cerberus.

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Lucania.—Metapontum.—Fine silver didrachm of the fourth
cent. B.c. Obv. Head of Persephone. Rev. Ear of corn;
symbol, bucranium.

Bruttiwm. — Croton.—Silver didrachm of the fifth cent. B.c.
Obv. Tripod. Rev. Tripod, and monogram of NA.

Sicily.—Gela.—Bronze trias of the fourth cent. B.c. Obv.
Bull and mark of value. Rev. Wheel with corn-grains between
the spokes.

Messana.—Silver tetradrachm of the fifth cent. B.c. Obv.
Mule car. ev. Hare, with sequence-letter D.
Presented by G. R. Taytor, Esq.

Syracuse.—Silver tetradrachm of the archaic period of the
usual types, but the nymph Arethusa’s hair is confined by a
broad fillet.

Thrace.—Two very barbarous imitations of the late silver
tetradrachms of Thasos.

Macedon.—Uncertain Mints.—Silver Euboice tetrobol of
the sixth cent. B.c. Obv. Rosette of flowers. Rev. Incuse
square.

A silver didrachm of about 500 B.c. Obv. Floral design
with forepart of a boar. ev. Incuse square.

Aineia.—Silver tetrobol of the fifth century B.c. Obv.
Head of Athena. Rev. Bull.

Macedon.—King Demetrius Poliorcetes (306-283 B.c.).—
An exceptionally fine silver tetradrachm. Obv. Portrait of the
king. ev. Poseidon seated.

Another fine silver tetradrachm. Obv. Portrait of the king.
Rev. Poseidon standing, holding trident.

King Philip V. (220-179 B.c.).—_Silver tetradrachm. Obv.
Head of Prince Perseus as hero Perseus on a shield. Rev. Club
in oak-wreath.

Beotia.—Tanagra.—Lead trial proof of a stater of the early
fourth century B.c. Obv. Bceotian shield. Rev. Forepart of
springing horse.

Attica.—Athens.— Thirty-three bronze kollybot (minute
coins) of the late 5th cent. B.c.
Presented by James Anderson, Esq.

Agina.—Silver stater of the seventh cent. B.c. of unusual
workmanship. Obv. Tortoise, showing plates on carapace.
Rev. Square incuse.

Celttc.—Ten gold coins (Wt. 37°9—85°6 grs.) of the “ rain-
bow cup ” type (second cent. B.c.?), from a find at Vetulonia.

Spain.—Hispano-Carthaginian (Barcide Period).—Three
silver coins: (a) Obv. Beardless male head; Rev. Horse and
palm-tree, 104°8 grs. () Similar head; Rev. Horse, 56°6 ers.
(y) Similar head, with club at shoulder; Rev. Elephant,
28:1 grs. From a find in Spain.

DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 99

Two hundred and thirty-one silver and bronze coins of
various mints of the pre-Roman and Early Imperial periods.
| Presented by W. H. Buckler, Esq.

(b.) Asta and Africa :--

Paphlagonia.—A silver drachm of King Attalos Epiphanes.
Oby. King’s head diademed; Rev. Eagle; inscr. BAZIAEQ2
ATTAAOY ENI@ANOY2.

No coinage of this king has been known hitherto; nor is it
certain whether he is the Attalos who was named “dynast”
of Paphlagonia in 64 8B.c. by Pompeius, or an earlier ruler of
the same name.

Mysia.—Cyzicus.— Electrum stater of the period 550-475 B.c.
Oby. Dog stauding on tunny-fish. Rev. Incuse square.

Lampsacus.—Bronze coin of the fourth cent. B.c. Obv.
Female head laureate, with small horn on forehead. Rev.
Forepart of Pegasus.

Molis.—Temnus.—Nine bronze coins of the 2nd—I1st cent.
B.c. from a recent find.

Presented by J. G. Milne, Esq.

Tonia.—Smyrna.—Fifty-five bronze coins of various periods.

Presented by W. H. Buckler, Esq.

Caria.—Cnidus.—Seven small silver coins of the 3rd cent.
B.c. from recent find.

Presented by J. G. Milne, Esq.

Neapolis and Harpasa in alliance. Bronze coin of
Trebonianus Gallus. ev. Artemis and Athena.

Rhodes.—Silver tetradrachm of the fourth cent. B.c. Obv.
Head of Helios three-quarter face. Rev. Rose; symbol, club.

Lydia.—Sardes.—Twelve bronze coins, late autonomous

and Imperial.
Presented by W. H. Buckler, Esq.

Phrygia.—Nacoleva.—Bronze coin of Trajan. Rev. Cybele
seated, holding patera.

Cilicia.—Forty-eight silver coins, mostly of the first half
of the fourth century B.c., from a find probably made in Cilicia.
The coinages represented are those of Athens, Byzantium,
Sinope, Miletus, Aspendus, Soli, Aradus, and Persia.

Presented by EL. T. Newell, Esq.

Tarsus.—Silver stater of the fifth century B.c. Obv. King
on horseback. Rev. Nude warrior kneeling, with spear and
shield ; symbol, scorpion.

Bronze coin of Macrinus. Rev. The god Spacbn on a
horned lion.

Uncertain Cilician (2?) Mints.—Seven small silver coins of
the fourth cent. B.c., weighing from 14-3 to 4:5 grs. (a) Obv.
Lion’s head ; Rev. Head of the god Bes. (6) Obv. Female head,
copied from Kimon’s Arethusa. Rev. Two nude men wrestling.
(y) Obv. Similar to preceding. Rev. Head of Ares. (&€) Obv.
Head of Athena. Rev. Zeus seated. ‘e) Obv. Head of Kronos (?)

0.69 H

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as on coins of Mallus. Rev. Head of young Heracles in lion-
skin. (Z) Obv. Head of Satrap. Rev. Forepart of horned
Pegasos. (n) Obv. Beardless male head. Rev. Head of Ares,
with name of Mazaeus in Aramaic.

Elewssa-Sebaste.—Silver tetradrachm of the first cent.
B.C. Obv. Bust of City Goddess. Rev. Goddess standing, her
hand on tiller. The only other known specimen of this coin is
in the Paris Cabinet.

Cappadocia. — Cesarea. — Bronze coin of Julia Domna.
Rev. Mount Argzeus between two prize crowns, with agonistic
inscription.

Kings of Syria.—Antiochus I.—(280-261 B.c.) <A silver
tetradrachm. Obv. King’s head. Rev. Apollo seated on
omphalos.

Demetrius I.—(162-150 B.c.) Bronze coin; Obv. Head of
mastiff ; Rev. head of caracal (*).
Presented by R. J. Whittall, Hsq.

Demetrius III.—(95-88 B.c.) Bronze coin; Obv. King’s
bust radiate; Rev. Victory.
Presented by Miss Agnes M. Elverson.

Babylon.—Successors of Alexander the Great. Four silver
staters: Obv. Zeus seated, holding sceptre ; Rev. Lion walking.
various letters or symbols in the field.

Parthia.—King Orodes II. (A.D. 4-6). Silver tetradrachm.
Obv. Bust of king. Rev. King seated, holding bow and sceptre ;
around, his titles, the date 317 = 5-6 A.p., and the month
name Dystros. The only other known tetradrachm of this
king is in the Berlin Cabinet.

Cyrene.—Three gold staters of the fourth century B.c. : Obv.
Nike in four-horse chariot; Rev. Zeus sacrificing. All with
name of Poliantheus, but from different dies.

Gold stater of the fourth cent.B.c. Obv. The nymph Cyrene
driving a chariot. Rev. Zeus seated; in the field an eagle
carrying a serpent ; magistrate’s name Jasonos.

Gold drachm of the same period. Obv. Horseman. fev.
Silphium plant; magistrate’s name Jasono (apparently altered
from Kudios).

Gold quarter-stater of the same period. Obv. ‘Triple
silphium. ev. Head of Athena; magistrate’s name Jas.

Azvum (dithiopia). A rare bronze coin of King Ezanas.
Obv. King’s bust; Rev. Ear of corn.

Presented by James Anderson, Esq.

2. Roman Series :— ©

Two pieces of Italian ‘“‘Aes Rude” from an Htruscan

necropolis at Orvieto.
Presented by James Berry, Esq., F.R.C.S.

Augustus. — An unpublished denarius; obv. head of
Augustus laureate ; rev. votive shield, CAESAR AVGVSTVS.

A rare variety of the as of the moneyer C. Asinius Gallus.

DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 101

Claudius. — A double denarius with rev. OB CIVES
SERVATOS in wreath and another with portraits of
Claudius and Agrippina; both of some non-Roman mint,
probably Ceesarea in Cappadocia.

A denarius with rev. Triumphal Arch with inscription GE
BRITANN(is).
Nero.—A fine specimen of the sestertius with rev. Port of

Ostia and an aureus with rev. |VPPITER LIBERATOR,
Jupiter seated 1.

Galba.—Five sesterces with rev. LIBERTAS PVBLICA,
PAX AVGVST. (two varieties), Hagle between two standar ds,
and Roma, seated.

Vespasian.—An unpublished variety of. the sestertius with
rev. PAX AVGVSTI and a “restoration” of a dupondius of
Claudius.

Carausiws.—A unique bronze coin with rev. PAX AVG,
a native soldier with spear and buckler, and two others with

rev. PAX AVG., Pax facing, and VIRTVS AVGGG., all of
the London mint.

Aliectus.—Three varieties of bronze coins, all of London
mint.

Constantius IT. — A solidus with rev. VICTORIA
CONSTANTI AVG.
A series of denarii of the Emperors Geta, Postumus,
Gratian, Theodosius and Magnus Maximus.
Presented by the Hxecutors of the late Rev. F. D.
Ringrose.
A series of bronze coins of Constantine I., Constantine IT.,
Crispus, Helena, Fausta and Honorius, found at Antinoe.
Presented by the Egypt Haploration Fund.

Byzantine.—A series of Byzantine coins, including solidi
of Zeno and Alexius I., silique of Constans II., Leo IV.,
Nicephorus II., Basil Il, &c., bronze coins of Anastasius,
Justinian [., Tiberius II., Phocas, Constantine IV., Theophilus,
&c., and two silver coins of Manuel I. of Trebizond.
Presented by M.S. Prichard, Esq.

3. British and Colonial Series :—
(a) Coins and Tokens :—

An ancient British gold coin with plain obverse and a horse
to the right on the reverse.

Highty-six Anglo-Saxon pennies (Aithelred Il. to Edward
Confessor) from a sale at Stockholm.

A selection of early English coins, formerly in the P.W.P.
Carlyon-Britton Collection, including three silver sceattas with
Runic inscriptions which may perhaps be attributed to
Wihtred, king of Kent (A.D. 690-725), fourteen pennies of
William I. of various mints, including Bedwin (Hampshire)

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and Malmesbury, and eight pennies of William II., which
include rare issues of Guildford, Hythe and Worcester.

A rare penny of Henry I. of the Hastings mint and three
pennies of William I., formerly in the J. Dudman Collection.

A penny of Stephen from the G. J. Bascom Collection
struck at the mint of Pembroke, which was previously only
known to have operated in the reign of Henry I.

A large selection of long-cross pennies of Henry IIT., with
some Scottish and Irish pennies of the same period, from a
find made at Slype in Belgium.

A large number of English, Scottish, Irish and Continental
pennies (period, circa 1280-1330) selected from a find made at
Carsphairn in Galloway.

A selection of English coins from the F. A. Walters Col-
lection, mostly of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,
including a rare half-groat of the last issue (DI.GRA in title)
of Edward III.,a rare groat of Richard II. showing transition
of style to the coinage of Henry IV., a groat of Henry IV.
struck early in the period 1411-3, and a half-groat of the
same reign showing a genuine attempt at portraiture similar
to the well-known groat of the same issue, a penny of
Henry VI. of the restoration period (1470-1) and a York
halfpenny of Henry VIII. bearing the initials of Thomas
Wolsey.

An unpublished variety of the London half-groat of the
light coinage of Henry IV.

A farthing of the light coinage of Henry IV., supposed to
be unique, from the Bascom, Webb and Montagu collections.

A Tower half-crown of Charles I. with mint-mark Triangle
superimposed on Anchor, and a rare variety of the sixpence of
1699. Presented by Miss Helen Farquhar.

A selection of Scottish coins, mostly placks and bawbees,
of the late sixteenth century, including a two-thirds of a ryal
of Mary, from a find made at Ayr.

A silver six-bit piece of Dominica.

Presented by P. W. Jarvis, Esq.

Seventy-four hop growers’ tokens in use in Kent and
Sussex. Presented by E. B. Smith, Esq.

A series of eighty tradesmen’s tickets of Somerset.

Presented by Charles Tite, Esq.

Two copper and four white-metal tokens of ‘The Little
Commonwealth,” Batcombe, Dorset.

Presented by Homer Lane, Esq.
(b) Medals :—

A unique medal by Simon Passe representing the portrait
and coat-of arms of an unknown person, a very fine exampie
of Passe’s work,

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Lead-gilt tria] castings of the two sides of a large medal
commemorating the Union of England and Scotland in 1707.
Presented by the National Art Collections Fund.

A silver medal commemorating the visit of George III. to
St. Paul’s on April 23rd, 1789. Presented by Dr. R. Main.

A bronze-gilt cliché of the obverse of a medal of George III.
Presented by Miss Helen Farquhar.

A bronze medal commemorating the coming of age of the
Marquess of Titchfield.
Presented by His Grace the Duke of Portland.

(c) Miscellaneous :—

One hundred and eighty-eight dies of English coins of the
14th century, from the Chapel of the Pyx.
Presented by H.M. First Commissioner of Works.

An interesting selection of primitive native currency in use
in British West Africa and on the French Ivory Coast,
comprising brass rods, copper wires, ‘‘manilas” or bracelets,
iron hoe-money and arrow-heads.

Presented by the Bank of British West Africa.

4, Medieval and Modern Series :—
(a) Coins :—

A very fine collection of 1,051 silver deniers and four bronze
coins of the Frankish rulers of Athens and Achaia, and other
coins of the XIth—XII[th centuries, notably semi-bracteate coins
of Switzerland. The museum had previously only a small
series of the Frankish coins and none of the Swiss bracteates
of the “Steckborn” type; now the collection of coins of the
Princes of Achaia and Dukes of Athens is probably the largest
outside the Athens Museum. The details of the acquisition are :
402 silver coins of the Princes of Achaia, 367 silver coins of the
Dukes of Athens, 133 silver Swiss coins of the Steckborn type,
89 silver and 4 bronze other Medizval and Renaissance coins.
These coins were formerly in the collection of Lord Grantley,
who had devoted particular attention to the study of these
series. Presented by Maurice Rosenheim, Hsq., PSA.

Fifty-six silver denarii of the Margraves of Brandenburg of
the XIIIth century from a find at Zerbst, and a bracteate of
Otto II. of Brandenburg.

Presented by Direktor Dr. Julius Menadier.

Four gold tari of William II. and Henry VI., Norman
Kings of Sicily.

A gold ducat of Pope Clement VII. (1523-1 534) struck at
Modena: Ubv. Portrait bust of the Pope. Rev. 8S. Gemignano
seated to front S. GEM. MVTINEN. EPS. Wt., 53°4 grains (cf.
Serafini, Monete Pontificie, I., p. 219, No. 193). From the
Martinori Collection (lot 2080).

Two gold Leyantine imitations of Venetian sequins.

Five bronze Greek Church tokens and three modern Greek
nickel coins. Presented by F. W. Hasluck, Esq.

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Two Mexican dollars of Charles III. of Spain.
Presented by L. A. Lawrence, Esq., P.S.A.

A Spanish dollar from the treasure recovered in 1687 by the
Duke of Albemarle’s expedition from a Spanish ship wrecked
off Hispaniola. Presented by W. Minet, Ksq., F.S.A.

Nine gold coins of Charles III. and IV. of Spain, Maria I.
and Peter III. of Portugal, and Peter ILI. of Brazil.

Presented by Stanley fF. May, Esq.

(b) Medals :—

A bronze medal of the fifteenth century representing
Constantine the Great on horseback, being a Flemish or
Northern French reproduction of the medal of Constantine
mentioned in the Inventories of the Collections of the Duc de
Berry. Presented by T. Whitcombe Greene, isq., F.S.A.

A rare silver Dutch medal of 1700, relating to the state of
Kurope and the Papal Jubilee.

A bronze medal by Devreese of M. Henri Hymans (1836-
1912), Conservateur en chef of the Royal Library, Brussels.

Presented by Madame Henri Hymans.

A bronze medal of Napoleon f. ( Derniéere Pensée, 1821).

A gold medal of Maria I. and Peter Ill. of Portugal,
commemorating the foundation of the convent of Estrella.

Presented by Stanley F. May, E'sq.

A bronze medal of Prof. Otto Hirschfeld.

Presented by Prof. H. Dessau, on behalf of the Komitee
zur Fever von Otto Hirschfelds 70. Geburtstage.

A bronze memorial medal of the late J. Pierpont Morgan.

Presented by Edward D. Adams, Esq.

A silver medal of Mare Eidlitz (1826-1892).

Presented by Messrs. Otto M. and Robert Y. Hvdlitz.

5. Oriental Series :—

A dinar of the Samanid Sultan Nasr LI. struck at Nishapur,
324 A.H.

A dinar of the Buyid Sultans Imad al-Daula and Rukn
al-Daula, struck at al-Muhammadiya, 738 A-H.

A gold tuman of Husain Shah of Persia, struck at Meshhed
1134 A.H., and another of Fath ‘Ali Shah, Yazd, 1235 a.z.

Four lead coins of the Andhras (cf. B.M.C., No. 105 ff), from
a find made in the Anantapur district.

Presented by the Madras Government.

A gold suvarna of Kumaragupta I. of the Peacock type.

A gold tanka of Tughlak Shah of Delhi, 4.H. 723.

Six rupees of Akbar, of Ahmadabad (994 A.u.), Fathpur
(286 a.H.), Lahore (986 a.H.), Tatta (Ilahi 41, Di), Urdu Zafar.
Karin (1000 A.H.) and without mint (Llahi 34).

Presented by the Bombay Branch of the Royal
Asiatic Society.

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A muhutr of Jahangir of Agra, 1022: 13, Shahrewar.

Three muhurs of Aurangzib of Allahabad, 1118: 51;
Lahore, 1105: 38; Nasratabad, 1114: 46.

A muhur of Jahandar of Burhanpur, 1124: 1.

Three muhurs of Muhammad Shah of Burhanpur, 1148:
10; Katak, 1137: 6; Multan, 1151: 24.
A gold fanam of Ahmad Shah of Kharpa mint.
Presented by the Madras Government.

Two gold muhurs of Ghazi al-Din (1135: 1) and Nasir
al-Din (1246: 4), kings of Oudh.
One gold nisar piece of Hyderabad (1229 A.H.).
Presented by R. L. Gamlen, Esq.
Four rupees of Hyderabad State.
Presented by A. G. L. Gamlen, Esq.

Three silver coins of the Emperor George V. and the
Maharaja Sumer Singh of Jodhpur.
Presented by Alfred Meigh, Esq.

Y.—Books, &c. presented to the Departmental Library.

The following, among other books, have been received as
donations to the ‘Departmental Library.
Aspects of Death in Art and Epigram.
From the Author, F. Parkes Weber, Esq., M.D., F.S.A.

Beschreibung Béhmischer Miinzen und Medaillen.
From the Author, K.u. K. Regierungsrat Eduard Fiala.

Ancient Numismatics of the Black Sea Region, and
other Pamphlets. From the Author, M. Alexis Oreshnikov.

Catalogue of Coins in the Panjab Museum, Lahore, 2 vols.
From the Author, R. B. Whitehead, Esq., I.C.S.

Catalogue of the Exhibition of U.S. and Colonial Coins and
the American Numismatic Journal, Vol. XLVII.
From the American Numismatic Society.

Provincial Token Coinage of the Eighteenth Century, Parts
Wer, and VIII.
From the Authors, Messrs. R. Dalton and S. H. Hamer.

Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Numismatischen Geselischaft,

Vols. I-X VIII.
Presented by Maurice Rosenheim, Esq., F.S.A.

Adolfo Herrero ; El Duro, 2 vols.
From Horace Sandars, Esq., F.S.A.
Barbar Pénzei.
From the Author, Cownt Miklos Dessewffy.

Ten cases of manuscript collections by Edward Hawkins
relating to ea medals. From Edward Hawkins, Esq.

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A volume of drawings by the English numismatist J. Y.
Akerman and his annotated copy of the third volume of Ruding’s
Annals. From Alexander Mann, Esq.

Forty-fourth Report of the Deputy Master of the Mint.
From the Deputy Master of the Mint.

VIi.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits made to the Department of Coins
and Medals by students and others during the year 1914
was 3,321, the average for the preceding ten years being 4,171.

The Exhibition Corridor was closed to the public from the
15th to the 20th of July for repainting.

G. F. Hull.

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British MusEuM (NATURAL HISTORY).

STATEMENT of PRoGRESS made in the ARRANGEMENT and
DESCRIPTION of the COLLECTIONS, and AccouUNT of OBJECTS
added to them, in the Year 1914.

GENERAL PROGRESS.
Visitors.

The total number of visits made by the public to the
Natural History Museum during 1914 was 420,914, as compared
with 486,320 in 1918.

The attendance on Sunday afternoons was 46,960, as against
53,301 in the previous year.

The average daily attendance for all open days was 1,159 ;
for week days, 1,195; and for Sunday afternoons, 903.

There was a large falling off in the number of visitors from
the date of the outbreak of the war, and the total decrease may
be attributed to that cause.

Official Guide.

The services of the Official Guide (Mr. J. H. Leonard)
continue to be much in request. During 1914 over 14,000
persons attended his demonstrations, and since his first appoint-
ment on May 20, 1912, 38,423 persons had been conducted by
him through the galleries up to the end of last year.

Arrangements were made with the London County Council
for Mr. Leonard to conduct parties of L.C.C. School Teachers
over the Museum on Saturday mornings, these visits extending
over a period of about 18 weeks.

Swiney Lectures.

Dr. J. D. Falconer gave his first course of Swiney Lectures
on Geology during November and December, the subject being
“Land Forms and Landscapes: their origin and classification.”

The lectures, twelve in number, were delivered in the
theatre in theVictoria and Albert Museum, with the permission
of the Board of Education, and were attended by an average
of 122 persons per lecture, as compared with 98 in the previous
year.

Dr. Faleoner’s next course of lectures on this foundation
will be given in November and December next, the subject
selected being ‘‘ Ice and the Ice Age.”

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Llectrve Lighting.

The electric lighting of the galleries on the first floor,
namely, the Mineral and Lower Mammal Galleriés, has been
completed, and a commencement has been made in the Upper
Mamnial Gallery.

As a precautionary measure, an independent system of
“Pilot” lighting throughout the building has been installed.

Extension of the Natural History Museum.

The Trustees have submitted to the Government a full
statement of their views as regards the future extension of
the Natural History Museum. While they have shown and
emphasized the need of providing more accommodation for the
immediate requirements and future growth of the Museum,
they have deemed it right in the existing national emergency
not to press for funds for this work. They have, however,
intimated that should His Majesty’s Government at some later
date wish to find employment for labour, they hoped that the
extension of the Natural History Museum would be borne in
mind.

The War.

Certain precautions against possible attack by hostile air-
craft have been taken, and some of the unique and more
valuable specimens have been removed from the exhibition
galleries to a place of greater safety.

The staff of the Museum has been depleted through a number
of its members having joined the Naval or Military forces with
the permission of the Trustees. Up to the end of December 37
of the staff were so serving.

The Museum has also raised an efficient Red Cross Section
for service in Kensington, and has organised a platoon of the
Volunteer Training Corps for home defence.

Classes from the Royal Army Veterinary Corps and Royal
Field Artillery (Territorial Forces) have received instruction in
the Museum on the anatomy of the Horse, Museum specimens
being used for demonstration.

The Admiralty.

Assistance was rendered to the Admiralty in connection
with certain damage caused by insects to the envelope of an
airship and a balloon.

Museums Association.

Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S., Assistant Keeper of the Depart-
ment of Geology, again attended, as delegate of the Natural
History Museum, the Annual Conference of the Museums
Association held at Swansea in July.

Animal Protection.

The Government Bill prohibiting the importation of bird
plumes received the hearty support of the Trustees. It is to

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be regretted that circumstances prevented this most useful
measure from becoming law.

In this connection the Trustees would desire to place on
record their appreciation of the valuable work that is being
done by the Colonial Office, in conjunction with the Governors
and other officials of the Crown Colonies and Protectorates, in
devising measures (Acts, Ordinances, &c.) for the protection of
birds and other animals in these parts of the Empire, with a
view to safeguarding them from the danger of extinction.
The assistance of the experts of the Natural History Museum
has been freely placed at the disposal of the Colonial Office in
furtherance of the end in view.

Anglo-Swedish Antarctic Scientific Station.

Owing to the war, the scheme for the projected establish-
ment of an Anglo-Swedish Antarctic Scientific Station has had
to be suspended. The Swedish Committee have been informed
that there is no probability of the preparations in this country
for carrying out the project being resumed during the war.

Arrangements have, however, been made with Dr. Johan
Hjort, Principal Fishery Officer of the Norwegian Government,
in the hope that through him as intermediary information may be
obtained from the Norwegian Whaling Companies operating in
the far South, with a view to instituting investigations based
on the material so gathered.

Investigation of Antarctic Whales.

The whaling notes made by the late Major G. E. H. Barrett-
Hamilton, to whose mission for the study of whales in the
Antarctic, and to whose untimely death in South Georgia, a
reference was made in last year’s report, have been received,
and they are being examined by Mr. M. A. C. Hinton, with a
view to furnishing a report to the Colonial Office.

As one result of Major Barrett-Hamilton’s mission, the
Museum has received a large and valuable consignment of
whale material, consisting of complete sets of baleen of Hump-
back Whale, Blue Whale, and Common Rorqual, a pair of
flippers of each of these three species, a scapula and a vertebra
of a Blue Whale, and several foetal specimens. The whole of
these specimens were presented to the Museum by Messrs. Chr.
Salvesen & Co., of Leith, who not only rendered Major
Barrett-Hamilton great assistance in obtaining them, but also
conveyed them free of cost from South Georgia to Rotterdam.

Stranded Whales.

The systematic inquiry into the stranding of Cetacea on the
British coasts was continued during 1914. The number of
records received up to the end of July amounted to 43. The
outbreak of war at the heginning of August, however, gave
other occupation to Coastguard officers, and the period from
August to the middle of October, which provided far the

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largest number of records during 1913, was greatly affected by
the abnormal conditions of 1914, and the year closed with a
total of 57 as compared with 76 in the previous year.

Although the number reported has shown a falling off, the
evidence obtained with regard to the species stranded is much
more precise than in the preceding year, due to improved
arrangements for obtaining data.

Among the specimens secured for the Museum in this way
was the entire skeleton of a Sowerby’s Whale, a rare species
not previously represented by a skeleton in the collection.

Information having been received in November of the
stranding of a large whale at Birchington, Kent, an officer was
sent from the Museum to make on the spot investigations
which would be useful in reconstructing the large models in
the Whale Room. The animal was found te be a Common
Rorqual, 61 feet long, which had apparently been killed by
collision with a mine. The pelvic bones were secured for the
Museum.

The thanks of the Trustees are due to the Coastguard
officers and Receivers of Wreck who have given such valuable
assistance in this inquiry. A Second Report on the subject is
in preparation and will be issued early in 1915.

Indian Mammal Survey.

The Trustees have made a further grant to the Bombay
Natural History Society’s Fund for the survey of the mammal
fauna of India. The Museum has received a large share of the
specimens collected during the survey, which is doing so much
to advance our knowledge of the mammalian fauna of India
(see B.M. Return, 1912, p. 104). This important undertaking
has, however, unfortunately been interrupted through the war.

Robinson Eaupedition to Western Sumatra.

The Trustees have contributed towards the expenses of a
collecting expedition to Western Sumatra under the leadership
of Mr. H. C. Robinson, Director of the Federated Malay States
Museum in Kuala Lumpur. The Natural History Museum
will receive a share of the collections made in a part of the
world hitherto little explored from a zoological point of view.

Wollaston Expedition to New Guinea.

As an instance of the valuable scientific results obtained
and of the benefit accruing to the Museum by the despatch of
exploring expeditions, it may be mentioned that the collection
of plants made by Dr. A. F. R. Wollaston in his expedition to
Dutch New Guinea (see Return 1914, p. 126) has been found
on its being worked out to contain no fewer than 500 species
not previously known to science and eight new genera.

An account of the collection, prepared by Mr. H. N. Ridley,
with the assistance of members of the Department of Botany,
will be published in a Report of the Results of the Expedition.

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Eapedition to the Sudan.

The Bird Room has been considerably enriched through an
expedition to the Sudan and Upper Nile, organised by Mr. Abel
Chapman and Capt. Hubert Lynes, R.N. This expedition
was undertaken by these two gentlemen principally with the
object of obtaining specimens for the Museum, which is indebted
to them for the presentation of a valuable collection of birds
and a smaller series of mammals.

Bequests.

The late Mr. G. B. Corbin bequeathed to the Museum a
specimen of the Needle-tailed Swift (Chetura caudacuta),
killed at Ringwood, Hants, in July, 1879—a bird of considerable
interest and value on account of the extreme rarity of the
species in Britain.

Mrs. Lena Ward, under the power contained in the will of
her husband, the late James Rowland Ward, has. selected the
Natural History Museum as one of eight institutions to benefit
from the surplus income arising out of the estate. The
amount apportioned annually to the Museum from this source
will be expended in the purchase of mounted specimens for
exhibition.

The specimens received during 1914 from the Rowland
Ward Trustees are as follows :—

A magnificent Gorilla, a Malay Elephant (young), a
Clouded Leopard, a head of Grévy’s Zebra, a Cameroon
Forest-hog, a White Fox, a Canadian Ruffed Grouse, and
64 mounted birds.

Presents.

The total number of gifts received during the year by the
several Departments was 2,336, as compared with 2,546 in the
preceding year. Many of these comprised large numbers of
individual specimens. The details of the more important of
then will be found in the reports of the Keepers of the Depart-
ments, but the following are mentioned here also, as being of
special interest or value :—

From the Duke of Portland.—The skeleton of his famous
thoroughbred horse “St. Simon,” together with the case in
which it was kept.

From the Hon. Leopold de Rothschild.—The skeleton of
the celebrated thoroughbred racehorse “St. Frusquin.”

From Mrs. Longstaff—A valuable collection of shells of
Land and Freshwater Mollusca, consisting of about 1,344
specimens from the Upper Nile, and including types of new
species and figured specimens.

From Mr. F. D. Godman.—8,397 specimens of Lepidoptera
Rhopalocera from various localities, including 362 types, all
fully prepared and labelled.

From an anonymous donor (through Mr. Guy Marshall).—
A valuable collection of about 10,000 specimens of Siphonaptera
(or Fleas) formed by the Rev, James Waterston,

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From the Lords of the Admiralty.—-The rock-specimens and
fossils collected by Sir John Richardson on Sir John Franklin’s
Arctic Expedition (1819-27)—transferred from the Royal Naval
Hospital, Haslar.

From Mr. ¥. N. A. Fleischmann (now Asheroft).—A superb
collection of upwards of 1,000 choice specimens of minerals
belonging to the Zeolite group, from various localities in Europe
and the United States of America.

From Mr. C. Arthur Pearson.—A very fine polished section
of a silicified tree-trunk, from the “petrified forest” of
Arizona, U.S.A.

From Mr. and Mrs. P. Amaury Talbot.—<A collection of
flowering plants from the Eket district of S. Nigeria.

Purchases.

Among the more important purchases made during the
year, special attention may be drawn to the following :—-

A tine series of birds from Yemen, 8. Arabia, collected by
Mr. G. W. Bury ; fishes and reptiles from Tropical West Africa,
collected by Mr. G. L. Bates; the skin and skeleton of a pygmy
Hippopotamus from Sierra Leone; a collection made by Mr.
H. B. Grant of 1,754 British birds, including series collected in
all months of the year, and 22 clutches of eggs; a collection of
bird-skins from the West Indies and other localities, made by
Dr. Percy R. Lowe; the second half of the Koch collection of
Arachnida, &c., consisting of 1,246 named species of spiders and
974 tubes of unnamed spiders ; 52 bottles and tubes containing
specimens of Prototracheata (Peripatus, &c.) from the collection
of the late Prof. Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S.; a collection of about
10,000 specimens of Hymenoptera formed by the late Mr. Peter
Cameron, and including 1,500 types of species described by him ;
a large collection of moths, beetles, &c., from Tropical America
and other localities ; the second and final portion of the late
Canon Blackburn’s collection of types of Australian Coleoptera,
comprising 990 specimens (961 types and 29 co-types); the fourth
instalment of the Distant collection of insects, consisting of 3,000
specimens of Rhynchota and 2,000 of Coleoptera (including 250
types); fossil reptiles from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough ;
an important series of reptilian remains from the Chalk of
Kansas ; three fossil reptiles from South Africa (Pariasaurus
and two new species); a collection of Echinoids from the
Inferior Oolite of the West of England; a series of 650
Devonian fossi] Invertebrata from the Eifel, Germany; a fine
specimen of an Ichthyosaurus, from the Upper Lias of Holz-
maden, Wiirtemberg; a fine example of Kunzite, the rare lilac-
coloured variety of Spodumene, and a specimen showing
crystals in the matrix, from the Pala Chief Mine, California; a
remarkable specimen showing crystallized gold on quartz, from
California; an Apatite, a remarkable crystal from Salzburg,
Tyrol; two emeralds from Brazil; a slice and a cast of the
meteoric iron which was found at Mount Edith, Ashburton,
West Australia, on April 20th 1913; a nugget, weighing
54 grams, of the rare mineral Ividosmine, from Tasmania ;
a large collection of Chinese plants ; collections of plants from
the South Pacific, Paraguay, Bolivia, Costa Rica Mexico,

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South-West Africa, Cameroon, Uganda, the Philippines, Wc. ;
British and foreign Hepatice ; Bohemian fungi and mosses.

EHachanges and Gifts of Duplicates.

Exchanges of duplicate specimens have been made with
various institutions and individuals.

The following Museums have been placed on the list of
institutions to receive grants of duplicate specimens :-- Public
Library and Museum, Colne, Lancashire ; Cheltenham College ;
Tolhouse Museum, Great Yarmouth ; Gloucester Museum ;
Newbury Museum ; Port Stanley Museum, Falkland Islands.

Selections of duplicate specimens have been presented as
follows :—

Of zoological specimens (other than entomology) — to
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery; the Students’ Association
of North London; H.M.S. “ Worcester” (Capt. D. Wilson-
Barker); Glasgow University Natural History Department
(Prof. J. G. Kerr); Bailey Museum, Mansfield; Zoological
Society, London; Exeter Museum; Cheltenham College ;
Gloucester Museum ; Port Stanley Museum, Falkland Islands.

Of entomological specimens—to Dr. F. Maidl (Vienna
Museum); Lieut.-Col. F. Winn Sampson; Prof. C. Aurivillius
(Stockholm); Dr. M. Cameron; Mr. A. Grouvelle (Paris) ;
Mr. R. Veitch ; Mr. R.S. Bagnall; Mr. F. H. Gravely (Calcutta) ;
Sefior R. P. Longinos Navas (Saragossa); Dr. Esben Petersen
(Denmark); Dr. F. Spaeth (Vienna); Capt. C. Kerremans ;
Mr. L. Garreta; Prof. F. Netolitzky (Czernowitz); Mr. A. Lea
(Adelaide) ; Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell (Colorado) ; the Veterinary
Institute and School, Melbourne University ; and Prof. Maxwell
Lefroy.

Of fussils and casts of fossils—to University College
Aberystwyth ; Colne Museum ; Newbury Museum ; the Mineral-
ogical Museum, University of Copenhagen; Prof. H. F.
Cleland; Dr. R. Kidston, F.R.S.; Prof. HE. Kayser (Marburg) ;
Mr. J. Miquel (France) ; Dr. G. Ulmer (Hamburg).

Of minerals—to Colne Museum; Dr. L. Péringuey, South
African Museum, Cape Town (cast of meteorite) ; and Mr. C.
Maitland.

Of botanical specimens—to the South London Botanical
Institute.

(N.B.—AI] the individuals named have presented specimens
or otherwise benefited the Museum.)

Publications.

The following works on Natural History have been published
uring the-year :—
British Antarctic (“ Terra Nova”) Expedition, 1910.
Natural History Report :—
Zoology. Vol. 1., No.1. Fishes. By C. Tate Regan, M.a.
Pp. 54: 8 text-figures and 13 plates. 4to. 10s. 6d.
Zoology. Vol. Il., No. 1. List of Collecting Stations.
By’ 8S.“ F./ Harmer,’ se.p., F.R.s., and D) G.Gillie, M.A,
Pp. 12: 4 maps. 4to. Is, 6d,

114 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Geology. Vol. I., No. 1. Antarctic Fossil Plants. By
A. C. Seward, F.R.s. Pp. 49: 6 text-figures, 8 plates, and
3maps. 4to. 6s.

Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts during
1913. By 8S. F. Harmer, ‘se.D., F.R.s.. Pp. 12: 3 maps and
1 text-figure. 4to. Is. 6d.

Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals. By R. Lyddeker, F.R.s.,
and Gilbert Blaine :—

Vol. II. Artiodactyla (continued). Pp. xvi, 295: 33 text-
figures. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

Vol. III. Artiodactyla (continued). Pp. xv, 283: 51
text-figures. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

Revision of the Ichneumonide. By Claude Morley.
Part III. Tribes Pimplides and Bassides. Pp.ix, 148: 1 coloured
plate. Svo. 5s. 6d.

Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalzenze (Moths). By Sir George
F. Hampson, Bart. Supplement. Vol. [. Amatide and
Arctiadee (Noline and Lithosiane). Pp. xxviii, 858: 276 text-
figures. 8vo. 1. 5s.

Flora of Jamaica. By W. Fawcett, B.sc., F.L.S., and
A... B.. Rendle; . p.se., ‘F.R-S.,. &e. Vol. TIL Dicotyledons.
Families Piperacee to Connaracese. Pp. xxiv, 280: 113 text-
figures and 5 plates. 8vo. 15s.

Monograph of the Genus Sabicea. By H. F. Wernham, D.Sc.
Pp. 82: 12 plates, 2 text-figures, 1 diagram. 8vo. 6s.

New editions have been issued of the following guide-
books, &c. :—

Guide to the Galleries of Mammals, Ninth Edition. Pp. 123:
65 text-figures, 1 plate, and 3 plans. Svo. 9d.

Guide to the Mineral Gallery. Twelfth Edition. Pp. 32:
plane tov0., 16.

The Student’s Index to the Collection of Minerals. Twenty-
fifth Edition. Pp. 35: lL plan. 8vo. 2d.

Introduction to the Study of Minerals, with a Guide to the
Mineral Gallery. By L. Fletcher, M.A., LL.D.,F.R.S. Fourteenth
Edition. Pp. 123: 41 text-figures, 1 plan. 8vo. 6d.

Introduction to the Study of Meteorites, with a list of the
Meteorites represented in the Collection. By L. Fletcher, M.a.,
LL.D., F.R.S., &@. Eleventh Edition. Pp.125:1plan. 8vo. Ils.

Instructions for Collectors :—

No. 7.—Blood-sucking Flies, Ticks, &c. By E. E. Austen.
Fourth Edition. Pp. 24: 23 text-figures. 8vo. 3d.

No. 8.—Spiders, Centipedes, Peripatus, &c. Third Edition.
Pp. 4: 3 text-figures. 8vo. 3d.

Selections of the natura] history publications of the Museum
have been sent to free libraries and other institutions in
Great Britain and Ireland, to colonial, Indian, and foreign
museums, libraries, and scientific societies, and to persons
who have benefited the Museum by helping in the preparation
of the works, or in other ways: and additions have been
made to the publications exchange list.

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The under-mentioned works are in preparation :--
Library Catalogue, Vol. V.
“Terra Nova” Antarctic Report. Further Sections.

Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts during
1914, by Dr, S. F. Harmer, F.R-s.

Catalogue of Bats, Vol. II., by Dr. Knud Andersen.

Catalogue of Ungulate Mammals, Vol IV., by R. Lydekker,
F.R.S.

Catalogue of the Freshwater Fishes of Africa, Vol. IIL.,
by G. A. Boulengey, F.R.s.

Third Report on Economic Zoology.
lilustrations of British Flies, Second Series.

Iliustrations of African Blood-sucking Flies, Vol. IL., by
E. E. Austen.

Revision of the Ichneumonide, Part IV., by C. Morley.

Catalogue of Ethiopian Syrphide, by Prof. Mario Bezzi.

Catalogue of Moths, Supplement, Vol. II., by Sir George
F. Hampson, Bart.

Flora of Jamaica, Vol. [V., by W. Fawcett and Dr. A. B.
Rendle, F.R.S.

Revision of Crombie’s Monograph of British Lichens,
Part I., by Miss A. L. Smith.

Catalogue of the Sloane Herbarium, by J. Britten.

Catalogue of Fossil Fishes, Part V., by Dr. A. S. Wood-
ward, F.R.S.

Catalogue of the Cretaceous Flora, Part II., by Marie C.
Stopes, D.Sc.

Guide to British Lichens.

Instructions for Collectors, No. 12, Worms, by H. A.
Baylis.

Economic Series, No. 2, The Furniture Beetle, by C. J.
Gahan.

GENERAL LIBRARY.

The additions to the General Library during the past year
have been :—

By purchase “ - - 263 volumes.
By donation - - - 557 volumes, 6 maps, and
45 photographs.

TOTAL - §20 volumes, 6 maps, and
— 45 photographs.
0.69 rT

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All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press-
marked, and put in their places; whilst 1,563 volumes have
been bound in 698, and three have been repaired.

The extent of the collection on the 31st of December was
43,762 volumes, 5,916 maps, and 843 photographs (not including
those in the Owen Collection of Drawings, &c.).

The accessions to the Departmental Libraries have also been
catalogued as they came in, and duplicate transcripts of the
titles have been returned with the books.

Altogether 2,432 title-slips have been written, 52 re-
written, and 2,992 revised (independently of those prepared for
printing).

There are now, on a rough estimate, 95,605 volumes (ex-
clusive of continuations and minor separata) and 6,230 maps
in the whole building.

The number of visits paid to the General Library during
the year by students and others (irrespective of the staff and
persons to whom the use of a key is granted) was 2,189.

Donations have been received from a great number of
Museums, Academies, and other corporate bodies, as well as
from the following personal donors :—

Lord Sudeley. Newton, R. B., Esq.
Andrews, Dr. C. W., F.R.S.| Prout, L. B., Esq.
Barras de Aragon, Sr. D. Sherborn, C. Davies, Esq.
Francisco. | Smith, E. A., Esq., 1.8.0.
Crick, GC, Hsq. | White-Cooper, Dr. G.
Elliott, I. D’Oyly, Esq. | Woodward, Dr. A. Smith,
Falconer, Dr. J. D., F.R.S. HH tciste
Lang, W. D., Esq. | Woodward, B. B., Esq.
The printing of the Catalogue was proceeded with, and the
work at the end of the year stood as follows :—
Number of sheets passed for press (A—WENT) = 287
Number of title-slips set up in type (A—WILLS) - 65,457

The work of cataloguing the Walsingham Library of Ento-
mological literature has been begun, and the titles of works
init that are new to the whole collection are being incorporated
in the now extensive Supplement to the Catalogue ready for
printing.

INDEX GENERUM ET SPECIERUM ANIMALIUM.

During the year considerable progress has been made with
this Index, under Mr. C. Davies Sherborn’s charge, and some
15,000 slips have been compiled and incorporated.

The manuscript is continually consulted by the Staff, and
general inquiries are more frequent.

Leem’s ‘De Lapponibus,” 1767 (Thos. Pennant’s copy);
Zauchuer’s “ Bestimmung der Hundsart Krokute,’ 1788;

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 117

Hopfner’s “ Magasin fiir die Naturkunde Helvetiens,” 1787-89,
4 vols. ; ‘“Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum,”
4th edition, 1811; and Lamarck's “ Recueil des Planches,”
1823 (a perfect copy), have all been acquired by Mr. Sherborn
for the Library.

The following bibliographical results have been published
by Mr. Sherborn in the “Annals and Magazine of Natural
History,” viz. :—

1°. “On the contents of the parts and dates of publication
“ of C. W. Hahn and G. A. W. Herrich-Schaeffer,
“ «Die Wanzigartigen Insecten,’ 1831-53.” (Annals,
Series VIII., vol. xiii, p. 365.)

2°. “An attempt at a fixation of the dates of issue of the
“ parts of the publications of the Musée d’ Histoire
‘“ Naturelle of Paris, 1802-1850.” (Annals, Series
VIII., vol. xiii, pp. 365-368.)

3. “On the dates of publication of C. W. Hahn and
SOeraks (tKoch, i SDie Arachniden,’ 1831-1849."
(Annals, Series VIII., vol. xiv, pp. 143-144.)

INDEX MUSEUM AND MORPHOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS.

The representative series of specimens collected on the
British Antarctic (“Terra Nova ”) Expedition, which had been
on exhibition in the Hall since November Z5th, 1913, was dis-
mounted in July ; and the two cases thus liberated were used
for the display of a selected series of forty skulls of extinct
Vertebrates showing interesting peculiarities of dentition, a
series of twenty human skulls illustrating ethnological pecu-
liarities of dentition, a collection of twenty-three skulls of
apes, seals, &c., showing teratological and pathological con-
ditions of the teeth, and seven preparations demonstrating the
transitory teeth of Baleen Whales and the mode of growth of
the whalebone.

In the middle of the Hall has been set up a special series
of specimens and enlarged models illustrating the life-history
of the Bont Tick, Amblyomma hebraeum, which is responsible
for the spread of the disease known as “ heart-water” among
sheep and goats in South Africa.

A new form of public microscope for the display of five
slides in rotation has been designed and constructed and placed
in the Hall with specimens illustrating the life-history of the
tropical Plague-Flea, of which an enlarged model is already
exhibited in the middle of the Hall.

In the Mendelian series in Bay VI three Andalusian Fowis
have been mounted as an instance of a cross-bred individual
differing from both parents.

All the dissections exhibited in the Hall that are mounted
in preservative fluid have been inspected during the year ;
forty-four bottles have been resealed, and fifty-two replenished.

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An introductory series of a very elementary character,
which has been in contemplation for the past few years, is
now progressing. The series will be displayed in four special
table-cases in the middle of the Hall, and will comprise selected
specimens of animals, plants, minerals, and rocks. One of the
four cases will be devoted to the study of Vertebrate animals
and allied groups, and the series to occupy this case is already
roughly planned out.

L. Fletcher,
Director.

British Museum (Natural History),
27 February, 1915.

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DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY.
I.—Arrangement and Conservation.
MAMMALIA.

Mammal Galleries.

A new wall-case has been installed in the West Corridor for
the reception of Antelopes of the Oryx group, which have been
removed from the adjacent case. Inthe latter have been placed
various members of the Kudu group which were previously
shown in temporary cases, together with the Indian Four-horned
Antelope, transferred from the Lower Mammal Galiery. The
addition of this new case also involved the transference to other
parts of the gallery of a number of skulls and horns which
occupied the wall of the recess where it now stands.

In the Lower Mammal Gallery two doors have been made in
each side of the great Ox-case in the Pavilion ; an improvement
which involved repairs in the ground-work of the case. A new
case for Chitas has been installed in the second bay on the
south side, which rendered necessary partial re-arrangement of
the large Cat-case on the east side of the bay. Two doors have
been inserted in the south side of the big Ape and Monkey case
in the Upper Mammal Gallery; and the partition at the east
end of the same case has been enlarged, with the object of
exhibiting to greater advantage the new Gorilla. To the
Beaver case in the Upper Mammal Gallery have been added
some gnawed stumps and chips specially sent from Canada by
R. Corry Clark, Esq.

In the North Hall a new case has been placed alongside
that containing the skeleton of ‘‘ Persimmon,” for the reception
of the skeJeton of ‘‘ St. Simon.”

Throughout the Upper and Lower Mammal Galleries, as
well as in the East and West Corridors, the specimens have
been renumbered. The usual work of curating, writing, and
printing new labels, &c., has been carried on as required.

The additions by presentation during the year to the
exhibited series in the Mammal Galleries include the
following :—

An Eastern Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla berengert) from the
Belgian Congo, presented by the Rowland Ward Trustees. This
is probably the most valuable mounted specimen the Museum
has ever received. A bust of a Maori, presented by Mrs. Russell.
A group of English Squirrels (Sciwrus vulgaris lewcourus),
from Yorkshire, the gift of Harold D. Foster, Esq. A Black-
footed Marten (Martes melampus) from Japan, and an
American Marten (Martes wmericanus), from the Mackenzie
District of Canada, presented by Messrs. P. R. Poland and Sons.
A White Fox (Vulpes vulpes), from Siberia, a Sumatran
Clouded Leopard (Felis nebulosa), a Cameroons Forest-Hog
(Hylocherus meinertzhageni rimator), the head of a young

120 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Grevy’s Zebra (Hquus grevyt), from Somaliland, and a young
Malay Elephant, which has been made the type of a new race
(Hlephas maximus hirsutus), presented by the Rowland Ward
Trustees, and a pale-coloured Soemmerring’s Ariel Gazelle
(Gazella soemmerringi), from the Dinder Valley, Eastern
Sudan, the gift of Major C. R. Bradshaw.

In addition to the above, as a specimen of more than
ordinary interest, reference may be made to the skull of a
very large female Liberian Hippopotamus (Cheropsis liber-
iensis), from Sierra Leone, acquired (together with the skin,
which is in store) by purchase.

Whale-Room.—To the series of casts of flippers and whales
exhibited on the walls of the gallery have been added two of
the Hump-backed Whale (Megaptera nodosa), prepared from a
specimen collected during the Barrett-Hamilton Expedition to
South Georgia ; and also two of the Lesser Rorqual (Balaen-
optera acutorostrata), likewise prepared in the Museum.
Other additions comprise part of the ‘‘ bonnet ” of the Southern
Right-Whale (Balaena australis), from South Georgia, pre-
sented by the British Association and the Zoological Society ;
the cast of a Dolphin (Delphinus delphis), from Donegal,
prepared in the Museum; and four photographs of dead
Rorquals in South Georgia, the gift of Mr. P. Stammwitz.

The walls and roof of the Whale-Room were revarnished
during the year; an operation which involved the removal and
replacing of all the smaller specimens and pictures affixed to
the walls.

Study Series.—The usual work of labelling, registering, and
incorporating the mammals added to the collection has been
continued.

Two cabinets for storing small mammals have been added,
and two blocks of cabinets for storing medium-sized mammal
skins have also been acquired.

The collection of Insectivora has been re-arranged and
placed in.the new small room The collection of Ungulates
has been re-arranged according to Mr. Lydekket’s “ Catalogue of
the Ungulate Mammals.”

The Department is again indebted to volunteer helpers for
much valuable assistance in working out new forms of Mammals
and in the preparation of manuscript lists of various groups.
The following should be specially mentioned in this connec-
tion: - Mr. Gilbert Blaine, Mr. R. C. Wroughton, Miss Kathleen
Ryley, Mr. T. B. Fry, and Mr. Martin A. C. Hinton.

The Department is further indebted to Mr. Gilbert Blaine
for having kindly assisted Mr. Lydekker in the preparation of
the Second and Third Volumes of the Catalogue of Ungulates.

In connection with the Bombay Natural History Society’s
Survey of the Mammals of India, Miss Kathleen Ryley,
Mr. R. C. Wroughton, and Mr. T. B. Fry have worked out the
various collections, published reports on them, and selected
series for registration. | .

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 121

The services of Dr. Knud Andersen have been continued

for the preparation of the second volume of the Catalogue
of Bats.

The second and third volumes of the Catalogue of the
Ungulate Mammals, by Mr. R. Lydekker and Mr. G. Blaine,
have been published ; and a new Edition of the Mammal Guide
has also been published, after revision by Mr. Lydekker.

The arrangement of the collection of skeletons has made
steady progress during the year; but the rate at which this

work can be done depends on that of the supply of new
cabinets.

A considerable amount of Cetacean material was received
from 8. Georgia in February as the gift of Messrs. Chr.
Salvesen and Co. This included complete sets of the baleen
of the Common Rorqual, of Sibbald’s Rorqual, and of the
Humpback Whale. Paddles of each of these species were also
received, as well as foetuses, portions of skin, and a few other
parts.

An attempt was made to preserve the baleen so that at
some future time it can be affixed to its appropriate skull as in
life. There is some reason to hope that this experiment will
prove successful.

In addition to the casts of the paddles of these whales,
both before and after dissection, made for the Whale Room,
casts of the carpal region have been prepared for use in the
Study Collection.

Casts and dissections have also been made of the paddles of
the Atlantic Right Whale (Balena biscayensis), and of the
rare Sowerby’s Whale (Mesoplodon bidens) referred to else-
where in this Return.

AVES.

The remounting of specimens in the General Gallery has
been continued. Many of the leading types of Flycatchers
(Muscicapidz) have been mounted, while the remainder, as well
as representative sets of the Swallows (Hirundinide), Cuckoo-
Shrikes (Campophagidx), Bulbuls (Pycnonotide), and Babblers
(Timeliide), are in Messrs. Rowland Ward’s hands.

The cases 69-70 containing the American Chatterers
(Cotingidz), Manakins (Pipride), Tyrant-Birds (Tyrannide),
Ant-Thrushes (Pittide), &c., have been filled with the newly
mounted specimens and finally arranged. The following
species, examples of which have been mounted and added to
the General Gallery, are worthy of special note :—A remark-
able and very rare Giant Ibis (Thawmatibis gigantea) from
Siam, presented by K. G. Gairdner, Esq. A mounted specimen
of Casuaiius sclatera from Dutch New Guinea, presented by
the Subsciibers to the Wollaston Expedition.

Examples of the Emperor Penguin and of the Adélie
Penguin, procured by the late Dr. EK. A. Wilson during the

122 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Scott (“Terra Nova”) Expedition, have been added to the
Penguin case; also a very fine specimen of the King Penguin
(Aptenodytes patagoniea) from South Georgia, which recently
died in the Zoological Society's Gardens.

Two models of the Great Auk have been constructed and
substituted for the specimens which have for many years been
on exhibition in the General Gallery and British saloon.

In the Bird Room the Index to the volumes of the special
Reference Catalogue has been completed and good progress has
been made with the relabelling of the cabinets, drawers and
boxes containing the species, so that any box which has been
taken out for examination can be put back in its place by
referring to a reference-number clearly marked on each. Great
saving in time will thus be effected.

The Vultures and Secretary Birds have been arranged in
new cabinets.

Register-numbers have been put on three thousand two
hundred and thirty-four eggs of the Seebohm Collection and
two thousand seven hundred and twenty-three of the Radcliffe
Saunders Collection.

The Styan Collection of Chinese birds has been registered.

Mr. D. A. Bannerman has given much assistance in working
out the collections formed by the late Mr. Boyd Alexander in
the Island of St. Thomas and Prince’s Jsland.

Mr. Claude H. B. Grant has also rendered great help by
working out the extensive East African Collections presented to
the British Museum by Capt. Gordon P. Cosens and collected
by Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe.

Capt. H. Lynes, R.N., has also been engaged in working out
the Chapman-Lynes collections from the Blue and White Niles
and the hinterland of Suakim. These collections were pre-
sented by Mr. Abel Chapman and Capt. H. Lynes and had been
collected with the assistance of Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe.

Mr. Arthur Denman has very kindly assisted in preparing
some of the recently received collections for incorporation.

The work in the Bird Room has been retarded by the
absence of Mr. Court Treatt on active service for the War.

T'he more notable presents were the following :—

From Mr. W. McOran Campbell a collection of birds and
egos from Iceland. From Dr. Philip Gosse a collection of birds
from the Balearic Islands. From Mr. Abel Chapman and Capt. .
H. Lynes, R.N., a large and‘important collection from the Blue
and White Niles and the hinterland of Suakim. From Lord
Brabourne, a large collection chiefly from Peru. From the
British Association and Zoological Society, a collection
of birds and eggs from South Trinidad and South Georgia
From Capt. F. M. Bailey, a collection of rare species, mostly
game birds, from Tibet, &e. From the British Antarctic Expe-
dition, a collection of birds and eggs. From the Trustees of the

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late James Rowland Ward, a collection of specially selected
birds, beautifully mounted for exhibition.

Among the most important purchases are :—

A large collection of British birds formed by Mr. Claude H.
B.Grant. A valuable collection from Chin-wang-tao, N. China.
A further collection of birds from the high mountains of Yemen,
procured by Mr. G. W. Bury and containing many new species.
A very valuable and representative collection of West Indian
birds formed by Dr. Percy R. Lowe. A large collection from
Merida, Western Venezuela.

During the year the collection has been regularly consulted
by a large number of visitors; and systematic work has been
done on various groups by Mr. W. L. Sclater, Mr. E. C. Stuart
Baer, Mr. C.--E.) 8B. Grant, Mr D. A. Bannerman, Lord
Brabourne, Mr. G. M. Mathews, Mr. T. Iredale, Dr. P. R. Lowe,
Mr. H. F. Witherby, The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Dr. E.
Hartert, Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, Dr. H. Langton, the Marquess
of Tavistock, Miss A. Jackson, Colonel R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay,
Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe, Capt. H. Lynes, Mr. Collingwood
Ingram and Dr. C. B. Ticehurst.

Various artists engaged in preparing drawings for forth-
coming works have also made regular use of the collection.
viz.:—Mr. H. Groénvold, Mr. G. E. Lodge, Mr. Archibald
Therburn, Mr. R. Green, Mr. H. Goodchild, Miss Medland, Major
H. Jones, Mr. Bernard Shaw, and Miss .Winifred Austen.

In the Osteological Room the bird-skeletons have been re-
arranged and the task of labelling the cabinets has been
commenced. One of the most valuable additions to this part
of the collection is the skeleton of a Masai Ostrich, purchased.

DOMESTICATED ANIMALS.

North Hall.—The additions to this series include the
following :—-

Head of Nuer Humped Ox, with enormous horns, from the
Sobat Valley, Upper Nile Province, presented by Capt. F. W.
Woodward. Horns of Albanian Sheep, presented by Messrs.
Rowland Ward, Ltd. A Loaghtan Ewe, from the Isle of Man,
the gift of H. J. Elwes, Esq., F.R.S. Skeleton of the thorough-
bred stallion “ St. Simon,” presented by His Grace the Duke of
Portland, K.G. A Mummified Cat, from Bubastis, given by
the Misses Villeneuve-Smith. An Albino Crested Grebe, from
Kieff, Southern Russia, presented by Count A. Bobinsky.

REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA.

Reptile Gallery. —The roof of the gallery was repainted
during the winter.

The additions include a plaster cast of the skull of the giant
Galapagos Tortoise in the Scarborough Museum to which
allusion was made in the Return for 1913, the cift of the Hon.
Walter Rothschild, F.R.S.

124 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

A very fine Boa Constrictor (Boa constrictor), from South
America, presented by the Zoological Society. The latter
specimen and the Gabun Viper referred to in the previous
Return have been painted under the personal superintendence
of the Hon. Walter Rothschild (who also defrayed the artist’s
charges), and are now really life-like representations of their
respective species.

Study Series.—All additions have been registered and
incorporated, and the work of renewing the spirit and of
replenishing jars has been proceeded with as usual.

PISCES.

All the accessions have been incorporated in the collection
and have increased the congestion referred to in previous reports.
The arrangement of the African Fresh-water Fishes in the order
of Mr. Boulenger’s new catalogue has been completed. The
card-catalogue has been continued, the work of checking and
cleaning the bottles and replenishing them with spirit has been
carried on.

In the Exhibition Gallery some progress has been made. In
the early part of the year Mr. A. J. Gear was engaged for a
few weeks to cast and paint fishes, and in the last two months
Mr. A. Fieldsend,has been occupied with this work. It is intended
gradually to replace the less satisfactory fishes in the gallery by
better examples of the taxidermist’s art and in time to organise
a good exhibition of British Fishes.

TUNICATA.

The collection of Tunicata has been entirely re-arranged in
accordance with the latest classification and relabelled in the case
of the great majority of the bottles ; and steps have been taken
to ensure conservation. A manuscript catalogue of the collec-
tion has been made.

MOLLUSCA.

In the Shell Gallery the relabelling and remounting of the
Sikes Collection of British land and freshwater shells have
been continued, and. arrangements have been made for accom-
modating the collection in new cases. The services of Mr. G.
K. Gude have again been secured for continuing the re-arrange-
ment, renaming, and relabelling of the exhibited series of
Zonitide. Mr. HE. A. Smith, 1.8.0., formerly Assistant-Keeper,
has continued to give assistance, the value of which can hardly
be over-estimated.

In the Spirit Building .a large part of the collection of
Cephalopoda has been regrouped and relabelled.

The collection of Mollusca obtained by the British Antarctic
(“Terra Nova”) Expedition has been received and sorted out.
Most of the groups have been assigned to workers for study.

The Cephalopoda obtained in 1905 by the “Sealark ” in the
Indian Ocean have been fully worked out and a report has been
prepared, with descriptions of new and interesting forms,

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 125

Other reports have been prepared upon a small collection of
Cephalopoda from the Montebello Is., on the Australian
species of the Family Mactridze, and on general collections
from South Africa, Lagos, the Philippine Is., Grand Cayman,
and Easter Island. The anatomy of Marinula tristanensis
has been studied anc a paper upon it prepared for publication.
The various conchological forms of Bursa rubata, a polymorphic
species, have been described and figured. The study of the
Gastropoda obtained by the “Terra Nova” has been com-
menced and is now in progress. Advice and assistance have
been given for the carrying out of genetic experiments upon
the albinic form of Helix aspersa. The arrangement and
preparation of the Blanford and Godwin-Austen Collections of
Indian land and fresh-water Mollusca have been continued by
Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S.

During the year, 54 microscopic preparations, of which the
majority were made in the Museum, have been added to the
collection of slides. In the early part of the year an expedi-
tion was undertaken by Mr. Robson to Sardinia with the
principal object of studying and collecting the Molluscan fauna
of the central mountain range of the Island. Illness, however,
prevented the attempt from being carried beyond the initial
stages.

BRACHIOPODA.

The Brachiopoda obtained by the “Terra Nova” Expedition
have been handed over to Mr. J. W. Jackson for study.

In addition to the above, only two other specimens have
been added to the collection, Lingula sp. from Manila, presented
by C. 8S. Betton, Esq., and Terebratulina kitensis from Sagami,
Japan, purchased.

MYRIOPODA AND ARACHNIDA.

Special attention has again been given to the study of
parasitic Acari; and reports dealing with the forms occurring on
the Brown Rat (HZ pimys norvegicus) in Great Britain and with
those found on the species of Rodents which frequent human
habitations in Egypt, have been prepared. The Arachnida and
Myriopoda obtained by the British Ornithologists’ Union
Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition to Dutch New
Guinea have also been reported upon. The arrangement and
registration of the Koch Collection are stil! in progress, but
the first half has been labelled and put away. ‘Two more
models of Amblyomma hebrawm were made during the year.
The series illustrating the externa] structure and stages in the
life-history of a Tick is thus now complete, and it has been
placed on exhibition in the Central Hall.

CRUSTACEA AND PYCNOGONIDA.

All the exhibited specimens preserved in spirit have been
overhauled and the jars have been cleaned and refilled,

126 ACCOUNTS, ETC.,-OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Of the Norman collection 10,033 specimens have been
registered during the year and the tubes containing —
sealed with wax.

The Budde-Lund collection received in 1912 and the Koch
collection received in 19138 still await attention, but it has
not been possible to do more than dust and refill the bottles,
and there is, unfortunately, no immediate prospect of these
important collections being made accessible for study.

The number of accessions continues to diminish rapidly, and
it has thus been possible to find places in the overcrowded
Crustacea Room for most of the specimens received during the
year.

A considerable part of the “Terra Nova” collection of
Crustacea has been distributed to various specialists for exami-
nation. The collection of Pycnogonida has been studied, and a
report on it igs in preparation.

PROTOTRACHEATA.

The most important event for many years in the history on
the coilection is the acquisition of the specimens got together
by the late Prof. Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S.

ECHINODERMA.

Great difficulty has been experienced in finding accommoda-
tion for specimens preserved in spirit, and furtner orderly
arrangement of species cannot be completely carried out.

Most of the specimens obtained during the year have been
determined, and all have been incorporated.

Specimens of Astrotoma agassizii from the Antarctic have
been mounted and added to the exhibited collection; and
instructive series of dissected preparations of Ophinotus vivi-
parus have been set out.

A revision of the MSS. Catalogue of Asteroidea was
commenced, but has to yield to the necessity of working out
the Echinoderms collected by the “ Terra Nova.”

WoRMS.

With the help of Mr. W. A. Harding for Leeches and of
Dr. Cognetti de Martiis for Oligocheta, nearly all the worms
obtained during the year have been determined and all have
been incorporated.

Considerable progress have been made with the systematic
arrangement of the microscopic slides; those of the Wille
collection, which bore only numbers, have been labelled, and
incorporated with the rest of the collection.

The collection of Rotifers was thoroughly revised by
Mr. Rousselet, the original mounter.

The study collections of all groups of Parasitic Worms have
been re-arranged, as far as the limited space in the Spirit
Building permits, on a plan which renders them more readily

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. . 127

accessible for reference. At the same time, MS. lists of the
Trematoda, Cestoda and Turbellaria, and of the Nematomorpha,
have been compiled, the nomenclature being to a large extent
brought up to date. The spirit in most of the bottles containing
these collections has been renewed.

Many specimens have, while this work was proceeding, been
mounted as microscopic objects, in which form they will be more
accessible and generally useful. This statement applies mainly
to the Cestoda and some of the small Nematoda.

POLYZOA.
Acquisitions have been labelled, registered, and incorporated.

ANTHOZOA.

The Coral Gallery was repainted and redecorated at the
close of the year and the glass cases and shelves were cleaned
inside.

HYDROZOA.

Mr. A. K. Totton, the new Assistant, has worked through
the spirit collection of British Hydroida (Families Campanu-
lariide, Sertulariide, and Plumulariide), and has spent much
much time sorting and working out the “Terra Nova”’ speci-
mens. He has been absent on active service for the War since
the end of August.

PoRIFERA (SPONGES).

The re-sorting and working out of the Antarctic Sponges of
the “ Terra Nova” Expedition have been proceeded with.

11.— Duplicates and Hachanges.
(a) Duplicates.
Duplicates have been distributed among museums, scientific
institutions, &c., as follows :—
Mammalia.—United States National Museum; Dr. Festa.

Aves. — Cheltenham College Museum ; Royal Albert
Memorial Museum, Exeter; Falkland Islands Museum ;
Gloucester Museum; Bailey Museum, Mansfield ; H.M.S.

“« Worcester.”

Pisces.—Falkland Islands Museum; Professor J. Graham
Kerr, F.R.S. (University of Glasgow).

Tunicata.—Falkland Islands Museum.

Mollusca.—Falkland Islands Museum; Leicester Museum
and Art Gallery ; W. L. Reed, Esq.

Crustacea.—Falkland Islands Museum.

Echinoderma.— _,, ~ ne

Polyzoa.— 4 FF +

Sponges.— 3 > »

128 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

(b) Hachanges.

Exchanges have been made with the following institutions
and individuals :-—

Mammalia.—With the United States National Museum ;
Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Harvard College; the
Transvaal Museum; and Dr. J. A. Allen.

Aves. — With the Government Museum, Trivandrum; the
Zoological Society of London ; and Mr. Outram Bangs.

Batrachia.— With the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy,
Harvard College.

Pisces.—With the Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel; the
Senckenbergisches Museum, Frankfurt a. M.; the Museo
Civico, Genoa; Professor Max Weber; and Dr. E. Zugmayer.

Tunicata.—With the Zoologisches Museum, Berlin (Prof.
R. Hartmeyer).

Arachnida. — With the Albany Museum, Grahamstown ;
Professor G. H. F. Nuttall, F.R.S.; and Dr. Eugen Pawlowsky.

Crustacea.—With the Zoologische Sammlung des Bayer-
ischen Staates, Miinchen (Dr. H. Balss).

Hydrozoa.—With Dr. C. McLean Fraser.
Porifera.—With the Indian Museum, Calcutta.

IlIl.— Departmental Library.

The acquisitions of the Library of the Departments of
Zoology and Entomology (including the Walsingham Library)
during the year, obtained by purchase, presentation and
exchange, consist of 76 separate works and pamphlets in
85 volumes, and 1,721 parts of periodicals and works in
progress.

Three hundred and ninety-five volumes, including those
belonging to the Walsingham Library, have been bound.

The work of collating, stamping, press-marking and entering
all additions in the Catalogue has been performed as usual.

The Attendant in the Library, with the aid and supervision
of an Assistant, has checked all the entries of Zoological
Works in that portion of the General Catalogue of Books which
has been printed during the year.

Of the donations the following work is worthy of special
mention :— The Birds of Australia, Vol. ili, parts 5-6; and
Vol. iv., part 1; presented by G. M. Mathews, Esq.

The following is a List of Donors to the Departmental
Library during the year 1914 :—

Agricultural Adviser, Government of India; Pusa, Behar,
British India.

Agricultural Experiment Station, Bozeman, Montana.

Agricultural Experiment Station, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, Behar, British India.

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Anthropological Society, Bombay.

Arrow, G. J.

Australian Museum, Sydney.

Barnes, Dr. W.

Biologische Wolga-Station, Saratov.

Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Board of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Booker, Bros., McConnell & Oo., Ltd.

Botanic Gardens, Singapore.

British Ornithologists’ Union.

Broun, Major T.

Bullen, G. E.

Bureau of Fisheries, Washington.

Calman, Dr. W. T.

Casey, T. I: |

Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Conseil permanent International pour |’ Exploration de la
Mer.

Dehaut, E. G.

Denbigh, Earl of, C.V.O.

Département van Landbouw, Nijverheid en Handel, te
Buitenzorg, Java.

Department of Agriculture, Alberta, Canada.

Department of Agriculture, Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay
States.

Department of Agriculture, Madras Presidency.

Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada.

Department of Agriculture, Sydney, N.S.W.

Departinent of Agriculture, Union of South Africa.

Department of Agriculture, Victoria.

Department of Agriculture, Wellington, New Zealand

Department of the Naval Service, Ottawa, Canada.

Department of ‘Trade and Customs, Melbourne.

Dove Marine Laboratory, Cullercoats, Northumberland.

Ecole de Médecine Tropicale, Junqueira-Lisbonne, Portugal.

Edwards, F. W.

Keyptian Government Zoological Service, Cairo.

Entomological Society, London.

Entomological Society, Ontario, Canada.

Hasei, A. Eb

“ Wield,” Editor of the.

Fishery Board for Scotland.

Fletcher, Dr. L., F.R.S.

Foreign Bird Club.

Godman, F. Ducane, F.R.S.

Hampson, Sir G. F., Bart.

Harmer, Dr. 8. F., F.R.S.

Herdman, Prof. W. A., F.R.S.

Hewitt, Dr. C. Gordon.

Ichthyologisches Laboratorium der Kaspi . Wolgaschen
Fischerei-Verwaltung in Astrachan.

Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History.

fmme;, Dr. A. D.

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Iinperial Bureau of Entomology.

Imperial Department of Agriculture, West Indies.

India, Secretary of State for.

Indian Museum, Calcutta.

Jndian Research Fund Association, Simla.

Kommissionen for Havundersogelser, Kjobenhavn.

Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademien, Stockholm.

Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola
Superiore D’ Agricoltura i in Portici.

Lane, Major Clayton, M.D.

Linnean Society, London.

Lord Derby Natural History Museum, Liverpool.

Magyar Kiralyi Ornithologiai Kézpont, Budapest.

Marelli, Dr. C. A.

Mathews, G. M.

Mocsary, A.

Musei Srpske Zemlie, Belgrade.

Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Hipodromo, Madrid.

Museu Goeldi de Historia Natura] e Ethnographia, Para
Brazil.

Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Harvard College.

Nehrkorn, A.

New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station.

Office of the Administrator, Cape Town.

Pocock, KR. I., F.R.S:

Ponsonby, J. H.

Port Elizabeth Museum.

Poulton, Prof): 5B.) ERs:

Richardson, Major Gen. J. B.

Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden.

Rockefeller Foundation, International Health Commission
Washington, D.C.

Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney.

Sars, Prot. G./O,

Sherborn, C. Davies.

Smith, E. A. S20.

Smith, Miss.

Smits van Burgst, C. A. L.

Société Entomologique de Belgique.

Société Entomologique de France.

Société Entomologique de Russie.

Société Entomologique des Pays-Bas, Rotterdam.

Société Portugaise de Sciences Naturelles, Lisbon.

Solomon, J. ite

South African Ornithologists’ Tait Pretoria.

State Fisheries, Sydney, New South Wales.

Superintendent of the Government Press, Madras, India.

Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, India.

Thomas, O., F.R.S.

Trebilcock, R. E.

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Tropical Diseases Bureau, Imperial Institute, London.
Tufts College, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Universidade de Lisbon.

University of California.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska.
University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming.
Urich, F. W.

Wade, A.

Waterston, Rev. J.

Webermann, E. C.

Wilson Ornithological Club.

Woodward, B. B.

Wray, C. A.

Zoological Gardens, Giza, Egypt.

Zoological Museum, Copenhagen.

Zoological Museum, Tring.

Zoological Soziety, London.

Zoological Society, New York.

Zoological Society, Philadelphia.

Zoological Society, Tokyo.

Zoologische Staatssammlung, Miinchen.
Zoologisches Museum, Berlin.

IV.—Publications.

In addition to the official Catalogues and other volumes

published by the Trustees (see pp. 113-115), various reports and
descriptive papers have been prepared in connection with the
different branches of the collection ; and have been published for
the most part in scientific journals.

For the convenience of reference the following list is

appended :—

Mammalia.
By OLDFIELD THoMAS, F.R.S. :—

“The Tree-Shrews of the Tupaia belangeri-chinensis
Group.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xili., p. 243.
‘Qn various South American Mammals.” Ib., p. 345.
“ Notes on the genus Leggada.”
Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xxiii, p. 682.
“On a Remarkable case of Affinity between Animals
inhabiting Guiana, W. Africa, and the Malay Archi-
pelago.” Proce. Zool. Soe., p. 415.
“ Scientific Results of the Mammal Survey, No. VII.”
Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soce., xxiii., p. 23.
“New Nasua, Lutra, and Proechimys from South
America.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiv., p. 57.
‘New South American Rodents.” 1b., p. 240.
“ A new Genus of Bats allied to Nyctophilus.”
Ib., p. 381.

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MAMMALIA—continued.

“Four new Small Mammalsfrom Venezuela.” Jb., p. 410.
“Scientific Results of the Mammal Survey, No. VIII.”
Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xxiii., p. 197.
“A new Soriculus from the Mishmi Hills.” _Tb., p. 683.
“On Mammals from Manus Island, Admiralty Group, and
Ruk Island, Bismarck Archipelago.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiii, p. 435.
“ New Asiatic and Australian Bats and a new Bandicoot.”
Ib., p. 440.
“ New Callicebus and Humops from 8S, America.”
Ib., p. 480.
“ Nomina conservanda in Mammalia.”
Zoologischer Anzeiger, xliv., p. 284.
“On Small Mammals from Djarkent, Central Asia.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xili., p. 564.
“ Three new South-American Mammals.” 16. pap:

By Guy DoLiman, B.A. :—

‘“A new Dormouse from Northern Nigeria, presented to
the British Museum by J. C. Fox, Esq.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi., p. 196.
“ Notes on a collection of Kast African Mammals presented
to the British Museum by Mr. G. P. Cosens.”
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1914, p. 307.
‘Notes on Mammals collected by Dr. Christy in the
Congo and by Dr. Bayer in Uganda and British East
Africa.” Rev. Zool. Africaine, IV., fase. I., p. 75.
“A new African Squirrel presented to the British Museum
by Capt. the Hon. R. O. B. Bridgeman, R.N.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiv., p. 153.
“On a new Species of the rare Genus Beamys from
Nyasaland.” Ib., p. 428.
“On the Spiny Mice of British East Africa, with a
Description of a new Species from Magadi.”
1b, PiAS5.
“Two new Pigmy Gerbils from British East Africa.”
. 1b., p. 488.
“On anew Anomalurus from the Cameroons.”

FOS p. 400;
By R. C. WROUGHTON :—
“ Bombay Natural History Society’s Mammal Survey of

India, Burma and Ceylon—Report No. 15.”
Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xxiil., p. 282.

By G. BLAINE :—

‘Notes on the Korrigum, with a Description of Four new

Races.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiii., p. 526.

“ An extinct Hartebeest from Egypt.” Ib., p. 335.
“On Connochetes tawrinus cooksoni, subsp. n.”

1b., p. dame

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MAMMALIA— continued.
By Dr. KNUD ANDERSEN :—

“A new Nycteris from N.W. Rhodesia.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiii., p. 563.

By Martin A. C. HINTON :--

“On a new Species of Myopus from Central Asia.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiii., p. 342.

Aves.
By W. R. OGILVIE-GRaANT :—

“Notes on the Spitzbergen Ptarmigan (Lagopus hyper-
boreus).” Bull; B.0.C., xxxiii., p. 32.
“On the remarkable dark young of the Starling found
breeding in the Shetland Islands.” Ib., p. 63.
“On the eclipse plumage of Barrow’s Golden-eye (Clan-
gula islandica).” Ib., p. 64.
“On an immature male example of the Carolina Crake
(Porzana carolina) killed in the Outer Hebrides.
Ib., p. 82 and Brit. Birds, vii., p. 202.
‘““ Notes on female specimens of Barrow’s Golden-eye and
of the Common Golden-eye (Clangula islandica and
C. glaucion). LOe Dp. s102,
“On a pair of South Georgian Pintail (Dafila georgicum).
Ib., p. 104

“On the specimen of Schlegel’s Petrel (@'strelata ae cia

from Cheshire. Ib., p. 124,
“On an abnormally marked female Wigeon (Mareca
penelope). EG., p. 125.
“On a new species. of Ground-Robin (Hrythropygia
ansorget). Ib., p. 134.
“Remarks on the Flycatchers Hlminia teresitu and £.
longicauda. Ib., p. 135.

“On the colour and markings of the axillary-plumes of
of the Common and American Wigeons (Mareca
penelope and M. americana). Foi ps5:

“On the down of the Common Teal and Garganey
(Querquedula crecca and Q. querquedula). Ib., p. 142.

Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, Vols. xxxii..,
xxxiv. (Report on the Immigration of Summer
Residents) edited.

By C. CHUBB :—
“On a new species of Tinamou (Nothocercus salvadori)
from Ecuador.” Bull: B:0.C., xxmii., p. 95.

“Exhibition and description of two new species of birds
from Guiana (Planesticus arthuri and Huscarthmus
josephine).” Ib., p. 181.

By Lorp BRABOURNE and C. CHUBB :—
‘Exhibition and description of two new species of birds
from Peru (Buarremon matucanensis and Upucerthia
juninensis).” Bull, B:0°©.,"sxxv., p. 20:

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AVES—continued.
“A Key to the Species of the Genus Crypturus, with

descriptions of some new Forms.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiv., p. 319.

By the Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, F.R.S. and C. CHUBB :—

“On a new form of Rhea.”
Novitates Zoologice, xxi., p. 15.

By Davip A. BANNERMAN :—
“On an Ornithological Expedition to the Eastern Canary

Islands.” Ibis, 1914, pp. 38, 228.
“On the Distribution and Nidification of the Tubinares in
the North Atlantic Islands.” Ib., p. 438.

“Report on the birds collected by the late Mr. Boyd
Alexander during his last expedition to Africa, Part 1.
The Birds of Princes Island. Tb) p. B96.

“ Account of a recent visit to the Eastern Canary “Tslands
and descriptions of two new sub-species (Acanthis
cannuabina harterti and Saxicola dacotie murvelw.) ”

Bull) B/O.C, xxxiikt, pprer, 56.

“ Account of the Zoo-geographical divisions of the Canary

Islands illustrated by Lantern Slides.” Tb., ptNs.

By CLauDE H. B. Grant :—
On the moults and plumages of the Common Moorhen.
Ibis, 1914, p. 298.
‘“On a new subspecies of African Guinea-Fowl.”
Bull. B.0,C,,, xxmyp: 4.
‘On three new subspecies from Africa.”
Bull.sb:0.¢., xxxyjp. 19.
‘On a new subspecies of Hammerkop (Scopus). :
Dh; Det:
“On two new subspecies of African Kingfishers.” Ib., p. 28.

Reptilia and Batrachia.

By G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. :—

“An annotated list of the Batrachians and Reptiles
collected by the British Ornithologists’ Union Expedi-
tion and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New
Guinea.” Trans. Z.S., xx., p. 247.

“On a second collection of Batrachians and Reptiles made
by Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell in the Choco, Colombia.”

P.Z.8., 1914, p. 813.

“Description of a new Snake of the genus Coluber from
Northern China.”

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiii., p. 576.

‘‘ Descriptions of new species of Snakes in the Collection
of the British Museum.” Op. citi; xiv., p. 482.

“Descriptions of new Reptiles from Siam.”

Journ. N.H. Soe. Siam, 1., p. 67.

“Contributo allo Studio sulla Fauna Libyca. Rettili e
Batraci.”’ Ann. Mus. Genova (8) vi., p. 79.

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Pisces.

By G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. :—
“Descriptions of three new species from South

Cameroon. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiv., p. 383.
“Descriptions of two new Fishes from Northern Rhodesia.”
Ib., p. 885.

“Mission Stappers au Tanganika-Moero. Diagnoses de
Poissons nouveaux. I. Acanthoptérygiens, Opisthomes,
Cyprinodontes. Rev. Zool. Afr., 1i1., p. 442.

By C. TATE REGAN, M.A. :—

“ British Antarctic (‘Terra Nova’) Expedition, 1910.”
Zoology, Vol. I., Fishes, p. 1
“ Report on the Freshwater Fishes collected by the British
Ornithologists’ Union Expedition and the Wollaston
Expedition in Dutch New Guinea.”
Trans. Zool. Soc., xx., p. 275.
“Note on Aristeus goldver Macleay and on some other
Fishes from New Guinea.”
Proc. Zool. Soc, 1914, p. 339.
“ Diagnoses of new marine Iishes collected by the British
Antarctic (‘Terra Nova’) Expedition.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiii., p. 11.
«A Synopsis of the Fishes of the family Macrorhampho-
side.” Hes pe 17.
“Fishes from Yunnan, collected by Mr. J. Graham, with
description of a new species of Barilius.” I1b., p. 260.
“Two new Cyprinid Fishes from Waziristan, collected by
Major G. E. Bruce.” mos p. 261.
‘Description of a new Cyprinodont Fish of the genus
Mollvenisia from Yucatan.” 1b., p. 338.
«The systematic arrangement of the Fishes of the family
Salmonide.” Lb., p. 405.
“ Fishes from the Condoto River, Colombia, collected by
Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell.”’
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiv., p. 31.
“Descriptions of two new Cyprinodont Fishes from
Mexico, presented to the British Museum by Herr
A. Rachow.” 1b.; Pp. 65:

Mollusca.
By G. C. Rosson, B.A. :—

“Report on the Mollusca collected by the British Orni-
thologists’ Union Expedition and the Wollaston
Tega euayntelir in Dutch New Guinea.”

Trans. Zool. Soc., xx., p. 287.

“On Veronicella nilotica, Ckll.” in J. Longstaff, ‘4 ‘On a
Collection of Non-Marine Mollusca from the Southern
Sudan.” Journ. Linn. Soe. Zool., XX, Ps ose

“ Cephalopoda from the Montebello Is.”

Proc. Zool. Soc., 1914, p. 677.

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MoLLusca—continued.

“On a collection of Land and Freshwater Gastropoda
from Madagascar.”
Journ. Linn. Soe. Zool., xxxii., p. 375.
“Molluscan Rubber Pests.”
Journ. of Conchology, xiv., p. 225.

By EK. A. Suita, 1.8.0. :—

“ Note on Haltotis sieboldw.”

Proc. Malac. Soc., x1., p. 4.
“A list of Australian Mactride.” Ip. pp isi.

“Descriptions of some South African Marine Shells.”
Ann. Natal Museum, ii1., p. 1.
“Note on Bursa (Tutufa) rubeta (Bolton) = Triton

lampas (Lamarck et auctt).”

Journ. of Conchology, xiv., p. 226.

The following paper is based upon material which is almost
entirely in the British Museum :—

By G. K. GuDE :—
“Descriptions of new Species of Helicoids from the
Indian Region.” Proc. Malac. Soce., xi., p. 52.

Myriopoda and Arachnida.
By A. 8. Hirst :—

‘“Report on the Arachnida and Myriopoda collected by
the British Ornithologists’ Union Expedition and the
Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea.”

Trans. Zool. Soc., xx., p. 325.

“ Preliminary List of the Acari occurring on the Brown
Rat (Mus norvegicus) in Great Britain, with the
description of a new species Hamogamasus oude-
mansr).” Bull. Ent. Res., v., p. 119.

Crustacea.
By Dr. W. T. CaLMAN :—

“On the Crustacean Genus Sicyonella, Borradaile.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xili., p. 258.
‘‘ Report on the River-Crabs (Potamonidae) collected by
the British Ornithologists’ Union Expedition and the
Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea.”
Trans. Zool. Soc., xx., p. 307.
« A new Crab of the Genus Calappa from West Africa.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), xiv., p. 493.

By Miss DororHy A. STEWART :—

‘““A report on the extra-antarctic Amphipoda Hyperiidea
collected by the * Discovery.’
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xii, p. 245.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 137

CRUSTACEA— continued.
By Dr. W. A. CUNNINGTON :—
“ Zoological Results of the Third Tanganyika Expedition.
Report on the parasitic Eucopepoda.”
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1914, p. 819.

The following paper is based partly on material in the
British Museum :—

By Dr. WALTER M. TATTERSALL :—
“The Schizopoda, Stomatopoda, and non-antarctic Iso-
poda of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition.”
Trans. R. Soc., Edinburgh, xlix., p. 865.

Worms.
By Dr. Luici COGNETTI DE MaRTIISs :—

“Ona small collection of Earthworms from Henderson
Tsland.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiii., p. 255.
By H. A. Bayuts, B.A. :—
“Preliminary Account of Aspidodrilus, a remarkable
Epizoic Oligochete.”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist (8), xiv., p. 145.
“On anew Cestode from an Albatross, Diomedea irro-
rata.” Proce. Zool. Soce., 1914, p. 407.
“On Octopetalum, a new genus of Avian Cestodes,”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiv., p. 414.

By R. T. Lerper, M.B., and Surgeon E. L. Atkinson, R.N. :—

‘‘Helminthes of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-
TOTS.” Proe. Zool. Soc., 1914, p. 222.

Porifera.
By R. KIRKPATRICK :—-

“ Fresh-water Sponges of the Volga-Basin.”
Arb. a. d. biolog. Wolga-Station, 1914.

V.—Acquisitions.*
MAMMALIA.

The additions to this class during the past year number
two thousand four hundred and fifty-eight :—

Special attention may be directed to the large collections
of Indian and Ceylon Mammals presented by the Bombay
Natural History Society ; to the collections of South American
and Siberian Mammals presented by Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S. ;
and to the large collection of South American Mammals pre-
sented by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild.

* A table showing the number of specimens added during the year is
given on page 156.

138 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MaMMALIA— continued.

Europe.

Forty-three mammals from Hungary ; presented by Fréau-
lein Sarolta von Wertheimstein.

The types of five new forms from the Inner Hebrides ;
presented by the Subscribers to the Fund for the Exploration
of the Hebrides.

A Stag’s skull from Exmoor ; presented by Morland Greig,
Esq.

Two paddles of the Atlantic Right Whale (Balena glacvalis)
from Harris, Shetlands; presented by Carl F. Herlofson, Esq.

A female Sowerby’s Whale (Mesoplodon bidens), stranded
at Rosslare during September; presented by the Board of
Trade..

A white-beaked Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) from
Wick, Caithness ; presented by the Board of Trade.

The skeleton of the famous Race-horse St. Frusquin ; pre-
sented by the Hon. Leopold de Rothschild.

Asia.

An albino Leopard from Bengal; presented by R. EH. S.
Thomas, Esq.

Nineteen mammals from South Arabia; purchased.

One thousand and fifty-three mammals, including the types
of fourteen new forms, collected by Major E. W. Mayor and.
Messrs. G. C. Shortridge and C. A. Crump in Ceylon and
India ; presented by the Bombay Natural History Society.

Seven mammals from Tibet, including the types of four
new forms; presented by Capt. F. M. Barley.

Thirty-five mammals from Siam; presented by K. G.
Gairdner, Esq.

Hight mammals from China; presented by A. L. Hall,
Esq.

Hight mainmals from Tian Shan ; presented by Col. J. H.
Abbot Anderson.

Nineteen mammals from Central China; presented by Miss
i, Vi Rytey.

Thirty-four mammals from W. Yunnan; presented by the
Hon. N. C. Rothschild.

One hundred and twelve mammals from Siberia; presented
by Oldfield Thomas, EHsq., F.R.S.

Skeleton of a Bornean Spotted Dolphin (Sotalia bor-
neensis); presented by the Trustees of the Sarawak Museum,
Borneo.

Africa.

A mounted Gorilla from Baraka, Belgian Congo; presented

by the Trustees of the late James Rowland Ward.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, 139

MAMMALIA—continued.

Nine mammals from the Congo; presented by C. J. Black-
burne-Maze, Esq.

Forty-five mammals from South Nyasaland ; presented by
the Entomological Research Committee.

A Rodent-Badger (Lophiomys imhaust) from Port Sudan ;
presented by Dr. M. E. Waterfield.

Two Squirrels, representing a new species (Paraxerus
bridgemant), from Panda, Portuguese Hast Africa; presented
by Capt. the Hon. R. O. B. Bridgeman, R.N.

Twenty-two Bats from East Africa; presented by G. P.
Cosens, Esq.

Five mammals from the Bahr-el-Ghazal; presented by Col.
C.F. Blane.

Hight mammals from Algeria; presented by the Hon. Walter
Rothschild, F.R.S., and Dr. EF. Hartert.

A Hunting Dog from the White Nile; presented by F.
Russell Roberts, Esq.

Fifty mammals from Somaliland and Senegal; presented
by G. Blaine, Esq.

Five mammals from Zanzibar; presented by Dr. W. M.
Aders.

Sixty-five mammals from the Cameroons ; purchased.

Fifty-three mammals from the Congo and British East
Africa; presented by the Musée du Congo Belge.

Fifty mammals from the Sudan; presented by Abel
Chapman, Esq.

A Lion from the Guaso Nyiro River, British East Africa ;
presented by Sir Thomas Rk. Dewar.

Nine mammals from Northern Nigeria; presented by Dr.

J.C. Fox.

Two mammals, including the type of a new bat (Nycteris
woodtv), from N. W. Rhodesia; presented by R. C. Wood, Esq.

Eleven mammals from South Nyasaland ; purchased.

Twenty-five mammals from Natal; presented by Rh. C.
Wroughton, Esq.

A fcetal Rhinoceros from Mombasa; presented by W. B.
Woosnam, Esq. .

The skull of a Hippopotamus ; presented by Major-General
H. R. Abadie, C.B.

The skeleton of a Lion; presented by the Trustees of the
late James Rowland Ward.

America, South.
One hundred and twenty-six mammals from Keuador ; pre-

sented by Oldfield Thomas, Esq., F.B.S.

140 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MAMMALIA—continued.

Twenty-two mammals from 8. E. Brazil; presented by
YOY Bis IS) SN SAD SENS

One hundred and thirty-six mammals from South America ;
presented by the Hon. N. OC. Rothschild.

Thirty-nine mammals from Sta. Catharina ; purchased.

Thirty-seven mammals from Colombia; presented by Dr.
H.G. F. Spurrell.

Two Howling Monkeys from Argentina; presented by R. F.
Clark, Esq.

Seven mammals from South America; presented by the
Goeldi Museum, Para.

Hight mammals from Peru; presented by the late Capt.
H. S. Toppin.

Three mammals from Ecuador ; presented by W. Goodfellow,
Esq.

Twenty mammals from South America; presented by the
Buenos Avres Museum.

Thirteen mammals from Demerara; presented by Mrs.
McConnell.

A deformed skui] (human) from Inca ruins, Peru; presented

by Dr. Foraldo.

Australasia.
Three mammals from Australia; presented by the Perth
Museum, Western Australia.

Forty mammals from the Admiralty Islands and New
Guinea ; purchased.

The ‘“death-mask ” of an Australian Aboriginal ; presented
by Henry Mole, Esq.

A skull of Mesoplodon australis, from Great Exhibition
Bay, New Zealand; presented by the British Antarctic
(“Terra Nova”) Hapedition, 1910.

Antarctica.

Two paddles of Sibbald’s Rorqual (Balenoptera musculus),
and the scapula, and a vertebra of another specimen 95 feet
long; two paddles of the Common Rorqual (B. physalus) ;
two paddles of the Humpback-Whale (Megaptera); together
with foetuses and viscera of these Whales collected by the late
Major G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton in 8. Georgia; presented by
Messrs. Chr. Salvesen and Co.

AVES.
The acquisitions number seven thousand five hundred and
sixty-two. Of these, the most noteworthy are as follows :—

From Various Localities.

Sixty-four birds from various localities, mounted for
exhibition in the public gallery ; presented by the Trustees of
the late James Rowland Ward.

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AVES—continued.
Europe.

Thirty-four birds and eighteen eggs from Iceland; pre-
sented by W. McOran Campbell, Esq.

One thousand, seven hundred and fifty-four British birds,
twenty nests, and seventy-nine eggs, collected by Mr. C. H. B.
Grant ; purchased.

Fifty-one birds from the Balearic Islands; collected and
presented by Philip Gosse, Hsq., M.R.C.S.

Seventeen birds from Iceland; collected by Mr. G. B.
Dinesen ; purchased.

Four specimens of the Jackdaw (Corvus monedula) from
Bedfordshire, showing the sequence of plumage ; presented by
Her Grace the Duchess of Bedford.

Nineteen birds, chiefly from Fortrose, N.b.; presented by
W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Esq.

Three birds from the Balearic Islands ; received in exchange
from the Tring Museum.

Four examples of the Razorbil], Alca torda, from Skomer
Island; presented by Lord Kensington, D.S.U.

Highty-seven birds from various localities in Great Britain ;
presented by D. A. Bannerman, Esq.

A British killed example of the Needle- tailed Swift
(Chetura caudacuta) from Ringwood, Hants; bequeathed by
the late G. EH. Corbin.

A Sparrow-Hawk (Accipiter nisus) from Berwickshire ;
presented by Miss D. M. A. Bate.

Asia.
Twenty-nine birds and three eggs from Upper Burma;
collected and presented by Cyril Hopwood, Esq.

Seven birds, including an example of the rare Giant
Ibis, Thaumatibis gigantea, from Siam; presented by K. G.
Gairdner, Esq.

Thirty birds, one nest, and one egg from Travancore;
presented by J. Stewart, Esq.

Twenty-three birds from the Mishmi Hills, including the
type-specimen of a newly described form, Iaulus flavicollis
baileyi ; collected and presented by Capt. F. M. Bailey.

Twenty-three birds from South China; presented by
Capt. H. Lynes, RN.

Three hundred birds from Chin-wang-tao, North China ;
purchased.

Three examples of the Mikado Pheasant, Calophasis
mikado, bred in captivity; presented by H. J. Hlwes, Esq.,
F.R.S.

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AVES— continued.

Africa.

One thousand five hundred and ninety-one birds from the
Blue and White Niles and the hinterland of Suakin ; collected
. with the assistance of Willoughby P. Lowe, Esq.; presented
by Abel Chapman, Ksq. and Capt. H. Lynes, RN.

Skeletons of a Pelican (Pelecanus rufescens), a Goliath
Heron (Ardea goliath), an Open-bill Stork (Anastomus
lamelligerus), a Marabout Stork (Leptoptilus crumensferus)
two Black-backed Geese (Plectropterus gambensis) and the
sternum of an Ostrich (Struthio, sp.) from the Nile; pre-
sented by Abel Chapman, Esq.

Twelve birds from the district of Kordofan; presented by
W. B. Halhead, Esq.

Thirty-nine birds from South Tunisia; collected by the
late Capt. J. B. Jenkinson, Rifle Brigade; presented by
Mrs. Jenkinson.

The type-specimen of a newly described species, Salpornis
occidentalis ; presented by Colonel Stephenson R. Clarke.

Thirty-three birds from Zanzibar ; presented by Dr. W. M.
Aders.

Thirteen birds from the South bank of the River Gambia ;
presented by Dr. H. Hopkinson.

Sixty-one birds from Sierra Leone; collected by Major H. J.
Kelsall ; purchased.

Anegg of Hupodotis arabs from Central Arabia ; presented
by Capt. W. H. I. Shakespear.

One hundred and nineteen birds, including the type-
specimen of a newly described form, Lanius yemenensis, trom

the high mountains of Yemen, South Arabia, collected by
Mr. G. W. Bury ; purchased.

Nineteen birds from Algeria, and four from Lake
Tanganyika district, received in exchange from the Tring
Museum.

Six birds from South Biskra, Algeria; purchased.

Thirty-three birds from Nyasaland ; collected and presented
by Sheffield A. Neave, Esq.

Ten birds from Nyasaland ; purchased.

Five hundred and fourteen birds from the Orange River
Colony ; collected and presented by the late Major G. EL. H.
Barrett-Hamilton.

Sixty-five specially selected Ostrich feathers showing the
various types of growth and colour: presented on behalf of
the South African Ostrich Feather Breeders’ Association by
S. M. Gadd, Esq.

Eight birds from Aldabra, Seychelles, and the neighbouring
islands ; received in exchange from the Tring Museum.

A Masai Ostrich (Struthio massaicus) ; purchased.

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AvES—continued.

America, North.
Three examples of a rare Ptarmigan, Lagopus welchi, from
Newfoundland; presented by R. G. Geoffrey Harley, Esq.

Fifty-one birds from British Columbia; collected by
Mr. J. A. Munro.

Twenty birds and four eggs from Colorado; received in
exchange from Mr. W. Cross.

Fourteen birds from California; received in exchange from
Dr. L. B. Bishop.

America, Central and South.
Nine hundred and fifty-five birds, chiefly from the West
Indies ; collected by Dr. Percy R. Lowe; purchased.

Two examples of a rare Duck, Anas diazi, from Mexico ;
received in exchange from the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Five birds from the West Indies and three from Venezuela;
received in exchange from the Tring Museum.

Thirty birds, one nest, and five eggs from Tobago, West
Indies, including Sawcerotiva wellsi, previously unrepresented
in the collection; collected and wpresented by W. E.
Broadway, Esq.

Twenty-one birds from the Lower Amazons, including
fourteen species hitherto unrepresented in the collection ;
collected and presented by Miss E. Snethlage,

Nineteen birds from the Argentine Chaco; collected and
presented by R. F. Clark, Esq.

Seven hundred and fifty birds from the neighbourhood
of Merida, W. Venezuela ; purchased.

Three hundred and fifty-seven birds, chiefly from Peru,
including the type-specimens of two newly described birds,
Buarremon matucanensis and Upucerthia juninensis:
collected and presented by Lord Brabourne.

Australasia.

An example of Casuarius sclateri from South Dutch New
Guinea; purchased from the Zoological Society of London.

Six birds from Goodenough Island; collected by Mr. A. S.
Meek ; purchased.

Seventy-eight birds from New Guinea and the Papuan
Islands, including male and female examples of Prtta superba
from the Admiralty Islands, and the type-specimen of a newly
described form from the Solomon Islands, previously unrepre-
sented in the collection ; received in exchange from the Tring
Museum.

Antarctica.
One hundred and eight birds and thirteen eggs, collected by
the late Dr. HE. A. Wilson during the voyage of the “Terra

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AVES—continued.
Nova”; presented by the British Antarctic (“ Terra Nova”)
Hapedition, 1910.

Six birds from the South Shetland Islands; presented by
His Excellency the Governor of the Falkland Islands.

Ninety-three birds and sixteen eggs from South Georgia ;
presented by the British Association and the Zoological Society
of London.

REPTILIA.

Six hundred and thirty-three specimens were added to the
collection, four hundred and ninety-one by presentation, one
hundred and thirty-five by purchase, and seven by exchange.

The following are the more notable accessions :—

Europe.

Thirty-seven specimens from Northern Spain, collected by
Mr. E. Britten ; purchased.

A remarkable colour-variety of the Common Snake, T’ropi-
donotus natrie, from Florence; purchased.

Sixteen Lizards from Giglio Island, collected by the late
Marquis G. Doria; presented by the Genoa Civic Museum.

Eleven specimens from Southern Europe; presented by
Dr. P. Lehrs.

Twenty-six Lizards from Southern Europe, collected by Dr.
R. Ebner ; purchased.

Asia.

The types of a new Snake (Coluber hallv) from Northern
China; presented by A. L. Hall, Esq.

The type of a new Snake (Amblycephalus stanley) from
N.W. Fokien ; presented by Arthur Stanley, Esq.

Fourteen specimens from Yunnan, collected by Mr. J.
Graham ; purchased.

Seventeen specimens from Siam, including types of a new
Lizard (Lygosoma anguinorides) and of two new Snakes
(Simotes inornatus, Hypsirhina smith); presented by Dr.
Malcolm Smith.

Seven rare Earth Snakes ( Uropeltide) from the Nilgherries,
S. India ; purchased.

Young specimens of the rare Gecko Mimetozoon craspe-
dotum, from Sarawak ; presented by J. Hewitt, Esq.

Africa.
Fifteen specimens from Egypt and the Sudan ; presented by
the Egyptian Government.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 145

REPTILIA—continued.

Twenty-two specimens collected by Mr. W. P. Lowe in Nubia
and the Red Sea Province of the Sudan, including a Lizard new
to the collection (Mabuia wingati) and a new Snake (Contia
africana); presented by Abel Chapman, Esq.

Four specimens collected by Dr. E. J. Baxter in Usagara,
East Africa ; purchased.

Four specimens from the Gold Coast and Northern Nigeria ;
presented by J. Morrow Campbell, Esq.

Five Snakes from the Gold Coast; presented by Dr. Scott
Macfie.

A rare Amphisbena (Amphisbena liberiensis) from Sierra
Leone; presented by Guy Aylmer, Esq.

A rare Snake (Hlapechis moebiz) from Nigeria ; presented

by Prof. J. W. W. Stephens.

Twenty-one specimens collected by Mr. G. L. Bates in
S. Cameroon, including types of a new Blind Snake (T'yphlops
vermis) ; purchased.

Three Snakes from the Kasai, Belgian Congo ; purchased.

Seven Snakes from S. Rhodesia; presented by Mrs. E.
Spenser Jones.

Twenty-one specimens from Namaqualand, part of a collec-
tion made by the Hon. P. A. Methuen and inciuding the co-type
of a new Gecko (Narudasia festiva); presented by the
Trustees of the Percy Sladen Funds.

America.

A Snake from Florida (Tropidonotus compressicauda) new
to the collection ; received in exchange from the Museum of
Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, Mass.

Examples of a rare Lizard (Cricosaura typica), from Cuba,
new to the collection; received in exchange from the Museum
of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, Mass.

One hundred and forty-three specimens from Mexico ;
presented by Dr. H. Gadow, F.&.S.

A remarkably large Boa Constrictor, from Trinidad; pre-
sented by the Zoological Society of London.

Seventy-six specimens from the Choco, Republic of
Colombia, including types of two new Lizards (Lepidoblepharis
intermedius, Polychrus spurrellz) and of three new Snakes
(Leptophis brevis, Homalocranium nigrum, Klaps spurrellt) ;
presented by Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell.

BATRACHIA.

Two hundred and ninety-two specimens were added to the
collection, two hundred and thirty-nine by presentation, forty-
eight by purchase, and five by exchange.

146 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

BATRACHIA—continued.
The following are the more notable accessions :—

Europe.

Examples of a Frog (Rana ar valis), new to Belgium,
discovered in ae 1914 in a bog at Brecht near Antwerp, and
presented by G. A. Boulenger, Esq., F.R.S.

Highteen specimens from Northern Spain, collected by Mr.
EH. Britten ; purchased.

Asia.

Examples of a rare burrowing Frog (Glyphoglossus molossus)
from Siam; presented by Dr. Malcolm Smith.

Seventy-six Frogs from Sarawak, including one (Chaperina
fusca) new to the collection; presented by J. Hewitt, Esq.

Africa.
Six Frogs from Usagara, Hast Africa, collected by Dr. E. J.
Baxter ; purchased.

Twenty specimens from South Cameroon, collected by Mr.
G. L. Bates; purchased.

America.

A rare Frog (Rana virgatipes) from North Carolina and
another (Hyla andersoni) trom the State of New York, new
to the collection; received in exchange from the Museum of
Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.

One hundred and six specimens from Mexico; presented by
Dr. H. Gadow, F.RS.

Seventeen specimens from the Choco, Republic of Colombia,
including the type of a new Frog (Atelopus spurrellv) and a
Salamander (Spelerpes parvipes) new to the collection;
presented by Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell.

Six rare Batrachians obtained in Brazil by Prof. J. P. Hill,
F.R.S.; presented by the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Funds.

PISCES.

The additions number one thousand and four, nine hundred
and eight were presented, ninety were purchased, and six were
received in exchange. The most important are :--

Europe.

A Char (Salvelonus willughbir) from Loch Brora; presented
by A. J. Gear, Esq.

A ripe female Salmon (Salmo salar) only 123 inches long,
from Loch Spynie ; presented by “ The Field.”

Two large Roach (Leuciscus rutilus) from Hornsea Mere ;
presented by M. Kempsey, Esq.

An Eel (Anguilla vulgaris) with ovaries developed, from
Liverpool; presented by Rh. B. Marston, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 147

PIscEes-—continued.

A large hybrid Bream and Roach (Abramis brama x
Leuciscus rutilus) from Tortworth; presented by the Earl of
Davie, G.C.V.0., F.R.S.

Five Sea-Trout (Salmo labrax) from the Black Sea ;
purchased.

Asia.

Twenty examples of a Cyprinodont (Cyprinodon mento)
new to the collection, from the Syrian Desert ; presented by the
Hon. N. C. Rothschild.

Thirty-two Cyprinoid Fishes from Persia, including examples
of three species (Capoeta heratensis, Abramis fasciatus and
Nemachilus malapterurus) new to the collection ; presented
by Major P. M. Sykes.

A OCyprinid Fish, new to the collection, co-type of Aspiopsis
merzbachert, from Central Asia; received in exchange from
Dr. E. Zugmayer.

Fifty Fishes from Yunnan, including the types of a new
Cyprinid (Barilius alburnops); collected by Mr. J. Graham ;
purchased.

Ten Japanese Sardines (Clupea melanosticta) from Japan ;
presented by H. Seno, Esq.

Africa,

A Jarge Murry (Murena helena) from Morocco ; presented
by Messrs. Sellick, Morley and Price.

HKighty-one marine fishes from Lagos, including the types
of seven new species (Rhynchobatus atlanticus, Hoplunnis
punctatus, Arctoscopus albesca, Lepidotrigla cadmani, Solea
chirophthalmus, Batrachoides beninensis and Cynoglossus
lagoensis) ; collected and presented by J. Cadman, Esq.

Thirteen Fishes from Sierra Leone, including the types of
four new species (Haplochilus annulatus, Barbus leonensis,
Tilapia thomasi and Hleotris leonensis); presented by N. W.
Thomas, Esq.

Seventeen Fishes from South Cameroon, including the types
of a new species (Tilapia margaritacea), collected by Mr. G. L.
Bates; purchased.

Thirty-seven Fishes from Central Africa, including the
types of four new species (Haplochromis schubotz, H. graueri,
H. angustifrons and Schubotzia eduardiana) ; collected and
presented by Dr. H. Schubotz.

Ten Fishes from Northern Rhodesia, including the types of
two new species (Barbus barilioides and Mastacembeius mel-

landi); presented by F. H. Melland, Esq.

America,
Forty Fishes from Mexico; presented by Dr. H. Gadow,
PETG Ss

0.69 L

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Pisces—continued.

Thirty-three Fishes from tropical America, including the
types of two new Cyprinodonts (Gambusia yucatana and
Heterophallus rachovii) from Southern Mexico; presented
by Herr A. Rachow.

Thirty-five Fishes, mostly from tropical America, including
the types of a new Cyprinodont (Mollienisia velifera) from
Yucatan ; presented by Herr J. P. Arnold.

One hundred and twenty-two Fishes from the Condoto
River, Colombia, including the types of three new species
(Sternarchus spurrellir, H ypopomus occidentalis and Sicydium
condotense) ; collected and presented by Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell.

Sixteen Fishes from Chile and Argentina; presented by
Dr. P. Franck.

Australasia.

Two Cyprinodont Fishes from Celebes, co-types of Haplo-
chilus sarasinorum, new to the collection ; received in exchange
from the Basle Museum.

Two Atherinid Fishes from New Guinea, co-types of Aristeus
lorie ; received in exchange from the Genoa Museum.

An Atherinid Fish from the Aru Islands, co-type of
Rhombatractus senckenbergvanus ; received in exchange from
the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Three hundred and eleven Fishes from New South Wales,
including examples of several species new to the collection ;
presented by D. G. Stead, Esq.

Two examples of Belonopterygium fasciolatum, a new
Percoid Fish from. Lord Howe Island; presented by A. R.
McCulloch, Esq.

Antarctica.

Sixty-four Fishes from South Georgia, including examples
of Parachenichthys georgianus, new to the collection ; collected
by Mr. P. Stammwitz; presented by the British Association
and the Zoological Society of London.

TUNICATA.

One hundred and sixty specimens of Tunicata were received,
the most important of which were numerous schizotypes and
co-types ; obtained by exchange with the Berlin Museum.

MOLLUSCA.

The total number of acquisitions during the year amounts to
three thousand seven hundred and twenty-one; two thousand
seven hundred and fifty-four were presented, representing
eighty-seven separate donations, and nine hundred and sixty-
seven were purchased.

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MoLLUsca—continued.
The most noteworthy accessions during the year are :—

A collection of Cephalopoda obtained by the “Sealark” in
the Indian Ocean during the cruise of 1905, including several
rare and unique examples; presented by the Trustees of the
Percy Sladen Memorial Fund, through Professor J. 8S.
Gardiner, F.R.S.

A specimen of a rare Cephalopod, Sepiadarium auritum,
from the Montebello Is.; presented by Paul A. Montague
Esq.

A large collection of land and freshwater Mollusca from
Kast and Central Madagascar ; presented by M. Perrier de la
Bathve and the Hon. P. A. Methuen.

The following accessions are also worthy of note :—

General.
Ten types of species of land Mollusca from various localities

in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands; presented
by EL. R. Sykes, Esq.

Europe.

One hundred and forty-two examples of British Economic
Mollusca from various trade localities ; presented by the Fish-
mongers’ Company.

Hight examples of Ostrwa edulis from extinct British and
Continental “scaups”; presented by Alfred Bell, Esq.

Six examples of a giant variety of Purpura lapillus from
the Bristol Channel; presented by the Rev. Dr. A. H. Cooke.

Three hundred and ninety -six land and _ fresh - water
Mollusca from Orkney, Shetland, and the Outer Hebrides;
presented by the Rev. James Waterston.

Asia.
Four hundred and twenty-five marine Mollusca from Port
Galera, Mindoro; presented by Prof. L. E. Griffin.
Twenty-two examples of Nautilus pompilius and twenty-
five other marine Mollusca from New Britain ; presented by

Dr. A. Willey, FBS.

Africa.

Fifty-four shells of Hnnea from South Africa, including
four types and other figured specimens; presented by Henry
Burnup, Esq.

Twenty-five examples of Marinula tristanensis from
Inaccessible I., Tristan d’Acunha ; presented by Major M.
Connolly.

Preparations of the radula and jaw of the same species ;
presented by Major A. J. Peile, R.A.

A large series of shells of Modiolaria varicosa from the
Kerimba Archipelago; presented by EL. Heron-Allen, Esq. _

L, 2

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MoLiusca—continwed.

Fifty land Mollusca, mainly from the Knysna Forest,
South Africa; presented by Mrs. G. B. Longstaff.

Kighty-four marine Mollusca from off Lagos ; presented by
J. Cadman, Esq.

Pacific.

Forty-seven shells from Lord Howe Id., including many
types ; purchased.

Fifty-two shells from Norfolk Id., including many types ;
purchased.

Sixty-one land Mollusca from Honolulu ; presented by
John H. Ponsonby, Esq.

America, South.

Thirty-one shells of land Mollusca from exotic localities in
K. Peru, Ecuador and Brazil; purchased.

Antarctica.

Two hundred and seventy-two marine Mollusca from South
Georgia collected by the late Major G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton
and P. Stammwitz; presented by the British Association and
the Zoological Society of London.

MYRIOPODA.

The accessions number fifty-two; with the exception of a
Leaf-Footed Centipede (Alipes grandidieri) from Uganda
none are of exceptional interest.

PROTCTRACHEATA.

What was probably the best collection in the’ world of
Peripatus and its allies has been made, for many years to
come, incontestably the finest, by the accession of one hundred
and twenty-five examples, some of great rarity, and many
exceedingly well preserved, from the collection of the late
Professor Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S. ; purchased.

The first example of a Peripatus known to European
collections from Tobago was presented by the Hon. Walter

Rothschild, F.BS.

ARACHNIDA.

The acquisitions number nine hundred and nineteen, but
this does not include the second half of the Koch collection,
which will be included in the Return for 1915. The following
are the more important additions :—

Miscellaneous.

Two hundred and sixty-one Arachnida, including the types
of a new variety of Tick (Hemaphysalis hoodi, var., orien-
talis); presented by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.

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ARACHNIDA—continued.

One hundred and twelve parasitic Acari, including the
types of a new species of Tick (Hamaphysalis noveguine) ;
presented by the Hon. N. Charles Rothschild.

Sixty parasitic Acari; purchased.

Africa.

Seventy-eight Arachnida from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ;
presented by Abel Chapman, Esq.

Fifty Acari parasitic on the species of Rodents frequenting
houses in Egypt, including the types of a new species (Der-
manyssus sanguineus); presented by the Lister Institute of
Preventive Medicine.

Thirty-three Arachnida from Southern Rhodesia; presented
by Mrs. LE. Spencer Jones.

Two co-types of a new variety of a Scorpion (Opisthoph-
thalmus latemanus, var., keilandsi) from Cape Colony ; pre-
sented by John Hewitt, Esq.

Australasia.

Twenty-five parasitic Acari from Sonth Dutch New Guinea,
including the types of two new species; presented by the
Subscribers to the Wollaston Hupedition to Dutch New Guinea.

Twenty-two Scorpions from Queensland ; purchased.

Three specimens of the poisonous spider known as the
“Katipo” (Lathrodectus katvpo) from the West Coast of New
Zealand ; presented by J. C. Sterner, Esq.

A specimen of the “flying spider” of Australia (Saitis
volans); presented by W. J. Rainbow, Esq.

CRUSTACEA.

The acquisitions during the year number five hundred and
ninety-six, of which the following are the most important :—

From various Localities.

Two hundred and seventeen Amphipoda, Mysidacea, and
Euphausiacea, from other than Antarctic localities, obtained by
the “‘ Discovery ” Expedition.

Twenty-three deep-sea Crustacea taken from telegraph
cables ; presented by Dr. F. H. Preston.

Twenty-two co-types of Crustacea, described by the donor,
from various localities ; presented by A. O. Walker, Esq.

Europe.

A series of specimens illustrating the development of the
Spiny Lobster, from Plymouth; purchased.

Two co-types of an Amphipod (Stenothoe crassicornis) from
the Irish Sea ; presented by A. 0. Walker, Esq.

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CRUSTACEA—continued.

Three specimens of Bathynella natans, a Crustacean of
exceptional interest and rarity, from Switzerland ; presented by
Herr P. A. Chappuis.

Four specimens of arare hermit-crab from Naples; received
in exchange from the Munich Museum.

Ten Isopoda (Spheroma sp.) from Gibraltar; presented by
the Rev. Father Murford.

Asia.
Twenty-four Crustacea from Syria; presented by Dr. N.
Annandale.

Thirteen specimens of Crustacea from Masqat; presented by
Major S. G. Know, CLE.

Thirty specimens of rare Mysidacea from India; presented
by the Indian Museum, Culcutta.

The type of a species of terrestrial Isopod, from Allahabad ;
presented by Dr. A. D. Imms.

Three co-types of an Amphipod (Talorchestia kempir) from
the Abor county, N.E. India; presented by the Indian Museum,
Calcutta.

Africa and Indian Ocean.
Twenty-three freshwater Entomostraca from Khartoum ;
presented by Dr. A. J. Chalmers.

Two specimens of the Coco-nut Crab, from Chumbi Island,
Zanzibar ; presented by F. G. Aflalo, Esq.

' Syntypes of two new species of parasitic Copepoda from
Lake Tanganyika; presented by the Tanganyika Hxaploration
Committee.

Fifteen specimens of a Branchiopod, Lynceus wahlbergui,
from Nyasaland; presented by the Imperial Bureau of
Entomology.

Ten specimens of Amphipod (Gammarus sp.) from Cape
Town ; presented by the Rev. N. Abraham.

Five specimens of a recently discovered Isopod of exceptional
interest (Phreatoicus capensis) from Cape Town; presented
by K. H. Barnard, Esq.

A. collection of Crustacea (including the type of a new

species) obtained by trawling off Lagos, West Africa ; presented
by J. Cadman, Esq.

Thirty specimens of freshwater Crustacea from Madagascar ,
presented by the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria.

A co-type of Stcyonella maldivensis from the Indian
Ocean; presented by the University Museum of Zoology,
Cambridge.

America.
Hight specimens of hermit-crabs from Jamaica; presented
by Colonel L. Worthington-Wilmer.

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CRUSTACEA—continued.

The carapave of a crab’ (Pericera spinosissima) from
Brazil; presented by J. Lee, Esq.

Five freshwater Decapoda from Brazil; presented by
Professor J. P. Hill, F.R.S.

One specimen of an Isopod (Serolis paradoxa) from the
Straits of Magellan, received in exchange from Professor F. 8S.
Monticelli.

Australasia and Pacific Ocean.

A small collection of River-crabs from Dutch New Guinea,
including holotypes of two new species ; presented by the Sub-
scribers to the Wollaston Expedition to Dutch New Guinea.

A collection of ‘“‘Galls” formed on coral by a crab, Hapa-
locarcinus marsuprialis, from Torres Straits; presented by F.
A. Potts, Esq.

Six specimens of a Branchiopod (Lepidurus viridis) from
Western Australia ; presented by the Proprietors of the Illus-
trated London News.

A crab (Ozius truncatus), from New Zealand ; presented by
Professor C. Chilton.

Six Crustacea from Rarotonga, Cook Island; presented by
C. Stuart Betton, Esq.

PYCNOGONIDA.

Six specimens, being co-types of two recently described
species of exceptional interest, have been presented by Prof.
EH. L. Bouvier, Paris.

ECHINODERMA.

One hundred and fifty-two specimens, being the last con-
signment, were registered from the Norman Collection.

The total of the “Terra Nova” Collection is not yet com-
plete, but three hundred and fifty specimens have already
been determined ; and a very fine set has been put aside for
exchange.

One hundred and five specimens, many of particular interest,
such as Hemiaster eapergitus, Aerosoma hystrix, types of
Ophiacantha hibernica and of O. densa, and often from great
depths off the W. Coast of Ireland, were presented by the
Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction
‘(Fisheries Branch), Dublin.

Twenty-five Echinoderms from South Georgia, including
Cycethra verrucosa and Ophionotus hexactis, were obtained hy
the Expedition led by the late Major G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton,
and were presented by the British Association and the Zoo-
logical Society of London.

154 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

ECHINODERMA—continued.

Very special interest attaches to the acquisition of two
specimens of the exceedingly rare and curious Holothurian,
Rhopalodina lageniformis, from Lagos, presented by J.
Cadman, Esq. ; the type was described by Dr. Gray in 1853,
and since that year no example has been offered for the
collection.

WORMS.

Seventy-two Polycheta from the West Coast of Ireland
were presented by the Department of Agriculture and Tech-
nical Instruction (Fisherves Branch), Dublin; of these
Streptosyllis bidentata (a co-type), Pregeria remota (co-type),
Nerinides tridentata (co-type) may be mentioned.

Rhinodrilus pebasiensis is a type described by Dr. Cognetti
de Martiis.

Two hundred and four Gephyrea have been registered from
the Norman collection ; among them is a good series of Phas-
colosoma tenuicinctum, and of Thalassema neptuni. The
registration and incorporation of the Norman collection of
Worms is now completed.

Two sets of Rotifers, respectively of 18 and 14 slides, were
purchased from Mr. Rousselet, and the collection of these
animals is now probably superior to that in any other Museum.

The most important addition to the helminthological series
during the year was the considerable collection of Parasitic
Worms made by the British Antarctic (“Terra Nova”) Ex-
pedition. Of these, five hundred and sixty-one specimens have
been registered. The additions from other sources number
eight hundred and seventy-eight, of which the following
deserve special mention :—

Europe.

Various consignments of Nematode and Cestode parasites of
poultry and game, from the British Isles; presented by H.
Hammond Smith, H'sq., M.D.

Twenty-five microscopic preparations of free-living Nema-
todes from Ireland, including many co-types of new species ;
presented by the Department of Agriculture and Technical
Instruction (Fisheries Branch), Dublin.

Africa.
Thirty parasitic worms from East African Mammals; pre-
sented by the Hon. N.C. Rothschild.

(Jne hundred and sixty parasitic worms from Nyasaland ;
presented by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.

Eighteen parasitic worms from Sierra Leone (this number
does not include the types of a new genus of parasitic Oligochaeta
(Aspidodrilus) received at the same time); presented by the
Imperial Bureau of Entomology.

DEPARTMENT OF ZCOLOGY. 155

Worms—continued.

One hundred and sixty-nine parasitic worms from Accra,
Gold Coast Colony ; presented by C. M. G. Hoyte, Esq.
America.

One hundred parasitic worms of domesticated animals, from
the West Indies; presented by the Imperial Bureaw of
Entomology.

BRACHIOPODA.

A specimen of Lingula from Manila Bay, presented by C.S.
Betton, H'sq., was the only addition during the year.

POLYZOA.

The most interesting acquisitions were eight specimens of
Fresh-water Polyzoa, from the Volga Basin; presented by Dr.
Arvid Behning.

ANTHOZOA.

In this group also the outlying members of the Norman
collection have been registered and incorporated ; mention may
be made of a good series of Hpizoanthus incrustatus, of
Sphenotrochus macandrevianus, and of Pennatula phosphorea.

A remarkable specimen of Antipathes, reported to come from
the Faeroe Channel, was presented by kh. W. Thomson, Esq.

A few well preserved specimens of Corals from Suez were
purchased from Mrs. Bannwarth.

A specimen of Umbellula from 600-700 fathoms in the Indian
Ocean was presented by F. H. Preston, Esq.

HYDROZOA.

Sixty-four specimens of Hydroida from the Pacific Coast of
Canada; received in exchange from Dr. McLean Fraser, British
Columbia.

Four specimens of Polypodium hydriforme Ussow, in the
free-living condition, from Astrachan ; presented by Dr. Arvid
Behning, Director of the Biological Station, Saratow, Russia

PORIFERA.

Among the acquisitions are :—

Thirty-six Fresh-water Sponges, including many schizotypes
and co-types ; received in exchange from the Indian Museum,
Calcutta.

Eight Fresh-water Sponges from the Volga-basin ; presented
by Dr. Arvid Behning.

PROTOZOA.

Fifty-eight well mounted slides of Foraminifera were
purchased.

156 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF

THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Summary of the Acquisitions in the Department of Zoology
during 1914.

_—_— | Donations. | Purchases,|/Exchanges.| Totals.
( General Collection - 2,225 196 t 2,425
| Osteological Collection :—
Mammalia { Anthropology - 2 = — 2
| Cetacea - - 16 — —- 16
| Other Mammals - 1d — — 15
(Skins - - - - 3,214 5,985 158 ese
| Hggs - - - - 74 84 — 158
es \ Nests - - - 13 20 — 33
| Skeletons - - - 12 2 — 14
Domesticated Animals < - 4 — — 4
Reptilia - - - - 491 135 a 633
Batrachia - - - - 239 48 5 292
Pisces - - - - 908 90 6 1,004
Tunicata - - - - 10 — 150 160
Hemichordata and Phoronidea * — — — —
Mollusca = E : - 2,754 967 = 3,721
Myriopoda - - - - 41 11 _ 52
Prototracheata - - - 2 125 — 127
Arachnida - - - - 789 121 9 919
Crustacea - - - - 563 28 5 596
Pyecnogonida - - - - 6 — — 6
Kchinoderma - - - - 134 147 8 289
Worms :--
Chaetopoda, &c. - - - 117 242 ~- 359
Parasitic Worms, &c. :—

“Terra Nova’”’ collection - - 561 —_ — | 1.439
Other sources = 2 “ 878 — = ;
Brachiopoda_ - - - - 1 _— _ 1
Polyzoa - - - - 22 — — 22
Antheozoa, - - - - 6 al -— 177
Hydrozoa - - - - 9 _ 64 73
Porifera - - - - 20 2 36 58
Protozoa - - - - 7 63 — 70

Totals - - - TS;133 6,437 452 20,022

The following Donors presented specimens to the Depart-
ment of Zoology during the year 1914 :—

Abadie, Major-General H. R.,| Aylmer, G.

GiB:

Abraham, Rev. N.

Aders, Dr. W. M.

Aflalo, F. G.

Agriculture and ‘Technical
Instruction for Ireland, De-
partment of.

Alcock, Col. A., F.R.S.

Allen, A. L.

Anderson, Col., J. H. Abbot.

Annandale, Dr. N.

Arnold, J. P.

Austen, Capt. E. E.

Bailey, Capt. F. M.
Bannerman, D. A.
Barnard, K. H.
Barrett-Hamilton,
Major G. EH. H.
Barton, C. S.
Bate, Miss D. M. A.
Bathie, P. de la
Baxendale, F. R. S.
Baylis, C. E.
Bedford, Her
Duchess of.
Bedriaga, Dr. J. de

the late

Grace the

DEPARTMENT

Behning, Dr A.

Bell, A.
Beste, F. V.
Betton, C.S.

Blackburne-Maze, C. J.
Blaine, Gilbert

Blane, Col. C. F.
Bloomer, H. H.

Board of Trade

Bombay Bacteriological La-
boratory.

Bombay Natural History
Society

Boulenger, G. A., F.R.S.

Bouvier, Prof. E. L.

Brabourne, Lord

Bradshaw, Major C. P.

Brady, Prof. G. S., F.R.S.

Bridgeman, Capt. the Hon.
sO; B.; RUN.

British Antarctic . (‘‘ Terra

Nova’) Expedition, 1910
British Association.
Broadway, W. E.

Broom, Dr. R.

Brown, W. R.

Browne, Lord Alfred
Buenos Ayres Museum.
Burnett, C. 8.

Burnup, H.

Butler, J.

Cabrera, Dr. A.

Cadman, J.

Calcutta, Indian Museum

Cambridge, University Museum
of Zoology

Campbell, J. Morrow

Campbell, W. McOran

Chalmers, Dr. A. J.

Chapman, Abel

Chappuis, P. A.

Child, W.

Chilton, Prof. C.

Oiark, R. Corry

Clark, R. F.

Clark, R. S.

Clarke, G. L.

Clarke, Col. Stephenson R.

Clutterbuck, Ernest C.

Cock, Edward

Cockerell, Prof. T. D. A..

OF ZOOLOGY. 157
Connolly, Major M.
Constois, Rev. F.
Cooke, Rev. Dr. A. H.
Copley, H.

Corbin, G. B.

Corney, B. Glanville
Cosens, G. P.

Cotton, R. E.

Cox, E. D. W.
Cruden, F.

Daleleish, G.

Dalgleish, J. HE.

Dell, J. A.

Dewar, Sir Thomas R.
Dickson, Dr. R. C.
Drake-Brockman, Dr. R. E.
Ducie, Earl of, G.C.V.O., F.R.S.
Dunlop, Major A. Wallace

EKarland, A.

Egyptian Government
Kigenmann, Prof. C. H.
Elwes, H. J., F.R.S.
English, T. M. 8.
Evans, Dr. J. W.

Falkland Islands, His Excel-
lency the Governor.

Feraldo, Dr. J.

Festa, Dr. E.

Field, Editor of the

Findon, Hugh

Fischer, C. E. C.

Fishmongers’ Company.

Flower, Capt. 8. S.

Foster, Harold D.

Hox. Dr. 32°C:

Franck, Dr. P.

Franklin, A. E.

Fulton, H. C.

Gadd, S. M.

Gadow, Dr. H., F.R.S.
Gairdner, K. G.-

Gardiner, Prof. J. S., E.R.S.
Gear, A. J.

Genoa Civic Museum
Gibson, E.

Gilchrist, Dr. J. D. F.

Giza Zoological Gardens.
Goodfellow, Walter

158

Gosse, Philip

Gowdey, C. C.

Grabham, Dr. M.

Greig, Morland

Griffin, Prof. E. L.

Groom, W. M.

Gude, G. K.

Guiana, Right Rev. the Bishop
of

Gurney, R.

Guzman, Rev. Javier

Halhead, W. B.

Hall, A. L.

Harley, R. G. Geoffrey

Harris, A. E.

Harrods, Ltd.

Hartert, Dr. E.

Harvey, Henry

Haynes, A. J.

Healy, E.

Heath, L. C.

Hebrides, Subscribers to Fund
for the Exploration of.

Hedley, Charles

Herlofson, C. F.

Heron- Allen, E.

Hewitt, J.

all, Ge.

Hill, Prof. J.-P.,. F RES:

Hill, Capt. R.

Hinde, 8. L.

Hirst, Dr. L. F.

Hockin, Rev. A. P.

Holden, R. A.

Hooper, Mr. & Mrs. Wynnard

Hopkinson, Dr. E.

Hopkinson, E. H.

Hopwood, Cyril

Hoyte, OC. M. G.

Hunt, Lieut. A, W.

Hyatt, M.P.

Hyde, Rev. R.

Illustrated London News,
Proprietors of the

Imms, Dr. A. D.

Imperial] Bureau of Entomology

Imperial Institute

Iredale, T.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Jenkinson, Capt. J. B.
Jenkinson, Mrs.
Jobling, C. EK.

Jones, A. Gresham.
Jones, Mrs. KE. Spencer
Jukes-Browne, Miss A.

Keith, Dr. A., F.R.S.
Kempsey, M.

Kensington, Lord, D.S.O.
Knox, Major S. G., C.1.E.

Laidley, C,

Lataste, Mons. F.

La Touche, J. D.

Lebbe, Rev., B.

Lee, J.

Lehrs, Dr. P.

Leiper, Dr. R. T.

Lillie, DOG, ~

Lion, Mrs. L. M.

Lister Institute of Preventive
Medicine

Loder, Sir E., Bart.

London School of Tropical
Medicine.

Longstaff, Mrs. G. B.

Loveridge, A.

Lowe, W. P.

Luckman, Capt. A. O.

Lynes, Capt. H:, R.N.

Lyon, W. R.

McConnell, Mrs. F. V.
McCulloch, A. R.

Macfie, Dr. Scott.

Mackinlay, J. W.

Major, Dr. C. I. Forsyth, F.R.S.
Male, H.

| Marré, E.

Marshall, G. K.
Marshall, W.
Marston, R. B.
Mathews, G. M.
Matthews, E. H.
May, W. L.

Melland, F. H.
Mellor, J. E. M.
Methuen, Hon. Paul A.
Monk, J. L.
Montague, Paul D.
Monticelli, Prof. F. S.
Morey, F.

DEPARTMENT

Moulton, J. C.
Munt, H.
Murford, Rev. Father.

Neave, Sheffield A.
Nicholls, Dr. H. A. A.

Ogilvie-Grant, W. R.
Old, Dr. J. E.S.
Owen, J. H.

Parad, Goeldi Museum

Paris Museum

Peacock, A. D.

Peile, Major A.

Pershouse, Capt. 8.

Perth Museum

Philpott, Mrs.

Pocock, Mrs. R.

Poland & Son, Messrs. P. R.

Ponsonby, J. H.

Portland, His Grace the Duke
of, KG;

Potts, F. A.

Prall, Lt.-Col. 8S. E.

Preston, Dr. F. H.

Preston, H. B.

Pretoria, Transvaal Museum.

Priest, W.

Rachow, A.

Radcliffe, Miss Alice.

Rainbow, W. J.

Rawlinson, Major Genera] Sir
Menryes., ©. V.0.,°C.B.

Renshaw, Graham

Roberts, F. Russell

Roebuck, W. Denison.

Ross, W. A.

Rothschild, Hon. Leopold

Rothschild, Hon. N. C.

Rothschild, Hon.
BARS:

Roux, Dr. J.

Russel], Mrs.

Ryley, Miss K. V.

Walter,

Salvesen & Co.. Chr.
Sarasin, Dr. F.
Sarawak Museum
Schouteden, Dr. H.
Schroder, B.

OF ZOOLOGY. 159

Schubotz, Dr. H.

Sellick, Morley & Price.

Seno, H.

Shakespear, Capt. W. H. I.

Shepherd, Col. C. E.

Sherrin, T. V.

Sherrin, W. R.

Simpson, Dr. J. J.

Sladen Fund, Percy, Trustees
of.

Smith, Canon F, C.

Smith, Dr. H. Hammond

Smith, Miss M.

Smith, Dr. Maleolm

Smith, Stuart

Smithers, W. A.

Snethlage, Miss E.

South African Museum, Cape
Town. ,

Sowerby, G. B.
Spurrell,’ Dr, A. G. F.
Stanley, A.

Stanley, Capt. W. B.
Stammwitz, P.
Stead, D. G.
Steele-Elliott, J.
Steiner, J. C.
Stephens, Prof. J. W. W.
Stewart, J.

Storey, C. B.
Suschkin, Dr. P. P.
Swete, M. H. F.
Swinton, A. H.
Sykes, E. R.

Sykes, Major P. M.

Tait, W. C.

Tanganyika Exploration Com-
mittee

Tervueren, Musée du Congo

Belge.
Thiele, Prof. J.
Thomas, N. W.

Thomas, Oldfield, F.R.S.
Thomas, R. E. 8.
Thomson, R. M.

Tiflis Museum

Tomlin, J. R. le B.
Toppin, Capt. H. 8S.
Turner, R. E.

160 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Vallentin, R. White, S. F. G.

Venning, Capt. F. HE. W. Wileman, A. E.

Villeneuve-Smith, the Misses Willey, Dr. Arthur, F.R.S.
Willis, A. H.

Wakefield, H. R. Wollaston Expedition to Dutch

Walker, A. O. New Guinea, Subscribers to

Ward, Ltd., Messrs. Rowland Wood, R. C.
Ward (James Rowland) Be- Woodward, Capt. F. W.

quest, Trustees of the Woosnam, R. B.
Waterfield, Dr. M. E. Worthington-Wilmer, Capt.
Waterston, Rev. James Ge Re
Waymouth, Capt. and Mrs. Worthington-Wilmer, Col. L.
Newcome. Wroughton, R. C.
Wellcome Research Labora-
tories. Yenriques, Dr. J. A.
Weltner, Prof. W.
Wertheimstein, Fraulein Zoological Society of London

Sarolta von

Vi.—Economic Zoology.

T. MAMMALIA.

The results obtained by the late Major G. E. H. Barrett-
Hamilton during the Expedition to South Georgia in 1913-1914
have been worked out by Mr. Martin A. C. Hinton. A Report
on the subject is being prepared for the Colonial Office.

Arrangements have been made, with the assistance of the
Norwegian Fishery Department, for receiving information with
regard to the species of Whales and the number of individuals
captured off South Georgia, the South Shetlands, and other
Southern localities. A partial report on the activities of four
of the Companies operating in those waters has already been
received.

II. AVES.

The question of the protection of Birds in various British
Colonies and Protectorates has received much attention at the
Colonial Office during the year, and many inquiries on the
subject have been submitted to the Department.

III. Piscks.

Inquiries have been answered, and specimens determined,
for the Government Biologist, Cape Town, the Fisheries
Assistant of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Plymouth, the
Imperial Institute, &c.

Investigations into the life-history of the Herring, carried
on by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, have been
assisted, particularly by selecting from the fishes in the collec-
tion, and handing over to the officers engaged in this research
a series of scales illustrating the range of structure in the
Clupeoid group.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 161

The Salmonidz are of such great economic value that a
paper on their systematic arrangement may be mentioned
here ; also the acquisition of a series of Trout from the Black
Sea, a study of their scales showing that they grow as fast as
the Salmon on our own coasts.

The Western Fisheries, Ltd., applied for advice before
sending a trawler to Lagos, and were told that the first step
towards estimating the economic possibilities of this region
was to make a collection and have it accurately determined ;
the collection, which was accordingly made by Mr. Cadman,
has been. presented to the Museum, and a report has been
written on it.

IV. MoLuusca.

Several specimens of economic importance have been
determined during the year, of which the following are the
most noteworthy :—a Helicid agricultural pest (Helix carthu-
stana) from Egypt; a slug (Veronicella vittata) devastating
rubber plantations in Jamaica; a freshwater gastropod (Kata-
yama nosophora, n. gen. n. sp.) suspected in connection with
the transmission of Katayama disease in Japan. (A paper has
been prepared on this subject.) In addition, advice and
assistance have been rendered on the question of the use of
Mollusca as Trout-food and of West African shell-fisheries.

V. MyRIopoDaA.

A centipede (Geophilus electricus) found in the human
intestine has been examined.

VI. ARACHNIDA.
Inquiries on the following subjects have been dealt with :—

1. A Gamasid mite (Leiognathus bacoti), normally para-
sitic on rats, biting human beings in shops at Sydney, on
the wharves at Fremantle, and also at Perth, Australia.

2. The furniture mite (Glycyphagus domesticus).

3. A mite (Pterolichus struthionis), occurring on Ostriches
imported into California.

4. The distribution of certain Acari, injurious to vegetation,
introduced into this country (or likely to be introduced),
with imported plants.

5. The possibility of the transmission of anthrax by
specimens of Hyalomma egyptium found on a camel which
died from that disease at Aden.

VII. CRUSTACEA.

Information has been supplied to the Board of Agriculture
and Fisheries regarding the species of Lobsters found at the
Cape of Good Hope.

A species of freshwater Crustacean believed to be concerned
in the transmission of disease has been identified, and infor-

162 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

mation regarding it has been supplied to the Wellcome Tropical
Research Laboratories, Khartoum.

A collection of Crustacea obtained by trawling off Lagos,
West Africa, has been determined for the company carrying
on the fishery, and further information has heen supplied
concerning certain of the edible species.

VIII. Parasitic WorMs,

Parasitic worms and other organisms affecting domestic or
other useful animals and birds have been determined for the
following :—The Sanitary Department, Accra, Gold Coast
Colony ; the Imperial Bureau of Entomology (in answer to
clients in Nyasaland and in the West Indies); “The Field”
and ‘Country Life” newspapers.

Queries from various private individuals respecting parasitic
or suspected parasitic worms have also been answered, including
one serious case of disease in domestic poultry, which was
thought to be due to intestinal worms, but proved otherwise.

Vil.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits paid to the Zoological Department
during the year 1914 by Students and other persons requiring
assistance or information amounted to 9,235. This number
includes the visits paid by Students holding tickets entitling
them to do special work in the Exhibition Galleries.

In the 10 previous years the numbers were as follows. From
1904 to 1912 inclusive the present Department of Kntomology
was included in the Department of Zoology :—

9,982 in the year 1913.

12,564 - 1912,
12,175 we Ub
12,443 7 1910.
11,461 3 1909:
10,220 + 1908.
11,043 a, 1907.
10,813 ‘3 1906.
11,811 * 1905.
11,824 4 oid 904.

Sidney Ff. Harmer.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY.

L—Arrangement and Conservation.

Exhibition Serves.-Some interesting additions, including
a piece of worm-eaten oak from the roof of Westminster Hall,
have been added to the series of economic specimens exhibited
in the North Hall. Few changes have been made in the
exhibition cases placed in the Insect Gallery, but a considerable
amount of work has been done in the preparation of specimens
for exhibition there, which will illustrate the various kinds of
“flies” that serve as food for trout and grayling, and are of
interest to anglers. Mr. Martin E. Mosely, who had presented
a collection of these specimens, has voluntarily given much
assistance in mounting and preparing them for exhibition.

Study Series.—The systematic arrangement of the collec-
tions in cabinet drawers, and the preparation and incorporation
of specimens from the vast number of accessions have continued
to make satisfactory progress, although there has been a falling
off in this respect during the last four or five months of the
year owing to the absence on military service of several
members of the staff of the Department. The loss experienced
through this cause has, however, to some extent been compen-
sated for by the generosity of Mr. F. D. Godman, who has
permitted Mr. G., C. Champion and Mr. A. Cant to devote most
of their time to the work of the Department, and to render
valuable assistance in various ways.

In the Coleoptera, the arrangement of the Rhynchophora of
the group Cleonini has been completed in accordance with
Faust’s Monograph of that group; a further large series of
Australian Rhynchophora determined by Mr. Lea have been
incorporated in their places in the collection, and another set
sent to him for identification, and the Anthribide from the
Fry collection, worked out by Dr. K. Jordan, have also been
incorporated. Smaller series of the genera Apion, Sphenoptera,
and Bembidium named by specialists have been returned and
re-incorporated; and the unnamed specimens belonging to
various other genera have been got together and sent to
different specialists for determination. Most of the types of
Lamellicornia received in the Blackburn collection of Austra-
lian Coleoptera, and all the accessions from Australia in the
family Cistelide have been incorporated. The Heteromera of
the sub-families Bolitophagine and Diaperine (in part) have
been re-arranged, and a good deal of time has been given to a
revision of the genus Gonocephalum and of the family Pyro-
chroide. Large series of unnamed African Longicornia, mostly
from the collections presented by the Imperial Bureau of
Entomology, have been named and returned by Prof. Chr.
Aurivillius, of Stockholm, who has found amongst them many
new species, which he has described. Mr. G. C. Champion has
revised and re-arranged certain groups of the Malacodermata,

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164 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

and has described several new species from Mexico and Central
America. The Coleoptera collected by Dr. Wollaston and
others on the expeditions to Dutch New Guinea have nearly
all been worked out and the new species described.

In the Hymenoptera, the re-arrangement of the Apide has
made further considerable progress, the sub-families Antho-
phorine, Euglossine, and Panurgine having been completed
during the year. A large part of the Cameron collection of
Aculeate Hymenoptera has been incorporated; and certain
genera of Vespide have been revised. The large genera
Synagris and Alastor of this family have been worked out
by Dr. Maidl (of Vienna) and Dr. R.C. L. Perkins respectively.
Other groups have been sent to specialists for study, the more
important comprising Apide despatched to Prof. T. D. A.
Cockerell and Prof. Myron Swenk.

Mr. R. E. Turner having returned from Australia, where he
succeeded in making an extensive collection of insects belonging
to this order, has continued voluntarily to devote a great part
of his time to working out the collections.

Progress has also been made in the arrangement of the
Parastic Hymenoptera (Ichneumonide) the sub-family Pim-
pline having been completed. The Chalcidide have been
partially revised by Mr. James Waterston of the Imperial
Bureau of Entomology.

In the Orthoptera, several small accessions have been
incorporated, and all the unworked accessions belonging to
the family Mantide have been sent on loan to Dr. Ermano
Giglio-Tos, who has undertaken to work them out, and to
describe the new forms.

In the Neuroptera, unnamed Raphidiidz have been deter-
mined and returned by Seftor R. P. Longinos Navas, 8.J., and
have been incorporated in the collection. A short paper has
been prepared and published, giving an account of some
morphological features of the head in certain genera of
Phryganeide.

The collection of Anoplura and Mallophaga has continued
to grow rapidly, large numbers of specimens having again been
presented by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild, to whom the Depart-
ment is also greatly indebted for the continuance of provision
for the services of a preparator during the greater part of the
year. A good deal of work has been done on collections
received in instalments from the Zoological Society ; and the
specimens belonging to these groups of parastic insects, brought
back by the “ Terra Nova” (Antarctic) Expedition, the South
Georgia Whaling Mission, and the expeditions to Dutch New
Guinea, have as far as possible been determined and described.

In the Rhynchota, further progress has been made in
incorporating the Distant collection. A number of species
collected by Drs. E. Sarasin and J. Roux in New Caledonia
and the neighbouring islands, the specimens collected by the

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 165

Wollaston Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, and a number of
interesting species obtained by Mr. J. C. Moulton on an expedi-
tion to Mount Merinjak in Borneo have been the chief additions
to the Rhynchota received during the year. These collections
have all been worked out and the specimens incorporated.

In the Lepidoptera, the labelling and re-arrangement of the
Acreine have been completed, and the incorporation of acces-
sions in other families has made considerable progress, the
Papilionidz of the Neave collection from British East Africa, |
the Verity collection, the Heliconinz and Ithomiinz (in part) of
the Wickham and Moffat collections, and the Erycinide of the
Godman-Salvin, Hewitson, and Crowley collections having been
incorporated as far as cabinet space would allow.

Volume I. of the Supplement to the Catalogue of Moths
was pubiished during the year. The re-arrangement of the
moths of the family Amatide, and of the sub-families Nolinz
and Lithosiine has been completed, as well as the arrangement
of the Pyralide of the sub-family Endotrichine. In the
Tineina, the revision of the Tineide, Acrolophide, and Nemo-
phoride has been continued, together with the Pterophorina,
Orneodina, and supplementary work on the Pyralidina (Pyraus-
tidee), completing the “ Biologia Centrali-Americana.”

In the Diptera, the collection of Asilidee made by Dr. Ernst
Hartert in the Western Sahara has been worked out and incor-
porated, and a number of small collections from Queensland,
Natal, Sierra Leone, Algeria, and the Belgian Congo have been
determined. The British Empide, Bibionide, Simulide, and a
large part of the Chironomide have been re-arranged and
expanded, all accessions having been incorporated. Proofs of
a volume on the Syrphide of the Ethiopian Region by Prof.
Mario Bezzi, based on material in the Museum collection have
been corrected for the press, and the preparation of drawings
to illustrate the work has been supervised.

IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.

The Entomological Department has continued to benefit
greatly by the work of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
As one result of this work, about 60,000 specimens of insects
have been added to the Museum collection in the course of the
year. Many of these specimens were contained in collections
which had been completely named up and the new species
described before being presented to the Department, and include
a fair proportion of valuable types. It is in every way
desirable that nothing should interfere with the close co-
operation maintained between the Department and the Imperial
Bureau, which is of such great advantage to both, and it is to
be hoped that something will be done before Jong to remove the
difficulties experienced owing to the lack of sufficient accom-
modation for the collections and for those who are engaged at
work upon them.

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166 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

II.—Duplicates and Exchanges.
(a) Duplicates.

Duplicates have been presented to the following institu-
tions :—

The Veterinary Institute and School, Melbourne University ;
and the Royal College of Science, London. Duplicates have
also been presented to the following gentlemen who have
rendered service by naming specimens :—Professor Chr, Auri-
villius, Mr. R. 8. Bagnall, Dr. Malcolm Cameron, Professor
T. D. A. Cockerell, M. L. Garreta, Mr. F. H. Gravely, M. Antoine
Grouvelle, Captn. C. Kerremans, Mr. Arthur Lea, Dr. F. Maid],
Sefior R. P. Longinos Navas, 8.J., Professor F. Netolitzky,
Dr. Esben Petersen, Lieut.-Col. F. Winn Sampson, Dr. Franz
Spaeth.

(b) Huchanges.

Exchanges have been made with the following museums
and individuals :—

Hope Department, University Museum, Oxford; and with ©
M. André Avinott, Professor C. F. Baker, Mr. H. S. Barber,
M. Ant. Boucomont, Mr. A. N. Caudell, Professor T. D. A.
Cockerell, Mr. W. J. Kaye, Captn. C. Kerremans, Mr. F. Knab,
Mr. F. W. Nunenmacher, M. René Oberthur, Dr. R. C. L.
Perkins, Dr. Roger Verity, and Commander J. J. Walker, R.N.

Ill.—Departmental Library.

The Library has continued to be worked in conjunction with
that of the Zoological Department, and particulars in reference
to it wili be found included under the corresponding head, in
the return made by the Keeper of Zoology.

IV.—Publications.

In addition to the official publications issued by the Trustees
(see p. 114), the following papers and reports have been pre- -
pared in connection with different branches of the collection,
and have been published for the most part in scientific
journals :—

By Gilbert J. Arrow.
«Some further notes on Lamellicorn Beetles of the sub-

family Dynastine.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiv., pp. 257-276.
“On the Ceylonese Species of Ruteline Coleoptera belonging
to the Genus Adoretus.” Jb., xiii., pp. 587-594.
“On the Burmese Species of Ruteline Coleoptera belonging
to the Genus Adoretus.” Jb., xiii., pp. 594-601.

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 167

By K. G. Blair.
“ A Revision of the Family Pyrochroide (Coleoptera).” Ann.
Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiii., p. 310.
“On the Fabrician Types of the Tenebrionidz (Coleoptera )
in the Banks Collection.” Jd., p. 482.

“Notes on Coleoptera of the Genus Azarelius, Fairm.
(Tenebrionide) with Descriptions of New Species.” Jb. xiv.,
p- 315.

“Two new Species of Pyrochroide (Coleoptera) from
Borneo.”. - Ib., p. 317.

By C. J. Gahan.

*« A new Genus of Coleoptera of the Family Psephenide.” »
The Entomologist, 1914, p. 188.

By Professor Chr. Aurivillius.

“Neue oder wenig bekannte Coleoptera Longicornia. 14,”
Arkiv for Zoologi, Band 8, No. 29.

By George Charles Champion.

* Revision of the Mexican and Central American Malachiide
and Melyridz, with descriptions of new species.” ‘Trans. Ent.
Soc. Lond , 1914, p. 13.

* Revision of the Mexican and Central American Chaulio-
gnathinee (Fam. Telephoridz) based on the genital armature of
the males.” Jb., p. 128.

By Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart.
“Two New Species of Wood-boring Moths from W. Africa.”
Bull. Ent. Res., v., p. 245.

“Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Drepanide
and Thyridide.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiv., p. 108.

“A New Species of Noctuide.” Jb., xiii., p. 275.

“Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Noctuide.”
Ib., p. 146. and p. 197.

By Lord Walsingham.

The publication of the following series of ‘descriptions has
been continued :—*

“ Biologia Centrali-Americana. Zoologia. Insecta. Lepi-
doptera. Heterocera(continued). Tineina.” Vol. iv., pp.g225-
392, pls. 7-9.

* «Prepared for publication by Mr. Durrant, by permission of the
Trustees.”

168 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

By Geoffrey Meade-Waldo.

‘Notes on the Apidze (Hymenoptera) in the Collection of
the British Museum, with descriptions of new Species.
Part III. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiii, pp. 45-58. Jb.,
Part IV., pp. 339-405. Jb., Part V., pp. 450-463.

By Geoffrey Meade-Waldo and Claude Morley, F.Z.S.

“Notes on Synonyiny of Hymenoptera in the Collection of
the British Museum.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiv., pp. 402—
410.

By R. E. Turner.
‘““Notes on Fossorial Hymenoptera. xii. On some new
Oriental Species.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiv.. pp. 255-257.
‘Notes on Fossorial Hymenoptera. xiii. A Revision of
the Sericophorine.” Ib., pp. 337-359.

“Notes on Fossorial Hymenoptera. xiv. On the Mutil-
lidee of Western Australia and Tasmania.” Jb., pp. 429-450.

By. Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell.

“Descriptions and Records of Bees.” Part LX. Ann. Mag.
Nat. Hist. (8), xiv. pp. 1-13. Part LXI. Jb. pp. 39-49.
Part LXII. J6., pp. 50-57.. Part LXIIL Jo) pp. sbl—aoe

“ Australian Bees of the genus Huryglossa.” Entomologist,
1914, pp. 213-215.

By. Dr. A. Moesary.

“Chrysidide plerumque exoticze nove.” Ann. Mus. Nat.
Hungar., XII,

By E. E. Austen.

‘On Diptera collected in the Western Sahara by Dr. Ernst
Hartert, with descriptions of new Species. Part II.” Novitates
Zoologice, xxi., p. 265.

‘A Dipterous Parasite of Glossina morsitans.” Bull. Ent.
Ress Vy Part 1) p. 91:

“New African Sabanide, Part IV.” Bull. Ent. Res., iv.,
p. 283.

“On Certain Recently described Australian Species of
Tabanus.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiii, p. 263.

By F. W. Edwards.

“New Synonymy in Oriental Culicide.” Bull. Ent. Res.,
Wc, Paltvos ps ool.

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 169

“On the Oriental Culicid Genus Leicesteria, Theobald.”
Moe VololV., Part 4, p. 255.

“New Species of Culicidee in the British Museum, with
Notes on the Genitalia of some African Culex.” Ib., Vol. V..,
Bart I., p. 63.

“ New Culicids from Borneo and Hong Kong.” Jb., Vol. V.,
Part 2, p. 125.

“A Remarkable Case of Neurational Teratology in Diptera.”
Ent. Mo. Mag. Vol. L., p. 59 (March).

“Insectes Dipteres: Nematocera: Sciaridz, Mycetophilde,
Bibionide, Simuliide, Psychodide et Culicide.” In “ Voyage
de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale (1911-1912),
Résultats Scientifiques.” May 1914.

“A Revision of the Tipulid Genus Styringomyia, Lw.”
Trans. Ent. Soc., Pt. 1, p. 206.

By Bruce F. Cummings.
“Scent Organs in Trichoptera.” Proc. Zool. Soc, 1914,
p. 459.

“Note on the Characters of the Head and Mouth parts in
the Genera Plectrotarsus and dthaloptera (Trichoptera).”
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiv., p. 22.

“ Descriptions of Five New Species of Anoplura and Mallo-
phaga.” Bull. Ent. Res. V., Pt. 2, p. 155.

By W. L. Distant.
“Rhynchotal Notes.” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiil.,
putis.

“Some Additions to the Genera and Species in the Homop-
terous Family Fulgoride.” Ib., p. 409.

“ Some undescribed Cicadide.” Jb., xiv., p. 61.

“On a few undescribed Cicadide from California.” Jb.,
p. 165.

Some new Rhynchota from Mt. Merinjak, Borneo.” To.
p. 333.

“ Rhynchotal Notes.” Jb., p. 323.

“Description of a new Cicada from West Africa.” Ento-
mologist, March, Vol. LVII., p. 87.

sp Descriptions of two new species of Cieadias from the
Belgian Congo.” Rev. Zool. Africaine, 1914.

“Rhynchota from New Caledonia and the surrounding
Islands.” Nova Caledonia Zoology, Wiesbaden, 1914.

“Report on the Rhynchota Collected by the Wollaston Ex-_
pedition in Dutch New Guinea.” Trans. Zool. Soe., 1914,
Vol. XX., p. 335.

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

By R. P. Longinos Navas, S.J.

“Les Chrysopides (Ins. Nevr.) du Musée de Londres.” Ann.
Soe. Sci. Bruxelles, xxxvil., pp. 292-330, and xxxviil., pp. 73—

114.
By Herbert Campion.
‘Three new Species of Ceriagrion from eee Africa (Or der
Odonata).” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xiv., p. 277

V.— Acquisitions.
The number of specimens added to the Insect collection

during the year is 123,954, made up as shown in the following
table : = |

— Donations. | Exchanges. | Purchases. Totals.
Ot A et ] | | ih A GBR
Coleoptera - - - 21,004 246 | 3,198 24,448
Lepidoptera - - Sino. 9 57 1,332 38,700
Hymenoptera - = : 14,019 | Ibe 10,019 24,150
Diptera” - - - - 8,784. 25 3 8,812
Rhynchota 5 - - 5,409 | 18 3,004 8,431
Orthoptera - - - 1,209 — 2 bail
Neuroptera - - 221 | — 200 223
Anoplura - = = = 5,519 | — — 5,019
Mallophaga - - 233 — io | 223.
Siphonaptera~ - - 10,007 — — 10,007
Other Orders - : 867 —= | — 867
Nests, Eggs, Pupe, Larve, 1,353 “== — 1350
&e. |

Totals <= - - | 105,936 458 ! 17,560 123,954

The most important of these accessions are the following :—

From various localities :—

Eight thousand three hundred and ninety-seven Rhopa-
Jocera, chiefly American, including 362 types; presented by
F. Du Cane Godman, Esq., D.C.L., FBS.

One thousand three hundred and seventy-five Tabanide,
being the whole of the collection of exotic Tabanidee formed by
J. Bigot, including many of Bigot’s types and specimens named
by Macquart : pr esented by J. C. Collin, Esq.

Ten thousand Siphonaptera (Waterston Collections pre-
sented by an anonymous donor through G. A. K. Marshall,
Esq.

Three hundred and seventy-four specimens of various

orders, mostly from N. Africa; presented by the Hon. L.
Walter Rothschild.

Two thousand four hundred and eleven specimens “i various
orders; presented by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild.

Six hundred specimens of various orders; presented by
C. Stewart Betton, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 171

The 4th instalment.of the Distant Collection, containing
3,000 Rhynchota and 2,000 Coleoptera.

Ten thousand Hymenoptera (Peter Cameron Collection),
including 1,500 type specimens.

Europe.
Seven hundred and_ fifty-seven British Diptera ; presented.
by Lieut.-Col. J. W. Verbury.

Four hundred and seventy-three British Diptera; presented
by F. W. Edwards, noe

Asia.

Six hundred and six ‘specimens of various orders from
Ceylon ; presented by E. E. Green, Esq.

Three hundred and ninety-nine specimens, including 262
Diptera and 137 Hymenoptera from Kashmir: presented by
Lieut.-Col. F. Wyville Thomson.

Three hundred and twenty specimens from Dutch New
Guinea ; presented by the Subscribers to Dr. Wollaston’s 2nd
Expedition.

Three hundred and twenty-nine specimens of all orders
from Borneo; presented by J.C. Moulton, Esq.

Five hundred and four Hymenoptera from Penang and
Sarawak ; presented by G. E. Bryant, Esq.

Africa.

Fifty thousand nine hundred and twelve specimens of all
orders from various parts of Africa; presented by the Imperial
Bureau of Entomology.

Two thousand four hundred and fifty-nine Coleoptera from
the Seychelles, collected by the Percy Sladen Trust Expe-
dition ; presented by Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.BS.

Two hundred and eighty-eight Diptera from 8. Africa ;
presented by Miss J. Brincker.

Three hundred and. seventy-eight specimens of various
orders from Natal; presented by R. C. Wroughton, Esq.

Three hundred and three Coleoptera from 8. Africa; pre-
sented by G. A. K. Marshall, Esq.

Australia.

Seven thousand four hundred and twenty Insects of all
orders from 8.W. Australia and N. inecnslamds; presented by
R. EL. Turner, Esq.

The second and final portion of the Blackburn collection of
Australian Coleoptera, containing 961 types and 29 co-types.

America.

Three hundred and sixty-one specimens of various orders
from Mexico; presented by B. Preston Clark, Esq.

Three hanidged and fifty-two Insects belonging to different
orders from Colombia; presented by Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell.

172

The following is a list of

ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

donors who have presented

specimens to the Department of Entomology in 1914 :—

Adie, Lieut.-Col. J. R.

Aflalo, F. G.

Agricultural Research Insti- |
tute, Pusa

Alcock, Col. A., F.R,S.

Ambrose, Capt. W. Gerald

Andrewes, H. E.

Andrewes, Dr. F. W.

Argyle, Capt. E. P.

Arias, Dr. J.

Armstrong, L. (the late)

Arnold, G.

Almore, E. A.

Backhouse, R. O.
Bacot, A.
Bagnall, A. W.
Bahr, Dr. Philip
Bakers@: Fas.
Balfour, Dr. A.
Barber, H. 8S.
Barnard, K. H.
Barnes, Dr. W.
Barrett, J. Platt
Barrow, Dr.
Baxter, Dr. E. J.
Baylis, H. A.
Beutenmuller, W.
Beste, F. V.
Betton, C. Stewart
Blairs eG:
Bombay Natural
Society
Bourgoin, Mons. A.
Brincker, Miss J.
British Antarctic
Nova”) Expedition
Broadway, W. E.

History

(“ Terra

Bryan, J. M.
Bruce, Mrs. C. D.
Burr, Dr. Maleolm
Butler, E. A.
Buxton, P. A. J.

Campbell, Miss Joan

Carter & Co., Messrs. James
Chalmers, Guthrie & Co.,,
Messrs.

Champion, G. C.

Chapman, Abel

Chapman, Dr. T. A.
Charbonnier, H. J.
Chetwynd, Guy
Chubb, C.

| Chubb, E. C. C.

Clark, A. J.

Clark, B. Preston
Clark, E. L.

Claydon, B.

Cockerell, Prof. T. D. A

| Coghlan, K. Hay’

Comas, D. Jaime Nonell y
Collin, J. E.

Collins, Bernard E.
Cooke, A. T.

Dixon. FE,
Dod, F. H. Wolley.

_ Dognin, Mons. Paul

Dollman, H.

| Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K.

Dorking, F. W.
Ducke, A.

Ede, Miss F., L.S.A.
Edwards, F. W.
Ellis, E. V.

Faber, Eric

Partant, Ho.G.
Fenton, M. A.
Ferguson, EK. W.
Fountaine, Miss M. E.
Frisby, G. E.
Froggatt, W. W.
Fryer, J. C. F.

Gairdner, K. G.
Gardiner, Prof. J. Stanley
Gehlen, Dr.

Gibbs, A. E.

Gibson, E.

Godman, Dr. F. Du Cane
Godfrey, E. J.

Goot, P.v.d.

Gordon, B. W.

Gotch, D. H. (the late)
Gowdey, C. CG.

Grant, W. R. Ogilvie
Green, E. E.

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 173

Grouvelle, M. Ant. Mackwood, F. M
Grubb, W. Marriott, Col.
Marshall, G. A. K.
Hadden, Harvey Mathews, Rev. H.
Hannyngton, F. Maude, Capt. E. W.
Harland, Mrs. A. McCarrison, Major R.
Harris, R. Hamlyn McGahey, Dr. K,
Haviland, Miss Maud D. Meade-Waldo, E. G. B.
Hingston, Capt. R. W. G. Miller, Rev. E.
Holman-Hunt, C. B. Moffat, R. U.
Hornby, Dr. H. E. Montague, P. D.
Hudson, Miss Stella Morice, Rev. F. D.
Morley, Claude
Illingworth, J. F. | Mosely, M. E.
Imms, Dr. A. D. | Moulton, J. C.
Imperial Bureau of Entomo- | Munro, H. K.
logy Munro, J. W.
Imperial Institute Muir, F.

India, Government of
Indian Museum, Calcutta

Jack, R. W.
Jackson, Dr. F. W.
James, Major S. P.

Navas, R. P. Longinos

Neale, Dr. A. E.

| Nicholls, Dr. H. A. A., C.M.G.
Nicholson, W. E.

Norris; Dr. 'S: K:

Jenkinson, F. | j
Jennings, F. B. | Nurse, Col. C. G.
Joicey, J. J. | E

Jones, A. H. Pallis, Mark A.

Pearson, Dr. J. S., W.A.M.S.
Peile, Major H. D.
Percy Sladen Trust Com-

Jones, J. Dukinfield
Jones, Mrs. Spencer

mittee
Kaye, W. J. | Perez, Dr. G. V.
Keen, Rev. Canon J. H. Lassirntineee Ly
Kerremans, Capt. C. H. Perkins y. R. Cole

Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens | pyyceler. Herr R
5 ? ,

Pomeroy, A. W. J.

Laidlaw, F. F.

RePool. Cea. C.
aka * = Poulton, Prof. E. B.
ee Prout, 1.8:
Lewis, G.

Ley, Mons. Robert Pryer, Mrs. W. B.

Lister Institute of Preventive

Medicine Queensland Museum, Director
Lloyd, T. H. of
London School of Tropical
Medicine Riley, N. D. -
Lowe, Rev. F. E. Roper, Dr.
Luck, Dr. Rosenberg, W. F. H.
Ludlow, Miss C. 8. Rothschild, Hon. Walter
Lutz, Dr. A. Rothschild, Hon. N. C.
Luvoni, A. P. Rutherford, A. (the late)
Lyle, S. T. Ruthven, Dr. Jane B. H.

Lynes, Capt. H., R.N. Ryley, Miss K. V.

174 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Salvaza, R. Vitalis de | Thomson,Lieut.-Col.F.Wyville
Sarawak Museum Tarner, R. E.

Schaus, W.

Schwetz, Dr. J. Villeneuve, Dr. J.

Seott, Hugh

Shepherd, Miss G. M. Walker, Commander J. J.
Se Walsingham, Lord
Sicard, Dr. A. Warren, E.

Sahih Waterston, Rev. J.
Slocombe, Shirley | Lee oa

Sloan, Rev. A. D., M.A., B.Se. Whine Connas WR.

cnet ee Dr. | Wickham, Preb. A. P.

South Georgia Expedition | Wileman, A. E.

: | Williams, C. B.
es os E zt _ Wilmer, Col. Worthington
Seeoe san ton - Winton, W. De
arey, H. be tin bee Ee
Staudinger and Bang Haas, y 0/@aston's Second Expedition
Miesea ss ; to Dutch New Guinea, Sub-

Stevens, H. scribers to
Stevenson, A. C. Wood, R. C.
Stevenson, W. W oollet, G. F. OF

Woosnam, R. B
Swale, Dr. Harold jp Avo gD.
Swinnerton, C. F. M. Wroughton, R. C.

Sworder, G. H. Wyatt, L. B.
Taylor, F. H. | Yerbury, Lieut.-Col. J. W.
Thomas, D. | Youngs, Miss E. S..

VI.—LEconomic Entomology.

The work of the Department in Economic Entomology has
been carried on with the assistance of Mr. C. A. Haland, whose
services as a specialist in that branch have again been engaged
during the year. Considerable additions have been made to the
card catalogue of the insect pests of the world, which now
contains some thousands of references. In addition to the
systematically arranged collection of injurious insects, which
has made much progress, separate collections have been formed
to show the chief insect pests of the more important food crops
of the world. A considerable amount of material presented by
the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, together with other
accessions cf economic interest received during the year, have
been incorporated in the collection.

Work in connection with the Army Biseuit Inquiry,
initiated by the War Office, has been continued and a further
Report was made shortly before the outbreak of the war.

The meetings of the Departmental Committee of the Colonial
Office on Sleeping Sickness were, by special leave of the
Trustees, attended by Mr. E. E. Austen, Assistant in the
Department.

Inquiries on matters of economic interest have continued
to come in from various parts of the world. Among the

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY, 175

objects on which information or advice has been sought, and
as far as possible given, the following may be mentioned :—

ORTHOPTERA.

(1) Scapteriscus didactylus damaging a cricket ground
10 miles from Buenos Ayres.

(2) Methods for dealing with locust plagues. A fairly
complete report was drawn up giving the most
approved methods for checking the ravages of locusts.
(The British American Tobacco Co.)

(3) How to deal effectively with cockroaches and house
crickets. Several inquiries.

(4) A list of the literature on cockroaches.

ANOPLURA.
(5) Pediculus vestimente.

RHYNCHOTA.: |

(6) Aleyrodes prperis on Piper from Jamaica.

(7) Pemphigus bursarius on Lombardy Poplar.

(8) Chattophorus aceris damaging a small sycamore in a
London garden.

(9) Diaspis persimilis Ckll. imported into Kew Gardens
from Teneriffe on Sideroxylon.

(10) Phorodon humuli and Rhopalosiphum dianthi found by

a doctor in the urine of a child.

CORRODENTIA.

(11) The treatment of wood in the tropics against the ravages
of white ants.

(12) Psocide, a question as to their importance from a
public health point of view. (The Public Health
Officer, Gibraltar.)

(15) The treatment of wood, cotton, wool, and silk used in
the construction of telephone apparatus in the tropics
to prevent the attack of termites. (The Western
Electric Co.)

LEPIDOPTERA.
(14) Prevention and treatment of Clothes Moth (Tineola
biselliella Hum).

(15) Polychrosis botrana injuring grape berries in Almeria,
South of Spain.

(16) A Geometrid larva seriously damaging Azaleas in a
London garden.

(17) Information was asked for regarding the silk of
Bombyx mori and Antherea paphia.

(18) Hydrocampa nympheata found destroying the leaves
of water lilies at Kew Gardens.

176 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DIPTERA. Chloropsica notata swarming in thousands in the
windows of a country house. (Editor, “ Country Life.’’)

(19) Several inquiries were received for information
regarding leather jackets (Tipula oleracea).

(20) Information regarding the life history of, and best
methods for dealing with, the Flea (Pulex irritans) was several
times asked for.

(21) Contarinia pyrivora, Riley, infesting pears in Kent.

(2%) The larvee of Musca domestica and Drosophila funebris
found at Kew Gardens in a tank containing a strong solution
of quassia and tobacco juice.

HYMENOPTERA.

(283) Carpenter Ants (Camponotus laevigatus, Smith). They
were forwarded from Derbyshire and had been imported in Ash
poles from America. ‘They came to light in hundreds on the
poles being cut.”

(24) Sivex gigas damaging wood which had been imported
from East Prussia. ,

COLEOPTERA.
(25) Meligethes seneus attacking turnip flowers at Wood

Green.
Dermestes vulpinus infesting Cattle intestines, imported

from India.

(26) Nacerdes melanura L., eating wainscotting in the
corridors of a large London firm. Sa

(27) Anthrenus museorum infesting a house in Derbyshire.

(28) Carpophilus hemipterus proving an annoyance to
a baker in a London district.

(29) Lyctus brunneus injuring Walnut panelling in two
different houses.

(30) Lyctus sp. infesting American Ash.

(31) Anobium panicewm rapidly becoming a plague in a
house in N. London.

(32) Anobiwm domesticum infesting the floor of a room.
(The Editor of the “ Cabinet Maker.”)

(33) Niptus hololeucus, several inquiries as to how to
eradicate the beetles.

(34) Ernobous mollis infesting forestry specimens.

(35) Ptinus fu® appearing in considerable numbers in an
old cottage in Staffordshire.

(36) Lochmaea suturalis, forwarded from Lancashire as
damaging heather. (The Editor, “The Bazaar, Exchange and
Mart.’)

(37) Otiorrhynchus picipes damaging the bulbs of cyclamens.

(38) Information was asked for regarding the breeding of
Ladybirds on a commercial scale for use against the apple
aphis.

(39) Ptrnus tectus breeding in dog biscuits at Liverpool.

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. Wie

THYSANURA.
(40) Lepisma saccharina.

VII.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits paid to the Department during the
year by students and other persons seeking information or
assistance was 4,284.

C.J. Gahan.

178 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY.

IL—Arrangement and Conservation.

Mammalia (Galleries 1 and 2)—The human skulls and
plaster casts in table-case 1 have been remounted and re-
arranged to admit plaster casts of the Piltdown skull; and
the whole of the Piltdown collection has been transferred to
this case.

The exhibited Paleolithic flint implements have been re-
arranged and re-labelled according to the French classification
in table-case 14 and in a special upright case.

Pier-case 9, containing the early Perissodactyla, has been
cleaned and re-arranged, All the smaller specimens have been
mounted on tablets with newly printed labels.

Pier-case 16, containing Bovines, Antelopes, and Goats,
has been cleaned and re-arranged to admit a newly mounted
skeleton of Myotragus balearicus.

The remains of early Artiodactyla in the drawers of table-
case 8 have been re-arranged and labelled.

A plaster cast of the skeleton of Arsinoitherium zitteli,
from the Upper Eocene of Egypt, partly restored, has been
mounted on a special stand in the middle of the gallery.

Pier-case 33, containing Proboscidea, has been cleaned and
re-arranged to admit a newly mounted skull of Elephas
meridionalis from the Forest Bed of Bacton, and other new
specimens, all provided with printed labels.

A new selection of remains of Rodentia has been made for
exhibition in table-case 16, and about half of them have
already been mounted on tablets with printed labels. The
labelling and arrangement of unexhibited specimens in the
drawers of the same table-case have been completed.

A collection of remains of Amblyrhiza from a cave-breccia
in Anguilla, West Indies, has been prepared for study and
exhibition. .

The Busk collection of Pleistocene and Pliocene Mammalia,
and the Oswald collection of British East African Tertiary
Mammalia, have been registered, labelled, and incorporated.

A revision of the unexhibited Mammalian remains in the
basement store-rooms has been begun.

Number of specimens of Mammalia registered, 463.

Aves (Gallery 2).—A new cabinet of drawers has been
placed under table-case 13a, and the unexhibited specimens
belonging to that case have been re-arranged.

Number of specimens of Aves registered, 55.

Reptilia and Batrachia (Galleries 3, 4, 5, 11).—A newly
mounted skeleton of Ophthalmosaurus has been temporarily
placed in the large middle case at the S.E. end of Gallery 4.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 179

A new specimen of Ichthyosaurus from the Upper Lias of
Wiirtemberg, showing the skin and other soft parts, has been
mounted for exhibition in wall-case 15. Other specimens have
been rearranged to admit it.

Plaster casts of skulls of Pariasaurus and Inostransevia,
from the Upper Permian of Russia, have been mounted on the
top of wall-case 10.

New specimens of Chelonia from the London Clay have
been mounted and placed in wall-case 18.

The large plaster casts of Archegosaurus in wall-case 19
have been framed.

Progress has been made with the preparation of Triassic
Reptiles from South Africa and Cretaceous Reptiles from
Kansas, U.S.A. Askeleton of Tapinocephalus from the Karroo
Formation has been mounted on ironwork.

Number of specimens of Reptilia and Batrachia registered,
235.

' Pisces (Gallery 6).—Wall-case 144, containing Pachycor-
mid fishes, has been completely refitted to admit new speci-
mens which have been framed for exhibition.

The arrangement of the larger Tertiary fishes in wall-cases
17, 18 has been completed.

The Traquair collection of Carboniferous fishes has been
registered, labelled, and incorporated.

Various fishes from the English Chalk and other recent
acquisitions have been prepared for study and exhibition.

Number of specimens of Pisces registered, 759.

Mollusca (Galleries 7 and 8, and Workroom).—The Cepha-
lopoda registered, labelled, and incorporated include :-- Ammo-
noidea and Nautiloidea mostly from the Devonian rocks of
Devon (A. Champernowne coll.); a large series of ammonites
from the Liassic rocks of England (Dorset, Gloucestershire,
Oxfordshire, Somerset, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and
Yorkshire), and Wales (Glamorganshire), (R. F. Tomes, T. J.
Slatter, and S. G. Perceval colis.); large series of ammonites
from the Oxford Clay near Peterborough (EK. T. Leeds coll.) ;
belemnites from the Jurassic rocks of Somaliland (H. T. Burls
coll.) ; Ammonoidea from the Cretaceous rocks of Kent (Dibley
coll.), I. of Wight (Bather coll.), and Galicia (Zuber exchange) ;
Belemnoidea from the Chalk of Hampshire (Bather coll.), and
of the Yorkshire coast (G. Sheppard coll.); and Nautiloidea
from the Danian of Denmark (Pindborg coll.). |

The principal addition to the exhibited series is a large
British Chalk Ammonite, mounted in the glass case between
wall-cases 3 and 4.

Considerable progress has been made with a revision of
the whole of the Museum collection of British Lias Ammo-
nites, and a selection is being prepared for exhibition.

The slip-catalogue of type, figured, and historical specimens
of Cephalopoda has been continued.

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180 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Paleozoic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia registered, la-
belled, and incorporated include :—Gastropoda and Lamelli-
branchia from the Ordovician of Scotland (McPherson coll.) ;
Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia from the Devonian rocks of
Devon (A. Champernowne coll.); Lamellibranchia from the
Devonian of Germany (A. Champernowne and S. Dohm colls.);
Gastropoda from the Devonian of Germany (A. Champernowne
and Bather colls.).

The unexhibited Lamellibranchia belonging to the Gilbertson
collection of Carboniferous fossils, that were removed from
Gallery 11 and re-labelled, have been incorporated with the
general collection.

A small block containing Gastropoda from the Permian of
Durham has been mounted in table-case 14 (Gallery 8); and a
specimen of Aviculopecten dissimilis from the Carboniferous
Limestone of Yorkshire has been similarly mounted in table-
case 15 (Gallery 8).

The determination and re-arrangement of all the British
Carboniferous Gastropoda have been completed; a selection
has been mounted and exhibited in table-case 15, and the rest
re-arranged in drawers.

Considerable progress has been made with the determi-
nation and re-arrangement of all the British Carboniferous
Lamellibranchia, and some have been mounted and exhibited
in table-case 15.

Slip-catalogues of type, figured, and historical specimens of
(a) Paleeozoic Lamellibranchia, (b) Paleozoic Gastropoda, and
(c) the Conularida respectively, are in progress.

The Mesozoic and Tertiary Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia
registered, labelled, and incorporated include: — British
Rhaetic specimens (L. Richardson coll.); a French Mesozoic
collection (Valabrégue), shells from: the Lower Cretaceous
of Sandown, Isle of Wight (Wilmer coll.), and from the
Upper Cretaceous of Galicia (Zuber coll.); Tertiary shells
from New Zealand (Geol. Surv. N. Zealand), and Tertiary and
Post-Tertiary shells from the West Indies (Wilmer coll.) ; a
series from the Eocene of Somaliland (Burls coll.), and another
from the Miocene of British East Africa (Oswald coll.); an
apparently Pliocene collection from Nigeria (Parkinson coll.) ;
British Post-Pliocene non-marine shells (J. P. Johnson coll.) ;
and Neolithic non-marine shells from Ireland (Welch coll.).

Number of specimens of Mollusca registered :—Cephalopoda,
2,280; Gastropoda, 5,393; Lamellibranchia, 1,394.

Arthropoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The acquisitions
registered, labelled, and incorporated include :—Trilobita
from the Upper Ordovician of Girvan (W. McPherson coll.)
and Haverfordwest (Bather coll.), the Silurian of New South
Wales (J. Mitchell coll.), and the Devonian of the Eifel (Dohm,
Bather, and Hopmann colls.); Phyllopoda from the Rhaetic
beds of the west of England (L. Richardson coll.) ; Ostracoda
from the Leptaena-kalk of Dalecarlia (Bather coll.) and the

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 181

Devonian of the Hifel (Dohm coll.); Cirripedia from the
Trinucleus-shales of Sca a (Moberg coll.), the mucronata-
Chalk of Riigen (Laur coll.),and the Danian of Faxe ( Pindborg
coll.) ; Phyllocarida from the Upper Ordovician of Girvan and
the Upper Silurian of Lanark (W. McPherson coll.) ; Decapoda
from the Oxfordian near Peterborough (Leeds coll.), and the
Danian of Faxe (Pindborg coll.); Trichoptera in Miocene amber
from East Prussia (Klebs coll.).

Rough material from the Olenellian sandstone of Comley,
Shropshire, has been examined, and the resulting Trilobites
re-registered and labelled. The revision of the collection of
Cirripedia has been continued, and among series thus re-labelled
and re-registered are those from the Wenlock Limestone of
Dudley, and from the Coralline Crag of Suffolk (S. V. Wood
coll.).

The mounting of the large collection of amber inclusa is
now almost finished. It has been found possible, not only to
mount the gum-copal inclusa in a similar manner, but to dis-
criminate between the fossil gums from different localities ;
the important information thus obtained has been entered on
the labels.

Among additions to the exhibited collectiscn may be men-
tioned: a series of British Tertiary Termites, including new
species of Mastotermes, a Recent Australian genus ; a specimen
of Caryocaris kilbridensis, described by H. Woodward as
possessing winter eggs (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1912); a
lobster, Mecochirus longimanus, from the Lithographic Stone
of Solenhofen, with the tracks left in its final movements
(described in Knowledge, September 1914).

The slip-catalogue of exhibited specimens has been con-
tinued.

Number of specimens of Arthropoda registered, 1,370.

Echinoderma (Gallery 8).—The acquisitions registered,
labelled, and incorporated, include: — Echinoidea from
the Lower Carboniferous rocks of various British and
foreign localities (G. H. Morton coll.’, the Lower Oolitic rocks
of the West of England (L. Richardson coll.), the Bradford
Clay (Mockler washings), the Chalk of S.E. England (Withers
coll. and others), and the Danian of Faxe (Pindborg coll.) ;
Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea from the Upper Ordovician starfish
bed of Girvan (W. McPherson coll.), the Lower Devonian rocks
of the Eifel (Dohm coll.), the Trias of Silesia, the Bradford
Clay and Chalk Marl (Méckler coll.) ; Crinoidea from the
Niagaran chert of Iowa (A. O. Thomas coll.), the Devonian of
the EKifel (Dohm coll.) and of England (G. H. Morton coll.),
the Carboniferous of Donegal (Montmoreney coll.), of the
British Isles and Belgium (G. H. Morton coll.), of Queensland
(squeezes from Queensland Geological Survey coll.), the Boone
_ formation of Missouri (Crane coll.) the Bradford Clay (Mockler
washings), the cor-testudinarium-Chalk of Surrey (Withers
coll.), the Marswpites-zone of Westphalia (Bather coll.), the

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182 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Mucronata-Chalk of Riigen (Laur coll.), and the Danian of
Faxe (Nielsen and Pindborg colls.); Blastoidea from the
Carboniferous rocks of the British Isles (Bingham and G. H.
Morton colls.), and Queensland (squeezes from Queensland
Geological Survey coll.); Cystidea from the Ordovician near
Haverfordwest (Bather coll.), of Girvan (W. McPherson coll.),
and the Sevier shales of Tennessee (Springer coll.).

In the exhibited series the re-arrangement of the British
Paleozoic Echinoidea has been completed. and all specimens
provided with new printed labels. A remarkably large
specimen of Heteroclypeus from the Miocene of Malta, pre-
sented by Lieut. Hitchins, R.N., has been added to the series
of foreign Echinoidea. The British Cystidea and the Blast-
oidea have been moved and partly re-arranged. ‘he Blastoids
from the Gilbertson collection have been incorporated in this
series, and they, as well.as several specimens of Orophocrinus
recently studied, have received new printed labels. Several
examples of the Edrioasteroidea have also been exhibited.

The few Recent Crinoids exhibited here for comparison with
the fossils have been placed in fresh spirit and provided with
new printed labels.

The slip-catalogue of exhibited specimens has been con-
tinued. The slip-catalogue of specimens of Blastoidea has
been brought up to date. Progress has also been made with
the slip-catalogue of genera and species of the Cystidea and
Edrioasteroidea.

Number of specimensof Echinoderma registered : Evhinoidea,
595; Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea, 763; Crinoidea, 1,431;
Blastoidea, 43; Cystidea and Edrioasteroidea, 73. Total,
2,905.

Annelida (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The acquisitions
registered, labelled, and incorporated include specimens from
the Upper Ordovician of Girvan (W. McPherson coll.) and
Westmoreland (Bather coll.), the Carboniferous of Derby and
Donegal (Montmorency coll.)}, the Lower Oolites of Gloucester-
shire (L. Richardson coll.), the Senonian of Surrey ‘Withers
coll.), and the Danian of Faxe (Pindborg coll.).

A few minor changes have been made in the exhibited
series, and the slip-catalogue has been kept up to date.

Number cf specimens of Annelida registered, 326.

Brachiopoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—The registration
of the Walker collection has been completed. The total
number of specimens in this collection is now known to be
125,868. |

The acquisitions registered, labelled, and incorporated
include Cambrian Brachiopoda from America (Smithsonian
Institution Exchange), an Ordovician collection from America
(presented by Dr. A. F. Foerste), Russian Permian Brachiopoda
(presented by I. A. Stigand, Esq.), and specimens from the
Cretaceous of Ireland (J. Wright and G. Donaldson colls.).

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 183

Number of specimens of Brachiopoda registered, 6,150.

Polyzoa (Gallery 8 and Workroom).—Progress has been
made in mounting and registering Cretaceous Polyzoa as a
preliminary to cataloguing, notably recently acquired specimens
from Worms Heath, Surrey, from Cuckmere Haven and
Sompting, Sussex, and from Venddme, Loir-et-Cher. Such
Cribriline forms as are already mounted have been systemati-
cally arranged.

Number of specimens of Polyzoa registered, 1,800.

Anthozoa and Hydrozoa (Gallery 10).—The revision of the
Carboniferous Corals has been continued and nearly 350 speci-
mens have been cut, including many thin sections. Specimens
recently acquired from the Ordovician of France and Ayrshire,
from the Devonian of the Eifel, and from the Carboniferous of
Great Britain (Stanley Smith coll.) have been registered and
incorporated.

Number of specimens of Anthozoa and Hydrozoa registered,
302. :

Porwfera (Gallery 10).—Recently acquired specimens from
the Chalk of Worms Heath, Surrey, and Sompting, Sussex,
have been registered and incorporated.

Number of specimens of Porifera registered, 71.

Protozoa (Gallery 10).—Recently acquired Protozoa from
the Permian of Japan, the Senonian of Sussex and the Tertiary
of Spain, and specimens of the problematical group Archzo-
cyathinae from the Cambrian of Sardinia, have been registered
and incorporated.

Number of specimens of Protozoa registered, 6.

Plante (Gallery 10).—A new case has been arranged and
placed near the entrance of the Gallery to illustrate the various
modes of fossilisation of plants.

The exhibited collection of Lower Carboniferous plants in
table-case 31 has been re-arranged and re-labelled.

In connection with the Catalogue, progress has been made
with the revision of the Cretaceous plants, and numerous
microscope-sections of Cretaceous woods have been prepared.

The unexhibited Tertiary plants from the Arctic regions
have been arranged and labelled in drawers, and progress has
also been made with the identification of other Tertiary
collections.

A polished piece of the trunk of a silicified tree from the
“ petrified forest” of Arizona, U.S.A., presented by C. Arthur
Pearson, Esq., has been placed on a special stand in the Central
Hall.

iNumber of specimens of Plante registered, 484.

Tracks and Rock-Speciinens (Gallery 11).—A Paramoudra
from the Chalk of Antrim has been mounted with the speci-
mens from Norfolk and a Re ent sponge for comparison,
between wall-cases 1 and 2.

184 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

A Dinosaurian footprint from the Purbeck Beds of Swan-
age, Dorset, has been mounted on the end wall of the
Gallery.

Number of specimens registered, 25.

Old Collections (Gallery 11 and Workroom).—The cleaning
and arrangement of the Geological Society’s collection in the
cabinets in the Workroom have been completed.

II.—Duplicates and Eachanges.

Duplicate fossils have been presented to University College,
Aberystwyth, and to the Museums of Colne and Newbury ;
also (in return for services rendered to the Department of
Geology) to Dr. R. Kidston, Prof. H. F. Cleland, Prof. E. Kayser,
Dr. G. Ulmer, and the Director of the Mineralogical Museum,
University of Copenhagen.

Exchanges of duplicate fossils and plaster casts of fossils
have been made with the United States National Museum,
Washington; American Museum of Natural History, New
York; Amherst College, Mass., U.S.A.; National Museum of
Natural History, Paris; Royal School of Mines, Berlin;
Geological Survey of Hungary, Budapest; the Geological
Institutes of the Universities of Bonn and Barcelona; and Mr.
John Mitchell, Sydney, New South Wales.

IIIl.—Deparitmental Inbrary.

The additions to the Library which have been registered,
stamped, catalogued, and press-marked comprise 150 new works
and pamphlets, of which 50 were purchased and 100 presented ;
369 parts of serials in progress, of which 163 were purchased
and 233 presented. Ninety-five sheets of maps were acquired,
53 by purchase and 42 by donation. Forty-seven photographs
were presented. Eleven volumes and 25 pamphlets were
obtained by transfer from other Departments.

One hundred and fifty-six volumes have been bound, press-
marked, and returned to the shelves. One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two visits were made to the Library by
students and others.

The following is an alphabetical list of personal donors to
the Library :—

Andrews, Dr. C. W Dal Piaz, Prof. G.

Bather, Dr. F. A. Rake . ee
Becker, Herr Otto eee:

Bennett, G. F., Esq. Fraine, Dr. E. de
Broom, Dr. R. Gothan, Dr. W.
Bulleid, A., Esq. Grist, HE. F., Esq.
@alvert;(Proti?. ie Hall, T. C. F., Esq.
Cottreau, J., Esa. Hankin, Dr. E. H.

Crick, G. C., Esq. Hawkesworth, E., Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 185

Heron-Allen, E., Esq. Potter, G., Esq.
ae ae a O. Rosen, Dr. K. von

ooley, R. W., Esq.
Jackson, J. F., fi Seward, Prof. A. C.
Jackson, J. W., Esq. Scott, Dr. D. H.

; , Esq

Jaekel, Prof. O. Sherborn, C. D., Esq.
Jehu, Dr TT. hig Smeeth, Dr. W. F,
Johnson, Prof. T. Spath, L. Hy Esa:
Jongmans, Dr. W. J. oe Dr. G.
Lambe, iL. M., Esq. topes, Dr. M. C.
Lang, W. D., Esq. Teppner, Herr W.
Leviseur, M., Esq. Thomas, H. H., Esq.
Lomax, J., Esq. Nt
Maury, Miss C. J. eeiguamiaircs fe
Menteath, P. W. S., Esq. a ee Ksq.

; eny, Dr. W.
pee Bs Esa. WytaOe W. Hed.
Osborn, Prof. H. F. Withers, T. H., Esq.
Oswald, Dr. F. Woodward, Dr. A. S.
Pavlov, Prof. A. P. Woodward, B. B., Esq.
Pravoslavleff, Prof. P. Woodward, Dr. Henry

1V.—Publications.

The manuscript of the second part of the Catalogue of
Cretaceous Plants has been nearly completed, and the volume
is now in the press.

The Guide Book to the Fossil Remains of Man has been passed
for press.

Apart from the official publications issued by the Trustees,
the following descriptive papers dealing with different
parts of the collection have been contributed to scientific
journals during 1914 :—

By Dr. A. S. Woodward.

1. Missing Links among Extinct Animals. Rep. Brit.
Assoc., 1913 (1914), pp. 783-787.

2. [With Mr. C. Dawson.] Supplementary Note on the
Discovery of a Paleolithic Human Skull and Mandible at Pilt-
down (Sussex). Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. Ixx., pp. 82-93,
pls) xiv., xv.

3. On an apparently Paleolithic Engraving on a Bone from
Sherborne (Dorset). Loe. cit., vol. Ixx., pp. 100-101.

4. On the Lower Jaw of an Anthropoid Ape (Dryopithecus),
from the Upper Miocene of Lérida (Spain). Loe. cit., vol. lxx.,
pp. 316-320, pl. xliv.

By Dr. F. A. Bather.

1. British Fossil Crinoids.— X. Sycocrinus Austin, Lower
Carboniferous. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [8], vol. xili., pp. 245-
255, pl. x.

186 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

2. Studies in Edrioasteroidea.—IV. The Edrioasters of the
Trenton Limestone. Geol. Mag. [6], vol. i, pp. 115-125, 162-
171, pls. x-xiv.

3. Studies in Edrioasteroidea.—V. Steganoblastus. Tom.
cit., pp. 193-203, pl. xv.

4. Note on some reef-structures in Gotland. Proc. Geol.
Assoc., vol. xxv., pp. 225-228.

5. The Fossil Track of a Dying Lobster. Knowledge,
vol. xxxvii., p. 329, fig. 325.

6. The Devonian Crinoid, Cupressocrinus townsendi
Konig sp. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [8], vol. xiv., pp. 397-402.

7. Paleozoic Cirripedes from Sweden [Review]. Geol. Mag.
[6], vol. i. pp. 558-560.

By Mr. R. B. Newton.

1. Cretaceous Fossils from the Bethelsdorp Salt-Pans, South
Africa, belonging to the Albany Museum. Rec. Albany Mus.,
vol. 11., pp. 38-39.

2. The Fossils found on the Site of the Torquay Museum.
Geol. Mag. [6], vol. i., pp. 314-318.

3. On some Non-Marine Molluscan Remains from the
Victoria Nyanza Region, associated with Miocene Vertebrates.
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. Ixx., pp. 187-198, pl. xxx.

By Dr. C. W. Andrews.

1. On the Lower Miocene Vertebrates from British East
Africa, collected by Dr. Felix Oswald. Quart. Journ. Geol.
Soc., vol. lxx., pp. 163-186, pls. xxvii—xxix.

By Mr. W. D. Lang.

1. On Herpetopora, a New Genus containing three New
Species of Cretaceous Cheilostome Polyzoa. Geol. Mag. [6],
vol. 1, pp. 5-8, pl. 1.

2. Some New Genera and Species of Cretaceous Cheilostome
Polyzoa. Loe. cit., vol. 1., pp. 436-444, pl. xxxiv.

3. The Geology of the Charmouth Cliffs, Beach, and Fore-
shore. Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xxv., pp. 293-360, with maps
and sections.

By Mr. T. H. Withers.

1. Some Cretaceous and .Tertiary Cirripedes referred to
Pollicipes. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [8], vol. xiv., pp. 167-206,
pls. vii., vili.

2. A new Cirripede from the Cenomanian Chalk Marl of
Cambridge. Geol. Mag. [6], vol. i., pp. 494-497, text-figs. 1-6.

3. A remarkable new Cirripede from the Chalk of Surrey
and Hertfordshire. Proc. Zool. Soc., 1914, pp. 945-953, pl. I.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 187

By Dr. Felix Oswald.

1, The Miocene Beds of the Victoria Nyanza and the
Geology of the Country between the Lake and the Kisii
Highlands. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. Ixx., pp. 128-162,
pls. xx-xxvi.

By Miss D. M. A. Bate.

1. On Remains of a Gigantic Land Tortoise (Testudo
gymnesicus, n. sp.) from the Pleistocene of Menorca. Geol.
Mag. [6], vol. i., pp. 100-107.

2. On the Pleistocene Ossiferous Deposits of the Balearic
Islands. Loe. cit., vol. i., pp. 387-345, pl. xxv.

By Dr. W. Freudenberg,

1. Die Siugetiere des ilteren Quartars von Mitteleuropa.
Geol. und Paleont. Abhandl., vol. xvi., pts., 4, 5.

By Dr. G. Schlesinger.

1. Ein neuerlicher Fund von Llephas planifrons in
Niederosterreich. Jahrb. k. k. Geol. Reichsanst. Wien, vol.
Ixiii., pp. 711-742, pls. xxvii., xxviii.

By Baron F. von Huene.
1. Beitrage zur Geschichte der Archosaurier. Geol. und
Paleont. Abhandl., vol. xvii., pp. 3-53, pls. i-vii.

2. Beitrige zur Kenntnis des Schadels einiger Pterosaurier.
Kioe. cit., vol. xvii., pp. 5/—65, pls. 1., 11.

By Mr. R. W. Hooley.

1. On the Ornithosaurian Genus Ornithocheirus. Ann.
Mag. Nat. Hist. [8], vol. xiii., pp. 529-557, pl. xxii.

By Mr. D. M. 8S. Watson.

1. The Zones of the Beaufort Beds of the Karroo System in
South Africa. Geol. Mag. [6], vol. i., pp. 203-208.

2. On a Femur of Reptilian Type from the Lower Carboni-
ferous of Scotland. Loe. cit., vol. i., pp. 347-348, pl. xxvii.

3. The Cheirothertum. Loe. cit., vol. 1., pp. 895-398.

4. Pleurosaurus and the Homologies of the Bones of the
Temporal Region of the Lizard’s Skull. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.
[8], vol. xiv., pp. 84-95, pl. vi.

5. Dicynodon hall, sp. n., an Anomodont Reptile from
South Africa. Loc. cit., vol. xiv., pp. 95-97.

188 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

6. On the Nomenclature of the South African Pariasaurians.
Loe. cit., vol. xiv., pp. 98-102.

7. On the skull of a Pariasaurian Reptile, and on the
Relationship of that Type. Proc. Zool. Soc., 1914, pp. 155-180.

8. Procolophon trigoniceps, a Cotylosaurian Reptile from
South Africa. Loe. cit., 1914, pp. 735-747, pls. i.-iii.

9. The Deinocephalia, an Order of Mammal-like Reptiles.
Loe. cit., pp. 749-786, pls. iv.-v.

By Miss I. B. J. Sollas and Prof. W. J. Sollas.

1. A Study of the Skull of a Dicynodon by means of Serial
Sections. Phil. Trans. vol. 2048, pp. 201-225, pls. xvii.,
XViii.

By Prof. J. C. Moberg.

1. Om Svenska Silurcirripeder. Lunds Univ. Arsskrift
(nn £), Afds 2, Bdri.No.4.720 pp. apis.

By Kurt, Baron von Rosen.

1. Die Fossilen Termiten: eine kurze Zusaromenfassung der
bis jetzt bekannten Funde. Trans. Entom. Congr., 1912,
pp. 318-335, pls. xxvi.-xxx1.

By Mr. L. F. Spath.

1. On the Development of Tragophylloceras loscombi (J.
Sowerby). Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lxx., pp. 336-362,
pls. xlvii.—l.

By Dr. R. Kidston.

1. On the Fossil Flora of the Staffordshire Coal Fields,
part /1ilL.,, Trans. Roy. Sec.. Edinb., yolstl., pp. 73-190sipis:
V.-XVl.

By Dr. E. A. N. Arber.

1. A Revision of the Seed Impressions of the British Coal
Measures. Ann. Botany, vol. xxviil., pp. 81-108, pls. vi—viii.

By Mrs. Agnes Arber.

1. An Anatomical Study of the Paleozoic Cone-genus
Lepidostrobus. Trans. Linn. Soc., Botany, vol. vili., pp. 205-
238, pl. xx1.—xxVii.

By Dr. Margaret J. Benson.

1. Spherostoma ovale (Conostoma ovale et vntermedium,
Williamson), a Lower Carboniferous Ovule from Pettycur,
Fifeshire, Scotland. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb., vol. 1., pp. 1-15,
Lge tes ie

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 189

By Dr. Marie C. Stopes.

1. A new Cretaceous Plant from Nigeria. Geol. Mag. [6],
vol. i., pp. 433-435, pl. xxxiil.

V.—A equisitions.

A.— By Donation.

Mammalia.—Associated series of skull, mandible, femur,
tibia, humerus and portions of other bones of Pliolophus
vulpiceps, from the London Clay of Harwich, being the type-
specimens described by Owen, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,
vol. xiv. (1858). Presented by Mrs. R. Bull.

Coloured plaster casts of the femur and tibia of Zaqlossus
hacketti, Glauert. Presented by the Director of the Western
Australian Museum and Art Gallery.

Tail-sheath of Hoplophorus and two vertebre from excava-
tions for extension of docks at Buenos Ayres. Presented by
the Buenos Ayres Southern Dock Co., Ltd.

Sub-fossil tooth of Physeter from sand-dunes near Port
Phillip Head, Victoria, Australia. Presented by C. F. Belcher,
Esq.

A portion of jaw and a femur of Hippopotamus from
Whitstable. Presented by the Urban District Cowneil,
Whitstable.

A skull and mandible of Bos, four skulls of Ovis, one skull
and cannon bone of Equus, from excavations on the site of the
Post Office, Denman Street, S.E. Presented by the Postmaster-
General.

Plaster cast of first milk-molar of Hlephas promigenius from
Doneraile Cave, Co. Cork. Presented by Dr. R. F. Scharff.

Carpal bone and os innominatum of Hlephas primigenius
and portion of humerus of Felis leo from the Pleistocene
Thames deposits, Salisbury Square, E.C. Presented by Frank
Lloyd, Esq.

Skull of new genus and species allied to Aeluwropus from a
cave at the ruby mines, Mogok, Upper Burma. Pvesented by
A.L. Bacon, Ksq., per F. Atlay, Esq.

Femur and tibia of Ursus deningeri from Pleistocene Clay,
Portslade, near Brighton. Presented by Dr. Eliot Curwen.

Plaster cast of portion of tusk of Trichechus hualeyi from
the Boulder Clay, Hornsea. Presented by Prof. W. Boyd
Dawkins, F.R.S.

Fifty-four bones of bats (Pteropus rodricensis and P.
miger) from a Recent deposit in the island of Mauritius. Pre-
sented by the Superintendent, Museum of Zoology, Cam-
bridge.

190 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Aves.—Plaster cast of humerus of Aenyornis maximus,
figd. by Dr. L. Monnier in Annales de Paléontologie, vol. viii.
(1913), pl. vi., fig. 6. Presented by Dr. G. Grandidier.

Three footprints of adult and young Anomalopteryx from
New Zealand. Presented by Arthur Bevan, Esq., M.D.

Two skulls and mandibles and about seventy other bones of
the extinct bird known as the Cahow, from Bermuda. Pre-

sented by F. Tweddell, Esq., M.D.

Reptilia and Amphibia.—Three plaster casts of the type
specimens of fossil reptiles (Galechirus, Galeophyrus, and
Galopus) from the Karroo Formation, 8. Africa. Presented by
Dr. Robert Broom.

Ten fossil reptiles (Procolophon, Kannemeyeria, Diademo-
don, &c.) collected by Mr. D. M. S. Watson in the Karroo
Formation of South Africa. Presented by the Trustees of the
Percy Sladen Fund.

Three Crocodilian teeth from the Jurassic of Eschershausen,
Brunswick. Presented by the Libraries and Museum Com-
mittee, Hastbourne.

Plaster casts of the type cervical vertebra of Plesiosaurus
limnophilus and of cervical vertebree of Plesiosaurus val-
densis from the Wealdenof Westphalia. Presented by Dr. Th.
Wegner.

Skull of a large Chelonian and three shells of Chelonians
from the London Clay of Harwich. Presented by Mrs. R
Bull.

Humerus of Pleurodiran Chelonian from the Barton Clay,
Barton, Hants. Presented by V. EL. G. Bristowe, Esq.

Pisces.—Three teeth of Ceratodus from the Karroo Forma-
tion of South Africa. Presented by the Trustees of the Percy
Sladen Fund.

Three Pycnodont jaws from the Jurassic of Eschershausen,
Brunswick. Presented by the Libraries and Museum Com-
mittee, Hastbourne.

A fossil fish (Mioplosus) from the Eocene Green River
Shales, Wyoming, U.S.A. Presented by Dr. Franklin Par-
sons.

Portion of mandibular dentition of Pycnodus and tooth of
Carcharodon from the Eocene limestone of Mokattam, Cairo.
Presented by G. Foster Smith, Esq.

A Characinid fish (Alestes) from a probably Pleistocene
deposit of the Gold Coast. Presented by A. H. Kitson, Esq.

Mollusca.—Two molluscs, collected by the donor, from the
Lower Llandovery beds of Haverfordwest. Presented by
Dr FLAY Bathery FAS:

Enlarged model of shell of Ascoceras; also mould for same,
and coloured copy of model. Presented by G. C. Crick, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 191

Three Devonian Gastropods, collected by the donor near
Gerolstein, Hifel. Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S.

Twelve plates of Chiton from Carboniferous Shales 300 ft.
below the Hosie Limestone at Woodmill, Dunfermline. Pre-
sented by Robert Dunlop, Esq.

A small slab of Carboniferous Limestone with Avicwlo-
pecten, from Richmond, Yorkshire. Presented by Miss
Caroline Shuckburgh.

Pterinopecten papyraceus from the marine band overlying
Alton Coal, Shipley, Yorkshire. Presented by Dr. Feliz
Oswald.

One Conularia from the Permo-Carboniferous of Branxton
railway cutting near West Maitland, New South Wales. Pre-
sented by R. Bullen Newton, Esq.

Three pieces of shale with fossil shells (Aucella, dc.),
probably Triassic, from Cross Bay, Spitzbergen, Presented by
Lady Brown.

Kighteen Ammonites and one Lamellibranch from the
Upper Lias of Epirus and Corfu. Presented by John B.
Sordina, Esq.

Part of an. Ammonite (Perisphinctes) from the Ampthill
Clay, Bedfordshire. Presented by G. C. Crick, Esq.

Two Cephalopoda from the Jurassic of Somaliland. Pre-
sented by H. T. Burls, Esq.

An Ammonite from a boring at Torres Vedras, Portugal.

Presented by Prof. J. W. Gregory, F.R.S.

An Ammonite (Hoplites interruptus) from the Gault,
Stonebarrow, Charmouth. Presented by Miss Harding.

Two pieces of an Ammonite (Hoplites interruptus) trom
the Gault of Stonebarrow, Charmouth. Presented by Horace
W. Monckton, Esq.

Two specimens of Hippurites radiosa from the Upper
Cretaceous, Beaumont, Dordogne, France. Presented by Mon-
sieur EL. Deipit.

Thirty-one Belemnites from the Chalk of Yorkshire. Pre-
sented by George Sheppard, Esq.

Thirteen Lamellibranchs (Ostreidae) and one Cephalopod
(Pseudotissotia) from the Cretaceous of Tunisia, North Africa.
Presented by Captain Jenkinson.

Two Cretaceous bivalve shells from Jamaica. Presented by
Anthony Benn, Esq.

Four Eocene Lamellibranchs from Somaliland. Presented
by H. T. Burls, Esq.

Nine Pliocene Gastropods from Corfu. Presented by John
B. Sordina, Esq.

A collection of a hundred invertebrate fossils, chiefly Mol-
lusca, from the Tertiary of Trinidad. Presented by J. A. Bull-
brook, Esq.

192 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Three shells of Ostrea from the Tertiary of the boundary of
Mexico and California. Presented by Alfred Mosely, Esq.,
C.M.G.

Six Post-Tertiary Gastropods from Somaliland. Presented
by i Buris) eg.

Six co-types of Pisidium vincentianwm from the Pleisto-
cene of Soignies, Belgium. Presented by B. B. Woodward,
Esq.

A series of non-marine shells collected by Mr. Reginald A.
Smith from Holocene deposits at Blaschenwel], near Corfe
Castle (seventeen species named by Mr. A. 8. Kennard). Pre-
sented by the Earl of Eldon.

Arthropoda.—The type-specimen of the Phyllopod Crusta-
ceans, Caryocaris kilbridensis, from the Arenig of Kilbride,
co. Mayo. Presented by Prof. 8S. H. Reynolds.

Five shale fragments with remains of the Cirripede Lepto-
coleus swecicus from the Black Trinucleus shales of Ostergot-
land. Presented by Prof. J. C. Moberg.

Sixty-two Trilobites from the Upper Ordovician of Pem-
brokeshire, and one ‘Trilobite from the Upper Llandovery Beds
of Haverfordwest, collected by the donor. Presented by Dr. F.
A, Bather, £E:S.

Two plaster casts and one wax squeeze of a Trilobite, Thy-
sanopeltis acanthopeltis. Presented by Dr. Rudolf Richter.

Eleven Trilobites collected by the donor from the Devonian,
near Gerolstein, Eifel. Presented by Dr. Ff. A. Bather, F.R.S.

Fifteen remains of Decapod Crustacea from the Lower
Oxford Clay, Eye, near Peterborough. Presented by EL. Thur-
low Leeds, Ksq. ,

Forty-five insect remains from a Holocene deposit at
Knettleshall, Suffolk. Presented by A. S. Kennard, Esq.

Echinoderma.—Ten Cystids from the Sevier Shale of
Grainger co., Tennessee. Presented by Dr. Frank Springer.

Thirty Upper Ordovician Echinoderms, collected by the
donor from Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen. Presented by
Dr, F. As Bather, Foss.

An Edrioasteroid (Agelacrinus austenir) from the Rich-
mondian, Adams co., Ohio. Presented by Mr. Stephen R.
Williams.

Twelve-arm fans and twenty fragments of the Crinoid
Petalocrinus mirabilis, from the Niagaran, near Monticello,
Jones Co., Iowa. Presented by Mr. Abram O. Thomas.

One Crinoid (Lyriocrinus) from the Wenlock Limestone,
Rushall, Worcestershire. Presented by Miss M. S. Johnston.

Four Devonian Crinoids, collected by the donor near Gerol-
stein, Eifel. Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S.

Three Lower Carboniferous Crinoids from Freshwater West,
S. Pembrokeshire. Presented by A. L. Leach, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 193

Two pieces of Crinoidal Carboniferous Limestone, from
province Mino, Japan. Presented by Prof. H. Yabe.

One Crinoid, Ulocrinus globularis, from the Carboniferous
Limestone of Richmond, Yorkshire. Presented by Miss C.
Shuckburgh.

Highteen plates of the ventral sac of the Crinoid Hydrevo-
nocrinus, from the Hurlet Limestone of Roscobie, Fife. Pre-
sented by James Wright, Esq., jun.

Two Echinoids (Pygurus michelini) from the Cornbrash at
the Midland Railway Pit, Bedford (see Geol. Mag., 1900, p. 515,
footnote). Presented by G. C. Crick, Esq.

Ten Echinoids from the Upper Chalk, Swanscombe, Kent.
Presented by the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers,
Ltd.

Twenty specimens of the Crinoid Cyathidium holopus, from
the Danian, Faxe, Denmark. Presented by the Director of the
University Geological Museum, Copenhagen.

An Echinoid (Clypeaster) from the Miocene of Port Morant,
Jamaica. Presented by A. C. Bancroft, Esq., J.P.

An Echinoid from the Miocene of Jamaica. Presented by
Anthony Benn, Esq.

Two Echinoids (Astrodaspis twmidus) from the Upper
Miocene, San Pablo formation, of Mt. Diablo, California. Pre-
sented by W.S. W. Kew, Esq.

An Echinoderm spine from the Post-Tertiary of Somaliland.
Presented by H. T. Burls, Esq.

Brachiopoda.—A Brachiopod (Mickwitzia monilifera) from
the Cambrian of Sweden. Presented by Miss M.S. Johnston.

Twenty-seven Brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician of
Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen, and three Brachiopods from
the Lower Llandovery of Haverfordwest, all collected by the
donor. Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.B.S.

Fourteen Devonian Brachiopods collected by the donor near
Gerolstein, Hifel. Presented by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.B.S.

Five specimens of Spirifera from the Permo-Carboniferous
of Branxton railway cutting near West Maitland, New South
Wales. Presented by R. Bullen Newton, Esq.

Thirty Jurassic Brachiopoda from Somaliland. Presented
by H. T. Burls, Hsq.

Polyzoa.—Sixty-three Polyzoa from the Upper Chalk of
Sussex. Presented by (. T. Gaster, Esq.

Fifty Polyzoa from the Chalk zone of Actinocamaz quad-
ratus, Sompting, Sussex.’ resented by Mr. T. H. Withers.

Coelentera.— Forty-two Corals and Polyzoa from the Upper
Ordovician of Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen, and thirteen
Corals from the Lower Llandovery of Haverfordwest, all
collected by the donor. Present.d by Dr. F. A. Bather,
PES.

194 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Forty-four Corals and Polyzoa collected by the donor from
the Devonian near Gerolstein, Eifel. Presented by Dr. F. A.
Bather, F.R.S.

Twenty-five Corals from the Carboniferous Limestone of
various localities in Great Britain, including several specimens
figured in a paper by the donor (Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. of
Northumberland, n.s. vol. 3, pls. xvii—xviiil., 1910). Pre-
sented by Stanley Smith, Esq.

One Coral from the Permo-Carboniferous of Branxton rail-
way cutting near West Maitland, New South Wales. Presented
by R. Bullen Newton, Esq.

Porifera —Fifteen Sponges from the Chalk zone of Actino-
camax quadratus, Sompting, Sussex. Presented by Mr. T. H.
Withers.

Protozoa.—Two pieces of Carboniferous Foraminifera]
Limestone from province Mino, Japan. Presented by Prof. H.

Yabe.

Miscellaneous Invertebrata.—Forty-six fossil Invertebrata
(Foraminifera, Mollusca, and one Echinoid) from the Miocene,
Lower Eocene and Upper Cretaceous of Portuguese East Africa.
Presented by C. O. Thiele, Esq.

Nine fossil Invertebrata} from North America collected by
Sir John Richardson on the second Franklin Expedition, 1825.
Presented by H.M. Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar.

Eight miscellaneous fossil Invertebrata. Presented by
Mrs. R. Bull.

Plantce.—A piece of petrified plant-remains from the Calci-
ferous Sandstone, Burntisland, Fife; and two specimens of
plant-containing nodules from Hokkaido, Japan. Presented by
Dr. Marie C. Stopes.

Five specimens of fossil plants from the Coal Measures of
Belgium and Russia. Presented by Prof. Armand Renier.

Eight fossil plants from the Coal Measures, Belgium.
Presented by W. N. Edwards, Esq.

A polished piece of a silicified tree from the “petrified
forest” of Arizona. Presented by C. Arthur Pearson, Esq.

Two specimens of Marattiopsis anglica from the Inferior
Oolite, Yorkshire, figd. in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe. 1913.
Presented by H. Hamshaw Thomas, Esq.

One specimen of Cladophlebis alata from the Jurassic of
Corwin Mines, Cape Lisburne, Alaska. Presented by the
executor of the late Mrs. Cordelia L. M. Noble.

Six specimens of T'yphacites Kitsoni, from the Cretaceous
of Nigeria, described by Dr. M. Stopes in Geol. Mag., 1914.
Presented by A. EL. Kitson, Esq.

A Fucoid from the Flysch of Rapallo, Italy. Presented by
Miss M. S. Johnston.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY, 195

Nine dicotyledonous leaves from the Tertiary of South
Ropp, Nigeria. Presented by the Director of the Imperial
Institute.

Rock-specimens.— Slab of shell-bearing Magnesian Lime-
stone from Ryhope, Durham. Presented by C. T. Trechmann,
Esq.

Eleven specimens of Oolitic rocks from Gloucestershire,
showing old surfaces bored by Molluscs and Annelids (see Proc.

Geol. Assoc., vol. xxii, p. 104). Presented by Linsdall
Richardson, Esq.

’ Ten specimens of Tertiary Limestone from Trinidad. Pre-
sented by B. F. N. Macrorie, Esq.

Pieces of Tertiary fossiliferous limestone from Grenada,
collected by Gilbert G. Auchinleck, Esq., B.Sc., Superintendent
of Agriculture, Grenada. Presented by the Director of the
Imperial Institute.

Bone-breccia of Mousterian age from the cave of La Quina,
France. Presented by Miss Adela (. Breton.

Sixty-two microscope-slides of rocks from deep borings at
Richmond, Tottenham Court Road, and Kentish Town; described
by Prof. J. W. Judd and Mr. C. Homersham, Quart. Journ.
Geok Soc., vol. xl. (1884), pp. "724-762, vol. xli. (1885),

523-528. Presented by the Governing Body, Imperial
College of Science (Royal School of Mines).

B.—By Purchase.

Manmmalia.—Mandibular ramus of Cimolestes from the
Cretaceous Laramie Beds of Alberta, Canada.

Three plaster casts of jaws of Parupithecus, Propliopith-
ecus, and Moeripithecus from the Oligocene of the Fayum,
Egypt.

An ulna of Hlephas and seven other mammalian fossils from
the Forest Bed of Bacton, Norfolk.

A molar of Mammoth from Big Bone Lick, Kentucky,
U.S.A.

Elephant-remains from Chatham.
A plaster cast of the atlas of Homo neogeus from
Argentina. j

A plaster cast of the brain-cavity of the Neanderthal
skull.

Reptilia.Three fossil reptiles—Pariasaurus, Broomia,
and Dicynodon from the Karoo Formation, 8. Africa.

Ichthyosaurus, showing skin, from the Upper Lias, Holz-
maden, Wiirtemberg (B. Hauff).

Armour of Teleosaurus cadomensis:from the Great Oolite,
Caen, Normandy.

0.69 .

196 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

About fifty-six vertebre, ribs, shoulder-girdle, imperfect
pelvis, humeri, femora and paddle-bones of Picrocleidus ; the
skull and mandible of Mycterosuchus; skull and interclavicle
of Peloneustes ; palatine bone, pelvic bones and hind paddle of
Ophthalmosaurus ; two abnormal Plesiosaurian humeri; a rib
and ungual phalange of a Dinosaurian; all from the Oxford
Clay of Peterborough (Leeds collection).

A Dinosaurian bone from the Chalk of Kent.
Turtle remains from the Chalk of Kent.

Reptiles from the Chalk of Kansas, U.S.A., including
Protostega, Toxochelys, Clidastes, and Pteranodon (H. 'T.
Martin ccllection).

Trionyx and Dingsaurian bones from the Laramie Beds of
Alberta, Canada.

A Chelonian from the London Clay, Sheppey.

Pisces.—Eight fossil fishes from the Upper Silurian Passage
Beds of Lanarkshire.

A specimen of Heterostrophus from the Oxford Clay of
Peterborough.

Macropomw from the Chalk of Kent.

Fishes from the Chalk of Kansas, U.S.A.

Mollusca.—Ephippoceras bilobatum from the Carboniferous
Limestone, Isle of Man.

Five hundred Ammonites and seventy other fossils from
the Oxford Clay, near Peterborough (E. T. Leeds collection).

Three Ammonites, one Hamite, and three Nautili from the
Chalk of Kent.

Arthropoda.—-Fifty fossil invertebrates, chiefly Ceratio-
carts and Slimonia from the Upper Silurian Passage Beds,
Lanarkshire (W. McPherson collection).

Four Trilobites from the Middle Devonian of the Hifel.

Mechochirus rae foobar its from the Lithographic Stone,
Solenhofen.

Eleven hundred and eighty-six valves of Cirripedes, from
the Cretaceous of England, Holland, and Denmark.

Fourteen valves of Cirripedes from the Miocene of Turin,
Italy.
Sixty specimens of Amber, with insect-remains.

Echinoderma.—Twenty-four Asterozoa and seventy-eight
Crinoidea from the Lower Coblentian of the Eifel.

One four-rayed Cupressocrinus and sixty-three specimens

of Potervocrinus fusiformis from the Middle Devonian of the
Kifel.

Three Crinoids (Macrocrinus, &c.) from the Keokuk group
of Indian Creek, Indiana.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 197

Seven specimens of Aspidura from the Trias of Upper
Silesia.

Three hundred and sixty-seven Echinoids from the Inferior
Oolite of the West of England.

One Asterias schulzei from the Turonian of Silesia.

Polyzoa.—Five hundred and eighty-four microzoa, chiefly
Polyzoa, from the Chalk of Surrey.

Porifera. — Corynella from the Lower Greensand of
Faringdon.

Siphonia from the Upper Chalk, Brighton.

Protozou.—Vive microscope-slides of Radiolaria from the
Chalk of Surrey, figured in a paper by W. M. Holmes, Quart.

Journ. Geol]. Soc., vol. lvi., pp. 694-704, plates xxxvii and
Xxxvili (1900).

Miscellaneous lnvertebrata.—Three hundred and seventy
invertebrate fossils from the Silurian of Girvan, Ayrshire
(W. McPherson collection),

A hundred and forty invertebrata from the Lower Coblen-
tian of the Eifel.

The White-Watson Collection of fossils, chiefly from Derby-
shire.

Three hundred and fifty English Rhetic fossils.
Five hundred fossils from the Chalk of Faxe, Denmark.

Plante.—Six fossil Alge from the Devonian of America,
the Trias of the Tyrol, the Dogger of Italv, the Portlandian of
Moravia, and the Eocene of France.

The total accessions during 1914 are as follows :—

A.— VERTEBRATA.

By Donation - - - - = 188
, Purehase - - - - - 87
, Exchange - - - - = 12
——— 287
B.—INVERTEBRATA.
By Donation - - - - - 1,010
., Purchase - = = = = - 474
, Exchange - - = = = 2a
— 5,781
C= PLANTA:
By Donation - 4 = = = - 36
» Purchase - - = - - 6
a 42
D.—Rock SPECIMENS.
By Donation - ~ - - - - 73
—— 73
OA, - - ~ 6,183

198 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

VI.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits paid to the Department by students
and other persons for the purpose of consultation or study
during 1914 was 4,962.

VIL.-—Demonstrations.

Kleven parties were received in the Galleries of the Depart-
ment of Geology, and demonstrations were given as follows :—

January 17th. -- Lambeth Field Club (1! members) ;.
Dr. Bather.

February 7th. — Geologists’ Association (22 members) ;
Dr. Bather.

February 21st. — Battersca Field Club (17 members) ;
Dr. Woodward.

February 21st.—Polytechnic Natural History Society (19
members); Dr. Andrews.

March 7th.—Ealing Natural History Society (16 members) ;
Dr. Woodward.

March 7th.— Battersea Field Club (12 members); Mr. Lang.

March 21st.—Catford and District Natural History Society,
(34 members); Dr. Woodward.

July 9th.— Hampstead Medical Society (9 members);
Dr. Woodward.

July 30th.—St. Mark’s Summer School of Teachers (17
members); Dr. Woodward.

October 17th.—Hampstead Natural History Society (27
members) ; Dr. Woodward.

December 12th.—South Western Polytechnic Geological
Field Club (23 members) ; Dr. Woodward.

Arthur Smith Woodward.

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DEPARTMENT UF MINERALOGY.
L—Arrangement.

Selections from the large collection of foreign zeolites, pre-
sented by Mr. F. N. A. Fleischmann, have been exhibited in
four panes of table-cases 42 and 43, and, in order to accommodate
the remaining specimens, several of the species of zeolites in
the General Collection have been re-arranged in the drawers.

The case of “Enclosures” and “ Artificial Minerals” has
been re-arranged.

After the removal of the large specimens of crocoite to the
special case on the wall of the Gallery, the rest of the specimens
of crocoite and specimens belonging to the adjacent species in
the table-cases have been re-arranged.

The bulk of the Walker Collection of Minerals has been
removed from the Recent Additions Case and distributed in the
General Collection. ;

The ends of cases 23 and 25 in the Gallery have been re-
velveted to render them dust-proof, and the large specimens in
them have been cleaned and re-arranged.

In connection with the preparation of slip-catalogues of
species, the specimens of diaspore, manganite, and gibbsite have
been re-arranged, those exhibited in the case-tops being placed
on re-polished trays fitted with clean cotton-wool ; and the
reserve specimens of fluor in the drawers have been re-
arranged.

The African rocks belonging to the Geological Society’s
collection have been arranged in the new cabinets in the
Library and Rock-room.

The collections of rocks made in various Arctic and Antarctic
Expeditions have been re-arranged in order of register-num-
bers.

The series of limestones in the collection of rock-species
has been re-arranged.

The collection of meteorites has been re-arranged through-
out in order to allow of expansion.

The french-polishing of the meteoric irons which showed
signs of rusting has been continued.

New screens for the lime-boxes have been designed and
placed in the meteorite cases.

Sixty-two boxes or parcels of mineral and rock-specimens
have been unpacked and examined ; eighty-six boxes have been
packed and despatched.

Il.— Registration, Indexing, and Cataloguing.

All the specimens of minerals, rocks, and meteorites acquired
during the year, including the large collection of zeolites pre-
sented by Mr. F. N. A. Fleischmann, have been registered, num-

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bered, labelled, and incorporated with the Collection, and many
specimens belonging to the Geological Society's collection have
been registered.

The preparation of the slip-catalogues of the mineral-
specimens in the Collection, species by species, and of permanent
labels giving all available information for each specimen, has
been continued for the Divisions of the Haloids, Oxides, and
Carbonates. In the course of this work slips have been prepared
for the specimens of xanthosiderite, beauxite, psilomelane, wad,
hollandite, chalcophane, and calcite; permanent labels have
been written for the specimens belonging to thirty-eight species
in the Haloid Division, twenty-six species in the Oxide Divi-
sion, and for all the specimens of calcite in the Crystal and
Introductory Collections; and descriptive labels have been
written for the species cuprite, spinel, magnetite, chromite,
uraninite, and chrysobery].

The slip-list of the more valuable specimens in the Collec-
tion has been brought up to date, and the position of each of
the specimens in the Collection has been noted.

458 new labels for locality, species, variety, pseudomorphs,
meteorites, and meteorite-casts have been printed and placed in
the exhibition cases to replace written labels, and the corre-
sponding entries have been made in the alphabeticai and topo-
graphical indexes of localities.

The slip-catalogue of rocks in the species collection has been
completed, and the preparation of an alphabetical list of rock
names represented in the Collection has been in progress.

One hundred and eighty thin-sections of rocks have been
microscopically examined and catalogued.

The preparation of a copy of the register of the specimens
in the Collection has been continued, and permanent labels
containing particulars drawn from the register have been
prepared for the specimens of minerals acquired during the
year.

II].—Preparation.

Two hundred and eighty-four thin-sections of rocks and
meteorites have been prepared.

A mould and casts of the Wold Cottage meteorite and a
east of the Daniei’s Kuil meteorite have been prepared.

IV.—Investigation.

A crystallographic investigation of a large additional series
of specimens of zeolites from Co. Antrim has been made. Many
crystals, including some complex twins of chabazite, have been
measured and a new mode of twinning has been noted. Speci-
mens of phacolite and gmelinite have also been chemically
analysed. Crystals of the following species have been
measured :—Calaverite, calcite, cohenite (from the Coahuila

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 201

meteoric iron), corundum, garnet, gypsum (showing a new type
of twinning and new forms), hornblende, livingstonite, nephe-
lite, sartorite, schwartzembergite, and zircon. Specimens of
laurionite, paralaurionite, and other lead minerals from Laurion

nave been examined and their optical characters have been
determined.

The investigation of the metamorphic rocks collected by
the Scott Antarctic Expedition has been in progress.

Collections of rocks from Vesuvius, Rhodesia, Tunis, and
Persia, and a series of specimens collected by the late Sir John
Richardson on Sir John Franklin’s second Arctic Expedition
have been examined. Stone implements from Wiltshire have
been investigated.

Investigations have been made of the meteoric irons of
Uwet and Angela, and the meteoric stones of Crumlin and
Kota Kota.

In the chemical laboratory, quantitative analyses have been
made of specimens of phacolite and gmelinite from Co. Antrim,
and the meteorites of Crumlin, Uwet, and Angela; re-determina-
tions of iron and nickel have been made in the Baroti and Witte-
krantz meteoric stones ; and many doubtful minerals have heen
qualitatively analysed.

V.—Depurtmental Library.

Arrangement.—Letters of the years 1800 to 1913 inclusive
have been arranged in order and inserted in guard-books of 28
volumes.

Cataloguing and Press-marking.—606 volumes and 566
title-slips have been press-marked or re-press-marked. All the
accessions, including 1,602 plates, have been cataiogued ana
stamped.

Proofs of the Library Catalogue have been read and checked
against the slip-catalogue in the Department.

Accessions.—52 volumes of separate works, 34 periodicals
(in 329 volumes and parts), 25 pamphlets, 17 parts of works,
45 mining and survey reports, and 8 sheets of maps have been
added to the Library. These were acquired as follows : --

By presentation. —7 volumes of separate works, 9
periodicals (in 103 volumes and parts), 15 pamphlets,
3 parts of works, 2 sheets of maps, and 40 mining and
survey reports.

By purchase. —45 volumes of separate works, 25
periodicals (in 226 volumes and parts), 5 pamphlets,
and 9 parts of works.

By transfer.—5 pamphlets, 5 parts of works, 6 sheets of
maps, and 5 mining and survey reports.

Binding.—85 volumes have been bound.

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VI.—Publications.

New editions of An Introduction to the Study of Minerals
(14th edition), A Guide to the Mineral Gallery (12th edition),
The Student's Index to -the Collection of Minerals (25th
edition), and An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites (11th
edition) have been issued.

The following papers, mostly relating to specimens in
the Collection, have been published during the year in the
“ Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical
Society,” 1914, vol. xvii :— -

“The Meteorites of Uwet, Kota Kota, and Angela: re-
determinations of nickel and iron in the Barotiand Wittekrantz
meteoric stones (with Plates V. and VI.)”: by G. T. Prior (xvu,
p. 127).

“Note on the pleochroism of Adamite’’: by L. J. Spencer
(Xvi, peta.

“An apparatus for cutting crystal-plates and prisms”: by
H. H. Thomas and W. Campbell Smith (xvii, p. 86).

VIL.—Acquisitions.

1,985 specimens have been acquired, namely :—
1,528 minerals, 453 rocks, and 4 meteorites.

The most important of these acquisitions is a large collec-
tion of zeolites from various foreign localities which has been
presented by Mr. F. N. A. Fleischmann (see p. 203).

An exchange of specimens has been arranged with Mr. J.
H. Collins, of Par, Cornwall.

The following mineral names added to the Museum List
were previously not represented by specimens in the collec-
tion :—

Barthite, beresovite (of Samojlov), bogoslovskite, cobalt-
nickelpyrite (of Henglein), custerite, cyanochalcite, goyazite,
grangesite, hodgkinsonite, hiigelite, kochelite, kustelite,
leptonematite, melanochalcite, mossite, otavite, ranite, roscherite,
stichtite, thortveitite, wilkeite.

The specimens acquired by presentation (arranged alpha-
betically according to donors) and by exchange, and a selection
of the more important of those obtained by purchase, are as
follows :—

Minerals.
By Presentation:

Anthracite (Welsh coal) showing concretionary (‘ cone-in-
cone”) structure: by the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty.

Bowenite from Soochow, China: by HL. Alabaster, Esq.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 203

A large collection of foreign zeolites and other valuable
specimens: by F. N. Ashcroft, Esq. (see F. N. A. Fleischmann,
Esq.).

Garnet (almandine) and tourmaline crystals from Carnar-
von, Western Australia: by H. Barnes, Esq.

Livingstonite in gypsum breccia from Huitzuco, Mexico:
by A. H. Bromly, Esq.

Rutile from Buckingham, Quebec: by Stopford Brunton,
Esq.

A series of specimens, comprising alum, sulphur, &c.,
collected by the donor during his descent to a depth of
1,212 feet inside the crater of Vesuvius on December 21, 1913:
by Frederick Burlingham, Esq.

Diamond, a partially-cut black stone and a curiously-shaped
crystal, from Kimberley, South Africa: by G. H. Clapham,
Esq.

Claudetite from Sotiel mine, Huelva, Spain: by J. H.
Collins, Esq.

Steatite from Barberton district, Transvaal, South Africa:
by T. D. Cunningham, Esq.

A series of specimens which probably formed part of the
Pennant Collection, viz., cerussite, anglesite, lanarkite, pyro-
morphite, and linarite from Leadhills, Lanarkshire, mesolite
from Feeroe Islands, and siliceous sinter: by the Right Hon. the
Earl of Denbigh, C.V.O.

Artificial tridymite: by Allan B. Dick, Esq.

Agate in spherulitic felsite from Colle de Grane, Esterel
Mtns., Var, France: by Dr. J. Drugman.

Pyrophyllite pseudomorphous after quartz crystals, from
the nickel-ore (garnierite) vein, St. John’s Island, Red Sea: by
the Director of Geological Survey of Egypt.

A large and valuable collection of zeolites, comprising 1,190
choice specimens and representing 101 foreign localities for
this group of minerals. This is a portion of the private
collection of minerals which Mr. Ashcroft has formed during
the last fifteen years. The value of the collection is consider-
ably increased by the very precise information as to the exact
locality and mode of occurrence, together with references to
the literature, which is given on the printed labels accompany-
ing each specimen. Special mention may be made of the very
large series of fine specimens from West Paterson and Great
Notch in New Jersey, and from Iceland.

In addition to the above collection, miscellaneous choice
specimens have been given on several occasions, namely: a fine
group of crystals of dioptase from Reneville, French Congo; a
fine group of crystals of hopeite from Broken Hill, North-
Western Rhodesia; serpierite from Laurion, Greece; fluor from
Rabenstein, Silesia, and from Hesselbach mine, Baden ; albite
from Frossnitz Alpe, Tyrol ; willemite from Franklin Furnace,

204 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

New Jersey. Also payment in part was made for the large
crystal of apatite from Salzburg (see p. 206): by F. N. A.
Fleischmann, Esq. (afterwards F. N. Ashcroft, Esq.).

Specimens of black diamond from the Premier mine, Trans-
vaal: by P. R. Frames, Esq.

Chalcedony nodules in shell-limestone from Reid Hill,
Alberta, Canada: by W. J. Greenaway, Esq.

Manganese ores (psilomelane, braunite, rhodonite, &c.) from
the Balaghat and Bhandara districts, Central Provinces, India :
by J. A. Heppel, Esq.

A large and interesting series of thin sections and of speci-
mens of minerals and rocks, many of which have been figured
and described, mostly by Prof. Judd himself, in the “ Mineralo-
gical Magazine,” the “Geological Magazine,” the ‘Quarterly
Journal of the Geological Society,” or elsewhere. It includes
specimens and thin sections of minerals and rocks from the Ruby
mines, Mogok, Upper Burma, and gem-stones and associated
minerals from Chantabun, Siam: by the Governing Body of
the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, at
the request of Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., F.R.S.

Juddite with blanfordite from Kacharwahi, Central Pro-
vinees, India: by Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., F.R.S.

Diamond and gem-gravel from the Jiblong diamond field,
Liberia, West Africa: by the Directors of the Liberian Develop-
ment Co., Ltd.

Bologna argol: by D. Magnus, Esq.

Specimens of native silver, smaltite, and erythrite, from
the Cobalt mining district, Ontario, Canada: by Montague
Mahaffy, Esq.

Cordierite, fresh crystal in granite, from Ivybridge, Devon :
by Ff. P. Mennell, Esq.

Cassiterite, three crystals from Northern Nigeria: by Dr.
Richard Pearce.

Livingstonite from. Huitzuco, Mexico: by Sir Alexander
Pedler, C.LE., FURS.

Fibrolite, a transparent, pale-blue pebble, from Ceylon: by
Francis Powell, Esq.

Spodumene from Steinkopf, Little Namaqualand, South
Africa, and pipes of agalmatolite, worked by Hottentots, from
Little Namaqualand: by Dr. A. W. Rogers.

Specimens of sulphur from Poggio Orlando mine, Siena,
Italy : by Henry Ruffer, Esq.

About half the value of the large crystal of lilac-coloured
spodumene (p 205) from Pala Chief mine, San Diego Co,,
California: by Frank A. Salmons, Esq.

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DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 205

Kaminererite, two specimens from Nikka Vord, Unst, Shet-
land, and two of uvarovite from Baltasound, Shetland: by W.
G. W. Sandison, Esq.

Custerite (a new species described by the donor) from
Custer County, Idaho: by Dr. Waldemar T. Schaller.

Native copper from China, and natrolite from Colorado:
by Dr. W. R. Schoeller.

Augite crystals from Bail Hill, Dumfriesshire, described by
the donor: by Alexander Scott, Jr., Esq.

A series of mineral specimens collected by the donor, com-
prising heulandite, orthoclase, tale, apatite, albite, and tourma-
line from Cornwall, pectolite from Wales, and 1 labradorite from
Ireland, the last described by him in Mineralogical Magazine,
1912; vol. xvi, p. 267: by W. Campbell Smith, Esq.

A large specimen of stichtite with serpentine, from Zeehan,
Tasmania: by R. C. Sticht, Esq.

A faceted bluish-green spinel from Ceylon: by #. J. Wey
land, Esq.

Crystals of scheelite and wolframite from New South
Wales: by Franklin White, Esq.

Native silver, magnetite, and garnet from Tannu-ola Mts.,
Mongolia: by 8S. F. G. White, Esq.
_ Beekite with chalcedony and quartz crystals from Dundry
Hill, Bristol: by W H. Wickes, Esq.

Topaz, three crystals from Jos, Northern Nigeria: by A. S.
Williams, Esq.

Stichtite, three specimens from Zeehan, Tasmania: by Luke
Williams, Esq.

By Exchange :
Stannite from Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, Cornwall.

By Purchase:

Spodumene, a fine large crystal, clear and transparent, of
a rich lilac colour and markedly pleochroic, measuring
27°5 x 7 x 2 cm. and weighing 770°5 grams, from Pala Chief
mine, San Diego Co., California. (This specimen is a part
presentation from Frank A. Salmons, Esq., the president of
the mining company.) Also. from the same mine, smaller
erystals of pink spodumene embedded in a matrix of pegmatite.

Phlogopite, a large isolated crystal weighing 643 lb., from
Wakefield, Quebec, anne) a cleavage plate showing zonal banding
from Svoomtelh Burgess, Ontario.

Gold, a fine spray of crystallized gold springing from a
mass of quartz and embracing and partly enclosed in a clear
_ erystal of quartz, from Dalmatia mine, El Dorado Co., Cali-
fornia.

Hematite, an isolated tabular crystal measuring 9 ecm.
across, from the Ural Mts.

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Hopeite and tarbuttite, fine crystallized groups from Broken
Hill, North-Western Rhodesia.

Corundum (ruby), a group of crystals showing the unusual
association with brown tourmaline, from Upper Burma.

Apatite, an isolated, parallel grouping of crystals, transparent
and of a delicate mauve colour, measuring 8 x 4 x 3 cm., from
Untersulzbachtal, Salzburg. This specimen was described
and figured in ‘ Mineralogical Magazine,” vol. v, p. 198. (A
part presentation by F. N. A. Fleischmann, Esq.) Vanadinite as
distinct crystals from Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, anatase
from Brazil, schraufite, minium, euchroite as large crystals, and
chessylite from Laurion, Greece. (All from Mr. Kendall
Hazeldine’s collection.)

Beryl, four isolated crystais, clear and of pale emerald-green
colour, from Bom Jesus das Meiras, Bahia, Brazil.

Precious opal, three specimens representing a new find in
Humbolt Co., Nevada.

Rhodizite, an isolated crystal weighing 9°85 grams; a
doubly-terminated clear crystal of pink spodumene, 8 cm. in
length ; a well-shaped prism of dark green beryl; two isolated
crystals of clear, pale-yellow orthoclase; tscheffkinite ; stru-
verite, betafite, corundum, Wce., all from Madagascar.

Uraninite (pitchblende) a large crystal weighing 572 grams
from Uluguru Mts., German East Africa.

Sulphur, a fine, large, symmetrically-developed crystal
(10 x 9 x 8 em.) from Cianciana, Girgenti, Sicily.

Tridosmine, a nugget weighing 54°139 grams from Tasmania.

Cassiterite, a well-formed bipyramidal crystal, 6 cm. across,
from Randa, Northern Nigeria; and cassiterite from the
Belgian Congo.

Thortveitite, two specimens of this new species (a silicate
of scandium, yttrium, Wc.) ; also risdrite, cleveite, blomstrandite,
&e., all from Norway.

Leucophoenicite, hodgkinsonite, franklinite in cubes, zincite
crystals, pyrochroite crystals, and willemite as colourless
crystals, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey; harmotome
from Yonkers, New York; a cut sphere of rose-quartz from
Oxford County, Maine ; cuprodescloizite from Bisbee, Arizona ;
a large, well-formed crystal of microcline (amazon-stone) from
Pike’s Peak, Colorado; ludwigite from Philipsburg, Montana ;
a large mass of pollucite from Buckfield, Maine; spangolite
from Tintic, Utah; caledonite from Idaho; and various other
species to represent mineral occurrences in the United States of
North America.

Faceted gems of purple spinel, brown tourmaline, and green ~
tourmaline.

Mangan-idocrase and chrome-idocrase from Montreal Chrome
mine, Quebec; large rough crystals of eleolite with sodalite

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY. 207

from Bancroft, Ontario; spinel, sahlite, and other Canadian
minerals.

Finely crystallized specimens of calcite and barytes from
Cumberland and of fluor from Weardale, Co. Durham.

Beryl, a group of large rough crystals of a pale emerald-
green colour in mica-schist ; crystallized specimens of epidote,
magnetite, hematite, and other minerals from the Ural
Mountains.

Rocks.

By Presentation :

The series of rock specimens collected by the late Sir John
Richardson on Sir John Franklin’s second expedition in 1825-
27 to the shores of the Polar Sea, and described in an appendix
to Sir John Franklin’s narrative: by the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty, through Surgeon-General John J. Dennis
RS. |

Rock specimens and silicified wood from Reduccion, Para-
guay: by Chas. Stanley Barnes, Esq.

Specimens of hornblende-schist with garnet, and diamondi-
ferous rocks, from South Africa, mainly the northern Trans-
vaal: by J. Berry, Hsq.

Volcanic bombs and recent lava collected by the donor at
depths down to 1,212 feet inside the crater of Vesuvius: by
Frederick Burlingham, Esq.

Basalt from Castelo di Moio, Flores, Azores: by Col. F. A.
Chaves.

Rocks from South Georgia collected by Mr. P. Stammwitz
on the late Major G. EK. H. Barrett-Hamilton’s Expedition,
1913-4: by the Colonial Office, London.

Two polished slabs of verdite from Barberton district,
Transvaal, South Africa: by T. D. Cunningham, Esq.

Specimens of spherulitic felsite filled with agate, and of
pitchstone from Colle de Grane, Esterel Mts., Var, France: by
Dr. J. Drugman. ;

A series of thin sections and specimens of rocks described
by Prof. Judd and others, namely: rockallite from Rockall,
North Atlantic ; rocks from Scotland, the Ruby mines near
Mogok, Upper Burma, and Korea; thin sections of chips from
Stonehenge, Wiltshire; corundum rocks from India, ete.: by
the Governing Body of the Imperial College of Science and
Technology, London, at the request of Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B.,
FLR.S. (see p. 204).

Volcanic dust from south-west Alaska: by Rev. Canon J.
H. Keen.

Granite with cordierite from Ivybridge, Devonshire, and
andalusite-hornfels from Nodden Quarry, near Bridestowe
station, Devonshire: by F. P. Mennell, Esq.

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A series of twenty-four typical igneous rocks from the
Highwood Mtns., Montana, and from New Hampshire and
Arizona: by Prof. L. V. Pirsson.

Diamondiferous gravel from the Jiblong River. Liberia,
West Africa: by Henry Reeve, Esq.

Rock specimens from Avala, near Belgrade, Servia, and
from Co. Donegal and Co. Galway, Ireland: by Arthur Russell,
sq.

Rock specimens from Lokow, Hunan, Central China: by
Miss Kathleen V. Riley.

Davainite (a new rock type) from Garabal Hill, Dumbarton-
shire: by Alex. Scott, Ksq.

Rock specimens from Red Rock copper mine, Callanan Co.,
New South Wales: by Franklin White, Esq.

Four small rock specimens from Tannu-ola Mts., Mongolia:
by S. F. G. White, Esq.

Silicate-hornfels with andalusite, from SHER ADAte, Devon-
shire: by Dr. H. H. Young.

By Purchase:

A set of twenty-nine rock specimens, with the corresponding
micro-sections, from Nordingra district, Sweden.

A set of nine specimens of rocks and ores, with the corre-
sponding micro-sections, from the manganese ore deposits at
Brosteni, Roumania.

A set of thirty-six specimens of igneous rocks, with the
corresponding micro-sections, from various localities in the
United States.

Banded marble from Argyllshire ; rodingite from Nelson,
New Zealand ; ijolite from livaara, Finland ; and other miscel-
laneous specimens.

Meteorites.
By Presentation :

Kuttipuram, Malabar, India, a fragment weighing 25 grams
of the stone which fell on 6 April 1914: by Neville Priestley,
fisq.

Wittekrantz.—Beaufort West, Cape Colony, a fragment
weighing 70 grams of the smaller stone which fell on 9 Decem-
ber 1880: by the Director of the South African Museum, Cape
Town.

By Purchase: }

Mount Edith, Ashburton, Western Australia, an etched
slilic weighing 1,048 grams of the iron found in 1913: also a
model of the complete mass.

Toyah, Reeves Co., Texas, a fragment weighing 41 grams of
this iron.

The above meteorites belong to falls hitherto unrepresented
in the Museum Collection.

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VIII.— Donations of Duplicates.

Duplicate specimens of minerals have been given to the
‘Museum of the Borough of Colne, Lancashire, a duplicate cast
of the Daniel’s Kuil meteorite to the Director of the South
African Museum, Cape Town, and a duplicate specimen of Blue
Ground to Mr. C. Maitland.

LX.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits recorded as made to the Department
for the purposes of consultation or study is 717. Many
specimens of minerals and rocks have been determined for
visitors and correspondents.

X.—- Demonstrations.

A demonstration on gem-stones in the collection has been
given to members of the Wimbledon Natural History Society.

G. T. Prior,

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DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY.

IL—Arrangement and Conservation.

During the past year 32,025 specimens have been incor-
porated with the Herbarium. This number includes 27,200
Flowering Plants, 1,735 Vascular Cryptogams, 48 Mosses,
23 Hepaties, 1,193 Lichens, 1,354 Algz, and 472 Fungi.

Flowering Plants.—Additions acquired during the year by
donation, purchase and exchange, have been mounted and
incorporated wholly or in part. Progress has been made with
the determination, selection, and incorporation of the early
Australian and other collections, and outstanding specimens
have been determined and incorporated in various families,
especially Melastomacee, Samydacexe, Combretaceze, Umbelli-
feree, Vacciniacee, Convolvulacee, Boraginacee, Solanacee,
Scrophulariacee, Bignoniacee, Verbenacez, Labiatze, Planta-
ginacee, and Lauracez.

Work of revision and re-arrangement has been done in
various families especially Melastomacee, Vacciniacee, Gentian-
aceze, and in several genera, especially Oxalis, Crotalaria, and
Veronica.

The separation, revision, and re-arrangement of the European
specimens, and the incorporation of outstanding material, has
been continued to the end of the family Composite.

Ferns and Mosses.—Yhe selection and incorporation of out-
standing collections of Ferns has been continued, and various
collections from Madeira have been determined and selected.
Progress has been made with the incorporation of various
collections of Indian Mosses.

Alge.—Various published sets have been incorporated and
progress has been made with the re-arrangement of the Floridez,
including the incorporation of outstanding material,

Fungi and Lichens.—In the general collection all out-
standing specimens have been incorporated in the Phycomy-
cetes, and to a great extent also in the Pyrenomycetes. The
Polyporaceze have been re-arranged. All outstanding British
specimens have been incorporated, and the Discomycetes have
been revised. Progress has been made with the revision and
incorporation of the British Lichens.

Mycetozoa.— With the assistance of Miss G. Lister, various
new collections have been prepared for incorporation.

Exhibition Serves.—The revision of the large exhibition
cases in the Public Gallery has been continued; several cases
have been cleaned and repainted, the specimens cleaned or
replaced and the labels revised ; various additions have also
been made. Progress has been made with the preparation of
specimens for a re-arrangement of the portion illustrating the
Algz, and with the exhibition of the British Seaweeds. In the
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Liverworts has been completed and progress made with the
‘preparation for the exhibition of Alge. A scheme has been
prepared for the Botanical portion of the new General Exhibi-
tion to be placed in the Hall.

Catalogues and Guides.—A second part of the Flora of
Jamaica by Mr. W. Fawcett and Dr. Rendle has been pub-
lished, and progress has been made with the preparation of the
text and illustrations for a third part. Progress has been made
with the preparation of the Catalogue of the Sloane Herbariwm
hy Mr. J. Britten, and with the revision of the first volume of
the Catalogue of British Lichens and the preparation of a
guide to the exhibition of British Lichens by Miss Annie
Lorrain Smith.

Il.—I nvestigation.

Collections have been determined wholly or in part
from the following localities and collectors :—- New Guinea
(Wollaston expedition), Angola (Gossweiler), South Nigeria
(Amaury Talbot), Uganda (Diimmer), Soudan tLynes), Chile
(Calvert), New Caledonia (Compton), and various smaller
collections from different localities.

Dr. Rendle has devoted some time to the study of the
Tropical African species of the family Moracez, and Mr. W.
Faweett and Dr. Rendle have continued their work on the
Jamaica species of the families of Dicotyledons. Mr. Baker
has studied monographically the genera Nanoleona, Indigofera
(Tropical African species), and Plantago (British species). Dr.
Wernham has continued his work on various genera of the
family Rubiacez, and Mr. Wilmott has made a critical study
of various European genera and species. Mr. Gepp_ has
investigated small collections of Algz from the Antarctic and
South Georgia ; and Mr. Ramsbottom has described a number
of new British Microfungi contained in the collections or sent
by correspondents for investigation ; he has also, by permission,
investigated for the Local Government Board the relation
between Mucor racemosus and Hmpusa Musce.

Assistance has been given to numerous British and foreign
workers engaged on special investigations, and many specimens
and small collections have been determined for collectors and
students.

In connection with work done in the Department, specimens
have been generously lent by the Director of the Royal
Gardens, Kew; the Regius Keeper of Botany, Edinburgh ;
the Bristol Museum; the Government of Jamaica; and the
Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Museum, Berlin.

Undetermined material has been lent for study and deter-
mination as follows:—35 specimens of H. O. Forbes’s New
Guinea plants to Mr. H.N. Ridley; 1 specimen of Oxalis from
Brazil to the Director of the Botanical Department, Riksmus-
eets, Stockholm; 2 specimens of Xyris from Australia to
Dr. G. Malme, Stockholm; 77 Indian specimens to Mr. S. T.

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Dunn; 53 specimens of Orobanche to the Director, Botanic
Garden, Prague; 50 specimens of Annona to Mr. W. E, Safford, -
’ Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.; 147
specimens of Crassulacee to M. Raymond Hamet; 46 speci-
mens of Bidens to Prof. J. M. Coulter, University of Chicago:
36 specimens of Thesiwm and 11 Thymeleaceex from South
Africa to the Director, Royal Gardens, Kew ; and 20 specimens
of Mycetozoa to Miss G. Lister.

IIl.—Departmental Library.

1. Avrangement, Cataloguing, and Pressmarking.—The
registering, stamping, and cataloguing of additions to the
library and other routine work has been carried out. Depart-
mental assistance in connection with the Catalogue of
the Library published by the Trustees has been continued.
Additions to the Plate and Autograph Collections: have been
mounted and incorporated. Four presses have been placed
in the New Herbarium, and a selection of books on European
botany has been transferred to them. Sowerby’s drawings
for the “English Botany,” which were formerly kept in
herbarium cabinets, have been accommodated in a new window-
press in the Library.

2. Accessions.—The additions during the year have been,
by donation, 90 volumes, 199 pamphlets; by purchase,
103 volumes—in all, 193 volumes and 199 pamphlets. These
numbers include 20 periodicals in 296 parts, presented, and
61 periodicals in 442 parts, purchased—in ali 81 periodicals in
738 parts.

The following is a list of the principal donors :—Oakes Ames,
A.M., F.L.S.; M. Perrier dela Bathie; Dr. G. E.C. Beauvisage ;
The Minister for the Colonies, Belgium; Royal Botanical
Society, Belgium; Director, Botanic Gardens, Berlin; Georg
Bitter, Esq.; Rev. E. Blatter, S.J.; Dr. F. C. E. Bergesen ;
G. S. Boulger, F.L.S.; T. 8S. Brandegee, B.S. ; Direetor,
Botanical Office, Victoria, British Columbia; J. Britten, F.L.S. ;
Director, Botanic Gardens, Brussels; Dept. of Agriculture of
the Dutch East Indies, Buitenzorg; Director, Botanical Survey
of India, Calcutta ; Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta ;
Trustees, Bolus Herbarium & Library, Cape Town; J. Cash,
Ksq.; Director of Agriculture, Ceylon; Miller Christy, F.L.S. ;
Crown Agents for the Colonies; G. C. Crick, F.G.S. ; C. Cross-
land, F.L.S. ; Prof. H. H. Dixon, D.Sc. ; Regius Keeper, Royal
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; Prof. A. J. Ewart, D.Sc., Ph.D. ;
W. Faweett, B.Sc. ; Curator, Dept. of Botany, Field Museum,
Chicago; Dr. Robert E. Fries; M.A. Guillaumin; Dr. Hans
Hallier; M. Raymond Hamet;’ Prof. J. W. Harshberger ;
Dr. Bunzo Hayata; R. Selby Hole, F.L.S.; the late Dr. J.
Huber; Prof. T. Johnson, D.Se.; Col. H. H. Johnston, C.B.;
Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Frau A. Koorders-
Schumacher; Miss C. E. Larter, F.L.S.; Prof. Henri Lecomte ;
Director, Rijks Herbarium, Leiden ; C.G, Lloyd, Esq.; Linnean

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Society, London ; Royal Botanic Society, London; Royal Horti-
cultural Society, London; R. Marloth, Ph.D.; E. D. Merrill,
M.S. ; Directcr, Missouri Botanic Garden, St. Louis; Spencer
Moore, B.Se.; W. A. Nicholson, Esq.; Nederlandsche Botanische
Vereeniging, Nijmegen; Director, Dept. of Mines, Geological
Survey, Ottawa, Canada; Mrs. H. Perrin; Director, Agricul-
tural Research Institute, Pusa, Bengal; Dr. A. B. Rendle,
F.R.S.; H. N. Ridley, C.M.G., F.RS.; W. EK. Safford, Esq. ;
C. E. Salmon, F.L.S.; Director, Imperial Academy of Science,
St. Petersburg; Prof. C. 8. Sargent; C. D. Sherborn, F.Z.S.,
A.L.S.; Director, Raffles Museum, Singapore ; Editor, Agricul-
tural Journal of the Union of 8. Africa, Pretoria; Kungliga
Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademien, Stockholm; Walter T. Swingle,
Ksq.; Director, Botanic Gardens, Sydney, N.S.W.; Tokyo
Botanical Society, Tokyo; Director, Botanic Gardens, Utrecht ;
Director, Dept. Botanical Research, Carnegie Institute,
Washington, D.C.; U.S. National Museum, Washington ;
Watson Botanical Exchange Club ; and Director, Botanic
Garden and Museum, Ziirich.

The following donations other than books have been
received :—A collection of about 200 original drawings of
Asiatic and N. American plants, by various artists, was pre-
sented by Hon. Mrs. Wm. Feilding; 28 original drawings of
plants, mainly Cycads, formerly the property of James Yates
(1789--1871), were presented by the President and Council of
the Linnean Society.

3. Binding.—166 volumes, including one of the Sloane
Herbarium, have been bound and several others repaired.

LV.—Publications.

(1) Issued by the Trustees—Flova of Jamaica, Vol. III.,
Dicotyledons, Part I. B Mr. W. Fawcett and Dr. Rendle.

A Monograph of the Genus Sabicea. By Dr. Wernham.

(2) Issued by the permission of the Trustees.—Bambusez
in. Plante Wilsoniane. By Dr. Rendle. (Arnold Arboretum
Publication. Edited by C. 8S. Sargent.)

Plants from the Eket District, S. Nigeria, collected by
Mr. and Mrs. P. Amaury Talbot. By Dr. Rendle, li. G. Baker,
S. Moore, and Dr. Wernham. (Journal of Botany.)

A New Annona from Jamaica. By Dr. Rendle and Mr. W.
Fawcett. (Journal of Botany.)

‘Notes on Jamaican Species of Capparis. By Dr, Rendle and
Mr. W. Faweett. (Journal of Botany.)

A Contribution to the Flora and Plant Formations of Mount
Kinabalu and the Highlands of British North Borneo. Phanero-
gam.—-By Miss L. 8. Gibbs, assisted by 8. Moore, Dr. Rendle,
Mr. H. N. Ridley, Mr. R. A. Rolfe, Dr. O. Stapf, and Mr. W. B.
Turvill. Pteridophyta and Bryopbyta—-By A. Gepp. Fungi
and Lichens.--By Miss A. Lorrain Smith. Algee (marine),—By

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Mrs. E.S. Gepp. Algz (fresh-water).—-By Mr. W. West and
Mr. H. Groves. (Journal of Linnean Society. )

The African Species of Crotalaria. By E. G. Baker.
(Journal of Linnean Society.)

New Rubiaceze from Tropical America, IV—V. By
Dr. Wernham. (Journal of Botany.)

The Musseendas of Madagascar. By Dr. Wernham. (Journal
of Botany.)

Enumeration of T. A. Sprague’s South American Plants:
Gamopetale. By Dr. Wernham. (Kew Bulletin.)

Alabastra Diversa, Parts XXIV and XXV. ByS. Moore.
(Journal of Botany.)

Three New Compositz from Peru. By S. Moore and Mr. A.
H. Moore. (Journal of Botany.)

A New Species of Discinella. By J. Ramsbottom. (Journal
of Botany.)

Notes on the Nomenclature of some Rusts. By J. Rams-
bottom. (Transactions, British Mycological Society.)

A List of the British Species ot Discomycetes arranged
according to Boudier’s System with a Key to the Genera. By
By J. Ramsbottom. (Transactions, British Mycological
Society.)

— Puccinia Smyrnv. By J. Ramsbottom. (Journal of
Botany.)

New or Rare Microfungi. By J. Ramsbottom and Miss A.
Lorrain Smith. (Transactions, British Mycological Society.)

An Investigation of Mr. Hesse’s work on the supposed
Relationship of Empusa Musce and Mucor racemosus. By J.
Ramsbottom. (Reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects,
Local Government Board.)

(3) By Students of the Collections other than Members of
the Staf.—- Romulea Columne. By Mr. J. Britten. (Journal
of Botany.):

Lecanora isidioides Nyl. in the New Forest. By Mr. RB.
Paulson. (Journal of Botany.)

Hypericum Desetangsvi. By Mr. C. E. Salmon. (Journal
of Botany.)

Silene rigida Banks & Sol. By Mr. F. N. Williams.
(Journal of Botany.)

Gibraltar Plants. By Major A. H. Wolley-Dod. (Journal
of Botany.)

A Flora of Gibraltar and the Neighbourhood. By Major
A. H. Wolley-Dod. (Journal of Botany.)

Miscellanea Bryologica, iii. By Mr. H. N. Dixon. (Journal
of Botany.)

Report on the Mosses of the Abor Expedition, 1911-12,
By Mr. H. N. Dixon. (Records, Botanieal Survey of India.) |

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Report cn the Mosses collected by Mr. C. E. C. Fischer and
others from South India and Ceylon. By Mr. H. N. Dixon.
(Records, Botanical Survey of India.)

Studies in the Bryology of New Zealand, Part ii. By Mr.
H. N. Dixon. (Bulletin, New Zealand Institute.) .

V.— Acquisitions.

(1) By Donation.

Additions to the British Herbarium have been received from
the following donors:—The Council of the South London
Botanical Institute, seeds of 9 species, mainly British; A.
Bennett, Esq., 4 Phanerogams; J. E. Cooper, Esq., 9 species
of Alien plants; J. Gaskill, Esq , a small collection of Lichens,
mostly British ; Rev. H. G. Jameson, 285 microscope-prepara-
tions of Hepatice ; Miss G. Lister, 12 Mycetozoa; J. E. Little,
Esq., 44 Phanerocams; Mrs. A. McCutcheon, 17 Vascular
Cryptogams, collected by the Misses D’Arcy; Rev. E. S. Mar-
shall, 179 Phanerogams; Major-General J. B. Richardson, 2
Phanerogams and 8 Cryptogams, collected by Sir John
Richardson; C. E. Salmon, Esq., 25 Phanerovams; W. R.
Sherrin, Esq, 2 Mosses from Cricksea, Essex; H. Stuart
Thompson, Esq., 86 Mosses (mostly British) and a Hepatic ;
also.single specimens from H. A. Britten, Esq.; W. Howard,
Hsq.; Miss L. Lyle; and Lieut. J. W. J. Raikes, R.E.

The following donations have been made to the General
Herbarium :—

Europe.

Prof. I. Douin, 2 Mosses and 10 Hepatics from France ;
Mrs. A. McCutcheon, 3 Vascular Cryptogams; H. Stuart
Thompson, Esq., 46 Phanerogams from Department Var,

France ; also single specimens from H. N. Dixon, Esq., and
Ifon. N. C. Rothschild.

Asia.

The Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh,
531 Phanerogams collected in Western China by H. E Maire,
and 1,408 Phanerogams and 33 Cryptogams collected in
Yunnan, Western China, by G. Forrest; J. C. Christie, Esq., a
transverse section of Olive-wood from Jerusalem ; H. N. Dixon,
Esq., 16 Hepaticee, mostly from India; H. C. Robinson, Esq.
(through H. N. Ridley, Esq.), 91 Phanerogams and 3 Ferns
from Selangor, 17 Orchids from Gunong Mengkuang, and 62
Phanerogams and 7 Ferns from Gunong Kerbau; and a
Chinese specimen from the Director, Royal Gardens, Kew.

Africa.

The Trustees of the Perey Sladen Memorial Fund, 698 plants
collected in South West Africa by Prof. H. H. W. Pearson,
Miss R. Glover, and others; Lieut. G. St. J. Orde Browne,
91 Phanerogams and 5 Vascular Cryptogams from Mt. Kenya,

16 - ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

British East Africa; R. H. Bunting, Esq, 100 Phanerogams,
1 Fern, and 6 tubes of Freshwater Algze from Sierra Leone;
Mrs. M. E. Prescott-Decie, 184 Phanerogams and 7 Cryptogams
from British East Africa ; Capt. H.G. Lynes, 145 Phanerogams
3 Vascular Cryptogams, and 11 tubes of Diatoms, collected in
the Nile and Red Sea Province; Mrs. A. McCutcheon, 39
Vascular Cryptogams collected in Madeira by the Misses
D’Arcy ; Dr. R. Marloth, 4 South African plants; R. E. Massey,
Esq., 24 plants from the Sudan; the Hon. Walter Rothschild,
F.R.S., 110 plants from South West, and 12 from Central,
Algeria; T. A. Sprague, Esq., and J. Hutchinson, Esq., 3 plants
from Madeira; Mr. and Mrs. P. Amaury Talbot, 141 Phanero-
gams from Degema, Southern Nigeria; Capt. N. R. Wilkinson,
42 species of Vascular Cryptogams, collected in Madeira by the
late N. H. Mason; Miss E. 8. Youngs, specimens and drawing
of Stapelia flavirostris from Orange River Colony.

Australasia.

W.M. Cole, Esq.,a small collection of New Zealand Crypto-
gams; M'ss Mary Delprat, 88 Australian plants; Miss J. Hey-
wood, 18 Lichens and 1 Moss from New Zealand; Dr. A. B.
Rendle, 99 Phanerogams, a spike of Xanthorrhaa quadrangu-
lata, and a ball of fibres of Posidonia australis from South
Australia, 24 Phanerogams from Victoria, 14 Phanerogams from
New South Wales, and 51 Cryptogams, and 3 tubes of Fresh-
water Algw from South Australia, Victoria, and New Zealand ;
O. Sargent, Esq., 8 species of Stylidium from West Australia ;
Dr. F. Stoward, 26 Phanerogams from West Australia; and
single specimens from H. N. Dixon, Esq., and R. E. Turner, Esq.

Oceania.

The Committee and Subscribers of the Wollaston Expedition
to Dutch New Guinea, 1,714 Phanerogams, 189 Vascular
Cryptogams and 1 Hepatic, collected by C. B. Kloss,

America.

The Colonial Secretary, through the Director of Agricul-
ture, Jamaica, 9 Phanerogams from Jamaica; the Councils of the
British Association and the Zoological Society of London, 17
Phanerogams and 72 Cryptogams, mostly collected in South
Georgia by P.Stammwitz during the Barrett-Hamilton Expedi-
tion; the Hon. Cecil Baring, 29 Phanerogams and 6 Ferns from
Brazil; A. Bennett, Esq., 283 Waterweeds, mostly American ;
Miss A. Calvert, 408 Phanerogams and 87 Cryptogams from
Central Chile; Mrs. A. McCutcheon, 9 species of West Indian
fruits ; H. Edwards, Esq., specimens cf Attalea fruits from
Colombia; H. O. Forbes, Esq., 100 Phanerogams and 14 Crypto-
gams from Peru; L. R. Wheeler, Esq., 37 Phanerogams and
1 Fern from Antigua, West Indies; 8S. J. Wigley, Esq., 25 phcto-
evaphs of Canadian plants; and single specimens from A. H.
Maude, Esq., H. Clinton Baker, Esq., Miss E. F. Noel, and the
Superintendent of the Department of Agriculture of Barbados,

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Cultivated Plants.

Dr. E. 8. Blaker, 6 Phanerogams ; R. Grove, Esq., specimens
of abnormal pears; W. KE. Ledger, Esq., 15 Phanerogams ;
Messrs. H. b. May & Sons, 96 exhibition specimens of Nephro-
lepis and other Fern fronds; Hon. N. C. Rothschild, 16 species
of Orchids; and single specimens from Dr. E. C. Bousfield and
W. T. Swingle, Esq.

General.
Miss G. Lister, 49 Herbarium specimens and 37 Microscope-

preparations of exotic Mycetozoa; Mrs. R. H. Middleton, 92 hand-
sections of Woods from Ceylon and elsewhere.

(2) By Purchase.
British Isles.

The Botanical Exchange Club, 309 Phanerogams (through
G. C. Druce); Rev. W. Johnson, 40 specimens, being The North
of England Lichen-Herbarium, Fase. XII; Rev. E. F. Linton,
12 speciinens of Willows; W. H. Pearson, 941 Hepaticze ; Lloyd
Praeger, 684 Irish plants (through R. Welch).

Hurope.

Through Dulaw & Co.—O. Jaap, 25 Fungi selecti exsiccati.
ser. XXVII, and 20 Myxomycetes exsiceati, ser. VIII; J. E.
Kabat and F. Bubaék, 50 Fungi Imperfecti exsiccati, fase. XVI ;
K. W. Krieger, 50 Fungi Saxonici exsiccati, fase. XLVI; J.
Mikutowicz, 611 Mosses, Bryotheca Baltica, lief. XI-XIV, and
Nachtrag, lief. I-X; V. Schiffner, 200 Hepaticee Europzexe
exsiccate, series X—XIII; G. Seefeldner, 30 Algae Adriatice,

fase. III; T. Vestergren, 100 Micromycetes rariores selecti,
fase. LXIX--LXXIT.

Through T. O. Weigel. —A. Fiori and A. Béguinot, Flora
Italica exsiccata, cent. XIX, XX, and 10 micro-sections of

Woods; A. von Hayek, 50 Centauree exsiccate critica,
fase. IT.

From the Publisners. — %. Collinder, 30 Rosze Suecize
exsiccatee, fase. I; H. Dahlstedt, 54 Taraxaca Scandinavica.
fase. IIY; F. Petrak, 140 specimens, Cirsiotheca Universa
(mostly European), fase. I-XIV, also 1,250 Cryptogams,
Flora Bohemiz et Moravie exsiccata, series II, being Abt. I,
Pilze, lief. I-XXI (1,050 Fungi), and Abt. III, Moose,
lief. I-IV (200 Mosses); H. Sudre, Batotheca ‘Europea,
fase XII, 50 specimens, and Herbarium Hieraciorum, fase.
IV, 50 specimens.

Asia.

Arnold Arboretum, U.S.A., 1,248 Phanerogams and 11 Ferns
collected in China by E. H. Wilson; Rev. J. Gurney Barclay,
174 Japanese Ferns; A. D. E. Elmer, 660 Phanerogams and
189 Cryptogams from the Philippine Islands ; W. Siehe, Flora
Orientalis, 148 selected specimens from Asia Minor,

218 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Africa.

D. A. Bannerman, 19 Phanerogams and 1 Lichen from
Eastern Canary Islands; E. Chiovenda, Flora della Colonia
Eritrea, cent. III, 1V, prepared by A. Pappi; A. R. Dummer,
717 Phanerogams and 83 Cryptogams from Uganda; E. Gilg,
383 Phanerogams collected in the Cameroons by G. Zenker ;
C. Steyer, 768 Phanerogams and 32 Cryptogams collected in
South Angola by J. Gossweiler ; F. Wilms, 238 Phanerogams
and 6 Cryptogams collected in Natal by H. Rudatis, and 197
Phanerogams and 1 Cryptogain from Nyassa, collected by
A. Stolz.

Oceania.
J. E. Tilden, South Pacific Plants, 392 Phanerogams and
103 Cryptogams.

America.

EK. Bartholomew, 300 Fungi Columbiani, cent. XLIII-XLYV,
and 300 North American Uredinales, cent. IX-XI; T. §S
Brandegee, 312 Phanerogams and 68 Vascular Cryptogams
collected in Mexico by C. A. Purpus; A. Brinkman, 177 Mosses
and 19 Hepatics from British Columbia; W. E. Broadway,
90 Phanerogams and 10 Vascular Cryptogams from Tobago,
West Indies (through Mrs. E. J. Broadway); Collins, Holden,
& Setchell, 50 Algz, Phycotheca Boreali-Americana, fase.
XXXIX (through Dulau & Co,); K. Fiebrig, 306 Phanerogams
and 31 Cryptogams from Paraguay (through P. Weber);
T. Herzog, 198 Mosses from Bolivia (through T. O. Weigel) ;
J. Macoun, 223 Canadian Cryptogams; C. Skottsberg, 220
Mosses and 184 Hepatics from Temperate South America;
A. Tonduz, 74 Phanerogams and 26 Vascular Cryptogams from
Costa Rica.

General.

Through Dulau & Co.—H. Rehm, 66 Fungi, Ascomycetes
exsiccati, fasc. LIV, LV ; H. Sydow, 100 Fungi exotici exsiccati,
fase. iV, WIL.

W. H. Pearson, 270 Hepaticae (European, American, and
Asiatic); A. Zahlbruchner, 22 Lichenes rariores exsiccati (Nos.
166-187).

. (3) By Hachange of Duplicates.

Oakes: Ames, 127 Orchids from the Philippine Islands;
Director, Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts,
86 Mexican Pines, collected by G. R. Shaw; Director, Royal
Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, 65 Asiatic plants; Curator, National
Museum, Melbourne, Victoria, 75 Australian plants; Director,
Botanical Garden, New York, 144 Phanerogams, mostly from
Jamaica; Director Herbarium, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle,
Paris, 1,069 Phanerogams and 104 Vascular Cryptogams, from
Tropical Africa, China, New Caledonia, and Brazil; Curator,
Department of Botany, Riksmuseets, Stockholm, 96 Temperate

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South American Grasses; Director, National Herbarium,
Sydney, New South Wales, 95 Australian plants; Curator
U.S. National Museum, Washington, 200 American Grasses,
collected by A. 5S. Hitchcock.

VI.— Donation of Duplicates.

A set of Wilson’s British Mosses, comprising 500 specimens
has been presented to the South London Botanical Institute,
Norwood Road, S.E.

Vil.—Students and Visitors.

The number of visits to the Department for consultation
and research during the year was 3,164.

VIII.--Demonstrations.

Demonstrations on the collections have been given by Dr.
Rendle to members of the South London Botanical Institute, by
Mr. Baker to members of the Toynbee Hall Natural History
Society, and by Mr. Ramsbottom to members of the Natural
History Society of the South-Western Polytechnic.

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