Abstract

AMONGST recent acquisitions to the Zoological Department are the skin and skull of a forest hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni) from the Aberdare Mountains, Kenya Colony, presented by Mr. W. B. Cotton. Other additions include four wild cats from Argyllshire, presented by Mr. Ernest Baker, a lion skin from British Somaliland, presented by Mr. F. J. E. Manners Smith, the skin of a genet from Mpika, Northern Rhodesia, presented by Capt. C. R. P. Henderson, and the skin and skull of a tahr (Hemitragus hylocrius) from the Nilgiri Hills, presented by Major E. G. Phythian-Adams. Among the purchases are two hundred mammals and birds from Jugoslavia, a country from which the Museum possesses very little material. The Mineral Department has received by gift from Mr. S. R. Mitchell crystals and platy aggregates of the hydrous magnesium phosphate, newberyite, from the guano deposits of the Skipton Caves, near Ballarat, Victoria, and from Capt. R. S. Pain a fine collection of doubly terminated quartz crystals, variously coloured, from a gypsum hill in the Salt Range, Punjab. Asbestos has been presented by Mr. L. G. Brandon-Fleming from India, and by the Griqualand Exploration and Finance Co. from its mines in Griqualand West. Lady Kleinwort has given a fine stalactite from the Mammoth Caves in Kentucky. The purchases include a magnificent group of crystals of tarnowitzite, the variety of aragonite containing lead carbonate, from Tsumeb in South-West Africa, and a large group and a large twin plate of selenite, the crystallised form of gypsum.

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