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MAJOR P. H. G. Po WELL -COTTON has presented to the Department of Zoology a collection of mammals, mostly large ungulates (including skins and skeletons), shot in the Sudan by him during his recent expedition in North-East Africa. This series of specimens is of exceptional interest as each one has a perfect skeleton, including a Sudani Giant Eland. There have been two notable additions in the Department of Geology; one, a slab, 8 ft. high, containing a reconstructed group of palm leaves, from the Tertiary beds of Italy, presented by the Right Hon. Lord Rothschild; the other a small but select assemblage of British fossil vertebrates, collected by Mr. S. L. Wood, and presented by him, including Eocene mammalian and bird remains from the Isle of Wight and Liassic reptiles from Dorsetshire and Yorkshire. Presents to the Department of Minerals include crystallised sprays of native gold from the City Deep mine, Witwatersrand, from the directors of the Central Mining and Investment Corporation, Ltd.; and tektites (billitonites) from Billiton, Dutch East Indies, presented by Engineer R. J. van Lier. A large series of rocks and minerals has been collected for the Department by Mr. W. Campbell Smith in the United States and in Canada, and material was also selected by him from the duplicates of the United States National Museum and the United States Geological Survey.
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Acquisitions at the British Museum (Natural History). Nature 132, 850 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132850c0
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