Abstract
AMONGST recent accessions to the Zoological De partment of the British Museum (Natural History) is a valuable collection of mammals, including a large series of duikers and some specimens of the giant forest hog, which has been received from Mr. G. Foster, assistant game warden of Uganda. A small collection of important Russian mammals, which has been received in exchange from the Moscow Museum, contains specimens of Dipus, Spalax, Citellus, Ocho-tona, Alactagulus, and Cricetulus. As a gift from the trustees of the estate of the late Mrs. Mary Joicey, the Department of Entomology has received the most valuable present of butterflies and moths to reach it since the War. The collection comprises more than 300,000 specimens and includes the types of 3,000, descriptions of which were published in the main in the Bulletin of the Hill Museum. During his life-time, the late J. J. Joicey probably did more to stimulate the study of butterflies and moths, especially those of Africa, than any other private individual in Great Britain. The Department of Geology has received the skull of a child, about six years old, of the extinct Neanderthal race, discovered by Miss Garrod in 1926 in a cave near the Devil's Tower, Gibraltar.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Recent Acquisitions at the Natural History Museum. Nature 133, 490 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133490b0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133490b0