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IN connexion with the gorilla group to be arranged in the Upper Mammal Gallery, the British Museum (Natural History) has received from Mr. Reginald Akroyd a quantity of vegetation collected during a trip which he made for this purpose to the Birunga Mountains, Uganda, last winter. This vegetation consists of sections of trees, boughs of giant heaths and giant groundsels, a number of giant lobelias, ferns and tree-ferns, and a large quantity of the arboreal lichen which is so characteristic a feature of these mountain forests. The Zoological Department has recently received as a donation from the Rowland Ward Trustees a female specimen of a rare howling monkey (Alouatta ursina) from Brazil. A male, presented by the same donors some years ago, is bright orange-red in colour, whereas the female is brown. Isolated crystals of native gold from alluvial deposits on the Muti stream, Buhwezhu county, Uganda, have been presented to the Department of Minerals by Mr. Michael Moses. Two minerals new to science have been presented, namely, lusakite, a new mineral composed of cobalt and aluminium silicate, from 120 miles east of Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia, by Mr. A. C Skerl, and bismuth tungstate, from Cornwall, by Mr. E. H. Davison.
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Recent Acquisitions at the Natural History Museum. Nature 133, 680–681 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133680d0
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