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AN important donation to the Zoological Department of the British Museum (Natural History) is a gift from the Rowland Ward Trustees of a mounted head of a female oddax (Addax nasomaculatua) from the Sudan. An abnormal elephant tusk from Uganda has been presented by Mr. George Howard, of the Queen's Bays. This tusk is of interest as showing an early stage in the formation of the so-called ‘four-tusked elephant’. Another donation of interest is that of three skulls of the so-called dwarf elephant from the Gola Forest in Sierra Leone, the gift of Sir Arnold Hodson, the Governor of Sierra Leone. These specimens would seem to substantiate the theory that this animal, known locally as the ‘Sumbi’, is merely the young phase of what has been termed the ‘forest’ elephant, which may be known by the name Elephaf africanus cyclotis. There has been presented to the Department of Geology a largo and valuable collection of type and figured specimens of.rhinoceroses from the lower Tertiary beds of Baluchistan, described and figured by the donor, Mr. C. Forstcr Cooper; a large collection of fossil invertebrates from the United States, collected and presented by Miss Mary S. Johnston, and type specimens of three fossil fishes described by Prof. H. H. Swinnerton, and presented by him. An interesting collection of 727 pebbles, illustrating forms, origins, and materials, has been presented to the Department of Minerals by Mr. E. J. Dunnof Melbourne, who commenced collecting so long ago as 1856.
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Recent Acquisitions at the Natural History Museum. Nature 133, 978 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133978b0
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