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AMONG the donations received by the Zoological Department during the last month have been two collections of Indian game trophies, presented by Lieut.-General Sir Henry Keary and Lieut.-Colonel Sir Armine Brereton Dew. The first of these collections consists of a number of mounted heads, mostly from Burma, while the second comprises a number of skulls and horns of Kashmir sheep, markhor and ibex. Eleven hundred specimens of birds, collected by the late Capt. Boyd Alexander in Central and West Africa, have been acquired from his heir. Capt. Boyd Alexander had during his lifetime presented to the Museum the greater part of the collections made during his extensive travels. The Mineral Department has been presented by the Otago University Museum with a cast of the meteoric stone that was found at Morven, South Canterbury, New Zealand, together with a piece of the original. From Tanganyika Territory have come platy crystals of hematite given by Mr. G. W. Cradduck and apatite crystals given by Mr. H. R. Ruggles-Brise. Mr. O. Ivan Lee has presented a carefully selected piece of radioactive fluorescent and phosphorescent lyalite from North Carolina, and Dr. H. A. Ford a specimen with small brilliant crystals of the new mineral lindgrenite from Chile. Mr. T. H. Manning has presented a series of rocks collected by him in Southampton Island, Canada, in 1934-35. A fine specimen of lapis lazuli from the Badakshan district, Afghanistan, showing large, well-shaped crystals of lazulite with pyrite, and a rhomb of the doubly refracting spar recently found in South West Africa have been purchased. A general collection of about three hundred specimens, including some from the Exhibition of 1851, and various rocks originally described by Prof. H. L. Reynolds and Mr. H. J. Gardiner have been bought. The purchases also include two cut colourless phena-kites from Brazil.
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Recent Acquisitions at the Natural History Museum. Nature 137, 355–356 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137355d0
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