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ACQUISITIONS for the Department of Zoology include a series of elephant skulls from the Gola Forest, Sierra Leone, the gift of His Excellency the Governor of Sierra Leone. These skulls are of great scientific value as they demonstrate the existence of a small race of elephant in West Africa. Dr. G. H. Hodman has presented a series of stereoscopic radiographs of Mollusca shells for exhibition. Among the donations to the Department of Geology is a large collection from Miss M. S. Johnston, mainly of Silurian fossils from England and Norway. A portion of a meteoric stone which fell on July 8, 1932, at Kahrapar, Jaunpur, United Provinces, India, has been presented to the Department of Minerals by Mr. H. Minson. A collection of Coleoptera belonging to the family Curculionidse and numbering approximately 40,000 specimens, has been deposited in the Department of Entomology as a “permanent loan” by the Hawaiian Sugar-planters' Association of Honolulu. The collection, which is representative of the weevils of every part of the world, was brought together by the late Dr. David Sharp, after his first and largest collection of beetles had been acquired by the Museum in 1905. His British collection was acquired in 1932.
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Recent Acquisitions of the British Museum (Natural History). Nature 131, 795 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131795b0
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