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THE British Museum (Natural History) has received as a donation from Lord Sudeley the skins of three Colobus monkeys froom Mount Kenya, Colobus polykomos kikuyuensis. One of the specimens is of exceptional interest, being nearly a full albino, the only black hairs remaining being a few scattered hairs on the back and a small V-shaped marking on the crown of the head. These specimens came from close to Nanyuki, situated on the equator on the western slopes of Mt. Kenya at an elevation of about 8,000–9,000 ft. These white or semi-white Colobus monkeys apparently belong to one family group, as they are all found in one very restricted locality on Mt. Kenya. Lord Sudeley shot the specimens himself and reports that the eyes were of normal colour and not the eyes of an albino. Lord Moyne has presented to the Museum the zoological collections made by M. J. Delacour and Mr. J. S. Colman during the recent cruise of his yacht Rosaura. These include material from the coast of Greenland, southwards to the West Indies, Brazil and the coast of West Africa. The collection when worked out will probably prove of prime importance for several distinct branches of zoological inquiry. The Royal Society has presented a set of specimens of the volcanic rocks of Montserrat in the West Indies, collected by Mr. A. G. MacGregor, who was a member of the Royal Society Expedition which visited the island in 1936 to investigate the causes of the recent earthquake activity and its relation to the vulcanology. A piece of meteoric iron, found last year at Kumerina in Western Australia, has been presented by the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery at Perth. A polished specimen of ‘Brazilian onyz’, an ophicalcite worked in the Argentine, has been presented by Messrs. John Bolding and Sons, and the Cookson Lead and Antimony Company has presented a remarkably fine specimen of metallic antimony crystals.
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Acquisitions at the British Museum (Natural History). Nature 141, 590 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141590a0
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