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AMONG the recent acquisitions at the Natural History Museum the Department of Zoology has received as a donation from Mrs. Charles Buckley and Mr. Godfrey R. Buckley the mounted head of a cow of the Chartley breed of cattle. Chartley Park was formed by enclosing about 1,000 acres of the forest of Needwood in the reign of Henry III, when a number of half-wild cattle, which then roamed throughout the district, were driven in and enclosed in the Park. Two important additions have recently been made to the beetle collections in the Department of Entomology, namely the Donisthorpe collection of British Coleoptera and an Australian collection purchased from Mr. W. du Boulay. The former contains upwards of 22,000 specimens, and is of especial interest in that it is accompanied by the most complete set in existence of the numerous British insects (mainly beetles) and other arthropods that live in association with ants and are known as myrmeco-philes. The du Boulay collection, which numbers only 352 specimens, consists, however, entirely of beetles actually found inhabiting ants' nests in various parts of Australia by Mr. du Boulay over a period of sixteen years. Mr. R. E. Turner, working in South Africa, has collected and presented to the Museum some 8,000 insects of various kinds, principally small bees and wasps; and from the mountains of New Guinea Miss Lr. E. Cheesman has collected for the Museum upwards of 18,000 specimens. Miss M. Graves, M.P., has presented to the Geological Department some portions of the egg-shell of a small horned dinosaur, Protoceratops andrewsi. The South Australian School of Mines and Industries has presented an end-slice of a large mass (2,520 Ib.) of meteoric iron found in 1909 at Murnpeowie, South Australia, previously represented in the collection only by a cast of the whole mass.
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Recent Acquisitions at the British Museum (Natural History). Nature 133, 171 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133171a0
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