British Museum (Natural History): Recent Acquisitions
1941; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 147; Issue: 3735 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/147670c0
ISSN1476-4687
Tópico(s)Evolution and Paleontology Studies
ResumoTHE late Dr. C. B. Ticehurst has bequeathed his important collection of birds to the Department of Zoology. The collection comprises more than seven thousand specimens, mainly from Spain, Portugal, Yugoslavia, North Africa, and north-western India. Mr. D. V. Burnett, of the Rezende Mines, Southern Rhodesia, has presented to the Department of Mineralogy a beautiful plate of crystallized gold, measuring 10 cm.? 9 cm. and l mm. thick. This is the largest of a number of similar plates which have been found in cavities along a fault plane at the Old West Mine, Penhalonga Alley, Umtali. The surface of the specimen shows stepped triangular elevations with the crystal form (311), some of which are capped with a crystal stud of silver. Other donations to the Department include montgomeryite and sterretite, two new phosphate minerals from Mr. A. Montgomery, of New York, and a fine set of celestine crystals from Peak Hill, Sidmouth, presented by Miss Lillias A. Cowan.
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