1 The Museum's numinmation sdepartment han been further greatly Enriched by the presentation by Mr.
I". Salmon of a really remarkable ftivetion of copper coins made dat ing his life-time by the late Mr, Ezekiel Salmon, his brother, "Tt be remembered that Mr. 5, J. Sa Mien. some tinie ago presented the Museum with hin brother's collec: fons of gems, semi-precious stones, Geological specimens, marine' shells Gnd strange plant seeds. These have been well displayed in the Meseum,. Indeed, the collection of Believed to be the only thing of ins. and semi-precious, stoney is
Kind "on exhibition" in China.
3 fallen of cope aln, icendy mentioned contains. many" hundreds specimens from all" over. the arid and of all- ages. Amongst Gthers "there "are some ancient Haman and. Greek coins, coins
the ancient Kings of Kandy, Ceylon, the teat Mogul pine, coi, of cony Javanese, Sumatran ind Bor: fheay coins; coins. ienued and Used the East India Company, Persian Cdins ike small copper. ingots, and coins from all sort of out of the ray places. In addttgon to "this One. ab nation, Mr, Salmon, has con tributed to. the Society's funds the handsome sum of $1,000, in memory his brother who made these col-Aetna A oom thee clea Tee neal on exh Beet. Gibson, ho i kan pet a Nom chal Museum, has a'stiff task in front 2 Me, Dents Donation My, A. Jo Welch and Afr, A. de G. Mowerby have each presented the Museum with one of the famous posed to be a cure for rheumatism, Mr. R, V, Dont has presented the museum with a collection of sixteen souvenirs of the Chinese Revolution 1911. Some of these avo really elaborate articles, while others are simple buttons, but none are now procurable. 'They were gathered Logether by the late Mr, Vyvyan Dent, father of the donor. Mr. R. V. Bent' has also donated some strings of Chinese heads and other objects St interest, while he has placed on Toan a collection made by: his father of over thirty ancient bronze, mir-Tors of the Ming, Yuan, Sung, Tang and Han Dynasties, as well as 's¢veral interesting Chinese pipes. most interesting acquisition is. a bronze model of the original fossil tooth upon which Dr, Davidson
now famous "Peking Man," crea Black, based is description of, the ing' the name Sirathropus pekin-@naie for the new hominid genus This haa. been pre fonnd on exhibition along with other fossil remains of mammals of about the same period from another part
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