DONATIONS 



Presented to the Museum ^ since the publication of 



Mrs. AscouGH, Lo/ze/oM.^Tropic Bird; long* and handsome 

 Spear, with numerous Barbs; a Bow, and eleven Arrows; 

 from New South Wales. 



Mr. John Bell, Surveyor, Gateshead. — Large assortment 

 of Fossil Plants, from the Coal Pits at Gateshead. 



Thomas Brodrick, Esq — Skeleton of the Narwhal, with 

 the Horn attached ; Head of a Female Walrus, and of a 

 Male Cub, preserved; Skeleton of a Walrus' Head, and of 

 a Bear's Head; Shark's Mouth, and Back Bone; Vertebra 

 of a Whale; two Seals; Jackal, Foumart, Viper, Snake, 

 Guiana, Antelope's Feet; Esquimaux Bootsj Pheasant, 

 Woodcock, Partridiie, pair of Moor Birds, three Starlings, 

 Woodpecker, Sparrowhawk, Waterhen, Raven shot in 

 lat. 71^ N., and twenty-five other Birds, chiefly from the 

 Arctic Seas. 



Mr. J. C. Glaives. — Ten 4fo Tractfi, containing the follow- 

 ing Essays, viz., Sir J. F. W. Herschel on the Double 

 Refraction of Apophyllite j and, On a Machine for resolviuff 

 Transcendental Equations ; Babbajjre on Electric and Mag- 

 netic Rotations; Willis on the Pressure of a Stream of Air 

 upon a Plate; Professor Airy on a Correction of the Solar 

 Tables; and, On an Inequality of Long Period in the 

 Motions of the Earth and Venusj Baily on the Correction 

 of a Pendulum for the Reduction to a Vacuum; Hudson's 

 Hourly Observations on the Barometer; Christie's Ex- 

 perimental Determination of the Laws of Magneto-electrie 

 Induction; and Professor Faraday's Expsrimental Re- 

 searches in Electricity. 



Mr. Orston Hatter. — Jaw Bone, and Scapular Bone, of a 

 young Whale. 



Mr. Lars Kiersta. — Specimens of Native Silver, and of 

 Idocrase; a large piece of Amberj and a Wooden Flagon, 

 curiously carved; all from Norway. 



Miss LoMAs. — An elegant English Quipos, in imitation of 

 the Peruvian Quipos, 



