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a copy of it was placed in the hands of each member of the 

 Society. 



Further discussion was accordingly adjourned. 



Mr. J. F. Whiteaves then made a communication u On certain 

 new additions to the Society's museum." 



He remarked that the few statements which he had been 

 requested to make would refer only to the collection he had 

 brought from England during the summer of 1865, and that he 

 did not wish that any remarks he might offer concerning the 

 specimens should be looked upon as the result of original investi- 

 gation, or that they had any claim to novelty. 



The following is a list of the donations in question, which have 

 not previously been recorded : — 



Prof. Rolleston, Skin of the grey headed kalong or 



flying-fox (Pterojms polio ceplialus, Tem- 

 minck). 



Cast of the head of the dodo, from the 

 specimen in the Oxford University Mu- 

 seum. # 



Two cuttle-fishes, (Loligo vulgaris), in 

 spirits. 



Three cases of crustaceans from the 

 Mediterranean (mostly brachyurous 

 decapods) consisting of forty-five speci- 

 mens, of twenty-six species. 



Two cases of exotic insects, mostly 

 coleoptera, some of them from Central 

 Africa, as follows : 



Coleoptera, 



Hymenoptera, 



Orthoptera, 



Hemiptera, 



From the late Rev. 

 F. W. Hope, through 

 Professor Westwood, 



Oxford University. 



Mr. G. F. 



Angas, 

 London. 



Prof. Tennant, 

 King's College, 

 London. 



Seven species of shells, two of bryozoa, 

 three of annelida, three of echinodermata, 

 four of corals, and four of sponges ; all 

 from Southern Australia. 



One lepas from California. 



Six species of fossils from the Upper 

 Chalk of Gravesend, Kent. 



