1864] 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



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List of Donations to the Museum. 



N.B.— The dates refer to the meetings of the Society at which the specimens 

 were presented. 



Donors' Names. 



G. Barnston, Esq. 



John Leeming, Esq. 



J. F. TVhiteaves, Esq.... 

 Jas. Thompson, Esq.... 



H.Taylor, Esq 



Mrs. H. Bailey 



Jas. Ferrier, jun., Esq... 

 Mr. W. Hunter 



Prof. P. J. Darej. 



Jas. Ferrier, jun., Esq... 



W. Saunders, Esq., Lon- 

 don, C. W 



r Donations. 



July 1st, 1863. 



Stuffed specimen of the smaller, or " pulling- 

 down" otter. (Lutra destructor, Barnston.) 



Eggs of tliirteen species of birds from New 

 Brunswick. 



Egg-capsule of Pyrula. (j1 marine univalve 

 shell.) 



12 species of marine shells from Jamaica. 



9 species of foreign shells. 



The mud or heavier fish. Amia ocellicauda, 

 Richardson; {Amia calva^ Linnaeus?) from 

 Sorel. 



Red snake. 



Specimen of the granulated (?) salamander. 



(Salamandra granulata? Holbrook). 



Abnormal growth of spruce from the White 

 Mountains, with specimens of quartzite in 

 which it was imbedded. 



Dendroica coronata? Gray, male. (Yellow- 

 crowned wood-warbler .) 



Troglodytes hyemalis, Viellot, male. (Win- 

 ter-wren.) 



Certhia Americana, Bonaparte. (American 

 creeper.) 



Chrysomitris pinus, Bonaparte. (Pine-finch.) 



Cyanospiza cyanea, Baird. (Indigo-bird.) 



Tree-Frog. (Hyla versicolor, Leconte.) 



September 28th, 1863. 



3 cases of miscellaneous insects. 

 1 chameleon. (Chamceleo vulgaris?) 

 Large block of crystals of calc-spar. 

 Collection of Canadian insects (in five cases), 

 which took the first prize at the Provincial 

 Exhibition of 1863, and of which the follow- 

 ing is an estimate : 

 Lepidoptera, (Butterflies and Moths ^) 78 species. 

 Coleoptera, (Beetles,) 294 



Hymenoptera, (Bees, wasps, ^-c.,) 15 

 Diptera, (Flies,) 3 



Neuroptera, (Dragon-flies, SfC.,) 6 



Hemiptera, 4 



Orthoptera, (Crickets, locusts, 4"C.,) 5 

 (In all nearly 400 species of Canadian in- 





