IllK Al'sriiAMAN Ml'SKUM EAKI.Y HISTdltV ETHKI.'I ImIK. 885 



cases ill tlio JJoard liooiii, but. this cifctimi wiis loiitj (U-ljivcd :is 

 usual; Swainsoii's Library was also pmcbiiscd IVoui his widow. Soiiu-- 

 wliat later £500 was granted to be speid in London on Induiir of the 

 Trnst by Dr. G. Bennett, Mr. G. Macleay, and Piofessor Owen-'\ 



Tlie ari'ivnl of the Austi'iiin Ki'ijjate " Novaia," on n supposed 

 seientitic expedition iironnd the worhl, gave :i stimulus to t he Ivvcliaiige 

 activities oi" tlie Ti'ustees and enabh'd them : — 



"to open coiinmiuiciition witli tli<' Austrian (Jovcrnincnt and the Inqn'rinl 

 Museum at Vienna." 



A large general collection was Inmded over to tlie ship's oilicers-"'. 

 At the same time from the Hiitish Musenm were received tlie following 

 important replicas, skulls of the Slvnt/ierliim (ji(iitiileitni, South American 

 Ground Sloth {Moijaflieriuni (jif/itiiteum), Cave Bear ('^y•.s■/^s• spcln'iis), and 

 the foot of the Dodo (Didus ineptnii). Exchange matters were in fact 

 pi'ogressing so satisfactorily that it became necessary to appoint a Londcni 

 agent "for the transmission of books to and from the Continent of 

 Europe" in the pei-sons of Messrs. Flower and Co., afterwards FIowtM- 

 and Salting. 



The seat of Frederick Oi-me Darvall, Esq., who was a member of the 

 first Board in 1853, lapsed in September, 1858, and to fill the vacancy 

 Alfred Robei'ts, Esq., Surgeon, was elected in October^i". 



Shortly after the adoption of the new By-laws advantage was taken 

 of the 9tli and 10th to elect Mr. Lindsay Buckle Young, of Gladstone, 

 Queensland, an Honoiary Correspondent of the Museum, in recognition 

 of his liberal donations of specimens^is. In July of the next year (1857) 

 Frederick Raynor, Esq., Surgeon of H.M.S. " Herald," Captain Denham, 

 and John Denis Macdonald, Assistant-Surgeon of the same vessel, were 

 similarly elected--^. All these gentlemen had performed excellent 

 investigations in marine life, and the Museum gained much benefit 

 thereby-20. Another valued Correspondent was Frederick Neville Isaacs, 

 Esq., of Gowrie, Darling Downs, elected in recognition of his energetic 

 collecting of fossil bones from the Post-Tertiary deposits of South-east 

 Queensland^-i, amongst others that much disputed skull Zinjuirittiiiriiti 



215 Minutes, 4th November, 1858, and 3rd March, 1859. 

 2ifi Annual Report for 1858 (1859), p. 1. 



21V Annual Report for 1858 (1859), p. 2; Minutes, 7th October, 1858; 

 10.58 

 Document B — -— 

 11 

 ^i"* Minutes, 7th June, and 5th July, 185<5 ; Letter-book, i., p. Ki:! 



21S ,, 4th July, 1857 ; Annual Report for 1858 (1859), p. 2. 



220 Assistant-Surgeon Macdonald was a particularly keen naturalist and wrote 

 extensively. Some of his more important publications were — Anatomy of the Pelagic 

 JasoaiUa; that oi Nmitilns umhilicaius; of MiicgiUirrayia, establishing a new Order 

 of Gasteropoda ; on the Sea Saw-dust of the Pacific ; deep soundings obtained by 

 H.M.S. "Herald" m the South-west Pacific; anew form of Compound Tunicate; 

 Anatomy and Classification of the Heteropoda ; Anatomy of Fico/a ; metamori^hoses 

 of the Gasteropoda, and many other papers. 



221 Minutes, 5th March. 1858; Annual Report for 1857 (1858). p. 2 ; Ibid, for 

 1858 (1859), p. 2. 



