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Among the most striking objects exhibited in the Board Room 
were two fine collections of butterflies and moths, exhibited by Mr. Wal- 
ter Wonfor and Mr, Wills,—the former consisting of English specimens, 
collected by Mr. Wonfor himself within the last three years ; the latter 
a superb collection from India. A fine collection of wasps’ nests 
and wasps, exhibited by Dr. Ormerod ; large Tusks of Hippopotamus 
and Walrus, exhibited by Mr. E. Parkinson ; 150 polished specimens 
of woods used in manufactures, exhibited by Mr. Saunders ; a case of 
Japanese silkworms and coccons, exhibited by Dr. Badcock ; Phero- 
nema Grayi, a newly-discovered silicious sponge, dredged off the 
Portuguese coast by Mr. Marshall Hall; Sponge, Euplectella speciosa, 
exhibited by Mr. Sewell ; specimens of saw fish, parrot fish, and cow 
fish, exhibited by Mr. Sewell ; a double cocoa nut, exhibited by Mr. 
Hollis ; series of photographs, illustrative of food products, exhibited 
_ by Mr. T. Curties (Holborn) ; series of micro-photographs, exhibited 
by Drs. MHallifax and Maddox, and Mr Hennah; flying fox 
(bat), from Australia, exhibited by Dr. Badcock; fine series 
of British lichens and mosses, exhibited by Mr. C. P. Smith; 
ores of copper from the Burra-Burra Mine, exhibited by Mr. 
Wonfor ; case of saxicava and pholas, taken from burrows in 
hard limestone—the perforated rocks also shewn—exhibited by Mr. 
Charlesworth ; New Zealand Ferns, exhibited by Mr. Penley ; petro- 
leum in all its forms, commencing with shale and crude black oil up to 
white wax, and manufactured articles, exhibited by Mr. Nash; 
curious illustration of the meeting of savage and civilized Art, viz., a 
Sheffield axe-head on a carved bone New Zealand handle, exhibited by 
Mr. Wonfor ; magnificent specimen of emerald in quartz rock, from 
South America, and emerald butterfly, said to be found only in the 
neighbourhood of the mines, exhibited by Mr. J. Curtis; very 
exquisite and truthful drawings of microscopic objects, exhibited by 
Messrs. Beck, of London, made by Mr. A. T. Hollick, who was 
educated at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Brighton ; a very ingenious 
hygroscope, made from the awn of one of the erodiums, which was 
delicately sensitive to variations in dryness of the atmosphere, 
exhibited by Dr. Hallifax ; nearly 200 coloured plates from Hedwig’s 
original drawings of mosses, lichens, and fungi, with enlargements of 
parts and organs, exhibited by Mr. Wonfor; a very fine collection of 
ferns and lycopodiums, by Mr. Walsh; photographs of eggs of bird 
parasites and of diatoms, the latter taken in U.S. Survey Office by 
Colonel Woodward, exhibited by Mr. Curties. 
