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 DONATIONS. 



A Blind Fish (Amhlyopsis spelceus) ; Four Cra:^fish and Four Crickets from the 



Mammoth Caves of Kentucky, and Four Eggs of the Snapping Turtle 



{Chebjdra serpentina) ; presented by Captain Anderson, Commander of the 



" Great Eastern." 

 A Sea Mouse, a Gecko, &c., from South Australia; presented by F. Archer, 



Esq. 

 Three Shells (Venus exalhida), from the Falkland Islands ; presented by Captain 



Benjamin L. Atkinson. 

 A very fine and extensive collection of Marine Specimens, made between Liver- 

 pool and Valparaiso ; collected and presented by Captain F. E. Baker, 



ship " Niphou." 

 A Collection of Native Implements of "War from India ; presented by Captain 



C. E. Bates, 16 M.N.I. 

 A Fish (Cottus), and specimens of Sertularia argentea from Morecambe Bay ; 



collected and presented by Mr. Alderman Bennett. 

 Two Cuttle Fish (Sepia) from Scanderoon, and a Squid; presented by Captain 



Blacklock, s.s. " Arcadia." 

 A Collection of Fishes and Reptiles, from Demerara ; presented by G. P. 



Blank, Esq. 

 Two dozen Eoach and Dace, from the river Alt ; presented by T. Weld 



Blundell, Esq. 

 A Collection of Marine Specimens, from the Indian and Atlantic Oceans ; 



presented by Captain Borlase. 

 Specimens of the " Cockle-bed " and Carbonaceous Ironstone, from the Derby- 

 shire Coal Measures ; presented by Mr. James Bostock. 

 The Dress and preserved Head of a woman of one of the Indian Tribes of the 



River Amazon ; presented by G. W. Brocklehurst, Esq. 

 '''. A Sil/^roid Fish (Si/nodontes schal?), from the Nile; presented by Captain 



Brown, s.s. " Agia Sofia." 

 Two Cuttle Fish from Constantinople, a Fish from Gallipoli, Eight species 



of Fish, and Two Cephalopods from Smyrna ; presented by Captain 



Browne, s.s. "Agia Sofia." 

 The larva of a Death's Head Moth ; presented by Mr. James Brownfield. 

 One Thousand Specimens of Salmon Ova ; presented by Dr. Buckland. 

 A large Slab of Breccia, and a collection of Bones and Flint Instruments 



from the Dordogne Cave, near Bordeaux ; presented by Messrs. Christy 

 and Lartel, through Sir John Bowring, and C. T. Bowring, Esq. 

 ^ Seven Fossils, (Sigillaria.nenropteris, 4'C.,) from the Coal Measures at Ripley, 

 / Derbyshire ; presented by William Clarke, Esq. 



The Model of a Canadian Indian Canoe ; presented hj Mrs. James Cooper. 

 A short Sun Fish (Orthagoriscus mola) taken near Garliestown, Wigtonshire ; 

 presented by Mr. Thomas Craig. 



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