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A Sea Cucumber, Specimens of Actinia parasitica, Dianthus, &c., from Brix- 

 ham ; Two Eels ; Three Water Snakes, and Two Land Snakes ; Six 

 Salamanders, Six Tree Frogs, Two Geckos, and Four Tortoises and 

 Thirty Sea Anemones, for the Aquaria ; purchased of Mr. G. H. King. 



The Skeleton of a Musk Rat ; Two American Moles ; a pair of rare Antelope 

 Horns (Tragelaphus), from West Africa, and a skin of the Prarie Dog 

 (Spermopliilus Ludovicianiis) ; purchased of Mr. Joseph Leyland. 



A Collection of Cii-rhipeds ; Twenty-two specimens of ten species of selected 

 Shells; Seven Minerals; examples of 21 species of Pteropods and 

 Heteropods ; Fourteen other shells ; One rare Coral {Hippuris), and Five 

 Fossils ; purchased of Mr. F. P. Marrat. 



Three Siluria^, and one Gault Fossils ; purchased of Rev. L. H. Mordacque. 



Two Marmozets, lacchus (JEdipus ?) purchased of Mr. W. Newby. 



A Collection of Fish and Crustacea, from the Pacific Ocean ; purchased of W. 

 Harper Pease, Esq. 



Two Storm Petrels (Thalassidroma pelagicci) ; Two Nestlings and Two Eggs of 

 ditto ; purchased of Mr. Robert Reynolds. 



Seven Fossils, Two Casts of Fossils, from the Lower Lingula Flags of St. 

 David's Head, Pembrokshire, and Three Shells ; purchased of Mr. G. B. 

 Sowerby. 



Ttvo Flying Fish, and One Minute Clupeoid ; purchased of IMi's. Sparrow. 



A Roe Deer, a wild Swan, a Heron, a Quail, and a Merganser ; purchased 

 in St. John's Slarket, 



Two King Crabs and Three Water Tortoises; purchased of Mr. John 

 Thornbury. 



Thirty-four Echinoderms, and One Coral, with Cirrhipeds ; purchased of Mr. 

 Robert Tyler. 



A Portugese Man-of-War ; a large Caterpillar ; and several Crabs and Insects 

 from West Africa ; purchased of Mr. Woods. 



Two Fossils, from the Isle of Wight (Scaphites gigas and Crioceras Bouierbankii) ; 

 Three Specimens of Japanese Glass Coral {Hyalonema mirahilis); a Snake 

 from South America ; a South African Lizard ; Nine Fish ; One Blind- 

 worm ; Eight Crustacea and Two Cephalopods, from the Mediterranean ; 

 Three Australian, One Mediterranean, and one other Fish ; Three Echini, 

 and Twenty-one Specimens of fourteen Species of Shells «Sec. ; purchased 

 Mr. Bryce M. Wright. 



EXCHANGES. 



Important additions, by exchange, have been received during the year, 

 among which the following deserves special mention : — 



A Cast of the extinct gigantic Armadillo Ghjptodon (Schistopkwim) typus, from 

 the Pleistocene of South America; received from the University of 

 Rochester, New York, per Prof. H. A. Ward, for a Cast of the Great 

 Fosil Tortbise. 



