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A Mass of Iron Ore of remarkable structure, probably organic, 

 from a vein of Hematite at Water Blane, South Cumberland ; and 

 3 smaU FossHs, {1 Bellerophon and Encrinites) from Iron Ore in the 

 Mountain Limestone at Gill Brow, near Ulverstone ; collected and 

 presented by Mr. W. T. Swainson. 



A sitting Buddhist Divinity, in Marble ; and a Sword (mscribed 

 C E 2d.) and Sheath, found at the beginning of the century or 

 earner in a Barn near Coventry ; presented by Mr. W. H. Tansley. 



A Delft Plate ; presented by Mr. Frederick Thomas. 



A specimen of Sulphate of Baryta ; a " Beetle Stone" or Septaria, 

 from Tenby, and a Vertebra of Plesioscmrus, from Aust Cliff, Bristol; 

 presented by Mr. George Thomas. 



A living Loggerhead Turtle {Caouana caretta) ; presented by 



Mr. Charles Touzel. 



A large Coral, from Colon, and Specimens of Polyzoa, &c., Irom 

 Australia ; presented by Mr. J. S. Tyerman. 



Fifteen Skins of Birds from Gaboon ; presented by Mr. K 

 B. N. Walker, Corresponding Member of the Literary and PhHo- 

 sophical Society of Liverpool. 



A Cornetto, (an old Musical Instrument of Eussian Invention, 

 and the only instrument with valves known previous to the 

 Cornopean or Cornet a Piston ;) presented by Messrs. K. J. Ward 

 and Son, per Col. Steble. 



A Human Skeleton (imperfect) ; presented by Dr. E. Watts. 



A smaU Fish of the Genus Flatax, and a large Brain Coral 

 (Meandvina), from Annesley Bay ; presented by Capt. Watson. 



A Portuguese Man-of-War {Physcdia) found stranded on the 

 Beach near Southport, 1869 ; presented by Mr. Walter Weld. 



A Water Eail (Rallus aquaticus) ; presented by Mr. J. H. 



Weightman. 



A part of the Trunk of a large Silicified Palm Tree, found at 

 Lota, near Valparaiso ; and presented by Captain West, barque 



" Eiver Mersey." 



A large defensive Pectoral Spine of a Fossil Fish (G'lpxccanthus 

 tuhermlaimAgassiz), from the low main seam of the Northumber- 

 land Coal Measures, Newsham ; presented by Mr. E. J. Wilson. 



The SkuU of a Cetacean (Stcno) from the Indian Ocean ; 

 presented by Captain Wise, ship " Comorin." 



Two stems of Palm Trees, and the rostrum of a Saw Fish ; 

 presented by Mr. S. E. V. Yates. 



