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PUECHASES. 



A Lion, a Puma, 2 Specimens of Salt's Antelope from Abys- 

 sinia, and 19 other Mammalia. 



3 Specimens of Wallace's Bird of Paradise (Semeioptera 

 Wallacci), and 21 other Birds. 



A large Giiinea Eock Snake, and 13 other Eeptiles. 



A Specimen of a Deal Fish, 2 specimens of the Port Jackson 

 Shark, and 21 other Fish. 



Two Skeletons of Birds, one of a Lizard, and 7 skulls of 

 Mammalia. 



Eight hundred Insects (selected, named, and arranged by the 

 Eev. H. H. Higgins.) 



A large Eobber Crab {Birgus Latro), and a young King Crab 

 (Limulus). 



A Giant Clam {Tridacna), and'^71 other Shells and MoUuscs, 

 Sixteen Sea Urchins, Star Fish, &c., chiefly from Australia. 



Four Japanese Glass-rope Corallines (If yalonema), and 55 Corals 

 and Sponges. 



A Calamite, from Huyton Quarry. 



Four Living Axolotls, 3 King Crabs, and other Specimens for 

 the Aquaria. 



Thirty eight Indian Figures, a New Zealand Cloak, an 

 Abyssinian M.S. &c. 



EXCHANGES. 



Three living young Sturgeons have been received from the 

 Zoological Gardens, Hamburg, in exchange for living Specimens of 

 the Norway Lobster, i^Nephrops Norvegmis.) 



Exchanges have been effected, or are on hand with Dr. Nagelei, 

 Eio Janeiro, per Captain Perry, s.s. Humboldt ; with the Natural 

 History Society of Montreal, per Mr. J. F. "\Miiteaves ; with the 

 Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, per Professor 

 Agassiz, and Mr. Alexander Agassiz ; with the Academy of 

 Sciences of Chicago, per Dr. Stimpson ; and with other Institutions 

 and persons. 



DEPOSITS. 



A Statuette in Marble of a Female Figure, representing a 

 " Georgian Woman," by Tadolini, 1862, deposited by Mr. George 

 Martin. 



