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New Zealand, specially collected for the Museum ; also samples of Iron 

 Sand and Iron Earth from the same district ; presented by Lieut. Col. 

 Trimble, Taranaki. 



A Green Monkey {Cercopithecus sabceus) from "West Africa ; presented 

 by Mr. G. A. Trout. 



Specimens of Slow Worms, with their young, bred in confinement ; 

 presented by Mr. J. S. Tyerman. 



A collection of rare Shells from Fuca Straits and California ; collected 

 and presented by Dr. David Walker, California. 



A Photograph of a Kestoration of the Mammoth, from the specimen 

 in his collection at Rochester, New York, founded on the remains at St. 

 Petersburgh and Stuttgard ; presented by Prof. H. A. Ward, Eochester, 

 U.S.A. 



A Boomerang, Throwing Stick and Shield, from Victoria, Australia ; 

 a Port Jackson Shark {Cestracion Phillipi), a File Fish {Balistes), two 

 Bonitos, a Sphyraenoid Fish, the Skull of Shark, a Cray Fish ; also 

 specimens of Algae, Sponges, Polyzoa, Crustacea, Shells, Fishes and 

 Reptiles, from Portland Bay, Australia ; collected and presented by Capt. 

 W. H. Cawne Warren, Associate of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society of Liverpool. 



Specimens of Teredos or Shipworms and their borings, from the stock 

 of an anchor dredged up in Queenstown Harbour ; presented by Mr. W. 

 Wilson. 



A Long-nosed Frog Fish {Malthe) from Galveston ; presented by Mr. 

 Abner Woore. 



Other Donations have been received from Messrs. Adam, Son & Co., 

 Mr. T. Ashton, Mr. H. Baverstock, Mr. A. Connolly, Mr. A. J. Harvey, 

 Mr. W. A. L. Henderson, Dr. J. Linton Palmer, R.N., and Mrs. Evans. 



PURCHASES. 

 The principal purchases for the Museum have been as follows : — 

 A Group of Three Tigers, shot at Seharumpore by Col. Bagot, and 

 mounted by Mr. Edwin Ward. 



A Mandrill Baboon, a Burchell Zebra, fifteen other Mammals, a large 

 Rhinocerps Horn, and six pairs of Horns of Caribou, Rein Deer, Ibex, 



