MUSEUMS. ; 39 
(c) ACQUISITIONS. 
INVERTEBRATES— 
By presentation : 
Porifera. 
Skeleton of the Glass-rope Sponge (//yalonema_ boreale), by 
Mr. Tertius Joynson. 
Collection of Marine Animals, including Sponges from the 
Orkney Islands, by Mr. George Ellison. 
Sponge (Halichondria panicea), collected near the N.W. 
Lightship, Mersey Estuary. 
Ccelenterata. 
Jelly-fish (Chrysaora hyoscella), collected at Hilbre Island. 
Several colonies of Alcyonium digitatum, collected by Captain 
Griffiths, s.s. ‘ Beta,” from the Mersey Estuary. 
Echinoderma. 
Sun Star-fish (Solaster papposus), and others, from the Mersey 
_ Estuary. 
Collection of Marine Animals, including several Star-fishes and 
_ Sea-urchins, from the Orkney Islands; presented by Mr. George 
Important collection of Echinoderms, taken in deep water about 
100 miles 8.W. of the Fastnet, containing among others the following 
rare species :—Pentagonaster granularis, Nymphaster subspinosus, 
Psilaster andromeda, Stichaster roseus, Pontaster tenuispinis, Cidaris 
papillata, Holothuria tremula, and H. intestinalis, taken from trawl of 
8.8. “Thistle,” by Laboratory Assistant W. Hibbert, by permission 
of Alderman John Dunean. 
Arthropoda. 
; : Tracheata. 
By presentation : 
A number of living Cochineal Insects, from Teneriffe, Canary 
Islands, by Miss F Entwistle. 
