42, MUSEUMS. 
A number of Walking Fish (Periophthalmus koelreuteri), living and 
preserved, from Buguma, W. Africa, by Mr. N. E. Halliley, per Mr. 
A. Ridyard. 
Several Deep Sea Fishes (Macrurus trachyrhynchus, Beryx 
decadactylus, Centrina salviana, and Alepocephalus rostratus), Trumpet 
Fishes (Centriscus scolopax), a Three-bearded Rockling (Motella 
macrophthalma), and an Egg of a Dog-fish, from about 200 miles W.- 
of the Fastnet, and a Short-finned Tunny (Thynnus thynnus), from 
the N. of Ireland, by Captain W. Eagle, per Alderman John Duncan. 
Deep Sea Fish (Macrurus trachyrhynchus), by Mr. G. Milman. 
A collection of Fishes containing some important deep sea forms, 
a.e., Capros aper, Phycis blennioides, Macrurus spp., Argentina 
sphyrena, Gadus pontassou, Centrophorus squamosus, and Pristiurus, 
melanostomus, taken about 100 miles S.W. of the Fastnet, in 200-400 
fathoms, from the steam trawler “ Thistle,’ by Laboratory Assistant 
W. Hibbert, through the kind favour of Alderman John Duncan. 
A collection of Fishes, containing among other species, specimens 
of Five-bearded Rockling (Motella vulgaris), Two-spotted Sucker Fish 
(Lepadogaster bimaculatus) Norway Haddock (Sebastes norwegicus), 
and Long-spined Cottus (Coftus bubalis) from Stromness, Orkney 
Islands, by Mr. Geo. Ellison. 
Cast of a large Sun Fish (Orthagoriscus mola), from a specimen 
lent by Messrs. Robert Isaac, Ltd. 
y Reptiles. 
By presentation : 
Python skin from Brass, West Africa, by Mr. R. Y. Sewill. 
Monitor Lizard, Snake and four Lizards from Degama, New 
Calabar, by My. T. 8. Gardner: Crocodile Eggs from Sassandra, 
French Ivory Coast, by Mr. P. 8. Quainoo; and Two Snakes from 
Buguma, by Mr. N. E. Halliley, per Mr. A. Ridyard. 
Puff Adder (Bitis arietans), by Dr. J. H. O’Connell. 
