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A collection of Land SLells, recent ana fo,»il, fvon. tie Made ra and 

 Canary Mands; named and presented by Mr. T. Vernon Woltaton 

 elutor of the Kev. E. T. Lo«, by .bona the, were collected dunng 

 many years' residence at Madeira. 



A model to scale of the full-rigged ship ''Evelyn," MJ^^--^^^^;' 

 built of iron, with steel masts and yards, in Liverpool, 1863 ; presented 

 with plate glass case and stand, by Miss Evelyn Wngley. 



PURCHASES. 

 The principal purchases for the Museum have been the following :- 

 A Two-humped Camel; an Eared Seal; a Virginian Opossum and 



young ; and twenty-six other Mammalia. 



A specimen of Bulwer's Fireback Pheasant {Lohiophasis Buhveri) 



from Borneo; two young Ostriches; a young Cassowary; and twenty- 



one other Bu-ds. , 



A Matta-Matta Tortoise; a Temminck's Snapper; and three other 



Eeptiles and ten Fish. 



The skeleton of a Flying Lemur {Galeopithecus) ; two polished 

 sections of Elephant Teeth ; and twenty Skulls of Mammals, Birds, and 



Fish. 



A Magilus Shell in situ, showing section, &c., and forty-nine specmiens 



of Shells. 



Two large Beetles, Dynastes Neptnnus, and fifty-seven other Insects. 



Two fini specimens of Bed Coral and one of White Coral, from 

 Japan; and eighteen Corals, Corallines, and Sponges. 



Five Starfish, three Echini, and a Comatula. 



A small Cast of LahyrintJwclon and twenty-seven Fossils. 



A specimen of Moss Gold from Oregon. 



EXCHANGES. 

 The following specimens have been received in Exchange :— 

 A case of live Spawn of the Californian Salmon {Oncorhynchus 



quinnat) from Prof. Baird, United States Commission of Fish and 



Fisheries, Washington, per Mr. F. Mather, 



