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Specimens of Barnacles, Balanus, and masses of Eschara (Polyzoans 

 allied to the Sea Mats), taken from the hull of the ship Portia in dry- 

 dock, San Francisco, after a voyage thence, clean, to Manilla and back, 

 February 1st to July 25th, 1878, and lying about six weeks in Manilla; 

 presented by Captain Johnstone. 



A Slab of Pouka-Beck Stone, from Pouka Beck, near Ulverstone ; 

 presented by Mr. J. Jones. 



Three Young Alligators ; presented by Captain Kennedy. 



A Common Adder, from Calvelly, Tarporley, Cheshire ; presented by 

 Mr, Fraink H. Leah. 



]\Iounting of twelve Slides of Spicules of Gorgonice, supplied from the 

 Argo Expedition ; prepared for the microscope by Mr. Alfred 

 Leicester. 



The Skin, Skull, and Horns of a Wapiti Deer ; the Skin, Skull, and 

 Horns of a Black-tailed Deer ; a pair of Prong-horn Antelope Skins, 

 with Skull of Male ; and a Hairy Porcupine, from Wyoming ; expressly 

 collected for the Museum and presented by Mr. St. George Littledale. 



A Snake Nut, presented by Mr. Joseph Mayer. 



The Cast Skin of an American Snake, presented by Miss Mayer. 



A large Boulder of Greenstone (Hornblendic Porphyry of Scotch 

 Geological Surveyors), finely scored by glacial action, observed in the 

 Boulder Clay in excavations for No. 3 Branch Steam Dock, Bootle, and 

 reported by Mr. James Macintosh, F.G.S. ; presented by the Mersey 

 Docks and Harbour Board. 



Two Siluroid Fishes, two Bass, a Pleuronectid and a Squid, pre- 

 sented by Captain J. H. Mortimer, Associate of the Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society of Liverpool. 



Two specimens of Gneiss from Santos, South America (one with a 

 vein of Quartz and Felspar, Orthoclase), and a Flying Squid, Oni/choteu- 

 this, from the East Coast of North America ; presented by Mr. G. H. 

 Morton, F.G.S. 



A Specimen of the Blind Crayfish, from the Mammoth Caves of 

 Kentucky ; presented by Dr. J. B. Nevins. 



Two Specimens of Ptarmigan from the Grampian Hills ; presented by 

 Mr. W. Nicol, per Rev. E. A. Pitcairn Campbell. 



