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DONATIONS. 



A Shell, Mytilus smaragdinus, from Borneo ; presented by Mr. 

 Frank Archer. 



The Skull of a Dugong, from Singapore ; presented by Staff Surgeon 

 Samuel Archer. 



A Snake, from Parana ; presented by Dr. Ascher. 

 Nest of a Tree Wasp, from Heysham ; presented by Mr. Alderman 

 Bennett. 



The Distorted Vertebrae of a Codfish ; presented by Mr. E. Bidwell. 



A Longicorn Beetle, Lamia tricincta, brought alive from Calcutta ; 

 and a Black-headed Tragopau Pheasant ; presented by Mr. F. S. 

 Bocquet. 



The Cast Skin of a large Snake, from Fyzabad ; presented by the 

 Rev. Thomas Carmichael. 



A Skull of the Broad-nosed Bony Gar-pike, Lepidosteus ; presented 

 by Mr. H. Cope, in exchange. 



A specimen of Malachite ; presented by Mrs. Copleston. 



A female Sparrow Hawk, shot at Irby ; presented by Mr. Muir Dowie. 



The Egg of an Emu ; presented by Mrs. Francis. 



A fine specimen (measuring 11 feet from tip to tip of claws) of the 

 Giant Crab, Macrochcira Kacmpferi, of De Haan, from the Japanese 

 Seas ; obtained expressly for the Museum, and presented by Mr. James 

 C. Eraser. 



A Flamingo, Vhaniicopterus, from Tunis, and a King Penguin, Apte- 

 nodytes Pcnnantii, from Australia ; presented by Mr. Benjamin B, 

 Gardner. 



A specimen of rigid freshwater Sponge, from South America ; collected 

 and presented by Dr. J. P. Garland. 



Five specimens of AustrMian and Tasmauian Polyzoa of the Genus 

 Amathia, mounted for the microscope ; presented by Miss Gatty, in 

 exchange. 



A remarkable specimen of freshwater Sponge, Spongilla fluvintilis, 

 nearly 20 inches in length, from Rainhill ; collected and presented by 

 Messrs. Charles and Francis Horace Longuet Higgius. 



