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A collection of Mariue Specimens collected on a voyage from Liverpool 

 to Baltimore, Acapulca, and San Francisco ; presented by Captain W. 

 H. Cawne Warren, Ship " Bedfordshire," Associate of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society of Liverpool. 



A Fir Ball, found in Windermere ; presented by Mr. W. Woods, 



A collection of 85 named specimens of 80 species of Fishes, from the 

 Pacific Coast of North America ; presented by the Smithsonian Listitu- 

 tion, Washington, per Professor Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the 

 Institution, and U.S. Fish Commissioner. 



Specimens of British Birds ; presented by Mr. Thomas West. 



PURCHASES. 

 The principal purchases for the Museum have been as follows : — 



A Kooloo-Kamba Chimpanzee, a young Gorilla, a Malayan Bear, a 

 Red River-Hog, a young Koodoo Antelope, a Chamois, a Great Ant- 

 eater, and thirteen other Mammalia. 



Two Oven Birds f Fwrnarius) , with nest and eggs, from Brazil, and 

 16 other Birds. 



A Serpent, 17 feet in length, and two Matamata Tortoises. 



The Beak of a Sword Fish fHistiophorusJ, 42 inches long, taken from 

 a specimen captured off Rhode Island, U.S.A. 



Seventy-six selected Insects of various Orders, including a specimen of 

 Ornithoptera Brookiana, from Borneo, and other rare Butterflies. 



A fine example of a rare Crustacean {Ranina dentata), a Balanus, and 

 four specimens of Echinoderms. 



Thirteen models of molluscous animals, 13 specimens of seven species 

 of Shells from Lake Tanganyika; and 129 other selected specimens of 

 Mollusca. 



A collection of specimens from Barbadoes, chiefly marine, including 

 specimens of Pentacrinus or Sea Lily. 



A left lower Molar Tooth and cut and polished sections of other teeth 

 of Elephas meridionalis, from the Cromer Forest-bed, Norfolk; and 

 polished sections of the Pear Encrinite, Apiocrinus Parkinsoni, from 

 the Bradford clay. 



