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A specimen of Arenocolites (?) ; or supposed Annelid track from Hawes' 

 Flags, Addleboro', Askrigg ; presented by Mr. Wm. Turner. 



A specimen of the Gwyniad, Coregonus clupeoides, from Bala Lake; 

 presented by Mr. Wm. Owen, per favour of Mr. Owen Slaney Wynne. 



A Silk Moth (Attacus cynthia), from New York; caught and presented 

 by Mr. James Weir. 



A collection of Marine Specimens dredged and collected between 

 Liverpool and Callao ; presented by Capt. W. H. Cawne Warren, 

 Associate of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. 



Eight shells from Middlesborough, Claasilia nigricans and Pupa ; 

 presented by ■ 



PURCHASES. 



The principal purchases during the year are as follows, many of the 

 Vertebrates being for Osteological purposes : — 



A Pluto Monkey ; a young Muff Monkey (Colobus) ; male, female, 

 and foetus of Aye-Aye {Chiromys Madar/ascariensis) ; specimens of 

 Centetes ; Arctic Fox ; West African Porcupine ; European Beaver ; 

 Llama ; Head of Roe Deer, from Amur River ; a Flamingo ; Pelican ; 

 Cej'lon Lory ; and Magellanic Goose ; two Viperine Snakes ; an 

 Arctic Chimsera Fish ; an Australian Spined Shark ; an Eagle Ray 

 (Urogymnus), and egg capsules of the Cestracion, or Port Jackson 

 Shark ; a Hippopotamus Skull ; Lower Jaw of West Africn Elephant, 

 prepared to display development and progression of the teeth ; 

 Skeletons of the New Zealand Owl-Parrot {Stringops), and of the 

 Kagu {Rhinochetus), from New Caledonia. 



Skulls of Proboscis Monkey, Apterys, Boatbill, and other Osteological 

 specimens. 



A collection of sixty named species of small Marine Crustacea, found 

 on the Arctic coasts of Norway, and most probably being a chief food for 

 salt-water fishes ; named, prepared and mounted by Sparre Schneider, 

 of the Tromso Museum, for the International Fisheries Exhibition, 

 London ; specimens of fourteen species of Crustacea, from Japan, and 

 eighteen species from Jersey. 



A large Melon Shell {Melo) and seven selected Shells from Western 

 Australia ; twenty selected specimens of thirteen species of Shells fi'om 



