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D'Eutrecastreaux Island, South East Coast of New Guinea ; twenty-nine 

 spi^cimens of twenty species of Marine Shells from Japan ; fourteen 

 specimens of seven genera of Shells, including Cyclosurus, Waldheimia, 

 Siphonium, &c. ; the original type specimen of Peripoma Angasi, and 

 5 other shells from Vancouver Island. Three specimens of Starfishes ; 

 two large specimens of the Japanese Glass-rope Sponge {Hyalonema) , 

 and other Corals and Sponges. 



A femur and humerus of Pliosaurus ; a Jaw of Ceratodus, and other 

 fossils from the Ouse Bone-bed, Bristol ; a compressed specimen of 

 Ammonites Bucklandi; specimens of Trilobites (Homalonotus and 

 Encrinurus) &c. ; a series of Fish Teeth, &c., from the Woodbridge 

 district of the Red Crag of Suffolk ; polished sections of unworn cusps 

 of Mastodon and a tooth of Elephas antiqiius, also from the Bed Crag of- 

 Sufi-olk. 



Eighteen electrotype facsimiles of small Labyrinthodont remains from 

 the Gaskohle und der Kalksteine der Permformation Bbhmens, by 

 Dr. Ant. Fritsch. 



Vertical, horizontal, and oblique semi-transparent sections of forty 

 species of European w^ood, mounted by Burkart. 



COURSES OF AUTUMN FREE LECTURES. 

 Three Experimental Lectures were delivered by Prof. J. Campbell 

 Brown, D.Sc, University College, Liverpool, in the Rotunda Lecture 

 Hall, in continuation of his previous Courses on the " Chemical 

 Elements." The subject treated of was Sidplmr and its compounds. 



The total attendance amounted to 2,128, giving an average per 

 Lecture of 709. 



A course of three Lectures, on the Development and Modification of 

 Plants, was delivered in the Rotunda Lecture Hall, by the Rev. John 

 Gerard, S.J. of Stonyhurst College ; and the attendance amounted to 

 1622, giving an average of 540. 



A course of four popular Lectures, on the Instruments used in Modern 

 Astronomical Observatories, and the information they afford us regarding 

 the nature of the Heavenly Bodies, was delivered by the Rev. S. J. 

 Perry, S.J., F.R.S. The attendance at these Lectures amounted to 

 4,164, giving an average per Lecture of 1,038. 



