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MUSEUM. 



The visitors to the Museum during the year have been as follows : — 



Total Visitors in the year . . 



Weekly average . . . . . . . . 



Daily (iverage 



The 18th of October, 1884, was the 23rd anniversary of the opening 

 of the Museum in the present building. 



- The total number of visitors during that time amounts to 9,833,498, 

 giving a yearly average of 427,543. 



DONATIONS, &o. 



A small collection of Eggs from the Falkland Islands ; presented by 

 Mr. John Bonner, 



A young double-bodied Harp Seal, from the Newfoundland Fisheries ; 

 presented by Mr, Henry Bowring, 



A Ring-tailed Coati-Mundi, Nasiui rufa, from the Argentine Misiones; 

 presented by Ramon Cavenago, second commander of the gunboat 

 "Uruguay." 



A considerable collection of specially selected specimens of Fossil 

 Corals, Graptolites, weathered specimen of Eozoon, &c., &c., from 

 Canada; presented by Sir J. W. Dawson, f.k.s., M'Gill University, 

 Montreal (some in Exchange), 



A Hooded Crow, Coitus cornix, shot at Huyton ; presented by Mr. 

 H. S. Daine. 



The Hand, Foot, and Ear of a large Chimpanzee, Anthropopithecus 

 troglodytes, brought from Cameroons, in exchange ; also 10 specimens of 

 Spiders from Cameroons ; presented by Miss Gertrude M. Fletcher. 



A slab of bew Red Sandstone, showing ripple marks, from the Lime 

 Street Tunnel ; presented by Mr, J. A. Forrest. 



A branch of a Date Palm, laden with fruit, from Madeira ; presented 

 by Mr, G. F. Graham, per Mr. Aug. Cros. 



A second Molar of a young Indian Elephant ; presented by Mr. W. 

 Hewitt. 



