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PURCHASES. 

 The principal purchases during the year have been as follows, many 

 of the vertebrates having been obtained for Osteological purposes : — 



A Human Skeleton, for Lecture purposes ; a White-Thighed Macaque 

 Monkey; a Tortoise-Shell Marmozet; a Stuffed Wolf; a Wolf and 

 Jackal, for Skeletons ; a male Pudu Deer {Pndua humilis), from Chili, 

 (the smallest living species of true Deer) ; a Servaline Cat {Fdis) ; an 

 Indian Paradoxure {Paradoxiirus Grayi ?) ; four Jerboas (Dipiis) ; a 

 Two-Toed Sloth {Gholopus Hoffmanni); a large upper grinding tooth 

 of an Indian Elephant, weighing over seventeen pounds ; the Skull of a 

 Rhinoceros ; a large and very complete Skull of Hippopotamus ; the 

 Skull of a Dugong ; the Skull of a Viscacha {Lagostomus trichodactylus); 

 Mounted Skeletons of an Opossum {Dasyurus viverrinus), and of the 

 rare Marsupial, Myrmecobius ; and disarticulated Skulls of a Young 

 Orang and American Tapir. 



A Crested Eagle ; a Yarrell's Curassow {Crax caruncidata) ; a Sarus 

 Crane {Grus dntigone) ; two Puffins; a Bittern, shot some years since at 

 Formby; and thi-ee Australian Banded Grass-Finches {Poephila cincta). 



A Zonure Lizard {Zonurus Derhianns) ; Mounted Skeletons of the 

 gigantic Japanese Salamander (Megalobatrachus maxinius), of an 

 Aldrovandi's Skink Lizard {Plestiodon auratus), of an Amphisboena, 

 and of a Common Snake. 



An Electric Ray {Torpedo vulgaris), weighing seventeen pounds, 

 caught in a trawl net by fishermen, at Meols Bay, off Southport. 



Specimens of Trophon Gerversianus, Cypricardia oblonga, Turbo 

 ■fordani, and twenty other selected species of Shells. 



Fifty-seven selected specimens of British Insects, chiefly Lepidoptera ; 

 and two Spiny Lobsters, from Adelaide. 



Three large Starfish (Oreaster) from Billiter Island, and two other 

 Echinoderms. 



Thirty selected specimens of Marine Invertebrates and two Young 

 Torpedo Fish {Torpedo ocellata), from Dr. Dohrn's Marine Zoological 

 Station at Naples. 



A section of a large specimen of Brain Coral ; a Porites Coral from 

 Billiter Island ; a Gorgonia from Mauritius ; fifteen small Corals, &c., 

 from a Submarine Telegraph Cable at Porto Rico ; and a large specimen 

 of Glass-Rope Sponge {Ilyalonema). 



