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Liverpool the whole of his collections of British and Continental 

 Lepidoptera, together with the two cabinets in which the bulk of 

 them are contained, to be preserved in the Museum for the use of the 

 public, especially as reference for Entomological Students. 



This important bequest has been received and deposited in one of 

 the Class Rooms, and a special vote of thanks to the Executors was 

 passed by the City Council in due course. 



Visitors. 

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



A rare Shell, Lyonsia aaxicola, from Vancouver's Island ; presented 

 by Mr. Frank Archer. 



Two bivalve Shells, jEtheHa semilunata, from Tanni, above the 

 Third Cataract of the Nile; collected and presented by Brigade- 

 Surgeon S. Archer. 



A Collection of Echinoderms and Starfishes, in spii'it, presented, in 

 exchange, by Prof. Alexander Agassiz, Museum of Zoology, Harvard 

 University, comprising numerous specimens of the following species, 

 viz.: Asterias Forhesii, Mass. Bay; Echinarachnius pai^rrui, Mass. Bay; 

 Pentada frondosa, Maine ; Pentaceros retiaidatus, St. Thomas, W.I. ; 

 Toxopneustes pileolus, Acapulco, Mexico; Astropecten bispinosus, 

 Hong Kong ; Heliaster viicrobrachia, Chili ; Nidurellia armata, and 

 Diademxi mexicanum, Acapulco. 



Twenty-one cut and polished sections of Geological and other 

 Rocks, mounted on slides for microscopic examination ; prepared and 

 presented by Mr. Henry C. Beasley. 



A specimen of Python, from Singapore ; presented by Mr. John 

 Bradshaw, 



