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Forty Coloured Glass Models, by Blaschka, of Dresden, of Jelly 

 Fishes, Portuguese Man-of-War, Sea Cucumbers, and other soft-bodied 

 Marine Invertebrates, not otherwise to be exhibited so as adequately 

 to display their delicacy of form and beauty of colour; purchased 

 through the agency of Mr. Kobert Damon, per Rev. H. H. Higgins. 



Twenty-iive selected species of Shells, chiefly Marine, including 

 Conus cedo-nidli, Conus pertusus, &c. ; also the entire series of twenty 

 Varieties of the Shell Voliita musica, being the life-long collection 

 made by the late Dr. Prevost, Conchologist, several of which are 

 figured and named, including the variety polypleura described by 

 Crosse and figured in the 'Journal de conchyliologie '; selected fi'om the 

 Collection of Mr. G. B. Sowerby, at London, by the Rev. H. H. Higgins. 



A rare Shell, Hybocystis elephas, of De Morgan, and seventeen 

 selected specimens of fifteen other species of Shells, from the Collection 

 of Mr. G. B. Sowerby. 



Forty selected specimens of Shells from Japan, a group of Vermetus 

 Shells, and an ornamental Wreath of small Shells from Bermuda. 



Two Tubular Sponges and nine small Sponges. 



A Slab of Lias Marble from Yeovil, crowded with specimens of 

 Ammonites planicostata and A. Smithii; a Collection illustrating 

 forty species of Polyzoa from the Coralline Crag of the Orford Castle 

 district, Suflfolk, mounted with illustrative drawings of enlarged struc- 

 ture after Busk ; the shelly Operculum of a large Gasteropod Shell cut 

 in two and polished ; the natural mould of the crypt of a Lithodomus 

 Shell in coral ; the humerus or arm-bone of a Pterodactyl from the 

 Lower Oolite of Stonesfield, and an Am^monites ohtusios with unsym- 

 metrical keel, from the Lias of Lyme Regis ; from the Collection of 

 Mr. Edward Charlesworth. 



Specimens of Fossils and Minerals, including Ammonites Jlmbriatus 

 and semicostatus, Belemnites with hooks and ink bag, Ancyloceras 

 Calloviensis, Pholidophorus Bechei, Amm^onites with fine coloured 

 nacre ; Labradorite and Meteoric Iron from Atacama and Esherville ; 

 selected from the Collection of Mr. J. R. Gregory, at London, by the 

 Rev. H. H. Higgins. 



