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Five Terrapins (Malaclemys pahtstris), ten American Salamanders 

 {Amblystoma tigrinum), and fifteen Bull Frogs (Rana mugiens), for 

 Aquaria ; presented alive by Mr. Eugene Blackford, United States' Fish 

 Commissioner, in return for living specimens of the Common Sole, suc- 

 cessfully imported to New York from the Aquaria by R.M.S.S. 

 Britannic, Captain Hamilton Perry, per favour of Mr. W. S. Graves, of 

 the White Star Line ; as recorded in the Proceedings of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Vol. XL., 1885-6, pp. 185-196. 



A living Land Crab, found in a cargo_of timber from Brazil ; presented 

 by Mr. John Brotherton. 



A living specimen of the Telescope Fish {Carassius auratus), a culti- 

 vated variety of the Gold Fish ; presented by Capt. J. Cummins, to whom it 

 was given, at Mandalay, by an attendant upon the King of Burmah. 



The Kostrum of a Saw Fish {Pristis antiquorum), and a Centi- 

 pede; presented by Capt. Henry Daniel, S.S. Caribbean. 



Six Mortimer Ship-Aquaria ; presented by Mr. W. A. Duncan. 



Two specimens of a rare British Beetle {Chrysomela cerealis), found 

 only on Snowdon ; collected August, 1886, and presented by Dr. J. W. 

 Ellis. 



Specimens of 22 species of S. African, Australian, New Zealand, and 

 other Hydroida, named by Prof. Allman, ll.d., f.r.s., in the Journal of 

 the Linnean Soeiety (Zoology, vol. 19, pp. 132-161), and mostly new ; 

 presented by Miss H. Gatty from her own collection : also two specimens 

 of Plumularia pinnata, and a specimen of Azygoplon rostratum, from 

 examples described in Prof. AUman's 'Report on the Plumularidce oi 

 the Challenger Expedition." 



A Common Kinged Snake and a young Leveret from Childwall ; pre- 

 sented by Mr. W. L. Gladstone. 



A large specimen of Pipe Fish (Fistularia), caught off Cape St. 

 Vincent, Cape de Verde ; presented by Capt. Thomas Heuing, per Mr. 

 H. C. Beasley. 



