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The Austin Collection of Fossil Crinoids has been carefully arranged, 

 and has proved of greater scientific value and interest even than was 

 anticipated. 



A. room devoted to Fish Amphibia and Reptiles and the Phillip's 

 Collection of Minerals is being re-arranged, and will shortly be ready for 

 exhibition. 



Loans. 



A group of Harp Seals from Newfoundland, presented by Mr. C. T. 

 Bowriug, Arctic Foxes, Moose and Walrus Heads, &c., Northern Shells 

 and Crustacea illustrating Life in High Latitudes ; Oil Paintings of 

 Bison, Moose, Wapiti, &c., by Catlin ; and a series of Mounted Photo- 

 graphic Views of Melbourne in 1862, were lent to the Liverpool Jubilee 

 Exhibition. 



Exchanges. 



A series of Fossil Plants, specimens of Coal, &c., from the Miocene 

 Hocks of the Arctic Regions, collected chiefly in Greenland, by Mr. 

 E. Whymper, received from the British Museum of Natural History ; 

 also a small Marsupial animal (Podabrus) from the same. 



The Skull of a Tiger, from the Liverpool School of Medicine. 



A Dwarf Parrot {Nasiterna pusio) from New Britain, from the Rev. 

 Canon Tristram. 



Living specimens of the Menopome (Cryptobranchus alleghaniensis), 

 and six Terrapins (Eviys HolbrooJci .^) for the Aquaria, fi.-om Mr. Eugene 

 Blackford, New York Fish Commission, in exchange for living specimens 

 of the Common Sole, sent to America with a view to naturalization. 



Donations. 



Three living full-coloured Gold Carp or Telescope Fish (Camssiiis 

 auratus), with trifid tails and projecting eyes, brought from Shanghai ; 

 presented by Mr. D. Alexander. 



