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Specimens of Fossil Bivalve Shells (Anthrocosia robusta) from Newton 

 Colliery ; collected and presented by Mr, John Housley. 



Specimens of Bismuth, Magnesium, and Foliated Zinc ; presented by 

 Messrs. Johnson & Co. 



A Collection of one hundred and sixty Skins of Birds, and three small 

 Mammals, chiefly from Palestine; collected by the late Mr. Hugh 

 Heywood Jones, and presented by Mr. B. Heywood Jones on behalf of 

 the family. 



The Collection consists of 160 unstuffed skins, chiefly of perching 

 birds and birds of prey. It comprises examples of most of the 

 characteristic birds of Western Palestine, as well as of species whose 

 range extends to India, to Egypt and other parts of Africa, and to 

 Britain, thus illustrating among birds several peculiarities of the Palestine 

 fauna. These are due to the unparalleled physical conditions of 

 wilderness, mountainous ranges, and the deep gorge of the Dead Sea, 

 whose surface is nearly 1,300 feet below the ordinary sea level, the 

 deepest depression on the earth's surface. 



Mr. Hugh Jones made collections in Palestine in 1880 and 1881, and 

 again in 1885. Of the first and second he had already given selections. 

 These, with the birds now received, include all that he obtained in the 

 three expeditions, whose primary object was to study the Ornithology 

 of the country. 



Beside the birds above referred to, three small Palestine Mammals 

 have been received with them. One or two larger species were pre- 

 viously given by Mr. Jones from his earlier expeditions to that country. 



A few skins of birds from India, Madeira, and the Isle of Lewis, 

 collected by him, have also been given with the above. 



All the specimens have been carefully labelled with the place and 

 date of capture, and, in the 1885 collection, with still further particulars 

 of colour of feet, eyes, &c., at time of capture, adding materially 

 to the scientific value of the specimens. 



