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Four large Cobra or Hooded Snakes, Naia iripudians, oue Indian 

 Snake, two Tree Snakes, and a bottle of small floating marine specimens 

 labelled " Surface, Equator, 25 degrees W. Long." ; presented by 

 Capt. W. C. 8eabrook, Sbip Lord Lytton, per Messrs. Steeves Bros. 



A living specimen of the Common Guillemot, I.omvia. troile, caught 

 on Bidston Hill ; presented by Mr. F. Skinner. 



A specimen of Coral, Madrepora variabilis, Ked Sea; presented by 

 Mr. E. Taylor. 



Specimens of Trap-door Spiders and their Nests, probably Moggridgia 

 Dyeri, of 0. P. Cambridge, recently discovered in South Africa building 

 on the trunks of Oak and Kaffir Boom Trees, specially procured for 

 the Museum ; presented by Mr. Frederick Taylor. 



Three specimens of a Longicorn Beetle, Astinomus (edilis, and their 

 borings in Baltic Lathwood, from the North Docks ; presented by Mr. 

 Kobert Thomas, per Mr. H. C. Beasley. 



A collection of small Marine Invertebrates and a few Fish collected 

 during a voyage from London to Sydney and San Francisco ; presented 

 with notes by Capt. W. H. Cawue Warren, Associate of the Lit. and 

 Phil. Society, Liverpool. 



Twenty-nine specimens illustrative of the more important Elements ; 

 presented by Mr. H. N. Warren, on payment of expenses of preparing 

 and mounting. 



A fine male specimen of the Golden-eye Duck (Clangula glaucion). 

 Nest and four eggs of the Common Snipe, from the Western Islands ; and 

 three eggs of the Manx Shearwater, Paffinus anglorwn, from the Isle of 

 Lewis ; collected and presented by Mr. Thomas West. 



Purchases. 

 The principal purchases have been as follows : — 



A fine adult skull of the rare Marco Polo's Wild Sheep, Ovis Polii, 

 Blyth, from Central Asia, at an elevation of 16,000 feet. 



Marco Polo in his celebrated Book of Travels through Central Asia 

 in the 15th Century was the first to make known tlie existence ot 



