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lar^'e l)iinclies of l•e^iplelKlellt golden, needle-like erystuls crossing 

 indiscriminately under the pellucid quartz. It is pre-eminently a 

 collection of beautiful specimens, and, when properly arranged, will 

 present a spectacle that cannot fail to arrest the attention of even the 

 most unobservant ; whilst the student, particularly those of artistic taste, 

 will learn once again, through a new channel, of the marvellous and 

 glorious beauty revealed through nature. In addition to the above 

 collection, the present Earl of Derby has contributed a small series of 

 very beautiful minerals, which are also exhilnted with the above 

 collection. 



A Calcareous deposit, taken from the interior of a wooden water-pipe 

 in a colliery shaft in Derliyshire in 181)2 ; pi'esented by Mr. M. Guest. 



Head and Hoi-ns of a Four-horned 8heep ; presented by Mr. Walter 

 Gladstone. 



Twenty-three spet-imens of Mannnals and Birds from Borneo ; 

 [)resented by Mr. (!harles Hose. 



Two White-headed AVhistling Ducks, Dendroci/gna v'uhiata ; presented 

 by Mr. B. Heywood Jones. 



A large and finely-coloured example of Crystallised Bismuth, also a 

 small collection of Minerals ; presented by Mr. Samuel Wright Lee. 



A fine Skeleton of an American Bison ; presented by Christo})lier 

 Leyland, Esq., per Maxwell H. Maxwell, Junr., Es(]. 



A piece of Rosewood Marble from Ashford, Derbyshire, and a Shell, 

 Cardita .[fricaiia, from West Africa ; presented by Mr. F. P. Marrat. 



A large Carj), Dibs, weight, from the Lake in Prince's Park ; presented 

 by Mr. J. H. Mason. 



Eleven s])ecimens of Sandstone from the neighbourhood of Liverpool ; 

 presented by Mr. G. H. Morton. 



The dried Skeleton of a Pat. found at Welsh Whittle, near (-horley; 

 presented by the Rev. W. G. Sale. 



A Dolphin, Dclphintis delphis, stranded at West Kirljy ; presented by 

 the Rev. G. H. Staite. 



MAYER MUSEUM. 



The reserve cases in the Great Hall have again been of much service 

 for disphiying the various sections of th<! Etlmogra})hical Collection, and 

 during the early ])art of the year the Es(^uimaux and New Guinea 



