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fessor Savi of Pisa^ and Mr. W. Cooper of New York. 

 Among the Corresponding Members, many have contributed 

 most liberal!}^ to the increase of this department : Mr. 

 B. H. Hodgson has presented upwards of three hundred 

 skins of birds collected in Nepal, together with the skulls 

 and skins of many !Mammaiia : — the Rev. R. T. Lowe 

 has given an almost complete series of the land and 

 fresh-water shells of Madeira, and an extensive collection 

 of the fishes of that island : — the late Mr. Telfair con- 

 tinued imtil the time of his lamented death to contribute 

 various productions of the Maviritius and of Madagascar : — 

 and Mr. F. D. Bennett, Mr. Henly Clarke, Dr. Weather- 

 head, Captain Redman, Lieutenant Maw, Lieutenant Breton, 

 &c. &c., have also added interesting specimens obtained in 

 the several localities visited by them. The Society is in- 

 debted to the President for several additions to its Museum. 

 ToMr. Auldjo it owes an extensive collection of the Mollusca, 

 Radiata, and other animals of the Mediterranean sea : — to 

 the liberality of Mr. J. M. Heath of Madras, it is again in- 

 debted for a verj'^ numerous collection of skins of Birds and 

 Quadrupeds from that locality : — Lady William Bentinck has 

 presented sixty-four bird-skins from the Himalaya Moun- 

 tains : — Mr. H. Hillier, eighty-eight skins of Birds and 

 Quadrupeds from India : — the Honourable Admiral Dundas, 

 forty-one skins from New Holland and New Zealand : — 

 Mr. G. Folliott, forty-six mounted bird-skins and one qua- 

 druped from North America : — Mr. H. T. De la Beche, a 

 large collection of Fishes and Crustacea from the West 

 Indies, &c. &c. Captain Belcher, R. N., Mr. Cvuning, Mr. 

 Reeves, Mr. Yarrell, Mr. Grove, and Dr. Leach, have re- 

 newed their claims on the gratitude of the Society by various 

 presents made in the course of the year M'hich has just 

 elapsed, in addition to those repeatedly made by them in 

 previous years. 



The Council have also to acknowledge the receipt of a 

 present of various skins of European Birds from the Di- 

 rectors of the Museum at Geneva, — a present in return for 



