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DONATIONS TO MUSEUM—SESSION 1868-69. 
J. W. Valentine, Esq., Fortwilliam Park—a king 
crab, Lieut.-Colonel E. 8, Mercer—Indian snake ; 
head of a garial. Rev, S. Mateer—Stem of tree fern, 
sago from nut of cycas circinalis, sheath of leaf of 
arrea palm tree, nut of Palmyra palm, specimens of 
stone, sand, and cotton—all from India. Mr. 
Wm, Aicken—a rare nature bat. Lord Clermont, 
Ravensdale Park, Newry—a little bustard (otis tetrax) 
from County Cork; a night heron (young), Irish speci- 
men; a night heron (mature male), continental speci- 
men. Miss Pilkington—a collection of foreign shells, 
Robert Warren, Esq.—a Fulmar petrel. 
WORKS OF ART. 
Lient.-Colonel E, 8. Mercer—Turkish pipe and 
coin. Rev. S. Mateer—tool basket, door lock, weavers’ 
reed, crutch used for climbing palm tree—all from India; 
stail from India (used in Devil’s Dance). Dr. Hill, 
Belfast—Esquimaux costume. Mr, Thomas Thompson, 
Upper Ballinderry—four spears from Cape York, New 
Holland, 
DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 
© Spalding Club, Aberdeen—The Sculptured Stones of 
Scotland, vol. 2, Natural History Society of Bremen— 
Their Journal for 1868. Rev. Thos, Fothergill Cooke, 
Bath—Authorship of the Practical Electric Telegraph 
of Great Britain. Zoological Society of London— 
Their Proceedings, 1867, part 3, and 1868, parts 1, 2, 
and 3. Alexander Shyanoff, Kiew, Russia; Essay upon 
the Metaphysics of Forces, John Lindsay, Blackrock, 
Cork—Second Supplement to the Coinage of Scotland. 
Royal Dublin Society—Their Journal for 1868, No, 37. 
Geological Society of London—Their Quarterly Journal, 
vol, 23, part 5; vol. 24, parts 1, 2, and 3, Governor- 
General of India—Memoirs of Geological Survey in 
India, vol. 4, parts 1 and 2; Palaeontologia Indica, parts 
1 to 4 of series vy; Annual Report for 1866-67, War De- 
partment, Washington—Report on Epidemic Cholera 
and Yellow Fever in the United States Army, 1867. 
Smithsonian Institute, Washington—Contributions to 
Knowledge, vol, xv.; their Report for 1866. Academy 
of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia—Their Proceedings 
for 1867. Boston Society of Natural History—Their 
Annual for 1568-19; their Memoirs, vol. 1, part 3; 
their proceedings, vol xi. 
