138 Donations to the Bristol Institution. 



INSECTA. 



Miss Grant. — Four remarkably large Scorpions, (Scorpio orienlalisj from 

 Ceylon ; large Spider, from Ditto. 



ZOOPHYTES. 



Capt. Saunders, Ship Pearl. — Numerous specimens of Madrepora muri- 

 cata, Prolifera, and Abratanoides ; Pocillopora damicornis, acuta, and 

 solida. 



Mk. H. Stutchbury. — Forty specimens of various Stony Corals, most of 

 them named according to de Blainville's new system d'Actinologie. 



Mr. Samuel Stutcubury. — A specimen of a dense species of Astrea, 

 grown upon an old porter bottle, picked up in Port Royal, Jamaica j also, 

 a specimen of Pavonia boletiformis, enclosing an Ostrea, from Tahiti. 



OSTEOLOGY. 



Sir Charles Forbes. — Jaw of a Shark, and the Skull of a Porpoise. 



E. Cross, Esq., Surr)/ Zoological Gardens. — A fine large Leopard, (Felis 



LeopardusJ ; Black Coaiti Monkey, {Ateles paniicusj for skeletons. 

 Mr. Coulstring. — Newfoundland Dog, for skeleton. 



MOLLUSC A. 



Mrs. Griffiths. — Aphysia viridis of Bosc ; the Acteon aphysiformis of 

 De Ferrnsac, from Torquay. 



S. P. Phatt, Esq. — Unio alatus, N. America; Byssus of Pinna nobilis, 

 Mediterranean ; Terebellum ; animal in spirit, external tube dry. 



Captain Ratcliffe. — Cymba porcina, from Africa. Twenty-five species 

 of British Shells, namely, Scalpellum vulgare, Balanus punctatus, Pholas 

 Candida, P. papyracea, P. lamellata, P. parva, P. hians, Solen vagina, 

 S. pellucidus, Gastrochsena dubia, Lutraria compressa, L. oblonga, Car- 

 dium tuberculatum, C. echinatum, C. aculeatiim, Isocardia Cor, Venus 

 ornata, V. reflexa. Amphidesma Boysii, Anatina intermedia, A. distorta, 

 Petricola irus, Nucula margaritica, Pecten varius. Pinna nigens, with its 

 byssus. 



Wm. Sanders, Esq. — Byssus of Pinna nobilis. 



GEOLOGY. 

 The Very Rev. Dk. Beeke, Dean of Bristol. — Three specimens of a fossil 

 animal, allied to the Orthoceratite, but evidently of a tegumentary rather 



