ANNUAL KEPORT. XXXI. 



Mr. T. H. Waller, an inlorestiii^' specimen of " slickcnsidcs'" 

 of qnarlzite, from C'aldecoti' Quarry, near Nuneaton ; .<,dobular 

 l)h()spliato of lime, from South llussia ; a section of foi'amini- 

 feral carboniferous limestone, from North Wales ; a section of 

 precarhoniferous lava, from the Cheviot Hills, contann'ng hyper- 

 sthene ; a slide of the volcanic dust ejected in the late eruption 

 of Krakatoa, in Java, and of a lava from Montserrat, the 

 trituration of which would produce such dust. 



Mr. 8. Walliker, a humming bird and a leaf insect from 

 the East Indies ; a species of Lepisma, found in cotton-wool 

 from Cyprus, about three or four times as large as the ordinary 

 species. 



Mr. C. J. Watson, crystals of selenite, from Shotover 

 Hill, Oxford; minerals from J^armouth ; and a large number of 

 photographs of Welsh scenery, taken by himself, 



Mr. W. H. Wilkinson, Lodoicea SeijchdlanDii, a double 

 cocoa-nut, found only in the Seychelles ; Lee-chee nuts, the 

 fruit of Nephelium lAtvhi, from China ; (.'actus triaw/ulariN, the 

 prickly pear, from the West Indies ; models of an orange and a 

 lemon formed by coating the fruit with copper, and then 

 burning ; a number of foliaceous roses, in which the ordinary 

 pink petals were of a green colour; a Canterbury bell, in which 

 the sepals were enlarged and petaloid (blue); the following 

 Lichens from the Highlands of Scotland : — Clndonia nini/i/erinu, 

 C extensd, C. eiuliriai'olid, C. (jracilis, C. viacilenUi, (J. pyxiddUi, 

 C. uncinlu, Sjihwroiihorun cotnpri'n.siuii (rare), I'ariiwlid ])Jtywdes 

 var. pldti/pliylla (in fruit, rare), P. saxntilis var. oniplialodes, 

 var. sulcata (in fruit, rare), P. olivacea, Fertusaria cuimnunis, 

 Lecanora tartarca, L. parella var. pallescens, P/n/scia pulvendenta, 

 P. parietina, P. Jurfuracea, P. prunastri, Usnea barbata, Punna- 

 lina J'arinacea, li. fraxinea, — vars. avipUata, fastigiata, and canali- 

 culata, R. cali/calis, and Stictn pulmonaria; Ricasolia amplissima, 

 from Oban ; the following Lichens, growing on trees, from 

 Blockley, Worcestershire : — Fiainalinu Jnixinea var. ampliatu, — 

 var. fastujKita, Pi, fa rinacca, Phi/seia prunastri, P. ciUaris, Pur- 

 melia pulverulejita , P. caperata, and P. parietina; and apiece of 

 conglomerate, brought by Mr. S. Walliker from the north of 

 Ireland, on which were growing the following Lichens : — 

 Ramalina scopulorum, Plujscia parietina, Lecanora suhfusca, and 

 ]'t'rrucaria )naura. 



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