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List of presentations to the Museum for the month of April, 1884 : — 



BIRDS. 



A cockatoo parrot — Calopsitta novce-Hollandiaj — Mr. J. Cotton, Rivers- 

 dale. 



Freckled duck — Anas noevosa — Mr. J. G. Richards, Ross. 



FISHES. 



A velvet fish — Holoxenus cutaueus — Mrs. Bradley, Swan Island. 

 A fish — Macrurus Australis — Mi\ Self, Hobart. 



REPTILES. 



Three frogs — Lymnodynastes Tasmaniensis — Miss L. Ranclauld. 



FOSSILS. 



A fossil bivale. Miss Hall, Huon-road. 



IvnNERALS. 



Specimen of malachite and jasper, Mrs. W. Reilly, Port Cygnet. 

 Pumice stone, picked up at sea, off the Straits of Sunda, September, 



1883, about a month after the eruption, Mr. R. R. Rex, Hobart. 

 Specimens of pottery (native vessel), pumice stone, and piece of pave- 

 ment, obtained from the excavations going on at Pompei, on March 12, 



1884, Mr. D. Macpherson, New Zealand. 



COINS. 



Three Chinese coins, one Melbourne token, Mr. W, Reilly, Poi't Cygnet. 



ANIMALS. 



A skull of rabbit with a curious malformation of the teeth, Mr. J. G. 

 Richards. 



May. 



BIRDS. 



Two Ceylon hawks— Spilornis spilogaster — from Col. W. V. Legge. 

 Two chesnut-eared finches — Amadina castanotis — Miss M. A. Dove. 

 A plover — Lobivanellus lobatus — Mr. J. Whitehead. 

 Chesnut-faced owl — Strix castanops — Mr. J. G. Richards. 



FISHES. 



Two silver bream — Chrysophrys Australis — Mr. W. Reilly. 

 Three flatheads — Platycephalus basseusis — Mr. W. Reilly. 

 A rock cod — Pseudophycis barbatus — Mr. W. Reilly. 

 Young of the lamprey — Geotria Allportii — Mr. Read. 



MOLLUSCA. 



A sea hare — Aplysia sp. — Mr. S. P. Baynton. 

 A star fish, Mr. F. Self. 



FOSSILS, 



Cypris Alburyana, Mr. R. M. Johnston, F.L.S., from Geilston. 



MINERALS. 



A collection of minerals, chiefly tin ore, from Mount BischofF, Mr. C. E. 

 Davies. 

 A model of a penny, Mr. Wara. 



The following papers by Professor R. Tate, F.G.S., F.L.S., etc., Adelaide, 

 were read by the hon. secretary : — 



1. " Notes of a critical examination of the mollusca of the old«r 

 tertiary of Tasmania, allied to have living representatives." 



2. " Descriptions of some new fossil mollusca from Table Cape." 



3. " On the community of species of aquatic pulmonate snails between 

 Australia and Tasmania." 



Mr. R. M. Johnston, F.L.S., read the following papers : — 



1. "Additions to the Hst of Table Cape fossils, together with further 

 remarks »pon certain fossil shells supposed to be identical with living 

 species." 



2. " Notes on a fossil (Cypris Alburyana), from Geilston. 



