Colonial Muscidus. 



Australian Museum. 



nearly complete series of Australian marsupials well mounted, also 

 preparations illustrating marsupial embryology; life-like casts of 

 serpents; remarkable skeletons of fish — among them Ceratodus, bet- 

 ter than were seen elsewhere; a series of Au.stralian birds, not com- 

 plete, but excellent so far as it goes; and a very extensive mineral- 

 ogical collection. In the ethnological hall are many New Ireland 

 carvings, both in wood and in chalk; the best series of large round 

 wooden food bowds, from the Admiralty Islands, seen in any mus- 

 eum; NewGuinean masks, nets, shields and spears; the largest ser- 

 ies in existence ( some forty ) of Australian tree carvings, of which 

 the Bishop Museum has a set of photographs; some interesting art- 

 icles from the Solomon Islands; and a curious lot of relics purchas- 

 ed from the family of Captain James Cook, among these a feather 

 cloak (which will be figured and described elsewhere) and helmet 

 [PI. I.] both given to the great Navigator by Kalaniopuu. A fine 

 Tahitian gorget of feathers, pearl-shell and shark teeth [PI. II.], not 

 a few good kapas, and some Tongan matting are noteworthy in this 



