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(a fine one) was supplemented by specimens of feathers, skin, 

 tracheal rings, and even a leg still clothed with muscular fibre, 

 from cave excavation ; also a genuine egg. As Dunedin was once 

 a centre of the whale fishery it was not surprising to find many 

 remains of whales, among which 

 a capital cast of a very young 

 rorqual was prominent. A huge 

 Queensland crocodile, at least a 

 third larger than ours, was too 

 much "stuffed". A fine Notor- 

 nis, one of the three known, was 

 a great attraction, and in the 

 same case was a specimen of the 

 extinct wren. A good ribbon 

 fish (the dorsal fin scarlet and 

 the body silver) was seen. An 

 extensive collection of worms 

 and radiates of which Professor 

 Benham is a specialist was most 

 interesting. The case contain- 

 ing supposed Cook relics had a 

 damaged Mangaia paddle, a fine 

 Tongan club, and other possible 

 relics, besides the impossible 

 Solomon Islands clubs, etc. 

 A fine Admiralty Islands bowl 

 measured 39.5 x 41 inches in 

 diameter. There were many 

 Santa Cruz sashes and looms. 

 This museum is an adjunct 

 of the Otago University, so that 

 it bears the same relation to the university that the Canterbury 

 Museum bears to the University in Christchurch. Professor W. 

 B. Benham, Sc.D., F.R.S., is a professor in the university as well 

 as curator of the museum, and hence the character of the collec- 

 tions is more or less moulded by the scholastic connection. The 

 collections given by Thomas Morland Hockens were not only of 

 great importance, as collections of books, paintings, engravings, 



ethnological specimens, but, as told in the annual report of Dr. 



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