506 Transactions. — Miscellmieoils. 



high wall- cases for the rocks, which now stand in the gallery of the moa 

 room on the eastern side, and four desk-cases for the minerals, in which now 

 the coins in the statuary gallery are exhibited. 



In August, 1864, 1 reported to the Provincial Government as to the state 

 of the collections, which had considerably augmented. Of the additions the 

 following were the principal : — A collection of 60 specimens of rocks and 

 fossils from the Chatham Islands, obtained by Mr. H. Travers, and presented 

 by his father (Mr. W. T. L. Travers). Forty-five specimens of rocks, ores, 

 and minerals from the Dun Mountain, all well selected ; presented by Mr. T. 

 Hacket, of Nelson. Fifty specimens of rocks and minerals received from 

 Mr. J, C. Crawford, at the time occupied with a geological survey of Welling- 

 ton, for examination and classification. Forty specimens of rocks and 

 minerals collected by myself in the province of Otago ; and 225 specimens 

 of rocks and minerals from this province, collected during my journeys of 

 1863-64. This series contained 33 specimens of building stones, either from 

 quarries already opened, or to which I wished to draw the attention of the 

 public, as well as 180 Canterbury fossils, so that the whole geological series 

 of New Zealand rocks consisted already of nearly 1700 specimens. Some 40 

 specimens of New Zealand shells had also been added to the collection. 



The donations to the Museum began now to come in more freely, and I 

 may be allowed to give here a list of those ladies and gentlemen to whom 

 the Museum at its commencement became much indebted. Mr. F. T. 

 Adams presented a collection of foreign shells. The late J. Cookson and 

 Dr. Earl gave moa bones. Bird-skins were presented by the late Dr. Barker, 

 who from the very beginning of the Museum showed himself a warm co-ope- 

 rator, and when afterwards officially connected with the institution, continued 

 to the end of his life to take an active interest in its progress. Messrs. W. 

 S. Eaine, W. T. Travers, J. D. Enys, Hammett, and Master Barker, pre- 

 sented also bird-skins and eggs. We also received donations from Mrs. A. 

 Louis, a collection of Australian Ooleoptera from Mrs. T. Cass, and Mr. D. 

 T. Triphook tertiary fossils, and from Mr. T. Kent native timber in polished 

 pieces, whilst Mr. E. Fereday deposited his magnificent collection of British 

 Lepidoptera, which lately he has generously presented to the Museum. In 

 the year 1864 we received in exchange for a New Zealand herbarium 1086 

 specimens of Em-opean and North American plants from the Eev. J. Butler, 

 of Langar, near Nottingham, and 460 specimens of Australian plants from 

 Dr. Ferd. Miiller, in Melbourne. 



At the end of 1863 I wrote to the late Professor Louis Agassiz, whom I 

 had known in Europe before he finally settled in the United States of North 

 America, offering him to make exchanges with his museum at Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts, and in May, 1864, he announced to me that a large collec- 



