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Miss Alder presented a nutaber of Books and a Volume of 

 original Drawings of objects of ^Natural History, and three port- 

 folios of Drawings of places visited by her brother, Mr. Joshua 

 Alder, and bequeathed the sum of nineteen guineas towards a 

 Maintenance Pund of the Museum. 



Miss M. J. Hancock has contributed to the collection a series 

 of beautiful original Drawings by her late brother Albany 

 Hancock, of the Sea Slugs, or I^udibranchiata, of the British 

 Seas, forming a complete set of drawings made to illustrate the 

 large work on this subject published by the Eay Society of 

 London. The original Drawings by Mr. A. Hancock to illustrate 

 his paper on the Anatomy of the Brachiopods, published in the 

 Philosophical Transactions, have been contributed to the collec- 

 tion by the Council of the Eoyal Society. 



C. M. Adamson, Esq., has contributed a large collection of 

 Indian Butterflies, collected in Burmah, and obligingly undertook 

 the arrangement of these in the Insect Collection. 



F. Eaine, Esq., of Durham, presented his Cabinet and Collec- 

 tion of British Lepidoptera to the Society in 1885, containing a 

 beautiful series of specimens of those species which have been 

 found in the British Isles. 



Eev. E. H. Adamson presented to the Society six Volumes of 

 beautiful Figures of Shells, drawn most artistically by Mr. 

 Gibsone, and seven Volumes of Conchological Illustrations, ar- 

 ranged by his father, the late John Adamson, Esq. 



H. B. Tuson, Esq., of London, presented, through Mrs. 

 Surtees, a series of beautiful Illustrations observed and drawn 

 by himself, illustrating the stages of Incubation of the Egg of 

 the Common Eowl, from the first to the fifteenth day, mounted 

 in seventeen frames, with preliminary explanations. 



John Hall, Esq., presented four Marble Statues, representing 

 the Seasons, and the Pedestals on which they are now placed in 

 the front entrance. 



Other donations of Books and Specimens will be found in an 

 Appendix to this report. 



