XVIU LIST OF DONATIONS 



H, G. Carr-Ellison, — On loan : skins of some birds collected about fifty 

 years ago in China and elsewhere. 



Abel Chapma'N'. — A salmon parr from the North Tyne (used as model 

 for painting a cast). 



Hugh V. Charlton. — Large water-colour painting, framed, of an eagle 

 owl in the Hancock collection. 



P. Charlton (Chopwell). — Fossil plant-remains from Chopwell, includ- 

 ing examples of Mariopteris tmiricata, and of unidentified spores, 

 seeds or eggs on a slab of fine Asterophyllites foliage. Also a large 

 plant of broomrape, Orobanche major. 



Isaac Clark. — Two nestling ravens. 



Mrs. Alfred Cochrane.— A pair of living golden pheasants for the 

 aviary. 



Cochrane and Co. — Sample of barytes, with alstonite and witherite, 

 from New Brancepeth Colliery. 



Harold Cookson. — A collection of skins (73) of British birds, includ- 

 ing black redstart from Northumberland, dotterels from the 

 Highlands, and varieties of grouse and chaffinch. Other natural 

 history specimens : a large colony of the coral Mertilina, part of 

 the skeleton of a trigger-fish (West Indies), two "vegetable cater- 

 pillars " from New Zealand. A number of ethnological objects 

 collected by the donor, including a native drum, tobacco pipes, 

 carved figures, and a gazelle trap, from Africa ; kava root 

 and bowl, combs, tappa, etc., from the South Sea Islands ; flax 

 dresses, etc., from New Zealand. 



Thos. Dunn (Whitley Bay). — Skeleton of opah or king-fish from near 

 St. Kilda ; a rabbit-fish (^Chimaera) and a sponge, also from 

 northern waters. 



Thos. Elliott (Ford, per Newby S. Green). — A very large pike, 

 netted in the Till (cast made for Museum). 



Dr. Harry Eltringham.— Reprint of paper by the donor "On the 

 Urticating Properties ol Port he si a similis, Fuess." Also a number 

 of entomological store-boxes. 



Wm, Eltringham (West Ryton). — An unusually fine example of the 

 enigmatic fossil Palccoxyris (egg-case of a large fish ?) in a clay- 

 ironstone nodule from Crawcrook. 



W. E. Forster (Paignton, Devon), — A number of fishes for casting, 

 including ballan wrasses, pilchards, a pollack, and a shadow-fish or 

 maigre ; also an eared grebe in winter plumage. 



