T,TST OF DONATIONS xlvii 



Edward Lovett. — Copy of paper by the donor on "The Game of 

 Knuckle Bones." 



Mr, Macarthur. — A nest which there is good reason to thinlv is that of a 

 siskin, from near Kenton. 



Hugh Main. — Two hving ant-lions (larvje of Myrmeleon sp.), from 

 Switzerland ; kept alive for some time at the Museum. 



N. H. Martin, F.R.S.E., F.L.S.— Complete bound series of the Journal 

 of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1874 to 1900. 



Henry Tuke Mennell, F.L.S.— The Journal of the Linnean Society : 

 Botany, vol. 42, nos. 286-7, vol. 43, no. 288 ; Zoology, vol. 32, 

 nos. 217-8. Also a copy of a List of the Invertebrate Marine Fauna, 

 drawn up for the Dredging Committee of the British Association, 

 i860. 



Lady Noble. — Two young ravens from the West of Scotland, for the 

 aviary. 



Miss Noble. — " Mutton Birds and Other Birds," a book on some of the 

 characteristic birds of New Zealand, by H. Guthrie Smith. 



E. A. Payne (Moravian Mission, Nain, Labrador). — A fish spear 

 (kakkivak) with spring forks and barbs, used by the Eskimos for 

 spearing trout through holes in ice. 



Mr. Richardson (Board of Agriculture). — Larva and pupoe of magpie 

 moth ; and an ichneumon fly. 



J. Alaric Richardson. — A very large garfish (Bclonc vulgaris), for 

 casting. 



Utrick a. Ritson, D.L.' — A very fine fossil tree (Sigillaria sp.), lower 

 part of stem with roots, from a gannister bed in the Millstone Grit, 

 Crawleyside, near Stanhope-in-Weardale. 



Miss Joyce Robson, M.Sc. — A collection of Hydrozoa made by the 

 donor, mounted in the form of microscope slides (50). 



Alex. Rosie.— An excellent representative set of British Microlepidoptera, 

 collected and prepared by the donor. 



Ernest Scott. — Samples of the successive cave deposits of Kent's Cavern, 

 Torquay, with bones and hyaena's teeth. 



Miss Althea R. Sherman. — Copies of papers on North American birds, 



by the donor: " Carolinean Avifauna in North-Eastern Iowa"; 



" At the Sign of the Northern Flicker " ; " Experiments in Feeding 



Humming birds during Seven Summers"; "Nest Life of the 



■Screech Owl " ; "Nest Life of the Sparrow Hawk." 



