58 LIST OF DONATIONS 



Oct. Collection of Balani, obtained chiefly from the bottoms of steamers 

 trading to tropical parts of the world. 



F. Schnitger, Esq., Leazes Terrace. 

 Nov. Teeth of Shark and Skull and Wing-boue of Albatross. 



Master R. J. Kay., Shteldfield Gi'een. 

 „ Unio with Pearls, from the Thames, near Oatlands. 



Mr. John Hancock. 

 Dec. A small collection of Recent Shells, etc. Miss Joicey, Gateshead. 

 1890. 



May. Specimen of Eledone cirrhosa^ and of Ommastrephes todai-us, caught 

 by North Shields Trawler ; Loligo Forbesii, caught at Culler- 

 coats. Mr. Thos. Beldon, North Shields. 

 June. Thirteen specimens of Recent Shells. Prof. G. A. Lebour. 



1889. BOTANY. 



Nov. Three Coues of Pinus Coulteri, one of Auracaria imhricata, grown 



at Whitmoor House. Capt Salvin. 



Two Cones of Cedrus Libani, from a young tree planted by Mr. 



Wm. C. Hewitson at Oatlands about forty years ago, and six 



Cones of Cluster Pine, from Oatlands. Mr. John Hancock. 



1889. MINERALS AND FOSSILS. 



July. Specimen of Native Copper, from Lake Superior, U.S. America. 



Mr. Geo. Sisson. 



„ A collection of Fossils, from the St. Cassian beds of Lake Como, 



North Italy. Mr. Edmund J. Garwood. 



Sept. Six slabs of Fossil Footprints, from Corncockle Quarry, Lockerbie, 



N.B. Messrs. Benson ^" Co. 



,, Specimen of Red Copper Ore, from Spain. 



Two specimens of Syenite, from the Malvern. Mr. M. J. Pelegrin. 

 ,, Three specimens of Magnetic Iron Ore, from Gellwara Mountains, 

 Sweden. Mr. H. Oswin Bell. 



Nov. Slab of Sandstone, shewing Ripple marks, 



John Clayton, Esq., The Chesters. 

 ,, Antlers of Red Deer, Cervus elaphus, dredged up from the silt of 

 the Tyne at Newcastle Quay, 27 feet below low-water mark. 



Mr. Wm, Geo. Laws. 

 Dec. Specimens of Flint-flakes and Gun Flints, to illustrate the manu- 

 facture of the latter from Flint nodules. 



Air. E. Lovett, Croydon. 



,, Lepidodendron Sternbercjii, small portion of branch, from Gosforth 



Quany, near the Colliery. Mr. Gibson. 



