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Lepidoptera. These Cabinets will be all arranged in the Upper 

 "West Corridor, and will form Cabinets of Eeference for students 

 and others engaged in active Ornithological studies. 



Por many years the Society has been much indebted to Mr. 

 Chas. M. Adamson, one of the Honorary Curators of the Museum, 

 for the gift of a collection of Foreign Lepidoptera from Upper 

 Burmah, collected by his son. Major Adamson. 



These specimens were not only presented but mounted and 

 arranged in the cases in the Zoological Room by the same 

 gentleman. 



Mr. Thomas J. Bewick has obligingly presented a large case 

 and specimens illustrating the process of washing and dressing 

 lead-ore and the manufacture of lead, which will shortly be 

 placed in one of the corridors. A remarkably large and fine 

 specimen of Haematite or Kidney Iron-ore from the Whitehaven 

 district has also been presented by the same gentleman. 



Mr. George Allan, a former donor to the collections, who is at 

 present travelling in South Africa, has recently presented an in- 

 teresting collection of Antelope Horns from Swazieland, and a 

 few implements and articles of dress and other curiosities from 

 the same district for the Ethnological collections. 



A few months ago Hugh P. Boyd, Esq., of the Temple, Lon- 

 don, on behalf of the executors of his late sister, Miss Julia 

 Boyd, offered to the Society a large collection of native imple- 

 ments, carvings, and manufactures from New Zealand and other 

 islands of the South Seas, and a collection of corals, minerals, 

 and plants collected by Miss Boyd, who expressed a wish that 

 her collections should find a resting place in the Newcastle 

 Museum. The collection has now been accepted. It contains 

 a fine series of some of the rarer New Zealand Bird-skins, large 

 fragments of rare Maori carving, a collection of New Zealand 

 plants, chiefly ferns, some interesting minerals from the Volcanic 

 district of Tarawera in the North Island, and a large collection 

 of native mats, cloth made of the bark of trees, flax, etc., and 

 also a large assortment of corals and shells. A detailed account 

 of these will be found among the general donations, a list of 

 which will be appended to the Report. 



