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^gg2 CRUSTACEA, etc. 



June 30. Two Cocoa-nut Robber Crabs, Burtjo latro, from Tahiti ; two 

 Prawns ; two Scorpions ; one Waking-stick Insect. 



The Executors of Miss Julia Boyd, 



CORALS AND SPONGES. 



June 30. About forty specimens of Corals from the South Sea Islands — a 

 few specimens of Gorgonia ; Euplectella aspergillum, and 

 a few other small Sponges. 



The Executors of Miss Julia Boyd. 



jgc)^ INSECTS, ETC. 



Aug. 12. A Locust from Constantinople. Mr. Robert Scott Blair. 



Sept. 18. Scorpions, Beetles, and other Insects from Bechuanaland. 



Ca]ii. Ralph H. Carr-Ellison. 



Oct. 7. Two Insects — Sawfly, Sirex j'uvenciis, and Longicorn Beetle, 



Ebchester. Mr. John Duncan. 



1892. 



Feb. 1. Three boxes of European Butterflies containing about 95 Species 



(1286 specimens) from South of France. 



Collected and presented by Mr. Frederic Raine, JByeres. 

 1884 to 

 1892, Collection of Butterflies, chiefly from Burmah, collected by Major 

 C. H. E. Adamson, Madras Staff Corps. 



Mr. C. M. Adamson. 

 Feb. 26. Intestinal Worms from Stomach and Intestines of the Lesser 

 Dogfish from the English Channel. 



Prof M. G. Potter, At. A. 

 June 21. Two Butterflies and two Sphinges, from the New Hebrides. 



Surgeon D. McNabb, R.N., Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



1891. FOSSILS AND MINERALS. 



July 3. A few specimens of Upper Cambrian Trilobites from North 

 Wales, and several Rock specimens. Mr. E. J. Garwood. 

 Sept. 5. Branch of Lepidodendron Sternbergii from the roof-shale of 

 the Yard-seam, Deckham Colliery, Gateshead Fell. 



Purchased. 

 Oct. 5. Collection of Marl-Slate Fishes from the shaft sunk at Deaf Hill, 

 Trimdon, Pygopteris and Palceoniscus in fragments. 



Mi\ Thos. Bell, Durham. 



,, 10. Three specimens of Stilbite and one of Mesole or Faroeliie, and 



one of Sphterostilbite on Mesole, from the Faroe Islands. 



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