484 . REFERENCE COLLECTIONS. 



APPENDIX II. 



Reprint of Notice as to Reference Collections. 

 HANCOCK MUSEUM. 



REFERENCE COLLECTIONS. 



In addition to the objects exhibited to the public, the Museum contains 

 a number of Reference Collections in various departments of natural history. 

 A list of these reference collections is given below ; they can usually be seen 

 by those specially interested, on application to the Curator. 



General Collection of Birds' Skins. 



Hancock Collection of Birds' Skins. 



Hancock Collection of British Birds' Eggs and Nests. 



Raine Collection of British Birds' Eggs and Nests. 



Alder Collection of British Mollusca (Shells). 



Angas Collection of Land Shells (Pacific Region). 



Alder and Hancock's Collection of Nudibranchiata. 



Alder and Hancock's Collection of Tunicata. 



British Hymenoptera ^ ,, 



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British Coleoptera f -p ^ 



British Lepidoptera (Watson Collection) C p 11 , • , 



British Hemiptera ) 



Bold Collection of British Hymenoptera. 



Bold Collection of British Coleoptera. 



Raine Collection of British Lepidoptera. 



Raine Collection of Continental Butterflies. 



Colonel Adamson's Collection of Burmese Butterflies. 



Wingate Collection of Local Diptera. 



Alder Collection of British Hydrozoa. 



Reference Collection of British Flowering Plants and 



Ferns. 

 Collections of British Brambles, Hawkweeds, and Willows. 

 Collections of British Plants formed by the Rev. J. F. 



Bigge and Dr. Thos. Pigg. 

 General Herbaria of N. J. Wincli (in part), R. B. Bowman, 



and the Rev. H. E. Fox. 

 Reference Collection of British Mosses. 

 Reference Collection of Britisli Seaweeds. 

 Swallow Collection of Micro-Fungi. 



Duplicates and study-specimens of British Fossils, 

 especially those of the local Carboniferous and 

 Permian Beds. 



