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MiSs Spence Watson.— a mantis ( Blcpharopsis ?ncndica) brought from 

 Teneriffe and kept alive for some months in England. 



Conrad White (the late). — Group of seven well mounted tropical birds. 



FuED. G. Wilson. — A young garfish taken off Berwick. 



Rev. W. J. Wingate. — A natural clump of fossil coral, Loiisdalcia 

 riigosa, from the Great Limestone, Craster. 



Frank Winter. — A large exotic beetle, Blaps gages ^ L., imported with 

 oranges from Porta Belgrada. 



E. Seymour Wood. — Samples of sand-rock from the bottom of the 

 Permian Yellow Sands at Dawdon Colliery, Seaham Harbour. 



Rev. R. Stewart Wright. — Various ethnological and natural history 

 objects from Central Africa ; including a primitive cotton spindle, 

 an idol, wooden figures, etc., from Tanganyika and the Congo Free 

 State ; various ores and a copper ingot ; a queen white ant, a rare 

 Tanganyika shell, Tiphobia ho?-ei, and eight pairs of horns of 

 antelopes (seven species). 



