l8 LIST OF DONATIONS 



Thomas Thompson {Residuary Legatees of the late). — Nearly all the 

 remainmg birds in the late Mr. Thompson's collection, including 

 particularly fine and well mounted examples of shearwater, chestnut 

 variety of partridge, grey plover, stockdove, nightjar, spotted 

 woodpecker, Greenland and Iceland falcons, etc. 



Mrs. Florence T. C. Trevelyan. — A number of Indian horse- 

 trappings. 



J. D. Walker, J. P. — Two local birds, a short-eared owl and a 

 Richardson's skua. 



W. Walker (Amble.) — Examples of small slickensided knots^ simulating 

 vegetable structures, in Coal Measure shale from Amble. 



P. Walther. — A number of minerals and fossils, including foliaceous 

 specular iron ore, moresnetite, Persian soapstone, carved soapstone, 

 various asphalts, chrysotile from Bassenthwaite, a fine example of 

 vein-infilling from the Harz, corals from the Eifel, fossil wood and 

 various species of belemnites from the Yorkshire coast. A quantity 

 of ozocerite for mounting crystals ; a tin of an invisible varnish for 

 protecting shale fossils from sulphur-decomposition. A Spanish 

 leather wine bottle ; a grotesque "mermaid" from Japan. Also, 

 a number of good minerals acquired from Mr. Walther by exchange. 



Mrs. Ward. — A hen whydah bird. Vidua paradisea^ mate of a cock 

 presented last year. 



Miss E. Welford. — A very small ^g^ laid by a domestic hen (about the 

 size of a corn bunting's.) 



JAS. Wilkinson. — Two fresh eggs of a tortoise. 



Miss Ruth Wood. — A miniature egg laid by a full grown hen. 



