LIST OF DONATIONS 1 7 



L. LoviBOND. — Two eggs, a black tern's and a variety of the peewit's. 



B. B. Mewburn.— Nest of rock pipit from St. Kilda. 



John Pattinson, F.I.C. — A piece of fossiliferous Middle Lias. 



Mrs. Pelegrin. — A group of 19 tropical birds under a shade. 



Messrs. F. H. Phillips and Co. — An example of a rare fish, the 

 greater forkbeard, Phycis blennoides (— furcafi(s)^ landed at 

 Sunderland. 



Jas. S. Pitkeathley. — A good mounted specimen of the Indian cobra, 

 Naia t7-ipicdians. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Proctor. — Two Continental cockchafers, 

 Polyphyllafiillo, Fabr., from Ostende. 



C. H. Reed. — A piece of encrinite stem from the boulder clay near St. 



Mary's Island. Also (with Jno. Duncan) a starfish, Sclaster pap- 

 posa, from the same part of the coast. 



F. W. Rich. — Five specimens of Planer's Lamprey, Pet7-O7iiyzon planeri, 

 Cuv., from the Coquet, near Hepple. 



T. B. Short (Berwick.) — A black-headed Gouldian-finch, Pocphila 

 goiildicF. 



Geo. Sisson. — An "American silkworm moth," Saturnia cecropia, with 

 the cocoon. 



Laurence Smith. — Fresh comb from a wild bee's nest, Shetland. 



R. J. Stopher. — An emu's &gg brought from Australia by the donor. 



Theophilus Storey (Executors of the late).— The herbarium of the late 

 John Storey (father of Theophilus Storey). The plants are in 

 excellent preservation. 



Andrew Thomson. — An example of an arctic cat-fish, the "jelly-cat," 

 Anarrhichas denticiilatus (= latifrons), said to have been caught 

 off the Northumberland coast ; not previously recorded from British 

 seas. (See Transactions, new series, vol. i, p. 499.) 



Thomas Thompson (the late). — By bequest : eight birds in his collection 

 which he judged to be most valuable to the Museum, including local 

 examples of the great reed warbler, great crested grebe, bittern, 

 etc. ; together with some local nests, and a collection of small 

 British birds (about 80 cases) made by Thos Robson. Also a pine 

 marten from .Scawfell, and the tooth of a mammoth. 



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