LIST OF DONATIONS 1 5 



LIST OF DONATIONS 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1907 



Dr. a. a. Abraham. — Four birds (hooper, bean goose, bittern, and a 

 tyrant -flycatcher) formerly belonging to the late Edmund Crawshay. 



Lieut. -Col. C. H. E. Adamson, C.I.E. — Two Indian rollers, Coracias 

 indicus. Two examples of compressed air iire-ma,king tackle used 

 by the Chins. 



Capt. H. H. Adamson (per Col. Adamson).— A large moth (Erebus 

 strix 1) from Manaos on the Amazon. 



Richard S. Bagnall, F.E.S.^A practically complete collection of 

 British woodlice. Also a series of specimens showing growth-stages 

 of caterpillars, and a number of rare and newly discovered local 

 insects, indigenous and imported, including ants, beetles, hemiptera, 

 etc. 



Chas. L. Bell, J. P. — A pair of swallows from Woolsington. 



Miss Bell (Harlow Hill). — A black guillemot, Uria grylle, in full breeding 

 plumage, mounted. 



ROBT. Blair, F.S.A. — Some fossils, including a fine tooth oi Carcharodon 

 and other shark^' teeth, a number of fossil shells, etc. 



K. Russell Brady. — Native model of a surf-boat or katamaran. 



Mrs. Brewis. — A fine piece of Japanese carving in red wood. Two 

 parson-birds, Prostheinadera nova-zealajidia, with some otherforeign 

 birds. 



M. Walton Brown. — Specimens of witherite from Brancepeth Colliery. 

 Samples of various ores — pisolitic iron ore, bole, Hthomarge, 

 bauxite, etc. 



Lieut. -Col. R. H. Carr-Ellison.— A number of bird skins collected 

 in Malta and near Hong Kong by the late Capt. Oswald Carr, 

 R.A. Grasses, leaves of trees, and other botanical specimens of 

 economic interest from North America. Also, deposited on loan, 

 37 ethnological objects, chiefly from New Zealand and the South 

 Sea Islands ; these objects include several flat Maori weapons of 

 wood, bone and stone, and the basket-work of a Hawaiian feather 

 helmet. 



Alex. Cheal. — Several bullfinches from Surrey. 



