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Ridley ; a carefully prepared set of Tasmanian lepidoptera by 

 Mr. F. M. Littler, of Launceston, Tasmania; and a collection 

 of butterflies from Nyasaland by Captain J. H. Cuthbert. 

 Some good mammalian skulls were received as a bequest from 

 the late Percy E. Page of Low Fell. The Curator has been 

 allowed to make a selection from the duplicates in some 

 of the departments at the Natural History Museum, South 

 Kensington, and in this way were obtained a number of 

 insects, echinoderms, and specimens of other classes 

 particularly wanted in our collections. At the same time 

 Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell added some further specimens as a 

 personal gift from himself. Valuable additions to the mineral 

 collection have been made by Mr. P. Walther, Mr. M. Pelegrin, 

 and Mr. J. J. Oxley. Two very satisfactory exchanges have 

 been arranged during the year with other museums. From 

 the United States National Museum at Washington were 

 received, in exchange for some local fossils, several beautiful 

 stalked crinoids from the West Indian seas, which filled a 

 long-standing gap in our collection ; and with the museum at 

 Bergen a similar set of our local fossils was exchanged for a 

 most useful series of Crustacea, worms, and other marine 

 invertebrates. Two specially valuable gifts to the library 

 must also be mentioned : the six volumes of Moore's 

 " Lepidoptera Lidica," presented by Col. Adamson, and a 

 complete set of the monographs comprising " The Fauna of 

 British India," a donation from the India Office. 



