236 ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM 



ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1908 



*^* Except where otherwise stated, all the acquisitions mentioned are 

 donations from the persons or institutions named. 



LiEUT.-CoL. C. H. E. Adamson, CLE.— The last cabinet of the donor's 

 collection of Burmese butterflies, containing the Pierinre. Another 

 cabinet, containing Indian butterflies and other Indian insects. 

 Eggs of greater and lesser pratincole from Burma. A fossil fern, 

 Sphenopteris cj-ithmifolia^ from Jesmond Dene. Two polished 

 pieces of jade from the mines on the Uru River, Upper Burma. A 

 small portrait of the late W. C. Hewitson. 



Hugh P. Angus. — Skull of boar dug up in Gallowgate, Newcastle. 



Geo. a. Atkinson. — Four shells of Ceratisolen legiimen from the Solway. 



James Backhouse. — Crystals of galena from the Stang and Cleasby 

 Mines, Arkengarthdale, Yorks. 



Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A. — A number of specimens for the museum, 

 including the head of a stalked crinoid ( Pentacnniis miilleri), a 

 colony of the coral Dendrophyllia, and the embryo and uterus of 

 a dogfish. 



Harry Benson. — Fifteen dried "pitchers" of various pitcher-plants 



(Ahpenthe). 



Bergens Museum (Norway). — In exchange for local fossils: a number 

 of authoritatively named marine invertebrates (small Crustacea, 25 

 species ; pantopoda, 2 species ; tunicates, 4 species ; worms, 14 

 species ; holothurians, 2 species ; an Asterophyton, some Gorgonacea, 

 etc.) 



Walter Blackett. — The late Thomas Thompson's collection of eggs, 

 with the drawers containing them. 



RoBT. Blair, F.S.A.— Three pieces of Roman roofing tiles bearing foot- 

 prints of dogs and lamb, from the Roman station at South Shields. 



British Museum (Natural History). — Specimens which the Curator 

 was allowed to select from the duplicates in several departments at 

 the Natural History Museum, South Kensington : 66 striking 

 tropical beetles, and some crustaceans and echinoderms. 



Thos. Bulman. — A large number of lantern- slide views of the museum — 

 interiors, groups of birds, etc. — together with most of the negatives. 



