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Major Geo. J. W. Noble. — Deposited on loan : mounted head of a 

 Chillingham " king bull," shot by the lender, Dec, 1906. 



J. J. OxLEY. — Some Newfoundland minerals, including azurite in vein- 

 quartz, copper pyrites containing gold, and Belle Isle iron ore. 



Percy E. Page (By bequest of the late). — Eleven mammalian skulls : 

 Bengal monkey, Macaciis rhesus ; bonnet monkey, iM. siniais ; 

 another monkey, Ccrcopithcciis sp. ; a marmoset, Hapale sp. ; fruit 

 bat, Pti'i-opiis sp. ; Egyptian and Indian mongoose, Hcipestes 

 ichneumon and H. niungo ; coati, Nasiia riifa ; two coypu, 

 JMycpoianius covpii ; common phalanger, TrichosiirKs viilpcaila. 



RI. Pelegrin. — A number of minerals, including ore-samples from Alston 

 and Spain, some agates, and show-specimens of fluorspar, calcite, 

 copper carbonate, malachite, garnet, galena, etc. 



Messrs. F. H. Phillips and Co.— -Specimens of the common fish-louse, 

 Lepeophthcir2ts stjivnii, from the tail of fresh-run salmon. 



Right Hon. Viscouxt Ridley, — Natural history objects selected from 

 collections at Blagdon : six birds, including a hawfinch from 

 Blagdon, a pair of ptarmigan, and a golden eagle ; a number of 

 tropical and other shells ; and a large number of minerals, including 

 volcanic products from Italy, minerals from Alston and Wearhead 

 (good quartz crystals and geodes, "specular" galena, etc.), 

 Ingleton slate with crystalline and dendritic pyrites ; also a few 

 fossils, including a fine impression of Lepidodendron on sandstone. 



J. D. Robinson. — A human skull ; mummified body of a cat. 



Ernest Scott. — Skins of four small South American birds — Pipra 

 riibricapilla and three humming-birds. 



Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt- 

 am-Main. — Large photograph of an Ichthyosaurus in the Sencken- 

 berg Museum showing complete imprint of body, fins, and tail. 



George Sisson — Four living mole crickets, Gryllotalpa vulgaris, from 

 Interlaken. Various shore animals from the Northumberland coast 

 — Solaster, Cribella, and other starfishes ; shanny and other fishes ; 

 specimens, one perfect, of the large annelid Alitta virens. 



Laurence Smith. — Wild bee's nest from Shetland. 



C. F. Spexce. — Geode with crystals of calcite, from Frenchman's Bay, 

 near South Shields. 



B. Storrow. — Various shore animals from near Whitley Bay : 2 Ligia 

 oceanica, 2 Spirontocaris seciirifrons ^ Eolis papulosa, I Dcndronotiis 

 arhorescens. W-aq three uncommon starfishes brought in by trawlers. 



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