240 ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM 



Thomas Summerville. — Head of rook with curiously deformed upper 

 mandible, from Denton Burn. 



J. H. Tanner. — A tawny owl from Trittington, with rather more white 



than usual in its plumage. 

 Ronald Trail. — Fossil plants (Sigillaria, Sphenopteris, Neuropteris) 



from Coal Measures of Germany. 



J. Urwin. — Cast of a Cretaceous sea-urchin, Ananchytes ovat7ts, found in 

 glacial gravel on Boldon Flats. 



U.S. National Museum. — In exchange for local fossils: specimens of 

 the stalked crinoid Pentacrimts decerns, Wyv. Th., from off 

 Havana. 



Wm. Walker (Amble.) — A piece of shale from the Yard Seam, Broom- 

 hill Colliery, Amble, crowded with good scales of Megalichthys 

 hihberti. 



P. Walther. — A large number of minerals, including many samples of 

 metallic ores from Chile, other minerals from English and European 

 localities (including pectolite with clear apophylHte crystals from 

 Wearhead) ; some Lias fossils from the Yorkshire coast. Also, 

 partly by exchange, an extremely fine piece of pectolite from the 

 whin sill at Wearhead. Two concretions from horses' stomachs, 

 one showing a shoeing nail in the centre. Fifty-seven casts of small 

 cameos from the Capitoline Museum, Rome. 



