5S6 LIST OF DONATIONS 



LIST OF DONATIONS 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1909 



Hugh P. Angus. — Fifteen well-mounted birds in cases, including a 

 plantain-eater, Tiiraais livingstoni, two trogons, T. collaris and 

 T. viridis, a coucal, Centropns bengalensis, two Australian ibises, 

 /. violiicca, etc. The head of a fulmar picked up near Nevvbiggin in 

 June. 



Dr. W. D. Arnison. — Some British lepidoptera and other insects. 



Angus Bagnall. — A hollow clay-ironstone concretion showing successive 

 layers in the shell. 



CouN. E. H. BoSTOCK. — A young male chacma baboon, Cyuocephahis 

 porcaruts. 



Mr. Brown (Warkworth Station) per W. Mark Pybus. — A water rail 

 picked up at Warkworth. 



Col. R. H. Carr-Ellison. — Deposited on loan : A fasciculus of 

 grasses, 35 species, with their seeds, published at Gateshead, 1806, 

 by John Thornhill. Also a small cabinet containing drawers. 



James Caygill. — Some pressed plants collected by the donor about 

 Consett and in Teesdale. Fossil plants from the Brockwell seam, 

 Consett J rock and mineral samples from Consett and Cauldron 

 Snout. 



Mr. Charlton. — A kitten monstrosity, with limbs of another embryo 

 attached. 



Isaac Clark, junr. — Two capercaillie chicks in down, from the Trossachs. 

 Five adults and one young of the Orkney vole, Microhis orcadensis, 

 Millais, from the Orkneys. 



Mrs. Cooch (Bulawayo.) — Two heads of " love beans " in pod and two 

 " vegetable ivory " fruits from Zambesia. 



Harold Cookson. — Deposited on loan : further big game heads from 

 Central Africa, namely mounted heads of sable antelope, Lichten- 

 stein's hartebeest, male and female yellow-backed duiker, and 

 hunting dog ; and eighteen skulls or pairs of horns, including 

 eland, sable antelope, bushbuck, lion, etc. 



Geo. E. Crawhall (the late). — Skins of golden plover and knot, the 

 latter shot inland at Elsdon in September. Three swallows, 

 obtained by request for the Hancock collection ; one a variety with 

 white patch on chin. 



