LIST OF DONATIONS 557 



C. W. Crctddas. — A brass coin of Antoninus Pius, from the Roman Wall 

 near Haltwhistle. 



Miss E. Dickinson (Jarrow. ) — A large number of natural history and 

 ethnological objects from South Africa, including six bird skins 

 (an eagle, three kingfishers, two sunbirds) ; shell of a tortoise, 

 Testicdo geometrica ; sponges, zoophytes, echinoderms, etc., and 

 many moUusca from Algoa Bay ; native work in wire, beads, soap- 

 stone, etc. from Bechuanaland, Basutoland and other districts ; 

 photographs of natives and of Bushman paintings. 



Ralph Dixon (Great Ayton. ) — A number of fasciculi of dried plants: 

 Wm. Mudd's "Herbarium Lichenum Britannicorum," i86r, 

 3 fasc, 100 species in each; Nylander's "Herbarium Lichenum 

 Parisiensium, " 1st fasc. ; two fasc. British flowering plants ; one of 

 lichens, mosses, hepatics, algse, etc. 



Hon. and Rev. Wm. Ellis. — A young partridge of the brown 

 (moiitana) variety from Bothal. 



Saml. GkahAM. — Nests and eggs of arctic tern (2) and lesser black- 

 backed gull ; two adders killed at Bellingham on April 6th ; a piece 

 of pine timber showing a curious structure. 



Chas. S. Greenhow. — Four samples of Cornish serpentines. 



W. H. Hardy (Three Mile Bridge Nurseries.)— A case containing three 

 herons from Acklington ; one old bird and two young. 



Ald, Geo. Harkus. — Internal flint cast of a Cretaceous sea-urchin, 

 Echinocomis coniais, picked up at Windsor. 



Mrs. Harpur (Nenthead.) — Internal flint cast of a Cretaceous sea- 

 urchin, Micraster sp.^ from the chalk of Kent. 



G. E. Henderson. — A piece of native bark cloth from Entebbe, Uganda. 



Rev. J. E. Hull, M.A. — Fifty further species of spiders to add to the 

 local reference collection given previously (1895 and 1908) by the 

 same donor. 



Thos. Jefferson (Alnmouth.) — Two immature glossy ibises, Plegadis 

 falciiiellus, shot out of a party of five at Alnmouth (see Transactions, 

 present volume, page 221.) 



Dr. von John. — A microscope slide of minute crystals of diamond, 

 formed from sugar carbon under high temperature and pressure in 

 an explosion chamber. 



S. T. King (Hartlepool.)— A turbot equally pigmented on both sides. 

 A keg of living sea anemones, Tealia and Actinoloba. 



