LIST OF DONATIONS 559 



Chas. Robson (Birtley.) — A series of examples of the bee Bomhis 

 vennstiis taken at Birtley. 



R. R. Sharp. — A collection of butterflies (in papers) caught recently by 

 the donor in the Katanga district, Congo Free State. 



Geo. Sisson. — A large stone crab, Lithodes main, bought in Shields fish 

 market. A framed set of coloured figures of young salmon in various 

 stages, with description by Yarrell. 



Lawrence Smith. — Nest of the humble bee Bonibus vemistits from 

 Shetland. 



Stanley Smith, B.Sc. — Specimens of six fossil corals from the limestones 

 of Northumberland. 



Mrs. (Emma) Stanley (London.) — A fine embroidered satin quilt, be- 

 lieved to be German of the 1 7th century. 



B. Storrow. — An example of the rare long-armed starfish Astronyx 

 loveni from off Aberdeen. 



Sunderland Museum. — A large collection of Japanese moths, made in 

 North Japan by the Rev. Walter Andrews. 



H. C. Swan (Auckland, New Zealand, per J. D. Walker.)— A group 

 of highly polished pebbles from the gizzard of a moa, Dinoniis, 

 turned up by the plough near Auckland. 



Miss Vust. — A kitten monstrosity, 



Christopher Walker. — A flint nodule containing a beautifully pre- 

 served shell of Spondyhis spitiosus. 



P. Walther. — A group of oysters from a ship's bottom. Various 

 minerals, including samples of the potash minerals of Stassfurt, 

 trona from Africa, altered coal and roof-bed from a Scotch seam ; 

 a clay-ironstone nodule containing a Lepidostj-obns. Also, by ex- 

 change : a set of chalk fossils — echinoderms, sponges, corals, etc. — 

 including a remarkable spiral fossil which the experts of the London 

 museums are unable to identify ; and a large number of minerals, 

 e.g. a set of the rare minerals of Styria, brown tourmaline crystals, 

 opal pseudomorphic after serpentine, chalcedony with included 

 liquid and bubble, jamesonite, sagenite, rhipidolite, yellow and red 

 griqualandite, etc. 



G. H. Warren (per W. N. Mangin.) — Four dogs, well mounted by 

 Rowland Ward ; a retriever, two St, Bernards, and an Esquimo 

 do^. 



