1 6 LIST OF DONATIONS 



W. H. Ryott. — A specimen of the longicorn beetle Astynomits adiKs 

 captured in Norway. 



Fred Scott (per T. E. Hodgkin).— A living female of the giant saw-fly, 

 Sirex gigas, from Stocksfield. 



Jos. P. Sleigh. — A number of natural history specimens from the Loyalty 

 Islands, including a group of strikingly plumaged small birds, some 

 shells, and a large number of insects, spiders, etc. Also, on loan, a 

 number (about 20) of ethnological objects, including ornaments, 

 articles of dress and utensils, from the Loyalty Islands, Samoa, 

 New Guinea, and Ceylon. 



Stanley Smith, M.Sc, F.G.S. — Four specimens figured in the donor's 

 paper on the Upper Bernician limestones : two Producti, Girvcmella, 

 Saccamina. 



Mrs. Stanley (London). — An eighteenth-century brocade silk quilt with 

 curious gimp trimming. 



L. Steel. — A good example of the monkfish, Rhina squatina. 



C. T. Trechmann. — Some excellently preserved Crustacea and other 

 natural history specimens (about 36), chiefly from South Carolina ; 

 including a perfect Limulus. 



Arthur Trobridge. — Fine sample of a deposit of trona (sesquicarbonate 

 of soda) from a lake in Central Africa. 



Wm. Voutt. — Two tortoise's eggs, laid by a tortoise kept in Newcastle. 



P. WALTHER. — Many mineral and rock specimens, including augite 

 crystals, volcanic ash and bombs from the Eifel ; a plate of lepidolite 

 from Quebec ; four metal models of tantalum crystals ; fresh, 

 differently coloured samples of potash minerals — kainite, carnallite, 

 sylvite — from Stassfurt ; manganese concretions from deep sea off 

 South America ; garnierite, worked as an ore of nickel, from New 

 Caledonia ; some small Cambridge Greensand fossils. Other speci- 

 mens by exchange, including a fine section of an agate from the 

 Eifel ; two very fine pieces of atacamite from Chile ; a piece of a 

 meteorite from Texas ; native nickel-iron from the Yukon, Canada ; 

 native tantalum, a sample of the first and only known find of the 

 mineral, from the Urals. 



J. Henry Watson (Manchester). — Eggs (for rearing) of the Japanese 

 silk-moth, Anther aa yama-mai, the Bengalese (Arrindi) silk-moth, 

 Philosamia ricini, and the emperor moth, Satumia carpini. 



C. W. White. — Minerals collected near Blanchland : transparent and 

 smoky quartz ; galena ; fluorspar. 



