LIST OF DONATIONS 1 5 



RICHARD DANIELL (Shankhouse Colliery, Cramlington).— Large wooden 

 model of a metal-mine, made by the donor. Showing underground 

 workings, shaft machinery, and a great variety of machinery for 

 dressing the ore. 



Mr. Dickinson (gamekeeper, Prestwick Car). — Pair of partridges in 

 case, one with a large horny tumour on the head. 



Dove Marine Laboratory, Cullercoats. — A rare Goniasterine starfish 

 (not yet identified), brought into Shields by a trawler. 



W. P. Grace.— A large hymenopterous insect, Cimbex sylvarum o_ 

 and examples of the mite Trombidium holosericeum : all from 

 Whickham. 



Same. Graham. — Two cases of stuffed birds, containing a red-necked 

 phalarope, a green woodpecker, and two kingfishers. 



Dr. A. Holmested Hobbs. — Specimens from northern Tierra del 

 Fuego : a collection of 54 of the most striking flowering plants ; 

 two primitive native knives ; a piece of iron pyrites used by the 

 natives for making fire. 



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

 the local reference collection given previously by the same donor. 



Cyril W. Hurst. — Twenty-two moths to add to the Raine Collection : 

 including Noctua C-nigrum, Heliophobus papillaris, Leucania 

 putrescens, Miselia Oxyacanthcs (dark variety). 



R. W. Kennedy. — A living example of Zoropsis maatlosus, Cb., a large 

 Canary Island spider, found in a shop in the Bigg Market. 



S. T. King (Hartlepool). — Animals brought up by the trawl in the 

 North Sea : a Greenland bullhead, Cottus grcenlandicus ; Psolns 

 phantapus, a holothurian, alive ; Fiiniadina qiiadrangularis, a 

 sea-pen. 



Edwd. Merrick. — Clay containing crystals of selenite, from Walker. 



Sir Arthur E. Middleton, Bart. — Fine, growing clumps of the coral- 

 root orchid, Corallorhiza innata, from the donor's estate at Belsay. 



J. G. Ormond. — A living emperor moth, Satumia carpini. 



J. J. Oxley. — Minerals from Newfoundland : galena crystals in clay, 

 Bay St. George ; sample of a deposit of asbestos re-sorted by 

 glacial action, Mount Cormick. 



Dr. F. C. Pybus. — The skeleton of a green turtle, Chelone ?>iydas. 



E. O. Reid. — A brambiing from Woolsington. The furcula of a knot 

 shot at Hebburn. 



