224 LTST OF DONATIONS 



Miss M. Ridley Makepeace. — Some ethnological and other objects 

 on loan, including two heads carved out of cocoa-nut husks from the 

 Andaman Islands, a Kaffir cup, and a South African weaver-bird's 

 nest. 



J. Ford Maling. — Remarkable flint concretion from the chalk. 



R. D. Maughan. — Large saddle (cow-boy's) from North-West America. 



Henry T. Mennell. — Copy of Bacon's engraving of the portrait of 

 Thomas Bewick by Ramsay. Current additions to the set of the 

 Linnean Society's yournais presented the year before. 



Capt. D. H. Nash. — Partly by exchange : natural history objects 

 collected by the donor in various parts of the world : some good 

 shells ; South American Lepidoptera ; twenty skins of South 

 American sea birds, including some rare terns, a rare cormorant, 

 and two species of the southern auk-like petrels Pelecanoides. 



Walter Nelson. — Chicken monstrosity — a rather interesting case of 

 dichotomy. 



Major Geo. J. W. Noble. — Five recent parts of the Proceedings and 

 Transactions of the Zoological Society, and vol. 45 of the 

 Zoological Record. 



J. J. Oxley. — Samples of wild cotton and various mineral deposits 

 (asbestos, bitumen, etc.) from Newfoundland. 



John Pattinson. — Small fossils — crinoids and Acfinoccras — from local 

 limestones. 



W. Mark Pybus.— Collections of shells, chiefly British land shells. 



E. O. Reid (the late). — Young hawfinch from near Newcastle. 



Wm. Reid (Bulawayo). — Good examples of gold quartz and chrome 

 iron from Rhodesia. 



Miss Dorothea Richardson. — Char netted in Windermere; weight 

 just under fib. 



J. Alaric Richardson. — Young swift that fell from a nest in the 

 donor's house. 



Messrs. Robson and Sons. — Two large shells, Bulimus sp. and 

 Carocolla sp., found embedded in a log of walnut from the 

 Mississippi. 



H. Minton-Senhouse. — Piece of Lepidodendron stem. 



Laurence Smith. — Fresh comb from the nest of a wild bee, Bomhts 

 venustus, from the Shetlands. 



