LIST OF DONATIONS 225 



P. G. Spence. — Samples of the phosphate deposits and coral sands ot 

 Christmas Island and Ocean Island, in the South Pacific. 



W. Sutherland (Hull). — Bottle brought up by the trawl, encrusted 

 with Serpula, hydroids, etc. 



Clifford Temperley. — Small five-bearded rockling (Motella mustela) 

 rom a rock pool at Alnmouth. 



Prof. J. A. Thomson, F.R.S. — By exchange with Zoological Depart- 

 ment of Aberdeen University : a collection of sea fans and other 

 Alcyonarians in spirit. 



C. T. Trechmann. — Nest of meadow pipit containing two eggs of 

 cuckoo, found by the donor near Castle Eden, June 10, 1909 : 

 described and figured in the Naturalist for April, 19 10. 



J. D. Walker. — Two black-winged stilts, stuffed by R. Duncan, sen. 



P. Walther. — Various minerals, including lignite from West Germany, 

 zinc blande in a septaria from near Whitby ; a fossil plant from the 

 Keuper of Windsheim ; petrified moss from Fallowfield. A number 

 of other minerals by exchange. 



J. Henry Watson.— Batch of eggs (for rearing) of the Arrindi silk 

 moth, Philosamia ricini. 



Rev. R. Stewart Wright. — Objects from Lake Tanganyika: a native 

 hippopotamus spear ; a primitive telephone made from cord, small 

 gourds and lizard skin by a native boy. Also, from the same 

 locality, a queen white ant and two specimens of the sleeping- 

 sickness fly, Glossina palpalis. 



