294 LIST OF DONATIONS 



G. A. Emery. — Three guillemots' eggs ; two being eggs of the " ringed" 

 guillemot from Shetland, the third an abnormally small egg from 

 Bempton. 



Jno. Gardner, F.E.S. — A further section of the donor's collection of 

 British coleoptera for incorporation in the large reference collection. 



H. A. Gill. — A number of living stag beetles ( Lucanus cervus) from the 

 donor's garden at Chiswick. 



Samuel Graham. — Three birds' skins (starling, little owl, jacamar) ; a 



peewit's nest with two normal and two very abnormal eggs ; a 



hen's egg with a partial subsidiary shell inside ; chaffinches and a 

 common tern from Bellingham ; a dace from the North Tyne. 



Newbey S. Green. — Roach and large pike from the Till. 



Max Holzapfel. — Seven skins of small eagles from the highlands of 

 British East Africa. 



George Jennings (Backworth). — Two Indian stag beetles. 



H. A. Kersey. — Large Orthoceras on a piece of limestone from a wall 

 near Matfen. 



T. King (Hartlepool). — A ballan wrasse, Labrus maculatus, caught in 

 the trawl off Hartlepool. 



Miss Ethel Livens. — Characteristic objects from China : including an 

 illustrated native newspaper, a letter, a book ; pictorial sheets, one 

 of them a New Year "kitchen-god"; models of insects, etc. ; 

 combs, scissors, thimble, and a silver shield for an elongated finger 

 nail. 



Manchester Museum (per Dr. W. M. Tattersall).— An example of one 

 of the rare flexible-shelled sea-urchins, Asthenosoma hystrix, 

 dredged from ooze off the west of Ireland in 492 fathoms. 



Sir Arthur E. Middleton, Bart. — Branches and cones of Araucaria 

 from a tree at Belsay Castle ; the first known to have produced 

 cones there. 



A. M. Oliver. — Shells of Helix terrestris from Dover. 



T. J. Oxley. — A piece of shale from Newfoundland with remains of 

 minute ostracods. 



Miss Audrey Pease. — A number of specimens of the freshwater fish- 

 louse, Argulus foliaceus, collected from small trout in the Otterburn 

 district. 



Rev. H. Proctor. — Three alligators' eggs from Southern Nigeria. 



