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Limapontia depressa, Seaton Sluice ; Actceonia corrugata, Sea-Honses, North 

 Sunderland Prof. G. S. Brady. 



Specimen of the Bichir, Poh/pterus bichir., and specimens of Unionida from 

 the Upper Nile. Mr. Roht. C. Clephan. 



A small collection of Shells collected on the coast of South Africa, at Port 

 Alfred, 1894. Mrs. Gethin, Gorsehmd, Camberley. 



A small collection of Insects from South Africa. 



Mrs. Gethin, Gorseland. Camberley. 



A small Lougicorn Beetle, Astynomus cedilis, Winlaton, and a specimen of 

 Sawfly, Sirex gigas, ? Bishop Auckland. Mr. John Duncan. 



Nest of Wasp, Vespa, from Riding Mill. Mr. Ernest Scott. 



Three singular Cocoons of a Moth, from the River Plate. Mr. W. M. Pybns. 



Specimens of Beetles from Corsica. Mr. F. Haine, Hyeres. 



Scarabceus sacer from Upper Egypt. Mr. It, C Clephan. 



Sawfly, Si7-ex gigas, Barrow-in-Fui'ness. 31r. John Duncan. 



A bunch of Barnacles, Lepas anatifera, attached to a glass bottle floating 

 in the sea off the North Coast. Mr. Pape, North Shields. 



A group of Lepus fascicidaris attached to vesicular float of their own forma- 

 tion. Washed on shore near Saltburu-by-the-Sea, Oct. 25, 1894. 



Mr. M. L. Thompson, Saltburn. 



BOTANiT. 



A small collection of Plants from the neighbourhood of Campbelltown near 

 Sydney, N.S. Wales. Mr. Matthew Swinburne, St. Thomas Place. 



Fruit of the Doum Palm fi'om Upper Egypt. Mr. R. C. Clephan. 



Six specimens of Carex incurva, Lightf., from Holy Island. 



Gathered and presented by Prof, Daniel Oliver, 



1894 MINERALS AND FOSSILS. 



July 21. Slab of shale with casts of Anthracosia robusta, A. acuta, and 

 Microconchus carbonarius, Busty Bank Seam, Consett Iron 

 Co., Derwent Pit. Mr. Nathan Thompson. 



Sept. 18. Two plaster casts of Bothriolepis Canadensis, one of Ptero- 

 dacti/lus crassirostris, and one of Mesosaurus tenuidens, 

 Albania, South Africa. The Rev. Canon Norman, 



Oct. 6. Specimens of "Cone-in-Cone" and some pieces of Shale with 

 long lath-shaped Crystals of Selenite, from Marshall-Lane 

 Tunnel, Leeds. Mr, George Irving, 



Oct. • Specimens of Coal, Basalt, etc., from the Hawkesbury District, 

 New South Wales. Mr. Walton Brown, 



Nov. 27. Specimens of " Cone-in-Cone" from the shale above the Beau- 

 mont Seam, Duntson Colliery. Mr. Nathan Thompson, 



