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INSECTS. 



Small collection of Lepidoptera from British Central Afiica. 



C. E. Bell, Mandala, Nyassaland, Cent. Africa. 

 Large Tick fomid on a Tortoise. Mj: John Duncan. 



A collection of eighty-five species of British Spiders chiefly from Dm-ham 

 and Northmnberland. Rev. John E. Hull, M.A., No7-th Shields. 



A large and valuable collection (290 species and var. ) of Butterflies {Lepidop- 

 tera diurnd) and a large collection of Flies {Diptera), collected chiefly 

 in the South of France and Corsica by F. Raine, Esq. 



Presented hy Frederic Raine, Esq. , Hyeres, Var, France. 



BOTANY. 



Ectocarpus cecidioides, R., on yomig fronds of Laminaria hieroglyphica at 

 Filey, June, 1895. 



E. M. Holmes, Esq. , Pharmaceutical Society, London. 

 Small Branch of Eucalyptus globulodus? in fruit, Cape To\vn, S. Africa. 



Mr. R. E. Kay, Manor House Road, Newcastle. 



A lai'ge collection of British and European Plants, comprising the Herbarium 



of the Rev. H. E. Fox, of Dui-ham, and a smaU collection of N. Zealand 



Plants. Presented by the Rev. H. E. Fox, M.A., London. 



Nut of the Seychelle Palm. Mrs. Hardcastle, Chester Crescent, Newcastle. 



FOSSILS AND MINERALS. 



Productus giganteus, from Little Mill Quarries, Northumberland. 



Mr. Geo. Wilson, Rennington. 

 A few rough Agates and piece of Zeolite from Basutoland, S. Africa. 



W. H. Dodds, Esq., Newcastle and S. Africa. 

 Small collection of Chalk-Marl Fossils, Rottingdeau, near Brighton, and 

 Trigonias from Portland Oolite. John I. Clarke, Gos forth. 



Specimen of Asterophyllites foliosa, L. et H., Charlotte Pit, BenwelL 



Mr. W. Buchan. 

 Specimens of Mesotype and Datholite? from Giants' Causeway, Antrim. 



Mr. T. Dickinson. 



A Slab of Mineral deposited from Water in the Ann Pit, Walker Colliery, 

 taken from some backing deals put into the Pit about 1845 ; removed 

 Sept., 1895, Mr. Walter Brown. 



Piece of Stigmaria foiuid in the Roman Camp at " M,sica,^^ on the Roman 

 Wall. Mr. Gibson, Black- Gate Museum. 



A piece of cherty, Carboniferous-Limestone. J. Maling, Esq. 



Specimens of Specular Iron from Elba, Apiil 18, 1896. 



Capt. Gilbert Howse. 



