l62 LIST OF DONATIONS. 



DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM 



FROM JULY 1ST, 1900, TO JUNE 30TH, 1901. 



Arthur J. Annan. — A small Monkey, Macacus sp., from Bombay; 

 kept alive in Newcastle for 4J years. 



F. J. Charlton, R.N. — An improvised piece of Ordnance, consisting of 

 a length of iron piping clamped into a beam of wood and mounted 

 upon a pair of cart wheels ; made and used by the Philippinos in the 

 recent Philippine War. 



— Dickson (Benwell). — Monstrosity in the Dutch Rabbit. 



Rev. Canon Dunn. — A Grey Wagtail {Motacilla melanope) from 

 Houghton-le- Spring. 



Thos. Golightly. — A small collection of Minerals from the Cleator 

 Moor Hcematite Mines. 



Saml. Graham. — A specimen of Mica Schist with enclosed flat pebbles 

 from north of Loch Awe. 



John Jackson. — A Marmoset, Midas flavifrons, stuffed by the donor. 



James Murray. — Nest of Tree Pipit [Anthus trivialis) with Cuckoo's 



Chas. Parkins. — A fine stuffed specimen of the Wild Cat from Scotland. 



South African Museum (the Director).— A Peripatus, Pcripatopsis 

 leonina, Purcell, from Lion's Hill. Table Mountain, Cape Town, 

 South Africa. 



Alfred Telford (per Edward Telford). — Two large "Sea Crayfish" 

 (1 Palimirus sp.) from Cuba. 



H. B. Wilson.— A male Black-headed Gouldian Finch. 



Rev. R. Stewart Wright. — A number of objects of natural history and 

 ethnology collected by the donor in British Central Africa, viz. : — 

 Skeleton of Hippopotamus from north end of Lake Nyasa ; horns 

 (one pair each) of the Eland, Hartebeeste, and Waterbuck, from 

 the Shire Highlands ; six shells of Tiphobia Horei from Lake 

 Tanganyika ; Indiarubber as collected by natives, L. Tanganyika ; 

 Pumice from L. Nyasa ; double wooden Food-plate, bead Neck- 

 lace, and Comb ornamented with bead-work, from the Shire High- 

 lands ; Beetles used as snuff-boxes by the Argoni, L. Nyasa ; two 

 Oars, one, flat-bladed, from L. Tanganyika, the other from 

 L. Nyasa ; piece of wood from the tree under which Livingstone's 

 heart was buried, Illola. 



