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One hundred and nineteen Marine Shells, from Bombay ; 

 presented by A. Abercrombie, Esq. 



One hundred and thirty-three Land Shells, from Madras ; 

 presented by J. R. Henderson, Esq. 



Forty-four Marine and twenty-nine Land and Freshwater 

 Shells, from Ceylon ; presented by Lieut. Col. J. W. 

 Yerbury, r.a. 



One hundred and fifty-five Land Shells, from North Borneo; 

 purchased. 



Fifty- one Land Shells, from North Borneo, including the 

 types of twenty-seven new species ; presented by A. Everett, 

 Esq. 



One hundred and twenty Land Shells, from British New 

 Guinea ; presented by Charles Hedley, Esq. 



Eight Land Shells, from New Guinea, including three fine 

 examples of the rare Oxytes hercules ; presented by H. 

 Veitch, Esq. 



Seventy-one Land, Freshwater, and Marine Shells, from Java, 

 New Guinea, &c., inclndmg Pyrula Jilosa, Cochlostyla fischeri, 

 &;c. ; purchased. 



Seventy-seven Marine Mollusca, from East and South 

 Australia, including eight specimens of the genus Epkippo- 

 donta ; presented by J. Brazier, Esq. 



Sixty small Land Shells from the Tonga Islands ; presented 

 by R. B. Leefe, Esq. 



One hundred and ten Land, Marine, and Freshwater Shells, 

 from British Honduras ; presented by his Excellency Sir 

 C. A. Moloney, k.c.m.g. 



Polyzoa. — One hundred and seventy-five specimens have 

 been added to this class ; in addition to those already men- 

 tioned, the following may be recorded : — 



Thirty specimens of Polyzoa from the West Coast of Scot- 

 land ; presented by Dr. John Murray, v.p.r.s.e. 



Crustacea. — One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six- 

 examples of this class have been added to the collection. 

 The majority were collected by the Naturalists of H.M.S. 

 " Penguin," as mentioned above ; of the others the following 

 may be noted : — 



Eighteen Entomostraca, from the Firth of Forth and Loch 

 Morar, including the types of Lichomolgus agilis, Moraria 

 anderson-sTYiithii and Parartotrogus richardi ; presented 

 by Messrs. Thomas and Andrew Scott. 



Five terrestrial Isopods, being the types of Porcellio con- 

 tractus, Armadillo syriacus, Armadillidium simonii, A. 

 exteretanum and Philoscia cellaria, from Syria and South 

 Europe ; presented by Professor D'Arcy W. Thompson. 



Four hundred and thirty-five Decapoda and Stomatopoda, 

 including the types of eleven new species, principally from 

 Madras and Pamban ; presented by J. R. Henderson, Esq. 



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