TO THE NATURAL HISTOEY SOCIETY. 423 



Annual Report of Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 1877. The Society. 



Two Parcels of Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. 



The Academy. 



ZOOLOGY. 



A Skin of the Vampire Bat. Mr. John Kell, Mosky Street. 



A Bat, a few Flint Arrow Heads, and a small Basket and Specimens of 



Cordage, from Terra del Fuego. Mr Philip Hobhs, Ellison Place. 



A few Bones of the Apteryx, from New Zealand. Miss S. Richardson. 



Specimen of the Glaucous Gull (^Lanis glaucus), in Winter Plumage, shot at 



Holy Island. C. M. Adamson, Esq 



A young Dipper, taken in Dipton Burn; one of a second brood from the 



same nest. J/r. F. Hutchinson. 



A Specimen of the Spotted Flycatcher, taken at Ravenswood, near Benwell. 



Master Thomas Clark., Ravensivood. 

 A Specimen of the Hooded Crow, shot at Long Benton. Mr. E Bold. 



Two Skins of the Kakapo, from New Zealand. Mr. Wm. Nesham. 



A Model of the Egg of the Great Auk. Mr. John Hancock. 



Two Specimens of the Common Viper (Male and Female) from Islay. 



Mr. Thomas Uanning^ Islay — per R.. Y. Green ^ Esq. 

 Three Specimens of the Common Ringed Snake, from Cambridgeshire. 



blaster Dickinson. 

 Specimens of the Common Frog, Smooth Newt, etc. Mr. James Ste/>henson. 

 A Specimen of the Burbolt, taken in the River Wiske. 



/. E. Bell, Esq,, M.P., F.R.S. 

 A very large and fine Specimen of the great Japanese Crab (Inachus Kivnip- 

 feii), taken off the coast of Japan. Capt. H. C. St. John, R.N. 



A few Specimens of Lepas fascicnlaris, found on the beach at Tynemouth. 



Dr. ]V. B. Clarke. 

 Specimens of the Colorado Beetle, from Pennsylvania. 



Presented by Dr. Ewhleton, from T. B. Grierson, Esq,^ 

 Thornhill, Dumfries. 

 A Specimen of the Colorado Beetle, from Hartford, Connecticut. 



Geo. An(fus, Esq., Beech Grore. 

 Models of the Eggs, Larva, and Imago of the Colorado Beetle. 



j\fessrs. James Gibbs ^' Co., Mark Lane, London. 

 A Specimen of Conus bandanus and Trorhns Niloticus. Mr. /\. Y. Grern. 

 A fine Specimen of Helix aspersa, from Islay. Mr. R. Y. Green. 



Six Specimens of the (Jl.i.ss Hope Si)onge (Hyolonema mirabilis). Two 

 Corals (/sis), and Two Fish, from .lapan. Mr. John Blechynden. 



A Box of various Objects of Natural History from Now Zcalaml, including 

 Shells, Boar's Teeth, &c. Mr. J. 11'. Suon. 



