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Australia, and Southern Ocean, were presented by the Lords 

 Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, through Mr. T. Digby 

 Pigott, C.B. A few only of these have at present been mounted, 

 the remainder being preserved amongst the skins, where they are 

 to be seen on application. Mention may also be made of three 

 fine Emus, and the White-billed Diver (Colymbus adamsi), 

 recently obtained in Norway by Col. Feilden, a species which 

 one of your correspondents, I observe, has just added to the 

 Norfolk list (Zool. 1896, p. 14) on the strength of a specimen 

 preserved in the Booth Collection at Brighton. 



There are several good skeletons of birds, and in the Keep a 

 large table-case of feather capes and tippets worn by the South 

 Sea islanders and other natives, some of them from South Africa, 

 presented by the Baroness Berners. 



The Mammalia. — Amongst the more interesting objects here 

 are a pair of Himalayan Bears, a large West African Chacma 

 Monkey, a splendid Moufflon from Cyprus (presented by Sir 

 Henry Bulwer), various interesting beasts from Lord Hastings's 

 Collection and the Trustees of the National Museum at Mel- 

 bourne, a three-months'-old Lion cub (bred in Bostock's mena- 

 gerie), and the skull of Phoca hispida, captured on the Norfolk 

 coast, and bought by my father in Norwich fish-market. There 

 are several others which Mr. Southwell mentions, including the 

 Beavers, which, when liberated in Sotterley Park, " made them- 

 selves quite at home, felling trees to construct a dam after their 

 manner," and the gnawed tree-stool in the Museum is their work. 

 In one corridor a number of skeletons will be found, and among 

 them Mr. Southwell enumerates — Lioness (two), Polar Bear 

 (Capt. Manby), Leopard, Camel, Zebra, and Fallow Deer; also 

 two very large and perfect tusks of the African Elephant, and an 

 enormous head of the same in the Geological Room. 



The addition of some life-size models of Cetaceans, accurately 

 painted after nature, would add very much to the attractions in 

 this department ; good models, such as they have in the British 

 Museum, being even better, for museum purposes, than the 

 creatures themselves ; but unfortunately want of room is already 

 a serious consideration. 



The Ichthyological Collection. — The collection of Fishes is a 

 pretty good one, comprising a fine Maigre (taken at Sheringham 

 in 1841), Spanish, Pomeranian (Cossey), and Ray's Bream (Yar- 



