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MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON RECENT ADDITIONS TO 
Broad, was in the same year added to the collection. Whether 
this species be a genuine straggler, or only an escape, as to which 
opinions differ, it has occurred in Norfolk four times in an 
apparently wild state, and was a welcome addition. 
To the collection of Eaptores more than one hundred specimens 
were added in the year 1885, through the watchfulness of the 
President and his friends. A very interesting addition to the 
Botanical collection was made by Sir James Paget, being the 
collection of dried British plants and Algai formed fifty years ago 
by Sir James and his brother (since dead) and used by them in 
compiling their ‘ Sketch of the Natural History of Great Yarmouth 
and its neighbourhood’ in 1834. The collection of British Marine 
Shells was also enriched by some fifty-seven species through 
the liberality of W. J. 0. Holmes, Esq., F.L.S. 
During the year 188G the Kaptorial collection received an 
addition of two hundred and twenty-two specimens, including one 
hundred and twenty-six species from the President, two of which 
were new to the collection, viz., Bideo alleni from Florida, and 
Uros2'>izia jardinei — type specimen. Many of these, as well as 
twenty-eight specimens presented by Lord Lilford, came from the 
collection of the late Sir William Jardine. Other valuable 
specimens of birds of prey were received from S. B. Doig, Esq., 
of Ahmedabad, North-west India; F. Ringer, Esq., of Nagasaki; 
W. Davison, Esq., Ootakamund, India; Turin Museum; Canon 
Tristram, and P. L. Sclater, Esq. Considerable additions were 
also made to the collection of Egg.s. From Greenland, through 
the kindness of Captain David Gray, I was able to obtain skulls 
of Ursus mariihnus, Phoca gruenlandica, and Phoca hispida ; and 
by exchange with the Cambridge Anatomical Museum, a skull of 
Phoca vitidina. A most interesting donation was made by 
Colonel Haggard of the Egyptian army, consisting of the Mummy 
of a Priestess, from Ekhmin, Upper Egypt, brought over by the 
donor. 
The year 1887 has again been noted for the valuable additions 
made to the collection of local birds. Change of residence rendered 
it necessary for Mr. Stevenson to dispose of the bulk of his choice 
and well-known collection of Norfolk birds, and I was commissioned 
to secure for the Museum, and thus preserve for the county, many 
local specimens of great interest. The most important of these. 
