RECORDS OF W.A. MUSEUM. 
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MUSEUM NOTES. 
SOME IMPORTANT ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS RECEIVED 
SINCE ist JULY, 1909. 
Zoology. — Sir Ernest H. Shackleton, C.V.O., has presented a 
Crab-eating Seal, Lohodon carcinophagus, and an Emperor Penguin, 
Aptenodytes forstevi, collected on the South Polar Expedition. Mr. 
Gregory Mathews has sent, in exchange, specimens of the Tinamous, 
Timmus laiifrons, and of the Sand-grouse, Pteroclis bicinctus, examples 
of two orders of birds not hitherto represented. 
Botany. — Mr. J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., the Government Botanist 
of New South Wales, has given specimens of two new gums, 
Eucalyptus woodwardi and E. morrisoni, which were collected by Mr. 
Henry Deane, M.A., far to the East of Kalgoorlie during the 
Transcontinental Railway Survey. 
Mineralogy. — A series of Antarctic rocks, of lava and pumice 
from Mt. Erebus, forwarded by Professor T. W. E. David, of 
Sydney University, on behalf of the donor, Sir Ernest H. Shack- 
leton, C.V.O. Various W.A. rocks, ores etc., from residents 
in this State. 
Paintings. — The late Hon. Sir George Shenton, Kt., has 
bequeathed the oil-colours “ Evening on the Sussex Downs,” by 
A. F. Grace, and two seascapes. County Clare, Ireland. A 
Portrait of a Lady of the Court of Louis XIIL, by Phillippe de 
Champaigne (1602-1674), and the “Widow’s Acre,” by G. H. 
Boughton, R.A. (1834-1905), have been purchased on the 
recommendation of Sir James D. Linton, P.R.I. The Hon. Dr. J. 
W. Hackett has presented three oil paintings, a Sketch on the 
Normandy Coast, by J. W. Morrice, a Canadian artist ; the 
“ Reprimand,” by Henriette Browne (Madame Jules de Saux) (1820- 
1904); and “ Loves me, loves me not,” by E. Phillips Fox. “A 
Feather fallen from the Wings of Cupid,” by Rupert C. W. Bunny, 
has been purchased. Messrs. Fox and Bunny are the first two 
