RECORDS OF W.A. MVSEUM. 
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RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS. 
Sculpture. — A cast of the Monasterboice Cross received in 
exchange from the National Museum, Dublin. The Laocoon pre- 
sented by the Hon. Sir J. Winthrop Hackett, and Augustus Caesar 
purchased. 
Paintings. — -An Australian Landscape “Summer,” Gumer- 
acha, S.A., igio-ii, by Will Ashton of Adelaide, purchased by the 
Committee aided by public subscription. “ Love under the Rose,” 
by Franceso Vinea of Florence, purchased on the recommendation 
of Sir J. D. Linton, P.R.I. ; “ Idleness,” by Rupert C. W. Bunny ; 
this and four water colours, “ The Nursery,” by Sir E. Waterlow, 
R.A., P.R.W.S. ; “ Old Harbour, Genoa,” by J. McWhirter, R.A,; 
“ A Windy Day,” by J. W. Herald, and “ Mauve and Greys,” by 
Francis E. James, A.R.W.S., were presented by the President, the 
Hon. Sir J. Winthrop Hackett, M.L.C., etc. 
Antiquities.— Repliquas of the Vaphio Bull Cups, of Bronze 
Daggers, and gold tiara and plaques of Aegean (Mycenean) origin. 
Zoology. — A specimen of Notovyctes typhlops, the Marsupial 
Mole from Wollal on the go-Mile Beach, on the North-west Coast, 
was presented by Mr. S. J. Pryon ; this is the second obtained in 
this State, the first being found at Joanna Springs, about midway 
between Wollal and the South Australian border. Skins of a 
kangaroo collected by Mr. J. P. Rogers in the McClintock Range, 
South-east Kimberley, in igog, were sent to Mr. Oldfield Thomas, 
who in the “ Annals and Magazine of Natural History,” June, 
igii, described them as a new sub-species of Wallaroo under the 
name of Macropus robustiis bracteator. The fur is longer and darker 
than that of M. r. ivoodwardi from Grant Range, West Kimberley. 
Mr. Rogers at the same time obtained an example of Phascogale 
penicillata pirata, not hitherto known to occur in this State, 
