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Collection of Models of ships, boats, canoes, etc., 
formerly in the possession of the United Service 
Institution, Whitehall. 
Canoe from the North West Coast of America, 
7 feet 6 inches long. 
A few of the principal acquisitions by Purchase 
may be here mentioned, viz : — 
A Japanese shrine, or Butsumono, from Nikko, 
brought from Japan in 1892. 
It is upright and oblong in form, made of wood, 
pannelled, with folding doors and engraved metal 
hinges, etc. The interior is richly gilt, and contains 
a representation of a temple, with graduated pagoda 
roof, and double row of columns in elaborately carved 
wood, gilt, and ornamented with gilt chased bands. 
Below this is a space partly occupied by Kylins 
carved in wood, under which is a deeper space, with 
three groups of birds, forming drawers. 
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At the top there is a lintel of wood, with chrysan- 
themums in carved open work, gilt. 
There is an inner set of folding latticed doors fitted 
with gauze and carved panels, in open work, of 
birds, etc. In the exterior base are three drawers. 
The whole is a fine specimen, and stands 6 feet 
2 inches high, and 4 feet 4 inches wide, by 2 feet 
10 inches deep. 
A Moriori “ toki,” or stone implement— a rare speci- 
men — was found amongst the limestone rock shelters 
atNgapara, about 1 7 miles inland from Oamaru, on the 
East Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, by 
Mr. S. Edwards. 
The stone of which it is made is a kind of brownish- 
green schist. It is 12 inches in length, and perforated 
at the blade end: 
