MINERALOGY 
James Backhouse, Esq. 
T. Meynell, Jun., Esq. F.L.S. 
Thomas Backhouse, Esq. 
Various minerals from Australia. 
Elastic bitumen from Derbyshire; iron pyrites 
from Sussex. 
Carbonate of iron. 
ZOOLOGY. 
VERTEBRATA. 
James Backhouse, Esq. 
Rev. W. V. Harcourt, F.R.S... 
Lieut. C. Rudston Read, R.N. 
Mr. Thomas Allis .. 
Mr. William Holder {Hull) .. 
Rev. F. Orpen Morris . 
Thomas Sutton, Esq. 
R. Denison, Esq. 
John Henderson, Esq. 
Silburn Barber, Esq. 
Samuel Hailstone, Esq. 
William Hatfeild, Esq., F.G.S. 
Wombat and 4 other quadrupeds, 4 reptiles, 
23 birds, 1 flying fish, part of a saw-fish, from 
Australia. 
Skins of birds, from South America. 
Skins of birds, from Australia, China, &c. 
The guan, from Australia. 
Skull of the polar bear. 
190 eggs of British birds 
Solitary snipe, shot at Fulford, 1842. 
Dotterell. 
Large specimen of the pike (esox lucius), from 
Castle Howard. 
Hooded crow. 
Specimens of several British fishes, jaws of 
sharks, and eggs of sharks and skates. 
82 skins of birds from North America. 
ANNULOSA. 
Rev. F. Orpen Morris . 
Rev. James Wake {Hedon) .. 
Rev. William Hey. 
Samuel Hailstone, Esq., F.L.S. 
80 Foreign insects. 
2 specimens of locust (L. migratoria), taken in 
Holderness, in 1842. 
18 species of British Coleoptera. 
Fine and extensive collection of British Crus¬ 
tacea, formed by the late S. Hailstone, Jun., 
Esq. (The Hailstone Collection.) 
MOLLUSCA AND ZOOPHYTA. 
James Backhouse, Esq... 5 starfish and Crustacea, from Australia. 
Mrs. Davies .. Echinus and ophiura. 
