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DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM AND GARDEN. 
T.Meynell, Esq.jun.F.L.S. Selected British insects. 
Mr. Peters. ... Tympanum of whale’s ear. 
Professor Phillips, F.R.S. His whole collection of British Insects, 
chiefly collected near York, from 1825 
to 1835. 
R. Ripley, Esq.Several birds from Lancaster Sound, 
— Scott, Esq. (Norwich) Ornithorhynchus paradoxus. 
T. C, Wood, Esq.... ... Several British birds. 
BOTANY. 
Miss Best.. ... Cotton plant from Nice (Asclepias Syria- 
cus.) 
Mr. Cameron, Birmingham 70 Greenhouse and hardy plants. 
Botanical Garden 
Mr. Lowe, Nurseryman, 12 Epiphytic orchideae. 
Clapton. 
Francis Maude, Esq. ... Nepenthes distillatoria. 
Dr. Wake. Seeds from the East Indies. 
Donations of soil, &c. for the Garden, have been received from 
Mr. J. F. Brown and Mr. Oldfield, and part of the cost of the new 
Hothouse was defrayed by Mr. Eust. Strickland. 
