THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
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Publications of Learned Societies. 
Comptes Rendus. 
Le Spectateur Militaire. 
Journal de Mathematiques. 
Journal des Sciences Militaires. 
Periodically. 
Journal fiir die reine Mathematik. 
Journal des Armes Speciales. 
Journal of Royal Society, No. 47. 
Journal of the Society of Arts. 
Museum. —During the past year several additions have been made to the 
Ornithological part of the Museum, the chief of which is a very valuable 
collection of American birds, presented by the Smithsonian Institution, 
Washington; among these are some rare specimens, also a small but inte¬ 
resting collection of humming birds and others from Berbice, presented 
by Lieut.-Colonel Wragge; a small parrot ( nanodes undulatus) } and some 
reptiles, and insects, from Australia, by Lieutenant Hallet. To the case of 
British birds, a few specimens have been added ; and as the completion of 
this part of the collection depends specially on the Members themselves, it is 
hoped that those who are able to assist will do so, by sending specimens 
either in the fresh state or in skins. A list of the birds and eggs wanted has 
already been published in one of the numbers of the “ Occasional Papers.”* 
Members stationed at any of the West India islands would be conferring 
a great boon by sending specimens of humming birds, and also their nests 
and eggs, with any notes of their habits that they might think to be of 
interest. 
The case of shells is in course of arrangement. Any donations to this 
division of the Museum would be of value, particularly in the families of 
Cones , Volutes , Cypraa, and Murices. British shells are also in request. 
Members stationed on the coast might pass an idle hour, perhaps 
with amusement and profit too, in collecting them, being led on from 
merely collecting to study and take an intelligent interest in the modes of 
life of the curious little people that inhabit these many shaped and often 
richly coloured dwellings. 
As regards insects, the Museum is still very deficient, and considering 
that the Institution possesses Members in all parts of the world, it is felt 
that this collection ought to be inferior to none. The Committee hope this 
inferiority will not be suffered to remain. 
Presentations to the Museum. 
Book containing 270 specimens of Jersey 
Sea Weed, admirably prepared, and scien¬ 
tifically arranged. 
Birds from America. 
Autograph Letter of Lord Nelson’s. 
Egyptian Mummy (Glass Case presented by 
Council R. U. S. I.) . 
Specimen of Iron Piping formed by the per¬ 
colation of water, with iron in solution 
through sand . 
Shot and Shell taken from Chinese Guns 
since their arrival in the Royal Arsenal ... 
Model of a Canadian Canoe . 
Old Naval Cat-o’-nine-tails . 
Eossils, &c. from Egypt... 
Captain P. Sorel, Royal Jersey 
Militia Artillery. 
Smithsonian Institution. 
Captain Ereeling, R.A. 
Transferred from the R. U. S. 
Institution, by Gen. Wood. 
2 Lieutenant W. H. Noble, R.A. 
3 Captain J. Lyons, R.A. 
Major-General Belson, R.A. 
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7 Captain O. Carr, R.A. 
* Yol. II. pp. 57—61. 
