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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF 
The collection of British birds remains the same, no additions having been 
made during the year, which is much to be regretted. Any Members of the 
Institution—and no doubt there are many who would gladly assist in com¬ 
pleting this collection—can be furnished, on application, with a list of 
species most wanted. 
Additions have been made to the collection of British birds^-eggs, and two 
orders, the Raptores and Rasores are now complete. 
Six handsome cases have been made at the Institution, which occupy the 
space formerly filled with the old Laboratory specimens. They contain, 
among other things, uniforms of the Regiment during different periods, 
showing the various changes that have occurred in course of years—also 
many miscellaneous objects of interest presented by Members ; these when in 
the Natural History Museum were out of place; but now, being grouped 
conspicuously in the new cases, they are better seen. It may be noted here, 
in passing, that the item in the accounts under the head of carpenter—which 
is exceptionally large—includes, among other things, the materials for these 
large cases, and also the extensive alteration made in the Lecture Theatre in 
the way of new and commodious seats or benches. 
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Presentations to the Museum . 
Collection of Geological specimens from the 'j 
Crimea . > 
Collection of Chalk Fossils from Dover ... ) 
Brainstones from Bermuda . 
Criolite from Greenland . 
Bottle of Wine, made from the grapes of 7 
the Yines that grow on Mount Lebanon . j 
Elephant’s Skull and lower jaw . 
Walrus’ do do ., 
Turtle’s do ... 
Alligator’s do . 
Shark’s Jaws . 
Whale’s Yertebrse. 
Turtle Shells. 
Tortoise do . 
Eish-skins ....... 
Bow from Melville Island... 
Hide Shield ... 
Collection of old English Silver Coins . 
Piece of Oak-beam from the Tower of Lon-") 
don, eaten by White Ants.j 
Chromo-Lithograph of Officer R.A., 1828.. I 
do Artilleur-Anglais, do. ) 
Ancient Copper Coins .... 
Collection of Fossils. 
Oil Painting, “ First Riding-Master, Royal | 
Artillery” .) 
Geological Specimens (old red sandstone). 
Pair of Austrian Cavalry Pistols. Pattern 1856. 
Specimen of Silver Ore from Norway . 
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Colonel H. Aylmer, R.A. 
| Lieut. A. O. Molesworth, R.A. 
Captain J. Barton, R.A. 
The late Ordnance Medical 
Department, General Hos- 
- pital, Woolwich. Through 
Surg.-Major J. M. S. Fogo, 
R.H.A. 
Lt.-Col. J. Desborougli, R.A. 
Colonel G. R. Kennedy, R.A. 
Lieut. L. Gye, R.A. 
Capt. N. S. K. Bayly, R.A. 
Capt. J. N. P. Dadson, R.A., 
and Capt. W. P. Dadson. 
Lieut. W. Boylin, R.A. 
J, Tennant, Esq., F.R.S. 
Lieut. E. Marshall, R.A. 
Captain E. Staveley, R.A. 
