purchase has just bean arranged by Sir James G. Lee-Steere, will arrive
from Melbourne before the end of this month ; also that the committee has
ordered a further selection of statues and busts from London, as well as a
tiger, rhinoceros, and other mammals. The lion bought in December has now
been placed in the Museum.

Yours, etc.,
BERNARD H. WOODWARD,
Curator.
Museum, March 4.

The following is the list supplied by Mr. Woodward :—

DONATIONS.

January, 1896.—

• Capt. Fawcett, a pea hen ;
• Mr. F. C. B. Vosper, 17 specimens of gold quartz ;
• Mr. T. L. Salkild, an opossum ;
• Mr. W. K. Adam, an Australian darter and a young carpet snake ;
• M. Fernand Dumazel, a York devil and a large moth ;
• Mr. Eric Rasmussen, a Prussian coin ;
• Mr. Gustav Paul, a Fijian pillow ;
• Mr. F. C. B. Vosper, gold in diorite ;
• Mr. G. T. Poole, eight finches from the north ;
• Capt. Gold, a verse of the Koran ;
• Mr. H. W. Gibbs, 144 insects;
• Mr. H. Trulove, a Brazilian copper coin ;
• Mr. H. Collett, a scorpion and a mantis ;
• Mr. F. B. Guthrie, report on agriculture and forestry (N.S.W.) ;
• Mr. Chawner, mica ;
• Mr. Maitland Brown, two bee-eaters and two wood-swallows ;
• Mr. Stratford Strettle, six specimens of echinoidae, 16 of ophiura, 50 shells, four starfish, five crabs and two pieces of coral.

February.—

• Mr. Stratford Strettle, a large star-fish and other zoological specimens ;
• Mr. Frank Reed, four specimens of auriferous quartz ;
• Mr. M. A. C. Fraser, a sooty beaver rat ;
• Curator of the Queensland Museum, fossil jaws of macropus ;
• Mr. Rose, three specimens of Pimelite ;
• Mr. Frank Reed, schistose lode Mt. Magnet ;
• Mr. Otto, a banded ant-eater with young ;
• Secretary of Australian Museum, N.S.W., Records ;
• Mr. Chas. Fagan, set of Guide books (8) to the Natural History Department of the British Museum, London ;
• Mr. R. G. Nugent, a collection of dried plants from the North West ;
• Mr. A. Caudan, Coolgardie, 200 specimens of minerals ;
• Captain Everell, a large carpet snake ;
• Mr. M. A. C. Fraser, a beautiful grass finch ;
• Mr. G. T. Poole, a beautiful grass finch ;
• Mr. P. A. Gugeri, two specimens of Opaline quartz.

LOANS.

January, 1896.—
“ Dawn on Yorkshire Coast,” water-colour drawing by Nelson Dawson, lent by Mr. B. H. Woodward ; Two pearls, monstrosities, from the North-West, lent by Mr. Ellery, of Newcastle ;
Two water colour drawings by Miss F. J. Bayfield,
“Peaches” and “Anemones,” lent by Mr. B. H. Woodward.

PURCHASES.

Sixty-five mammals and birds ; three statues, three busts ; one spinning
wheel, Flemish, over two centuries old ; four specimens of Etruscan pottery.

Number of visitors, January and February 1,679.