THE MUSEUM.
RECENT DONATIONS.
The Curator of the Museum, Mr. Bernard H. Woodward, asks to be allowed to
acknowledge in the WEST AUSTRALIAN the following donations to the Museum
received during the past month :—
- Mr. G. S. Streeter, pearl shell and sponge
- Mr. M. Cronin, spotted nightjar (Eurostopodus [?]ultatus)
- Royal Society of N.S.W., “Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of N.S.W. for 1895
- ” Mr. J. Cowan, P.M., [sic] white-shouldered Campephaga (Campephaga humeralis), long-billed reed-warbler (Calomoherpe longirostris), tri-coloured Ephthianura (Ephthianura tricolour)
- Mr. A. Szezecinski, moss-coloured blackboy-stick)
- Mr. W. J. Joyce, Australian gannet (Sula australis)
- Mr. H. H. Surman, black snake (pseudichis porphyriacus)
- Mr. Gilbert, graceful ptilotis (ptilotis ornata)
- Mr. Chas. Lauffer, a Salamander lizard
- Mr. Maitland Brown, R.M., Geraldton, two Australian bustards (choriotis australis)
- Mr. M. Cronin, allied harrier, young male (circus assimilis)
- Sir James G. Lee-Steere, five auriferous specimens
- Royal Society of Tasmania, “Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1894-5
- ” Mr. D. Strickland, three native spear-heads from the Fitzroy River
- Miss Emily Prinsep, skink (scincus officinalis)
- Mr. H. A. Cooper, Gibb’s crab (arctopsis lanata)
- Mr. Mortimer New, auriferous quartz specimens from Dead Finish
- Mrs. Eastcott, porphyry-crowned lorrikeet [sic] (Trichoglossus porphyrocephalus)
- Mr. Alex. Woodhouse, two native pearl ornaments, 20 miles inland Admiralty Gulf
- Mr. Montague Brown, specimen of telluride
- Mr. A. Jacobsen, auriferous specimens from Parker’s Range
- Captain Thos. Fowler, auriferous specimens from Empress of Coolgardie and Isonomy mines
- Mr. S. J. Beecher, auriferous specimens from Marble Bar, etc.
- Hannan’s Brown Hill G.M. Co., specimen of auriferous formation
- Burbank’s Grand Junction G.M. Co., six auriferous specimens of quartz
- Carlyle G.M. Co., Parker’s Range, three auriferous specimens
- Mr. D. L. Swifte, Adventure Bay, Tasmania, 43 Tasmanian birds’ eggs, flying squirrel (Belideus ariel)
- Mr. H. W. Gibbs, collection of insects (50)
- Messrs. Mason and Thompson, two porphyry-crowned lorrikeets [sic] (trichoglossus porphyrocephalus) and seven insects.
The number of visitors to the Museum on November was 2,660.
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