DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM.—The Curator of the Museum asks to be allowed to
acknowledge, through the columns of the WEST AUSTRALIAN, the following
donations received during the past month :—
- Mr. Herbert Beck[?], 30 specimens of antimony and other ores ;
- Mr. W. K. Adam, Halmaturus dama (dama) and young, Onychogale lunata and young (spur-tailed kangaroo), Falco melanogenys (black-cheeked falcon) ;
- Miss Atkins, the flannel plant ;
- Mr. P. Ferrars, West Australian tobacco (Nicotiana Tobacum) ;
- Mr. John Watson, a “ray” and the tail of a “sting-ray” ;
- Mr. Wm. Rockliff, two Norway rats (Mus decumanus) ;
- Miss Prinsep, yellow-cheeked parrakeet (Platycerus ict[e]rotis) ;
- Mr. Dave Hackett, a large scorpion ;
- Professor Henry Ward, 21 specimens of minerals, viz., ulexite, malachite (3), margarite rose quartz, marcasite, opal, amazon-stone, fluorite, diaspora quartz (2), microcline, garnet, calcite (2), natr[e]lite wavellite, azurite, chalcopyrite ;
- Mr. F. C. B. Vosper, auriferous specimens ;
- Mr. F. Brockman, 14 beetles, 3 lizards, 2 snakes ;
- Mr. F. Mack, one spider ;
- Mr. F. W. Foweraker, a small lizard ;
- Mr. Frank Reed, nine specimens of auriferous quartz, Yalgoo ;
- Mr. J. H. Otto, three Pardolotus striatus (striated diamond bird), one lizard, a catterpillar, [sic] and a box of flies ;
- Mr. C. H. Spurge, one lizard (Scincus officinalis), “the skink ;”
- the Minister for Mines, Sydney, Annual Report of the Department of Mines (1895) ;
- Mr. E. Symons, a flint implement (tomahawk), found at the “Lakes ;”
- Mr. F. C. B. Vosper, case containing 11 lots of auriferous ores, box containing auriferous specimens Mr. Stratford Strettle, two Ophiuridae, one Hippocampus brevirostris (seahorse) ;
- Mr. J. H. Otto, one Falunculus lencogaster (white-bellied shrike tit), Myrmecobius fasciatus (banded ant-eater), with young ;
- Mr. Arthur M. Lea, 33 insects ;
- Mr. G. E. Inkpen, one walking stick insect ;
- Mrs. Eastcott, two Acrobates pygmaeus (the pigmy flying phalanger). The purchases include a Bengal tiger skin and an armadillo, and a very interesting collection of minerals from America, which includes an “etched” fragment of the famous Tolucca meteorite, obtained from Professor Henry A. Ward, of Rochester, U.S.A.
