THE MUSEUM.—Mr. B. Woodward, the curator of the Museum, desires to
acknowledge the following donations received during the past month :—
- Mr. F. C. B. Vosper, 18 specimens of minerals ;
- Mr. R. J. Irving, Kojonup, an Australian teal, a brush-tailed phascogale, a scorpion, a beetle, 13 long- tailed lizards, with remains of eggs and an embryo (?) ;
- Miss Laura Sharpe, gold beetles from Geraldton ;
- Mr. B. H. Sharpe, 2 emu eggs from the Murchison ;
- The Premier, a coloured engraving (caricature), date 1829, and four silk handkerchiefs made from silk grown in Perth ;
- Mr. H. W. Gibbs, an oil painting, “Cottesloe Beach ;”
- Mr. J. Allnutt, Bridgetown, two snakes and a lizard ;
- The trustees of the Australian Museum, vulpes vulgaris (the common fox), canis aureus (the Indian jackal), talpa europoea (the mole), hystrix cristata (the porcupine), delphinus forsteri (the dolphin), ogmorhinus leptonyx (the sea leopard), otaria fosteri (the sea lion and young) ;
- Mr. H. Shand, specimens of hematite from Prince Oscar mine, White Feather ;
- Mr. Joseph Forster, an Australian bittern ;
- Mr. Mat. Bateman, a native cat (dasyurus geoffroyi). The purchased additions include four small Etruscan vases, two curtains of Amritaur work, a Delhi embroidered cloth, a piece of Peshawar “wax painting,” and Waterhouse’s Catalogue of the Marsupialia, with hand-coloured plates.
The number of visitors was 1,245 for month. For the eight months since the opening the number was 8,614.
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