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LIST OF DONATIONS TO THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM DURING JANUARY AND FEBRU- ARY, 1866.  

 

A WATER-RAT (Hydromys chrysogaster), a parrot (Platycercus flaviventris), a kingfisher (Alzyoni azurea), a petaurus (Petaurista       taguanvides), 2 freshwater fishes, Galaxias trustaceus), 2 ditto ditto (Galaxias maculatus), 4 ditto -ditto (Argentina), from Tas-  

mania. Presented by Dr. James C. Cox.

Skeleton of a tiger. By Mr. William Beaumont. Shells from Marrubra Bay. By Mr. Frost.st.  

Reptiles, fishes, mollusca, and crustacea, from the South Sea Islands. By Mr. J. A . Buttrey.

A young phalangista. By Mr. J. D. Stewart.

A fish (Cheironectes), from the Hunter River. By Mr. William

Brown.

2 native cats (Dasyurus viverrinus). By Mr. John H. Sey-

mour.

Three species of fishes. By Mr. William Underwood.

A collection of weapons and antiquities of the Middle Age, Roman coins, &c., collected in England. By Mr. George Thorn-  

ton.

A collection of coins. By Mr. Henry Cape.    

A piece of iron conglomerate. By Mr. F. S. E. Holt.   A land-crab (Birgus latro). By Mr. D. C. Dalgleish.

A large shell (Dolium), from Port Jackson, and a collection of fishes, land and freshwater shells, from the South Sea Islands. By Mr. Archibald Boyd.

A snake (Hoplocephalus). By Mr. William Gorman.  

A pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus). By Mr. James D. Cox.  

A shovel-nosed shark. By Mr. Edward Byers. An annelid. By Mr. James Alderdice.

3 silver coins. By Mr. William Pattison.

7 New Zealand insects, and 5 ditto, from Burwood. By Mr.

Alexander Hunter.

A diamond snake (Morelia spilotes). By Mr. Jose G. Hay.  

A crested pheasant, and a musk duck (Biziura lobata), from

the Council of the Acclimatisation Society.

A fish, from the Brunswick River. By Captain Archdeacon.  

A pigeon, a parrot, and a partridge. From the Botanic

Gardens.

Copper ore, fron Queensland. By Mr. Donald M'Donald.

A fish, allied to the genus Esox. By Mr. W. C. Windeyer.

M.L.A.  

A fish (Balisica). By Mr. William Peacock.

A black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus). By Mr. Paul Coffey.

11 copper coins. By Mrs. Bailiff.

A lialis (Lialis punctulata), and four Australian field mice (Mus Novae Hollandiae). By Mr. James Seymour.

A live Brown snake (Diemenia superciliosa). By Mr. H. M. Burton Bradley.

A native bear (Phascolarctos cinereus). By Mrs. Stuart.

A lizard (Cyclodus gigas), and a bat (Scotophilus moria). By Mr. William Macleay, M.L.A., F.L.S.        

A wood duck (Chlamydochen jubata). By Mr. J. R. Yorke.

A collection of land and fresh water shells, from the South Sea Islands, and a cat-fish (Silurus). By Mr. Arch Boyd.

A snake (Morelia spilotes). By Mr. Edward S. Hill. A new Zealand star-fish. By Miss Priscilla Nelson.  

A banded vermicella (Yermicella annulata), By Mr. F.

Allport.

A collection of mammals, birds, reptiles, and fishes, from the South Sea Islands. By Mr. John Buttrey.

A collection of reptiles, fishes, coleopterous and lepidopterous insects. By Miss Harriet Scott.

Digitisation generously supported by
Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation
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