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RECENT DONATIONS.
The Director of the W. A. Museum.
and Art Gallery (Mr. Bernard H.
Woodward) begs to acknowledge in
'The Daily News'' the following dona
tions received during the past two
months: —
The President, Kyoto Imperial Uni
versity, Japan, Calendar for 1909 -
10; Emil Ekhoff, Stockholm, Sweden,
'Fornvannen, 1908'; Mr. F. W.
Lovell, larvae of vine hawk moth
(Choerocampa celerio); Mr. H.M. Ill
man, wood-boring moth (Hepialus
sp?); Master W. Barnes, a dragon
fly; Mr. Chas. Chawner, specimens of
mica; Natal Government Museum,
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 'An
nals of the Natal Government Mu
seum,' vol. '1. index, 'and vol: 2;, part
l; Mr. G. Snook, two mangrove fight
ing crabs' (Gelasimus coarctata); Mr.
J. H. Cox, specimens of actinolite;
Mr. E. C. B. Locke, a blind snake
(Typhlops Australis); Mr. J: Gullan,
a bttg (Myotis. profaina)v and a robber
fly, (sp?); Mr. W. Bailey, a iace. lizard
(Monitor, ; gouldi); Mr. W. W. C.
Leatch, a grasshopper; Mr. W.- A.
AWen, a moth (sp.?); Mass Etta Jull, a
large fly, famuly Muscddae fpp?); Mr.
Wri N-erville, -a mialocih (Moloch. horri-
cius); Dr. J. W. Hackett, cast of the
Group of 'Daocoon'; the Very Rev.
the Dean of Perth, east of Assyrian
slab, 'The Lion ^ Hunt' ; Mr. ^Isa wa
Xamasaki, a suit of ancient Japanese
armor;' the Museum and Art Gallery,
Leicester, England, 'Annual Beport','
Mr. G. F. Longsou, a thorn spider
(Gastracantha spi?); Mr. W. M. Foote,
Philadelphia. P&, U.S.A., 'Complete
Mineral Catalogue'; Mr. Forward, a
scale-footed lizard (Pygopus . lepido
pus) ; Mr. H. S. Smith, a gecko (sp..?) ;
Smithsonian Institution, Wash., U.S.A.,
'Report of the U.S. National Museum,
1909'; Mr. P. Gugeri, a wasp.(Sp.?);
the superintendent Old Men's Home,a
wedge- tailed, eagle (Uroaetus audax);
the Hon. Walter Rothschild, ' «. Ph:DM
'Novitates Zoologicae,' vol. xvi., No,
2;'-M.r. Jean Mass'art, Jardin Botanique
de L'etat, . Bruxelles, 'Les Aspects dc,
la Vegetation en Belglqne'; W-A-.
Natural History Society, t two fish.
(Olisthops cyanomelas). seven. mol--
hiscs, a/nd iChree echinoderm^v. ', ; ,
The list of purchases include the'
following: — Water-color ' ? painting
'Dinninup,' by Mr. A. G. Plate, pur
chased of the artist three, casts . of/
Messrs. Brucciani and r Co., two silver
medals, Melbourne Exhibition, 1880
188S, . of Mr. B. RosenwaK, and': two
casts of fish from the Taxidermist, Mr,
O. Lipfert
A sample of pituri (Duboisiaj hop
wooui) from *he M'uilisan. River, West
Queensland, has' been received in. ex
change from the Australian Museum,
Sydney, N.S.W.
The number of visitors to the W.A.
Museum and Art Gallery,^ during the1
months of December and January; -was
11^)62, of -whom 2,233 came W Sunday
afternoons.
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