CANTERBURY MUSEUM.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 44, 21 July 1874, Page 3

CANTERBURY MUSEUM.

The following contributions were received by the Canterbury Museum during the quarter ending June 30, 1874: — Dr L. Powell—Specimens of Oriental topaz and noble opal. Miss Lottie Parker, Cathedral Square— Specimens of Himantopus leucocephalus (pied stilt). Mr Arthur Mountfort —Collection of New Zealand lizards.

Mrs A. N.Nixon, Alford station—Specimen of Rhynchaspis variegata (shoveller). Mr F. R. Fuller—A pair of peacocks (Pavo cristatus). mounted. Mr VV. Hood, Chatham Islands—Skull with lower jaw of Orca species (Killer), 7 nests, 40 eggs of Chatham Islands liirds. Mr F. Stanley Bruce, Leithflcld—Tooth of Dolichodon Layardii (Scamperdown whale). Master H. Wade, Stanmore road—Specimen of Graculus punctatus (crested shag.) Mr F. Day, Sumner—Specimen of Puffinus tristis (mutton bird). Mr A. N. Nixon, Alford station—Specimen of Eudynamis taitensis (long-tailed cuckoo). Mr C. A. Calvert, Woolston—Johnston's travels in Russia, 1 vol in 4-to, 1815. Mr F. Griffiin, Papanui road—l twentyshilling token of Charles I. Sir Cracroft Wilson, K.C.5.1., C. 8., Cashmere— A series of specimens of Circus assimilis (New Zealand barrier.) Mr Thomas Merry, Avonside—l greenstone adze, porti on of the Maori mere. Mr Dixey—Collection of geological specimens, obtained by him in and near the Kaucrhanga Creek, Thames, Auckland. Mr S. S. Powell, Kaiapoi—9 specimens of copper ore from the Burra-Burra mines, South Australia.

Mr R. D. Jackson, London—4 silver coins. Master Albert James Abbott, Papanui road —4 silver, 22 copper coins. Mr A. Reid, Kyttelton—l duck chick (lusus naturre).

Mr W. Hood, Chatham Islands—6 whalebone brushes of the sulphur-bottom whale (Mcgaptera Novec Zealandise). Rev J. T. H. Woehlers, Ruapuko, Southland —1 specimen of Aptenodytes Pennantii (king penguin) ■ 1 specimen of Prion lianksi, whale bird ; and 2 of Haladroma urinatrix (diving petrel). Master T. A. Mollet —1 specimen of Circus assimilis (New Zealand harrier). Mr N. Gordon Gla^sford —1 specimen of Athene Novaj Zealandiaj (Morepork) ; 1 specimen of Circus assimilis (N. Z. harrier). Mr J. F. Fountain, Hororata—6 specimens of Circus assimilis (N. Z. harrier) ; 2 specimens of Ocydromus australis (wood-hen). Dr Donald, Lyttelton—3 specimens of Scomber australasicus (mackerel), caught in Lyttelton harbor. Mr F. Wakefield, F.L.S., Sumner—l Maori skull with lower jaw. Mr M. K. Gillandcrs, Selwyn—Collection of moa bones.

Master Hugh Robison —1 specimen of Eudyptula minor (blue penguin). Mr T. Kirk, F.L.S., Wellington—l6o specimens of Northern Island plants. Mr Lars Olsen—Copenhagen Exhibition Medal.

Mr James Rowe—l specimen of Ocydromus Australis (woodhenj albino. Mr J. G. Hawkcs—l specimen of Gallophesis Nycthemerus (silver pheasant) hen. Mr F. Griffin, Papanui road—l medal, 2 specimens of Khipidura flabellifera (fantail). Mr Thomas Going, Halswell—l specimen of fossil wood from the Moeraki Downs,

Mr J. O'Brien —1 specimen of Java sparrow.

Mr Jos. Ph. Klein, Hokitika—Collection of Semi gems, manufactured at Idar, near Oberstein, Germany. Mr Frank HoughtoD, Pigeon Bay- 1 female and two young of Naultinus elegans (green lizard). Mr Abner Clough, Mount Peel—2 specimens of Plasma, 1 of Chalcedony, 1 geode of Agate, found at the head of Coal Creek. Mr G. M. Wemyss Dalrymple, Hokitika — Fossil Pecton,"from (Jallaghan'o Gully. Waimea ; Boulder with gold, from auriferous cement, from Charleston Town lead. Mr Joseph Armstrong—Specimen of Gra> cuius brevirostris (white-throated shag). Mr IT. Woolner, R.A., London —Busts of Thomas Carlyle and Charles Darwin, medallion of Tennyson, figure of Ophelia, design of a medal for the Royal Academy of Music, W. Hunt's engraving of Christ in the Temple. Mr W. R. .Mitchell—New Guinea spear tipped with human bone. Mr Charles Morris—One copper coin. Mrs Hiorns, Central Hotel—One specimen of Hippocampus abdominalis (seahorse) Mr Henry Lough, Brown's Bridge—Eleven silver, three copper coins. Mr Seager, manager Lunatic Asylum—A. series of large printed tickets for exhibits.

Mr H. Feldwick—Fossil cetacean bone (portion" of a • Maori skeleton) found at Kaiapoi. Mr Th. Ranft, Reef ton—Collection of palrcozoic fossils, and nine specimens of marble from the Recfton district.

• Mr Charles Morton —Specimen of Sphcnaeacus punctatua (grass bird).