CANTERBURY MUSEUM.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 583, 2 May 1876, Page 4

CANTERBURY MUSEUM.

The following contributions were received by the Canterbury Museum during the quarter ending March 31st, 1876 : Mrs J. F. H.Wohlers, Ruapuke, Stewart's Island, Otago—Specimen of a New Zealand bryozoa, belonging to the genus Idmonea, dredged in Foveaux Straits Mr 0 G. Parker, Springfield, Kowai—Two specimens of coal from his mine Mr J. Roehfort, C.E., Timaru-Specimen of peroxide of iron, from Purra-Purra, Nelson ; specimen of Louisson's hematite paint, made from same Dr Donald, R.M., Lyttelton—Specimen of Trig la Euma gurnard Mr Henry Billens, Akaroa—One specimen of Anema monopterygium (catfish); one French and one Chinese coin Master Hawkes—Specimen of Tertiary limestone from Napier, with the remains of a fossil fish Mr J. M. Munce, Bealey—Collections of landshells (600 specimens) belonging to ■everal species, collected by him at the Bealey ; collection of insects in spirits of wiie, from the Bealey ReT J. Still, Norfolk Island—One pair of armlets of the Solomon Islanders, made of grass Mr A. W. Rutherford, Mendip Hills, Nelson—Caudal vertebra of fossil saurian Mr J. Douglas, Peacock street, Montreal street —Specimens of minerals and rocks, collected by him near the Niagara Falls Captain Scott, Lake Heron Station—Specimens of argillaceous slateß from the Ashburton district Mr Hugh M'llraith, Stock Grove, Waipara —Four specimens of fossil whale bones Mr John Hughes—Seven reprints of remarkable English newspapers of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries Mr E. Elworthy, Holme Station, Pareora —One silver and four copper coins Mr Charles A. Pritchard—One English County Bank note (Wolverhampton) Mr 8. T. Chambers —Specimen of tin ore, from Mount Bishop. Tasmania Hon T. Wigley, Opuha station —Specimen of Sceloglaux albifacies (laughing owl) - Mr Charles J. Bae, Hon Secretary, Blenheim Literary Institute and Museum, Blenheim—Photographs of Maori relics in the Blenheim Museum Mr F. J. Garrick—A specimen number of the Japanese Pvnoh, Yokohama Mr Th. H. Fielding—Specimen of drift timber with a colony of barnacles, obtained on the Oamaru beach Mr H. P. Murray-Aynsley—Specimen of Tridacne gigas, giant clam shell from Torres' Straits —*-, Mount Hutt, South Bakia—Specimen of Janella bitentaculata (New Zealand dug) Dr W. L. Buller, C.M.G., F.L.8., Wellington—Specimen of Apteryz Mantelli (brown kiwi.) meniaobscura (porpoise.) His Honor Judge H. Halse, WellingtonCarved prow of a Maori war canoe Messrs Arthur and Docherty, WestlanS— Specimen of printing lithographic stone taken from the Paureka quarry, Westland Mr Henry Gray, Avonhead—Specimens of the cork oak (Quercus suber) grown in Canterbury His Honor W. Rolleston—Specimens of argentiferous galena and of copper pyrites from the Rangitoto mines, Westland ; fossil shells from Reef ton and Noman's land ; fossils from the Grey coal mine Hon John Hall—Roman bronze statuette with inscription, found 1875 in an excavation near Rome Mr G. Thornton, C.E., Provincial Engineer —Two Papuan skulls, one Papuan drum, and one Papuan poisoned spear, Fly Rive-, New Guinea Dr W. L. Bußer, C.M.G., F.L.8., Wellington —One specimen of Eudyptula undira (small penguin); fern root crusher in traprock (Patuaruhe), from Ngatirau Eawa tribe, Qtaki, Wellington Province; Native ear ornament, made of a shark's tooth Mako Mr Robert Day, Kaiapoi—Specimen of Numenius cyanopus (curlew), shot on Kaiapoi bar on April 2nd, 1876.