CANTERBURY MUSEUM.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2594, 31 July 1882, Page 3

CANTERBURY MUSEUM.

The following contributions hare been received during the quarter ending June 30 th:

Mr Archibald M’Oallum, Templeton— Specimen of part of a boar’s jaw, with tusk.

Mr Wills—Specimen of leaf insect. Mr James Blake, A 1 Hofei —Oil painting, by T. Oollins, 1877, •* Still Life,’’ for the Picture Gallery. Mr C. B. Knorpp, 0.E., Public Works, Wellington—Specimens of timber from the North Island.

Mr G. Thornton, M.1.0E., Christchurch— Fourteen old English coins. Mr Alfroed Leeming, South Malvern— Specimens of fossil ferns from the Cairn range, Selwyn. Mr James Watts, Christchurch —Seven ancient English coins. Mrs Papen, Wangaroa, Chatham Islands— Specimens of rock crystal from geodes. Mr L. Fozzi, Christchurch Silkworm cocoons, cultivated by Stephano Pczzi, Dayleeford, Victoria. Mr O. A. O. Cunningham, Christchurch— Specimen of fossil wood (silioifisd), from the petrified forest near Oalistoga, California, Mr T. H. Potts, F.L.S., Ohinitahi—Collection of cones and seeds (301), grown and collected by him, as exhibited at the Melbourne Exhibition.

Mr Alexander Fletcher, Melbourne Wooden plaque inlaid with silver (Uynpuri work). India. Mr Charles D. Lockwood, Mount Pleasant. Rakaia Gorge—Old copy of the “ Times ” newspaper of November 7th, 1805, containing official account of the battle o£ Trafalgar. Mr J. Barnett, Railway Department, Christchurch—Specimen of Anguilla Auklandil, eel from the Lyttelton tunnel. Mr Stansell, Christchurch—One specimen of pig iron ; one specimen of bar iron from hematite, Parapara, Nelson. Mr J, B, Lowe—Specimens of tin ore in various stages of preparation, Tasmania. Mr Henry Sedoole, Oxford—Specimen of limestone, from Morrisville, Wellington. Mr Dauber, Hereford street, Christchurch —Specimen of lithophany (trsmparent pottery), manufactured in Staffordshire. Mr J. B. Fodorli, Christchurch —Series of photographs designs of bronze clocks, candolabras, As., Paris. Mr B. Chilton, Christchurch Fossil (Ououllesa pondorosa, Hutton), from Flaxburn Station, Marlborough. Mr Dominick Brown, Eowai Bush—Specimens of Limna peregra, from the lagoon on the summit of Arthur’s Pass. Mrs J. W. Gurney, Sydney—Cambric handkerchief to show beautiful Dutch needlework (hand work). Mr Jules Joubert —Specimen of mica, from New South Wales.

Mr J. D. Bnys, Castle Hill Station Autograph of Df. John Waloot (Peter Pindar.) Mr W. Graham, Lyttelton—Placard, announcing the sailing of the ship Dominion from London, one of the early Canterbury Association vessels.

Mr Laning Coates, Philadelphia—Oil portrait painting of General George Washington, painted by Samuel Man of Easton, Fa., about 1845, from the original by Bambrant Peale.

Mr George Hayward, Strathfield, Templeton—Series of old English newspapers. Two bullets from the battlefields of N asefcy and of Luohow, China. Mr J. D. Bays, Castle Hill Station—Collection of New Zealand mioro-lepidoptera, named by Mr Edward Meiriok. Fifty in number.

Mr Edward Meiriok, Christchurch—Collection of New Zealand micro-lepidoplcra, named by him. Thirteen in number. Mr 8. Jones, Madras street north, Christchurch—Collection of ancient remains founl at Boxeter (Urioonium), Shropshire ; two bronze spear heads, ploughed up on the Wrekin, Shropshire. Mr John Adams, Killiuchy—Maori stone adz?, ploughed up by himself in the Elies mere district about five years ago. Mr Jules Joubert—Picture on baked clay, exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1873, by Chaplin. Mr Max Mendershausen, Dunedin—Specimen of Oicnamonum Zsylandieum, cinnamon tree of Ceylon ; collection of marine shells from Ceylon• collection of oaleoptora and hemiptora collected in and near the Cave of Elephante, Bombay. His Excellency Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon, 0.K.M.G., Governor of New Zealand — Collection of Fijian pottery.