CANTERBURY MUSEUM.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17390, 30 January 1917, Page 8

CANTERBURY MUSEUM.

RECENT ADDITIONS. , Sergeant J. M. Watkins, of the New Zealand Field Artillery, has presented to Canterbury Museum the-hand of a mummy from Egypt. It belonged, apparently, to a woman, and a great deal of the fiesh is attached to the bones. Mr F. C. B. Bishop has presented a menu card used on the Lusitanin and the skins of a flame-breasted robin and a.blue wren, from, Australia. A pair of grouse and a' pair of partridges, from England, have been deposited in the Museum, • and Miss Strouts has deposited a kie-kie Maori mat, believed to have belonged to Hone Heke's tribe in the Auckland province. Mr It. Cargeeg, of Christciftirch, has given a good specimen of the katipo spider, found at New Brighton; Mr D. Hope, curator of the Acclimatisation Society's gardens, has. given a young pen-fowl; and Mr C. J. Sloman a wooden instrument used by Maoris in former times for planting kumaras. Mr E. .1. Haynes, the taxidermist, has completed a cast of the pigmy whale, which will be placed on the wall of the Now Zealand Gallery this week.