MUSEUM ADDITIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21910, 20 September 1934, Page 16

MUSEUM ADDITIONS

SEVERAL FINE SPECIMENS Reoent additions to the exhibits at the Auckland War Memorial Museum include at number of particularly \ fine specimens, which were referred to in a report presented by the director, Mr. Gfll»eri Archey, at a meeting of the council held yesterday. > A- collection of Moriori adzes and a flaked blubber knife from the Chatham Islands were presented during the month, by Mr. J;'J. Fougere, of Papatoetoe; a collection of ethnological specimens from Melanesia and Polynesia, including an exceptionally fine Nine Island paddle club, by Mrs. A. B. Roberton; a series of fishes,' shells and seaweeds from Rarotonga, by Mr. K, S. Graham; important Bets of mollusca from Tierra del FuegcL by Mr. T. Reynolds; Falkland. Islands' mollusca, by Mr. A. J. Bennett; a collection of tertiary mollusca from Te R4umoa, by Mr. A. L. Ffascr; kauri gum and fossil shells from Hiknrangi coal seams 450 ft. deep, by Mr. A. G. Lunn; and a large composite aeroplane photograph of the citadel of Lo Queanoy showing the lines of attack of the 3rd New Zealand (llifle) Brigade, T ir? ca P t,ircd town on November , presented by Lien tenantColonel G, W. Cockroft. The additions to the displav, tho report states, include the exhibition of a very fine series of Persian. Indian and Greek silver coins, presented by Mr. vmJ • an d various other exhibits in the anthropology hall. Additional Maori specimens and aa exhibit or cultivated wheats also have beon placed on display.