OTAGO MUSEUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6238, 8 March 1882, Page 4

OTAGO MUSEUM.

The following donations have beon made since last July ;— Specimens of auriferous quartz, Mr P. Hoffmann ; two fceta pigs, Mr ML. Orboll; a cuttle-fish, Mr E. Steutiford; two stone axes (Mao>i), Mr R. Gillies; typo sories of birds' skulls, amphibia, &c, in spirit, 81 mounted Elides of foraminifera, Professor W. K. Sf^r; specimens of New Zealand timber, Messrs H 1 '1™!. and Co; specimens of freestone, Mr WimrL re>>: 0ll l :P aintin| f of Wtornis Mantelli, Misa F. \) impetus; ditto, Miss M. Al'Laren; engraving, .-!„'? S," eye i 1™ of ™ 1543." Mr W. M. Hodg--9k?,« of EOl a^ ri lizard- Mr- Andrew Keid ; two jT,.f kea> Mr. E B. Cargill; fmtal foal, Mr FarWr HMTnil COI? miSSa, riatfornl' time of Peninsular War. spirit specimen and skeleton of Tasmanian rail, Jilt T n?h f:n S:e,° tol! o{ Maoti'fOUDd at Watkouaitl, Mr Herbert Orbell; skull of wolf-fish, Mr G. B. Howes The following have been acquired by purchase or exchange:— Collection of marine invertebrata (in alcohol), from the zoological station, Naples; collection of skeletons, from E. Gerrard, jun., London; collection of wax models, from Dr Ziegler, Freiburg; casts, skeletons and spirit specimens, from Professor Ward, Rochester U.S.A. ; skeleton of Moriori, from Mr 11. T. Travers Wellington; skeleton of dugong, from Mr C. Smith' Nelson; two skeletons of blackflsh, from Mr Traill Stewarts Island. '

The following specimens, also added to the collection, were prepared on the premises :—

Skeletons of orang-outang, crocodile, i«uana, eeratodus, trout, barracouta, rabbit, skulls of trout and python.

The curator (Professor Parker) is anxious to meet with a fisherman who can procure him a large series of eggs of the elephant - fish (Callorkynchus antarcticus), and specimens of the thresher or fox-shark (Alopecias vulpesj, and of the hag (Bddlostoma cirrkatumj.