Sir James Hector exhibited a large collection of specimens lately added to the Museum.

Prominent among the exhibits were those collected by Mr. A. Yuill, taxidermist to the Colonial Museum, during a visit which he recently paid to the islands lying to the south of New Zealand. Among these were specimens of the great spider-crab of the Auckland Islands; a rabbit from the Auckland Islands almost as large as a hare, and illustrating the tendency of the fur to become white; a three-months-old albatros chick, which is like a ball of fluffy down, from Campbell Island; a king penguin, a royal penguin (Catarrhactes schlegeli), and a Gentoo penguin, from the Macquarie Islands; a golden-crested Antarctic penguin, from the Auckland Islands; a little blue diving-penguin and two scrub paroquets, from the Antipodes Islands. There were also a group of paradise ducks (the painted duck of Captain Cook), from Milford Sound; a flightless teal, from the Auckland Islands; and a kiwi, presented by Mr. George Fisher, M.H.R. A specimen of the Californian quail and one of the Tasmanian quail were also tabled, together with an old English rat (now the bush rat of New Zealand), a silver-eel caught in Wellington Harbour and presented by Mr. W. Hamilton, and a black swan from Wairarapa Lake, presented by Dr. Adams. On the walls were hung a collection of water-colour sketches of South Island scenery by Mr. H. G. Lloyd.