NEWPORT, Saturday, November 17.
PRESENTS LATELY MADE TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT INSTITUTE. — Mr. Legg, of Idlecomb, a male cuckoo; Capt. George Mew, a Russian sword, from the Crimea; Mr. A. Parsons, of Petersfield, a New Zealand club, paddle, and spear; Mrs. Serjeantson, a pellet-bow, from India; Mr. W. H. Black, British Archaeological Association, an Exchequer tally, saved from the fire at Westminster, 1834 ; Mr. Dashwood, jun., fragments of Norman sculpture found among the materials of the Old Church of St. Thomas,— also a coin found in the base of the Tower; Mr. P. Bright, of Yarmouth, coins, amongst them, a small brass one of Coransius, of the Salus type, found at Yarmouth; Mr. Butler, of Yarmouth, various coins ; Mr. Small, of Yarmouth, a buffalo’s horn; Mr. B. Mew, fossils of the Tertiary strata, and an ancient wooden drain-pipe, dug up in Newport; Mr. John Ruffle, a centipede; Mrs. Beach, a West Indian mat, spear, &c.; Mrs. Sanders, a Botanical lusus naturæ ; the Rev. E. Kell, a plan of the borough of Newport; Mr. E. Farley, a Turkish weapon; Mrs. Batt, of Brighton, a piece of the Russian sub-marine wire used for firing cannon, by electricity, on an island off Kertch; Master Dudley, a septaria from Alum Bay (polished section); Mr. Jones, a chamelion; Mr. Grant, a native ornament from Jerusalem; Mr. T. C. Wilkins, a collection from Australia, consisting of shells, sea-weeds, scorpions, centipedes, beetles, corals, &c; Mr. E. Wheeler, of Rookley, an African elephant’s tooth.