The arrangements alluded to in the last Report 

 for fitting up the Museum with cases have been 

 completed during the year, and nearly the whole of 

 the Society's collection is now displayed -, which 

 in Mineralogy and Geology is already possessed of 

 specimens every way worthy of the Institution, 

 The same remark will apply to Insects, Crustacea, 

 and Shells. The Museum has also to boast of 

 many valuable specimens of Birds and Animals ; 

 though, in these two departments, the Council 

 regret to have to report that many deiiciences still 

 exist, and they cannot refrain from further remark- 

 ing, that, at a period like the present, when these 

 subjects obtain such universal attention, and when 

 splendid cabinets of natural history both public 

 and private abound everywhere, a stigma is cast by 

 this defect upon the Society which it really does 

 not deserve. 



It will be seen by the cash account, that the 

 present income is totally inadequate to supply this 

 defect, and under these circumstances the Council 

 feel themselves called upon to recommend to the 

 Society the adoption of some specific measure for 

 the purpose. 



In making this statement, the Council wish 

 it distinctly to be understood, that no blame what- 



