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accordingly the geese and ducks are placed on brass-supported 

 frames, running transversely to the length of the hall, near the west 

 and east ends. The collection is strictly limited to British species 

 according to the " Ibis " list, which has also been followed in the 

 classification. 



A few hybrids and professed " foreigners " have been removed 

 from the collection and placed together in a separate part of the hall ; 

 eventually it is to be hoped they will be banished. The arrangement 

 of the birds was necessarily the first thing to be attended to when the 

 Museum was being equipped last year, thus many other sections of 

 this half of the Museum are in a backward condition. Next to the 

 birds, the insects, and especially Lepidoptera, attract most attention. 

 Here the arrangements are good ; there is a large entomological 

 cabinet in which are being arranged all the British Macro-lepidoptera. 

 It is intended that the full life-history of every species shall be shown 

 with larvae on artificial food-plants, pupae both in and out of cocoon 

 where such exists, and imagines in resting attitudes, as well as the 

 conventional " setting." This, of course, will be a work of years ; 

 but it has begun and is progressing. Above the cabinet is a table- 

 case, in which will be placed diagrams and described specimens to 

 show the chief anatomical features of the various orders of insects ; 

 and above this again double glass shelves for miscellaneous objects of 

 interest connected with the habits and economy of insects. In addi- 

 tion, there has been presented a fine collection of Lepidoptera 

 (imagines only), which is kept apart. Hymenoptera have claimed a 

 few votaries, but other orders of insects fail to attract at present. 

 There is accommodation for a collection of Mollusca and material, 

 chiefly foreign, where much weeding will be necessary. 



Two show-cases standing in the room are devoted to special 

 types, one including Protozoa to Mollusca, the other Chordata. 

 These are intended for specialists in Biology, and will ultimately be 

 arranged so as to follow, with a few additions of extinct forms, the 

 book of Practical Zoology in use in the school. There are two table 

 cases of fossils arranged stratigraphically. A case of Minerals 

 arranged after an elementary text-book stands near the east end of 

 the room, and beneath this case a collection of dried plants mounted 

 on cards and placed on sliding trays. Portfolios of dried plants, 

 comprising collections made in the neighbourhood of Godalming, 

 complete the Botanical section at present. At the east end of the 

 hall is a large wall case, destined to contain a Geological model of the 

 neighbourhood and diagrams to illustrate sections. The fossils 

 characteristic of the strata, and, as far as possible, the peculiarities of 

 fauna and flora, will be pointed out. Beneath the shelves on which 

 the birds are placed is a vacant space which eventually can be 

 occupied by low cabinets, storecases for duplicates and specimens, for 

 ■class work. 



The care of the Museum is entrusted to two of the Masters of 



