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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



During the year 446 specimens were handled, as follows: — 



FORMATORI. 



(Messrs. H. Barnes, Jun., and A. R. Taylor.) 



After the renovation of the Workshops in connection with the 

 building of the first half of the South Wing, our series of plaster 

 moulds was replaced on the shelves of the Casting and Moulding 

 Room in its former order. 



At the request of the Government Geologist (Mr. E, F. Pitt- 

 man, A.R.S.M.), reproductions of the Gilgoin Meteorites, Nos. 2 and 

 3, weighing respectively 55^fcs. and 37ffjs., were prepared for the 

 Geological Survey Branch of the Department of Mines and Agricul- 

 ture, and copies were secured for our cases. Copies of our Nocoleuhe 

 Meteorite were also prepared and forwarded as exchanges to the 

 School of Mines and Industries of South Australia, in Adelaide, 

 and to the Technological Museum, Sydney. 



I derived considerable assistance from the Formatori in the 

 preparation of plaster and jelly reliefs of various natural impress- 

 ions or "casts," of fossil organic remains. 



The full return of work performed is as follows : — 



