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has been necessary to devote special time and attention for some 

 months past to the arrangement and preparation of the specimens 

 in the present Museum, and in the collections recently added to 

 it by donation or purchase. The present report is intended to 

 record the steps which have been taken or are in progress toward 

 this end. 



ARRANGEMENT, LABELLING, ETC. 



In June. 1881, Mr. Thomas Curry was engaged to mount, 

 label and otherwise prepare specimens, and has been steadily 

 engaged in this work since that time. The expense of mounting 

 materials has been charged to the Museum fund. Mr. Curry's 

 salary has been paid by the liberality of a lady of this city, who 

 has also placed at the credit of the Museum a sum sufficient to 

 secure his valuable services for some time lomrer. 



Mr. P. Kuetzing has been employed, for a part of his time, 

 to remount and renovate the specimens of vertebrate animals and 

 to prepare some new specimens which have been purchased. He 

 has up to this time been occupied more especially with the col- 

 lection presented by the heirs of the late Dr. McCulloch. It is 

 hoped that by the end of May he will have gone over the whole 

 of the material of this kind possessed by the University and will 

 have brought it up to a creditable condition. 



Dr. Harrington and myself have been giving as much attention 

 as possible to the proper naming of the minerals, rocks and fos- 

 sils, and to their orderly and systematic arrangement, preparatory 

 to removnl to the cases of the new building. 



DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES. 



Under this head reference will be made to the principal con- 

 tributions recently made to the collections, and more especially 

 to those particularly intended for the Peter Red path Museum. 



Principal Dawson's collections in the Geology and Natural 

 History of Canada are in process of being arranged and mounted, 

 along with the other specimens. The conditions of this donation, 

 approved by the Board of Governors, are, that the specimens, 

 while not kept separate from the general arrangement, will be 

 labelled with the name of the donor, and that he and Dr. G. 

 M. Dawson shall have access to them for purposes of study, and 

 with reference to their safe keeping. The total number of speci- 



