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Duck, who in 1852 wrote a book called the ' Natural History 

 of Portishead.' This book contained a list of insects, birds, and 

 wild flowers found at Portishead, the insect list being based 

 upon the Duck Collection. 



In 1894 the subscribers of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Institution decided to present the building and the whole 

 contents of the Museum and a valuable Reference Library to the 

 Corporation of the City of Bristol, the liabilities of the Institution 

 being discharged by a gift of .£3000 from the late Sir Charles 

 Wathen. Since the Museum has become the property of the 

 City all its departments have made rapid progress. 



In 1898 Miss Barton-Johnson presented the fine collection of 

 Buprestidae made by her uncle, the late Stephen Barton, F.E.S. 

 This was his favourite group, and contains many beautiful and 

 rare species. This group of beetles was afterwards reinforced 

 in 1912 by Mr. Alfred Hudd, F.E.S., who presented 1300 

 specimens. In 1901 Lady Smyth presented to the Museum the 

 entire collections, British and foreign, made by Sir Greville 

 Smyth, Bart., deceased, comprising eggs of the Great Auk and 

 JFjpiornis maximus, a very large collection of British and exotic 

 birds' eggs and nests, and upwards of 14,000 insects, principally 

 Lepidojjtera, many of which were captured in India and Ceylon 

 by Sir Greville himself. 



In 1909 Lad}' Smyth defrayed the whole cost of the addition 

 of the Greville Smyth Room in the hall formerly occupied by 

 the Keference Library, and here a special range of insect cases 

 and cabinets has been set up about 60 ft. in length. Still more 

 recently an additional room was brought in, named the Dame 

 Emily Smyth Room. In addition to general insect collections, 

 special cases containing groups illustrating Mimicry and Pro- 

 tective Resemblance, type-ca'^es of the Orders of Insects, and a 

 series of exhibits devoced to Economic Entomology. 



In 1903 the British Museum presented 8000 of their insect 

 duplicates, and in 1906 Mr. H. J. Charbonnier gave his collections 

 of Hymenojitera and Diptera, principally captured in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bristol, including every specimen the occurrence 

 of which in Somerset is recorded in the ' Victoria County History ' 

 as having been taken by him. Then in 1907 the Museum 

 Committee were able to purchase a Gloucestershire collection of 

 Hymenoptera, Diptera, Neuroptera, Trichoptera, and Coleoi)tera 

 formed by the late Mr. C. J. Watkins, E.E.S. These specim-ens 

 were upwards of 13,000 in number. 



In 1913 Mrs. E. Roden presented a number of British and 

 exotic insects, and an additional interest attaches to this gift 

 in that most of the British specimens were collected by the well- 

 known naturalist, Frank Buckland. In the same year, also, 

 Mr. W. Matthew Hale gave to the Museum a fine sixty-drawer 

 cabinet containing the collection of British Lepidoptera formed 



