The Sub-Committee charc;ed with the re-arrangement of the Museum 

 has had many meetings during the past year, and the work steadily 

 progresses. This part of the institution has had some valuable 

 additions during the year, prominent among which are the Lion, 

 procured through tlie good offices of Colonel Spreckley, and a splendid 

 specimen of the Grizzly Bear, presented by His Worship the Mayor 

 (Alderman E. T. Ann, J. P.) The Litchfield Bequest of Army and 

 Navy Medals has also been arranged on the Museum corridor in a case 

 specially provided for it, and a corresponding case will shortly contain 

 the coins and tokens belonging to the Museum. Mr. Sidney B. 

 Eckett, of Birmingham, and formerly of Derby, has supplemented the 

 " Hutton Memorial " by a further gift of Button's works, and a picture 

 of the historian's house. Completeness has been given to the 

 memorial by the gift of a good bust of Hutton by Mr. Henson, 

 of Quarndon. 



The property is in a good state of repair, and there has been no 

 special expenditure during the year. Next year some painting and 

 cleaning will have to be undertaken, for the first time since 1894. 



The Committee, in closing this Eeport, have again to thank the 

 donors of books, magazines, newspapers, and museum specimens, for 

 their gifts during the past year, and also to express their satisfaction 

 with the administration of the affairs of the Institution by Mr. Crowther 

 and his staff. 



On behalf of the Committee, 



GEOEGE BOTTOMLEY, 



October 26th, 1899. Chairman. 



