and Coal, Gas, and Water, £15 lis. 2d. These four items 

 amount together to £50 -5s. OAd. This sum is raised to £60 19s. Id. 

 by small separate amounts under the six heads of Newsroom ; 

 Interest to Bankers ; Printing, Stationery, and Postage ; Sub- 

 scriptions to Societies ; Eates and Taxes ; and Sundries ; and is 

 diminished to £57 7s. Id. by the reduction of £.3 12s. in the 

 charge for Salaries and Wages. 



It should be mentioned that the increased charge on the 

 Museum is to a large extent met by a special donation of £5 8s., 

 which was kindly contributed by Mr. S. H. Swayne, in order 

 that a more extended exhibition of the Insect collection might 

 be carried out, as referred to in the Report of the Museum. 



The income of the year 1890 from all sources was £954 2s. 6d. ; 

 that of 1889 was £972 Is. lid. The amount received in sub- 

 scriptions has been £653 16s., against £681 9s. in 1889. Inmost 

 of the other items of receipt there is little change ; but for the 

 use of the Lecture Theatre the sum of £115 3s. 6d. has been 

 received, against £97 0s. 6d. in 1889. 



MUSEUM. 



During the past year the Curator has been engaged upon 

 several important works. 



Appreciating the advantage to Science of a fresh review of 

 the fossil "type specimens" in the Museum, he has under- 

 taken a detailed examination of them, and the results have been 

 published in the Geological 2Iagazine in a paper of considerable 

 importance to Geological Science. 



The first edition of the Guide to flic Bristol Museum having 

 become exhausted, the Curator in the spring advised the pre- 

 paration of a shorter and less expensive one ; and the Council 

 having asked him to undertake it, it was at once taken in hand 

 by him, and completed during the ensuing summer; and being 

 approved by the Council it was printed and offered for sale at a 

 penny per copy, with the result of a much more rapid sale than 



