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co-operation of Alderman John Walls, who has added 

 materially to the specimens already exhibited. 



GENERAL ZOOLOGY. 



It is in this department that the Museum has made 

 the greatest advance, and since the appointment of Mr. 

 Pearcey the work has been continuously carried on. 



Invertebrata. — A remarkably complete series 

 of deep-sea deposits has been mounted and will be 

 found exhibited alongside the collection of Foraminifera, 

 which has also been extended, and made more useful 

 by explanatory labels and diagrams. The large collec- 

 tion of sponges has been worked over and named by 

 Mr. R. Kirkpatrick, of the British Museum, and a 

 representative series has been mounted in the table 

 cases. Three small cases of sponges have been set up 

 to illustrate their mode of growth on the sea-floor, and 

 others have been dissected to show the general struc- 

 ture, and the course of the water currents. 



The Coral series has been increased by the purchase 

 and exhibition in a special case of a fine series of corals 

 from the Celebes, collected by the officers of the S.S. 

 Meridia?i and brought to Bristol in that vessel. 



The general Invertebrate series has been greatly 

 enriched by accessions throughout the year. By the 

 kindness of Dr. W. E. Hoyle and the authorities of the 

 Manchester Museum, Victoria University, the Curator 

 was enabled to make a large selection of specimens 

 from the extensive series of duplicates possessed by 

 them. This was subsequently followed by a gift of over 

 two hundred species of mollusca. 



As the result of two days' dredging off Tenby, and 

 of two weeks' shore collecting, many of the common 

 shore forms of life were added to the collections. Mr. 



