Committee were enabled to add the following Nesting- 

 Groups of British Birds to the General Collections, viz. : 

 Puffin Group, Herring-Gull Group, Common Tern 

 Group, Ringed- Plover Group, Moorhen and Kingfisher 

 Group, Pallas's Sand-Grouse Group, Sheld-duck Group, 

 Swift Group, and Sand-Martin Group. The skins of 

 Birds of Paradise in the Greville Smyth collection were 

 also set up in a beautiful group. 



All were constructed by Messrs. Rowland Ward, 

 Ltd., who made a special effort to produce results of a 

 pleasing character and distinguished by scientific 

 accuracy. 



The presence of these group cases has had a 

 marked effect upon visitors to the Museum, who examine 

 them with considerable interest, and not unfrequently 

 discuss their special features. 



In the month of May, Colonel F. D. Raikes, C.I.E., 

 lent on a long loan to the Museum Committee, a large 

 collection of objects, which included 34 genera and 96 

 species of Indian and Burmese birds, and 32 genera and 

 62 species of British birds, the latter forming a fairly 

 representative Wiltshire collection. An unique series 

 of heads and horns, noted elsewhere in this report, was 

 also lent by him at the same time. Both bird collec- 

 tions contain many fine specimens, the Indian and 

 Burmese series especially. They are now exhibited in 

 the east annexe on the ground floor. 



To the general bird series have also been added 

 plaster casts of the bones of the left leg and foot of 

 JEpyornis titian, and a plaster cast of the skull of 

 Phororhacos long issimus. 



The mammalian series, so often the centre of 

 interest in a museum, has received considerable atten- 

 tion, and notable additions. About 75 skins have been 



