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General Morfc. 



Botany. 



Miss I. M. Roper has given much of her time 

 during the year to examining and classifying the 

 specimens in the Leipner herbarium, and has mounted 

 nearly all the mosses in a permanent form suited to 

 the use of students. A few specimens of rare plants 

 have also been selected from the reserve collections, 

 and added to the Herbert Thomas herbarium. 



Mineralogy. 



A portion of the reserve collection of minerals has 

 been catalogued, and a number of labels added to the 

 exhibited series. 



Geology. 



The reserve and store collections have been partially 

 examined and classified, and a portion transferred to 

 the reserve drawers under the table cases. This work 

 will be continued, until the whole, or as large a series 

 as possible, of the specimens belonging to each system, 

 are arranged in proper order, and in immediate relation 

 to the exhibited series to which they naturally belong. 



A welcome addition has been the provision of six 

 store cabinets already mentioned, in which the especially 

 large collection of Palaeozoic material is in process of 

 arrangement. In January, Professor S. H. Reynolds 

 transferred to the Museum the extensive collection of 

 bones and teeth of bear, fox, wolf, horse, &c, which he had 

 collected from a bone cave at Clevedon, and described 

 in a paper to the Bristol Naturalists' Society. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Local Series. — The local collection of birds and 

 mammals has been increased by the inclusion of a fine 



