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" In the Exotic Heterocera most of the work done 

 has been preparatory-identification, &c, but 

 the arrangement of the Sphingides and Bom- 

 byces has been proceeded with." 



Vertebrate Zoology. 



The chief additions through the year have included 

 a fine Chimpanzee, formerly in the Clifton Zoological 

 Gardens ; Marmosets, a fine Binturong, a Sandbadger 

 and a Sea Lion. The skin of a Tahr presented the 

 previous year, has been set up and placed in the Museum. 



The Indian Game trophy loaned by Captain L. C. L. 

 Oldfield, has been mounted in a group series upon the 

 walls of the museum, and suitably labelled. 



Few additions have been made to the general bird 

 series owing to the unsatisfactory character of the cases. 

 Amongst the reserve collection of mounted birds have 

 been found two fine examples of the Sandwich Island 

 Goose, a bird now almost extinct. These have been put 

 into good order, and mounted in a special case. The 

 bird cases have been cleaned at short intervals during 

 the year, but much of the dust which settles upon the 

 birds it is impossible to remove, and they deteriorate in 

 consequence. 



Through the interest of Alderman J. Walls, the 

 Museum has secured a good helper in Mr. W. S. Pillans 

 who has sent during the year a fine series of skins of 

 New Zealand and Antarctic birds including the Molly- 

 mawk, Cape Pigeon, Skua, Shag, and Crested Penguin. 



Mention has already been made of the reconstruc- 

 tion of the fish cases. A great improvement has been 

 effected in the appearance of the spirit specimens by 

 their transference to oblong jars in place of the vertical 

 ones in which most of them were formerly mounted. 



