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Humped Bull (for student purposes) ; New Zealand 

 Birds — Penguin ; Albatross ; Cormorant and Skua ; 

 Trout; Koala; Lion-marmosets, and articulated skeleton 

 of Hyaena for student purposes. 



General Work. 



Botany. 



The herbarium cabinet and the collection of fruit 

 and seeds have been removed to the gallery of the 

 Economic Biology department, with a view to the 

 development of a botanical section in the near future. 

 The Museum possesses in the small hall now partially 

 used for Economic Biology, a room admirably fitted for 

 a botanical department, and it need hardly be said that 

 a section of botany is a much needed branch of the 

 Museum. 



The West of England is so rich botanically, and has 

 for so many years been famous for its botanical workers, 

 that the absence of such a section in the Natural History 

 Museum is difficult to understand. The present affords 

 a fine opportunity for a generous-minded donor to round 

 off the various departments of Museum activity by a gift 

 which will make a good botanical section possible. That 

 it would be of great public benefit, interest, and use is a 

 foregone conclusion. 



Mineralogy and Geology. 



Preparations have been made during the latter 

 portion of the year for an entire revision and extension 

 of these important collections. Much of the reserve 

 material has been examined, and all the cases liberated 

 by the removal of the zoological collections have been 



