IReport of tbe Curator of tbe matural 

 1bi0ton> flDuseum. 



REVIEW OF THE YEAR 1910-11. 



The casing and re-construction of the new Dame Emily 

 Smyth Room of Botany and Economic Biology was 

 completed early in the year, and on February 21st was 

 opened to the public by Lady Smyth in the presence of a 

 representative company. 



The fittings and cases of the new room are uniform in 

 character with those of the adjoining Greville-Smyth Room, 

 with all the added advantages which experience of the latter 

 has suggested. 



The room is rich and harmonious in appearance, and 

 ■every case having being designed for the purpose it has to 

 fulfil, the whole effect is extremely pleasing. From the day 

 of opening it became the most popular department of the 

 Museum and has so continued. How greatly Lady Smyth's 

 generosity is appreciated and utilised is demonstrated 

 •continuously. 



The formation of a new department of Botany and 

 Economic Biology has been accompanied by good progress, 

 and many additions to the general zoological collections. 



A new phase of Museum activity has been created in the 

 formation of special groups of shells, insects, birds, etc., 

 which by reason of their decorative colouring are especially 



