suitable for students of Art. The full scope of this work 

 will be alluded to later. 



Mineralogy and Geology have made little progress owing 

 to the hopeless condition of the cases. These are neither 

 dust-proof, economical of space, or suitable for many of the 

 specimens, and ever}- endeavour to build up an adequate 

 and pleasing arrangement of the collections has proved 

 unsatisfactory. To remodel the entire room, obtain new 

 and suitable cases, and bring the department into line with 

 modern needs, and enable the extensive series of minerals, 

 rocks and fossils to be properly exhibited will involve con- 

 siderable cost, which cannot be met out of income. The 

 importance to science of many of the specimens is enormous, 

 they are irreplaceable, and the whole series possess a 

 unique interest, inasmuch as it is possible to show a chain of 

 local minerals and fossils which have been collected by 

 famous workers over the long period of nearly two centuries. 

 The Catcott Collection was made and exhibited to Brewster 

 before even the Science of Geology could be said to exist. 



The collections are the first in importance and extent in 

 the West of England, where William Smith matured his 

 thoughts and obtained those facts which laid the groundwork 

 of Stratigraphical Geology in 1815. Many of the specimens 

 now treasured were collected by Smith's colleagues. It is 

 indeed desirable that their housing and display should be 

 worthy of their high tradition. 



General Morfc. 



Botany. 



The formation of this new section has occupied the 

 attention of the staff for a considerable time during the year. 

 The whole of the British Herbarium has been transferred 

 to new lockers underneath the table-cases. The cases on 



