The Director tenders his thanks to the Directors 

 and Heads of Departments of the BishopJMemorial Museum, 

 Honolulu ; the Field Museum, Chicago ; the Academy 

 of Sciences, Chicago ; the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh ; 

 the United States National Museum and the Smithsonian 

 Institution, Washington ; the Museums of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; the Commercial Museum, 

 Philadelphia; the American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York ; the Institute of Arts and Sciences, the Children's 

 Museum, Brooklyn ; and the Directors of the Australian 

 Museums. 



A special trip was made by the Director to the Great 

 Barrier Reef of Australia, and a collection of corals and 

 marine invertebrates obtained. The expenses of this ex- 

 pedition were met by a cheque generously presented by 

 Lady Smyth, of Ashton Court, whose interest in the 

 Museum has been continuous and most helpful, and by a 

 donation from Mr. Horace Gummer. 



The painted backgrounds to the large group cases recorded 

 in last year's Report have proved so successful that several 

 smaller group cases are being similarly dealt with. The 

 background of the Turtle case has been completed, and the 

 Fox and Badger cases are now in hand. The Fox case has 

 been much enlarged, the group of foxes being mounted injthe 

 foreground of a woodland scene taken in Badminton Park. 



(Beneral Morfe. 



Botany. 



The whole series of wet preparations of plants has been 

 supplied with card labels in place of the tissue paper labels on 

 porcelain formerly in use. This change was rendered neces- 

 sary owing to the constant peeling off of the tissue paper by 

 the action of the solution in which they were immersed. 



A number of plant preparations have been added during 

 the„year. 



