i7 

 Research. 



A new departure, which will we believe have far-reaching 

 and valuable results, has been the decision by the Committee 

 that research work upon the Museum collections, or in the 

 field, shall be a definite part of the duties of the Museum 

 Assistants. Any such work will first be approved by the 

 Committee and the Director, and may not occupy more than 

 one day per week, whilst all collections obtained by field 

 work will become the property of the Museum, upon the 

 completion of the research. By this means many gaps in the 

 local collections will be filled, local work stimulated, and the 

 worker will naturally maintain a broader outlook upon his 

 duties, and keep up his studies of the advances made in his 

 subject. 



During the year the following papers have been con- 

 tributed to science by members of the Staff : — ■ 

 " On the Occurrence of a Giant Dragon-fly in the Radstock 



Coal Measures," by Herbert Bolton, M.Sc, F.R.S.E. 



Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. LXX, 



1914, pp. 119-127, plates XVIII, XIX. 

 " Foraminifera of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedi- 

 tion," by. Fred. Gordon Pearcey. Transactions of the 



Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XLIX, pi. IV, pp. 



991-1044, plates I and II. 



Mr. Pearcey has also paid a visit to the Steep Holme, 

 and tabulated the molluscan fauna occurring upon that 

 island. 



Mr. V. E. Robson, B.Sc, F.G.S., has completed a Biblio- 

 graphic List of Ammonite genera, a goodly portion of which 

 had been in manuscript, prior to taking up his duties as 

 Assistant Geologist. He has now commenced an investiga- 

 tion upon the Ammonite genus Witchellia. 



A paper was also contributed by Mr. R. Quick, F.S.A. 

 (Scot.), to the Museums Association, in July, on " The 

 Protection and Restoration of Pictures." 



