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8| ins. wide, and includes an area of about 800 square miles, 

 with Bristol as the centre. The scale chosen was three inches 

 to a mile horizontal, and nine inches to a mile vertical. The 

 model has been geologically coloured, and marked with roads, 

 railways and rivers. Place names have been added sufficient 

 for ordinary identification purposes, and others will be 

 marked as occasion arises. In connection with the con- 

 struction of the map, much helpful advice was received from 

 Dr. Strahan, Director of the Geological Survey, Dr. Ogilvie 

 of the Science Museum, and Mr. J. Bailey of the Board of 

 Education. 



The work of remounting and re-labelling continues to 

 make good progress ; almost the whole of the fossil bivalves 

 have been worked over, and a selected series of 50 genera and 

 322 species have been mounted, labelled and placed in the 

 desk cases ; 554 species have been registered, and also card 

 catalogued. 



The collection of palaeolithic and neolithic implements, 

 which now number 600, have been brought together, re- 

 classified and labelled. They are now exhibited in immediate 

 relationship to the Pleistocene deposits. A collection of 

 Neolithic material of Swiss and Irish origin, and formerly in 

 Lord Avebury's collection, has been received from the Authori- 

 ties of the British Museum, who were charged with the 

 distribution of the collection. 



A mahogany cabinet, and a small series of minerals and 

 fossils were received from Mr. F. and Miss Stoddart. 



Ethnography. 



A new wall case has been added, and now contains the 

 Davis Collection from British Honduras, and the general 

 series from South America, formerly exhibited in a floor case. 

 The numbering and registration of all native objects from 

 Australia, the Pacific Islands, Africa and North and South 



