TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



This year the South Kensington authorities lent sufficient 

 articles of varied interest to fill five cases. From the same 

 Museum we have also on loan the four large cartoons, which are 

 hung in the Lecture Hall. 



The small water-colour pictures, illustrative of the earliest steam 

 navigation, which were on loan last year, have been photographed 

 by Mr. T. L. Patterson. An engraving of Watt was kindly presented 

 by Messrs. Laurie & Fleming. Mr. G. R. Macdougall has again 

 brought from New York, a number of most beautiful skins of birds 

 which are native to North America as well as to Britain. Mr. John 

 Stewart presented several specimens, including the cuckoo and 

 meadow pipit group. 



The financial statement showed the income for the year to be 

 jCsSS 9S-, '^nd the total expenditure ^287 3s. sd., leaving a surplus 

 of ^48 5s. 7d. The debt for 1888 stood at ^71 13s. 2d., but the 

 surplus this year will reduce it to ;^23 7s. 7d. 



