THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. 



Summary ot IReport of Committee of /IDuseum aiiD 



Xecture Iball, 



For Year ending 31st December, 1893. 



The number of specimens gifted to the Museum during the past 

 year is not very large ; but their value is great, and they are well 

 worthy of examination. The increase made to them has been chiefly 

 due to the kindness of friends who, either at home or in their travels, 

 have come across articles of interest ; and several of them would 

 prove of interest even to those who do not make an earnest study of 

 the departments to which they belong. 



Fourteen British birds have been purchased and added to the 

 collection, which now approaches so near to completion that those 

 still awanting are hardly to be got even for money. One specimen 

 had to be refused by the Committee, a Great Awk — the price asked 

 being 350 guineas. 



A few additions still require to be made to complete the British 

 quadrupeds. 



During the year the Curator's office, which formerly occupied a 

 corner near the entrance, has been removed, and a new one erected 

 at the west window. 



The erection of wall cases is still being gone on with — one-third 

 of the walls of the ground floor being now furnished in that way. 



The Trustees of South Kensington Museum renewed the contents 

 of their four cases last August with Chinese porcelain, Itahan 

 jewellery (as worn by the peasants of Florence and Lower Etruria), 

 Venetian glass, millefiore, aventurine, &c. They have also lent four 

 cartoons for the decoration of the Lecture Hall. 



The number of visitors during the year was nearly 19,000. 



The Financial Report for the year shows an income of ;^323 

 los. 6d., and expenditure ^^353 los. iid — the expenditure being 

 ;^3o OS. 5d. more than the receipts. The total debt of the 

 Committee at the close of the year is ^^74 19s. 6d. 



