GREENOCK PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Summary of IReport of Committee of /IDanagement of 

 /IDuseum an5 Xecture Iball. 



For Year ending 31st December, 1898. 



The Committee is again indebted to interested friends for many 

 of tlie contributions added to the Museum during the past year. 



Special thanks are due to Captain Percival Lee Birch for his 

 gifts to the Ornithological and other Departments. Only a few of 

 the rarer birds are now required to make ttie collection of British 

 Birds complete, and the collection of Eggs continues to progress. 

 Close on fifty fossils belonging to the Cambrian, Silurian, and 

 Devonian periods have been purchased, and attention may be 

 directed to a number of Cave Bones, obtained from the Pengelly 

 Collection through the kindness of Mr. E. T. Newton, of Germyn 

 Street Geological Museum, London. 



The South Kensington loans have again been renewed, and 

 three cases show examples of Persian Pottery, Glass, &c. The 

 Committee are further indebted to the South Kensington authorities 

 for a fine model of H.M.S. Albion (built in 1842), also for twelve 

 oil paintings and four cartoons. From the Egyptian Exploration 

 Fund several beautifully preserved relics of the VL and VIL 

 Dynasties have bsen received. 



Additions have also taken place in the other Departments of the 

 Museum, gifts having been made, as formerly, by a number of 

 resident townsmen. 



Under the supervision of the M'Lean Trustees, a course of 

 three Art Lectures was delivered in the Hall by Mr. R. F. Martin, 

 of the South Kensington Museum, London. The lectures were 

 illustrated by the glass, pottery, and art exhibits in the Museum. 



