FORTY- FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 



period of four years, and at the end of that time tliey would ask for 

 another loan of pictures. In the Museum, too, some advance had 

 been made. In this connection he might mention the zoological 

 type collection, which was being prepared by Mr. Edward S. Russell, 

 who had been introduced to them by Mr. Andrew Carmichael. Mr. 

 Russell was carrying the work out in a highly satisfactory manner. 

 When visiting the Museum strangers remarked on the excellent 

 manner in which the specimens were mounted and labelled. As an 

 instance of this, he might state that Mr. Paton, the curator of the 

 Glasgow Museum and Art Galleries, recently expressed himself as 

 highly delighted with the superior manner in which the specimens 

 were shown in the Greenock Museum. The late Mr. Rennie gave 

 great attention to this matter for many years, and it was satisfactory 

 to state that his successor was carrying on the work in an admirable 

 way. 



Mr. Andrew Carmichael, in seconding the adoption of the 

 reports, said that when he proposed that Mr. Russell should under- 

 take the work which he indicated that he was prepared to carry out, 

 some of the older Members of the Committee were inclined to think 

 that it was a great amount of responsibility to put upon such a young 

 man. Being now at college, it was only in his spare time that Mr. 

 Russell could do the work, but those who hesitated to put the re- 

 sponsibility on Mr. Russell were the first to admit that the work he 

 produced was exceedingly creditable. 



The reports were unanimously adopted, and on the motion of 

 the Chairman, Mr. J. D. Neill and Mr. T. D. M'Murrich were 

 elected representatives of the Library Proprietors on the Museum 

 Committee. 



Mr. T. L. Patterson moved that Mr. George Uunlop and Mr. 

 Thomas Thomson be the Society's representatives on the Museum 

 Committee, which was agreed to. 



This was all the business. 



