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ANNUAL REPORT BY COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. 



Reuif and adopted at Joint Meeting of Proprietors of the Greenock Library 

 and Philosophical Society held on 3yth December, igog. 



The Committee of Management of the McLean Museum and 

 Lecture Hall have pleasure in submitting the Thirty-second Annual 

 Report on the Museum, which is as follows : — 



The Representatives to the Committee elected at last Annual 

 Meeting by the Library Proprietors were Mr. Alfred M'Killop and 

 Mr. A. R. Prentice, and by the Philosophical Society, Mr. 

 R. D. Carmichael and Mr. Robert A. Clapperton-Stewart. At the 

 Annual Meeting of the Committee held on 4th January Mr William 

 Watt was elected Chairman, the appointment falling to be made 

 from the Representatives of the Library. 



As usual a list of the additions made to the collections during 

 the year will be found in the Curator's Report, and while the 

 number is not quite so large as in some former years, still many 

 objects of interest have been placed in the Museum. The 

 Committee desire to express their thanks for all contributions, either 

 by gift or on loan, and while the space at their disposal is becoming 

 somewhat limited they are always glad to receive specimens or 

 objects of interest to be placed among the collections. A new case 

 or stand has been erected in the centre of the main Hall on which 

 are exhibited on the one side a number of examjiles of the art work 

 of old Japan, presented to the Museum by Mr. George R. 

 MacDougall (as mentioned in a previous Report), and on the other 

 side the Geological Maps for reference in connection with the 

 collection prepared by Mr. W. J. C. Laurie, referred to in last year's 

 Report. 



