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A Collection of Fish, Crustacea, «S;c., from the Victoria Museum, Bombay, 



for Specimens of British Fish, &c. 

 A Splendid Collection of Benutifiilly-stuffed Fish, representing seventy-six 

 species; also, one hundred and forty specimens of one hundred and 

 eighteen species of Fish, in spirit ; from the Madras Government Central 

 Museum, per Captain Mitchell and A. C. Brisbane Neil, Esq., in ex- 

 change for British Fish, «Ssc. 

 Exchanges and friendly relations have also been carried on with Professor 

 Agassiz, Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, of Cambridge, 

 Massachusets ; and have been commenced with the Society of Natural History, 

 Boston, U.S.A., per S. H. Scudder, Custodian; Avith the University of 

 Chicago, per Professor M'Chesney ; with M'Gill College, Montreal, per Dr. 

 Dawson, Principal; with the University of Ereslau, per Professor Edward 

 Grube ; with the Imperial Museum of Zoology, Vienna, per H. Ritter Von 

 Fraiienfeld ; and witli Trinity College, Dublin, per Rev. Professor Haughton, 

 M.D.; and are in prospect with the Zoological Museum of the University of 

 Copenhagen, per Otto A. L. Morch. 



The Museum has been visited and carefully inspected by all the gentlemen 

 mentioned in the last paragraph, except Professor Agassiz and Mr. Otto 

 Moirch, as well as by many of the foreign visitors to the recent Meeting of the 

 British Association, in addition to those above named. 



Some improved methods of mounting and displaying birds, have been com- 

 menced by the Curator, and carried out by Messrs. Reynolds, the Museum 

 Taxidermists. Thus, a few cases of British birds have been prepared, show- 

 ing the male, female, nest, eggs, and young — for several of which the Museum 

 is indebted to Thomas West, Esq., of Eccleston. In the Derby Collection, as 

 complete family groups of the principal Game Birds as the Collection admits 

 of, have been arranged together on a single stand ;tmay thuslbe seen the male, 

 female, and young, arranged so as to display them to the besl advantage. By 

 these means space is afforded for boldly-printed labels, containing a few notes, 

 , / in addition to the name and county, and the whole becomes more intelligible, 

 / instructive, and pleasing. 



Several of the above groups were exhibited before the British Association 

 at Birmingliam, and were highly approved, several of the most eminent British 

 Ornithologists being present at the time of exhibition. 



THOMAS J. MOORE, Curator. 



