8 MUSEUMS. 
The Museums are closed on Sundays and Fridays (except the 
Fridays of Whit-, Easter- and Christmas Weeks) throughout the 
year, as well as on Christmas Day, and days of Public Fast and 
Thanksgiving. 
The Museums were represented by the Deputy-Chairman at the 
International Ornithological Congress in London during June. 
Owing to illness the Director of Museums was unable to attend. 
Since 1896, a period of ten years, 60,375 specimens of Natural 
History and 9,421 specimens of Ethnography, totalling close upon 
69,794 specimens, have been added to the collection, or on an 
average close upon 7,000 additions per year. 
A Guide to the Egyptian Gallery, containing a short account of 
the specimens, their relation to the history of the dynasty to which 
they belong and to contemporary specimens exhibited elsewhere, by 
the Director, will shortly be issued, as well as a short General 
Guide to the Museums, by the Assistant Curator of the Lord Derby 
Museum. 
Dr. Philip Nelson and Mr. Samuel Smith, Junr., who have 
generously continued their services in the preparation of a Catalogue 
of the Coin Collection in the Museum, are far advanced with their 
‘work, and their volume is already, in great part, in type. 
During the year cordial relations have been established between 
the University Institute of Commercial Research in the Tropics and 
the Museums, whereby, in return for the use of laboratory accom- 
modation in the Museums, the services of Dr. Drabble and Mr. 
Newstead, A.L.S., have been secured, of which the main terms are 
indicated in the following Resolutions accepted by the Committees 
of both Institutions :— 
The Committee having considered the proposals submitted by 
the University Institute of Commercial Research in the Tropics, 
Resolved— 
(1) To offer to the Institute the accommodation in the 
Museums for an Economic Entomologist and an Economic 
Botanist, whose salaries are to be chargeable to the Institute. 
