48 MUSEUMS. 
were set up ready for being placed on exhibition :—-Red Deer (male, 
female and fawn), Fallow Deer (female). 
The following bird-groups have been prepared and added to the 
exhibited series during the year:—Corn Bunting, Common 
Bunting, Reed Bunting, Migratory Bunting, Stock Dove, Cuckoo 
and Meadow Pipits, Shrike (Butcher Bird), Reed Warbler, Black- 
cap Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Whinchat, 
Stone-chat, Redstart, Goldfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Lesser 
Spotted Woodpecker, Wryneck and ‘Tree Creeper. 
A number of Fishes for the Local Collection have been prepared, 
both as preserved specimens and as plaster or papier-maché casts, — 
and have been placed on exhibition, including specimens of 
Bearded Rockling, Cook’s Wrasse, the Torpedo, Humantin and 
Scymnus Shark among others. Dredging excursions to obtain 
fresh specimens of fishes and other marine forms have been 
continued, and many specimens have been fixed and preserved. 
The collection of British Mollusca is in course of preparation. he 
shells are to be placed in table-cases, and so raised near to the glass, 
whereby close inspection of the specimens is rendered possible. 
Spirit and fluid preparations of the animals are in course of 
preparation, and will be exhibited in upright cases. it is pleasing 
to add that the fullest advantage is being taken of the local 
collections of Butterflies and Moths on exhibition. 
In the Local Botany section a series of models of British Fungi is 
in course of being arranged on exhibition, in upright cases. 
To the Upper Gallery, where the systematic collections are 
arranged, many additions have been made. ‘The skeletons of the 
Giraffe and Camel have been cleaned and re-mounted, and the old 
specimen of the Rhinoceros has been re-cast on a new model and 
partially prepared for exhibition. ‘The series of skulls with antlers, 
of various deer, illustrating the growth of antlers from the “ velvet,” 
creates great interest. The general labelling of the cases and of 
their contents has also been proceeded with as rapidly as it could be 
undertaken by the printer. During the year progress has been 
