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Zoological 1 )tcpartm i:xt. 

 (a) General. 



During the past year there has beeu no change in the number of 

 duties of the Stott'. The work of cataloguing the Birds has been 

 continued, and during the year the Lizard-tailed, the Toothed and 

 the Ostrich-like Birds, and the Tinamous and the Divers have been 

 completed and published. Progress has been also made in cata- 

 loguing other groups. Mr. Clubb has finished cataloguing the 

 Lacertilia. The acquisitions to the Museums in this Department 

 have been large, and include the greater portion of the Museum's 

 share of the specimens collected on the Expedition to Sokotra. The 

 total acquisitions number close upon 4, odd specimens, and much 

 time is consequently occupied in their identification (so far as it is 

 necessary), incorporation and registration. 



Collecting apparatus and boxes, with preservative fluids, were 

 fitted up and very kindly taken charge of by the Yellow Fever 

 Expedition to Para for the preservation of such specimens as the 

 members hoped they might be able to collect: also by Mr. E. 1). 

 Adamson, H.B.M. Consul at Iquitos. 



The structural alterations, made necessary by the new system of 

 heating and ventilation, has entailed a large amount of work in 

 seeing to the careful removal and conservation of specimens from 

 the numerous cases, which had to be removed to enable the openings 

 for the ventilation inlets and outlets to be constructed. 



The series of photographic enlargements, illustrating the various 

 paces of mankind, still continues to grow, and there are now upwards 

 of 125 of these anthropological photographs. Further copies have 

 been presented to the British Museum and Cambridge University, 

 where they are highly appreciated. 



(J)' Arrangement. 



The same general arrangement of the collections has been main- 

 tained throughout the year, and in view of the Extension, when 

 much change and re-arrangement will be involved, little has been 

 done beyond keeping the collections, as at present exhibited, in 

 proper order. 



