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eases, newly apportioned, have been Will and furnished with 

 internal fittings. The Herbarium occupying the Botanical room in 

 the transept to this floor, has also, during the past 16 months, been 

 entirely mounted on paper as well as fixed in ten wing-frames, 



specially constructed for its exhibition. 



In the Taxidermist's Department there have been prepared for 



display in the lower liorse-shoe galleries, 430 freshly stufied and 

 mounted mammals and birds, 945 others cleaned, relaxed and 

 partially re-stuffed, besides 24(1 skeletons articulated, repaired 

 or cleaned. In addition in this Department, over TO rock-work 

 sylvan or water-scenes have been planned and constructed, besides 

 (lose on TOO stands appropriately treated lor the exhibition of 

 Bolitary specimens. In these IT months, therefore, 1,625 animals 

 and TTO stands have been dealt with in the Taxidermist's preparation 

 loom. 



In the Carpenters' shops, in addition to all the ordinary repairs 

 and fittings, there have been made during the same period over 

 1,950 new stands, large supports or pedestals to receive the results 

 of the Taxidermists' work, in addition to the devising and making 

 of several massive polished mahogany platforms, and the alteration 

 and reconstruction of numerous old cases, drawers and cabinets. 

 The floors and inside of the frames of the new cases have all been 

 painted, and the stands polished, varnished or enamelled by the 

 Museum staff. 



Encircling two of the galleries on the upper floor an extensive 

 series of cabinets has been erected to contain the study collections 

 for the use of students, and in these have, during this period, been 

 carefully arranged the exotic and British birds, many thousands 

 in number, so as to be now available for use by specialists. They 

 have already been consulted not only by many local naturalists, but 

 by a number of persons from other parts of England as well as of 

 Europe and America engaged in original research, many of whom 

 have been of world-wide reputation. 



During the past year a printer has been placed on the establish- 

 ment, whose time has been continuously filled in printing, glazing, 

 and framing labels for the externa of the cases indicating their 



