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courtesy during the trips on which the officers have accompanied 

 him, and also for so frequently bringing in objects of interest to the 

 Museum which have fallen in his wax on other occasions. 



The Science Cabinets, containing properly identified and labelled 

 specimens, on selected subjects, have been distributed to the various 

 Elementary Schools in the City as in former years ; applications 

 have also become more numerous for specimens for object lessons 

 (mainly Natural History), and for the series of Technical Appliances 

 on loan from the Museums. The increase in the applications for 

 Museum specimens has necessitated considerable additions to the 

 loan collections. This educational feature, which has for its 

 purpose the promotion of scientific teaching throughout the City, is 

 being more and more appreciated. Numerous applications have 

 been made to the Director by educational authorities, not only in 

 England, but in America and Australia tin information as to the' 

 working of the system. 



In the Local Area Gallery, substantial progress has been made, 

 during the past year, with its re-arrangement and in the mounting 

 of specimens of the Local Fauna. Representatives of the Red and 

 Fallow Deer, and of the Ancient Wild Cattle of Britain, are still 

 desiderata to complete the groups of local mammals. There is 

 some hope, however, of these being obtained and set up before next 

 Annual Report. Five groups of the nesting birds of the district 

 in their natural habitats, with their nests and eggs or young, were 

 on exhibition at the close of 1903. Thirty additional groups', con- 

 sisting of Jay, Starling, Magpie, Robin, Willow- Warbler, Chiff- 

 chaff, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon, Nightjar, Whitethroat, Wheatear. 

 King-ouzel, Song Thrush, Missel-Thrush, Blackbird. Great Black- 

 backed Gull, Herring Gull, Common Gull, Ivittiwake, Black-headed 

 Gull, Golden Eagle, Mallard Duck, Oyster-Catcher, Long-eared 

 Owl, Barn Owl, Tawny Owl, group of four species of Terns 

 with Ringed Plover, &c, have been prepared during the 

 year dealt with in this Report. Several of the sea-bird 

 groups have attracted large and interested crowds, many of 

 whom, not alone those acquainted with the habits of the birds, but 

 more especially those whose opportunities of seeing them in life are 



