African Protectorate ; Capt. Gibbons ; M. Maximiliano Nackmaun, 

 Consul for Guatemala. 



Fourteen Students' Tickets have been issued during the year, and 

 twenty-five Students have used the collectious for purposes of study 

 on Fridays. 



Loans of zoological specimens have been made to the British Museum 

 for the purposes of the XXVIIth. volume of the Catalogue of Birds, now 

 being published by the Trustees; and to the Tring Museum (the Hon. 

 Walter Rothschild's) for comparison purposes ; and of Ethnographical 

 objects to Prof. Haddon for the preparation of his recently published 

 Memoir on The Decorative Art of British New Guinea, 



The Museums were open on 23 evenings during the periods of January 

 to March, and October to December, when the total attendances were 

 6,758 persons, giving an average attendance of 293 per evening. Lectures 

 were on these evenings given in exposition of the collections, either in 

 the Galleries or in the Lecture Theatre attached to the Museum, 

 illustrated by objects from the Museum or by lantern slides. The 

 following is a list of the subjects of lecture in 1894 and of the 

 lecturers : — 



1894. 

 Jan. 8th.— "Old Yorkshire Pottery," by Mr. J. T. Beer, f.s.a, Scot. 

 Jan. 15th — " Toys, Ancient and Modern ; their Use and Influence on 



National Character," by Mr. T. Tarleton. 

 Jan. 22nd. — " The Early Egyptians and their Gods," by Mr. A. H. 



Frazer. 

 Jan. 29tb.--" Land and Sea," by Mr. J. Butler Davies. 

 Feb. 5th. — " England's Sunny Lanes, and their Insect Inhabitants,"' 



with illustrations, by Mr. C. H. Hesketh Walker. 

 Feb. 12th.—-' The Lower Forms of Animal Life," by Mr. P. F. J. 



Corbin. 

 Feb. 19th. — •'* The Freshwater Mussel," with lantern illustrations, by 



Mr. W. H. Read. 

 Feb. 26th.— On " The Mayer Collection," by the Assistant Curator of 



the Mayer Museum. 

 Mar. 5th.— On " The Hands and Feet in Man and Animals," by Mr. F. 



C. Larkin, f.rc.s. 



