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MUSEUMS • 



Canon Norman, F.R.S., and at the Meeting of the British Association, 

 at Ipswich, in September, under the Presidency of Sir Douglas 

 Galton, K.C.B. 



Among those who have visited the Museums for study, research, or 

 special inspection, are the following : — 



Dr. P. Kendall, Medical Officer, Nyassa-land, British Central Africa ; 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S.. British Museum, for ornithological 

 investigation ; Prof, Dr. Amalitsky, Warsaw University, to examine 

 the Palpeontological Collections, and especially the Permian Lamelli- 

 branchiata ; Rev. A. H. Cooke, King's College, Cambridge, to examine 

 the Collection of Mollusca ; Dr. Wheelton Hind ; H. N. Ridley. M.A.. 

 Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Singapore ; Prof. Pettigrew ; 

 Prof. Ritter, San Francisco, U.S.A., to examine the Tunicata ; Prof. 

 Marshall H. Saville, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 

 examining the Anthropological Collection and the Mexican Codex and 

 Antiquities ; Prof. Gotch, F.R.S., and Prof. Lodge, D. Sc, F.R.S., to 

 conduct physiological experiments upon the electric fishes ; Dr. Salin, 

 Stockholm, investigating the Bryan-Faussett Anglo-Saxon Collection ; 

 Prof. A. C. Haddon, Royal College of Science, Dublin, visiting the 

 Anthropological Collection ; Prof. Rein, University of Bonn, investi- 

 gating the Pottery Collection, and especially the Japanese objects ; 

 Arthur Rhodes, Esq., Member of the House of Representatives, New 

 Zealand ; Prof. Dr. Valdemar vSchmidt, Copenhagen, examining the 

 Ethnological Collections, and investigating the inscriptions upon the 

 Egyptian Sarcophagi ; Capt. H. Mays, Curator of the Museum, King's 

 Lynn ; Sefior Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, Director of the National 

 Museum, Mexico, investigating and describing the Mexican Codex, for 

 the purpose of reproducing it in a work contemplated by the Mexican 

 Government; Dr. Rowland, Medical Officer, Lagos, "West Africa; 

 Arthur J. Evans, Esq., F.S.A., Curator of the Ashmolean Museum, 

 Oxford, studying the Celtic ornamentation on objects in the Mayer 

 Museum; Dr. R. H. Traquair, F.R.S., Keeper of Zoology in the 

 Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh. 



The Museums were open on twenty-five Monday evenings during the 

 periods of January to March, and October to December, when the total 

 attendances were 8,150, giving an average of S26 each evening, which 

 is an increase on the previous year's attendance. 



