CURATOR AND LIBRARIAN’S REPORT. 
Your Curator has the honour of submitting his Report for 
the year 1911-1912, in which are recorded several new and rare 
additions to the Society’s Museum. Appended is a list of the 
additions, and the names of the various donors, to whom the 
Society gratefully acknowledge their indebtedness. 
An adult male Pine-marten (Mustela martes) the gift of 
Mr. JosepH Cooper, is an interesting and valued addition, being 
the second local specimen represented in the Museum. 
How to preserve the lives of these interesting animals is a 
difficult problem, as they will always be looked upon as enemies, 
especially by Game-keepers ; and it is on the large game preserves 
and other wild parts where these animals live. Apparently there 
are only two counties in Wales (Merioneth and Carnarvon) where 
the Pine-marten now exists in a wild state. In Cheshire it hag 
been extinct for many years. 
Two immature specimens of the Shag or Green-Cormorant 
(Phalacrocorax graculus) are given by Messrs 8. Noroross and 
T. A. Satmon. They were shot during the severe cold weather 
in February 1912, one specimen at Waverton and the second at 
Ashton Hayes. 
The value of these specimens to a local Museum is that 
they were taken so far inland—birds which spend the greater part 
of their lives on the coast and in the river estuaries, where they 
are fairly common. ‘These are the only local specimens in the 
Museum; they have, however, been recorded several times 
inland in Cheshire. A record in Mr. T. A. Cowarn’s ‘“ Fauna 
of Cheshire’’ refers to a specimen which was picked up at 
Thelwall on February 3rd, 1907. This appears to be the most 
recent recorded occurrence of these birds inland in Cheshire, 
prior to the specimens referred to above. 
During the gales of June and November 6th and 7th, 191], 
two adult specimens of the Gannet (Sula bassana) were taken 
inland ; one specimen from the Frodsham Marsh, given by Mr. F. 
