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CURATOR AND LIBRARIAN’S REPORT. 
Your Curator has pleasure in submitting his Report for the 
past year. ‘The number of additions to the Society’s Museum is 
82, of which eight species are new to the collection. 
Dr. Herbert Dobie has given 27 species of Lepidoptera, which 
include four species new to the collection. 
To the fishes, two new species have been added by Mr. F. 
Siddall and the Curator. 
Mr. Chas. Oldham has added one new species of Fresh-water 
Shell, ‘‘ discovered in Britain only a few years ago ’’ (see list). 
A list of the Fresh-water Shells in the Society’s Museum was 
made last year (1913) by Mr. Denison Roebuck, “of Leeds, for 
publication, which includes several species new to Cheshire, 
and at present, one or more, apparently only, to the British Isles. 
About 80 to 90 labels bearing fuller descriptions of individual 
specimens and animal groups in the Society’s Museum have been 
added. ‘These are also being supplemented. 
New wood flanges to the doors of most of the cases in which 
the birds are arranged have been fitted, to keep out the dust, 
and so far the result is satisfactory. 
For the gifts of specimens and books, the donors have been 
thanked. 
The interest in, and appreciation of, the Exhibitions of 
the Native Flora is evidenced by the increase in the number of 
contributors to the Exhibition this year. Since the Exhibi- 
tion opened in March, as many as 85 species of Spring Flowers 
have been on view at one time. Last year (1913) the number 
