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Your Curator has very much pleasure in stating that the 
exhibition of living wild plants, initiated three years ago, has 
not only met with marked success, but has proved of great 
educational value to a large number of Members of the 
Society, and also to the general public. Your Curator wishes 
in this communication to express to the Contributors his 
warm appreciation for the valuable and interesting plants 
which they have contributed from time to time towards this 
exhibition. Without such help it would have been quite 
impossible to have made such a thoroughly representative 
display of the living flowers of our country; and your Curator 
expresses the hope that he may receive the same kind assist- 
ance in the future that he has done in the past. 
It may be interesting to add that during the year I909 no 
less than 500 species of plants were exhibited, representing, 
approximately, 2,500 individual specimens. 
In connection with this exhibit, it has been thought 
desirable to form a collection of the seeds of British Plants, 
and your Curator has already placed on view a series of 
micro-photographs illustrative of this interesting phase of 
Botany. 
By invitation of the Museum Management Committee, 
arrangements have again been made for a series of ‘‘ Nature- 
Study Lessons,’’ on six subjects, commencing April 11th, 
ending on or about September oth, 1910, to Classes of the 
City Public Elementary Schools, given by the Curator. 
The subjects approved by the Director of Education are 
as follows :— 
(1) The Stoat; Weasel; and Polecat 
(2) The Frog and Toad 
(3) Familiar Wild Birds 
(4) Bees and Wasps (social and solitary) 
(5) The Life-histories of some common Flowering 
Plants 
(6) Fossil Animals and Plants. 
The total number of attendances—at an average weekly 
attendance of 7o—is 1,260. Specimens in the Society’s Museum, 
lantern photographs, and living specimens, are used to illus- 
trate the lessons. 
