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provements effected in many of the buildings at the Gardens, 

 as regards their ventilation, have been chiefly owing to the 

 infoi'mation derived from the inquiries of this Committee. 



THE MUSEUM 



has been enriched during the last year, equally with the 

 Menagerie, by numerous Donations, the particulars of which 

 are explained in the Donation Book now on the table. 

 Among the 



Donors to the Museum 



the Council are bound moi'e especially to mention several 

 valuable Corresponding Members, including B. H. Hodgson, 

 Esq., of Nepal, from whom have been received forty -four 

 additional Birdskins of the country to the zoology of which 

 he has devoted himself; M. Julien Desjardins, who has 

 given a collection of Birds, Fishes, and other animals of the 

 Mauritius ; the Rev. R. T. Lowe, a collection of Fishes 

 from Madeira ; Keith E. Abbott, Esq., numerous specimens 

 from Trebizond ; J. B. Harvey, Esq., many of the marine 

 productions of the south coast of Devon ; Sir T. Reade ; 

 J. Hearne, Esq. ; Lieut. Breton, R.N. ; and J. Parkinson, 

 Esq., of Bahia. The Society has also been indebted to J. J. 

 Audubon, Esq., for the skins of twenty-four Birds and seven 

 Quadrupeds collected by him in North America and not 

 previously in the Museum ; to Philip Poole, Esq., for an 

 extensive collection formed by him at Travancore, comprising 

 eleven Mammals, ninety-eight Birds, and six Saurian Rep- 

 tiles ; to Edward Jesse, Esq., for thirteen skins of Birds and 

 one of a Quadruped from Africa ; to Alexander MacLeay, 

 Esq,, for the skin of an Aptenjx ; to C. Kerry Nicholls, 

 Esq., for various presents ; and to Capt. Edie, Capt. Chase, 

 P. C. Blackett, Esq., T. Bell, Esq., and numerous others. 



A donation of especial interest and value has been made 

 to the Museum by Mr. Cuming, who has presented a com- 



