PREFACE. 
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ONSIDERABLE progress has been made during the 
last 15 years in continuing the collection of British 
Birds formed by the late Mr. Booth, which included 226 
species, many of which were exhibited in several different 
stages of plumage and occupied 308 cases, while 7 species 
remained uncased at his death. As many as 73 further 
species have been obtained, while 43 new cases have been 
finished or are in hand. 
Mr. Borrer’s collection, purchased partly by subscription 
and partly by Town funds, in rg01, contained no less than 
43 species which had not been obtained by Mr. Booth. 
Most of them are Sussexspecimens. The collection formed 
by Mr. Monk at Lewes was similarly acquired in 1905 and 
contained 22 species, all obtained in Sussex, and many of 
the greatest rarity, which Mr, Booth had never succeeded 
in getting, though several of these species had been already 
acquired with the Borrer collection, The collection formed 
by the late Bishop Wilberforce, of Oxford, was given in 
1903 by his son, Mr. R. G. Wilberforce, and contained eight 
species which we required, all also obtained in Sussex. 
Many others have been given by various donors as stated 
below, and a few have been purchased from time to time. 
The following donations have been made (in addition 
to the subscriptions received for the purchase of the Borrer 
and Monk collections) :— 
Mr. BAIn (of Benbecula) Fork-tailed Petrel. 
Mr. P. E. COOMBE bee do. do. 
Red-footed Falcon. 
Golden Oriole (female). 
Black Lark. 
Little Bustard. 
Mr. ALLAN COOPER 
Mr. R. EpEN DICKSON 
Mrs. Gorpon (of Harting) ... 
Mrs. GRIFFITH ... 
Hoopoe. 
Little Bittern. 
Ruddy Sheldrake (female). 
Solitary Snipe. 
