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REPORT 



OP THB 



DIRECTORS and CURATORS of the MUSEUM. 



The Directors and Curators congratulate the 

 Society on the improvements and augmentations 

 hat have been effected during the paft Season Tn 

 the Museum every division of which has been 

 increased .n Specimens, and some of the arrange- 

 ments have almost wholly been re-modelled 

 1 ;.f ^f^^n^i^ued kindness of the Friends of the 

 Institution has enabled the Curators to fill ud 

 many chasms in the several departments, which 

 renders their utility the moreapparent by shewin" 

 in a more connected form the many links of which 

 the Cham is composed. 



In the department of Natural History, a small 

 case has been appropriated to the class Mam- 

 malia, which It IS hoped will form the nucleus for 

 a more extended display.-.Through the kindness 

 ot h. S. Curling, Lsq., this case is enriched with 

 a fine specimen of the Flying Opossum (Didel- 

 phis volans) from New South Wales, and UsdZl 

 from that Ceutleman's zeal to serve tleftit? 

 tion, and from the many opportuniries he posse e" 

 of obtaining- foreign specmiens-the Society may 

 fairly presume on considerable additions through 

 nis extended liberality. tuugu 



Although no new Cases for Birds have been 

 found requisite yet very many superb specimen" 

 now adorn the Cases that have been added s^,!ce 



