REPORT 



OF THE 



DIRECTORS AND CURATORS of the MUSEUM. 



The Directors and Curators of the Museum have again 

 the pleasure of offering their congratulations on the ac- 

 cession of many new and valuable subjects in Natural 

 History during the past twelvemonth. 



The cases appropriated for the illustration of Ornitho- 

 logy being found so peculiarly attractive to visitors, the 

 Curators have felt themselves bound to increase the Col- 

 lection of Birds by every means in their power, consequently 

 a much larger sum has been applied to that department 

 since the publication of the last report, than to any other 

 in the Museum. The very flattering manner in which 

 many of the members aided the endeavours of the officers 

 in this particular (as will be seen by a reference to the list 

 of donations) deserves, and will obtain the warmest thanks 

 of the Society. The foreign birds were for the most part 

 presented in the same state in which they were received 

 from abroad, and have subsequently been set up at the 

 expense of the Institution. It would be inappropriate to 

 particularize many of the donations in this place, yet the 

 following, by their brilliancy or rarity, claim to be enu- 

 merated. An undcscribed species of Bustard (Genus 

 Otis Linn.) and an undcscribed Partridge (Genus Tetrao), 



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