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Catalogues, Guides and Descriptive Papers ..... 71 



Departmental Library ......... 72 



Duplicates . . . . ' 73 



Grants for annual expenditure ....... 73 



Students . 73 



1888-89. 



Inadequacy of Space and Staff ....... 73 



(Increase cannot be cbecked.) 

 Additions to the Staff .75 



(Mr. F. A. Heron and Mr. E. E. Austen.) 

 Growth of the Collection .75 



(Challenger Collections (continued) Mr. Godmaii's donation of 

 North American Birds Riocour Collection Day Collection 

 of Fishes and Crustaceans Turton Collection of Shells 

 Hampson Collection of Nilgiri Lepidoptera.) 

 Arrangement of the Collection . . . . . . .76 



(Mr. Thomas' Catalogue of Marsupialia, etc.) 



Guides and Catalogues 77 



Duplicates ........... 77 



Grants for annual expenditure ........ 77 



Students 78 



1890. 



Arrangement of the Collection ....... 78 



(Auxiliary Workers.) 

 Catalogues ........... 78 



Growth of the Collection 78 



(Challenger duplicates Keyserling Collection of Arachnida 

 Frey Collection of Lepidoptera Baly Collection of Coleop- 

 tera Mr. Carter's Collection of Fresh-water Sponges.) 



Duplicates 80 



Grants for the year 80 



Students . 81 



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1891-92. 



Supplementary buildings ........ 81 



(Iron shed for Whales.) 

 Arrangement of the Collection . . . . . . .82 



(Arrangement of Birds' Eggs New edition of Catalogue of 

 Fishes List of Entomological types Professor Parker's 

 Foraminifera.) 



Catalogues 83 



(Instructions for collecting.) 



Growth of the CoUection 84 



(Hume Collection of Heads and Horns Dr. Blanford's Indian 

 Mammals Mr. Littledale's Caucasian Collection Dr. 

 Anderson's Egyptian Mammals Whale skeletons Godman 



