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contents of the Tweeddale Library (about 2300 volumes) are 

 not included in the above statement. John Saunders, who had 

 been trained for this duty for many years, attended henceforth 

 to the Library under the supervision of the Keeper. 



DUPLICATES. 



(1886-87.) 



During the removal and in the following years no time could 

 be spared for the distribution of duplicates, with the exception of 

 a small number, utilised chiefly for exchanges. In the present 

 year (1887), however, 4403 specimens were presented to five 

 provincial museums. 



GRANTS FOR ANNUAL EXPENDITURE. 

 (1886-87.) 



The grants for purchases were 1500 in the first, and 1000 

 in the second year ; for preparing, etc., 1800, and for preparing 

 and printing catalogues, 1400 in both years; for the purchase 

 of books, 800 and 600 ; and for binding books, 160 and 120. 



STUDENTS. 

 (1886-87.) 



The number of visits of persons consulting the collections 

 was 8372 in the first, and 8955 in the second year. 



1888-89. 



The great increase of the collections within the five years 

 since they were moved into the new building, had already caused 

 the want to be felt for more room, especially for Mammals and 

 Birds, and still more in the Spirit and Insect Rooms. The Spirit 

 Building, which gave about five times as much space as the vaults 

 in the old Museum, and which, from the annual increase of the 

 collections at the time when it was planned, was calculated to 

 afford sufficient accommodation for fifteen or twenty years, was 

 now quite full. Between May, 1884, and the end of 1886, 7065 

 bottles had been added, each of which occupies on an average a 

 space of about 112 cubic inches. The rapidity of this increase 

 could not have been foreseen, being due in great measure to the 

 receipt of the large collections previously referred to, and partly 

 to the extended requirements of modern zoological research. Of 



