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DUPLICATES. 

 (1893.) 



The time of the staff was too much occupied to allow of a 1894- 

 distribution of Duplicates, but 6 Mammals, 753 Birds, 7 Frogs 

 and 232 Shells were utilised in making exchanges. 



GRANTS FOR THE YEAR. 

 (1893.) 



The grants were : for purchases, 3500 (inclusive of 2000 

 for the Pascoe collection); for preparing specimens, 1800; for 

 preparing and printing catalogues, 1675 ; for the purchase of 

 books, 240 ; for binding, 30. 



STUDENTS. 

 (1893.) 



The number of visits of persons consulting the collections 

 was 10,872. 



1894-95. 



[ARRANGEMENT OP THE COLLECTION. 



Owing to the moderate number of accessions in these two 

 years, the work of systematic rearrangement, as well as the 

 incorporation of some of the unarranged material, made satisfac- 

 tory progress : 



1. The accessions to the collection of Mammalia were never 

 so excessive (before 1894 they had reached 1000 only exceptionally) 

 that the Assistant in charge (Mr. O. Thomas) could not cope with 

 their incorporation, or that the arrangement of the specimens 

 was seriously disturbed. In 1894 the Keeper again urged the 

 Trustees to apply to the Treasury for the erection of a 

 supplementary building for Cetaceans. The application was 

 granted, and the work commenced in 1895. 



2. Birds (Messrs. R. Bowdler Sharpe and W. R. Ogilvie- 

 Grant). The arrangement of the study collection proceeded with 

 the progress of the catalogue, but some of the previously arranged 

 portions had to be expanded. The collection of skeletons and 



