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KEPOKT OX THE MUSEUM DEPARTMENT FOR 



THE YEAR 1905. 



I'ERAK STATE MlSErM. 



T^^EYOND a few slii?ht improvements, nothing wa« done to the 

 buildinsr itself. These included brick drains round the ethno- 

 logical w"iug and guttering roimd its lautern roof. Guttering was also 

 put round the roof of the porch, while the exterior of tlie whole was 

 painted and colour washed. A small detached skinning shed was 

 built in the grounds to relieve the workshop of the dirtier portions of 

 the work. 



'2. In all the departments the rearrangement, which was begun in 

 ilX>4. was carried on, and, except in a few instances, the various 

 collections were placed in the order which had previously ])een deter- 

 mined on. A great deal more work, however, remains to be done to 

 complete the details of the installation. 



3. Considerable additions were made to most of the sections — by 

 collection, exchange, purchase and donation. The sections to which 

 the greatest increases were made ai"e the ethnological, minera logical 

 and economic. 



4. The registration and cataloguing of the collections, which was 

 l>egun in De<.ember of 190-i, was carried on, and by the end of the 

 year the nunil-»er reached was 3,800, equal to about 8.000 cards, 

 inclu<ling the guide-cards. 



•5. The library was also re-catalogue<l, which involved the tvpo- 

 writing of about 4,0<X> cards. This new card catalogue is worked on 

 the same system as that for the other departments, which was 

 mentioned in my last Annual Report, and explained in detail in a 

 paper, entitled " A System for the Registration of the Contents of 

 Museums," contrilnited to the *' Museum Association " and rejninted 

 in the third number of the 'Journal of the Federated Malav States 

 Museums." 



6. The number of visitors admitted during the year was 55,103, 

 and, as the Museum was open to the puV>lic on 295 days, this gives a 

 daily average attendance of 188.83. 



7. Mr. E. Keilich, the Taxidennist. returned from eighteen months' 

 leave on the 21st of Septemljer, and from then to the end of the year 

 the staff was at its full strength. 



8ELANG0K STATE MTSEUM. 



8. The new Museum was not finished by the end of the year, but 

 the ca*..-building had progivssed in a satisfactoiy manner and the 

 ■woodwork f-r ^Y'- ^^ i^l ■hs'-s "f the two long exhibition rooms was 



