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practically ready for erectiou by December. The amount expemled for 

 case-buildiuLr and fiiruiture was 32,472.66. This included the cost of 

 a safe, the construction of a trap-door and hoisting tackle to enable the 

 furniture, etc., to be raised to the upper floor, a supply of glass-topjjed 

 boxes for storing the skin collection and cabinets to iiold them, as Avell 

 as some almeirahs and office furniture. 



9. Collecting was actively carried on throughout the year and 

 many specimens new to the collection and several new to science were 

 obtained. In January and again in Feliruary the high mountains in 

 the neighbourhood of Gunong Batang Kali were visited bv the Curator 

 and his collectors, in May the Gunong Tahan expedition started, and 

 at the end of the year a visit was paid to Linggi in Negri Sembilan. 



10. Owing principally to its dilapidated state it was decided to 

 close the old Museum to the public in Septemljer and use the whole of 

 it as a store. Many of the specimens were packed up, as this appeared 

 to l>o the best means of preserving them from deterioration. 



11. The number of visitors admitted during the first eight months 

 of the year amounted to 20,930, against 23,219, for the corresponding 

 months of 1904. 



(lEXEKAL. 



12. The most important event of the year was the Gunong Tahan 

 collecting expedition. It started on the 11th of May and returned 

 early in Septeniber. Although the Director of Museums was compelled 

 to return, owing to an attack of dysentery, on the 19th of July, the 

 Curator of the Selangor Museum remained on the mountain and 

 brought the work to a satisfactory conclusion. It is impossible to 

 give any results at the present time. The specimens collected were all 

 sent to the British Museum of Natural History, as previously arranged, 

 and it will naturally be some considerable time before the material can 

 be worked out by the specialists of that Institution. 



13. Three numbers of the "Journal of the Federated Malay 

 States Museums'' were issued during the year: containing 108 pages 

 of letterpress, five plates and one plan. 



L. WRAY, 



Director of MvMuins, F.M.S. 



EEPORT ON THE PERAK MUSEUM 

 FOR THE YEAR 1905. 



THE BUILDING. 

 T?ARLY in the year the scaffolding and ataps v,^ere removed from 

 the foui" towers, which had been under repair dui-ing the greater 

 part of the previous year. The result from a practical aspect is so far 

 satisfactorv, there being no sign of leakage up to the present. 



