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All extra Clerk was fiuplojed duriug the last five months ami 

 eight days of the year, and paid for out of the extra clerical assistance 

 vote. 



One Malay Attendant was added to the staff from the 1st January, 

 being provided for in the Estimates, to watch and patrol the new 

 wing. 



FINANCIAL. 



Owing to the circular issued in January from the Resident- 

 General's Office disallowing rice allowance to Orderlies, Peons, etc., 

 joining Government Service after 1st January, there was a balance in 

 liand of 824 on the rice allowance vote of 696. The total saving on 

 the expenditure of the department for the year was §1,014.55, §662.42 

 of which was saved on exchange compensation allowance vote. 



The revenue collected by Taxidermist's fees, etc., amounted to 

 $50.45 : 45 cents in excess of that estimated. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 

 The gift of a pair of slow loris (Nycticehiis tardigradus) — com- 

 monly known in the Peninsula by the misnomer of " Sloth " — was 

 made to the Zoological Society of London in August, and they were 

 safely deposited in the Society's Gardens in September. 



A young leopard (Felis j^ardvs) of the black variety, which was 

 presented to the Perak Museum by Mr. Choo Chak Sang, of Seremban, 

 was sent to the Egyptian Government Zoological Gardens at Giza, 

 where it arrived in excellent condition in October and was warmly 

 acknowledged by the Superintendent, Captain Stanley Flower. 



A pair of argus pheasants (Argusianus argus), procured for a 

 similar pui-pose for the London Zoological Gardens, failed to siirvive 

 for more than a month or so, and their skins were therefore added 

 to the Perak Museum collections. 



A specimen of the Malayan flying- squirrel ( Pteromys petaurista) 

 was pi'esented to the British Museum in May. 



A portrait of the late Sir Hugh Low, g.c.m.g., founder of the 

 Perak State Museum, was framed and hung up ; and the portrait of 

 Mr. James Wheeler Woodford Birch, first British Resident of Perak, 

 was hung at the entrance of the comparative ethnology room. 



Towards the end of the year a new style of typewriter of the 

 Hammond make was noticed, and one was immediately ordered through 

 the Crown Agents. This machine writes only nine letter to the inch, 

 instead of 11 to the inch as in the ordinary Hammond typewriter ; 

 and as the one drawback to type-written labels is their inrlistinctness, 

 due to the closeness of the type, it was assumed that this machine 

 would be of great assistance in coping with the labelling question. 



FRED. W. KNOCKER, 



Curator. 



