82 The Ottawa Naturalist. 



spirit rooms to be apart from the main building. The Museum 

 will include : — 



(a) Carvings, bronze and iron weapons, implements etc. 



the property of the Royal South African Company. 



(b) Fossils, minerals, shells, corals, larger vertebrates. 



(c) Birds, fishes, reptiles, msects, marine invertebrates. 



(d) Ethnological specimens. 



Hobart Museum, Tasmania. — This museum is very neat and 

 effective. It included an Art Gallery, an aquarium, where native 

 fish may be studied and examined critically, also an ethnological 

 collection besides four main divisions of Zoology, Botany, Geology 

 and Mineralogy. Tasmania University and the Royal Society of 

 Tasmania are both connected with this Museum. University Ex- 

 tension lectures are given every year in one of the Halls of the 

 Museum. 



Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand. — The chief feature 

 of the museum is its zoological collection. Whales, Birds 

 (Noctornis Mantelli) Copepods and Dinornis are also pro- 

 minently represented. To the museum there is an annex for 

 an Ethnological collection. 



Christ Church Museum New Zealafid. — In connection with 

 Canterbury College. The largest museum in New Zealand. Very 

 good general collection in Zoology. Extinct birds form a con- 

 spicious feature of the exhibits. The Ethnological collections con- 

 tain Alaskan, Indian, and Japanese costumes. Twelve fine 

 skeletons of Mea birds one of which measures lO ft. 7 inches in a 

 resting position, besides four species of Apteryx are also present. 

 Fossils, rocks, and minerals from the district are also exhibited, 

 besides an excellent Botanical collection or Herbarium accom- 

 panied by a series of flower-paintings Very fine Cetacea and 

 Sirenia, also skulls of Maoris. 



Colonial Museum, Wellington, New. .Zealand. — This is 

 essentially a government Museum. It is the head quarters 

 of the Geological Survey of New Zealand and the coUec- 



