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Considerable progress has been made in the re-arrangement 

 of the recently acquired shells, and half our former collection has 

 been removed from the Greological room to the Zoological room, 

 and there newly mounted on tablets and labelled in accordance 

 with the other collections. The shells formerly possessed by the 

 Institution, to which Mr. B. W. Tucker, of Trematon Castle, and 

 Mr. John H. James, of Truro, so largely added, have been 

 supplemented by the more recent gifts of Mrs. Sharp, of 

 Kensington Gardens, London, and Mr. Ealph Baron Rogers, of 

 Falmouth ; and those gifts are being incorporated in the collection 

 as the shells are being laid out. 



Most of the upright cases in the Zoological room have been 

 cleaned and re-painted ; in two of them a special series of egg 

 cases has been fitted, and doors of an improved make contrived 

 to close over them to keep out the light. In the cases are to be 

 placed the collections of eggs given by Mr. Eichard Pearce, 

 F.G.S., and Mr. A. P. Nix. 



At the western end of the same room in other upright cases, 

 protected by similar doors, a set of British Butterflies and a 

 few Moths, also recently given by Mr. Hichard Pearce — have 

 been arranged, and are much admired by visitors. 



Several additions of an educational character have yet to be 

 made to the Butterfly case to make the collection still more useful 

 to students. The Curator has compiled a label list for use in 

 arranging the Rhopalocera, or Butterflies, a copy of which wiU 

 be issued in the Journal, and sold in the Museum for the use 

 of students. 



A more extended application has been made of labelling the 

 Museum specimens since the last report was issued. Variously 

 coloured tablets have been adopted for several departments, and 

 their mountings under the heads of Conchology, Greology, 

 Mineralogy, Petrology, Mining and Archaeology, are beginning 

 to shew in the Museum. 



The past year has seen the issuing of three new guides to 

 the Museum, one on the Pozo Inscribed Stone, the cost of which 

 has been defrayed by Mr. Robert Harvey, another on Anthony 

 Payne, and a third on the British Butterflies ; as these are issued 

 as cheaply as the Institution can afford to supply them, it is hoped 

 they will meet with a ready sale to such as are interested in the 



