16 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



The Council trust that members will continue to freely use 

 their privilege of introducing their friends. A pleasing feature 

 in the past year has been the introduction, by members, of upper 

 form scholars of schools they were interested in. This con- 

 cession has been highly prized and frequently taken advantage 

 of, the pupils having shewn very great interest in the exhibits. 

 The Council feel that much good may result from cultivating a 

 regard for the fine collection of objects in the museum, under 

 the guidance of members who are themselves intimate with 

 natural history and kindred subjects. Amongst the classes of 

 visitors to the museum the boys and girls of the higher 

 schools and colleges are on the increase. Several real students 

 have been discovered by the Curator, and every encouragement 

 has been given them to persevere in their work by allowing them 

 free admission at all times to the collections, to personally 

 inspect specimens, and by explaining to them the nature of the 

 study necessary to understand the objects they collect, and the 

 best methods of preserving them. During the past year the 

 collections in all the cases have been cleaned and re-arranged, 

 and the Curator has been further instructed by the Council to 

 affix to a register a duplicate label, with the view to the forma- 

 tion of a complete catalogue of the contents of the Museum. 



Admissions to the Museum : — 



Free 3,710 



By Ticket .. .. 269 



Payment. . . . . . 466 



4,445 



Suggested by the Curator, a new case has been provided for 

 the Geological room, for the purpose of a re-arrangement and 

 classification of the minerals found in Cornwall. To ensure 

 concentration, all the tins, coppers, leads, and other specimens 

 are being placed in family groups. Each specimen has a tablet 

 to itself, and a label affixed fully descriptive of the composition, 

 paragenesis, specific gravity, hardness, and locality of the mineral, 

 In this and in the other mineral cases a pink label will distinguish 

 the Cornish specimens, and a white one those which are not native 

 to the county. 



The large inscribed stone from Pozo Almonte, another 

 present from Mr. Eobert Harvey, which stood in the basement, 



