JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 161 
NEW MUSEUM SHOW CASES. 
The half-tone engraving forming the frontispiece is of the new 
cases installed by the Association. They are made up of three 
wings, hinged together for mutual support. When closed they 
4 _- occupy a small space, the necessity for which is due to the Museum 
being used as a lecture room by the Association and its sections. It 
was with the object of saving the large space occupied by lateral 
cases that these cases were designed by J. M. Williams, of the 
Astronomical Section. The cases are of oak ; they are eight feet long 
by seven feet high, and eighteen inches wide, and, being nearly all 
glass, objects can be seen from all points, and when the wings are 
open the cases are accessible for viewing to a number of people at 
once, an improvement over the lateral cases which are generally 
used, and in which objects can be seen by but one or two at a time. 
The cases are provided with shelves and screw-pointed wire 
brackets, specially designed and made for the purpose. ‘The cases 
were made in the Alex. Thomson cabinet works, of Hamilton. The 
illustration is from the office of P. L. Scriven, Hamilton. The 
objects will be labelled and numbered as they are assembled in the 
cases, so that in catalogueing they. can be made easy of reference. 
