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executors of the late H. Martyn Jeffery, F.E.S., one of our 

 vice-presidents. This catalogue has proved to be of the greatest 

 service, making all the books easily accessible, thus saving much 

 time and inconvenience. 



The meteorological observations have been regularly taken 

 during the year, and the usual reports furnished to the Registrar 

 General, and the Sanitary Committee of the Cornwall County 

 Council. A monthly report, which is looked forward to with 

 great interest, has also been sent to the local papers, and it has 

 included information regarding the rainfall in the neighbourhood, 

 which has been communicated to the Curator by Mr. J. C. 

 Daubuz, of Killiow, Mr. Tresawna, Lamellyn, Probus, and Mr. 

 Lean, of the Truro Water Works. These have increased the 

 value of the reports, as they have afforded a means of comparing 

 the rainfall in different parts of the district. 



The Curator will be glad to receive returns from other 

 gentlemen in the neighbourhood who keep meteorological 

 records and to embody them in his reports, thus making the 

 means of comparison more complete. 



During the past year a number of the cases in the museum 

 have been entirely renovated. The paper with which they were 

 covered has been stripped off and the cases painted, enabling 

 their contents to be displayed to the best advantage. The birds 

 have been very carefully cleaned and attended to, but many of 

 them are in a very dilapidated condition, and are not worthy of 

 a place in the collection. The Council would therefore be pleased 

 to receive donations of birds to replace the worst of them. A 

 number of Indian butterflies acquired some time since from the 

 Rev. W. A. Hamilton have been set up and arranged in cases in 

 the conchological room, and it is expected that when they have 

 all been done, they will, with those recently presented by Mrs. 

 Loring, form a fairly representative collection of Indian and 

 Ceylon butterflies. The tokens have been taken out and cleaned, 

 and as many as possible have been labelled, thus increasing the 

 value of this portion of the collection. In the shell and mineral 

 departments a large amount of re-labelling has been done in 

 Indian ink. 



