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In the Economic Section good progress has been made by Mr. T. 1ST. 

 Mnkharji, the Curator, in rearranging the collections of economic 

 products according to Dr. Watt's ' Dictionary.' Little can, however, be 

 done in properly arranging the various collections in this Section until 

 the completion of the new buildings. Mr. Mnkharji has during the year 

 compled and published a very complete and useful work on the Art 

 Manufactures of India. 



Madras Museum.— From the Report of the Madras Museum for 

 1887-88, of which the Director has favoured me with a copy, it appears 

 that the Herbarium was gone systematically through and rearranged 

 by Mr. W. A. Lawson, the Govt. Botanist. 



Mr. Thurston, the Director, made two tours to Tuticorin and the 

 Nilgins. At the former place large collections of marine fauna were 

 made with the assistance of native divers. Large collections of birds 

 reptiles and butterflies were made on the Nilgiris. The results of these 

 two tours will be published hereafter. 



An Art-Gallery has been established. A preliminary report on the 

 marine fauna of Rameswaram and the neighbouring islands was issued 

 and an illustrated catalogue of the Batrachians (frogs, toads and coeci- 

 lians) of Southern India was in the press. 



Jeypore Museum.— The Jeypore Museum is specially worthy of 

 notice, not only for the completeness with which it has been organised 

 by the munificence of the Maharajah of Jeypore, but for its great success 

 as an educational institution of the highest kind in a part of the country 

 where such results would scarcely be looked for. Dr. T. H. Hendley 

 the Honorary Secretary of the Museum, to whose exertions much of its 

 success has been due, has favoured me with the latest report of the 

 working of this Museum since its foundation, from which the following 

 brief abstract may be of interest. 



The Museum was first founded as a Natural History Museum by 

 the late Maharajah, but this was abolished in 1879, and an Economic 

 and Industrial Museum, was opened temporarily in the city from August 

 1881 till September 1886, when the collections were removed to°the 

 Albert Hall in the Jeypore Public Gardens. 



The New Museum was opened in this building in February 1887 

 The building itself, designed by Col. Jacob, R. E., is replete with copies 

 of the best ornament from the most important edifices in the Indo 

 Saracenic style at Agra, Delhi, Futtehpur S'ikri and Amber There 

 is also a great deal of original work by students in the local School of 

 Art ; sons of Jeypore masons. 



It was constructed by local labour, with marbles and other materials 

 from Rajputana and shews that the indigenous architectural talent 



