~~ §14 Transactions.— Miscellaneous. 
Secretary, when the Canterbury Museum was placed under trustees, of 
whom the following six gentlemen were appointed life-members :—Messrs. 
ip ‘Thomas Henry Potts, Alfred Charles Barker, Julius Haast, Charles Fraser, 
_ Henry Richard Webb, and John Davies Enys. Previously Mr. J. D. Enys 
_ had proposed, as member of the Provincial Council, that reserves of 10,000 
acres should be made for Museum purposes, but his motion was thrown 
out by 18 against 4. 
During the year 1869, and before the Museum was opened to the public, 
large and valuable additions arrived from various sources, of which those 
from Dr. Otto Finsch, Director of the Bremen Museum, and the late Pro- 
_ fessor A. Kaup, Director of the Darmstadt Museum, were the most extensive 
and interesting. We lost, however, a number of valuable exchanges sent 
_in the Matoaka, in February of the same year, by the foundering of that ill- 
fated ship. 
_ The discovery of a moa-hunter encampment at the mouth of the Rakaia, 
_ Visited twice during the same year, on the property of Mr. T. Cannon, to 
whose generosity we are greatly indebted, and renewed excavations in Glen- 
mark, furnished again valuable additions and material for exchanges. The 
new Museum building being ready for use in the beginning of 1870, it was 
_ thought desirable before it was occupied by the public collections that an 
Art Exhibition should be held in it. This first exhibition was opened on 
_ 8th February, and was a great success, proving full of attraction to the 
= _ public. It was kept open to 7th April. On 15th April the first new show 
eases were delivered, and the work of arranging the collection went on n0W 
__- without interruption. 
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During the year 1870, before the opening of the Museum building, 9 
number of valuable additions arrived from Vienna, Darmstadt, Munich, 
Stockholm, Calcutta, Cambridge (United States), and London, the system 
of exchange, consisting principally of moa bones, having now been well 
established by me. The visitors showed great appreciation of our en- 
deavours to possess collections worthy of the Province. In the year 1867, 
82 persons made donations; in 1868 the number reached 59, which 
_ diminished in 1869 to 47, rising again in 1870 up to 6th October, to 72. It 
would be invidious to particularize, but I might be allowed to mention here — 
_ @ few gentlemen, who from the very beginning took great interest in the 
welfare of the Museum, to whom I have not yet alluded, and who have by 
_ repeated valuable gifts enriched our collections,—Messrs. T. H. Potts, B- 
a oes, J. D. Enys, B. W. Mountfort, Hon. John Hall, Hon. — 
