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Blair) have been cleaned, re-arranged and grouped together 

 in their families, which have been labelled with their 

 English and scieritihc names. The Montreal specimens 

 have been taken out from the other Canadian series and 

 grouped by themselves, so that they form an interesting 

 " Local Collection." 



Our series of Fossils, which occupy the corresponding 

 cases on the other side of the Museum, greatly need to be 

 cleaned, re-arranged and labelled in the same way that 

 the shells have been. 



The drawers of the Insect Cabinet, which contain the 

 Canadian Butterflies, hav^e been re-arranged so as to make 

 room in the proper place for all recently -obtained speci- 

 mens, and a number of the foreign Lepidoptera have been 

 named. 



Since the month of December, when the Council decided 

 that the funds were not sufficient to allow of the Curator 

 continuing work at the Museum, no work has been 

 attempted save the naming and arranging to some extent 

 of new specimens presented to the Museum, and it has 

 been necessary to do away with the aquarium and some 

 of the live snakes, which required continual care to keep 

 them in a proper state. 



Mr. Griffin has taken care of the muskrat and large owl 

 since December, and they are both doing well, but we 

 have no proper accommodation for a large bird like 

 the owl, and it will be difficult to prevent its being a 

 nuisance during the hot weather on account of the smell. 



The donations and additions have been reported at the 

 monthly meetings of the Society, and need not be repeated 

 in detail. The most valuable presentations during the 

 year have been Corals and Shells from Miss Fanny Joseph, 

 Birds' Eggs from Mr. C. N. Sonne, and Plants from the 

 Kev. Dr. Campbell. 



The Museum Committee arranged for the usual course 

 of Lectures to Children during March and April. 



