5G2 Sixth Anmial Report. 



Imperial German Academy of Naturalists, Dresden.* 



Cambridge University Library, England. 



His Excellency Governor Weld, Western Australia, 



Professor Balfour, Edinburgh. 



Professor McCoy, Melbourne. 



Chairman of School Library Committee, Eton, Bucks, England. 



Chairman of School Library Committee, Harrow, England. 



Chairman of School Library Committee, Rugby, Warwickshire, England. 



President of Natural History Society, Marlborough College, Marlborough, Wilts. 



Colonel Jewett, New York. 



Dr. Wojeikof, of St. Petersburgh. 



Hon. Mr, Casey, Victorian Government. 



Libraries and Societies in I^ew Zealaml. 



Secretary, Auckland Institute. 



Secretary, Wellington Philosophical Society. 



Secretary, Philosophical Institute of Canterbury. 



Secretary, Nelson Association for promotion of Science and Industry. 



Secretary, Otago Institute . 



General Assembly Library. 



Provincial Council Libraries, nine copies. 



Publishing Branch, 

 Editor. 



Assistant Editor. 

 Draftsman, two copies. 

 Lithographer. 

 Government Printer. 



Total, 97 copies. 



MUSEUM. 



No additions or alterations have been made to the Museum building 

 during the past year, and the only expenditure has been for a few cases and 

 drawers to enable the collections of fossils made during the season to be 

 sorted and examined. 



The accommodation for this and all other departments of the Museum is 

 still quite insufficient, and the state of the building itself is such as to cause 

 serious deterioration of the valuable collection which has been accumulated. 

 Nothing short of the completion of the building according to the onginal plan 

 will afford the accommodation that is now required for the arrangement of a 

 type museum ; and even then, to obtain sufficient space to enable the 

 collections to be thoroughly comprehensible and easy of reference, a number of 

 the larger specimens will have to be disposed of by exchange or gift. An 

 expansion of the department of the Museum devoted to the Vegetable 

 Kingdom is urgently required, to meet the applications that arc very 

 frequently made for information respecting vegetable products. 



The number of specimens added to the Museum during the year has been 

 over 20,000, of which 18,000 are fossils collected by the Geological Survey 

 Department. About GOO specimens have been distributed as exchanges, and 

 205 bird skins have been presented to the Otago Museum. 



Mammalia. — Several additions to the Cetacean collections have been 

 secured, among which is a complete skeleton of tho Sulphur Bottom Whale, 



* Exchanges. 



