514 Tramactions. — Miscellaneous, 



Secretary, when the Canterbury Museum was placed under trustees, of 

 whom the followmg six gentlemen were appointed life-members : — Messrs. 

 Thomas Henry Potts, Alfred Charles Barker, Julius Haast, Charles Eraser, 

 Henry Eichard 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 pubKc, 

 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 Eakaia, 

 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 valaable 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 

 cases were delivered, and the work of arranging the collection went on now 

 without interruption. 



During the year 1870, before the opening of the Museum building, a 

 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, 

 32 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 

 a 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, E. 

 P. Sealy, J. D. Enys, B. W. Mountfort, Hon. John Hall, Hon. William 

 Eolleston, and H. Meinertzhagen. 



On 1st October, 1870, the Museum was at last opened to the public by 

 Mr. W. Eolleston, the, Superintendent of the Province. At the time of the 



