542 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. 



Your Committee has also to report the donation of twenty 

 pounds to the funds of the Society from the Misses Bewick. In 

 addition to the fact that every increase to its its funds augments 

 the usefulness of the Society, this gift is highly prized as a testi- 

 mony of the interest of the donors in the Museum with which 

 the honoured name of their father is so intimately associated. 



The Entomological collections, especially the Coleoptera, have 

 of late received much attention from Mr. T. J. Bold, who has 

 not only presented the Society with many of its desiderata, but, 

 by his careful revision of the series already in the Museum, has 

 given to it a new and greatly enhanced value. 



By purchase the additions to the Museum have also been con- 

 siderable. A series of models of Mollusca and one of Medusas, 

 by Herr Blatschka, of Dresden, have been obtained, and the 

 curators are thereby enabled further to elaborate their scheme of 

 a classified series of illustrations of the animal kingdom for edu- 

 cational purposes. These models form easily understood repre- 

 sentations of classes otherwise very imperfectly exhibited in 

 public collections. 



The series of British birds has also been materially increased 

 both in number and completeness, by accepting opportunities as 

 they have chanced to arise for purchasing desiderata. But the 

 most important purchase authorized by your Committee has been 

 that of the Cabinet of Marine Invertebrata formed by the late 

 Mr. George Hodge. The Society thereby secures to the Museum 

 the type specimens on which many species, especially interesting 

 to north country Naturalists, have been founded, and acquires a 

 large general collection in Marine Zoology, particulaly rich in 

 Echinodermata and Crustacea, and very valuable as a supplement 

 to that of the late Mr. Alder. 



The Museum buildings have, since the last Anniversary Meet- 

 ing, required some general repairs, and considerable outlay has 

 been entailed in the fitting up of new cabinets. These have been 

 conducted with due regard to the economical administration of 

 the funds of the Society. 



The Treasurer's statement, appended to this Keport, shows a 



small balance in hand on the current account. 

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