REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. 377 



REPORT, JULY, 1876 



Your Committee, in presenting their annual report, have to say 

 that the Museum continues in a satisfactory state, and that the 

 various collections are being made more complete, as will be seen 

 by the annexed list of donations and purchases. 



Cabinets have been placed under the Coral case, in the Geolo- 

 gical Room, for the accommodation of the increasing number 

 of specimens. 



The Hutton collection of Fossil Plants has been named and 

 labelled, and the Species and Type specimens identified by Mr. 

 Richard Howse. 



Many fine specimens have been added to the collection of 

 British Birds. 



The Treasurer's statement shews that the finances of the 

 Society are also satisfactory. The balance in the hands of the 

 Treasurer is £274 13s. 6d., against £238 Is. 6d. last year. 



The Professors of the College of Physical Science are not using 

 our collections so much as formerly, having acquired a collection 

 of minerals for their own use. During the last session they 

 have had the use of more than three hundred specimens from the 

 Museum, which, with one trifling exception, have been returned 

 in good order. 



The attendance of the public during the past year shows a 

 trifling falling off in numbers, which, however, may be ac- 

 counted for by the general commercial depression in the neigh- 

 bourhood. The behaviour of the public has been uniformly 

 good, no injury having been done to the property of the Society. 



One evening meeting has been held during the last year, in 

 connection with the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, at which 

 the following papers were read : — 



" On the Head of Loxomma Allmanni" by D. Embleton, M.D., 

 and Mr. Atthey. 



" On the Lepidoptera observed in 1875," by Mr. "W. Maling. 



