REPORT ON MUSEUM WORK Xlll 



about twenty years ago. A consignment of miscellaneous 

 minerals from South America, presented by Mrs. Knothe, 

 was found by Mr. Walther to include a number of rare and 

 valuable ores. 



Oiitside help. A number of people outside the staff have 

 given us help which it is a pleasure to acknowledge and 

 record. Mr. Walther's work on the minerals, continued now 

 for several years, is one of the finest pieces of work done for 

 any museum by an honorary curator that has come to my 

 knowledge. Two other honorary curators, Dr. H. Eltringham 

 and Mr. Geo. B. Walsh, have given us very valuable help 

 which has already been referred to. Mr. A. Blayney Percival, 

 who has been home on furlough from British East Africa, has 

 laid out as a temporary loan exhibition in the Museum an 

 extremely interesting set of skins of birds and small mammals 

 collected by him in that country. Mr. B. Storrow, of the 

 Dove Marine Laboratory, and Mr. George Bolam have 

 thoroughly revised a card catalogue of local fishes which 

 Mr. Fletcher and I had drafted. Four scientific men who 

 have visited the Museum during the year have given valuable 

 help in the way of identifying specimens and revising labels : 

 Dr. R. Hartmeyer, of Berlin, who corrected the naming of our 

 tunicates ; Mr. Balfour Browne, who revised the water-beetles 

 in our reference collection ; Dr. Morley Davies, of the 

 Imperial College of Science, South Kensington, who gave me 

 the most modern names for a number of fossils ; and Dr. A. C. 

 Haddon, of Cambridge, a leading ethnologist, who looked 

 over our ethnological collections and gave me much useful 

 information. Dr. Hartmeyer is the chief living authority on 

 the tunicates (sea squirts), and his object in coming here was 

 primarily to examine the classical collection of Joshua Alder 

 and Albany Hancock. He has written a full and most 

 valuable report upon it, which he offers for publication in the 

 Transactions. 



I should like to record my personal sense of obligation to 

 the excellent staff by whom I am assisted at the Museum. I 



