REPORT OF MUSEUM WORK Vll 



I should like to record our indebtedness to Mr. Alfred 

 Woodcock, M.Sc, who so kindly gave up a fortnight of his 

 holidays in classifying the moths used in the cases, 

 Diptera. 



Owing to the kindness of Mr. Wilfrid Hall, who presented to 

 the Museum a series of models illustrating the life history of 

 the house-fly, we have been enabled to set up a small case 

 showing the danger of the house-fly as a carrier of disease. 

 Messrs. Mappin and Webb of London and Messrs. S. Finney 

 and Co. of Newcastle lent us various fly-traps and syringes. 

 Dr. Kerr, the Medical officer of Health, sent us a quantity of 

 leaflets, and with the aid of large explanatory labels an 

 attractive if somewhat gruesome exhibit has been formed. 

 Also we have had on sale the various pamphlets on the subject, 

 published by the Zoological Society and the British Museum. 



A case of " Blood-sucking Flies " has been prepared to be 

 placed in the insect series. Photographs as well as the 

 insects themselves were used, and labels were written giving 

 a short account of "Malaria" and "Sleeping-Sickness." Mr. 

 Geo. B. Walsh gave us various species of the " Tsetse-fly ' 

 and Mr. Richard Bagnall a few specimens of the "Ked" or 

 Sheep " Tick." 

 Insect Collections. 



A great deal of time has been given to overhauling the insect 

 collections. They have been treated for mould, in some cases 

 repapered and the insects remounted. The following 

 collections were amongst those attended to : — Bold collections 

 of Hymenoptera and Hemiptera, Watson collection of British 

 and Foreign Lepidoptera, and the Wingate collection of 

 Diptera. On Saturdays, during the winter, Mr. Geo. B. 

 Walsh was working upon the large reference collection of 

 Coleoptera. 

 Wild Flowers. 



Up to the present we have managed to keep up a good 

 display of wild flowers, for which we are indebted to Mr. 

 Randle B. Cooke, Miss A. Edmunds, Miss Doris Hill, the 

 Misses and Master J. Richardson, and Mr. Edw. Potts. 



