XXIV REPORT ON MUSEUM WORK 



indebted to several friends for kindly supplying these, 

 particularly to Mr. Randle B. Cooke, Mr. Nicholas Temperley, 

 Mr. Clarence D. Smith, Miss Doris Hill, and Miss Joyce 

 Robson. 



A list of donations appears on another page, but in addition 

 to the gift of books already referred to, special allusion should 

 be made to the very extensive and valuable collections, 

 accumulated during many years of earnest and successful 

 research work by Dr. G. S. Brady, F.R.S. of Sheffield (formerly 

 Professor of Natural History in the Armstrong College). 

 These he has presented to the Museum, and they consist 

 partly of a large number of microscope slides and partly of 

 specimens preserved in spirit, illustrating various forms of 

 minute marine life, many of them being the original type 

 specimens described in articles and papers by Dr. Brady, a 

 number of which were published in our Transactions. The 

 specimens are chiefly Ostracoda, Copepoda, Entomostraca 

 and Microzoa of other allied groups, as well as numerous 

 specimens of Diatomaceae, many of these being mounted and 

 named ' by Prof. G. O. Sars, the well-known Norwegian 

 scientist. In presenting these collections, Dr. Brady remarks 

 that much work remains to be done on them, which his 

 advancing years preclude his undertaking, but he hopes that 

 in the future some other naturalist may find time and 

 inclination to pursue the study which he has felt compelled to 

 abandon; and in this case the very extensive collection of 

 specimens now deposited in the Museum will furnish ample 

 material for much further research. 



We had a brief visit from the Curator, E. L. Gill, at home 

 "on leave" during the Christmas week, and he was able to 

 give us some useful hints as to work needing attention. 



The attendance of the public throughout the past year has 

 been much above the general average, being upwards of 

 22,000 as against 17,000 the previous year. This has been 

 notably the case at special' holiday times, the numbers on 

 Easter Monday, 1562, and on W'liit Monday, 725, furnishing 



