194 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



Your council, in accepting his resignation, expressed their 

 warm appreciation of his long and devoted services, and 

 appointed him emeritus keeper of the museum with an annual 

 honorarium from the Society. It is to be hoped that Mr. 

 Wright will yet for a considerable time be able to give the 

 museum staff the benefit of his assistance and knowledge in 

 this honorary capacity. 



It has been found necessary during the past year to have a 

 rather large amount of work done on the museum building. 

 The exterior woodwork was much in need of attention, and it 

 was decided that the framework of the roof lights should be 

 repainted, the window frames painted and varnished, and the 

 front entrance doors restored by scraping and re-varnishing. 

 This has now all been carried out, as well as a number of 

 general repairs to the roof-fittings and window sashes. The 

 whole will cost a sum of about ;Ci']o. 



The Society has, as is usually the case, to thank many of 

 its members and others for donations made to the museum, 

 A complete list of these will be found appended. It may be 

 enough here to call attention to the fact that Col. Adamson 

 has deposited the second cabinet of his collection of Burmese 

 butterflies in the museum, and that the Rev. W. J. Wingate 

 has now handed over to the Society his collection, so far 

 unique, of the local Diptera ; and of other donations, to 

 mention Mr. S. Graham's numerous contributions to the new 

 series of birds' nests ; the interesting additions made to the 

 Indian ethnology section by Mr. F. G. CoUett; and the 

 preparations of mammalian skulls showing milk and permanent 

 dentition made and presented by Mr. D. Knight. 



Among the members lost during the year by death, the late 

 R. Y. Green was one who for long had been closely connected 

 with the Society and its work. He was a vice-president, and 

 a very regular attender at the committee meetings. He may 

 be said to have made the museum one of his hobbies, and 

 having been a friend of most of the well known naturalists 

 who have been connected with the institution, he possessed a 

 remarkable store of interesting information regarding the 



