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room gallery, a job entailing many days of scraping and 

 washing; he has also gone through the store collections of 

 skins, birds' eggs, and insects, putting them into the best order 

 that our means will allow, and has refilled where necessary 

 the jars containing spirit specimens. Since Mr. Wright's 

 illness and retirement, Wm. Voutt has had to spend most of 

 his time at the entrance door ; I have been able, however, to 

 provide him with a much needed piece of work which could 

 be done under these circumstances, namely, the remounting 

 and labelling of some of the Palaeozoic fossils. Some really 

 good sets of these had acquired a much neglected appearance 

 through the dirtiness and discoloration of the mounts, and the 

 change being produced is very pleasing. I am revising the 

 old labels, and the new ones are then being printed with our 

 small outfit. 



E. Leonard Gill. 



APPENDIX. 



Subjects of "Museum Talks." 



Oct. 28.— A Set of Skulls. 



Nov. 25.— The Reptiles. 



Dec. 30. — Wings and Flying Animals. 



Jan. 27. — The Starfishes and their Relatives. 



Feb, 24. — How Coral is made. 



April 27. — The Museum Condor. 



