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K.C.M.G., who has made a special study of the nudibranchs, 

 and who kindly offered to undertake the necessary labour ; he 

 has already published several papers on his results, and has 

 arranged for the Ray Society to bring out as the contemplated 

 supplement such of Alder and Hancock's notes and drawings 

 as can be utilised for that purpose. 



An account by the curator of the year's work done in the 

 museum will be found at the end of this report. Attention 

 may here, however, be directed to the difficulties attending the 

 proper maintenance of the museum, and in particular to the 

 pressing need for further assistance in the curatorial work. 

 Unfortunately out of the present income of the Society it is 

 impossible to pay the salary of an additional assistant. In 

 one respect, however, the record of the museum for the past 

 year is highly satisfactory. The collections have always been 

 growing, chiefly through gifts from members and others ; and 

 this year's list (which will be found in full on a later page) 

 includes an unusual number of important acquisitions. A few 

 of these call for special mention. Mr. George E. Crawhall, 

 who has for long been one of the chief contributors to the 

 museum, has now made over to the Society almost the whole 

 remainder of his fine collection of British game birds and 

 carnivora j he has also presented some very valuable and 

 beautiful ethnological objects, chiefly weapons and implements 

 from the South Sea Islands. Another m.ost valuable donation 

 is that made to the insect section of the museum by Colonel 

 and Miss Adamson. Members will be aware that Colonel 

 Adamson is handing over his well known collection of Burmese 

 butterflies to the care of the Society ; but he has now made an 

 independent gift of two cabinets of Burmese insects, including 

 moths and beetles, whilst Miss C. T. Adamson has presented 

 a cabinet of exotic butterflies from various parts of the world. 

 These gifts will be especially valuable when the very necessary 

 replacement of the general collection of lepidoptera is carried 

 out. In the geological department the chief accession of the 

 year is an excellent set of local Coal Measure fossils presented 

 by Mr. Jos. Taylor. The donor has had unusual opportunities 



