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prospects for the coming year are no better than in the past. 

 The Society's museum is a large one, and the present staff 

 and the present resources are quite inadequate to the task of 

 maintaining it in a really creditable state. A report such as 

 this is not concerned with the ways and means of bringing 

 about a more satisfactory position of affairs ; but in presenting 

 it I have felt bound to call attention to the disabilities under 

 which the curatorship of the museum is at present carried on, 

 and to the pressing need of increased financial resources and 

 a larger staff. 



E. Leonard Gill. 



APPENDIX I. 



Subjects of "Museum Talks," 1905-06. 



Oct. 25. — Recent Additions to the Bird Collection. 



Nov. 29. — Burrowing Animals. 



Dec. 27. — Animals of South America. 



Jan. 31. — Corals and Coral Reefs (lantern lecture). 



Feb. 23. — The Build of a Bird. 



Mar. 28. — Spring Flowers (Mr. Richard Adamson). 



Apr. 25. — The Summer Migrants. 



