﻿Report of the Hon. Curator. 319 



Thursday, March 4th. — " Age and Function : The Body 

 and its Work at Different Periods of Life," by D. J. 

 Evans, M.D. 



The Saturday Half Hour Lectures to Young People 

 proved very popular and attracted large numbers of the 

 young folk. Unfortunately Mr. Kearley was too ill to 

 give his paper. 



The attendance at the Museum has been large, showing 

 an increase over last year. On Saturdays, being a free 

 day, we have sometimes had as many as one hundred 

 visitors. 



Many interesting additions have been made to the 

 Museum during the past year. 



It is very desirable that some of our wealthy citizens 

 should do something in the way of an endowment fund 

 towards helping on the good work of the Society. 



Natural History classes are now being held at the 

 Protestant schools, which is a step in the right direction. 



We have to mourn the loss through death during 

 our past year of the Eev. Dr. Smyth, Messrs. E. D. Lacey, 

 John Kerry, Geo. Kearley, Dr. Gentles and Mr. J. H. R. 

 Molson, some of whom were very active members. We 

 have added fifteen new names to our membership list. 



The whole respectfully submitted. 



Geo. Sumner, 



Chairman of Council. 



Museum Report for 1896-7. 



The cleaning and re-arranging of the Foreign Birds has 

 been completed this year, and, with the exception of the 

 Humming Birds, they have all been named and labelled. 



A large part of the "Ferrier" Collection of Egyptian 

 Curiosities has also been cleaned, re-arranged and 

 re-labelled. 



