lO REPORT ON MUSEUM WORK 



index. Various classes, societies, and other parties of people 

 have paid visits to the museum during the year, and as usual 

 I have given to most of them either general information about 

 the collections or a more definite address on some particular 

 subject. 



I wish to record my thanks to the Rev. W. McLean Brown 

 and Mr. Richard Adamson for their kindness in giving two of 

 the "museum talks" during the past winter, and to Mr. P. 

 Walther for the help he has given me in various matters 

 connected v/ith the mineral collection. 



In my two last reports I have emphasised the inadequacy 

 of our means for dealing with the work of the museum, and 

 have particularly laid stress upon the need of an increased 

 staff. I must therefore now express my pleasure at the action 

 of the Council in engaging a skilled assistant to help me, and 

 in the fact that Mr. Fletcher gives every promise of being a 

 valuable addition to our working strength. The staff will still 

 be too small to manage the museum really creditably, quite 

 apart from the carrying out of the many valuable develop- 

 ments of which the institution is capable ; but this addition 

 will at least make itself felt in the rate at which we are able to 

 overtake the more pressing arrears of work, with which our 

 progress up to the present has been so discouragingly slow. 



E. Leonard Gill. 



APPENDIX 



Subjects of " Museum Talks," 1906-07 



Oct. 31. — Some Recent Acquisitions. 



Nov. 28.— Elephants and Ivory. 



Dec. 31. — Some Plants of the Bible (Rev. W. McLean Brown). 



Jan. 30. — History in Rocks and Fossils (materials of the geological 

 record). 



Feb. 27. — Some " Living Fossils" (survivals from past periods of the 

 earth's history). 



Mar. 27. — Some Remarkable Foreign Birds. 



Apr. 24. — The Daisy and its Relatives (Mr. Richard Adamson). 



