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year. On the recommendation of the examiners, Canon 

 Norman and Prof. Meek, the prize was awarded to Mr. G. W. 

 Temperley for an excellent essay on " A Day with the Birds 

 on the Northumberland Coast" : and the examiners considered 

 that this essay was closely approached in merit by those of 

 Mr. Frank Harrison, Miss M. R. D. Minton-Senhouse, and 

 Mr. R. Smith. 



Some of the additions made to the museum during the year 

 call for special mention. Perhaps the most important of all 

 is the collection of birds formed by the late Thomas Thompson 

 of Winlaton. In his will Mr. Thompson bequeathed to the 

 Society such of his birds as he considered to be of most value 

 as local records, as well as certain other objects of natural 

 history ; and subsequently almost the whole remainder of his 

 collection, including a large number of particularly well 

 mounted specimens, was handed over to the museum by his 

 residuary legatees. Mr. R. S. Bagnall has made a valuable 

 addition to the reference collections in presenting a very com- 

 plete series of the British woodlice. A number of well set 

 Canadian Lepidoptera have been received through Mr. Geo. 

 Jenkins. The herbarium of the late John Storey forms an 

 interesting addition to the rich store of botanical material 

 contained in the museum ; John Storey was a well known 

 botanist of the last generation, and his herbarium comes to 

 the Society through the executors of his son. As usual, the 

 museum has been indebted to Mr. G. E. Crawhall for various 

 gifts ; these have included during the past year a number of 

 African weapons and several birds, the most interesting of the 

 latter being a fine example of what is known as the Polish 

 swan. The mineral collection has benefitted considerably 

 through specimens acquired by donation or exchange from 

 Mr. P. Walther. From Colonel Carr-Ellison have been 

 received some bird skins and North American plants, and 

 he has also deposited on loan in the museum some very good 

 ethnological objects, chiefly weapons and utensils from New 

 Zealand and the South Seas. Further particulars of these 

 and other acquisitions will be found in the complete list at the 

 end of the report. 



