232 REPORT ON MUSEUM WORK 



Rev. J. E. Hull has been arranged in drawers for reference ; 

 the spiders are put up in glass tubes which are mounted on 

 cards, the attachment being such that the tubes may be readily 

 drawn out for close examination. A large number of tropical 

 butterflies and other insects have been relaxed and set ; the 

 reptile cases have been cleaned and the contents are being 

 overhauled; some rabbits and hares (which oddly enough 

 were practically not represented in the museum) have been 

 mounted. The cast of a large trout, which I prepared and 

 coloured, has met with much approval among anglers ; this is 

 a class of work that takes up too much time to be really 

 admissible here under present circumstances, but more of it is 

 badly needed, and we must hope some day to be in a position 

 to undertake it. Some birds have been mounted for the 

 Hancock collection, chiefly ducks in various interesting states 

 of plumage obtained for us by Mr. G. E. Crawhall. 



Relaxing and setting butterflies has been the chief work done 

 by Miss Welford in the time she has had left over from clerical 

 duties. She has also arranged the pamphlets in the library, 

 and has made wrappers for the packets of mounted plants in 

 the large reference herbarium. 



We have to thank Mr. H. Eltringham for the valuable work 

 he is doing for us in identifying our foreign Lepidoptera. Col. 

 Adamson has also spent much time at the museum in identify- 

 ing a series of Burmese moths which he presented recently. In 

 connexion with the mineral and rock collections I have been 

 very kindly assisted by the Rev. Mark Fletcher and Dr. 

 Woolacott ; and I have further to thank Mr. Richard Adamson 

 and the Rev. W. McLean Brown for again last winter each 

 taking my place at one of the " museum talks," 



I stated at the beginning of this report that we were feeling 

 agreeably the effect of having an addition of one member to 

 the museum staff". At the risk of seeming ungrateful, however, 

 I am compelled to add that we are by no means yet in a 

 position to bring such a large museum up to its point of fullest 

 usefulness and maintain it there. At present, in fact, we are 



