552 REPORT ON MUSEUM WORK 



very good labels for the fishes, and in future it will be of the 

 greatest service to us in all sections of the museum. Specially- 

 large labels, such as those for the bison and for the main 

 divisions of the library, have as usual been done by hand. 



Other work that has been carried out by Miss Welford in 

 the time left over from her routine duties has included the 

 relaxing and setting of a large number of foreign lepidoptera, 

 and the making of wrappers to contain the packets of plants 

 in a collection sent from the south of France by Mr. Raine. 



Some of the additions made to the museum collections 

 during the year are particularly worthy of note. The American 

 bison presented by Mr. Leyland has been referred to already. 

 Mr. Harold Cookson has made a further addition to the 

 beautiful set of heads and horns of African big game 

 deposited by him in the museum ; and the Rev. J. E. Hull 

 has added fifty more species to the collection of local spiders 

 which he had previously presented. A collection of Central 

 African butterflies has been presented by Mr. R. R. Sharpe ; 

 and Africa has been further represented among the donations 

 by a large number of natural history specimens — birds, shells, 

 etc. — and objects of native workmanship received from Miss- 

 E. Dickinson. A valuable addition to the herbarium is the 

 collection of over a thousand species of plants from the French 

 . Riviera sent by Mr. Frederic Raine; like all the other collec- 

 tions for which the Society has been indebted to Mr. Raine, 

 this is a model of perfectly finished and systematic work. The 

 two local examples of the glossy ibis presented by Mr. Thos. 

 Jefferson are a most interesting accession to the bird room, 

 and a species of British mammal new to the museum is repre- 

 sented by the Orkney voles presented by Mr. I. Clark. A 

 certain number of specimens have also been acquired by 

 exchange : for instance, a set of fossils from the Faxe 

 (Cretaceous) beds of Denmark, received from Mr. S. J. 

 Pindborg in exchange for some Coal Measure fossils and 

 rock samples ; and some good minerals obtained by an ex- 

 change of duplicates with Mr. P. Walther, who has also added 



