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Another striking addition to the geological section is a large 

 model of a metal-mine, made and presented by Mr. Richard 

 Daniell of Shankhouse Colliery, Cramlington. This model 

 has been fitted up in the north-west corner-room on the 

 gallery floor, where it is well seen and is protected by rails 

 and wire. We have numbered all the parts and put up 

 framed descriptions, which enable the work of the mine to be 

 followed through in proper sequence from beginning to end. 

 In the ethnology section a number of additions have been 

 incorporated, necessitating a good deal of re-arrangement, 

 and a large number of new labels have been printed and 

 placed in the cases. 



Some special work has been done during the year in 

 connexion with the library. Prof. Meek is forming a combined 

 card-index of the zoological literature available for reference 

 in the various libraries in Newcastle, and cards relating to the 

 Museum library have been made out for this purpose by Miss 

 Welford. The serial literature, of which we had not an exact 

 catalogue previously, has been sorted out and catalogued by 

 Mr. Fletcher. 



Some of the donations of the year have been alluded to 

 already, and a complete list of them will be found further on. 

 We have been particularly indebted for fishes and other 

 marine specimens to Mr. S. T. King, master of a Hartlepool 

 trawler, Mr. L. Steel, a fish dealer in Newcastle, and Mr. 

 G. E. Bullen of the St. Albans Museum. Mr. Alex. Girdwood 

 has sent us some very good beetles, butterflies, centipedes, 

 etc., from the West African Gold Coast. From Sir Arthur 

 Middleton we have received fine growths of the rare coral-root 

 orchid found this year at Belsay. The fossils received from 

 the New York Museum were a valuable addition to our 

 palaeontological collections, and with them we received an 

 excellent model of the remarkable Permian reptile Naosaurus. 

 Mr. Stanley Smith has presented certain of the specimens 

 figured in his paper on the local Bernician beds, and Mr. P. 

 Walther has given us some interesting minerals from the Eii'el 



