262 REPORT ON MUSEUM WORK 



Our thanks are due to a number of members and others, in 

 addition to Mr. Walther, for help in the work of the museum. 

 Mr. George Sisson has helped us in installing the reference 

 collection of beetles and in elucidating the chemistry of some 

 processes we employ in plaster casting. He is also doing 

 valuable work in checking and editing the general index to 

 the last series of Transactions. There have been many con- 

 tributors to the wild flower exhibition ; Mr. Randal B. Cooke's 

 weekly supplies have been particularly useful, and we are 

 much indebted to Miss Joyce Amsden for her regular help in 

 arranging and attending to the flowers. 



Of the many donations made to the museum during the year 

 only very few can be referred to here. Living birds for the 

 aviary have been given to us by Mrs. W. F. Henderson, Mr. 

 H. B. Wilson, Mr. C. G. Petterson, Mr. P. Webster and others, 

 Fishes for casting, in some cases obtained at considerable 

 trouble, have been provided by Messrs. J. Alaric Richardson, 

 Newbey S. Green, Hugh P. Angus, J. Simpson and Andrew 

 Thomson; whilst Messrs. F. H. Phillips and Co. have again 

 very kindly lent us some particularly fine fishes from their 

 shops. A set of good ethnological specimens from Labrador 

 has been presented by Mr. E. A. Payne. Mr. Henry T. 

 Mennell, a former secretary of the Society, has sent us a most 

 interesting collection of photographs of the distinguished local 

 naturalists of the 'seventies, together with some letters of 

 Joshua Alder and Albany Hancock. A full list of the 

 donations will be found on a later page. 



E. Leonard Gill. 



MUSEUM STAFF 



Curator E. Leonard Gill, M.Sc 



Assistant Herbert Fletcher. 



Lady Assistant and Secretary Miss E. Welford. 



Attendant William Voutt. 



Gardener ., Albert Spencer. 



