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Through the kindness of Dr. Embleton and of Dr. G. S. Brady, 

 Dr. Somerville, Prof. Potter, and Mr. Wilson, of the Durham 

 Physical College of Science, and E. J". Garwood, Esq., the Com- 

 mittee were enabled to arrange another course of Saturday 

 Evening Lectures. Most of these lectures were well attended 

 by members, and there was a moderate attendance of others who 

 were admitted at the ordinary fees. 



The course comprised the following lectures :— 

 Jan. 20th. On the Moas, extinct Giant Birds of New Zealand. 



Dr. Embleton. 



Feb. 3rd. A month in Norway with Notes on its Natural History 



("illustrated). Dr. G. S. Brady. 



Feb. 17th. Tropical Vegetation in Ceylon (illustrated). Prof. Potter. 



Mar. 3rd. On Insects injurious to Vegetation (illustrated). 



Dr. W. Somerville. 

 Mar, 17th. On the Ancestry of the Horse (illustrated). Prof. Wilson. 

 Mar. 3Ist. The History of Photogi-aphy (illustrated). 



E. J. Garwood, Esq., M.A. 



The extra cost for lectures, including lighting, advertisements, 

 etc., amounted to £15 : 3 : 11, and the fees paid for admission 

 realized £5:3:2, the lectures thus costing the Society £10. 

 The average attendance at these lectures is estimated at about 

 120. 



The work of the Society has been carefully carried on during 

 the past year at the Museum, and as fully as the narrow income 

 of the Society would allow. The Committee have gratefully to 

 acknowledge a further donation from Lord Armstrong of £1,500 

 towards . the completion of the fittings and furnishing of the 

 rooms of the Museum. This sum is being spent in completing 

 the furnishing of the gallery of the Bird Eoom for aa arrange- 

 ment of the more important and typical groups of Foreign Birds, 

 and for furniture for the "West Corridors, where the Mineral 

 Collections will be arranged (which are now located in the 

 Geological Eoom, where space is required for the full arrange- 

 ment of the Dinning Collection of Fossil Fishes, and many 

 other specimens which are now contained in drawers), and for 

 the completion of the fittings in other rooms, and increasing the 

 heating power required to keep the rooms at a proper tempera- 



