BEPOET OF THE COMMITTEE. 145 



was followed by a long discussion. The weather at the time 

 was exceedingly stormy, so that not many members were able 

 to be present. The second meeting was on 22nd February, when 

 Prof. Gr. S. Brady read an interesting paper on " Entomostraca 

 collected in the Solway District and at Seaton Sluice, Northum- 

 berland, during the Summer of 1894." Short notes were also 

 read by the Curator on the Marsupial Mole, Notary ctes typhlops, 

 captured in 1892, in the Northern part of South Australia, and 

 recently presented to the Museum by Mr. Prank Sutherland. 

 A note was also read on the White Ants from South Africa, and 

 some novel specimens, presented by Mrs. Gethin, were exhibited 

 at the meeting. The long continuance of severe stormy weather 

 in the early months of the year operated much against the 

 attendance at the Evening Meetings. 



Through the generous donation of £1,500 by Lord Armstrong, 

 the Committee have been enabled during the past year to com- 

 plete the furnishing of the Bird-room Grallery, and the furnishing 

 of the Upper and Lower West Corridors with suitable floor-cases 

 and an extensive wall-cabinet, in which the large collection of 

 Minerals and Eock specimens have been recently arranged. The 

 removal of the Minerals from the floor-cabinets of the Geological 

 Room has enabled the Curator to arrange the large collection of 

 Fossil Fishes, bequeathed by the late Hon. Secretary, Mr. "Wm. 

 Dinning, in the floor-cases, and to display many specimens that 

 were formerly kept in drawers. Also by the removal of the 

 Pock specimens from the wall-cases of the Geological-room Gal- 

 lery, room was made for the arrangements of the Collections of 

 Recent, Tertiary, and Secondary Fossils in this gallery. The 

 whole of the Wall-cabinets on the ground floor being now de- 

 voted to the Palaeozoic Fossils, and chiefly to the extensive local 

 collections of fossils from the Magnesian-limestone, Marl-slate, 

 Coal-measure, and Carboniferous-limestone of the North of Eng- 

 land, which are now more fully and adequately displayed. 



With much regret we have to deplore the loss of several of 

 our older, influential, and working members, especially Mr. 

 Charles Adamson, at the mature age of 74. Mr. Adamson was 

 at an early period connected with the Museum and with its 



