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APPENDICES. 



i. 



Report from the Sub- Committee appointed to Superintend the 

 Curators. 



The Natural History Collection. 



During the past year Mr. Stewart being principally engaged 

 in arranging and cataloguing the Antiquities, &c, little oppor- 

 tunity occurred of having work done to the Natural History 

 Collections. 



The Mammalia in the large case under the gallery of the upper 

 room, were, however, removed from their places, and cleaned, 

 the stands upon which the specimens are mounted were painted, 

 as was also the entire case ; several shelves were altered, and the 

 specimens were more fully displayed. 



The horns and antlers in the opposite case were removed : 

 many of them were mounted and displayed on the cases and 

 walls of the Lecture-room, the case being afterwards painted 

 for the reception of foreign weapons, &c. The case from 

 which the foreign weapons were removed is now being prepared 

 for the reception of your large collection of exotic shells, at 

 present scattered in different cases and cabinets throughout 

 the building. This collection with others is much in need of 

 arrangement, and we look forward with confidence to Mr. 

 Stewart's scientific knowledge soon shewing itself by a better 

 display of the objects under our care and the rendering them 

 more valuable for educational purposes. 



Ethnology. 

 The foreign dresses, weapons, &c, have been numbered, and 

 all particulars entered in the register ; the cases have been 

 painted, and the specimens have been cleaned, and re-arranged 

 in the cases under the gallery. 



Signed, Joseph Wright. 



William Swanston. 



