18 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Swiney Lectures. 



Dr. J, D. Falconer, Swiney Lecturer for 1919, gave a course of 

 lectures in the Lecture Theatre of the Imperial College of Science 

 on " The Geology and Mineral Resources of the British Possessions 

 in Africa." The total attendance for the course was 1,290, or, on 

 an average, 108 persons per lecture. 



The Trustees have accepted Dr. Falconer's suggestion to take 

 " The Modelling of the Earth's Crust " as the subject of his next 

 course of lectures under this foundation to be given in November 

 and December-, 1920. 



Ma?Hne Boring Animals. 



An exhibit of Marine Boring Animals has been placed in the 

 (Jentral Hall, and a Guide, forming No. 10 of the Economic Series, 

 has been prepared to explain it. 



Qodman Memorial. 



A National Committee has been formed to establish a memorial 

 to the late Mr. F. D. Godman, F.R.S., a Trustee of the British 

 Museum and a most generous benefactor of the Zoological and 

 Entomological Departments, who enriched during his lifetime the 

 Entomological collections by many thousands of specimens. The 

 Committee propose to place in the Museum a bronze medallion 

 portrait of Mr. Godman and his coadjutor in his scientific work, the 

 late Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S. 



In memory of her husband, Dame Alice Godman, D.B.E., has 

 endowed a Trust with a sum of £5,000 to form a Godman Explora- 

 tion Fund, with the object of providing means for collecting 

 specimens for the Natural History Museum by way of exploration. 



Antarctic Whales. 



Further papers have been received from the Colonial Office, the 

 Governor of the Falkland Islands, and the High Commissioners for 

 Australia, New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa on the 

 subject of Whaling operations in South Georgia, the South 

 Shetlands, and other southern localities. 



A detailed report on southern whaling, including analyses 

 of the statistics received, has been prepared by Dr. Harmer, and 

 sent in full to the Colonial Office, attention being specially called to 

 the necessity for the immediate protection of the Humpback and 

 probably of the Right Whale. Whaling operations in sub- Antarctic 

 waters commenced at the end of 1904, the Humpback constituting 

 over 90 per cent, of the total catch during the early days of the 

 industry. This species of whale has now become, after no more 

 than fifteen years, an unimportant constituent, and perhaps a 

 vanishing quantity, the great majority of the whales at present 

 being captured belonging to two other species, the Fin Whale and 

 the Blue Whale. Although these are still obtained in large numbers, 

 there are already signs which may indicate the probability of a 



