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Dr. Woodward gave a demonstration to the members of 

 the Tunbridge Wells Natural History Society, represented by 

 24 members, on 21st October, 



Professor H. A, Nicholson and Dr. H. Woodward took two 

 sets of visitors (numbering about 80 persons), who had been 

 attending the Swiney Lectures, round the Mammalian 

 Galleries on October 28, and gave two demonstrations on 

 the same day. 



Mr. A. Smith Woodward gave a demonstration to the 

 employes of Messrs. McCorquodale's Printing Office, upwards 

 of 30 in number, on 10th June. 



Mr. A. Smith Woodward also gave demonstrations to a 

 party of 24 ladies and gentlemen from the Borough Poly- 

 technic on 7th October, and to a party of 15 students from 

 Morley College on the 18th November. 



X. — Students. 



The number of visits from students and persons who have 

 consulted the collection and the Geological Reference Library 

 for the purposes of scientific work during the past year, and 

 who have received assistance from members of the staff, was 

 4,955. 



Henry Woodward. 

 Department of Geology, 

 20 January 1894. 



Department of Mineralogy. 



The Staff and its Duties. 



The staff of the Mineral Department consists of the Keeper, 

 three Assistants, three Attendants, and two Boy-attendants. 

 The duties are generally distributed as follows : — 



Three Assistants. — To one is assigned most of the scientific 

 and executive work relating to the collection of mineral 

 species, including the preliminary examination of mineral 

 specimens submitted for purchase or exchange, the registra- 

 tion and incorporation of those recently acquired, the deter- 

 mination of the physical and geometrical characters of 

 specimens, the preparation of species-, variety-, and locality- 

 labels, and the preparation of a descriptive catalogue of the 

 collection. 



To a second is assigned similar work relative to the speci- 

 mens of rocks. 



To a third is assigned the chemical analysis of both 

 minerals and rocks. 



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