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New Buildings. 



The new room on the second floor, over the east corridor, to 

 provide much needed accommodation for the Herbarium of 

 British Plants, and the new offices on the same floor on the 

 west side, have been completed by His Majesty's Office of 

 Works. 



Northern Boundary and Spirit Building. 



Correspondence has passed between the Trustees and the 

 First Commissioner of His Majesty's Works, &c., relative to 

 the land on the northern boundary of the Museum, and to a 

 proposal made by the First Commissioner to remove the Spirit 

 Building to another site on the western side of the Museum 

 grounds. 



International Shooting and Field Sj^orts Exhibition, 

 Vienna. 



His Majesty's Government having decided to be represented 

 officially at the International Shooting and Field Sports Exhi- 

 bition, which was held in Vienna in the summer of 1910, the 

 Trustees agreed, at the request of the President of the Board 

 of Trade, to assist Lord Desborough, Chairman of the Exhibi- 

 tion Committee appointed by that Department, in the formation 

 of a collection of the big game animals of the British Empire 

 for the British Section at the Vienna Exhibition ; and the 

 organization and arrangements for getting together the speci- 

 mens, their reception at the Museum, and transmission to 

 Vienna, were carried out under the supervision of Mr. C. E. 

 Fagan, the Assistant Secretary of the Museum. 



International Congresses. 



The Hon. L. Walter Rothschild represented the Natural 

 History Museum at the Eighth International Zoological Con- 

 gress, held at Graz in August, the First International Congress 

 of Entomology, held at Brussels in the same month, and at 

 the Fifth International Ornithological Congress, held at Berlin 

 from 30th May to 4th June. Dr. Harmer, Keeper of the 

 Zoological Department, also represented the Museum at the 

 Congress at Graz ; whilst Dr. Rendle, Keeper of Botany, acted 

 as delegate from the Museum at the Third International 

 Congress of Botany, held at Brussels in May, and Dr. Bather, 

 Assistant-Keeper, Department of Geology, attended, as the 

 Museum delegate, the Eleventh International Geological Con- 

 gress, held at Stockholm in August. 



Destruction of Plumage Birds. 



On the invitation of Lord Crewe, Secretary of State for the 

 Colonies, the Trustees appointed Dr. Harmer, Mr. Fagan, and 

 Mr. Ogilvie-Grant to represent the Museum at a conference 



