102 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Museums' Association. 



Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S., Assistant Keeper, was again 

 nominated to represent the Natural History Museum at the 

 annual conference of the Museums' Association held at Dublin 

 in July. 



Fisheries Committee of Board of Agriculture. 



Dr. Harmer, F.R.S. , Keeper of Zoology, has been appointed 

 to serve on a Committee to advise the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries on various fishery questions. 



Ghent International Exhibition, 1913. 

 The Trustees readily gave their assent to a request from 

 the Colonial Office and the Board of Trade for the co-operation 

 of the Natural History Museum in organising at the Ghent 

 International Exhibition, 1913, a British Government Exhibit 

 illustrating the work done in Great Britain in the investigation 

 and study of tropical diseases. 



Warming and Ventilation. 

 His Majesty's Office of Works having represented to the 

 Trustees that a central boiler-house had been constructed in 

 the Exhibition Road at the Victoria and Albert Museum with 

 sufficient power to heat the Natural History Museum as well, 

 and that a considerable economy of public expenditure could 

 be effected by heating both Museums from that centre, the 

 Trustees have agreed to transfer this service to the control of 

 the Office of Works from 1st April 1913. 



Electric Lighting. 



Progress has been made with the electric lighting of the 

 Museum. Arrangements have been made to proceed with the 

 installation of the light in the ground-floor galleries on the east 

 side (Geology) in the same way as that carried out in the west 

 wing (Zoology), except in the Gallery of Fossil Reptiles, where 

 incandescent lamps of a high power will be used. As a safe- 

 guard against accident, a pilot light installation will be 

 introduced throughout the building in the course of 1913. 



Unpacking Room. 

 A much needed room for the reception and unpacking of 

 specimens has been erected in the rear of the building in 

 convenient proximity to the entrance to the zoological 

 basement. 



Suhway to District Railway Station. 

 An agreement has been come to between His Majesty's 

 Office of Works and the Metropolitan District Railway Com- 

 pany as to the terms on which the Company's subway at 



