124 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Consequent on the publication of the Preliminary Report, a 

 small Committee has been formed in connection with the Army 

 Medical Advisory Board, and the various questions involved 

 are being studied for further report. Mr, Durrant has been 

 iippointed to serve on this Committee. 



Museums Association. 



Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S., Assistant Keeper of the Department 

 of Geology, attended, as the delegate from the Natural History 

 Museum, the annual conference of the Museums Association 

 held at Hull in July. 



Mr. J. H. Leonard, the Official Guide, also attended the 

 meeting, and read a paper on his work in the Museum. 



Ninth International Congress of Zoology. 



Lord Walsingham, F.R.S.,the Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.R.S., 

 and Dr. S. F. Harmer, F.R.S,, represented the Natural History 

 Museum at the Ninth International Congress of Zoology held at 

 Monaco, in March, under the Presidency of H.H. the Prince of 

 Monaco. 



x\n important result of the deliberations of this Congress 

 was an agreement arrived at on the troublesome question of 

 Zoological Nomenclature, on which zoologists had been divided 

 for a long time past. 



Representation on Committees. 



On the invitation of the Colonial Office, the Trustees 

 allowed Mr. E. E. Austen, the Museum Dipterist, to serve on a 

 Committee appointed by the Secretary of State, to consider the 

 question of the relationship between wild animals and the try- 

 panosome diseases conveyed by tsetse-flies to man and beast. 



Mr. Austen has also, at the request of the High Commis- 

 sioner for New Zealand, been permitted to act as the representative 

 of the Dominion on the Imperial Bureau of Entomology. 



At the request of the Office of Works, Mr. C. J. Gahan, 

 Keeper of Entomology, has, with the approval of the Trustees, 

 joined a Committee to advise as to the best method of over- 

 coming the ravages of the larvae of a wood-boring beetle in the 

 timber roof of Westminster Hall. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Assistant-Keeper of Zoology, has 

 been permitted to serve on a Departmental Committee appointed 

 by the Home Secretary to inquire into the administration of 

 the Wild Birds Protection Acts. 



In connection with the question of Bird Protection and with 

 a view to promoting legislative action in the Crown Colonies, 

 lists of plumage birds with their English and scientific names 

 requiring protection in these Colonies and Protectorates have 

 been prepared and printed for use by the Museum and the 

 Colonial Office. 



