CONTENTS 



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Membership and Endowment 5 



Form of Gift or Bequest 5 



Board of Trustees 10 



Committees and Officers ,11 



Scientific Staff 12 



President's Report 15 



Exhibition, Installation, Alteration \ 16 



Plans for New Building ." 18 



General Apportionment of Museum and City Funds 21 



Educational Extension 22 



Explorations, Collections and Exhibitions 23 



Hospitality to Scientific Societies 24 



Administration and Changes in Staff 25 



Progress of the Departments 26 



Public Education 26 



Museum Extension to the Schools and Libraries 27 



Lectures to School Children 28 



General Lectures 28 



Photography 28 



Children's Room 29 



Room for the Blind 29 



Minerals — Department of Mineralogy 29 



Mammals and Birds — Department of Mammalogy and Orni- 

 thology 30 



Extinct Vertebrates — Department of Vertebrate Palaeontol- 

 ogy - 33 



Living Reptiles, Batrachians, Living and Extinct Fishes — 



Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology 36 



Living Fishes 37 



Fossil Fishes 38 



Living Reptiles and Batrachians 39 



Living Invertebrates — Darwin Hall — Department of Inverte- 

 brate Zoology 41 



Invertebrates in General 42 



Molluscs 43 



Hall of Local Insects and Insect Biology 43 



Geology and Extinct Invertebrates — Department of Geology 



and Invertebrate Palaeontology < . . . 45 



Changes in Staff 47 



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