Xll PROCEEDINGS 



The Honorary Curator's Report. 



Dr. Stanley, the curator, then read his report, which was 

 as follows : — 



The Museum collection has been satisfactorily main- 

 tained. The bird and mammal collections have been 

 thoroughly overhauled and the cases are now fast sealed 

 against our insect enemies until next winter. 



Some useful additions have been made, notably a pair 

 of that incredibly beautiful bird, the Sumatran Bee Eater, 

 from Fokien province ; a fine specimen of the Black Bear, a 

 Serow (also known as the "Precipice Donkey") and a pair 

 of Blue Sheep from Tibet. The skins of these Tibetan 

 specimens were sent by the Rev. H. A. Baker and have 

 recently been prepared and converted into more or less life- 

 like specimens in the Museum. 



Special mention should also be made of a small collec- 

 tion of crustaceans and molluscs from the Taihu Lake, Soo- 

 chow and Shanghai, made and presented by Mr. Annandale, 

 Director of the recently instituted Indian Zoological Survey. 

 One of these crustaceans, dredged from the bottom of the 

 Whangpoo, proved to be a new species, the Leander annan- 

 dalei. Another new species of crustacean, the Rhynchoplax 

 introversus, is remarkable in that this species of this marine 

 genus was obtained in the fresh waters of the Taihu Lake 

 and may be a survival of the time when it was part of the 

 sea. These specimens have been described by Mr. Stanley 

 Kemp in the records of the Indian Museum, Vol. XIII, 

 Parts IV and V, 1917. It is gratifying to be able to record 

 that our Museum was able to be of some slight assistance 

 to Dr. Annandale when in Shanghai and to acknowledge the 

 benefits our Museum has subsequently received by this 

 association with the Indian Museum. 



A very useful and necessary addition has been the 

 acquisition of some thousands of specimens of insects 

 collected throughout the summer in Fukien by the Museum 

 Collector. An educational exhibit is in the course of pre- 

 paration showing the main features of each order of insects 

 on a series of boards, which are intended to be of special use> 



