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BUILDING. 
Hills casement stays have been fitted to the windows in the 
Zoological and Ethnological rooms. Some broken squares of glass in 
windo nd doors have been replaced and eight of the 
b to the bereits in the Ethnological room renewed. The 
passage leading the Zoologieal to the new Ethnologieal rooms 
was floored with shar bts from the Ipoh quarry. 
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CASES. 
The 18 wall cases for the lower room of the new Ethnological 
annexe were built, painted inside and glazed with plate glass. These 
cases have a total length of 160 feet and cover the two longer walls of 
the room. Twenty of the wall cases in the upper room were glazed 
and they were painted and varnished. Half of one of the table cases 
in the lower room was also glazed with plate glass. 
The vien essere on the woodwork was $ 990.00 
On plate g 1,552.29 
And on juni varnish, iron-work and fittings 497.87 
Making a total of ... ы Я .. 9,040.16 
-` An extra sum of $1,425, making the Museum expenses vote 
$4,000, was provided in the Estimates to meet the cost of case build- 
ing. With the exception of a supplementary vote of $300 in 1902 
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cases measure. bl 
of 736 square feet. In the central gallery 26 hasps and staples were 
fitted to the table cases and brass handles were fixed to 18 of the wall 
cases. 
ZOOLOGY. 
There were numerous additions to € ss qp Si 
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inches and 4 feet 7 inches were prepared. Two skulls of adult tigers 
and two of ses ones were set up. These skulls show the growth of 
the teeth very well. Mr. То ogai presented ed east of a footprint of 
the supposed man-eater taken at Padang Renga 
A few birds were stuffed, and a number of snakes and other 
ipei were collected and preserved. 
unted specimen of the Estuarine crocodile was eee s to. 
the eden ter Museum and another to the Leicester Muse 
A certain amount of taxidermie work was done for private persons 
during the year 
GEOLOGY. 
A large collection for the general geological series was given by the 
Trustees of the British Museum of Natural Histo The specimens 
were selected from the duplicates in the Museum, were worked out, 
