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special attention was paid to this branch ue каче and an endeavour 
was made to add as much as possible to the on. It is satisfactory 
to be able to state that the additions to it es еу been far 
greater than in any previous year. 
TAXIDERMY. 
Owing to the absence on long leave of Mr. Keilich, the Taxider- 
mist, during the greater portion of the year, the taxidermie work was 
restricted to very narrow limits. Bad work in this line is probably 
worse than none—particularly when it has to be exhibited side by side 
with better work. 
REGISTERING AND CATALOGUING. 
and catalogues and samples obtained from it. The Curators in Perak 
and Selangor were consulted, the former be ing familiar with the 
systems in use in de І Leicester and Bristol Museums and the latter in 
the Liverpool Muse 
‘he apparatus necessary to carry out the D which had been 
evolved was ordered through the Crown Agents. The indent did not 
arrive till the latter end of the year and the Tot of registering was 
not begun till November, but from the way in which it wor 
from _Subseque ent цинк of it, there appears to be no doubt that 
the plan is quite satisfactory 
n this new system all t the numerous books which other plans 
involve have been abolished and the whole thing is done by the aid of 
a double 
ы proper ‘pl 
About 12,000 cards and a cabinet capable of accommodating 22,000 
were procured by way of a commencement. The work of registration 
will probabi; take several years to accomplish, and there will then only 
e current accessions to enter up as they come in. 
SELANGOR STATE MUSEUM. 
In the early part of the year the members of the Museum Com- 
mittee were relieved of their duties and the institution came under the 
supervision of the Director. Five visits, totalling thirty-one days, were 
puid by him to Kuala Lumpur during the last nine months of 1904. 
Owing to the ruinous state of the old building, it was decided n 
to attempt any EE of either the cases or the contents of n: 
Museum, but to collect and pack up in tin-lined packing-cases as 
many eee: as possible, so as to preserve them and have them 
ready for transport to the new building when it is completed. This 
necessitated closing one of the exhibition rooms, so as to use it as à 
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