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Considering the state of the building and the contents, the number 
of visitors admitted may be con nsidered quite satisfactory. "They 
totalled 34.470. 
As the Curator has made a e н о of the work cen prs the 
year and of the progress o w building and cases it is un- 
necessary to go over the same erode again here. 
GENERAL. 
COLLECTING. 
A collecting expedition was made in Pahang and a very extensive 
collection was the result. The greater portion “of it was ethnologieal 
in character, but а good many ores, minerals : fossils were als 
obtained. "This State was previously almost unrepresented in the 
k seum. The bulk of the specimens were deposited in that 
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institution, but a good many went to Selangor. The time occupied in 
traversing the State of Pahang was 45 dass 
Other shorter collecting trips were made and the total time spent 
away from head-quarters was 131 days. 
ImpeRIAL INSTITUTE. 
Exhibi т the Straits and Native States Court at the Imperial 
Institute were Еа prepared and sent to London. Amongst these 
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gold, tin and other mines of the Native States, and a set of nine slabs 
of marble from the Ipoh Marble Works. 
Samples of ешек and of Minyak surin were spent for examina- 
тм іп the labora з of the institution, under the arrangement 
= ЖҮ the Government of the Federated Malay States 
е "Prof r Wyndham Dunston, r.g.s. The corundum has been 
favourably те reported on in the “ Bulletin of the Imperial Institute” 
and a larger sample has been asked for, for further trials of its 
далеру for ps the movements of clocks and watches and as an abrasive 
doreinororodffaN PHOTOGRAPHS. 
At the request of Sir W. H. Treacher, к. с.м.ө., the then Resident- 
General, a series of twenty-eight photographs of Semangs and | 
was taken to help to illustrate Mr. W. W. Skeat's forthcoming book on 
the ““ Wild Tribes of the Malay Peninsula.” 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OTHER MUSEUMS. 
А small collection of a de ate zs pr т арбы about 
forty articles, was made to the h Museum, 
oomsbury. The Malay penne t is eee ally unr rosanted in the 
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vhich have been sent from the Perak Museum in former 
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