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REPORT ON THE PERAK MUSEUM, 1904. 
BUILDING. 
"| HE four towers at the front of de building were in the con- 
tractor's hands for the greater part of the year, the scaffolding 
and ataps being still in position at is end of December. e removal 
of the small domes and the ae a in their place of four pyramidal- 
shaped towers with galvanized iron roofing was, however, completed 
before the close of the year. It i to be hoped that the impie ion 
will be permanently effective as I bise there has always been trou 
with these towers. The result from an artistic stand- poa деа i hardly 
be с a success, and it is a matter of regret that the e or ap- 
pearance of the building could not have been studied in sucht Bi n 
with the absolute necessity of having water-tight roofs. 
CASES. 
The last instalment of the plate glass for the new EM 
wall- and pube d from the Crown Agents early in the year, 
and the remaining cases were accordingly glazed, being finally ready to 
receive the mm Pee W the end of May. 
After the removal of the ethnological К from the two front 
rooms, the interiors of all the wall-cases there received two coats of 
fresh white paint previous to the аш of their new contents. 
THE COLLECTIONS. 
1. ZOOLOGY AND OSTEOLOGY. 
fair amount of work has been done in both these branches, 
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of the invertebrates, and thus make room for a better and more 
atural display of the larger mammals. The only way to meet this 
demand is by the erection of pier cases in the centre of the room ; and 
à at such as the tigers, Sumatran rhinoceros yan 
tapir and the шош untain goats under their present. cramped Aud inartis- 
tic conditions should convince anyone of the pressing necessity for this 
improvement. Blessed with such fine examples of the mamm 
s Perak is, it seems more tban a pity that, in addition to 
the poor representation of the above animals, such ts as the 
sladang, the sambur e and others have to go unrepresented in the 
State Museum, Invertebrate zoology is also at a standstill from the 
same с that the comparatively — outlay necessary for the 
remedy оаа: in а way, serve two purpo e last two orders of 
the mammalia have already e M^. is on bs hs bird gallery, and the 
fine specimens of the Cetacea "laxo had to be stowed away under one 
of the table cases. 
e extension of the mammalia across the room led to the re- 
arrangement and re-classification of the bird colleetion; and an effort 
was made to collect all the scattered spirit reptilian specimens into dhe 
