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кн room. These will eventually, however, fall into their scienti- 
c e, more or d by exhibition in the passage which leads into 
ilie new орар н КЕ Wee 
Sumatran BL mentioned above, which had been set 
as hin he beauty of the specimen and the clever taxidermie work 
is entirely а away in its present situation. 
Minor additions were made during the year, but owing to adverse 
ireumstances no systematic zoological collecting was carried out. 
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lector attached to that establishment; and эту from the Gap 
were collected and presented by Mr. H. C. Robin 
The Japanese лат crab presented to the Museum by Sir J. Р. 
Rodger, к.с.м.9., previous to his leaving the State, was provisionally 
exhibited in the Кш Department, Рейн an allotment of а 
favourable position in the zoological room 
Towards the end of the year the task of cataloguing this collection 
was started, and it is hoped the work will be completed during the 
current year. 
A small amount of outside taxidermie work was got through, but 
a good deal had to be refused owing to the pressure ot Mosoti work. 
The whole of the osteological collection was re-arranged systemati- 
ba the removal of ethnological specimens enabling three more wall- 
cases to be devoted to this important branch of natural science. The 
e mammalian skeletons standing unprotected on the top of the 
Wall Sade were taken down, cleaned and placed inside cases; and the 
avian and reptilian skeletons were removed from the table-cases and 
laced in their proper sequence. Also the large skull of the elephant 
“Petra Muda," formerly exposed to the depredations of native visitors, 
was put away in safety amongst the other ungulate skulls 
The skeleton of a 7-ft. crocodile (C. porosus) was prepared and 
snes gt and makes a welcome addition to the co Sect: as does 
ewise the interesting series of tiger bones presented by E 
aswell including a malformed femur, arising from an old bullet 
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2.  Borany. 
Two hundred and ninety-four botanical specimens were received 
in August from the Royal’ Botanical M erst cie and a few 
minor additions were obtained from vari 
'Ten thousand Para rubber seeds, from the trees in the Museum 
grounds, were collected and sold. 
ш» trouble was caused during the year by the sudden 
ruinous attacks of white ants, which made their way through the 
Hv of the Baiting. бой time to time, into the cases containing the 
. botanica collection, I painfully obvious that the contents of 
rium were never safe; and to meet this difficulty long zinc 
