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Museum open the whole of dae Teiping — авс я б dcs closing 
on the afternoons of the is the n Gov 
The venture met with a deci т uum the. first ay the turnstile 
registering 1,760 КЕННЕН Tar argest daily attendance on record. On 
Ist February (Hindoo festival of Tai Pusum) the turnstile again 
registered over the thousand, the exact number being 1,110. The 
minimum attendance was reached on 28th July, when only 36 visitors 
passed in; this total, I am glad to say, being exceptionally low 
The annual attendances for the present century are: 
1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 
4064) — .. - 40092  .. 7 46,685... 58,854 
The Museum was closed on the 20th December to permit of the 
final нети being made for the opening of the new ethnologieal 
win 
On the 22nd July, H.E. the Governor of the Straits Settlements 
and High Commissioner ag the Federated Malay States, Sir John 
Anderson, к.с.м.а., pai са visit to the Museum and expressed 
himself well mena vide all he ва 
STAFF. 
Mr. Leonard Wray, Curator and State Geologist, returned from 
long leave on the 8th January, and took over from Mr. Keilich who 
had been iis for him 
On the 21st March Mr. E. Keilich, Taxidermist, жор for three 
months' санаа leave and 12 months' on half pay. Yong 
Fook, Assistant Taxidermist, was appointed to act for un. 
In March, Mr. Leonard Wra . was made Director of 
Museums, Federated Malay States ; Hx КӘНІ after Mr. Fred. W. 
e ri Sembilan, was appointed to the 
and assumed duties on i {Ан 8th May 
On the 6th October, Mr. N. Bappoo, hee and — proceeded 
to India on two months’ leave, sito xtended by one 
жон on no pay. He reported his fetum: to dude. irse on 19th 
mber. 
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FINANCIAL. 
$1,721.89 of the s for Museum expenses was defrayed on the 
building, cases, materials and general stores, there being a saving of 
$17.57 for the year, the [hes of the vote, as noted previously, being 
spent on purchase of specimens 
he laboratory vote of $250 was speut in full; anl out of the 
$100 for purchase of books, $88.27 was utili 
The revenue collected amounted to $150.85; $100 of this being for 
Para rubber seeds, 
