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EXCHANGES. 
Correspondence has bean carried on and exchanges effected with 
the following Museums: 
The British Museum. 
The Imperial Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 
The Hope Department, University Museum, Oxford. 
The Raffles Museum and Library, Singapore. 
The Royal Museum of Zoology and Ethnography, Dresden. 
n arrangment has been mae with Prof. Ray Lankester, Director 
of the British Museun 1 (Natural History), whereby unique specimens 
are to be deposited in the British Museum, while in return the staff of 
that institution will as far as possible identify collections s insects 
and other animals which may become of economic importance 
А small collection of insects, illustrating certain 67 con- 
nected with protective and warming coloration an mimiery, was sent 
to Prof. Pottton, the leading authority on this branch of natural 
science. 
PUBLICATIONS. 
In ы with the Perak Museum, and under the editorship 
of the Director of Museums, F.M.S., a periodical has been started which 
1 ч т y h 
atters porate: ич the S Museums = e first r, con- 
sisting of thirty- n pages with three plates, was passed for press 
uring 1904 and ifte in J anuary of this renes 
А short article оп certain zoological ен was contributed to 
the “Journal.of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society,” 
and another to the “ Ibis," the leading Ornithological Journal. 
ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY. 
The Curator served as a member of the Fisheries Committee, whose 
report was published in August. Investigations were carried out on the 
White Ant (Termes gestroi) as affecting para rubber and the conclusioiis 
arrived at кле in the Gazette. The life history of a moth 
; myrsusalis), which does considerable damage to getah 
Gian. was aio the subject of enquiry. 
ADDITIONS. 
I. ZOOLOGICAL, 
A Ст де е of collecting expeditions were undertaken заа 
1904, both by the Curator and collectors, and by the latter alone 
The results were very satisfactory, and numbers of very rare s ies 
hitherto known by two or three — only, were secured, the 
: total number of tim falling not far short of four thousand. 
following sp: veces чу ч esi worthy of note, those 
m: an asterisk ves w to the Museum collections. | 
