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The Straits Trading Co. presented a large mass of tin ore from 
Sungei Besi, weighing over three pikuls. 
IV. ECONOMIC PRODUCTS. 
Various sample tins ep agricultural products were present- 
ed by the Perak Museum, and a series of named rice samples dete 
at the Agri-Horticultural bow: are being prepared and sterilized a 
E as institution, this Museum not yet possessing the requisite e 
DONATIONS. 
The following gentlemen and institutions have presented specimens 
to the Museum : 
Mr. R. N. Bland The Perak Museum 
Mr. A. B. Cross Mr. N. W. Reid 
Mr. A. Von. Geyzel The Singapore Mus 
Mr. C. W. Harrison The Straits Trading Co. 
Dr. Johnstone Dr. Traver 
Mr. A. M. Burn-Murdoch The Revd. Ү. Swindell 
Mr. О. V. O'Hara Sir W. Н. Treacher, &.c.«.6 
Mr. P. W. Parkinson 
CONSERVATION. d 
The collection of stuffed birds has been c UM E iol and 
re-labelled, and is now in excellent condition, the series of bird skins 
has been stored in glass topped boxes, each species in a separate 
which. — HÀ reference and obviates damage caused by careless 
han fish, reptiles and amphibians have had the preserva- 
FM flui “renewed, the only vertebrates yet requiring attention being 
ammals. 
regards t the ethnogriphical collections it has ur enm 
expedient to place the valuable silver exhibits in the Treasury as it 
was during the useum was without a 
curate d Ei valuable pindings with gold centres had been abstracted 
from the collections. 
les which 
were immersed in a solution of corrosive sublimate, and so rendered 
further insect damage. 
-. .J immune to 
The bulk of the acquisitions during the year have been packed in 
tin == cates pending the completion of the new buildings. 
