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any special features in the teaching of the department 

 and recall any faunistic points that are characteristic of 

 the neighbourhood. A small museum like our own can 

 attempt little more than this, although here and there, 

 for example, in Sea Fisheries and in Economic Entom- 

 ology, an effort will be made to illustrate some of the more 

 important industrial applications of Zoology. 



" As the workmen left the museum only a few days 

 before the date of the formal opening, the arrangement 

 of the specimens in the cases must be regarded as 

 temporary and susceptible of considerable alteration. 

 Most of the specimens require to be remounted and 

 labelled, as time permits; and much material for the 

 information of students reading in the Museum will be 

 added to the cases. The general arrangement adopted is 

 that the Vertebrate animals are on the ground floor and 

 the Invertebrate in the gallery; and in each tin 1 lowest 

 group begins on the left-hand side of the entrance door. 

 On the ground floor, Fishes, xVmphibians, Reptiles, and 

 Birds are accommodated on the eastern side; the 

 Mammalia occupy the western side and the centre of the 

 floor; while a series of slabs representing the celebrated 

 fossil reptilian foot-prints from StoretoD oik- of the 

 characteristic features of our neighbourhood is placed 

 in the case along the soutk end of the room. The 

 extension of this museum floor into the north block is 

 occupied by a small Anthropological collection gathered 

 mainly as the result of expeditions and explorations 

 undertaken by members <>t I lie staff. In the gallery of 

 the museum the lower groups of Invertebrata occupy the 

 eastern side, and the higher the western ; some special 

 collections are shown in the desk cases on the rail, and 

 the extension into the north block on this floor accommo- 

 dates the Sea-Fisheries Museum- a collection of very 



