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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
£6,000, and a substantial part of this sum was used in pro- 
curing a good nucleus of a Library, that most important part 
of any museum in which it is intended to undertake sound 
work. 
The collections which are at present accessible to the 
public are exhibited in six halls ; the first contains the 
mounted South African birds, their nests and eggs ; the second 
and third, the mounted South African mammals, reptiles? 
amphibians and fishes, and in one case an exhibit is put on 
view of the most important internal and external parasites 
that cause so much damage to the flocks of the farmers in 
this Colony, which is to be regarded as the nucleus of an 
Agricultural Museum. Room four contains part of the 
historical and ethnographical collections and coins, room 
five non-x\frican birds, and room six the non-African 
mammals. 
The collections of vertebrates consist now of : — 
Specimens. 
South African mammals 
259 
,, ,, birds 
1,035 
,, bird skins 
3,703 
,, ,, reptiles — r ; 
snakes, circa 
620 
lizards 
600 
,, ,. batrachians 
200 
,, ,, fishes, about . . 
80 
Non-South African mammals.. 
190 
„ „ „ birds 
168 
,, „ ,, reptiles, circa 500 
, ,, ,, bird skins 590 
batrachians, 
circa . . 
20 
,, ■ ,, fishes, circa 
400 
All specimens are card catalogued, and it is intended 
publish in every subsequent issue of the Annals part 
our catalogues. 
Through want of space the whole of the collections 
Conchylia, the Mineralogical and Palaeontological, the greater 
part of the Historical and Ethnographical and coin collections 
are stored away, as is also the large and interesting collection 
of Crania. 
The Entomological collections are likewise not accessible 
to the general public. Over 125,000 South African specimens 
