Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
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are named and classified, but want of cabinets and space 
prevents tbe scientific classification of the thousands of exotic 
insects which have been acquired by exchange of our dupli- 
cates with European and other Museums and private collectors. 
The important Herbarium, consisting of over 4,000 named, 
mounted and classified Transvaal plants, is housed in a small 
room at the end of the exhibition halls, whereas the reference 
library is, for the same want of space, divided in the Director’s, 
Entomological, Botanical and Herpetoiogical rooms. 
In response to often repeated requests it has been decided 
long ago to start with a yearly series of Museum lectures in 
order to popularise science and to make the valuable collec- 
tions more useful in an educational way, but as no lecture 
hall exists in the building this idea had to be abandoned for 
the present, as the carting over of specimens to a suitable 
hall in town would expose the specimens to too many dangers. 
In the store-rooms and cellars a large number of South 
African mammal skins is stored away, partly for reference and 
study, partly for mounting when space, time and money allows. 
In issuing the first number of the Annals of the youngest 
South African Museum this Institution recommends itself to 
the kind and collegial co-operation of the older South African 
and of the other Museums of the World. 
