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ANNUAL EEPOET 1912 
EAST AFEICA AND UGANDA NATUEAL HISTOEY 
SOCIETY. ANNUAL EEPOET 1912. 
It is gratifying to be able to report that the year closed 
with a considerable increase of members, and that the Society 
has recovered the ground lost in the previous year. 
During the last few months of the year, a series of most 
successful evening meetings for members and their friends 
has been held in the Museum, reports of which have appeared 
in the Journal. These meetings have proved one of the most 
useful features of the work during the year, and, judging by the 
attendances, have been much appreciated by members. 
Great progress has been made in the Museum, the Society 
having been fortunate in receiving from generous donors many 
valuable additions to its collection. So many contributions 
have been received and are continually arriving that the Com- 
mittee is not only in a difficulty regarding increased accom- 
modation for specimens, but particularly regarding the receiving, 
preparing, placing, and cataloguing of them. These duties 
have been undertaken for some months of the past year by 
Mr. Cuninghame, who has generously devoted the whole of his 
time during that period to the curatorship, and for which the 
Society is greatly indebted to him, and since his departure 
on a series of long safaris the work has been undertaken by one 
or two members of the Society. The Committee feels, however, 
that the work is of such a nature, and increasing so rapidly 
that the time has now arrived when the Society should have a 
paid curator to devote all his time to the Museum. 
It has long been the hope of the Committee that Govern- 
ment might be induced to give the Society an annual grant 
for the purpose of engaging a curator for the Museum, and a 
deputation from the Committee waited upon His Excellency 
the Governor in October last and laid before him the Society’s 
requirements, with the result that the Legislative Council 
agreed to the inclusion of a sum in the Estimates for the next 
year, as a grant to the Society. Unfortunately, news has just 
been received that this grant has been disallowed by the home 
