ANNUAL REPORT, 1918 
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present they are only being sent to members who have evinced 
a willingness to contribute notes for the Journal. 
Any members who are wishful to add short notes of interest- 
ing observations, and who will send their names to the Honorary 
Secretary, will receive the books in due course. 
It is a matter of considerable gratification to the Committee 
to be able to report that His Excellency Sir H. C. Belfield, 
K.C.M.G., takes a keen interest in the Society and has already 
collected a considerable fund towards permanent museum 
buildings and the cur at or ship, for which the Committee is 
very grateful. 
This fund being earmarked entirely for the purposes named 
and being banked as a separate fund does not appear in the 
balance-sheet herewith presented. 
A plot of land near Sixth Avenue, in a most central and 
advantageous position, has been reserved by Government for 
museum buildings. 
Contributions of specimens for the Museum continue to 
flow in, and the Committee is on the eve of concluding arrange- 
ments with the landlord for an extension of the present rented 
building, as, owing to the comparatively restricted space at our 
disposal, it is impossible to make arrangements for adequate 
display of specimens. 
It will also be necessary for further provision to be made 
for specimens in the way of new cases. A large forty-drawer 
cabinet for insects is on order and will be completed shortly. 
A cabinet for botanical specimens has just been completed 
and has been placed in the Museum. 
The Committee again tender the hearty thanks of the 
Society to those of the members and other individuals who 
have assisted during the year by donations to the funds of the 
Society, or specimens to the Museum, contributions of MSS. 
to the Journal, lectures given in aid of the Society’s funds, or 
assistance rendered in the Museum. 
Nairobi, February 4, 1914. 
John Sergeant, 
Honorary Secretary. 
