128 CUEATOE’S EEPOET ON MUSEUM PEOGEESS 
typed for the vertebrates and lepidoptera. As no books 
on the fauna of the Protectorate have been published, the 
index had to be compiled from various scattered papers giving 
lists of material collected by the different scientific expeditions 
which have visited the country. The vertebrates required 
4000 cards, lepidoptera 1000 ; each of these was separately 
typed, a lengthy process, but giving the neatest and best 
results. Separate colours are used for (i.) Orders, (ii.) Families, 
(iii.) Genera, (iv.) Species, (v.) Sub-species and varieties. 
Mammals . — The collection of horned heads was carefully 
gone over, labelled, and arranged systematically on the walls. 
Skins were cleaned, and those which had been in pickle taken 
out, labelled, and packed in store boxes. The collection of 
skulls are exhibited in one of the cases. 
Birds . — The large series of study-skins was gone over, 
fresh labels written, and the birds sorted and arranged according 
to their families in the drawers provided. A good many species 
new to the collection were added by the Curator and members. 
The two exhibition cases were rearranged and the specimens 
provided with clearly typed labels in English and Latin. 
Bejptiles . — Several hundreds have been identified, the 
cases repainted, and the specimens rebottled in uniform jars 
of three sizes bought for the purpose ; of these some three 
hundred were used. Some fifty species of snakes are on exhibi- 
tion, and form a ready reference-collection to the commoner 
species. Next year it is hoped to show a better series of lizards 
than those now in the cases. 
Fishes . — The Cuninghame collection of marine, and the 
Percival collections of fresh- water fishes have been rebottled, 
and for the present placed in the office. 
Butterflies . — The Lepidoptera cabinet was thoroughly 
cleaned out and repapered ; the broken panes of glass were 
replaced. Typed labels were installed and spaces left for 
the accommodation of five of each species. The Nymphalince 
are on exhibition in the top of the cabinet. Several hundreds 
of specimens have been set. 
Shells . — These have been temporarily installed in drawers 
of the botanical cabinet until such time as the much-needed 
cases can be provided. 
