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Minerals and Geological Specimens . — A selection have been 
exhibited in the two cases set apart for them, and all the speci- 
mens have been cleansed, registered, and duly labelled. 
Office . — Some hundreds of acknowledgments have been 
sent out for specimens received, as will be seen from the list 
of donors published in the present number of the Journal. 
A very fine set of shelving has been fitted up to accommodate 
the reserve collections of spirit specimens. At the present 
rate of increase more will be required ere long. 
A large work-table, about five feet by six feet, was got for 
the skinner, and has proved invaluable. 
Future Work . — The specimens which will next receive 
attention are the beetles, which require relaxing; and will 
then be mounted on uniform white cards. The many hundreds 
of beautiful specimens when arranged in the twenty drawers 
of the insect cabinet reserved for them will make a fine nucleus 
for a B.E.A. collection. Other orders of insects will then be 
dealt with in rotation ; card-indexes will have to be compiled 
for them and the other invertebrates. 
OBITUARY 
Lieut. R. B. Woosnam 
From ‘ Nature ,’ July 1, 1915 
The death of Lieut. R. B. Woosnam, killed in action at the 
Dardanelles on June 4, adds one more name to the steadily 
increasing list of workers in science who have given up their 
lives for their country in this great war. Lieut. Woosnam served 
with the 2nd Worcestershire Regiment in the South African 
war, and it was during that period that he first became known 
to the Natural History Museum by sending to that institution 
a number of small mammal and bird skins, prepared so well 
that it was at once noticed that they were the work of a skilled 
collector and true naturalist. At the close of the war Woosnam 
offered his services to the Museum as a collector, and on the 
offer being accepted, he gave up soldiering for the time being. 
