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is with regret that the Committee has to record the death of 
four members during the period under review. 
Museum. — The Museum continues to prove an attraction, 
in spite of the fact that it is hidden away on a by-road. The 
total number of visitors in 1917 was 980, this year it is 1987, 
or an average of over 161 per month. 
Exhibits. — Certain show-cases have received additional 
specimens, and two new cases have been installed to receive 
the group of Raptorial Birds and a few examples of the smaller 
Mammals. 
Donations of Specimens . — Specimens have been received 
from time to time, but the number of specimens received in 
the flesh has fallen, owing to the fact that there was no one 
on the premises to deal with them, and the donation of such 
specimens was not encouraged. 
Curator . — During the whole year the Museum has been 
without a Curator, but certain Members of the Committee 
have acted as Honorary Curators and have kept the Museum 
in order and have attended to whatever work had to be done. 
Mr. Loveridge, our late Curator, at present on active service, 
knowing the financial state of the Society at the beginning 
of the year, resigned his curatorship in February 1918. Up 
to that date he was granted half salary, in return for which 
he did what collecting he could while in German East Africa 
with the troops. 
New Museum. — Owing to lack of sufficient funds, the build- 
ing of the first block of the Museum has not been put in hand. 
Scientific Expeditions . — The result of the Turkana Expe- 
dition, briefly referred to in the Report for 1917, more than 
justified what small expenditure the Society was put to in 
equipping the native collector sent with the Military Expe- 
dition. A report on the collections received will be published 
in the Society’s Journal. 
Publications. — Owing to irregularity in the postal service, 
difficulties in printing, &c., and the consequent increased cost 
of production, only one Journal was issued during the year. 
The manuscript for the second Journal was sent home in 
August, but no word of its publication has been received. 
Will members bear in mind that it costs £50 for each issue 
