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Diosy, Vice-Chairman of the Council, seconded the 
motion, which was carried with acclamation. 
Mr. Horniman, in returning thanks, said it had 
been a very great pleasure to him to receive his 
fellow members of the Japan Society; and to testify 
to his admiration for the gallant Japanese people, 
and for the exquisite products of their wonderful 
artistic taste and skill. They had only to look at a 
few specimens in the Museum to see that the 
artisans of Japan were artists in the truest sense of 
the word. 
The members of the Society, on leaving, were 
each presented with a box of exotic butterflies as a 
memento of their visit. 
On November the ist Mr. Horniman left for a 
tour through India. He is expected to return 
about the middle of March next. 
A new department was opened in the autumn for 
the exhibition of some old and curious Manuscripts, 
and editions of Bible, including specimens from 
the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries ; also a 
collection of civic and other medals and coins, 
including Roman imperial coins, British (from the 
Conquest to the present time), and foreign coins. 
It remains here only to observe that, during the year, 
several persons (students and school children) have 
made notes and sketches, chiefly from the Armour ; 
the Egyptian, Indian, and Japanese specimens; and 
the Butterflies; &c. Young collectors and enthusiasts 
have brought their Shells, Birds’ Eggs, Butterflies, 
Coins, &c., to identify and name. 
