REPORT FOR 1894. 
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It is much to be regretted that the class of Associates has 
not developed itself more extensively. This is the class for whom 
the lectures are chiefly intended and for whose benefit technical 
instruction is proposed to be given in the Institute. It should 
consist largely of the young men in offices, stores, counting-houses, 
training-schools and colleges, and engaged in mechanical and 
industrial pursuits. All the real advantages of the Institute are 
open to this class, the subscription to which is only Ten Shillings 
a year. 
The Institute has lost by death during the }^ear two Members 
who filled prominent places in the community, namely : 
Beaven Heave Bake, M.D., &c. 
The Hon’ble Robert Guppy, M.A. 
Obituary Notices of these gentlemen are appended to this Repoi t. 
The number of persons who entered their names in the 
Visitors’ Book of the Museum during the past year was as 
follows : — 
January ... ... 207 
February ... ... 78 
March ... ... 65 
April ... ... 137 
May ... ... 874 
June ... ... 544 
Making a total of 5,672 Visitors 
others) during the year. 
July 
... 675 
August . . . 
... 809 
September 
... 633 
October ... 
... 471 
November 
... 605 
December 
... 521 
(besides small 
children and 
One of the functions inherited by this Institute from its pre- 
decessor the Scientific Association is that of placing on record as 
far as possible all that is known of the fauna and flora of the 
island and its neighbourhood. As part of the Journal of Pro- 
ceedings of the Institute for the current year notices of papers 
on scientific subjects which have been before meetings of the 
