REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1916. 
VII 
Central Hall, and Mr. A. Hurst has also made many valuable 
gifts of specimens. To both of these gentlemen your Council 
tender their grateful thanks. The whole of the Pottery 
additions have been labelled by Mr. Oxley Grabham and Mr. 
Hurst with the names of the potteries where they were pro¬ 
duced, and cases have ben arranged round the ground floor of 
the Central Hall where further additions to the Collection can 
be exhibited. 
An interesting link with the past history of our Society was 
severed by the death of Miss Baines on the 22nd May, 1916. 
She was born in the Museum basement where her parents 
resided, and almost the whole of her long life of over 80 years 
was spent in the service of the Society. She well remembered 
Professor Phillips, the Rev. C. Wellbeloved, and Rev. J. 
Kendrick. Her father, Henry Baines, was Sub-Curator of the 
M useum from 1829 to 1878, and Miss Baines delighted to 
recount how in the early days of our Society a small menagerie 
was kept in the Gardens, including a bear, a golden eagle, and 
several monkeys. The bear got loose and chased Professor 
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Phillips and the Rev. Vernon Harcourt into an outhouse, and 
was afterwards sent by stage coach to the London Zoological 
Gardens in charge of Henry Baines. 
In July a very successful performance of scenes from the 
pageant play of “ Drake,” by Mr. Louis N. Parker, was given 
in the Museum Gardens, in aid of the military and other 
hospitals, and a substantial sum was raised. Mr. Parker con¬ 
ducted the rehearsals in person, and though on a smaller 
scale the performance in many ways recalled the great 
Pageant of 1909. 
As a memento of “ frightfulness ” an Incendiary Bomb, 
dropped by a Zeppelin airship in the neighbourhood, was 
presented to the Society by the Lord Mayor, and has been 
appropriately placed in one of the large cases in the Central 
Hall with the thumb screws and branding irons of mediaeval 
times. 
Owing to the continued absence of Mr. Platnauer on mili¬ 
tary service, Mr. Gayner has been appointed Assistant Curator 
for the Library, and under his energetic management good 
progress has been made with the catalogue, and a Library 
