REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1915. 
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I desire to record my thanks to Dr. Hitchcock for his assist¬ 
ance with the labels for the Natural Orders, and am pleased 
to report that over 300 persons visited the Garden during 1914. 
As my leisure time is limited, and after twenty years free 
labour in the Herbarium and Garden, I asked the Council for 
skilled assistance in these departments. The General Purposes 
Committee agreed to recommend to the Council that my 
suggestion be tried. The Council deferred the consideration 
until other departments could present their case. 
My contention is, that since the death of Mr. Baines, no paid 
official has been appointed to discharge the duties in connec¬ 
tion with the Herbarium and Botanical Garden, and that since 
1893 those duties have been undertaken by your Honorary 
Curator. 
In the Historical Notes and Catalogues, the late Sir Joseph 
Dalton Hooker and Dr. Russell Wallace expressed their 
appreciation, and I have received many requests from various 
Societies and Botanists for Part II. of the Notes and other 
issues of the Catalogue. 
I now ask the Council to adopt the recommendation of the 
General Purposes Committee. 
Entomology. —The condition of the specimens in the 
several collections has been maintained. No additions of 
importance have to be reported for the past year. 
Geology.— The Hon. Curator reports that the collections 
are in good order. 
Library. —All the cases and books in the Library have 
thoroughly cleaned during the past year. A fair number of 
additions have been made to the ever increasing series of 
volumes on various subjects. 
M edi^eval Museum. —The entrance to the Architectural 
Museum from the Museum which was formed upon the build¬ 
ing of the Tempest Anderson Hall by breaking through the 
wall of one of the rooms in the Museum basement, at the 
foot of the stairs, was for a long time a most unsightly and 
