52 TlMEHRt. 
The noteworthy additions during the year have been 
already brought before the notice of the Society at the 
various meetings at which they were exhibited ; and lists 
of presentations, and the names of the donors have been 
incorporated in the minutes of the meetings. Further 
mention here, therefore, seems unnecessary. 
TRAVELLING. 
Colle6ling trips have been made during the year along 
the Upper Demerara River, the Potaro, the Lower 
Mazaruni, the Abary, the Canals Polder, and in the 
N. W, Distri6l, and on each occasion, objects of interest 
were secured. The unfortunate swamping of the boat 
in the Potaro Falls, caused considerable loss, but it is to 
be noted, however, that this was the first serious accident 
that has been met with during eleven years of travelling 
for Museum purposes in nearly all parts of the Colony. 
It was attended luckily with no loss of life. 
CONSERVATION. 
The conservation of specimens necessarily forms a 
very considerable portion of Museum work. The greater 
number of acquisitions require preparation, often of a 
delicate and prolonged kind, before they can be incorpo- 
rated into the Museum series; while the accumulated 
coil.^6lions require constant and regular overhauling and 
examination in order to keep them in good condition. 
The inferior nature of the large exhibition cases, and 
atmospheric changes especially as regards moisture 
render this examination of the colle6lions to be much 
more frequenth- required than would ordinarily be the 
casf ; and in this respe6l, the last few months of the 
year h^ve been particularly trying. The want of a pro- 
