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The difficulty of finding willing lecturers has stood in 
the way of continuing a regular series of popular 
lectures, as I had hoped. During the year, however, we 
were favoured with two evening lectures, which were 
largely attended and proved most interesting ; these 
were : — *' The Mosquito and Malaria," by Dr. Ozzard 
" Pompeii and Herculaneum," by Rev^. W. B. Ritchie, 
M.A., both illustrated by lantern views, which always 
prove an attractive feature in popular lectures, and thus 
ensure a good attendance. 
No very large additions were made to the Museum 
either by purchase or presentation during the year ; but 
a considerable amount of re-arranging of specimens, 
especially in the larger cases of mammals, has been 
effected by our new Curator, Dr. Evans, and some new 
wall cases for bottled specimens of fishes and reptiles 
have been arranged in the upper vestibule. The number 
of visitors to the Museum recorded during the year was 
75,104, the great majority of these being East Indians 
and school children. Dr. Evans spent a few weeks last 
month on a collecting expedition in Groete Creek and in 
the lower sections of the Cuyuni River, accompanying 
Professor Harrison on his Geological survey, and 
succeeded in securing some interesting examples in the 
several classes of natural history. 
The Library and Reading Room, as you are aware, 
constitute the most attractive and popular section of the 
Society's work. The additions during the year numbered 
over 400 volumes, amongst the most notable additions 
being the new volumes of the Encyclopcedia 
Britannica. 
