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The thanks of the Society were accorded for the fol- 
lowing donations : — 
From U. S. Government through Dr. Carroll.— 30 Vols. Departmental 
Reports and a number of Pamphlets. 
„ The Commissioner of Mines, Nova Scotia. — Copies of Mining 
Law and 2 Pamphlets on Mining. 
„ G. W. Childs, Philadelphia.— A Copy of his " Recolleaions." 
Mr. Hawtayne exhibited photographs of pictured rocks 
and the crater of a volcano at St. Vincent. 
The meeting then terminated. 
REPORT ON THE MUSEUM FOR 1891. 
Arrangement. — The general and detailed arrange- 
ment of specimens has been proceeded with, the more 
particularly as rendered necessary by the various addi- 
tions which have been incorporated. Particular attention 
has been given in this respect to the cases of Minerals, 
Ethnology, Fishes and Osteology. A typical and illus- 
trative collection of the minerals and rocks of the colony, 
made up of a small and picked set of each kind, from 
different districts where possible, shewing the real 
structure and the weathered surfaces, has been sorted 
out and arranged in a special case, as a mineralogical 
guide to students, and to those engaged in prospecting 
and travelling in the Interior. The Mattes collections 
of metalloplastic casts of Fishes, have been unmounted 
from their small flat cases in which they were mixed up 
with shells, seaweeds and ferns, and have been placed 
appropriately in wall-cases, with such labels as were 
easy to determine, but as the common names attached by 
the maker are Dutch terms, used locally in Surinam 
and as the exact specific characters are not in many 
