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is, I presume still paid, for the mounting of specimens here and at 
home, while the work would be much more satisfactorily done. I trust 
that this subject will be taken into consideration. 
■ithly. I wish to put on record that I shall consider it part of my duty 
to present to the Committee of Correspondence an Annual Report of 
the n-orlt (June in the Museum. — I have the honour Sir, to be, your 
obedient servant, EVERARD F. im THURN, 
Curator of the British Guiana Museum. 
Georgetown, 9th January, 1882. 
This letter having been referred by the Directors to 
Messrs. Hawtayne and Kirke for report, the folio wing- 
letter was received from those gentlemen : — 
W. H. Campbell Esq., L.L.D. Chairman of the Committee of Cor- 
respondence. 
Sir, — We have the honour to report on the letter addressed to you 
by the Curator of the Museum, dated 2nd instant and referred to us, as 
follows. 
1. We think it undesirable to incur expense in printing a provisional 
catalogue which may prove to be incorrect or incomplete, owing to 
recent changes in the contents of the Museum or their arrangement 
but suggest that a rough printed copy of the MS. catalogue should 
be obtained for use as a hand-list in preparing a complete one. 
2. However proper it may be in some instances to keep colonial and 
extra colonial collections separate, yet where a visitor or student desires 
to compare ethnological specimens found in British Guiana with those 
from other places, it wonld be of advantage to have the collections of 
these in close proximity. To have for instance, the few Guianese stone 
implements which are in the Museum placed at one end of it, and the 
European and other specimens at the other is not convenient, nor does it 
show as vividly as should be done the similarity of design in different 
parts of the world. Of course, these remarks do not apply to Natural 
History specimens, of which it would be improper to mix up in one case, 
or scries of cases, specimens without reference to the habitat of each. 
.'!. AVe recommend the adoption of Mr. im Thurn's suggestions as to 
keeping one typical collection for public view and a more complete and 
systematic one for the use of students and others. Books illustrative 
of the different specimens might be placed in the Museum for reference. 
