158 TlMEHRI. 
Some of the specimens now in the Museum should, we think, be 
replaced byothers more perfect or in better condition. 
i. There being no local mounter of specimens we consider it 
would be of great benefit to secure the 'services of a skilled taxidermist 
as suggested ; the salary we consider would be well spent. 
Care of course would be taken to insure a supply of subjects, so that 
the person engaged would not be idle ; and we suggest that by the sale 
or exchange of surplus specimens, additions might be made to the 
Museum from other and distant sources readily and economically. 
It may also be pointed out that if the person employed to mount 
specimens had skill in making plaster casts and colouring them, a col- 
lection might be made of facsimiles of the fishes of British Guiana 
which would not only be an attractive and ornamental addition to the 
Museum, but, being capable of multiplication, would be available for 
exchange with European and other collections for objects of interest. 
We would also recommend in the interest of our Creole population, 
most of whom are unacquainted with the process of manufacture of 
many of the articles in constant use by them, that it would be instruc- 
tive to procure for our Museum exhibits illustrating some of these 
manufactures, for instance, those of calico or paper. A case contain- 
ing materials shewing the different stages through which the cotton 
fibre passes before it becomes cloth, or which mark the conversion of rag 
or wood into pulp and thence into the varied forms in which paper 
is known to us, would be most interesting ; and even if accompanied by 
such pictures of the machinery employed as it be thought necessary 
to show, such a collection need not cost much. One other object 
we would suggest as most worthy of the attention of the Curator : and 
that is the collection of drawings and plans of the few ancient buildings 
and monuments which still exist in the colony. We may refer to the 
fort at Kykoveral and the church and fort at Fort Island, the shell 
mounds at Warramuri &c, as some of the interesting subjects which will 
occur to members of the Society. 
Old letters, records, and documents which, being preserved, may pre- 
vent the history of the earlier settlers being a "lost tradition," may be 
well sought for and acquired by the Society. It seems a reproach to the 
educated inhabitants of this and other colonies that so much that is 
valuable and interesting in relation to their predecessors' habits and 
customs has been allowed to perish from neglect. There doubtless maybe 
