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PERTH. 
Report of the Museum Joint Committee 
for the Year ending May loth, W 06 . 
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To the Lord Provost , Magistrates , and Town Council. 
Gentlemen, 
The Joint-Committee of the Perthshire Natural History 
Museum has pleasure in submitting the Fourth Annual Report. 
The Museum buildings throughout are in good repair. Several 
improvements in the fabric have been made since the last report. 
The introduction of four large incandescent burners, and the fitting 
of by-passes to the other burners, yield a better distribution of the 
light in the ground floor of the local Museum, with less consumption 
of gas. 
The parquet flooring throughout the Museum was prepared and 
re-waxed. The Perthshire Society of Natural Science, with the 
sanction of the Museum Committee, undertook to replace the roller 
blinds in the windows of the ground floor facing Tay Street, and to 
add black blinds and fittings in those of the Lecture Room. This 
latter improvement admits of the Lecture Room being darkened in 
the day time for lantern work. 
A movable grating was placed in the floor of the Index Museum, 
thereby improving the ventilation of the Lecture Room. 
The cases throughout the Museum have had prominent numbers 
placed in them, making the arrangement more intelligible to visitors 
using the Guide Book for the first time. 
The first edition of the Handbook to the Museum, published on 
the 15th of May last, met with'an appreciative reception in the local 
press, the Science Journals also giving very favourable notices of it. 
The edition is almost exhausted, necessitating a re-issue in the 
immediate future, indicating clearly that such was required. 
During each week from May to August, an exhibit of named wild 
flowers was on view in the Lecture Room, enabling the young people 
