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Perthshire Natural History Museum. 
Report of the Museum Joint Committee 
for the Year ending 15th May, 1908. 
To the /Ion, the Lord Provost , Magistrates and Town Council 
of Perth. 
Gentlemen, 
The Joint Committee of the Perthshire Natural History 
Museum has pleasure in submitting its Sixth Annual Report, being 
the Twenty-fifth Report and year of the Museum. 
The fabric throughout the building is in good repair and the 
specimens in good condition. 
During the year there were 111 applications for information in 
different branches of Natural History, both pure and applied. These 
questions form an important feature in the Museum’s work for the 
City and County, and were of a very varied character, viz.:—The 
simple naming of Natural History specimens and their habitat; the 
nature and formation of the ground in certain districts; the life 
history of the house fly and the cause of its great abundance (nuisance) 
in certain places ; the occurrence of aquatic larva; of Hies in domestic 
water; bee parasites; period of twilight on a particular day; 
weather on a particular day and time, etc. 
The loans of Natural History specimens to schools have been of a 
more varied character this year than formerly, and the applications 
for material and aid continue to increase. Numerous visits were 
made by school classes, accompanied by a teacher; for the larger 
classes the lecture room was used. The number of boys and girls 
who come in their own time with questions and material for 
identification is a very pleasing feature in this connection. 
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