Registrar General: monthly reports in full to the Scottish Meteoro¬ 
logical Office. The British Rainfall Office was supplied with the 
annual return ; Symons’ Meteorological Magazine and the Manager 
of the Waterworks with the rain returns for each month. The 
observations are at the disposal of the local press each week. 
The Committee is indebted to the local press for their courtesy 
in publishing occasional notes on exhibits and donations to the 
Museum. 
The number of visitors to the Museum for the year was 16,459, 
making a total of 229,991 since the opening. The annual average 
number of visitors for the last ten years is 15,081. 
The Perthshire or Local Museum. 
The specimens added to this collection during the year are 
indicated by an (*) in the list of additions on pages 7 and 8. 
The birds added have each been mounted with the view to 
illustrate some characteristic position, viz., the Hooper Swan and 
the little Grebe as in swimming; the others in the attitude of flight. 
To the fish case were added three preparations of young salmon of 
known age, and a series of young Trout; a glass tank showing a 
Fisliing-frog in natural surroundings. This is a small example of a 
somewhat common shore fish, taken in the brackish water of the Tay 
within the County. It has not been noted before. There was also 
added a mounted series of illustrations of Salmon scales, to show the 
ages of these fish. 
A mounted preparation to show the development of the Frog, 
and the age of each stage, was placed in the case. 
The land and freshwater shells have been remounted into tubes, 
labelled and arranged in accordance with the classification of the 
Conchological Society,' and placed in the new gallery cabinet. I am 
indebted to Fred Smith, a member of the Junior Section of the 
Society, for assistance in this work, as well as for specimens of 
four new species found by him in the County. 
The arctic 1 shells from the Carse clays are from a locality 
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previously unrepresented in the Museum. 
