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The nest cases were likewise cleaned, painted, and 
rearranged to admit the nests of the Great Spotted Wood¬ 
pecker and the Osprey, two most valuable acquisitions. 
The fish, reptile and amphibian cases were cleaned and 
painted. 
In the gallery a number of accessions were made to the 
Mollusca cabinet; these include examples of Helix aspersa 
and Hyalina lucida , taken for the first time in the area of 
Mid Perth, and Paludestrina Jenkinsi , not previously 
recorded in the County. 
To the insect cabinets seven species of Beetles 
(coleoptera) new to the local collection were added by Mr. 
W. E. Sharp, while the important collection of flies (Diptera), 
presented by Mr. A. E. j. Carter, contains 58 species also new 
to the Museum collection. For an account of these two 
collections of insects, and for a note on the water spider 
Argyroneta aquatica, new to the County, see current issue 
of the Transactions of the Perthshire Society of Natural 
Science. 
The Index or Type Museum- 
Cases No. 33 to 38 were gone over and cleaned. The 
contents of No. 47 to 54 were removed to make way for a 
temporary exhibit of arctic maps, works, and portraits of 
explorers. These have now been replaced. 
The collection of British land and fresh-water shells 
has been removed from the old cabinet, rearranged, labelled 
and mounted in permanent form. A collection of East 
Indian shells is in process of similar treatment. 
A number of new acquisitions, Mammoth Tusk, Kestrel, 
Skylark, Chamaeleon, Tarpon, and life history of Stickle¬ 
back, have been mounted and placed on exhibition. 
