Xviii TRANSACTIONS OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
the premises belonging to the Society were in a satisfactory state 
of repair, and had been so maintained during the past year. 
The work of maintenance and improvement during this period 
comprised : The heightening of the shelves, and affording 
increased accommodation for books, in the Library ; the providing 
and fixing of a new stove for the Housekeeper; one new table- 
case added to the Museum ; the laying in of a new pipe drain 
from the building to the main sewer, and the necessary traps 
to prevent sewer gas getting into the building; sundry repairs 
to the glass skylights, and the stoppage of leaks therein. 
The Curator of Fine Arts reported that the interesting series of 
fine engravings of Old Plymouth, the property of the Institution, 
had been cleaned and placed in the Art Gallery. 
" Mr. Edward Opie, an artist of the highest reputation, has given 
an excellent portrait of Sir Joshua Eeynolds, which he himself 
copied from the original, exhibited at the British Institution some 
years ago. This is given in exchange for the one formerly 
hung in the Hall, which had quite gone to decay. 
" Mr. Robert Burnard has presented to the Institution a set 
of autotype reproductions of old sixteenth-century engravings, 
illustrative of the Spanish Armada. They are very well framed 
and set up, and, coming in this tercentenary year of the great 
invasion, are a very acceptable gift to our Society. 
"A portrait of the late Dr. Hearder has been offered to the 
Institution by his son, Mr, William Hearder. The picture is an 
excellent likeness by an artist named Williams." 
The Curator of Anthropology, &c, reported : 
"The collections in my charge are in good order. They are 
mostly arranged in their respective cases, or upon the walls of the 
Museum. Some of the objects have created much interest 
amongst the numerous visitors who have inspected the Museum 
during the year. Several presentations have been made, some of 
which are of importance. Amongst these may be mentioned : 
"A fine stone celt, found at Houndiscombe, and portions of 
a large ancient British urn from a barrow near the Cheesewring, 
by Mr. R. N. Worth, f.g.s. Many specimens of manipulated 
flints from localities in Devon and Cornwall ; a bronze coin of 
John V. of Portugal, found in excavations at the Citadel ; model 
of canoe, Vancouver's Island; Moorish tiles and pottery from 
