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“Your Curator hopes to be able very shortly to communicate 
to the Council a proposal for the presentation to the library of a 
large and valuable collection of Devonshire tracts and pamphlets.” 
The Curator of Anthropology reports : 
‘“‘The collections in my charge are in good order, but very few 
additions have been made to them during the past year. The 
head of an Egyptian mummy, a one-pound bank note, and a 
curious conch shell, the latter formerly used on board a Plymouth 
trawler as a ‘fog signal,’ are among the presentations to my 
department.” 
The report of the Curator of Mammalia is embodied in his 
notice of Cetaceans in the vicinity of Plymouth, pp. 314-317. 
The Curator of Birds reports : 
“During the past year a very good Emvw’s egg, from New 
Zealand, has been given by Mr. Webb, and a fine specimen of the 
Whooper Swan (Cygnus Musicus), shot in the locality, presented 
by Mr. J. T. Fouracre. A collection of more than one hundred 
birds has been acquired by the kind bequest of the late Rev. 
Alan Furneaux, of St. Germans. The birds, originally collected 
by the late Captain Creyke, r.N., were for the most part shot in 
the neighbourhood, and number among them many rare kinds, of 
