Our readers will doubtless be interested in knowing what progress has been made with reference' to the Museum. We have much pleasure: therefore in publishing the favoured by the hon, curator, Mr, subjoined notes, which we have: been:
W. B. Pryer I have to report a fair progress in the museum. Up to the present time, our energies, owing to having a skilful bird-stuffer engaged, have bee chiefly devotes to making' a collection of the local birds and animals, and in this we have been succeeding pretty well. My appeal to the public for "specimens" ha been fairly met, and we have to thank Messrs, Bovet, Sykes, Smith, Bradley, Hopkins, Groom, Gore-Booth, Hague, A.W. Maitland, Dr. Gottburg, M. Russell (of Chinkiang), Mr. Ramsay (of Hankow), and many others, for various interesting birds; while in the Mammalia, Mr. Croal n particularly generous,, having four animals, including a very fine wild eat. Mr. Boysen, of the Municipal constabulary, hus given'us an animal I have not been able to diagnose at_all yet and those, with an otter from Mr. Hawtrey, and one or two other carnivora speci constitute a_very fair commencement in this line. With regard to birds, 1 may' state that a good many hawks have been sent in, generally mentioned by the dotier as "a common hawk but in every o but one, they were different species. - I shows what a lot of different species we have when enquiry lly. made. We have eight or nine different sort of kestrel alone, seven of which appear pretty much the same, until comparison is made, We are particular! deficient in the smaller hedge birds, sue! as finches, tits, robins, &e. There is no pigeon or dove in the museum yet, only one sort of thrush, and we are equally die 160 of little birds, our museum would be grostly aping for
enriched. "Now we have this department well under way, we can turn our attention to other things, which have been hitherto neglected, and we hope shortly to seo a fair start in all the other branches of Natural tory, and other objects of interest of the Lepidoptera—is country. I ha ry fair collection of
this I do not an I prefer to eye, but I shall be delighted to show it at any time to any one at all interested in this order.
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