With reference to the Mayoral election, Mr George Fisher will speak at Newtown on Friday evening. The large and valuable collection of albatrosses recently obtained by Sir James Hector during his trip in the Hinemoa to the Chatham and other islands has been set up in the Museum by Mr Alexander Yuill, the Museum taxidermist, in a handsome show case facing the main entrance of the museum. The birds, which are of almost every species, and in every stage of growth irom the egg to the full grown bird, have been effectively arranged, and iho collection is one of the finest in the Southern Hemisphere. Mr Yuill. with the assistance of Sir James Hector and Mr Gore (the energetic secretary of the Museum), intends re-arranging the exhibits of sea birds in the main hall, facing the entrance.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1290, 19 November 1896, Page 16
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137Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1290, 19 November 1896, Page 16
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