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have been presented by Mrs. Mason Jackson, of Kensington, London, W. (through Mr. B. W. Tippetts), and by Messrs. W. P. Eeeves and B. W. Tippetts. Technological Museum. —A series of timbering models of English and North American mines has been obtained by purchase through the Registrar of the School of Mines in London. The Australian Electric Light and Power Company in Melbourne has presented a series of specimens illustrating electric lighting; and Mr. W. Graham, sen., of Lyttelton, has enriched the collection with sets of specimens illustrating the process of turning. The New Zealand Manure and Chemical Company (Limited), Tauranga; the Terawera Sawmill Company, Little Biver; and the Hokianga Sawmill Company, which exhibited at the Interprovincial Exhibition held at Christchurch in December and January last, were the principal donors from that exhibition, and gave valuable specimens of manure and timber. The Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company has presented a case with samples of the various processes in woollen manufacture. Mr. John Lewthwaite, in Halifax, Yorkshire, has sent specimens of his Begio steel, made of iron improved by means of titanic steel sands of New Plymouth. Mrs. Cowlishaw, Mr. E. W. Mitchell, and Mr. E. S. Elliott have presented valuable specimens of pottery. Mr. George Gould has placed £50 at the disposal of the Director for the purchase of working models illustrating electric power, which have been ordered from S. G. Lochmann, in Geitz, whose models formerly received have given entire satisfaction. School of Mines. —Owing to the large additions to the mineralogical and metallurgical collections a new show-case had to be added for their accommodation, and some of the other cases had to be rearranged. Specimens from various localities in this provincial district, where an active research for valuable ores and minerals has been prosecuted, have also been presented to the Museum; and a large series of foreign ores and minerals have been received from Professor Klipstein, of Giessen, and Dr. A. Krantz, in Bonn. Mr. S. Eobertson, of the Chatham Islands, has presented a large series of rocks, minerals, and fossils from those islands. Mr. Edmund Wickes has continued to offer series of specimens of ores and minerals from New Zealand; while Mr. James Barnard, of Launceston, sent an extensive collection of ores and minerals from all the principal mines of Tasmania. Mr. T. Eanfft, Herberton, North Queensland, presented, through Professor George Ulrich, Director of the School of Mines in Dunedin, a very fine series of the ores, minerals, and rocks of that important mining district. To the directors of the Champion Copper-Mining Company (Limited), Nelson, and to Mr. A. D. Bayfeild, of the same city, we are greatly indebted for a magnificent series of copper ores and some other minerals from the highly promising copper mines of Aniseed Valley, in Nelson. The Director has continued to assist mining managers, miners, and prospectors as far as it lay in his power, though he was prevented by his other duties from visiting the grounds, as was so often urged upon him. Art Gallery. —A few engravings have been framed during this year, and hung. A number of ladies and gentlemen connected with the Canterbury College Trust commissioned Mr. A. Beere, an English sculptor temporarily living in Christchurch, to model in terra cotta a bust of the Chairman, Mr. William Montgomery, which was afterwards presented to the Museum with the request that it should be placed in the art gallery. A bust of white marble of Giuseppe Garibaldi, executed by Giani Vincenzo in Eome, was also presented by a number of Italian and other admirers. To Mr. Lancelot Walker we owe four engravings by Folo and Longhi, framed; Mr. George Gould, with his usual liberality, has presented two oil-paintings by J. Gibb and E. Beetham, and two water-colour paintings by Thomas Cane, bought at the annual exhibition of our local Society of Art. I may also mention that that society has deposited another picture with those previously sent, so that we now possess four pictures belonging to that society, one painting in oil by Gibb, and three watercolours by Gully, Eichmond, and Hodgkins. Library. —A number of valuable works, mostly presentations, have been added to the Museum library, of which the publications of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., of the British Museum, London, of the Musee Eoyal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique at Brussels, of the Colonial Museum in Wellington, and of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in London, are the most important. A small number of works have been added by purchase, amongst them being the continuation of Bronn's " Classen und Ordnungen dcs Naturreichs " andßrehm's " Thierleben," twelve volumes. The whole addition amounts to fourteen works, twenty-three parts of works, and forty-seven official publications. Conclusion. —l wish here to present my thanks to Mr. D. Craig, agent of the New Zealand Insurance Company, for the gift of a portable hand fire-engine, and to the directors of the New Zealand Shipping Company for carrying our exchanges free of charge. I wish also to mention that, notwithstanding the small staff, a large number of new tickets have been written, generally of larger size and consequently more legible than the former. A beginning has also been made in the preparation of large tickets in metal, in which the necessary information is given in white oil-paint on black ground. The statuary room, in which some of the plaster has fallen off, has been repaired and distempered; the glass-windows on the roofs have also been carefully attended to, so that the rooms are now comparatively safe from the rainwater; and the doors and window-frames on the exterior of the building have been painted. I have, &c, The Chairman, Board of Governors, Canterbury College. Julius yon Haast, Director.

Appendix A. Statement of the Numbeks of Visitors during the Financial Year 1883-84. Monthly attendance : July, 5,887;, August, 5,388 ; September, 7,928; October, 6,508; November, 9,808; December, 8,217; January, 10,112; February, 6,594; March, 7,500; April, 7,999; May 8,730; June, 5,843: total; 90,514. Mean of monthly attendance, 7,543. Attendance on weekdays, 58,809; on Sundays, 31,705. Mean of weeks, 1,847; of Sundays, 654; of weekdays, 200Lowest weekday, July 30th, 30 (very wet); highest, November 3rd, 615. Lowest Sunday, February 24th, 240; highest, January 6th, 1,076. Highest weekly attendance, November (show*