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THE report of the Bristol Museum for the year ending September 30, 1913, records praiseworthy activity, especially in the department of vertebrate zoology. Three plates show how attractively some of the more important specimens are displayed. A tiger shot by the King in Nepal, and presented by his Majesty, has been set up by Messrs. Rowland Ward, in a crouching attitude among bamboo stems, while the background, painted by Mr. Stanley Lloyd, shows the shooting-party approaching on elephants in the distance. Three springboks are placed near the margin of a veldt, on which other animals are browsing; this background was painted by Mr. G. E. Butler. The picturesque group in which pheasants are feeding (harmlessly) in the stubble, is backed by a view of Ashton Park, with the Clifton Suspension Bridge in the distance, composed by Mr. A. Wilde Parsons. This utilisation of really competent artists is an example to be followed. The geological department has not shared in the general progress, and considering the recent work of Vaughan and others in the west of England, this fact is rightly deplored by the committee.
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Reports of Museums . Nature 93, 43 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093043a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/093043a0