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tailed to ascertain what has been done with this money. All that 

 they know is that no such lectureship exists, despite the statement of 

 Mr George Bompas in his 'Life of Frank Buckland,' published in 

 1885, that after the death of Mrs Buckland '£5000 was given to 

 found a lectureship.' Your committee have read with regret the 

 recommendation of the Select Committee . . . [quoted above]. 



" In face of this recommendation the matter is urgent, and your 

 committee are of opinion that steps should be taken at once to avert 

 such a calamity as the extinction of this collection would prove to be. 

 With this object they advise that the whole of the facts of the case 

 be made public through the instrumentality of the Press, and, if 

 necessary, by the question being raised in the House of Commons." 



We agree that the destruction of the collection and the ignor- 

 ing of Frank Buckland's intentions would be matter for great 

 regret. Could not the Marine Biological Association take the 

 matter up ? 



New Museum Buildings at Liverpool 



On July 1, Sir William Bower Forwood, Chairman of the Library, 

 Museum, and Arts Committee of the City Council, laid the founda- 

 tion stone of the new Technical School and the extension of the 

 Museum Buildings at Liverpool. The present museum buildings 

 stand on a plateau sloping abruptly towards the west. By exca- 

 vating the slope, which consists of Permian rock, down to the level 

 of Byrom Street, sufficient accommodation, three storeys in height, 

 will be provided for the Technical Schools, while the Museum 

 galleries will be carried forward on their present level over the 

 Schools. The architect of the new building is Mr E. W. Mountford 

 of London. The extension of the Museum will be 90 feet above 

 the level of Byrom Street, and will measure from N. to S. 162 

 feet, and from E. to W. 190 feet. The galleries, of horseshoe 

 shape, will be continuous with those in the existing building, and 

 will not be divided in any part of their course by walls or parti- 

 tions. They will be 420 feet long and 33 feet wide ; the lower, to 

 contain the invertebrates, will be 19 feet high and lighted from the 

 side ; the upper, to contain the vertebrates, will be 27 feet high and 

 lighted from the roof. There will be new and well-appointed 

 laboratories for the Director and his assistants, as well as new 

 administrative offices. The buildings will be of brick, faced with 

 Stancliffe stone from Darley Dale, Derbyshire. They will be 

 ventilated and heated by 4 miles of 3 in. pipes, discharging into 

 every room purified and warmed air to the amount of eight million 

 cubic feet per hour. The stairs are to be of stone, the floors of 

 concrete, and the roof chiefly of steel. These buildings will be, next 

 to St George's Hall, the largest in the city and probably the finest 

 museum buildings in the United Kingdom outside London. It is 



