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ings, from January to March in 1900, there were 760 auditors, in 1899 

 at 21 lectures, 2,470. The museum consists of two great collections: 

 The Derby Museum of Zoology, Botany, (xeology, Mineralog}^ (also 

 an aquarium), which has as its nucleus the mammal and bird collec- 

 tion of the thirteenth Earl of Derby, who presented it to the city 

 in 1851; and the Mayer Museum, covering the other departments 

 mentioned. Joseph Mayer was a rich goldsmith of Liverpool, who 

 in 1867 presented to the city his most valuable collection, consisting 

 especially of pottery, Assyrian, Baljylonian, P^gyptian, Greek, and 

 medifeval antiquities and manuscripts. I mention as most noteworthy 

 the carved ivories, the collection of Anglo-Saxon antiquities, the 

 Mexican Codex, ^' the miniatures, and the great Wedgwood and old 



Fig. 103.— City Technical School and Free Pnblic Museums, Liverpool, England. 



Liverpool ceramic collection. In 1860 Sir William Brown presented 

 the present ])uilding to the city. At the end of 1897, the space having 

 become too limited, a great wing was added (fig. 103), containing two 

 floors (figs. 106 and 107), each with a single connecting room 36 

 feet wide, undivided, horseshoe-shaped, 460 feet long, surrounding 

 a courtyard. The lower floor, 20 feet high, is lighted on both sides; 

 the upper, 30 feet high, with a skylight. As fig. 103 shows, the land 

 falls away somewhat. What I have indicated as the lower floor of 



« This Codex has only rerently been published: E. Seler Codex Fejerv:iry-Mayer. 

 Eine altmexikanische Bilderliandschril't der Free Public Museums in Liverpool, 

 Berlin, 1901; 4to, 230 pp., 22 pis., 219 text figures; and: Due de Eonbat, Codex 

 Fejervdry-Mayer. INIanuscrit mexicain pn'colombien des Free I'ublic Museums de 

 Liverpool. Paris, 1901, 8vo, 28 pp., 2 pis. 



