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Descending by another staircase, he finds himself close to the Tunicata, and so 
passes down the room between members of the whole Chordate series up to 
man. A noticeable feature of the arrangement is the position of the Echinoderma 
at the head of the Invertebrate series—that is to say, next to the lowest 
Chordata, with which they are supposed to be in a measure connected, owing to 
resemblances in the larval forms. The lower room is divided into three sections 
by large cases placed back to back. Section A contains collections illustrating 
the facts of geographical distribution ; Section B contains the Invertebrata, and 
C the Vertebrata, of Ireland, and in this series an attempt is made to display 
every species of the Irish fauna. Exigencies of the museum building have 
rendered it necessary to maintain the fossils as a separate collection ; this also 
is arranged systematically, on a similar plan. A guide, sold for }d., instructs 
the casual visitor as to the route he should follow in order to obtain some idea 
of the classification of the animal kingdom. 
The meeting of the Museums Association held at Brighton from the 3rd to 
the 6th of July, though not largely attended by either members from a distance 
or local well-wishers, was distinguished by the amount of serious work and dis- 
cussion that was got through, and the absence of purely gaseous matter. The 
Mayor of Brighton made an excellent honorary president, and delegated the 
task of delivering an opening address to Mr. Henry Willett, who scattered over 
a wide field his suggestive and humorous remarks. Mr. G. H. Carpenter 
described the re-arrangement of the natural history collections in the Science 
and Art Museum, Dublin, and we give the gist of his paper in the above para- 
graph. Mr. H. Coats sent a note on a children’s prize essay competition in the 
Perth Museum ; he seems to have met with success, but the idea of inciting 
children to this study by means of rewards, was opposed by some curators 
experienced in this matter. Mr. A. M. Rodger of Perth showed an insect box 
adapted for exhibition or for stowing away as a drawer. Mr. B. Lomax gave 
an interesting account of the perpetual exhibition of living plants in the Brighton 
Museum. Mr. J. V. Hodgson described the preparations for the new museum at 
Plymouth, and was asked by many of his fellow-curators whether nothing could be 
done to render the valuable Cottonian collection of art objects more accessible 
to students and to the public. Mr. B. H. Mullen again brought up the subject 
of a directory to the Museums of the United Kingdom, a work that would be of 
use to many besides the curators themselves. Mr. Harlan J. Smith sent some 
valuable suggestions as to the preservation of local archaeological evidences, as 
well as a description of the Museums of British Columbia, previously published 
in the American Naturalist. Another previously published paper was that on 
ink and paper for museum labels, by Dr. R. T. Jackson, which appeared in the 
Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and 
was now communicated by Mr. F. A. Bather, with the result of initiating a long 
discussion. A paper by Mr. Stewart Culin of Pennsylvania University gave a 
laudatory description of some museums in Dresden and Berlin. Museum 
preparations of marine animals by Dr. H.C. Sorby, ethnological photographs by 
Dr. H. O. Forbes, paper-covered tablets from the Horniman Museum, and a gorilla 
mounted by Brazenor Brothers for the Bristol Museum, were among the objects 
on view. During the week members visited the Brighton Museum under the 
guidance of Mr. Lomax, Mr. E. Crane, Mr. Thomas, and Prof. Boyd Dawkins ; 
and the Booth Bird Museum under the lead of Mr. A. F. Griffith ; the Aquarium, 
the apartments of the Pavilion, in which building the business and convivial 
meetings were held; and finally, in charge of Mr. E. A. Pankhurst, they went 
as guests of the local committee to Lewes, where papers were read by Messrs. 
C. Dawson, J. Lewis, and G. de Paris. 
We have received a prospectus of the exhibition of horticultural photographs 
which will be arranged in connection with the fourteenth “One and All” Flower 
Show at the Crystal Palace on the 14th and 19th August. In one class the 
