1898] NOTES AND COMMENTS 369 
failed to ascertain what has been done with this money. All that 
they know is that no such lectureship exists, despite the statement ot 
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]. 
“Tn 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 BvuILpINGs 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 8. 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 
