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Society, 1894. The life-histories of the various species continue to receive additions, 

 and twenty-seven specimens are now illustrated. The mounting of the reptiles and 

 amphibians is specially to be commended. Attractiveness is lent to the Bryozoa by 

 photographs of the living animals taken by Dr. Stolterfoth, This museum is already 

 celebrated for its exhibits of life-histories of insects, and Mr. Newstead continues his 

 valuable work in this direction. A fine collection of the recent and fossil Forami- 

 nifera of the district, illustrated by drawings and models, has been arranged and 

 presented by J. D. Siddall. 



We are pleased to note that Mr. Edward Wilson's admirable little " Guide Book 

 to the Bristol Museum " has already reached a fifth edition. The museum is now 

 open to the public late every evening, except Friday, and is rapidly growing in 

 popularity. So many elementary students make use of the collection of rocks and 

 fossils, that the Curator has now arranged a special cabinet of specimens best suited 

 to their purpose. They can handle these without fear of damage, and the valuable 

 type-specimens in the exhibited collection are thus preserved from all risk at inex- 

 perienced hands. 



An important addition has recently been made to the Liverpool Museum. A 

 room long used for the storing of lumber has been transformed into a handsome 

 gallery for the display of the valuable ethnographical collections. At the opening 

 ceremony, on June 19, addresses were delivered by Sir William Forwood, Mr. 

 W. H. Ficton, the Lord Mayor, and Dr. H. O. Forbes, the Director of Museums. 

 We give a few extracts from Dr. Forbes' speech, as reported in the Liverpool Daily 

 Post. — " The earliest foundation of the purely ethnographical collection was laid by 

 the purchase made by the Corporation as long ago as 1857, of the large and valuable 

 collection of Captain Savage. The munificent gift of Mr. Mayer ten years later, not 

 of a gallery only, but of a full-fledged museum (with which the Savage collection 

 was incorporated), not only added largely to the special department of ethnography, 

 but, by bringing the museum into a still more prominent place than previously 

 among provincial institutions, was the means of attracting to it further valuable 

 donations. An ethnographical loan exhibition held in Liverpool in 18S0, contributed 

 to by possessors of collections all over the country, was instrumental in still further 

 increasing its treasures. At the dispersal of that loan exhibition, the Corporation's 

 collection was exhibited for a short time in a temporary building, but the extension 

 of the art gallery absorbing the ground on which it stood, the greater part of the 

 collection had to be stored away. It was, nevertheless, being constantly augmented 

 by donation and purchase. Among various benefactors to this department, I may 

 perhaps mention specially the late Lord Derby and Sir Augustus Franks of the 

 British Museum, both of them great benefactors to the gallery, as also Mr. G. B. 

 Medley, the late Mr. J. G. C. Harrison, Mr. Clements Markham, C.B., Captain 

 Stubbs, R.N., Consul Harper-Parker, Mr. R. D. Radcliffe, Captain Sibthorpe, and 

 Mr. P. H. Rathbone, whose name occurs on many pages of the catalogue. The 

 collection can never be mentioned, however, without recalling the gift by Mr. John 

 and Mr. Ernest Tinne, of the important collections made by that distinguished 

 traveller, their intrepid relative. Miss Alexandrine Tinne, who devoted her fortune 

 and finally lost her life in the cause of science. Thirty years ago African explora- 

 tion was a very different and far more hazardous matter than it is to-day. For an 

 unprotected lady to have penetrated, as Miss Tinne did, far towards the source of-the 

 White Nile, against difficulties, dangers, and disasters, required an unfainting heart 

 and indomitable pluck not always found even in powerful men, and hers has never 

 been excelled in any male explorer. Liverpool claims the honour of her birthplace, 

 and the collections of this remarkable woman will always have an honourable place 

 in its museum. Besides donations and purchases, this collection owes not a little to 

 the generous loans of several owners. The most valuable and important are those 

 of the late Mr. A. P. Bell, lent by his family, and more especially the extensive 

 collection deposited by the council of the Royal Institution, which contains 

 numerous pieces which it is now impossible ever to obtain The Derby and 



