REPORT 



The Committee, in presenting their Third Annual Report to the 

 Council, have pleasuTe in being able to record the continued progress 

 and increased usefulness of the Museum and Libraries. Whatever 

 doubts might have existed in any minds as to the propriety or 

 desirableness of the establishment of such an institution, must have 

 been dissipated by the great interest exhibited in the undertaking, and 

 the increasing desire shown to participate in its benefits by the 

 operative classes, for whose benefit the Lending Libraries were 

 specially established. 



THE DERBY MUSEUM. 



The operations in this department have been necessarily restricted, 

 from the fact of the space at its disposal being already overcrowded. 

 Some progTess has been made during the year in stuffing and mounting 

 a portion of the skins in store. One hundred and eighty additional 

 specimens of the smaller quadrupeds have been set up in the cases, 

 and twenty-eight of birds. A few skeletons of animals have also 

 been mounted. The naming and cataloguing of the Collection has 

 been gradually proceeded with ; and a number of valuable works of 

 reference on Natural History have been purchased. 



