►f the plants and animals in the British Islands, a subject which has 

 ^uch important bearings— geological, geographical, and historical— 

 )n the making of the British Isles. 



The two floors, therefore, shaded in plans I. and II., suggested 

 o be added by the proposed extensions, are absolutely necessary, both 

 .s space for exhibition, but more imperatively to insure continuity and 

 contiguity of related groups. 



If the large collections, already housed in the Museum, were exhibited 

 s now suggested in two such continuous galleries as proposed— even 

 larrow as they must be— the Vertebrated Animals in the one floor and the 

 nvertebrate series in the other, no Museum certainly in England, could 

 )resent such a scientifically-arranged collection. Liverpool would then, 

 ,t least, have the credit of first showing to the world a Museum abreast 

 »f the scientific thought of the time, and so arranged as to be clearly 

 ntelKgible to the least scientific visitor, and comprehensible to all who, 

 •ven if unable to read EngHsh, can use their eyes. It could not help 

 eing attractive, interesting, and instructive^ because, as already pointed 

 mt, it would be a great book with its extended and simply-worded pages 

 llustrated at every step, not by pictures, but by the objects them- 

 elves, magnified where necessary, of which every part would be fully 

 isplayed by dissections, models, or diagrams. 



HENRY 0. FORBES, 



Director of Museums. 



28 Aug: 1899 



