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Liverpool Free Public Museum. In this work I have to record with satisfaction 

 the active co-operation of my Assistants, Mr. John Chard and James Woods, 



" The Shells, Crustacea, Echinoderms, and Plants (Mosses and Lichens) have 

 been examined ; but further time will be required for the determination of a 

 considerable number of species supposed to be new to science or undescribed. 

 The Insects, Corals, AnneUdes, Zoophytes, Polyzoa, and Sponges are being 

 prepared for examination. 



" A considerable number of interesting Fishes were obtained, and a few 

 valuable animals, which died on board during the voyage, were presented to the 

 Museum by Mr. Cholmondeley, the originator and director of the expedition. 



" The series of specimens taken as a whole is an extensive one, including many 

 rare and beautiful objects such as the Museum could not readily or in a short 

 time, if indeed at all, have acquired by purchase. Even common objects assume 

 a much greater scientific value when the circumstances and localities in which 

 they were collected are accurately known. 



" In order to render the collections, as far as may be, serviceable to natural 

 science, it is most desirable that full lists of the species should be published 

 with notes and localities, and in some cases with plates. Arrangements for this 

 are in progress, and the subject in a more definite form will, I hope, shortly be 

 submitted to the consideration of your Committee." 



STATISTICS. 

 The visitors to the Museum during the year have been as follow : — 



„ , , T, ,,. ., 1874-5. 1875-0. Increase. 



Total Day Visitors 461,385 477,582 16,197 



Weekly Average 8,872 9,010 138 



Daily Average 2,166 2,211 45 



The 18th of October, 1876, was the fifteenth anniversary of the opening of 

 the Museum in the present building. During that time the total number of 

 visitors amounted to 6,734,681, giving a yearly average of 448,978. 



DONATIONS. 



Thirty specimens of richly-variegated Marbles, cut and polished, from the 

 Ancient Quarries recently discovered in Numidia by Signor Cavaliere Giovanni 

 B. del Monte; presented by the Accademia Reale di Belle Arti, Carrara, 

 through Signor Giovanni Fontana. 



Eighty-two specimens of sixty-eight species of Fish, chiefly from the Thayer 

 Expedition to Brazil and the voyage of the "Hassler;" presented by the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, ^lassa- 

 chusetts, per Mr. Alexander Agassiz, in exchange. 



