
Or 
Bulletin 
of the 
Liverpool Museums 
UNDER THE CITY COUNCIL. 

Edited by H. O. Forbes, LL.D., Director of Musewms. 

Vou. I. AUGUST, 1897. No. 1. 
LL 
Introductory. 
Tae Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums, published by authority of the 
Museums Committee of the City Council, of which the present is the first 
number, is intended to make known the contents of the Municipal Museums, 
to publish the results of the investigations carried on in the Laboratories 
attached to them, and to record the observations made on the animals 
living in the Aquarium. 
The Museums consist of Taz Derpy Muszum and THE Mayer Museum, 
and a few words on their scope and history seem called for in this first 
number of the Bulletin. 
The Derby Museum contains the Zoological, Botanical, Geological, and 
Mineralogical Collections, and has attached to it an Aquarium, containing 
both marine and fresh water animals, from temperate and tropical latitudes. 
The Mayer Museum contains the Archeological, Ethnographical, and 
Ceramic Collections. As both are daily open free to the public, they are 
conjointly known as The Free Public Museums. 
The Derby Museum commemorates, in its name, the munificence of the 
Thirteenth Earl of Derby, who bequeathed to the city (in 1851), in addition 
to other natural history specimens, his celebrated collection, partly mounted 
and partly in skins, of Mammals and Birds. 
While ‘still young, he became, as Lord Stanley, well known for the 
collection of living animals he had begun to bring together, during his 
father’s lifetime, in the extensive grounds of Knowsley Hall, as well as by 
his original contributions to Ornithology, and for the deep interest he took 
in everything relating to Natural History; so that, long before he succeeded 
to the Earldom, his reputation, as an accomplished Zoologist, had become 
widely established in the scientific world. In 1828 he was elected to fill 
the Presidential chair of the Linnean Society of London, which he held for 
six years, while from 1831 down to the time of his death in 1851, he filled 
the same distinguished office in the Zoological Society. After his acces- 
sion to the title in 1834, Lord Derby devoted himself, with increased ardour, 
to the advancement of his favourite science, and to the extension of his 
collections, not only through the agents and correspondents he already had 
in the four quarters of the globe, but by equipping and sending out many 
naturalists and experienced collectors, to specially promising, and unexplored 
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