10 MUSEUMS. 
time devoted to instruction in Museums reckons as school attend- 
ance. School teachers are making increased use of the Museum 
theatre to give special lessons to their pupils—specimens being 
brought from the Museum cases for illustrating them. Such a 
course is found to be of greater educational value than merely a 
general visit with no specific object. Occasional lectures and 
demonstrations have been given by members of the Staff, on 
arrangement having previously been made by the teachers with the 
Director. 
In compliance with a request from the Director of the Pupil 
Teachers’ Training College in Clarence Street, the Director of 
Museums arranged to provide a series of elementary lectures on 
Natural History to his students. Courses of lectures were accord- 
ingly delivered on Friday afternoons during the year. The first 
course to senior students only was given prior to the summer 
vacation by the Director on the main characters distinguishing the 
great groups of the Vertebrates. The second course, given to both 
the senior and the junior pupils, was taken by the Assistant Curator 
of the Lord Derby Museum (J. A. Clubb, M.Sc.) on the main phyla 
of the Invertebrate animals, and delivered in the terms between 
Midsummer and Christmas. The conjoint course provided a short 
elementary survey of the animal kingdom. The average attendance 
was 220. 
Persons desirous of employing the Museums for the purpose of 
research, reference or sketching may, by application to the Director, 
and on giving satisfactory references, obtain tickets enabling them 
to enter on Fridays, when special facilities are afforded to students. 
Tickets were issued, as usual, during the year (chiefly) to Artists, 
of whom a much larger number than heretofore have availed 
themselves of the advantages the Museum collections afford, and to 
Students of Natural History, Osteology and Dental Anatomy, who 
have made extensive use of the collections, mainly on the days when 
the Museums were closed to the public. This privilege was made 
use of by students on upwards of 700 different occasions during the 
