6 MUSEUMS. 
The Museums are closed on Sundays and Fridays (except the 
Fridays of Whit-, Kaster- and Christmas Weeks) throughout the 
year, as well as on Christmas Day, and days of Public Fast and 
Thanksgiving. 
The Museums were represented by the Director of Museums at 
the International Anthropological Congress held at Monaco in 
April; and by the Assistant Curator of the Lord Derby Museum at 
the Museums Association, held at Bristol in July. 
Since 1896, a period of eleven years, (8,742 specimens of Natural » 
History and 10,163 specimens of Ethnography, totalling close upon 
80,000 specimens, have been added to the collection, or on an average 
over 7,000 additions per year. 
A General Guide to the collections in the Museums was issued in 
October, while Departmental Guides to the Mammalia, the Mollusca, 
the Egyptian and the Pottery collections are in preparation. 
The new Galleries were formally opened on the evening of 
Friday, October 19th, by the Earl of Derby, K.G., in the presence of 
some 1,700 guests, amongst whom were members of the University 
and many of Liverpool's most distinguished citizens, as well as 
representatives from other museums. Of the latter may be 
mentioned Dr. Hoyle, Manchester, Dr. Hartert, Tring, and Mr. 
Charles E. Fagan, of the British Museum. The guests were received 
by Sir William B. Forwood (Chairman of the Library, Museums 
and Art Committee) and Lady Forwood in the Art Gallery, and a 
procession, preceded by the Corporation Regalia, passed through the 
new galleries to the platform erected in the Lower Gallery. The 
Lord Mayor presided. Dr. Permewan (Chairman of the Museums 
Sub-Committee), gave the following address : — 
“My first duty and pleasure is to extend to all visitors here 
to-night our warmest welcome. To the representatives of other 
Museums, of the University, of the Schools, and of the Learned 
Societies I offer, on behalf of my colleagues and myself, our most 
grateful thanks for their presence, and our most sincere hope that 
there may be established between us and them a tie of. mutual 
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