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mere storehouse of material more or less of interest, but as a part, 
and important part, of that grand fabric of Education for which 
Liverpool is justly famous, and of which she is justly proud. And 
to those workers in science, of whom there are so many in Liverpool, 
and whose representatives we have here to-night, I would say that 
we are anxious to afford you material for your study and for your 
research, and that the resources of this Museum are freely open to 
you all. It is only by the co-operation of all interested in the spread 
of scientific truth that we shall get what we hope to get—the best 
results from the money and the labour that has been expended in 
establishing this great Institution. 
“My Lord Mayor, this building was begun in 1898; it is not 
finished yet, and I hope it never will be finished. ‘A finished 
museum,’ says Professor Goode, ‘is a dead museum, and a dead 
museum is a useless museum.’ ‘ When museums cease to grow they 
begin to decay.’ I trust the Museum may never cease to grow, but 
that it may continue year by year, affording better means of 
recreation to the people of this city, and of the world, and ever, year 
by year, attaining to closer co-operation with those who are 
striving to improve the education of the people, and to extend the 
bounds of knowledge.” 
The following address, contained in a silver casket, was presented 
~ to Lord Derby : — 
“The Liverpool Library, Museums and Art Committee have 
_ invited your Lordship to honour them by opening the New Galleries 
which they have added to the Museum buildings, and in doing so 
__ they seek to continue the happy association which has for so many 
centuries existed between the House of Stanley and the public 
institutions of Liverpool, and which has nowhere been more intimate 
- than in connection with this Museum. 
“The Lord Derby Museum commemorates in its name your 
distinguished predecessor the x1m1th Earl of Derby, in whose world- 
famed zoological collection, bequeathed to the town in 1851, it had 
its origin. This Collection will always hold a distinguished place 
_ among zoologists, as it contains amongst its treasures the numerous 
