38 MUSEUMS. 
A. LORD DERBY MUSEUM. 
ZooLoGicaL DEPARTMENT. 
(a) GENERAL. 
Several dredging excursions have been undertaken during the 
year to the estuary of the Mersey and the Irish Sea, for the purpose 
of obtaining specimens for the Local Collection of Marine Fauna. 
Through the kindness of the Sanitary Sub-Committee, the City 
Engineer's Department gave permission for the Director to 
occasionally place members of the Staff on board the “ Beta,’ when 
on its periodic visits to the ‘‘ Deposit Grounds” near the N.W. 
Lightship. 
The thanks of the Council were accorded to Alderman John 
Duncan, for kindly allowing the Director to send a member of the 
Staff on one of the trips to the 8.W. of Ireland of the Steam Trawler 
“ Thistle,” Captain William Eagle, which resulted in the addition 
of a number of important species to the collections, especially of 
Deep Sea Fishes and Echinoderms, taken at depths of 200-400 
fathoms. 
The Science Cabinets, containing properly identified and labelled 
specimens on selected subjects, have been distributed to the various 
Elementary Schools in the City as in former years. Some 165,000 
children of the schools of the city are thus reached annually by 
these cabinets. 
In the carpenters’ shops, in addition to the ordinary repairs and 
fittings, numerous cases have been made, both for the Lord Derby 
and the Mayer Museums. All case fittings, many stands, snow- 
boards, gangways, &c., on roof, many fittings in Aquarium, as well 
as a large number of miscellaneous appliances for the exhibition of 
specimens have also been devised and constructed. 
(b) ConsERVATION. 
All the collections on exhibiton have, as far as the great pressure 
on the Staff has permitted, been periodically examined and kept in 
proper condition. 
