48 MUSEUMS. 
Botanical. 
Plants... 2 .. 190-Species «.: ... 227 Specimens, 
Geological and Mineralogical. 
Rocks and Minerals... a ie cee a 16 Specimens, 
Paleontological. 
Zoological and Botanical... os ai Be 57 Specimens. 
Total additions to the Lord Derby Museum. 
Species on ae TO Specimens -- site 5,377 
B.-MAYER MUSEUM. 
(a) GENERAL. 
The following is the arrangement of the galleries in this Museum. 
In the upper floor are to be found illustrations of the history, art and 
craft of the various families of the Mongolian Race; on the ground 
floor, together with the Main Hall and its balcony, those of the 
Caucasians, and in the basement those of the Melanian peoples. 
The Melanian department continues as hitherto to receive 
numerous acquisitions, mostly from the West and South-West Coast 
of Africa. The Mayer Museum is again indebted to Mr. A. Ridyard, 
Chief Engineer (Elder, Dempster & Co.), who has been most 
indefatigable in inducing his friends on the coast to collect and 
present desirable objects to this department. 
The Melanesian Corridor has been so far relieved as to permit of 
its being re-opened again during the year. 
In the Mongolian section there has been added a_ collection 
of Philippine Island Ethnography, received in exchange from 
the American Museum of Natural History, and _ previously 
unrepresented in the collection. 
