88 MUSEUMS. 
A. LORD DERBY MUSEUM. 
ZooLocican DrparTMENT. 
(a) GENERAL. 
Several dredging excursions hive 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 
oceasionally place members of the Staff on board the “ Beta,” when 
on its periodic visits to the “ Deposit Grounds” near the N.W. 
Lightship. 
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 40,000 
children of the schools of the city are thus reached monthly 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 
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and the Mayer Museums. All case fittings, many stands, many 
fittings in Aquarium, as well as a large number of miscellaneous 
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appliances for the exhibition of specimens, have also been devised 
and constructed. 
(b) ConsERVATION. 
All the collections on exhibition have, as far as the great pressure 
on the Staff has permitted, been periodically ex-mined and kept in 
proper condition. 
(c) ACQUISITIONS. 
INVERTEBRATES— 
Presented : 
Protozoa. 
Six ciliate Infusorians (Ophyridium versatile), from Dounby, 
Orkney Islands; by Myr. Geo. Ellison, Loudon Grove, Liverpool, 
