28 MUSEUMS. 



On the first day of July last the Foundation Stone of the Technical 

 School and Museum Extension Buildings was laid by Alderman 

 Sir William Bower Forwood. The proceedings were presided over by 

 the Lord Mayor of the City, Alderman John Houlding, and tbere were 

 present Members of the City Council, the Principal and Professors of 

 University College, and many others interested in scientific and technical 

 education. The stone, a block of Aberdeen granite, has a polished face, 

 bearing a suitable inscription as a record of the important proceedings 

 of the day, and will appear as a tablet on one of the inner walls of the 

 Entrance Hall of the Technical School. During the past year fair 

 progress has been made in the work of building, and the walls are now 

 up to the level of the second storey. 



The Museums were represented by the Director at the British 

 Association, which met under the Presidency of Sir William Crookes, 

 at Bristol, and also at the Meeting of the Zoological Congress, held in 

 ( ambridge in August. 



The second number of The Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums was 

 published in February, and contains (a) a description, with a hand- 

 coloured plate, of an interesting bird from Madagascar, found in 

 the Derby Collection ; (b) notes on two species of Pigeon in the Derby 

 Collection ; (<•) catalogue of Cuckoos and Plantain-eaters in the Derby 

 Museum : and (d) a description of a collection of cast-metal work from 

 Benin, copiously illustrated by photographic reproductions. 



The third and fourth numbers were issued in October, in the form of 

 a double number. This contains (a) a brief account of the laying of the 

 Foundation Stone, with description and plate of the New Museum 

 Extension Buildings : (b) descriptions with figures, of a new Marine 

 Spider from South Africa and of a Crab-gall on Millepora ; (c) notes 

 on several species of birds in the Derby Collection, with hand-coloured 

 plates of two ; (d) notes on some Marine Invertebrates from Hilbre 

 Island ; (e) catalogue of the Picarian Birds in the Derby Museum and 

 (/) a paper on a Fragment of the Parcival of Wolfram von Eschenbach 

 in the Mayer Museum, illustrated by four plates. 



The first four parts, which constitute Volume I. of the Bulletin, have 

 now been published as a royal 8vo. volume of 128 pages and 16 plates 

 (five hand coloured), bound in a neat cloth binding. Separate boards 

 or binding may also be obtained at the publishers. 



