THE MUSEUMS. 



The Director of Museums furnishes the Forty-Seventh Annual 

 Report upon the conduct and progress of the Miiseums. 



I. — General. 



The Free Public Museums comprise : — 



(A) the Derby Museum, of which the nucleus was the collections 

 bequeathed in 1851 to the City, by the Thirteenth Earl of Derby. It 

 contains the British Collections, and the general Zoological, Geological, 

 Mineral ogical ', and Botanical Departments, besides which there is an 

 Aquarium, containing both Fresh and Salt Water Animals. 



(15) the Mayer Museum, the larger part of which was 

 collected and presented to the Corporation in 1867, by 

 Joseph Mayer, Esq., F.S.A. These collections are specially 

 rich in (a) Egyptian, Babylonian, and Assyrian Antiquities; (b) 

 Mediaeval European Ivories, Bronzes and Illuminated Manuscripts ; 

 (<■) the unrivalled Brian- Eanssett Anglo-Saxon Collection ; (d) the 

 Mather Miniatures; and {e) the very important Pottery Collections, 

 conspicuously rich in Wedgwood and Old Liverpool Wares. Asso- 

 ciated with this Museum, as belonging more nearly to the subjects 

 illustrated by it, though not forming to any large extent part of the 

 Mayer Bequest, are (/) the Ethnographical Collections, chiefly of 

 barbaric races. 



The building, in which these collections are housed, was erected 

 at the cost of the late Sir "William Brown, in October, 1860. 



The Exhibition Galleries are open free to the public, as under : — 

 During January, November, and December ... from 10 to 4 



February 10 to 4-3': 



,, March and October ... ... ... „ 10 to 5 



April to September ... ... ... ,, 10 to 



Also on Monday Evenings during January to) 



March, and October to December ... j " 7 to 1U 



