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The Museums are closer! on Sundays and Fridays (except the 

 Fridays of Whit-, Faster and Christmas-Weeks) throughout the 

 year, as well as on Christmas Day, and days of Public Fast and 

 Thanksgiving. 



The Museums were represented by tbe Director at the British 

 Association, which met under the presidency of Sir William 

 Turner, at Bradford, and also at the meeting of the Museums 

 Association, at Canterbury, under the presidency of Dr. H. 

 Woodward, F.R.S. 



Parts 3 and 4 of Volume II. of the Bulletin of the Liverpool 

 Museums were issued as a double number on the 20th January. It 

 contained a paper by the Director on a Collection of Stone Implements 

 in the Mayer Museum, made by Mr. W. H. Seton-Karr, in mines of 

 the ancient Egyptians, discovered by him on the Plateaux of the 

 Nile Valley : a short note on the Zoology of North Queensland, 

 by Mr. H. C. Robinson ; a description of a new species of Aplonis, 

 by the Director : and the continuation of the Catalogue of the 

 Charadriformes in the Derby Collection. Part I. of Volume III. 

 was issued on the 15th August, and contains preliminary descrip- 

 tions of the new species obtained by the Sokotran Expedition. (</) 

 The new Micro-Lepidoptera are described by Lord Walsingham, 

 F.R.S , (b) the new Beetles, by Mr. C. J. Crahan, M.A.. and (<•) the 

 new Hymenoptera, by Mr. W. F. Kirby, the Catalogue of the Lizard- 

 tailed, the toothed, and the Ostrich-like Birds, and of the Tinamous 

 and the Divers in the Derby Museum, completes the contents. 



Natural History of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri.—The Report of 



the Sokotra Expedition undertaken hy the British and Liverpool 

 Museums is approaching completion, and it is hoped it will be 

 issued early in the year. The examination and description of the 

 large number of new species in both the fauna and flora, and the 

 preparation of the necessary illustrations, have occupied a longer 

 time than was anticipated, notwithstanding that the whole of the 

 Director's spare time has been devoted to the work. 



The Science Cabinets have been" distributed to the various 

 Elementary Schools in the City as in former years, and the appli- 



