THE MUSEUMS. 



The Director of Museums furnishes the Forty-Ninth Annual 

 Report upon the CONDUCT and progress of the Museums. 



I. — General. 

 The Free Piblic Museums comprise: — 



m 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, 

 Mineralogical, and Botanical Departments, besides which there is an 

 Aquarium, containing both Fresh and Salt Water Animals. 



(B) the Mvyer Museum, the larger part of which was collected 

 and presented to the Corporation in 1867, by Joseph Mayer, Esq., 

 F S \ These collections are specially rich in (a) Egyptian, 

 Babylonian, and Assyrian Antiquities : (*) Medieval European hones. 

 Bronzes ami Illuminated Manuscript*; (c) the unrivalled Brum- 

 Famsett ingh-Saxon Collection; {d) the Mather Miniatures ; and (0 

 the very important Pottery Collections, conspicuously rich m ^ edgwood 

 and Old Liverpool Wares. Associated 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 

 Collection*, 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 Januarv. November, and December .. from 10 to 1 



v , ' ,,10 to 4-30 



„ February " 



March and October ... ■•• ••• <> 10 to 5 



April to September ... - 10 to 6 



Also on Monday Evenings t luring January to] _. ^ 1Q 

 March, and October to December ... I 



