32 MUSEUMS. 



The Museums are closed on Sundays and Fridays (except the 

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

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

 Thanksgiving. 



The Museums were represented by the Director at the British 

 Association, which met at Glasgow under the presidency of 

 Professor Arthur W. Riicker, M.A.. D.Sc, LL.l). 



Part 2 of Volume III of the Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums was 

 issued on 10th May. 11 contained a description of a new Mongoose 

 from West Africa, by W. K. De Winton, F.Z.S. : an illustrated 

 account of a perforated and distorted Cranium in the Mayer Museum. 

 by Prof. A. M. Paterson, M.D., and F. T. Lovegrove, M.R.C.S. : a 

 paper " On the Age of the Surface Flint Implements of Egypt and 

 Somaliland," and Notes on some Rare Birds in the Lord Derby 

 .Museum, by the Director. The issue of Parts ■"> and 4 has been 

 unavoidably delayed on account of the extensive alterations going 

 on in the Museums during the year and the extra work necessarily 

 thrown on the Staff by the re-arrangement of those of the Xew 

 Extension (jalleries now made available, as well as by the prepara- 

 tion of the Special Bulletin containing the Report on the Sokotra 

 Expedition. That volume, and also Part ■'! of Volume 111 of the 

 Bulletin, it is hoped will be issued shortly. 



Since 1896, a period of six years. 45,755 specimens of Natural 

 History and 6,222 specimens of Ethnography, totalling close upon 

 52,000 specimens, have been added to the collections. 



II. — Visitors. 



During the year there has been a considerable increase in the 



number of visitors to the Museums, compared with that of the 



previous year, as shown by the averages in the following table : 



1900. 

 (Jan. 1st to May 3rd.) 1901. 



(90Davsi (-262 Days) 



Total Visitors 95,041 ... 304.942 



Weekly Average 5,002 ... 5,864 



Daily Average , .... ... 1,056 ... 1,163 



