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The attendance of school children under the charge of teachers has 

 heen well maintained, considerably over 1,000 children and teachers 

 having availed themselves of the clause in the Education Code, 

 whereby time devoted to instruction in Museums reckons as school 

 attendance. On several occasions school teachers have made use of 

 the Museum theatre to give special lessons to the children — speci- 

 mens being brought from the Museum cases for the purpose. This is 

 found to be of greater educational value than merely having a 

 general visit with no specific object. In some cases lectures and 

 demonstrations have been given by members of the Staff — arrange- 

 ments having previously been made with the teachers and masters. 

 On March 9th a special visit to the Museum was made bv the Science 

 Section of the Burnley Technical School. A pre-arranged pro- 

 gramme was drawn up, and upwards of 100 adults availed themselves 

 of the opportunity. Demonstrations on zoological and botanical 

 specimens were given in the Laboratories and Aquarium, and a lan- 

 tern lecture on (t Life on the Sea-shore " was given in the Museum 

 theatre. In the early part of the year a short course of lectures on 

 " The Collecting and Mounting of Insects " was given fortnightly by 

 Mr. Clubb to the members of the Liverpool Institute " "Field and 

 Camera Club," in the Museum theatre. 



Persons desirous of employing the Museums for the purpose of 

 research, reference or sketching may, by application to the 

 Director, and on giving satisfactory references, obtain tickets 

 enabling them to enter on Fridays, when there are special facilities 

 afforded them for study. Tickets were issued, as usual, during the 

 year (chiefly) to Artists and Students of Natural History, Osteology 

 and Dental Anatomy, who have made extensive use of the collec- 

 tions, so far as the condition of the Galleries permitted, on the days 

 the Museums were otherwise closed to the public. 



The following, among others, have visited the Museums during 

 the year for the purpose of inspecting the collections or other special 

 object:— J. Liberty Tadd, Philadelphia: A. Halkett, Department of 

 Fisheries, Ottawa; Tasaburo Kawomura, Japan ; D. J. Yallance and 

 W. Clarke, Science and Art Museum, Edinburgh; Rev. Charles E. 

 Barthoff; Dr. PaulMantoux; Consul 1). B. Adamson, IquitoB; Rev. 

 Canon Tristram. Durham: T. H. Barker. Chamber of Commerce, 



