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A course of five Lectures on " Extinct Monsters " was given by the 

 Assistant Curator of the Derby Museum, Mr. Joseph A. Clubb, 

 M.Sc. : — 



Nov. 18th. — " How Fossils are formed." 

 Nov. 25th. — " Sea Scorpions and Fish Lizards." 

 Dec. '.hid. — " Dinosaurs — the Dragons of Old Time." 

 Dec. 9th. — " Dinosaurs and Flying Dragons." 

 Dec. 16th. — " Some extinct Mammals." 



LORD DERBY MUSEUM. 



The collections, consequent on the opening of the extended 

 Galleries, will have to be entirely re-arranged. 



By the Derby Bequest the Zoological and a considerable part of 

 the Paheontological and the Mineralogical Collections were acquired 

 by the City. The larger part of the original Museum buildings have 

 till now been required to house the Zoological collections — the 

 specimens of birds and mammals being very numerous. Indeed they 

 are far too numerous to be ever exhibited with any educational 

 benefit to the visitor. Since 1894 every moment possible to devote 

 to the work has been employed in reducing stuffed specimens to 

 skins for the Study-collection,— some thousands of birds having 

 been dismounted, as well as a considerable number of Mammalia. 

 These reduced specimens will be stored in a series of cabinets, erected 

 on an elevated gallery surrounding the rooms on the upper floor of 

 the Old Museum, for the exclusive use of students. 



It is now proposed to exhibit in the upper (horse-shoe) floor of 

 this Museum, commencing with the first room, opening on the right 

 at the top of the main staircase, a series of types of the main groups 

 and subdivisions of the Animal Kingdom (or casts, models, or 

 drawings), showing their structure by dissections or models, and 

 indicating the genetic relationships existing between them and their 

 neighbours, i.e., a Morphological series — " in which," to use Professor 

 Huxley's words, " all prominent forms or types of animals or plants, 

 recent or fossil, should be so displayed as to give the public an idea 

 of the vast extent and variety of natural objects, to diffuse a general 

 knowledge of the results obtained by science in their investigation 

 and classification, and to serve as a general introduction to the 



