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student in Natural Science." The series will commence with the 

 highest animal forms in their culmination in Man, as exemplified in 

 the Caucasian, Mongolian and Melanian Races, [from which point 

 the study of their handiwork may he followed up in the Mayer 

 Museum, as staled below] and descend to the unicellular forms. 

 Thus the Biological series would fall into logical sequence with the 

 Anthropological exhibits in the Mayer Museum. The hist room will 

 be devoted to an introductory series of specimens, models and 

 drawings, showing the differences between inorganic and organic 

 objects, between plants and animals, and illustrating the general 

 structure and physiology of animals. 



With the recent forms it is intended to associate the extinct ( or 

 fossil) remains, so that by studying both together, the evolution of 

 present-time animals may he traced from their vanished ancestors. 



Following on this series the Director proposes to arrange the 

 Mineralogical and Geological collections so as to illustrate the 



Chemical constitution of the earth : Hock formation ; the Deposit, 

 superposition, and succession of Strata; and the Mode of preservation 

 of fossils, showing typical examples of the forms of life which charac- 

 terised the different geological Ages, with pictorial restorations of tin- 

 scenery of each great epoch and of the animals which peopled it — a 

 Stratigraphical series. 



In the Upper Cross Gallery it is proposed to exhibit the main facts 

 of the Geographical Distribution of animals and plants and illustra- 

 tions of Protective Resemblance, Variation of Species, and other 

 principles of biology. 



It is proposed to arrange in Tin: loweb floor, commencing with 

 the first Room of the lower Horse-shoe Galleries opening out of the 

 Main Hall, the Local Collections, in as complete a series as possible, 

 of the animals, the plants, the Geology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology 

 and Archaeology of the " Local Area," namely, a land and sea area 

 embracing the counties of Lancashire and ( 'heshire, and the sea, east of 

 the Isle-of-Man — which includes the area also within which the 

 Liverpool Marine Biological and Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Committees 

 operate. 



In regard to the Botanical collections, while a typical specimen will 

 be given of each Natural Order with its structure, illustrated by 



