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enlarged papier-mache models (many of wjsicli have been already 

 acquired with this view), and by its chief (and specially its locally 

 important) economic products and processes, the main aim will be to 

 form a representative British collection, in which every local plant 

 will, if possible, be displayed with models or photographs illustrative 

 of the habit and habitat of the plant in a state of nature. With this 

 object the Director has caused a large number of specimens to be 

 collected and dried during the past few years by one of his assistants. 

 The Director has always intended to make this Department as 

 complete a record as possible of the Biological and Geological 

 History of the area, and he will welcome the assistance of all local 

 collectors and students, who may greatly help in making it complete 

 by presenting or offering for purchase perfect specimens from the 

 " local area " which they may collect or possess. In this respect the 

 Liverpool Marine Biological and the Lancashire Sea Fisheries 

 Committees also could and ought to materially assist vis. As some of 

 their researches are assisted by grants from such public moneys a> 

 the Technical Instruction Vote, and the surplus of the Guarantee 

 Fund raised by Liverpool citizens to defray the expenses of the visit 

 of the British Association, it would be becoming and appropriate 

 that a good set of the specimens so collected should be deposited in 

 the Public Museums, where they can be well seen, and conveniently 

 studied. 



THE AQUARIUM. 



In regard to the Aquarium, it is intended to enlarge it by the 

 addition of the American Boom of the Ethnographical Gallery, as 

 the light admitted by the new window from William Brown Street 

 is insufficient to show properly the class of specimens heretofore 

 exhibited in it. 



A. LORD DERBY MUSEUM. 



Zoological Department. 



(</) General. 



Collecting apparatus and boxes, with preservative fluids for the 



preservation of specimens, were fitted up and very kindly taken 



charge of by Mr. K. I). Adamson, H.B.M. Consul at Iquitos, and 



others who have opportunities for collecting. 



