THE MUSEUMS. 



The Director of Museums furnishes Ihe Fiftieth Annual Report 

 upon the conduct and progress of the Museums. 



I. — General. 

 The Free Public Museums comprise: — 



(A) the Lord Derby Museum, of which the nucleus was the 

 collections bequeathed in 1851 to the City, by the Thirteenth Earl of 

 Derby. It contains the British Collections, and the general Zoological, 

 Geological, Mineralogical, and Botanical Departments, besides which 

 there is an Aquarium, containing both Fresh and Salt Water 

 Animals. 



(B) the Mateh Museum, the larger part of which was collected 

 and presented to the Corporation in 1867, by Joseph Mayer, Esq., 

 F.S.A. These collections are specially rich in (a) Egyptian, 

 Babylonian, and Assyrian Antiquities ; (h) Mediaeval European Irories, 

 Bronzes and Illuminated MannscHpts ; (c) the unrivalled Brian- 

 Faussett Anglo-Saxon Collection ; (d) the Mather Miniatures ; and (e) 

 the very important Pottery Collections, conspicuously rich in "Wedgwood 

 and Old Liverpool Wares. Associated with this Museum, as belonging 

 more nearly to the subjects illustrated by it, though not forming to 

 any large extent part of the Mayer Bequest, are (/) the Ethnographical 

 Collections, chiefly of barbaric races. 



The building, in which these collections are housed, was erected 

 at the cost of the late Sir William Brown, in October, 1860. 



The Exhibition Galleries are open free to the public, as under: — ■ 



During January, November, and December .. from 10 to 4 



February „ 10 to 4-30 



March and October ,, 10 to 5 



April to September ,, 10 to 6 



Also on Monday Erenings during January to I 



March, and October to December ... i " 



