;!« MUSEUMS. 



The upper floor of the Museum is devoted to the systematic 

 biological and geological collections, as detailed fully in a Report 

 presented to the Committee in January, 1901. The lower floor is lo 

 contain the Local Area collections drawn (without any very hard 

 and fast line) from within the boundaries circumscribed in the map 

 given in that Report. 



Attention has been specially devoted to making progress on the 

 upper floor with the re-arrangement of the collections, many of 

 which had to be unhoused owing to the removal of the cases in which 

 they stood, to admit of the installation of the ventilating system. 

 These systematic collections now commence with a series of specimens 

 arranged to serve as an introduction to zoological structure and 

 classification. In succession have been placed on exhibition the 

 main representatives of Man, Anthropoids 1 , Lemuroidea, Chiroptera, 

 [nsectivora and the Carnivora. The remaining orders are being 

 displayed as rapidly as cases are delivered. 



On the lower floor the " Local Area " collections have been com- 

 menced, and illustrations of Local History and Archaeology, and 

 examples of Liverpool Pottery have already been displayed. A 

 commencement has been made also in exhibiting the local Mammals 

 in their natural surroundings. The cases already fitted up here 

 attracted special interest. 



During the year a series of cabinets, with interchangeable drawers, 

 has been erected on a gallery round one of the rooms of the upper 

 floor in the old section of the Museum, to contain the Study Collection 

 of birds. In these cabinets nearly 'JO, 000 skins have now been 

 arranged, and will shortly be available for the use of students The 

 erection of an additional study gallery has been arranged for during 

 1903 on the adjoining transept, to contain the unmounted skins of 

 the remainder of the birds, of the mammals, and the study series of 

 the invertebrates. 



The Science Cabinets have been distributed to the various 

 Klementary Schools in the City as in former years, and the appli- 

 cations have become more numerous for specimens tor object lessons 

 (mainly Natural History), and for the series of Technical Appliances 



