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ou loan from the Museums. The increase in the applications for 

 Museum specimens has necessitated considerable additions to the 

 loan collections. 



The Director, in furnishing to the Committee a Report on the use 

 of the Collections of the Liverpool Museums made by (lie Elementary 

 Schools of the City, to accompany the Specimens of the Science 

 Cabinets circulated to these schools, exhibited at the Nature-study 

 Exhibition held in London, on July 23rd, 1002, remarked that 

 for some considerable time organised efforts had been made by 

 the Museums Sub-Committee of the City Council to make the Natural 

 History and other collections of the city of direct educational value 

 to the children attending the elementary schools — public and private. 

 In view of the increased appreciation of late years by educational 

 authorities of the value of Nature Study as part of the curriculum of 

 elementary school training, a brief account of the arrangements and 

 facilities afforded by the Liverpool Museums in this direction may 

 be of interest. 



Obviously the two ways of utilizing Museum Collections for school 

 children are (a) by bringing the school children to the specimens and 

 (b) by taking the specimens to the school children. In both these 

 directions facilities are granted in the Liverpool Museums. 



(a) The recognition in the Education Code of time devoted to 

 instruction in museums as school attendance, has enabled teachers to 

 bring the scholars in classes to our Museums during school hours. 

 Such visits previously had to be done in other than school hours, 

 and consequently were not very frequent. A commodious lecture 

 theatre, existing in the Building, is set apart for their use, to which 

 specimens required for the lessons may be conveyed; or the classes 

 group themselves around certain of the cases, from which the public 

 for the time being are excluded by temporary barriers; or the 

 Aquarium is visited, and one or more of the living animals in the 

 Links forms the subject of the lesson. Occasionally simple demon- 

 strations in popular lauguage are given to them by members of the 

 Staff. 



