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Persona desirous of employing the Museums for the purpose of 

 research, reference or sketching may, by application to the Director, 

 and on giving satisfactory references, obtain tickets enabling them 

 to enter on Fridays, when special facilities are afforded students. 

 Tickets were issued, as usual, during the year (chiefly) to Artists 

 and Students of Natural History, Osteology and Dental Anatomy, 

 who have made extensive use of the collections, mainly on the days 

 when the Museums were (dosed to the public. 



The following, among others, have visited the Museums during 

 the year for the purpose of inspecting the collections or other special 

 object:— W. F. Wright, United States Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, U.S.A.; F. W. Budler, Geological Museum, London; 

 Professor M. ( ). Elton, University, Liverpool; R. J. Ussher, Cappagh, 

 Waterford; Professor Bashford Dean, Xew York; Professor and 

 Mrs. Flinders Petrie, F.B.S.; Dr. Smith Woodward, F.B.S.; 

 J. Home, F.P.S.; Mr. H. Balfour, Oxford; Professor Symington, 

 F.R.S., Queen's College, Belfast; Mr. J. Garstang ; Sir Henry 

 Howarth, F.R.S., a Trustee of the British Museum; Major 

 Williams, Madras; Professor Strong; Mr. T. B. Hall; Mr. E. 

 Dukinfield Jones; Rev. E. U. Savage; Mr. H. Duckworth and Mr. 

 W. L. H. Duckworth, M.A., Jesus College, Cambridge; Dr. Storie 

 Dixon, University of Sydney, Mr. H. L. Hobson, British Museum; 

 Mr. F. G. Apthorpe, Oxford. 



III. — Lectures. 



Twenty-two lectures were delivered by members of the Staff on 

 Monday evenings, in the Theatre of the Museums. They were 

 illustrated by specimens from the Museums and by lantern slides. 

 The total attendance at the lectures was 4,817, average per evening 

 218, the audiences belonging to a more educated class than 

 formerly. 



The following is a list of the subjects : 



A course of three lectures on " Life in a .hop of Pond Water " was 

 given by the Assistant in the Lord Derby Museum, Mr \Y. S. 

 Laverock, M.A., B.Sc, on January 12th. 19th and 26th. 



