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A course of six Lecture- on " Native Life in New Guinea and the 

 Solomon Islands " was given by the Assistant Curator of the Mayer 

 Museum, Mr. P. Entwistle, from February 2nd to March 9th. 



Three lectures on -- Egyptian Antiquities " were giveu by the 

 Director of Museums, from March Kith to 30th. At the Lecture 

 of the 30th, the mummy of a lady named Auf-aa of the XXVI. 

 Dynasty (600-590 B.C.) was unwrapped before the audience to 

 illustrate his lecture on " The Mummy."' The face was found in 

 a remarkable state of preservation, the hands crossed upon the 

 breast, but the flesh had apparently been removed from the limbs 

 before enswatheinent of the body. The beautifully manufactured 

 (loth in which it was wrapped, however, had been used for another 

 mummy at a much earlier date. 



A course of ten Lectures on " The Physiological Functions of 

 Man and Animals," was given by the assistant Curator of the Lord 

 Derby Museum. Mr. Joseph A. Clubb, M.Sc. : 



Oct. 12th.— "Man: A Machine." 



Oct. 19th.—" The Skin and Skeleton." 



Oil. 26th. "Muscle ami Nerve." 



Nov. 2nd and 9th. " The Heart ami the Blood." 



Xov. Kith and 23rd. — " The Digestive Function." 



Nov. 30th and Dec. 7th. — " The Respiratory Function." 



Dec. 14th. "The Sense Organs." 



A. LORD DERBY MUSEUM. 



Zoological Devartmekt. 



(a) General. 



The Director has much pleasure in testifying to the care and 

 attention to duty giveu by all the members of the Staff. 



Several dredging excursion- have been undertaken during I he 

 year to the estuary of the Mersey and the Irish Sea, for the purpose 

 of obtaining specimens for the Local Collection of Marine Fauna, 

 with which the Museum has for a long time been very poorly 



