THE MUSEUMS. 



The Director of Museums furnishes the Fifty-second Annual 

 Report upon the CONDUCT and PROGBESS 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 both the Loral Area and the Systematic Zoological. 

 Geological, Mineralogical, and Botanical Departments, and in 

 addition an Aquarium, containing both Fresh and Salt Water 

 Animals, Amphibians and Reptiles. 



(B) the Mayer 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 ,■ (b) Mediaeval European Ivories, 

 Bronzes and Illuminated Manuscripts; (e) the unrivalled Brian- 

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

 the very important Bottery ( 'ollections, conspicuously rich in Wedgwood 

 and Old Liverpool Wares, arranged now in the section devoted to the 

 handiwork of the Caucasian race. Associated with this Museum, as 

 belonging to the subjects illustrated by it, though not forming to 

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

 illustrating the ethnography of the Mongolian and Melanian 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 Evenings during January to i 



March, and October to December ...j " 



