46 MUSEUMS. 
Special efforts have been made during the past year to enlarge 
the direct educational value of the Museum collections, both by 
increasing the facilities for students studying the collections in 
the Museums and also by adding to and improving the Loan 
Collection for the use, outside the Museums, by schools and other 
educational institutions, and I submitted a report on the subject 
to the Museums Sub-Committee, from which the following extracts 
have been taken. 
‘Taking the latter part of the work, viz., the loan of Museum 
specimens for use outside the Museums, there are now 103 
Elementary Schools and two Training Colleges in Liverpool 
(requests from schools outside Liverpool have had to be refused) 
regularly obtaining specimens from the School Loan Collections. 
These applications are continuous, scarcely a day passing during 
the period the schools are in session but applications are received, 
varying from one to six per day. During the past year 350 of 
these applications were dealt with, and that the demand is 
increasing is shown from the fact that since the beginning of the 
present year, in the first four weeks of the new school session, 
93 specimens have been applied for. These collections have been 
formed largely by the demands made. Whenever a specimen 1s 
asked for, if not already in the collection, it is added, if possible, 
from the duplicates of the exhibition series. They now contain 
upwards of 1,000 specimens. [ am at present engaged in revising 
these collections, and when this revision is completed I propose to 
ask the Committee for authority to have a catalogue of them pub- 
lished for the use of the teachers. 
“The part of the work consisting in the visits of students to study 
the collections in the Museums on the day set apart for their use 
shows the same satisfactory progress. There are no records of 
such visits on days other than the ‘Students’ Days,’ for which, 
as the Committee is aware, special tickets are issued, but it is a 
daily experience to have enquiries on matters pertaining to the 
collections from such visitors. On these 52 days of the year 1,150 
Art Students, 390 Science Students, and a few for more general 
purposes, have been recorded, averaging over 30 per ‘ Students’ 
