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Day’ (on one ‘Students’ Day’ 71 students were working at one 
time in the Museums). These students are recruited from the 
Liverpool University, the Dental Hospital, Edge Hill Training 
College, City Technical School, Liscard School of Art, private 
studios in Liverpool, Bootle, Wallasey, Birkenhead and Hoylake, 
Wallasey High School, Liverpool Institute, several of the Liverpool 
Secondary Schools, and a number of students engaged in private 
study in preparation for degrees or diplomas in other Universities. 
I am constantly receiving acknowledgment of the help obtained 
from the collections by private students. 
‘‘There is still another branch of this section of the work, viz., 
the visits to the Museums, by arrangement, of school classes under 
the charge of teachers during school hours. Last year upwards of 
2,500 pupils under the charge of 120 teachers from some 70 schools 
thus visited the Museums. There are great potentialities in this 
direction, and certain of the masters in our schools are becoming 
alive to the importance of such visits, when properly organised 
and systematically carried out in consultation with the Museum 
staff. During the past year the assistant master of the Pleasant 
Street Council Schools has continued his series of lessons in 
geography, in which, in conjunction with the physical charac- 
teristics, the fauna and flora and peoples of the respective geo- 
graphical areas are dealt with. The lessons are given in the 
Museums Theatre, in which Museum specimens illustrating the 
subjects of the lessons are on view, and in addition lantern slides 
from the Museum series are shown. Some of the specimens (such 
as will not suffer by transit) are loaned to the school, and on subse- 
quent days sketches and models in plasticine and other materials 
are made by the pupils from the actual objects.”’ 
By order of the Committee, I attended the meetings of the 
Museums Association in Dublin in July, and the British Association 
at Dundee in September. The privilege of attending these scientific 
meetings is greatly appreciated, and intercourse with one’s co- 
workers is always an advantage to an Institution with so many 
departments as this. 
