MUSEUMS. 45 
joint discussion on the ‘‘ Educational Use of Museums”’ by the 
Educational Science and Anthropology Sections of the British 
Association. I submitted a short paper in opening the discussion, 
and eventually an influential Committee was formed, composed of 
representatives from the Educational Science, the Anthropology, 
the Zoology, the Botany and the Geology Sections, to examine, 
inquire into and report on the character, work and maintenance of 
Museums, with a view to their organisation and development as 
Institutions for Education and Research, and especially to inquire 
into the requirements of schools. Prof. Green, of Sheffield, was 
made Chairman, and Mr. Bolton, of Bristol and I were appointed 
Joint-Secretaries. Liverpool was selected for the first meeting of 
this Committee, which took place on November 26th. The Lord 
Mayor (H. R. Rathbone, Esq.) was elected a member of the 
Committee, and attended. 
Early in the year, the Director of the Federated Malay States 
Museums made a generous offer to the Committee, that if they 
could see their way to give facilities for Mr. Laverock, Assistant 
on the Museums Staff, to visit the Malay States for the purpose of 
making collections for the Museums, he would be pleased to give 
him hospitality for a period of six months. The Committee 
decided to accept this offer, and Mr. C. Sydney Jones, of the firm of 
Alfred Holt & Co., the present Chairman of the Museums Sub- 
Committee, very kindly offered a free passage. Mr. Laverock left 
for the Malay States in October last, and I have pleasure in stating 
that his reports are satisfactory, his health remains good, 
that specimens are beginning to arrive from him, and there is 
every reason to hope that the expedition will be attended with 
success, and that large and important collections will be made 
illustrating the Fauna and Flora, the Geology and Ethnology of 
the country. 
In the Exhibition Galleries many improvements and additions 
have been made. The Cretan Collection, deposited on loan by 
Prof. Bosanquet, remains on exhibition, and a short guide to the 
specimens prepared by Prof. Bosanquet will shortly be published. 
