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 MUSEUM. 



Circulating Museum Collections foe Schools and other 

 Educational Purposes. 



This experiment, commenced by the Committee in the Spring of 

 1884, has been continuously and successfully carried on. 



Eighteen Cabinets are now in circulation, and others are in course 

 of preparation. The specimens suffer no damage, and teachers are 

 glad to receive them as successfully serving the purpose for which 

 they are lent, as most useful and attractive subjects for object lessons 

 to their various classes. 



New Cases. 



A series of upper wall cases have been erected round the principal 

 room for Mammalia for the better display of many of the larger 

 ruminating animals, such as the rare Rocky Mountain Goats, expressly 

 procured for the Museum by Mr. St. George Littledale, the Big-horn 

 and Argali Sheep, Ibexes, Chamois, Deer, &c., to the great relief of the 

 lower cases which were much overcrowded. 



Two central upright cases have been provided for the Marsupial 

 animals, also previously overcrowded and inadequately displayed. 



The above increased accommodation has greatly facilitated the 

 natural arrangement of the various orders concerned; but further 

 relief is still desirable, the carnivorous animals especially requiring 

 more space and fuller illustration. 



Two additional table cases have also been provided on the upper 

 floor for minerals and fish. 



Bequest. 



In August last the Executors of the late Mr. Nicholas Cooke, of 

 Gorsey Hey, Liscard, announced to the Committee that by a codicil of 

 their father's will, dated the twentieth day of April, 1885, he had 

 bequeathed to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of 



