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A Collection of Skins and Horns of Large Game Animals from tlie 

 Caucasus, specially collected and presented by Mr. St. George Littledale, 

 as recorded below. 



Tbe Museum possesses a large number of skins, in part from the original 

 Derby Collection, whicb have since been added to. In stuffing and 

 preparing these for exhibition attention is being paid to the pictorial 

 grouping and natural surroundings, as will be seen further on. 



The Circulating Museum Collections, for educational purposes in 

 schools, introduced by the Eev. H. H. Higgins, have been attended with 

 great success. A letter of acknowledgment to that effect is given 

 below. 



Visitors to Museum. 

 The Visitors to the Museum during the year have been as follows :- 



The great and unusual Jubilee attractions in Manchester and other 

 places have had an adverse influence on the spring and summer visitors 

 to the Museum as well as to Liverpool in general. 



The numbers, however, compare favourably with those of the British 

 Museum of Natural History in London, for the duily average in 1886, as 

 gathered from the Return to the House of Commons, dated May 10th, 

 1887, amounted to 1,234, while the daily average to this Museum 

 amounted to 1,688 for the same period. 



The number of Special Visitors has considerably increased, and includes 

 a larger number of Scientific Travellers, Museum Curators, and American 

 and Continental Professors, than in any previous period, to inspect the 

 collections, arrangements, methods, and appliances. 



