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clkculating museum collections for schools and other 

 Educational Purposes. 



The following letter testifies to the educational value of these 

 collections : — 



LIVEEPOOL AND DISTRICT TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION, 



68, Berkley Street, Lverpool, 



February 3rd, 1888. 



To the Liverpool Museum Suh-ConvmUtee. 



Gentlemen, 



At the last monthly meeting of the above Association, held on January 28th, 

 a motion was unanimously passed to the effect that a letter should be written, 

 thanking you on behalf of the Teachers for the valuable Circulating Museum 

 you have provided, and expressing their appreciation of the great help and 

 value of such a means of instruction. It was mentioned, as a proof of the 

 usefulness of the boxes of objects, that scholars were set thinking and 

 enquiring, so that they have proved a real aid to teaching. 



We should be glad indeed to get them oftener, since they have been so 

 helpful and interesting. 



Our own School Museums are very useful to us, but necessarily limited, 

 and the Circulating Museum supplies us with very many objects quite out of 

 our reach. The boxes are a reminder of the large collection in the William 

 Brown Street Museum, and many of our scholars have thus been induced to 

 visit it. 



We believe the Circulating Museum is doing a good .work, and we feel we 

 owe you a deep debt of gratitude for so kindly providing it. 



I am. Gentlemen, 



Yours obediently, 



JOHN W. WOOD, 



Secretary. 



These cabinet collections, small and limited in number, but specially 

 selected and arranged, are lent in certain order, and usually for a month 

 at a time, to Elementary Schools within the boundaries of the City. 

 Duplicate specimens are also lent from time to time, on application, for 

 special object lessons by Teachers and for other educational purposes. 



