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MUSEUM. 



VisiTOKS TO Museum. 

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



Increase. 

 36,138 

 772 

 175 

 * Including Monday evening visitors from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31. 



Students from the Training College, Burning Road, from the Training 

 College, Mount Pleasant, from the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 

 from the Wallasey Grammar School, and from various other Schools. 



Science Students, Artists, Curators, Travellers, and numerous other 

 persons, visiting the Museum for special purposes. 



The attendance of children of school age on Saturdays, is very 

 noticeable, stimulated it is believed, by the interest excited by the 

 circulating school cabinets noted further on. 



MONDAY EVENING LECTURERS AND SUBJECTS. 



Museum Addresses. 



Oct. 1. — Introductory, by the Rev. H. H. Higgins, M.A. 



Oct. 8. — On the Monotreme, Marsupial, Edentate, and Rodent 



Mammalia, by the Curator. 

 Oct. 15.— On Glass Skeletons, by Mr. R. McMillan. 

 Oct. 22.— On Gems and Precious Stones, by Mr. F. P. Marrat. 

 Oct. 29.— On Zoophytes and Jelly Fishes, by Professor Herdman, 



F.R.S.E. 

 Nov. 5. — On Flowers of the Sea, by Mr. J. Brack Warriuer. 

 Nov. 12.— On the Marine Fishes in the Aquaria, by Mr. E. Paden. 

 Nov. 19.— On the Skeleton of the Hand and Foot in Man and Animals, 



by Mr. G. F. Moore. 

 Nov. 26.— On the Ancient Civilization of Babylon and Egypt, by 



the Rev. F. F. Grensted, M.A. 



