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In addition to the loan of cabinets for a month at a time, other duplicate 

 specimens from the Museum have been lent to schools from time to time, 

 to illustrate lessons given before H. M. Inspectors at the annual 

 examinations. 



Museums Association. 



The above Association held its first Annual Meeting in Liverpool in 

 June last, under the presidency of the Rev. Henry H. Higgins, who 

 delivei'ed his Inaugural Address at the opening Meeting. 



By the permission of the Library, Museum and Arts Committee the 

 small Lecture Hall and other rooms in the Institution were placed at the 

 disposal of the Association during the Meeting. 



The proceedings lasted four days, during which time the following 

 papers relating to Museum arrangements and work were read and 

 discussed : — 



" On Museum Organization and Arrangement," by Prof. W. Boyd 



Dawkins, f.r.s. 

 '■ Suggestions for aid in the determination of Natural History specimens 



in Museums/' by F. W. Rudler, F.G.s. 

 " j^ new method of mounting Invertebrates for Museum and Lecture 



purposes," by H. C. Sorby, ll.d., f.r.s. 

 " Notes on the Liverpool Free Public Museum," by Thos. J. Moore, 



Corr : M.z.S.L. ; Curator. 

 " Circulating School Cabinets for Elementary Schools," by John Chard 



(Assistant in the Liverpool MuseumY 

 " The best means of making Museums attractive to the Public," by R. 



Cameron, J. P., Chairman of the Sunderland Museum. 

 " A plea for Local Geological Models," by T. J. Moore, Corr : M.z.S.L., 



Curator. 

 " Museum Cases and Museum Visitors," by E. Howarth, F.R.A.S., 



Curator of the Sheffield Museum. 

 " Notes on the Moscow Museum," by Willoughby Gardner. 

 " Winter Evening Lectures in Museums," by R. Paden (Assistant in 



the Liverpool Museum). 

 '• The arrangement of Rock Collections," by H. M. Platnauer, B.sc, 

 Cui'ator of the York Museum. 



