It would be, indeed, impossible to over-estimate the value of the 

 technical work now being done ; and yet it is most difficult to state it 

 in words that will carry conviction that the Cit3' is receiving good value 

 for the money being expended in this direction. 



Liverpool suffers from the want of industrial employment (we are not 

 a manufacturing City), and when work at the docks is slack a cry of 

 distress is heard on all sides. The true remedy for this is to create new 

 industries, so that we may not be entirely dependent upon dock-side 

 labour ; and the only way to create these industries is to teach our 

 young people to use their hands and fingers, and this is what we are 

 doing in our technical classes. So soon as it is known that we have a 

 supply of skilled technical labour, a demand will set in for it, for there 

 are hundreds of small manufacturing industries which can be carried on 

 in Liverpool quite as well as in other great centres of population. 



It is in this direction that we shall feel the value of what we are now 

 doing in Technical Education ; and it constitutes one of the most 

 hopeful signs for the future prosperity of the City. 



WILLIAM B. FORWOOD, 



Chaibman. 



THE MUSEUMS. 



The Director of Museums, who, after appointment by the City Council 

 on the 7th February, 1894, assumed office on the 20th of the same 

 month, furnishes the Forty-Second Annual Report upon the conduct 

 and PROGRESS of the Museums. 



General. 

 The Free Public Museums, it may be here explained for the 

 information of the general public who do not, it is found, clearly realise 

 the varied character and great value of the collections owned by the 

 City, as well as for that of the Directors of Foreign Museums into whose 

 hands this Report may come, consist of : — 



(I.) The Derby Museum, named after the Fourteenth Earl of Derby, 

 whose large Zoological collections, bequeathed in 1851 to the City, formed 

 the basis of this Museum. It consists of several departments : (a) The 



