Zoological, very rich iu both Vertebrates and Invertebrates, and contain- 

 ing many types ; {b) The Geological, in which are numerous unique 

 Palaeontological specimens ; (c) The Mineralogical , wherein is incor- 

 porated the well-known Phillips' Collection and the magnificent series of 

 Native Silica, bequeathed in 1 893 by the late Earl of Derby ; (</) The 

 Botanical, containing at present very few specimens, but to be presently 

 largely added to. 



In this Museum is included the Aquarium, containing tanks for 

 both Fresh and Salt Water Animals. 



(II.) The Mater Museum, the foundation of which Liverpool owes to 

 the munificence of the late Joseph Mayer, Esq., F.S.A., who made large 

 donations to the Corporation during his life, and bequeathed on his 

 death the more important part of the extremely valuable collections 

 exhibited in the quadrangular galleries in the three central storeys of the 

 building. These collections are specially rich in {a) Egyptian, 

 Babylonian, and Assyrian Antiquities ; (b) Mediceval European Ivories, 

 Bronzes, and Illuminated Manuscripts ; (c) the unrivalled Faussett 

 Anglo-Saxon Collection; (d) the Mather Miniatures; and (e) the 

 very important Pottery Collections, conspicuously rich in Wedgwood and 

 Old Liverpool Wares. Associated with this Museum, as belonging 

 more nearly to the subjects illustrated by it, though not forming to any 

 large extent part of the Mayer bequest, are (/") the Ethnographical 

 Collections of barbaric races, now being arranged, but not yet opened 

 to the public. 



The Director regrets to have to record that Mr. Richard Paden, who had 

 only in the previous March been promoted to the Curatorship of the Derby 

 Museum, and who was, in June, taken ill, and granted special leave of 

 absence by the Committee, succumbed to his malady in November, after a 

 long service of about 30 years in the Museum. The Committee 

 unanimously placed on their records a minute testifying to the great loss 

 the Coi-portition and the Museum had sustained by the death of this 

 officer, who had so long and faithfully laboured in it. His breakdown, 

 so soon after the arrival of the Director, and the loss with him of the 

 knowledge of the stored contents of the Museum, of the history of many 

 of ihc specimens and of much else, solely possessed by him, has been a 

 serious one to the Museum. 



