The Exhibition Galleries are now open free to the public, as under : — 



During January, November, and December ... from 10 to 4 



„ February ... ... ... ,, 10 to 4-30 



„ March ... ... ... ... ,, 10 to 5. 



,, April to September ... ... ,, 10 to 6 



Also on Monday Evenings during January to) 



March, and October to December ... J m 7 to 10 



The Museums are closed on Sundays and Fridays (except those of 

 Whit and Easter Weeks) throughout the year, as well as on Christmas 

 Day, and days of Public Fast and Thanksgiving. 



Persons desirous of employing the Museums for the purpose of research, 

 reference or sketching, can, by application to the Director, on giving 

 satisfactory references, obtain tickets enabling them to enter on Fridays, 

 and affording them special facilities for study. 



The Museums were represented at the Museums' Association in 

 Dublin by the Director and the Curator of the Derby Museum ; and at 

 the British Association Meeting at Oxford by the Director. 



To Sir Wollaston Franks, K.C.B., of the Ethnographical Department, 

 British Museum, and Professor A. H. Sayce, of Oxford, for having kindly 

 advised upon Egyptian objects submitted for their opinion, the thanks of 

 the Committee are due. 



To Mr. J. L. Bowes, Prince'? Road, Liverpool, the Committee are, in 

 like manner, under grateful obligation for having cordially placed his 

 unrivalled knowledge of Japanese Art at their service in reference to an 

 extensive and very valuable collection of Sword-Guards offered to the 

 Museum for purchase, but which, for lack of funds, the Committee were, 

 with great regret, unable to acquire. 



The Committee has at present under consideration the purchase of the 

 celebrated Ornithological Collection of Canon Tristram, D.D., F.R.S., 

 consisting of 20,000 specimens, among which are 760 types. It is the 

 best private collection of birds in existence ; and the sum for which it is 

 offered is acknowledged by experts to be very moderate. 



Visitors. 

 During the year there has been a slight increase in the number of 



