visitors to the Museums over that of the previous year, as shown by the 



following table : — 



1893. 1894. 



(261 Days) (263 Days) 



Total Visitors in the Year ... ... 299,319 306,994 



Weekly Average ... ... ... 5,756 5,903 



Daily Average... ... ... ... 1,146 1,167 



It may be of interest for the sake of comparison to point out that the 

 attendance at the British Museum (Natural History) for 1893, was 

 408,208, or a daily average of 1,321 persons; and at the British 

 Museum, Bloomsbury, for the same year, 538,560, or a daily average of 

 1,74:3 : that is a difference in favour of the former over the Liverpool 

 Institution, of only 154 persons daily, and in favour of the latter (the 

 older and more central Museum), of 576 per day. This large, and, when 

 the size of the two cities is compared, most satisfactory attendance at the 

 Free Public Museums indicates, therefore, how great an interest — even 

 after deducting a large proportion of visitors as idlers — is taken in the 

 collections and how important they are as a means of education. It 

 requires nothing more to prove how essentially necessary it is that the 

 Museums should not only be extended so as to exhibit the very 

 large collections at present stored out of sight, but that sufficient 

 means should be at the disposal of the Committee for correcting the 

 present unsystematic arrangement, for exhibiting the collections in 

 accordance with the present state of scientific knowledge, and for keeping 

 them abreast of the advance of science. When this is accomplished the 

 daily attendance would probably exceed that of any other Museum in the 

 country. 



Among those who have visited the Museums for study, research, or 

 special inspection, are the following : — 



R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S., British Museum; A. Smith 

 Woodward, M.A., British Museum ; H. Balfour, Esq., M.A., Pitt-Rivers 

 Ethnographical Museum, Oxford ; Prof. G. B. Howes, Royal College 

 of Science. London ; Prof. Newton Parker, University College, Cardiff; 

 Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Victor, Marburg University ; Prof. Dr. Valderaar 

 Schmidt, Copenhagen ; Dr. R. F. Scharff, Museum of Science and Art, 

 Dubhn; Prof. J. E. Talmage, President of the University of Utah, Salt 

 Lake City, U.S.A.; Surgeon-Colonel Archer; Fleet Surgeon Palmer, 

 R.N. ; Capt. Christisou, Edinburgh ; Dr. Percy Reudall, British Central 



