GENERAL REPOET. 



The Reports which are attached set out in detail the work of our 

 affiliated institutions during the past year ; and while they testify to 

 the wide appreciation by the public of the advantages offered by the 

 various departments, they also show that the Committee have been 

 anxious to extend the usefulness of the institutions under tlieir care, and 

 have not only widened the area of their influence and activity, but have 

 endeavoured to strengthen and consolidate the work at the Central 

 institutions. 



The erection of a new Library and Technical Schools at Everton, 

 the purchase of a site for a new South Library, and arrangements for 

 extending the Reading-room accommodation at the East Library, have 

 been associated with the opening of a new Lending Library at the 

 Central Library in William Brown Street, an Ethnographical Gallery, 

 and the preliminary steps for the enlargement of the Museum and new 

 Central Technical Schools. 



These are undertakings of such magnitude that they could not have 

 been contemplated without the generous support of the City Council, 

 which has not been slow to recognise that a modern municipality 

 demands that the literary, scientific, and artistic culture of the peojile 

 are matters for its care and solicitude. 



The Greater Liverpool has been eager to avail of the enlightened 

 policy and wider aims which characterise the civic government of a 

 large community, and demands the establishment of Libraries in tho 

 newly added areas. These claims will receive the early attention of 

 the Committee. 



In the Museum a re-arrangement of the stiff has enabled the Director 

 to secure more scientific assistance in his work. Negotiations are pending 

 purchase the Tristram Ornithological Collection, which will prove 

 most important addition to the Derby Museum and greatly increase 

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