MUSEUMS. 



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The following Lectures were delivered by the Assistant Curator of the 

 Derby Museum : — 



Nov. 2ud. — " Kecent re-arrangements in the Museum." 

 Nov. 9th. — "On the Aquatic Mammalia." I. " Walruses and Seals." 

 Nov. 16th.— II. " Earless Seals." 

 Nov. 23rd.— III. '' Whales and their Allies." 

 Nov. 30th.— IV. " Sea Cows." 



A. DERBY MUSEUM. 



The Entrance Hall and Galleries. 

 ( British Collections.) 



Early in the year the new cases (ordered at the close of the previous 

 year) for the ground floor of the Entrance Hall having been erected, 

 and those in the galleries re-fitted and re-coloured, the arrangement in 

 them of the British Collections was assiduously proceeded with, and by 

 working late, and employing extra assistance, was completed before 

 the meeting of the British Association. 



The ground floor has been reserved for the Invertebrate series, and 

 the galleries for the Chordata. Although the collections are far from 

 being complete even in any single Order, a very good beginning has 

 been made, and almost every day, since they were opened to the public, 

 has seen a<lditions made to them Our more pressing desiderata are 

 some of the commonest objects of our coasts aiid fields. It is to be 

 hoped that all friends of the Museum, especially all local collectors, 

 into whose hands this Report may come, will, when opportunity occurs, 

 kindly aid in filling up our various gaps, by forwarding freshly-collected 

 specimens to the Director. It affords the Director great satisfaction to 

 record that this first attempt to bring together in the Museum a British 

 Collection has,' if one may judge from the number of visitors and 

 students constantly seen consulting it, been much appreciated. 



The fossil remains of extinct species of the various Orders, which have, 

 following a long-adopted but very illogical arrangement, been hitherto 

 exhibited in a different gallery from their relations, the recent forms, 

 will, it is hoped, during the coming year, be incorporated in the same 

 cases with the latter, forming one connected series. It is intended, also, 

 to utilise the balustrade cases in the gallery of the Entrance Hall, which 



