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entire collection of birds belonging to the Corporation, when the general 

 catalogue, now in pr( gross, has been completed, is second only to that 

 in the British Museum. What the number of species and specimens 

 in the Derby Collection may be, it is impossible as yet to predict, as no 

 catalogue at all approaching completeness exists ; but it is well known to 

 contain a very large number of specimens of perhaps even greater historical 

 interest than the Tristram, as they were obtained in the great voyages 

 of the end of the last century. So far as the catalogue has progressed, 

 there are indications that a number of untraced types and historical 

 specimens will be found buried in the Derby Cabinets. 



The specimens in the Tristram Collection exceed 20,000, representing 

 more than 6,000 species, and of these over 150 are type specimens. 



(b) Arrangement. 



The re-arrangement of the Zoological Collections in the room which 

 (when the proposed extension of the Museums is completed) will be the 

 commencement of the continuous Gallery destined to contain the 

 Vertebrates, has been now nearly completed. This room is devoted to Man 

 and the Simian Anthropoidea, viz. : — the Chimpanzees, the Gorillas, the 

 Orang-utans, and the Gibbons. The new series of skulls, casts, and 

 photographic enlargements, illustrating the various races of mankind — 

 the Caucasian, the Mongolian, and the Melauesian — has been remarkably 

 popular, and this section will be further extended whenever opportunity 

 offers. Advantage is also taken of opportunities of obtaining photographs 

 direct from life from natives of the various countries who come to the 

 Port of Liverpool. No such collection as this, it is believed, exists in 

 any other Museum. The Anthropoids are represented as j'et chiefly by 

 mounted specimens; the comparative preparations of their osteology and 

 internal anatomy are not yet ready for exhibition. 



In the Invertebrate Galleries it has been impossible to undertake any 

 very special re-arrangement. Several of the groups of the lusecta have 

 been replaced in new drawers, and re-arranged by the Zoological Assistants, 

 by whom also the numerous species added to the Museum during the 

 year, both of Vertebrates and Invertebrates have been determined and 

 catalogued. Many Spirit and Formal preparations have, in addition, been 

 made by them for the various exhibition galleries. 



