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Collection, ae numbered over 18,000 birds, 1,200 mammals, and 
300 reptile fish, the greater part of which were stuffed, were 
removed has ‘pavasles to their new quarters in Liverpool to be 
freely available evermore for the use and instruction of the public. 
The work of arranging and labelling a collection of this magnitude 
was sufficient, one would have thought, to satisfy for a long time the 
desires of the most energetic, but Mr. Moore never wearied in his 
endeavours to form a museum illustrative of the entire animal 
kingdom and commensurate with the high position in wealth, 
intelligence, and population of the town of Liverpool. The result 
was that in a few years the collections had so grown as to require 
greatly increased accommodation, and this was found for them by the 
late Sir William Brown, of Liverpool, who, in 1860, erected at his 
sole cost, the Library and Museum building which stands on a site 
of the globe. The history and development of the Liverpool 
Museum is practically the history of the life and work of Mr. Moore, 
for never had any institution a more zealous and enthusiastic worker 
at its head, nor one whose manner was more likely to gain friends 
and helpers to its cause. Mr. Moore fully recognised how greatly 
the museum would be benefited if the large mercantile marine of the 
port could be sufficiently interested in its work to avail themselves 
of the splendid opportunities they had of collecting marine 
Specimens on their varied and extended voyages. He quickly 
imparted some of his own zeal to the captains of merchant ships, 
and he published for their use a pamphlet of suggestions pointing 
out how best to obtain and preserve marine animals, both living and 
dead, also providing dredges, nets, and preservatives, for use on 
board ship. The Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool 
furthered his efforts by conferring the keenly appreciated honour of 
associate member on those captains who carried out the suggestions 
and made collections for the museum. This produced a commend- 
able spirit of rivalry, which resulted in great advantage to the 
museum and a considerable addition to its collections. jongst 
the methods used for importing living fish was a glass vessel, which 
obtained the name of the ‘Mortimer Fish Globe,’ on account of its 
very successful use by Captain Mortimer in the first instance, and 
atterwards by other captains in bringing living fish from various 
reign places, and this globe i likely to become historical from the 
later important use to which it has been applied. It consists of a 
round globe with a wide opening at the top, the base resting on 
a circular piece of wood, from which a number of cords 
upwards and were joined together on a ring above the mouth of the 
Feb. 1893. 
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