36 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



" The building consists of a central tower containing 

 the entrance hall and staircase and some of the smaller 

 rooms on each floor, and of two blocks, the north and the 

 south, which have been treated rather differently as 

 regards internal structure. The south block has only 

 three main floors while the north has five in the same 

 height. The central tower extends a storey higher. In 

 the south block the three floors accommodate (1) the 

 Museum with its large gallery, (2) the lecture theatre, 

 and (3) the large junior laboratory at the top of the 

 building. In the north block, on the two lower floors 

 there are extensions of the Museum to receive special 

 collections, and the rest of the space is devoted to the 

 senior class-room, senior and honours students' labora- 

 tories, the departmental library, and rather large 

 laboratory and store-room accommodation for the Sea- 

 Fisheries Department, the work of the Economic 

 Entomologist, of the Marine Biological Committee and 

 other practical applications of Zoology. In the central 

 tower, along with the staircase, there are small rooms for 

 the professor, two demonstrators and the laboratory 

 assistant, as well as diagram, chemical, aquarium, 

 photographic and macerating rooms and students' 

 lavatories. 



" Museum. — The main Museum measures fifty-seven 

 feet by thirty-six feet, and has a large gallery twelve feet 

 in width which almost constitutes a second floor. There 

 are also extensions through the tower into the north block 

 on two floors measuring sixty-two feet in length, so thai 

 the total floor area of the Museum is about 5,792 square 

 feet. This does not include the " Local Collection " 

 which is accommodated in ihe L.M.B.C, research rooms. 



A museum in a University department need not aim 

 at having complete series of organisms. lis main purpose 



