The main room at llie west end of the building will be for the public exhibits, and. 
the smaller room adjoining will form a students' room, with reference collections in 
cabinets, covering a wide scope. 
The ]5radford Corporation have already a good nucleus for a museum. They 
recently acquired the Herbarium of Dr. F. Arnold Lees, the author of the study of 
"West N'orkshire,'" and of the "West Riding Flora." This Herbarium contains 
over 20,000 sjjecimens all carefully selected, and in fine condition, and many 
specimens are of historic interest. With one exception all the species of flowering 
plants known to have occurred in Britain are included in the collection, which, it 
is said, has no ecjual out of London. A section of the collection will be exhibited 
during the meeting of the Union. Dr. Lees' Botanical Library, which accompanied 
the Herbarium to the Cartwright Hall, contains many privately jjrinted and other 
rare books. The Corporation also received by the bequest of the late John 
Bennett, of Bradford, the very fine entomological collection formed some thirty 
N'ears ago by the late James Varley, of Huddersfield, one of the earliest members of 
the old West Riding Consolidated Naturalists' Societies, and well known as an 
enf omologist and ornithologist. This collection contains a fairly complete series of 
British specimens of the Lepidoptera, including original specimens of the variety of 
the common currant moth, named after Mr. \'arley, its discoverer, {A/rraxas 
grossulariata, var. Varleyala.) In the department of geology, the museum contains 
a well-selected type collection of British fossils, a betjuest from the late Mr. John 
McLandsborough, F.R.Met.L.Soc. 
Many years ago the Bradford Philosophical Societ\, had in tlie town, an 
excellent natural histor\- museum, which was organized and arranged under the 
curatorship of Professor Miall, now of Leeds University. Thirty years since the- 
Council of the Society came to the conclusion that the museum could not effectively 
continue its work as an educational factor in the town, until more suitable and 
commodious premises were provided. An eftbrt to build a new Museum in 
conjunction with an Art School coming to nothing, the collections have ever since 
been stored. The fossils and mineralogical collections are especially valuable, and 
include a fine saurian of the Coal Measures. These have been removed from their 
hiding place and have been lent by the Philosophical Society to the Cartwright 
Hall. Other smaller collections are also in hand, and it is hoped in the course of a 
short time to organize a really good permanent natural history department of the 
museum. 
Included in the temporary exhibition ananged in connection with the visit of 
the Unions, will be a large number of interesting birds and mammals lent by many 
Yorkshire and other naturalists, and including a complete series of specimens of all 
the Yorkshire bats, lent by Mr. Arthur W^hitaker and Mr. Jos. Armitage, of 
Barnsley ; and, it is hoped, living specimens of the English black-rat, and of the 
Orkney Vole, lent by Mr. Riley Fortune, F.Z.S., of Harrogate. There will also 
be a collection, for which Sir Malhew Wilson, Bart., of Eshton Hall, and others 
are lending material, illustrating the contributions to science of Bradford men 
of past generations. 
THE BOTANICAL GARDEN.— The Botanical Garden in Lister Park, 
Manningham, is a short distance to the north-west of the Cartwright Hall. 
The site measures two acres, and is specially fortunate in having a natural 
beck running Ijeside it. This has made easy the provision of a bog, a lily-pond, 
and a water-fall (for ferns, etc.). In April, 1903, a commencement was made, and 
the structural work was almost completed in the last season. Thanks to much 
kind help from the Royal (iardens, Kew, and scores of private donors, a fine 
collection of plants, aggregating 1,700 species, has already been brought together. 
These are arranged for the most part in natural orders, but there is a series of 
beds for the display of Alpines, etc. The end of January is not, perhaps, a 
favourable time for the inspection of the garden, but throughout the last season 
it abundantly justified its establishment as a very charming and interesting feature, 
and the fretjuent j)ublic lectures which were given in the garden undoubtedly gave a 
considerable stimulus to botanical study. 
