vx) tate et) > Al ) $ i ¢ WAS yh ane han A ae a arth ta SR EBA pial era oom eel | Rac HEN Ai Ke oe VOU0N \¢ is +. r . av iy att yy ? Maen te ag" eke : roy ath f ; \ nf PACU Ane. eT eRe ay) Cr ae iS ree ¥ ar von eis mahi hd, aes Pane Ty i ;* ib >| ie i iA S 160%. $ FIFTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORTS LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS, ARTS _ COMMITTEE, CITY OF LIVERPOOL, FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1910. LIVERPOOL: C, Trxnuine anv Co., Lrp., Prinvinc Conrracrors, 53, Vicrorta STRBEY. 1S aT ee = Xe Maa, , = Vth the Complements fice Sahel. a} [7 aH. aos AA THI ZV 9 NOLTVA aos AAvaal = SSS -~ & PEE FIFTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORTS LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS, ARTS COMMITTEE, CITY OF LIVERPOOL, FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1910. LIVERPOOL: C. Trytine anp Co., Lrp., Printinc Contractors, 53, VicroRIA STREET. 19LY. AS is ” Uss C @ 3% 4% qZ = = >» € Y > Ura wot? e3l. COMMITTEE AND OFFICERS for the Year 1910-1911. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE S. MASON LORD HUTCHINSON, MAYOR. Committee: FRANK J. LESLIE, HSQ., CHAIRMAN. RICHARD CATON, ESQ., M.D., LL.D., J.P. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN. JOSEPH BIBBY, HSQ., J.P., PROF. R. C. BOSANQUET, M.A., FREDERICK C. BOWRING, ESQ., J.P. PROF. SIR RUBERT W. BOYCH, M.B., F.R.S., RONALD STEWART-BROWN, ESQ., | M.A., JOHN BYRNE, ESQ., J.P., i ALDERMAN A. COMMINS, LL.D., ALDERMAN A. CROSTHWAITE, J.P., WILLIAM EVANS, ESQ., J.P., ALDERMAN SIR WILLIAM B. FORWOOD, D.L., J.P., | ERNEST C. GIVEN, ESQ., FRANCIS J. HARFORD, ESQ., J.P., ROBERT C. HERMAN, ESQ., PHILIP DURNING HOLT, ESQ., MICHAEL EH. KEARNEY, ESQ., P. CHARLES KELLY, ESQ., JOHN LEA, ESQ., J.P., PROFESSOR A. M. PATERSON, M.D., HERBERT R. RATHBONE, ESQ., B.A., | RICHARD RUTHERFORD, ESQ., J.P., ALDERMAN J. N. STOLTERFOHT, COLONEL W. HALL WALKER, M.P. Chief Librarian: GEORGE T. SHAW. Depnty-Fibrarian : HENRY HK. CURRAN. Director of Museums : HENRY O. FORBES, LL.D., F.R.G.S., F.R.A. Assistant Curator of Hord Merby Rluseum: JOSEPH A. CLUBB, D.Sc. Assistant Gurator of Maner Museum: P. ENTWISTLE, F.R.A.I. Curator of the Walker Art Gallery: E. RIMBAULT DIBDIN. Assistunt Curator, Walker Art Gallery: ARTHUR G. QUIGLEY. CHAIRMAN’S PREFACE. The Reports contained in this volume again show a steady record of useful and progressive work in the fine range of buildings in William Brown Street, which, with their branches through the City, constitute the Municipal home of Literature, Science, and Art. Taking the Libraries alone, no one who visits the Reference Library, filled every day from morning till evening, with its hundreds of quiet, persistent readers, can fail to recognise that if that were the only field of the Committee’s activities their work would be of the utmost value to the community. Works of fiction, which are by some wrongly supposed to constitute the chief attraction in a Public Library, find no place there, and yet during _ the year there were issued to readers, in that one Library, 427,000 : volumes, mostly in the sections of History, Topography, Politics, _ and Art. be: In all departments of the Committee’s work there was an increase in 1910, the most marked development being in the books for : children in the Lending Libraries. The issue of these in 1910 exceeded that in 1909 by no fewer than 109,000 volumes. The policy of the Committee is to induce the children to use the Libraries while still at school, and to keep them as readers when they grow up. The only new Library opened during 1910 was that at the Rawdon Reading Room, the immediate success of which was remarkable, as the issues at once reached an average of nearly 3,000 volumes a week. The present year will have a much larger record of new Libraries and Reading Rooms completed. 4 CHAIRMAN’S PREFACE. There is still one area which needs such provision, that of the district round Hornby Street, where the Corporation’s Model Dwellings are now housing thousands of people. There is an admirable site available, with frontages to Limekiln Lane and Hornby Street, where a Library, Reading Room, and Lecture Room could be erected, in conjunction possibly with a Gymnasium. Such a building would be of the greatest benefit to that thickly- populated neighbourhood. There is reason to believe the Committee could obtain the site as a gift if the building could be provided. For this they can only look to private generosity. It would be the fitting completion of their scheme of Libraries and Reading Rooms, and they anxiously hope they may be enabled to carry it out. That the Museums are continuing to attract and satisfy the public is shown by the increase in the average attendance by more than 100 a day over that of 1909. It is a remarkable fact that for the past sixteen years the additions made to the Museum Collections, mostly by gift, have averaged 23 per working day. Many of these are, of course, of small value, but many are of very considerable worth, both in money and scientific interest. Schemes set on foot last year for a re-arrangement of some of the collections have since been more fully developed, and when they are completed the Museums will be rendered even more popularly attractive and scientifically interesting. The allocation of a good room entirely for the display of local antiquities has long been needed, and has now been made. The presentation of the Museum Report by Dr. Clubb, as Curator, is a consequence of the resignation of Dr. Forbes, who had been Director of the Museum for 16 years, during which he rendered valuable service in the arrangement of the new buildings. Important changes were made in 1910 in the Walker Art Gallery in the reconstruction of the Rooms on the Ground Floor, the provision of new Cloak Rooms, and the removal of the turnstiles. There can be no doubt that visitors much appreciate the privilege of free and unimpeded access to public buildings, and the early CT CHAIRMAN’S PREFACE. 5 removal of the turnstiles from the Museum Entrance is also in contemplation. Every one of the buildings under the Committee will then have its doors wide open to the public. The Art Galleries became the richer in 1910 by the addition of 284 pictures, etchings, and other works of art, as against 195 in 1909. The Curator in his Report again emphasizes, and rightly so, the increasingly urgent need there is for an extension of the Galleries, so as to obviate the present unfortunate necessity for taking down the Permanent Collection before the Autumn Exhibition can be placed. The Committee find it an anxious and difficult task, on their restricted income, to carry on and keep thoroughly efficient the varied and increasingly numerous Institutions under their charge. It must be borne in mind that nearly all the recent additions to them have been made to carry out statutory obligations undertaken by the City Council in the several recent extensions of the City. The Institutions which the Committee have now to carry on include a Reference Library of 158,152 volumes, 11 Lending Libraries with a total annual issue of 1,597,123 volumes, Reading Rooms, some attached to the Libraries and some not, with an average daily attendance of many thousands, 185 Evening Lectures to audiences numbering last year 81,160, and Museums and Art Galleries receiving 856,000 visitors in the year. Their efforts to make all these varied and valuable Institutions of the greatest possible benefit to the City will be maintained to the fullest extent, but they may find it necessary to ask for some additional help in doing so. May I add that the responsibility for the somewhat late date of issue of this volume is entirely mine. The officials had their Reports ready some time ago, but, owing to various circumstances, it has, I regret to say, been impossible for me to sooner provide this usual preface. FRANK J. LESLIE, CHAIRMAN. CHIEF LIBRARIAN’S REPORT. I respectfully submit a report of the work of the Libraries and Reading Rooms, and Lectures Sub-Committees, during the past year. A comparison of the statistics in the appended tables with those for the preceding year will show a decrease which, fortunately, is more apparent than real. The Picton Reading Room was closed for one month for painting and decoration, while the Patent Specification Room, the Central Lending Library, and _ the Kensington Branch Library, were also closed for one month for structural alterations, &c. Every effort was made to carry on business during the alterations, but it was quite impossible to meet the ordinary demand. While the Picton Reading Room was closed the Reference Library work was transferred to the Brown Reading Room, and only the newspapers left available for the frequenters of that room. By this arrangement the inconvenience caused by the closing of the Picton Reading Room was considerably minimised, but the ordinary issues in the Brown Reading Room and the Hornby Library were entirely suspended, and those in the Reference Library greatly diminished. That there has been no reduction in the work of the various departments of the Reference Library is shown by the fact that while the actual daily issue in 1909 was 1,289 volumes, that in 1910 was 1,324 volumes. I have re-arranged the tables of statistics which it is customary to include in the Annual Report, and in the case of the Reference Library separated the figures showing the actual issue from the approximate estimates, while in the case of the Lending Libraries I have included actual issues only and excluded the approximate estimates. Owing to the increased facilities given to the public to consult books statistics are failing to adequately show the great extent of the work done in the Reference Library and Branch Library Reading Rooms, particulary the former. For instance, 8 LIBRARIES. the Blue Books and Parliamentary Papers are now displayed in the Picton Reading Room as soon as received, a change which has called forth appreciative comments from Readers. But while a much larger number of people are thus enabled to see these important publications they cease to be included im the over-counter issues, and only an approximate estimate of their use can be formed. The same remarks apply to the displays of books on such topical subjects as Free Trade, Finance, Government, &c. (during the General Elections): Agriculture (at the time of the Agricultural Show); King Edward VII., Orchardson, Holman Hunt, and Mark Twain. To accurately record the issues in full without affecting the unrestricted use of the books would be very difficult and very expensive, while the result would not be worth either the money or the labour involved. The books are purchased for use rather than to have their use statistically recorded. Therefore, in studying the appended figures it should be understood that they only partially show the work accomplished. CLASSIFICATION STATISTICS. At a time when Public Libraries (particularly the Lending Departments) are subjected to so much criticism for their comparatively large issues of fiction, it is appropriate to draw atten- tion to Tables If and V wherein are shown the ciassification of issues in our Reference and Lending Libraries. Of the total issues in the Reference and Lending Libraries (Children’s Libraries excepted), 57 per cent. were prose fiction; while of the total issues for Home Reading only (Children’s Libraries excepted), 77 per cent. were prose fiction. In considering these figures it should be remembered that novels are not added as soon as published, and that every care is taken to exclude those to which general exception may be taken on moral grounds. Whatever criticism may be passed on the extent of the fiction issues the Libraries Committee are justified in taking credit for the serious side of their work, a side which critics so repeatedly overlook. Libraries which during the ay tet: LIBRARIES. 9 year have recorded issues of 36,317 volumes in Theology and Ethics; of 171,265 volumes in Fine Arts, Music, and Technical subjects ; 87,021 volumes in History and Biography ; 82,699 volumes in Topography, Antiquities and Travels; 20,087 volumes on Political subjects; and 29,036 volumes of Poetry and Drama, ought not to be criticised as if the circulation of novels was their only work, and the circulation of novels wrong. JUVENILE DEPARTMENT. The development of the work in the Children’s Libraries is in every way satisfactory. The issues for 1910 from this department exceed those for 1909 by 109,010 volumes. This increase is mainly due to the opening of the Rawdon Library, where the issues to Juveniles have amounted to 59,971 volumes, but there has been an increase at all the Branch Libraries except Toxteth. In addition, there was a large issue of volumes in the Children’s Reading Rooms at the various Branch Libraries. The total issues for home reading from the Children’s Libraries have increased from 148,981 volumes in 1906 to 399,590 volumes in 1910. These figures are of more than passing interest, as the extent of the work of our Children’s Libraries has not been hitherto fully recognised, either locally or generally. The credit for this development is willingly shared with the Teachers in the Council Schools. CATALOGUES. Considerable progress has been made with the Reference Library Catalogue. All books added to the Library since January Ist, 1910, have been included in the combined catalogue which is gradually being prepared for the printer. In addition, entries have been typed for inclusion in the card cabinets in the Picton Reading Room, and also for the Sheaf Catalogue which will supersede the card cabinets. Progress is also being made with the cataloguing of the books added to the Reference Library between 1891 (the date of part 3 of the printed catalogue), and December 31st, 1909. As soon as these arrears have been dealt with, the duplication of entries for the card 10 LIBRARIES. cabinets and sheaf catalogues will cease, and progress will consequently be more rapid. The amount of work to be accomplished is very great, and must take several years. The importance of it, as well as the urgency, are fully recognised, but the Committee feel that it would be a serious mistake to sacrifice accuracy for speed. The result of one year’s work has, however, justified the Committee in augmenting the cataloguing staff and making arrangements which, while securing continuity for the work, will accelerate it. In addition to the work on the main catalogue of the Reference Library, other important cataloguing work is in progress. The Coleman deeds relating to Lancashire and Cheshire (numbering 418), which the Committee purchased in January, have been calendared by Mr. John Brownbill. Sheaf catalogues (typed) of the prints and portraits in the Hornby Library are well advanced, while a hand-list of books of reference in the Picton Reading Room has been printed, and indexes to Parliamentary publications and other series have been compiled. Catalogues of the books in the Depét, in the Wavertree Branch Library, and of the books in the Juvenile Departments of the Everton and Toxteth Libraries, have been published during the year. The Committee have complied with the suggestions of the West Lancashire Association Territorial Force, and added to the already large collection of works on military subjects in the Libraries. Purchases have also been made to meet the requirements of various reading and educational classes. During the winter various societies have visited the Reference Library, when displays of books on their special subjects have been made. Amongst these societies may be named the Artists, the Brickworkers, the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, and the National Home Reading Union. In this way Students had opportunities to obtain knowledge of the literature on their subjects, and the subsequent demands in the Picton Reading Room proved that the opportunities had been utilised. LIBRARIES. 11 Lenpinc LisraARies. The Central Lending Library has been enlarged by adding to it a part of the room in which the Patent Specifications and Files of Newspapers are consulted. This alteration has been most successful, both as regards the convenience of the public and the health of the staff. The work of this Lending Library has been thoroughly re-organised, and the books carefully examined. Over 2,400 soiled and worn-out volumes have been withdrawn, 1,500 of which have been replaced by new copies. The whole Library has been re-classified on the Dewey system, and a new catalogue is being compiled. This work has been carried through under considerable difficulty. Except for the comparatively short period that the Library was closed for the structural alterations, the books have always been available for the public. Structural alterations have also been made at the Kensington Branch Library, and the building painted and cleaned. This is the oldest of our Branch Library buildings and the time had arrived to make improvements which would equip it to properly meet the demands the tables of statistics prove the public make upon it. The Rawdon Lending Library was formally opened by Councillor William Evans, J.P., in February, and the issue of nearly 134,000 volumes in the succeeding eleven months proves that a library in the Anfield district was wanted. The work of weeding out the soiled and worn copies of books in the Branch Libraries has been continued and over 7,000 volumes have been withdrawn. This work will now be taken up systematically and the stocks in all the Branch Libraries be thoroughly overhauled in succession. During the past year the books in the Central Lending Library were dealt with; in the ensuing year the stocks of the Walton and Sefton Park Libraries will have to be prepared for the new buildings now in course of erection; and afterwards the older and larger collections in the Toxteth, Kensington, and Everton Branches will receive attention in turn. 12 LIBRARIES. The first year’s work of the Lending Libraries’ Depot has been most encouraging. In addition to the circulation of 5,600 volumes, the exchange of books between the various Branches has been greatly facilitated by it. The collection of Foreign Literature for issue to Borrowers in the Branch Libraries has been increased and placed in the Depot. The advantages of a central collection of high class literature from which all the Lending Libraries may draw are obvious, but its successful working depends to a certain extent on the Librarians of the Lending Libraries, and therefore the demands made on the Depét collection will demonstrate at which of the Branches Students are personally assisted by the Librarians. Bank Ho.ipays. In compliance with a request by the City Council, the Reading Rooms at the Kirkdale, Kensington, and Garston Libraries were opened on the Easter, Whitsuntide, and August Bank Holidays as an experiment. Notwithstanding the fact that the opening was extensively advertised in the Libraries and the Newspapers, the attendances were too small to justify the Committee in recom- mending the regular opening of the Reading Rooms on Bank Holidays. New Lisrarigs. New buildings for Libraries in Sefton Park and Walton and Fazakerley, and a Reading Room in Stanley Road (generously presented by Dr. Carnegie), are now approaching completion, and will be opened to the public during the year 1911. The plans for the Sefton Park Library and the Stanley Road Reading Room were prepared by the Corporation Surveyor. The Committee decided to invite local Architects to submit designs for the Walton and Fazakerley Library. Twenty-five designs were received. W. E. Willink, Esq., F.R.I.B.A., was appointed assessor, and made the following awards :— Messrs. Briggs, Wolstenholme & Thornely—First Premium. Mr. Wynne Jones—Second Premium. Mr. Tahesin Rees—Third Premium. BLIND READERS— BoRROWERS FROM THE CENTRAL LENDING LIBRARY. LIBRARIES. 13 Messrs. Briggs & Co.’s design was thereupon adopted, and the work of erection proceeded with. On October 13th, the Lord Mayor (the Rt. Hon. W. H. Williams), on behalf of the Library, Museums and Arts Committee, presented to Miss Mary L. Hornby a silver casket containing a vellum scroll upon which was written the resolution of thanks the City Council had unanimously voted for her numerous and valuable donations to the Public Library of books in Braille type for the use of blind readers. I take this opportunity to draw attention to the cramped conditions under which the varied work of this department is at present carried on. Apart from the question of storage of books which will have to be considered by the Committee in the near future, the provision of improved accommodation for administration calls for immediate attention. There is no office accommodation in the building, yet the amount of clerical work and bookkeeping entailed by the administration of the Reference Library and eleven Lending Libraries, the Free Lectures, and the letting of the Picton and Small Lecture Halls, is very great. At present most of this work is done in a room that should be reserved for the use of Readers who apply to refer to the rare and valuable books it is undesirable to issue in the General Reading Rooms. LECTURES. The Free Lectures provided for the public in various parts of the City numbered 165 for adults, and 20 for children. The attendances amounted to 81,160. The reduction in attendances compared with previous years was principally caused by the General Elections occurring in the midst of the sessions. GEO. T. SHAW, Curer LiprariAn. LIBRARIES. 15 TABLE I. SUMMARY OF STATISTICS OF LIBRARIES DEPARTMENT. Volumes | Approximate estimates. Prints Lecture Ea revi Volumes. Periodicals. issued. attendaans Reference Library. oN RpapinG Room: ylumes issued on application .................000008 212,124 proximate estimate of the issues of volumes Reference Works and General Literature, RGOBOM SOCLVGS Seoccevccecc. cece cee seesecesceceees 105,638 ximate estimate of the issues of current erary, Scientific and Technical Reviews Periodicals, from open shelves .............+5 112,132 WN ReapinGc Room: umes issued on application (Prose Fiction)... 35,941 i General Literature, from Be Me sce dona moins adeicvereteo ee 72,999 \pproximate estimate of issues of current Periodicals, from open shelves ...............00000 136,482 SPAPERS: Bound Volumes .............cece0 seoee 6,611 MIMIFOAIUURTMIN'D <.c2-cd2cccveoceccescsqcecesesececess | 40,744 REDERICK Hornsey Lisrary: MRMEESTIETIMS 23). ces csccnastece dec asdaehercccasesesa vs 1,008 IRIE cent ssjecesccses EOE acto ties oscowerese 7,261 Totals—Reference Library.................. | 369,427 105,638 248,614 7,261 : Branch Libraries. JOLUMES ISSUED, LENDING DEPARTMENTS. Adult. © Juvenile. | Total. 144,463 72,320 216,783 ra 140,033 —_ 140,033 Ss 132,382 42,590 174,972 : 121,025 31,076 152,101 Deibtses< 113,164 — (| 113,164 male OT), 219 27,774 | 134,986 100,996 37,565 . 138,561 2 93,858 ! — 93,858 Sewasi 91,603 ; 89,252 180,855 Re 79,065 39,042 118,107 Riese 73,732 59,971 133,703 Totals—Lending Departments... ..... 1,597,123 Lectures (20 centres). nees ) Mamebiecture Hall..........sc..cscescsees 23,812 |) ! | strict Lecture Halls.............0..000.. 57,348 |; | 81,160 & ae ys ae! ee PE Breatey LOLAIS.“ve.cis- ase metencs ec es 1,966,550 105,638 248,614 7,261 ) 81,160 3 ————— Nore.—The references to current newspapers and directories are not included. ‘6 Closed for several weeks for structural alterations and rearrangement of stock. + Lending Library inaugurated February 7th, 1910. 16 LIBRARIES. TABLE II. Classification of volumes issued in the Reference Department. Picton Reading Room and Brown Reading Room :— Theology, Morals, Metaphysics ... Natural Philosophy, Mathematics, Physiology, &e. Natural History ae Pas sc Fine and Industrial Arts ... Specifications of Patents ... History and Biography, &c. Topography and Antiquities Voyages and Travels, Gazetteers, i laece Collected Works, Essays, &c. Jurisprudence, Law, Politics Commerce, Political Economy, Social Science, ‘&e. cae Education and Language... - Poetry and Dramatic Literature Prose Fiction Latin and Greek Classics and Translations ae "52,810 .. 40,744 Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, &c. ... 12,948 — Directories .. 89,879 Newspapers: Bound Volumes Hugh Frederick nana Art Library :— Volumes Issued Total TABLE III. 1910. 1909. 23,405 99,559 26,934 28,169 12,354 12,885 93,554 91,479 56,464 56,740 21,093 16,415 98,451 39,944 61,334 54,216 17,196 12,809 26,272 26,349 27,675 27,295 18,984 18,566 35,941 54,898 4,291 4,293 102,827 189,814 6,611 7,085 563,936 663,516 1,008 1,556 564,944 665,072 Shewing the number and classification of works contained in the Reference Department :— Theology, Morals, Metaphysics 9,224 Natural Philosophy, Mathematics, Phy eres bo, 4,366 Natural History : Bits nied e 8,782 Fine and Industrial Arts 21,219 History and Biography, &c. 17,414 Topography and Antiquities 8,238 Voyages and Travels, Gazetteers, lees EE ' 7,363 Miscellaneous Literature (principally Collected Wo orks, Essays, Reviews, Societies’ Proceedings, &c., in volumes) ... 35,665 Jurisprudence, Law, Politics 12,434 Commerce, Political Economy, Social Saened, &e. 4,980 Education and Language 2,878 Poetry and Dramatic Literature 5,211 Prose Fiction ... 5,417 Latin and Greek Cilassies arial Mien dations 1,132 Encyclopedias and Works of General Reference... 5,969 Hugh Frederick Hornby Art Library 7,860 Totai 158,152 ~~ e at ‘qodaq Sollvaquy SUPT OF poctoJsuBy “s[OA PLP SepNpoUuy x 6L = G g L | ¢ GC 6 ae G G AT FL — |suooyy SUTpRey : JSOT “STOA, OF = — TL — € iid G g (a 8 9 G G prceieresre te ki aeisinas SOLBAqUyT | surpuertT :4S0T ‘S[OA 798° —. wed he = 696 PGI GPT ShG SEI 861 Té FOG Ogg'T j|poeovjdoy : quo 10M “s[OA TLS'S | — i ak =e GLS aL a == = OT9'T ECT LI FOGx | eeeeeeeecees pans ss) ‘ano TAOM ‘UMBIPYGIM “STOA. 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CLASSIFICATION. i aaa ; [Space | | Contest. | Sranch. | Branch, | Branch. | Beanam | ga | Benne lee ee ee | Theology, Ethics .........| 2,223 | 1,664 | 1,719 | 1,118 | 784 | 821 1,198 974 | 1,061 Physics, Mathematics... 3,077 | 1,222 | 1,665 | 1,702 | 1,291 | 751 1,472 | 1,429 1,440 Natural History «........ 2,150 973 | 1,406 | 1,555 1,347 | 960 | 1,525 918 | 1,503 Arts: Fine, Industrial , 14,053 | 5,797 | 6,970 | 9,196 ) 5,859 | 5,281 | 6,092 | 5,288 . 8,628 | 53% History, Biography...... | 3,688 | 2,693 | 3,260 | 3,327 | 2,411 | 2,903 |} 3,118 2,710 | 2,685 | 2 Topography, Antiquities) 1,291 589 778 874 | 1,403 906 943 520 967 Voyages, Travels......... 2,701 | 1,782 | 2,601 1,953 | 2,046 | 2,492 2,418 | 1,452 ) 2,153 | 2 M’cellaneous Literature) 2,759 | 6,646 | 7,913 | 6,963 | 4,441 | 1,834] 4,431 | 2,586 | 4,762 | 3 Taw, Polities ..........:. 514 134 135 270 | 145 145 489 276 | 241 Commerce, &c............. 2,421 | 1,432 | 1,534 1,287 | 1,137 780 | 1,210 973 | 1,147 | Education, Language. ( itr 510 874 583 891 821 1,194 | 1,281 | 1,278 . Foreign Literature i 763 62 193 262 | 161 459 30 50 145 | Poetry, Drama..,......... 1,472 555 947 929 748 _ 1,148 953 918 | 1,163 Prose Fiction ............ 100,430 | 76,737 |101,982 | 114,026 ‘90,496 | 74,495 | 81,652 | 71,860 | 93,378 | 59, Classics: Latin, Greek 168 153 195 218; — cn oe 419 175 | 371 Books for Blind ......... 808 47 210 200 ) 4 . 62 68 193 3 ; fom Thee | TORAGB Ss... 140,033 |100,996 |132,382 | 144,463 113,164 | 93,858 | 107,212 | 91,603 |121,025 79, l * Of this total 33,696 were volumes of Music. Estimated issue of books from Open Shelves in Branch Readin TABLE VI.—Shewing the numbei | Everton | Toxteth ati Central. | Branch. | Branch. | Rranch. Brat t New Tickets issued during | 1910— AW tllinriecs q + Includes 5,269 volumes issued from Lending Libraries Depot. Rooms: to Adults, 583,467; to Children, 141,746. borrowers from Lending Libraries. Ee ) | ‘Sefton Park Wavertree) Kirkdale |West Derby| Garston Rawdon _ Branch. Branch. Branch. Branch. Branch. Branch. Total. Y 1,038 1,565 587 | 2,182 17,601 99 212 120 186 1,927 1,718 538 423 1,665 7,918 2,850 | 2,315 1,130 | 4,033 27,446 2,313 2,342 3,503 2,179 2,182 34,569 = 414 214 438 362 186 3,948 eee, 727 4,343 53,212 20 LIBRARIES. TABLE VII.—Shewing classification of Borrowers. | Everton|Toxteth /Kensing-| Walton Sefton Waver- |Kirkdale| West | Garston Rawdon] |_| Occupation. | Central.|Branch.|Branch.|_ ton | Branch, Park tree | Branch! Derby | | Branch. | Branch. peach: | Branch. Branch. Branch. SS Ee i | | —- ——. —|-_ Architects and Builders ...... | 48 1 iGale
  • — | 21 1 16 1 Stoning a es Poe ae | 28 10} 12) 14 9 | 1 5 12 | 5 6. 2 Students and Scholars ...... | 205 |1,816 |} 2,112 |2,910; 728 | 299 975 |3,340 |1,512 | ,112 | 1,728 1 Tailors and Drapers............ | 170 15 34} 64 19 6 5| 38 19 18 22 Telegraphists and Typists ... 130 22 44) 54] 7| 44 45 35 43 16 35 INGHAGCOMISUS .c LOLS ee 23 LIBRARIES. 28 a: = _ z 8 I 61 g = = — 0% 7 -- SULOOY SUIpPVy : 4SO[ “STOA Te — _— _ I — G G 9 Cc = = i; ia - eee eeererereeereee SoLeaquy Surpuoy : 480] “s[oA Foo‘. = >= = — 9 || SBT. go OFF gTs TL Teé‘T Dunlop, G. A. Dunning, A. H., F.R.G.S., F.R.P.S. eee eee ene rere err rrry .| ‘Down the Thames in a .| “‘ Japan and the Japanese.” | “Oxford: City and Uni- LIBRARIES. Subject. “London, picturesque and historical.” “The romance of the London streets by day | and night.” “A journey in the Balkan . countries.” “On tramp in Austria.” *“Nature’s sculptors and how they form earth’s | features.” “* New Zealand : its scenery, products, and agricul- tural pursuits.” camping boat.” “With a camera in the Scottish Highlands.” ** Some phases of Japanese life and character.” “The monasteries of Mount | Athos.” ‘ Christmas a recital.” * Dickens’ Carol’ : ©1812: the Moscow Cam- paign.” ““The fortresses of Ger- | many.” ** One hundred English wild flowers.” versity life.” “An artistic tour in Holland.” ** Art on the hoardings.” ‘* Painters as story-tellers.”’ ‘* Spiders and their ways.” ** Among the savages of New Guinea.” Halls. Picton—Kirkdale. Anfield. Aintree. Everton—St. Martin’s Hall. | Lister Drive, West Derby. Picton. | Aintree. St. Ambrose Mission Hall. St. Martin’s Hall. Picton. Picton. Wavertree. Aintree. Gregson Institute, Sefton Park. St. Michael’s—Kensington. Picton—Garston—Aintree. Picton. Knotty Ash—Anfield. Garston. St. Michael’s. Picton—Walton—Balfour Institute, Smithdown Road—David Lewis Club. LIBRARIES. 31 Lecturer. Ellis, John W., M.B., F.E.S. ... Gladstone, Robert, Jun., B.C.L., M.A. Green, C. Theodore, M.R.C.S., L.B.C.P., F.LS. Grensted, Canon F. F., M.A. Holland, C. Thurstan, M.R.C.S., F.R.P.S. Hoult, James Jenkins, J. Travis, D.sc., PH.D. Johnston, Rev. James, F.R.H.S. PRIN GO WIS Parkinson, Rev. George A. ... Payne, Rev. G. A. Raymond, Walter Saxby,Fred W. eee e eee eeeeeee Shaw, George T., Chief Librarian, Liverpool Public Libraries. 2? | “The beauties of dust.” Subject. ** Parliamentary life and | humour.” ** Hlectric lamps and electric lighting,’ with experi- ments. ‘‘In Neptune’s kingdom ; or, the wonders of life in the sea.” “Colour and colour photo- graphy.” “Our National songs,” with vocal _ illustra- tions by Lecturer. ** Paris, Versailles, St. Cloud, ete.” “The glories Spain.” “* Lord Nelson and his great naval achievements.” of Sunny “Electric and _light-pro- ducing fishes.” “Samuel Lover,” with musical illustrations. ‘* Songs and their kindred,” with musical illustra- tions. “The Channel Islands: their customs, beauties, ete.” ‘“Garibaldi; or, stirring times in Italian history.” Kirkdale—St. Martin’s Hall. —Wavertree—Picton. Picton. David Lewis Clubh— Gregson Institute, Sefton Park—Garston. Wavertree. Gregson Institute, Sefton Park—Picton. Aigburth—Gregson Inst., Sefton Park—Picton— Garston. Aintree—Lister Drive, West Derby— Wavertree. Kirkdale. Walton. Lister Drive, West Derby. Picton. Knotty Ash. St. Martin’s Hall. Wavertree—Kensington— Picton. “The Cranford Country : Knutsford and Mrs. Gaskell.” “‘Character, custom, and dialect.” * In crystal wonderland.” “The makers of Liverpool.” “Public Libraries their work.” and Picton—St. Michael’s. Gazston—Gregson Inst., Sefton Park—Aigburth —Picton. Knotty Ash. Garston—Lister Drive, West Derby—Picton— Balfour Institute, Smithdown Road. Walton—Aigburth. LIBRARIES. 33 Lecturer. Subject. Halls. -——— eee, Er es a Thompson, George E., “ Life in Tripoli.”” Kensington. F.R.P.S. ” ° Tillemont-Thomason, F. E. C.E., F.PH.S., F.R.G.S. Walshe, Rev. T. J. ..........8. Wells, Samuel, F.R.G.s., F.R.A.I. bed ” Wethered, Councillor W. P. ; Wright, Rev. Cecil H. _ Yardley, Walker R., t.c.P. ene e eee e eee ee eee “Portugal and the Portu- guese.”” “Six hundred miles up the Nile.” and mira- earth move- “* Marvellous culous ‘Florence and _ its memories.” “* The land of the Vendetta : Corsica.” ‘“*Where three empires meet: Poland.” “Lake Vyrnwy, Rivington, and the waterworks of the Liverpool Corpora- tion.” “The life and works of Giuseppe Verdi,” with musical illustrations. “Opera: its origin and development,” with musical illustrations. “* Jamaica, the Queen of the Antilles.’ “Shakespeare, the greatest Englishman.” “* West Country folk songs,” with musical illustra- tions. “John Chinaman: an account of a journey in Southern China.” ** Rambles and scrambles on the Pacific Slope and in the Yellowstone Regions of the Far West.” St. Ambrose Mission Hall. St. Ambrose Mission Hall. Picton—W alton—Anfield— Kirkdale. Picton—Gregson Institute, Sefton Park. Wavertree—Lister Drive, West Derby. Walton—David Lewis Club. Aigburth. St. Ambrose Mission Hall. St. Martin’s Hall— Wavertree. Anfield. Picton. Aintree—Lister Drive, West Derby—Knotty Ash—Balfour Institute, Smithdown Road— David Lewis Club. Balfour Institute, Smithdown Road. Walton. 34 LIBRARIES. Lecturer. Bullen, Frank T., F.R.G.s. Cairns, W. Murray, M.B. ...... ” ” Coop, Rev. J. O., M.A. ”? 9 Crowther, Henry, F.R.M.S. ” ” Green, C. Theodore, M.RB.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.1.S. Hamilton, Rev. James, M.A. Harris, Rev. Charles, M.A. ... MORES MNOWIS!) sc eneucerececsesessre Lund, Rev. T. W. M., M.A. ... Wright, Rey. Cecil H. seeeee .| “The people in the deep .| “‘ Heroes of the Norsemen.”’ Subject. ECTURES TO CHILDRE sea,” “ Little folk of Far Eastern Lands.” “Little pigtails and small kimonos ; or, the ‘Happy new year’ in China and Japan.” “The Conquest of the Soudan.” “Heroes of the British Navy.” “King Arthur and _ the Knights of the Round Table: an introduction to the age of English chivalry.” ‘** Country rambles with the Children.” ** Bonnie Prince Charlie.” ““Eneland in the days of old.” “The story of Hilbre Island birds.”’ “The country of William Tell: peeps into Swiss life.” “The Land of Lyonesse ; or, stories of King Arthur in Cornwall.” Halls. N. Garston—Anfield—Lister Drive, West Derby. Aintree—Wavertree. Gregson Institute, Sefton Park. Anfield—Garston. St. Ambrose Mission Hall. Kensington—Aintree. St. Martin’s Hall—Lister Drive, West Derby. Gregson Institute, Sefton Park. Kirkdale. Wavertree. St. Martin’s Hall. St. Ambrose Mission Hall. Kensington—Kirkdale. LIBRARIES. 85 DONATIONS. HOC. Beaztey,:F.S.A. :— Froissart’s Modern Chronicles, 1903-6, told and pictured by Sir F. Carruthers Gould. (Edition de luxe on vellum paper.) Tur LATE Proressor Sir Rupert W. Boyce, M.B., F.R.S.:— Yellow fever and its prevention: a manual for medical students and practitioners, by Sir Rubert Boyce, M.B., F.R.S. Tur TRUSTEES OF THE British MusrumM :— Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalene, v. 10 (Text and Plates); Flora of Jamaica, v. 1; List of books forming the library of the Reading Room, 4th ed. revised, 2 v.; Coins of the Roman Republic, by H. A. Grueber, 3 v.; Handbook to the ethnographical collections; Catalogue of romances in the Dept. of MSS., by J. A. Herbert, B.A., v. 3; Catalogue of engraved British portraits, by F. O’Donoghue, F.S.A., v. 2; Catalogue of the Greek coins of Phoenicia, by G. F. Hill, M.A.; Monograph of the British lchens, by Annie L. Smith, pt. 2; Students’ index to the collection of minerals, 24th ed.; Handbook of the tsetse-flies, by E. E. Austen; Catalogue of the freshwater fishes of Africa, by G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., v. 2. Anprew Carnecie, LL.D. :— Life of Harry Watts, sixty years sailor and diver, by Alfred Spencer. 1911. F.R.S. :— Bibliography of the writings, general special and periodical, forming the literature of philately. 1911. Sir A. W. W. Dats, M.A., LL.D., Vice-Cuancentor, Liverroor UNIVERSITY : — Warren’s Book, edited by A. W. W. Dale, M.A., LL.D. 1911. 36 LIBRARIES. Wiuuiam B. Dickenson :— The Book of Martyrs; or, the acts and monuments of the Christian Church, by the Rev. John Fox, A.M. Revised and improved by the Rev. John Malham; embellished with engravings. 1811. E. Gorpon Durr, M.A. :— The printers, stationers, and bookbinders of York up to 1600, by E. Gordon Duff; English fifteenth century broadsides, by E. Gordon Duff; and various bibliographical pamphlets. Mrs. Fortone :— Faiths of man: a cyclopaedia of religions, by Major-General J. G. R. Forlong, M.R.A.S., F.R.G.S. dv. 1906. Councititor F. J. Harrorp, J.P. :— Potted golf, by Harry Fulford. 1910. Miss Mary L. Hornsy :— Books for the Blind in Braille type, 62 v. TRUSTEES OF THE JOHN Rytanps Liprary, MANCHESTER :— Catalogue of the Greek Papyri, ed. by Arthur S. Hunt, D.Litt., v. 1, 1911. John Rylands’ Facsimiles: No 1, Propositio Johannis Russell, printed by William Caxton, circa A.D. 1476; No. 2, A booke in Englysh metre of the Marchaunt man called ‘‘ Dives Pragmaticus,”’ 1563; No. 3, A litil boke the whiche traytied and reherced many gode thinges necessaries for the Pestilence, made by the Bisshop of Arusiens, London, 1485. THe Rr. Hon. tue SECRETARY OF STATE For INDIA : — District Gazetteer of India, 23 v.; Report of the Chief Inspector of Mines in India, 1910. Friep. Krupp, A.G. (per Felix Schumm) :— Krupp’s Steel Works, by Friedrich C. G. Miller. 1898. LIBRARIES. 37 Messrs. Morrison anv Sons, WAvVERTREE: — Photographs showing the progress of construction of the Liverpool Cathedral. R. D. Ranvcuirre, M.A., F.S.A.:— Notes on Stanley and neighbourhood, in the township of West Derby and County Palatine of Lancaster, compiled by R. D. Radcliffe, M.A. 1910. Special copy, interspersed with photographs, &c. SMiruson1an Instrrurion, Wasuineton, U.S.A. :— Report of the United States National Museum, 1909-10; Harriman Alaska Expedition, 9v.; and 22 other Reports, Bulletins, &e. a oa Sourn American Misstonary Socrery (per H. W. Rowe) :— An unknown people in an unknown land: an account of the life and customs of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco, with adventures and experiences met with during twenty years’ pioneering and exploration amongst them, by W. Barbrooke Grubb. 1911. _ Tue wate Ricuarp Streez, J.P. :— Imitation : the mimetic function in human nature and in nature, by Richard Steel. 1910. » Rowarp Stewsrt-Brown, M.A., F.S.A.:— History of the Manor and Township of Allerton, in the County of Lancaster, by Ronald Stewart-Brown, M.A.; Maps and plans of Liverpool and District by the Eyes family of surveyors, by Ronald Stewart-Brown, M.A.: Photograph of Eyes’ Plan of Allerton in 1568. Unirep States Government :— Administrative reports, 1910, 2 v.; Report of the Commissioner a of Education, 1910, 2 v.; Special report of the Bureau of the Census, lv.; and 419 other Reports, Bulletins, Circulars, &e. 38 LIBRARIES. CLEMENT J. WILKINSON :— James John Garth Wilkinson: a memoir of his life, with a selection from his letters, by Clement John Wilkinson. 1914. Annual Reports have been received from various learned societies and other institutions; also Annual Official Publications of the British Colonial Governments, per the Agents-General. OTHER Books, the following :— Aberdeen University. I. William Adams. T. G. Adie & Co. American Museum of Natural History. Animals’ Friend Society. Anti-Socialist Press. Architects’ Benevolent Society. Rev. John §. Arthur. Australian Museum, Sydney. C. E. Baker. Baptist Missionary Society. Dr. H. C. Bartlett, M.A. Bennett & Co. Thomas H. Bickerton, M.D., | J.P. Birkenhead Corporation Ferries. Birkenhead Literary and Scientific Society. Birmingham University. W. R. Blair. Board of Trade, Labour Department. Boult, Son, & Maple. British Association. British Guiana Permanent Exhibitions Committee. British Medical Association. British South Africa Co. | British Union for the Aboli- tion of Vivisection. R. J. Broadbent. T. B. Browne & Co. T. N. Brushfield, M.D., F.s.A.| Buenos Aires National Museum. Government Printing Office, Burma. W. H. Butler, M.A., J.P. Miss Isabella Calder. Syndics of Cambridge University Press. PaMPHLETS, H. Armstrong, M.A. | | C. C. Cotterill. ETC., have Geological Survey of Canada. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. | Catholic Publishing Co., | Liverpool. _ Central Association of Accountants. | Howard M. Chapin. | Chartered Institute of Secretaries. Chicago Board of Trade. Department of Public Works, Chicago. A. A. R. Chinnappa, F.R.S.L. Church Emigration Society. | Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. | Cincinnati Museum Associa-| / tion. | Cobden Club. Columbia University. Compendium Publishing Co. Congo Reform Association. | Thomas Cook & Sons. Co-operative Union, Man- chester. E. T. Cope & Co. Cornell University, New York. Ithaca, Rev. J. Bell Cox, M.A. Crane & Co. Cripplegate Institute. | A. A. Dallman, F.c.s. | Edward Deacon. . Dublin University. Mrs. L. B. Dudley. E. Gordon Duff, M.a. | | Durham University. H. Norman Edge. Edinburgh University. | Heiman J. Elkin. Office. | | Emigrants’ Information | Free Trade Union. | | Thomas A. Glenn. | Hampton Scholastic ) Heaton’s Agency, Toronto. Professor W. A. Herdman, | M. A. Hughon & Co. | Incorporated National Lend- been presented by James B. Gaskell, J.P. Glasgow and West of Scot- ~ land Technical College. R. F. Gould. G. Grazebrook, F.s.A. Royal Observatory, Green- wich. J. & W. Griffin. Directory Co. C. R. Hand. | Museum of Comparative Anatomy, Harvard University. Borough Meteorologist, Hastings. J. Hazelhurst. Arthur E. Haynes. D.Sc., F.R.S. Walter Hill. J. Hope James Hoult. Humanitarian League. James Hutt, M.a. Ice and Cold Storage Pub- lishing Co. Special Tax Commission, Illinois, U.S.A. Illinois State Historical Library. Illinois University. Imperial Tariff Committee. Incorporated Council of Law Reporting of England and Wales. ing Library for the Blind. National University of Treland. Infants’ Hospital, London. Charles F. Inston, F.R.P.s, LIBRARIES. International Cable Direc- tory Co. Charles Janet. College of Science, Tokyo, Japan. Hugh R. Jones, M.D. Sydney A. Kelly. Kyoto Imperial University, Japan. A. Lamb. Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. Medical Officer of Health of Lancashire. Charles and Edwin Layton. Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society. Corporation of Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Littlewood. Lloyd’s Publishing Co. R. Cyril Lockett. City and Guilds of London Institute. Society of Antiquaries of London. London College of Divinity. London College of Music. London Directory Co. London : University College. Town Clerk, London. Louisiana State Museum. William Macdonald & Co. Macmillan & Co. Manchester Microscopical Society. Manchester Museum, Owen’s College. Manchester Statistical Society. Manchester Unity of Odd- fellows. R. Sydney Marsden, D.se. Massachusetts General Hospital. Mather & Crowther. Meany Printing Co., New York. Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Mercantile Marine Service © Association. Merchant Venturers’ Tech- nical College, Bristol. Mersey Conservancy (Admiral Sir G. 8. Nares). Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. Meteorological Council. Bureau of International Exchanges, Montevideo. T. Moody & Co Morel Testimonial Com- mittee. National Museum of Wales., Armstrong College, New- castle-upon-Tyne. New South Wales Service Board. New York State Department. of Education. H. J. Nicholls. North Wales, University College of, Bangor. Northern Counties Educa- | tion League. M. O'Mahony. Delegates of the Local Examinations, University | of Oxford. Commission du Vieux Paris. E. J. Parkinson. J. & J. Paton. Peace Society. J. Pearson & Co. University of Pennsylvania Frederick W. Penny. Walter Perry & Co. Phillipson & Golder. Robert F. Pick. Lieut.-Col. J. Pilkington, F.S.A. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons. College of Preceptors. Queen’s College, London. J. Henry Quinn. Ragged School Union. Review of Religions, India. Royal Astronomical Society. Bah Gan buias Academy | f Art. Rosal College of Physicians. Royal College of Surgeons. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. Royal Society of Canada. Royal Dublin Society. Royal Hungarian State Railways. Royal Institute of British Architects. Royal Insurance Co. Royal Society of London. Rushworth & Dreaper. J. F. Ruthven. J. Paul Rylands, F-.s.a. St. Catharine Press. Editors of ‘* Santa Lucia.” Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. William Shone. Dr. G. Herman Sieveking. | South Wales, 39 University College of, Cardiff. John A. Stephens. Arthur H. Stockwell. Stonyhurst College. Clement E. Stretton, c.5.° | Lucas P. Stubbs. Stubbs Publishing Co. | Swedenborg Society. Sydney University. Tariff Reform League. Testimony Publishing Co., Chicago. W. H. Tomkinson. George E. Thompson. Town and Counties Direc- tories, Ltd. | Trades Directories, Ltd. Trinity College of Music, London. George Tutill. Union Defence League. United Kingdom Alliance. Universal Cookery and Food Association. University Correspondence College. | Republic of Uruguay. Vancouver Island Develop- ment League. | J. W. Vickers & Co. Victoria University, Man- chester. Volta Bureau. | W. D. Westervelt. Miss Agnes Weston. | J. Whitaker & Sons. R. Whittaker. W. 'T. Whitley, M.a., LL.D. | George Whittick. William Willett. Charles W. Williams, PH.D. Norman J. Wilson, M.1.5.£. Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. W. Woffenden. Zoological Society London. of _ LIBRARIES. Reports, Catalogues, &c., _ have been received from the following :— Aberdeen. _ Adelaide, South Australia. | Ashton-in-Makerfield. Ashton-under-Lyme. Aston Manor. Enoch Pratt, Baltimore. Peabody Inst., Baltimore. Barrow-in-Furness. | Barry. 40 LIBRARIES. Battersea. Middlesborough. _ Widnes. Belfast. Milwaukee. | Wigan. Royal Library, Berlin. Montrose. Windsor, Canada. Birmingham. Fraser Institute, Montreal. Wolverhampton. Blackburn. Newark, New Jersey. Worcester. Blackpool. Newcastle-under-Lyme. Worcester, Mass. | Newcastle-upon-Tyne. York. Bodleian Library, Oxford. Bolton. Bootle. Boston, U.S.A. Bradford. Brighton. Bristol. Brookline, U.S.A. Brooklyn. Municipal Library, Buda- pest. Bury. California State Library. Cambridge Public Library. Cambridge University Library. Cardiff. Chelsea. Cheltenham. John Crerar, Chicago. Chicago Public Library. Chorley. Cincinnati. District of Columbia. Columbia University Library. Coventry. Croydon. Derby. Dundee. Dunkenfield. Edinburgh. Fulham. Great Yarmouth. Hakodate. Hammersmith. Handsworth. Harvard University. Hove. Ipswich. . National Library of Ireland, Dublin. Jersey City. Kimberley. Knutsford. Leeds. Leicester. Leyland. Lincoln. Liverpool (Lyceum) Library, Los Angelos, California. Manchester. Public Library Commission of Massachusetts. Grand Rapids, Michigan. | Rawtenstall. | Imperial Library, Tokyo, | Tottenham. | Victoria, Australia. Howard Memorial Library, | New Orleans. New South Wales. Newton, Mass. Newton-in-Makerfield. Columbia University, New York. New York Public Library. Norwich. Nottingham. Oldham Lyceum. Ottawa. Peoria, Illinois. Perth, Western Australia. Friends’, Germantown, Philadelphia. Public Library, Philadelphia Carnegie Library of Pitts- burgh. | Portsmouth. Preston. _ Providence, Rhode Island. | Richmond. National Library, Rio de Janeiro. Rochdale. Runcorn. St. Bride Foundation Technical Library. St. Helens. . St. Louis Mercantile Asso- ciation. St. Louis Public Library. Salem, Mass. | Salford. | _ Eye and Ear Infirmary. | Female Orphan Asylum. Society of Friends of Shoreditch. South Shields. Southwark. Stoke Newington. Japan. Toronto. Walthamstow. Wandsworth. Warrington. Library of Congress, Wash- ington. Waterloo-with-Seaforth. Watford. West Bromwich. Westminster. LivERPOOL INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETIES. Reports have been re- ceived from the follow- ing :— oS Architectural Society. Art Studies Association. Artists’ Club. Auxiliary Bible Society. Father Berry’s Homes. Biological Society. Botanical Society. Catholic Young Men’s Societies. | Certified Industrial Schools. Chemists’ Association. Chess Club. Children’s Country Holiday Fund. | Church Schoolmasters’ and Schoolmistresses’ Bene- volent Institution. | City Mission. | Clerks’ Association. Convalescent Institution, Woolton. David Lewis Northern Hospital | Day Industrial Schools. Engineering Society. Enquiry and Employment Bureau for Educated Women. | Home for Epileptics, Mag- hull. Foreigners in Distress. Geological Association. Hahnemann Hospital. Hospital for Consumption, Incorporated Chamber of Commerce. Infirmary for Children. Bishop of Liverpool's Fund. League of Welldoers. Literary and Philosophical Society. Liverpool Dispensaries. Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. LIBRARIES. 41 "School of Local History and) Penny Records. Liverpool University. Medical Institution. Microscopical Society. Naturalists’ Field Club. Observatory. Asylum for Orphan Boys. Overhead Railway. Peace Society. Savings Bank. Philharmonic Society. Philomathic Society. Royal Infirmary. Royal Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals. Royal Southern Hospital. Sailors’ Home. Savings Bank. The following Periodicals, Newspapers, &c., regularly presented :-— Accountant African Mail American Museum Journal Australian Official Journal of Patents Board of Trade Journal British Architect Canadian Patent Record Clerk of Works’ Association Journal Commercial Motor Daily Dispatch Decorator Decorators’ and Painters’ Magazine Domestic Engineering Educational Times Electrician Esmeduna Estates Gazette Gregg Writer Guild Gazette Gwalia Herefordshire Times ~Homeeopathie World Horological Journal Incorporated Accountants’ Journal _ Incorporated Society Musicians, Journal of _ Investors’ Guardian Irish Times Office of | Labour Gazette | Life-boat Liverpool Catholic Times | Liverpool Courier (daily and weekly) Liverpool Diocesan Gazette _ Liverpool Echo Liverpool Express Liverpool Institute Schools | Magazine Liverpool Commerce Liverpool Weekly Mercury Journal of Liverpool Porcupine Liverpool Post and Mercury Liverpool Weekly Post Liverpool Y.M.C.A. Journal Local Government Chronicle Local Government Officer Locomotive Journal Mariner Master Builders’ Association Journal Mona’s Herald Motor Motor Boat Motor Cycle Motor Traction Musical Herald National Service Journal New Church Magazine Northampton Mercury Oddfellows’ Magazine Seamen’s Friend Society. Seamen’s Orphan Institu- tion. Shipowners’ Association. Sunday School Union. Workshops for Outdoor Blind. Young Women’s Christian Association. and others, have been Official Journal of the Patent Office Our Programme Paper Maker Patents | Petroleum Review Positivist Review Preston Herald Printers’ Register Railway Review | Reports of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks. Sanitary Record | Seript Shorthand Journal Shipping World | Social |’emocrat Socialist Standard Society of Chemical Indus- try : Journal Sphinx Stationer, Printer, and Fancy Trades Register Stationery World Stonyhurst Magazine Students’ Journal Timber News Timber Trades Journal Trade Marks Journal University Correspondent Wallaseyan | Western Daily Press Zoophilist te REPORT BY THE CURATOR OF MUSEUMS. I beg to furnish the Fifty-ninth Annual Report upon the CONDUCT and PROGRESS of the Museums. 1.—GENERAL. Since 1896, a period of sixteen years, specimens of Natural History and of Ethnography, totalling over 100,000 specimens, have been added to the Collections, or an average of nearly 7,000 additions per year. The visitors to the Museums during the year are as follows :— Total Visitors Rea Hee es Sie sie a 403,128 Weekly Average it ae 138 ak tae 7,752 Daily Average... tes ee Bee Be oa 1,544 The attendance of School Children under the charge of teachers has continued, and the latter have availed themselves of the clause in the Education Code, whereby time devoted to instruction in _ Museums reckons as school attendance. School teachers make _ frequent use of the Museums theatre to give special lessons to their _ pupils—specimens being brought from the Museum cases for illustrating them. The specimens of various sections, especially those illustrating the ethnography of primitive peoples, have been _ in great request. Special lecture courses in geography, drawn up series of lantern slides has been drawn upon for further illustra- tions. Assistance has been given to advanced students preparing for University examinations in Liverpool and London, 44 MUSEUMS. Twenty-four lectures were delivered by the members of the Staff and others on Monday evenings in the lecture theatre of the Museums, specially dealing with the various collections in the institutions. They were illustrated by specimens and lantern slides. The number of visitors to the Museums on these Monday evenings totals 9,239, of whom a large percentage attend the various lectures. In all sections of the Museums considerable progress may be recorded. To the Exhibition Galleries, in addition to the general conservation and maintenance of specimens already there, numerous important additions have been made, and many descriptive and illustrative labels have been added, to aid alike the general visitor and the student. In the Lord Derby Museum a number of Mammals (Sun Bear, Tahr, Maxwell’s Duiker, &c.), Birds, Fishes and Reptiles have been mounted and placed on exhibition in the General Collections of the Upper Galleries. In the British Galleries twelve new Bird Groups, with natural surroundings, and a number of bird migrants have been placed on exhibition. Many fluid preparations of Invertebrate animals have been prepared and exhibited, and collections of British Orthoptera, Neuroptera and Hymenoptera have been acquired and are in process of being mounted for exhibition. In the Botanical and Geological Departments useful work has been done. The examination and arrangement of the very large Herbarium acquired from the Botanical Gardens, Edge Lane, has been continued. Considerable progress has been made in the transfer and re- arrangement of the Collection: of Egyptian Antiquities so kindly undertaken by Professor Newberry. It is anticipated that the synoptic grouping of the collection, whereby objects of a like nature and use are associated together into series, will greatly increase its interest and educational value. MUSEUMS. 45 A collection of Cretan Antiquities has been deposited and is in course of arrangement by Professor Bosanquet, and a collection of casts of Hittite monuments in the Berlin Museum has been received on loan from the Liverpool School of Archeology, and will be shortly mounted and placed on exhibition. The remarkable bronze head, now believed to be of Augustus, found by Professor Garstang from excavations at Meroé in the Egyptian Sudan, was on exhibition for a time in the Main Hall. It is now deposited in the British Museum, but we hope to acquire a facsimile of the original. The British and European Ceramics have been housed in new cases specially built for them, and these important collections can now be inspected to much greater advantage than formerly. A very instructive introductory case has been arranged in which is displayed many of the processes in the production of pottery. The West African Section continues to be augmented by donations from Mr. Ridyard. The total number of Mr. Ridyard’s gifts to the Museum is now not far short of 5,000. So as to afford opportunities for the inspection éf recent acquisitions, a special case has been placed in the Main Hall, in which the acquisitions made both by donation and purchase are displayed from month to month. I have much pleasure in acknowledging the conscientious work and generous co-operation of all members of the Staff. On October 18th a Conference of the members of the Museums Association, and others interested in the work of museums, was held in the Museums, on the invitation of the Libraries, Museums and Arts Committee. About 60 persons were present, including the Curators, and in some cases the Chairman or other representative of the Committee, of the public museums of Manchester, Sheffield, Hull, Leicester, Stoke-on-Trent, Bolton, Warrington, and other towns in Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire. The visitors were received and welcomed by the Chairman, Mr. F. J. Leslie, 46 MUSEUMS. F.R.G.S., and I gave a brief description of the arrangement of the collections, after which an hour was spent in the inspection of the exhibits and in that informal exchange of news and views which is so useful and pleasant a feature of these gatherings. After tea the chair was taken by Mr. H. R. Rathbone, Chairman of the Museums Sub-Committee. The following papers were given by members of the Staff:—‘‘ Note on the Introductory Series to the Ceramic Gallery in the Liverpool Museum,” by P. Entwisrre, F.R.A.I.; ‘The Botanical Gallery of a Public Museum,”’ by W. 8. Laverocg, M.A., B.Sc.; ‘‘ Modern Methods of Taxidermy,’ by Mr. J. W. Curmore; ‘‘ The Educational Value of Museums for Schools,’’ by J. A. Cruse, D.Sc. The Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Museums Associa- tion was held at Brighton from July 10th to 15th, and I submitted the following report to the Museums Sub-Committee at its August meeting : — ‘“‘T beg to report on my visit as delegate from Liverpool to the Brighton Conference of the Museums Association. Upwards of 40 Museums at home were represented, as well as the American Museum of Natural History (New York), the Australian Museum (Sydney), and the Deseret Museum (Utah). A large number of highly interesting and instructive papers were communicated, and many important discussions took place. In addition to participating in the discussions, on the special invitation of the Hon. Secretary, I submitted a paper on ‘The Purpose and Arrangement of an Index Museum,’’ (see “‘ Museums Journal,’’ Vol. II, p. 254), in which the idea was elaborated of making the Entrance Hall of Museums a philosophic introduction to the fields of human knowledge covered by museum collections. The scheme proposed for the Liverpool Museum, by Professor Newberry and myself, was outlined, and in the discussion which followed it was generally agreed that some form of introductory collection, broad in conception and treatment, is an absolute necessity in all large museums, in which the multiplicity of collections bewilder the uninitiated visitor. It was felt that it MUSEUMS. 7 AT would serve not only to demonstrate the inter-relation of the Natural Sciences, but also enable the visitors to get a clear grasp of what the institution is aiming at. I subsequently had _ many conversations with fellow-curators, in which the scheme was favourably discussed. Professor Bashford Dean, of the American Museum of Natural History, was especially interested and enthusiastic. ‘ Nothing so comprehensive has as yet been attempted,’ he said, and he will watch the development of the scheme with great interest. ‘** T also had the opportunity of meeting Mr. J. Bailey, of the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, who has charge of the Government Grants-in-Aid Fund, and of discussing with him the conditions and arrangements whereby pecuniary grants up to half the amount are made to museums for the purchase of certain classes of specimens. Up to the present no advantage has been taken of these grants im Liverpool, but I hope to bring the matter before the Committee at an early date. “IT found of great advantage the opportunity, afforded by these conferences extending over several days, of meeting and exchanging views with fellow-curators, and these informal discussions and conversations are of at least equal importance with the more formal business of the meeting. ‘Visits were paid to Worthing Museum, to the Hastings Museum, the Sedlescombe Museum, the two Brighton Museums and Battle Abbey.’’ 2.— ACQUISITIONS. A. LORD DERBY MUSEUM. VERTEBRATES— a Porifera. Presented : Mass of Encrusting Sponge from Hilbre, collected a: _ Two Sponges, from Stromness, by Mr. ae Ellison, Loudon Grove, Liverpool. 48 MUSEUMS. Echinodermata. Presented : Two Starfishes, four Brittle Starfishes, one Sun Starfish, three - Sea Urchins, and two Holothurians, from Stromness, by Mr. Geo. Ellison, Loudon Grove, Liverpool. Vermes. Presented : Seven Worms and mass of Tubes of Serpula sp. (indet.), from Stromness, by Mr. Geo. Ellison, Loudon Grove, Liverpool. Arthropoda. Crustacea. Presented : Four Swimming Crabs, one Hermit Crab, and two Spider Crabs, from Stromness, by Mr. Geo. Ellison, Loudon Grove, Liverpool. Three Hermit Crabs (Eupagurus bernhardus), from the estuary of the Mersey, by Capt. Archibald, S.H.B. ‘* Beta.” Masked Crab (Corystes cassivelaunus), by Messrs. Killip & Sons, Myrtle Street. Crayfish and Edible Crab, by Mr. G. Y. Elton, 35, Parkfield Road, Liverpool. Tracheata. Presented : Two Cockroaches (Blatta orientalis), by Mr. P. Entwistle, Deputy-Curator. Spider (indet.), from Aboyne R. Abalaliki, W. Africa, by Mr. John McCreath, 24, Dumbarton Road, Walton. Dipteron (indet.), by Dr. Hertz, Liverpool University. Two Dragon Flies (Agrion pulchellum and Ischnura elegans), by Dr. O’Connell, Heathfield Road, Wavertree. Beetle (Gibbium scotias), from a cotton mill in Rochdale, by Mr. J. B. Cox, Rochdale. MUSEUMS. 49 Poplar Hawk Moth (Smerinthus populi), from Roby, by Mr. John Stone, *‘ Blacklow,’’ Roby. Golden Y Moth (Plusia iota), from Helsby, by Mr. H. Barnes, Victoria Buildings, Helsby. Upwards of thirty Hybrid Ova of Attacus cynthia aud Attacus ricina, and a number of Ova of Samia cecropia, by Mr. J. H. Watson, Withington, Manchester. Grasshopper (Gomphocerus maculatus), from Burton Point, Cheshire, by Dr. J. A. Clubb. Beetle (Colymbetes fuscus), by Mr. G. Y. Elton, 35, Parkfield Road, Liverpool. Two Beetles (Acanthocinus edilus), from a Wigan coalmine, by My. Ralph Unsworth, Wigan Road, Brynn. Longicorn Beetle, by Messrs. Rensburg & Co., Queen Insurance Buildings, Dale Street, Liverpool. - Two Dragon Flies (/schnura elegans and Agrion puella), by _ Mr. P. Entwistle, Deputy-Curator. = Longicorn Beetle, by Mr. G. Haworth, Wigan. __ Two Cocoons, from Ceylon, by Mr. Ernest A. Buxton, Linkside, 29, Stanley Avenue, Wallasey. * Dragon Fly (&schna cyanea), from Huyton, by Mr. W. Y. ; ‘ Diving Spider, three Water-Beetles, two Water-Scorpions (Vepa cinerea), and a Water-Boatman (Notonecta sp.), by Mr. H. Varrington, 4, Myrtle Street, Liverpool. :. Small collection of Butterflies, Moths and Beetles, consisting of about 190 specimens, from the hills around Sierra Leone, W. Africa, by Mr. A. Ridyard, Elder, Dempster Line, Liverpocl. 50 MUSEUMS. Purchased : Small collection of named British Dragouflies, consisting of 25 specimens, from various localities. Small collection of named British Orthoptera, consisting of 44 specimens, from various localities. Collection of named British Hymenoptera, consisting of 363 specimens, representing 50 genera and 193 species, from various localities. Mollusca. Presented : Seventeen Land Shells and four odd valves, from Lagos, W. Africa, by Mr. J. C. Henderson, Lagos, per Mr. Ridyard. Ten Gastropod Shells and two Lamellibranchs, from Sassandra, W. Africa, by Mr. E. Quainoo, Sassandra, per Mr. A. Ridyard. Young Cuttlefish (Joschites cirrhosa), from Stromness, by Mr. Geo. Ellison, Loudon Grove, Liverpool. Two Lamellibranchs, three Gastropods (Voluta fusiformis, Tritonium pyrum, and Dolium sp.), from Australia and New Guinea, by Mrs. Ellen Parkinson. Fishes. Presented : Roach (Leuciscus rutilus), by Mr. W. G. Blanchard, Wholesale Fish Market, Liverpool. Two Catfishes (Clarias bythipogen), from Warri, R. Niger, West Coast of Africa, by Mr. J. G. Taylor, S.W.S. “‘ Raven,’ per Mr. A. Ridyard. Jaws of Shark and fragment of Skull of Vish, from Sassandra, W. Africa, by Mr. P. HE. Quainoo, per Mr. A. Ridyard. Three Piked Dogfish (Acanthias vulgaris), two Embryos and three Figg-cases of Dogfish, six Butterfishes (Centronotus gunellus), two Dagonets (Callionymus lyra and C. maculata), one Gurnard, one MUSEUMS. 51 Lumpsucker, one Pipefish (Sygnathus acus), mass of fish spawn and three fishes (¢ndet.), from Stromness, by Mr. Geo. Ellison. Loudon Grove, Liverpool. Flying Fish, from the Indian Ocean, by Mr. J. J. Edge- Williams, Rostrevor, Ireland. Five living fishes, viz., Catfish (Amiurus nebulosus), Umbra krameri, Sunfish (Zupomites gibbosus), Hybrid Rudd and Golden Orfe and a Minnow, together with the following specimens in preservative: Two Lampreys (Petromyzon fluviatilis), one American Catfish (Amiurus nebulosus), two Bitterling Carp, two freshwater Gobies (Cottus gobio) and mass of eggs, one Thunder Fish, two Sunfishes, and six bottles containing fishes (indet.), by Mr. G. Y. Elton, 25, Parkfield Road, Liverpool. Six young Eels, from Upholland, by Mr. Fred. Downes, 458, Mill Street, Liverpool. Two Bullheads (living), from Blackburn, by Mr. H. Warrington, 4, Myrtle Street, Liverpool. Ray’s Bream (Brama raii), from off the S.E. coast of Ireland, by Messrs. Harley and Miller, St. John’s Fish Market, per Capt. Brett, steam trawler ‘‘ Goosander.”’ Seventy-nine Walking Fish (Periophthalmus koelreutert), from Foreados, West Africa, by Mr. A. Ridyard, Messrs. Elder, Dempster & Co., Ltd., Liverpool. Small number of Gobies, collected officially. Block’s Topnot (Zeugopterus punctatus), by Messrs. John Duncan, Sons & Co., 17, Gt. Charlotte Street, Liverpool, per Capt. Kagle, steam trawler ‘‘ Kileen Duncan.’’ Purchased : Thirty Crucian Carp. i Exchanges : Casts of Polypterus bichir, Neoceratodus forsteri, Amia calva, Accipenser sturio, and three fishes in preservative, viz., Polyodon 52 MUSEUMS. spatula, Lepidosteus platyostomus, and Amia calva. Received in exchange from Dr. Bashford Dean, American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A. Amphibia. Presented : About 60 living Newts, from Orrell, by Mr. Harold Wright, 32, Diana Road, Orrell, Bootle. Three Salamanders (two Salamandra maculosa and one indet.), four European Tree Frogs (Hyla arborea), three Natterjack Toads, one Newt (Triton cristatus), and bottle containing Newts, by Mr. G. Y. Elton, 35, Parkfield Road, Aigburth, Liverpool. American Bull Frog (2ana mugiens), by Dr. J. H. O’Connell, Heathfield Road, Wavertree, Liverpool. Purchased : Ten Tree Frogs (Hyla arborea). Reptiles. Presented : Tortoise (Podocnemis sertuberculatus), by Mrs. Shimmin, 4, Harold Street, Egremont. Carapace of Turtle, from Sassandra, by Mr. P. E. Quainoo, Sassandra, W. Africa, per Mr. A. Ridyard. Lizard (Lacerta ocellata), by Mr. Bowe. Two living Turtles, by Mr. Eric Hamilton, 92, Huskisson Street, Liverpool. Sand Lizard, from Blundellsands, by Mr. R. Prince. Gecko, by Mr. T. Jones, 5, Fulford Terrace, Liverpool. Two Snakes, from the York Town Heights, Hudson River, New York, by Capt. Turner, R.M.S. ‘‘ Mauretania,’’ Cunard S.S. Co., Liverpool. Hardwick’s Mastigure (Uromastix hardwickii), by Dr. J. H. O’Connell, Heathfield Road, Wavertree. MUSEUMS. 53 Matamata Tortoise (Chelys fimbriata), from Para, by Mr. C. W. T. Saunders, Reculver House, Barnard Road, Claughton. English Grass Snake (7'ropidonotus natriz), from Berkshire, by Mrs. Killeen, Longcot, Farringdon, Berks., per Mr. W. Y. Forbes, Cavendish Drive, Higher Tranmere. Young African Python (Python sebaw), from Axim, W. Africa, by Mr. A. G. Ramage, 8.8. ‘‘ Addah,’’ 11, Woodcroft Road, Wavertree. Five Slow Worms (Anguis fragilis), one Three-toed Skink J (Chalcides tridactylus), two Viviparous Lizards (Lacerta vivipara), three Wall Lizards (Lacerta muralis), three Lizards (indet.), and two Turtles, by Mr. G. Y. Elton, 55, Parkfield Road, Liverpool. Young Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), from the Mississippi River, U.S.A., by Mr. W. A. Gough, 98, Aigburth Road, _ Liverpool. Two Snakes, from Burutu, W. Africa, by Mr. Fraser, Burutu, per Mr. A. Ridyard. _Eroded Cinixys (Ciniwys eroda), from West Africa, presented anonymously. Snake, from Ita, Calabar, W. Africa, by Mr. J. H. Milligan, _ Chief Engineer, ‘‘ Ita,’ per Mr. A. Ridyard. Lace Lizard (Varanus varius), from Addah, Volta River, West _ Africa, per Mr. A. Ridyard. i’ Terrapin, from New York, by Mr. I. J. White, 28, Bodmin Street, Walton. : peeteh- eyed Caiman (Caiman sclerops), by Mr. W. Simpson Cross, Southport Zoological Gardens. 4 Birds. _ Presented : ; g Gadwall Duck (Anas strepera) Q, and a Leach’s Petrel _(Procellaria leucorrhoa), from Kirkcudbrightshire, by Mr. J, P Graham, Messrs. Macfie & Sons, 34, Moorfields, Liverpool. 54 MUSEUMS. Red-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis) 3, from the Stanley Park aviaries, by the Parks and Gardens Committee, per the Superintendent. Goldcrest (Regulus cristatus) G, from Moreton, Cheshire, by Mr. F. Gibson, Moreton. Clutch of four Raven’s Eggs, by Mr. KE. Richmond Paton, 7, Darby Road, Aigburth. Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaétus), by Mr. W. Simpson Cross, Southport Zoological Gardens. Ostrich Egg, from Lokoja, N. Nigeria, by Mr. A. Ridyard. Wren’s Nest, from Shropshire, by Mr. Johnson Owen, Stanley Road, Liverpool. Nest of Turtle Dove, from Heswall, by Mr. Leonard Brook, Gayton Cottage, Heswall. Two Manx Shearwaters (Puffinus anglorum), from the estuary of the Mersey, by Capt. Griffiths, S.H.B. ‘‘ Beta.’’ Three Bitterns (Butorides javanica), one Bittern (Ardeola grey?), and two Sunbird’s Nests, by Mr. HE. A. Buxton, 29, Stanley Avenue, Wallasey. aang Five Eggs of Turtle Dove (domestic variety), by Mr. Angelo Minchella, 3, Spring Place, Liverpool. Photographs of Great Auk and Great Auk’s Egg in the Norwich Castle Museum, by Mr. F. Lenny, Curator of the Museum, Norwich. Photograph of model of Dodo (Didus ineptus), by M. Terrier, in the Jardin des Plantes Museum, Paris, by Dr. Graham Renshaw, Sale, Manchester. Heron (Ardea cinerea), by Mr. A. Ki. Brotherton, Greasby, Cheshire. Barn Owl (Stria fammea) 9, by Mr. T. R. Jones, 61, Cockburn Street, Liverpool. MUSEUMS. 55 Purchased : Kggs of Rough-legged Buzzard, Goshawk, Common Buzzard, and Teal. One Golden Pheasant, 9. Mammals. Presented : Young Gorilla, by Mrs. Cox, Manchester Street, Liverpool. Two Black Rats (Jlus rattus) 9 2, from Stromness, and a Bank Vole (Arvicola glareolus), from Llandderfel, North Wales, by Mr. Geo. Ellison, Loudon Grove, Liverpool. Rusa Deer (Cervus usa), Himilayan Thar (Hemitragus jemlaicus), Maxwell’s Duiker (Cephalophus maawelli), and an Albino Porcupine, by Mr. W. Simpson Cross, Zoological Gardens, Southport. Two Skulls and Horns of Antelope (indet.), from Burutu, N. Nigeria, by Mr. J. D. Doherty, Government Dry Dock, Burutu, per Mr. A. Ridyard. Common Shrew (Sorea vulgaris), from Berkshire, by Mrs. Killeen, Longcot, Farrington, Berks., per Mr. W. Y. Forbes, Huyton. Two pairs of Horns, from the Cameroons, W. Africa, by Mr. A. Ridyard, 8.8. ‘‘ Addah,’’ Messrs. Elder, Dempster & Co. Raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus) 3, by Mr. Alex. Pallis, ‘‘ Tatoi,’’ Sefton Park, Liverpool. Small collection of Human Bones (42), from ‘‘ La Cueva los Gruanches,’’ near Matangas, Teneriffe, by Mr. José Gonzalez, per Mr. J. B. Shipley, Messrs. Elder, Dempster & Co., Liverpool. Young Chimpanzee ¢, by Mr. Holmes Seward, Naturalist, Manchester Street, Liverpool. Two Mice (cinnamon variety), by Miss Thorburn, 99, Edge Lane, Liverpool. Bull Dog, by Mr. Wallis, 45, Gelling Street, Park Road, Liverpool, 56 MUSEUMS. Purchased : Black Mangabey, Pig-tailed Monkey, and a Grison (Galictis vittatus)., / = Botany. Presented : Three Vegetable Sponges, and six small Bottle Gourds, from Lagos, by Mr. J. C. Henderson, per Mr. A. Ridyard. Pieces of Fungus from decayed wood blocks by the Technical School, by Mr. J. Phillipson, Engineer, Technical School. Paleontology. Presented : Piece of Caradoc Sandstone showing Beyrichia complicata, from near Little Stretton, Salop, by Mr. H. C. Beasley. Fossil Fruits in Carbonaceous Shale, from the Moss Colliertes, Lower Ince, by Mr. G. A. Haworth, Ince Hall Collieries, Wigan. Exchanged : Plaster Casts of Footprints of 7hinopus antiquus, from the Upper Devonian of Western Pennsylvania, received from Prof. Richard S. Lull, Curator, Geological Department, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. Cast of Pteraspis rostratus, received from Dr. Bashford Dean, American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A. Fossil Shells from Dudley, received from the St. Helens Museum. Geology. Presented : Six small pieces of Rock, ‘‘from the Lower Silurian” (7), Bettws-Gwerfil-Goch, near Corwen, North Wales, by Mr. T. Oakes Hirst, Chapelstead, Gateacre. Two small masses of Crystals from a manganese mine 16 miles from Pwllheli, by Mr. G. A. Haworth, Ince Hall Collieries, Wigan. Nineteen various Boulders, from the Boulder Clay at Rice Lane Recreation Ground, Walton. Collected officially. MUSEUMS. 57 Tur AQUARIUM. The Aquarium continues, as heretofore, to be one of the chief attractions of the Museums. The various tanks have been kept well stocked with examples of both marine and fresh-water life, and the Seal continues in good health and to be of great interest to visitors. SUMMARY OF ACQUISITIONS. Zoological Porifera oy eS 2 Species... as 3 Specimens. Echinodermata Hy 5 Rs 3 PROTA (7 iF Arthropoda (Crustacea) Hi oa eed Dy lkebed 2 f Arthropoda (Tracheata) 350 Fi Ee mort 720 i Mollusca Nis se 9 se 40 M3 _ Fishes rt ‘ge 43 4; a G50 a a Amphibia a) ee 7 be or can oO mS Reptiles ee ue, 23 Bs Ce HOt Si ae Birds AY aut 23 = fis prt bes.) aeons Mammals... af LW Ay a sah Gt - 486 1169 Botanical. 10 Specimens. Paleontological. Zoological and Botanical ... -... a ... 10 Specimens. Geological and Mineralogical. Rocks and Minerals oy Pan Meh 75 ... 27 Specimens. Total additions to the Lord Derby Museum. S pecimens 1216, 58 MUSEUMS. B._MAYER MUSEUM. (a) GENERAL. As in previous years, the Melanian Department continues to receive numerous acquisitions from West and South-West Africa, through the kind offices of Mr. A. Ridyard, Chief Engineer (Elder, Dempster & Co., Ltd.). (b) Loans anp Deposits. The facsimiles of a group of Ancient Irish Antiquities, lent by Messrs. Johnson & Sons, Dublin, still remain on exhibition. The Collection of Chinese and Japanese Porcelain, lent by Mr. John Mellor, Junr., still remains on exhibition. A small collection of fragments of Pottery, illustrating Glazes, etc., lent. by Prof. P. E. Newberry, continues on loan. The small collection of Chinese Porcelain, received through Mr. Gordon Saies, remains on deposit. A Stone Celt found between Roby and Huyton in 1911 was deposited for a brief period by Mr. C. S. Bryce. A Collection of Cretan Antiquities has been deposited by Prof. R. C. Bosanquet. A Group of Casts of Hittite Antiquities has been deposited by Prof. J. Garstang. (c) ExcHanGEs. Garters, worn by men and women on the last day of mourning, and Necklet from the Andaman Islands; received from the Halifax Museum in exchange for duplicate Peruvian objects. (22.4.01, 14, 140 & 167.) Stone Implements from the laterite beds, Madras, India; Knackstone from the River Ken, Banda, India; and Flint Saw and Arrowheads from the Fayoum, Egypt; received in exchange from the St. Helens Museum for duplicate bird skins. (B.15.10.07, 14.4.05, 22.7.02, 30.9.11.) a ee ee MUSEUMS. 59 (d) ACQUISITIONS. (1) MisceLLanrovs. Presented : Admission Tickets to cock fights at Walsall 1811, Worcester 1817, Bridgenorth 1822, and Salford 1826, by Lieut. J. Potter, R.N.R. Photograph of an old hand-loom weaver at work, aged 84, by Francis Ibbetson & Son, Eccleshall, Bradford. Six Copper Coins from India, by Mr. John Barton. Silver Coin of Siva Simha with Pramathe Swari Akom, King of Assam, A.D. 1729, by the Government of Eastern Bengal and Assam. (2) Locan AREA COLLECTIONS. Admission Card, ‘‘ New Cockpit,’’ Aintree, 1834, by Lieut. J. Potter, R.N.R., and pair of Steel Spurs worn by cocks trained by Lieut. Potter’s grandfather for various cock fights by the Earl of Derby and others, in England. Brass Medallion Contract for Woodside Ferry, 1865 by Mr. R. D. Radcliffe. Stoneware Jug, impressed mark ‘‘ Herculaneum,’’ by Mr. F. Stockdale. Lithographic Print of the ‘‘ West Prospect of the Town of Liverpool, as it appeared about 1680’’ (published by Isaac, 1854), by Mrs. Ellen Parkinson. ** A Plan of the Closes and Land, &c., belonging to the Corpora- tion of Liverpool, with the Leasehold Tenants’ names and the several quantities,’ surveyed in 1765, planned by John Eyes, February, 1767; and a ‘‘ Plan of the Township of Liverpool from the actual survey taken in the year 1785 by Charles Hyes, by Mr. Robert Gladstone, Junr. Silver Medal of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, - with seven bars, for saving life on several occasions, awarded tr 60 MUSEUMS. James Martin, also Gold Medal of the first-class, United States of America, awarded by the United States Government, together with a photograph of James Martin, for many years master of the Liverpool Lifeboat No. 1, by Mrs. Watson. Print of the Crucifixion, by Hilton, from the original painting in the Museums, transferred from the Free Library. Purchased : Water-colour drawing of Shaw’s Bank, 1837; Porcelain Mug bearing transfer print of the Society of Bucks, signed “‘ Sadler, Liverpool,’ height 6in.; Water-colour Drawing of St. James’ Mount (site of Cathedral), by Baines, Liverpool, about 1831; Coloured Lithograph of the First Company, Liverpool Volunteer Grenadier Guards, or the 79th Batt. King’s Liverpool Regiment (Rifles), now merged into the F Company, 6th Batt. Territorials; Verge Watch in silver cases, by Alex. Hollisone, Liverpool ; Porcelain Jug with puce ‘‘ bat’’ prints, Herculaneum Ware; Farthenware Jug with red transfer prints, one a “‘ Cottage near Walton,’’ Herculaneum Ware. (3) CErRAMICS. Presented : Clay, Clay Slips, Steel Die and Tiles in various stages of manufac- ture, prepared and presented by Messrs. Pilkington’s Tile and Pottery Works, per W. Burton, Esq. The ‘‘ Thermoscope,’’ for determining the temperature of kilns, by Messrs. Holdcroft & Co., per Mr. W. Hawley. Earthenware Plate with coloured transfer prints, by Messrs. W. Stevenson & Co., Sunderland, 19th cent., by Dr. Drummond. Wine Cooler, Davenport Ware; part of a Whieldon Cauliflower Teapot, Octagonal Plate, and an early English Wine Glass, by Mrs. H. B. Moore. Specimens illustrating transfer printing on pottery, and a Jasper Plaque to show method of applying the relief, by Messrs. Josiah Wedgwood and Sons. MUSEUMS. 61 ' Selection of 17th century Tiles from a Benedictine convent at Santo Thyrso, North of Braga, Portugal, and pair of Porcelain Vases, Rockingham Ware, by Mr. R. D. Radcliffe. Purchased : a Selection of European Tiles, 17th century; Portuguese, Spanish, a Dutch, and 19th century English Tiles by De Morgan; Porcelain Plaque decorated in paté sur paté, Brownfield Pottery, Staffordshire and four ‘‘ combed’? Ware Tiles. (4) Erunocrapny. Mevantan Race. Presented : _ List of specimens collected and presented by and through Mr. A. Ridyard, Chief Engineer, R.M.S. ‘‘ Tarquah,’’ Elder, Dempster Line, Liverpool. Africa.—West and South-West. Sierra Leone. Carved Wooden Figures, Wooden Bowl and Cover and pair of _ Calabashes, by Miss Yorke. Two Carved Female Figures wearing Bundu Devil head-dress, from Shebro, by Mr. C. D. H. During. _ Soapstone Figure from the Mendi Country and Woman’s Bundu Devil Dress from Kenema, Mendi Country, by Mr. A. Ridyard. Berved Gourds, by Mr. Rowland Cole. Black polished Earthenware Vase, from Quittah, by Mrs. 62 MUSEUMS. Lagos. Bottle covered with dried grass; Carved Wooden Figures; Red Earthenware Native Lamps and Shells used as mascots, by Mr. J. C. Henderson. Gourd Bowls, by Mr. A. Ridyard. Wooden Figure, by Miss B. Yorke. Dahomey. Black polished small Earthenware Bowl and Cover, from Abeokuta, by Mr. J. C. Henderson. _ Straw Hat from Porto Novo, and various Photographs illustrating native manners and customs, by Mr. A. Ridyard. Cameroons. Earthenware Pipe-head from Bali; Grass Bag; Black Fluted Stick and Grass Mat, by Mr. A. Ridyard. Gaboon. Crossbow (Fang tribe), from Eloby, by Mr. A. Ridyard. N. Nigeria. Leather Purses, Earthenware Bowls and Covers and Bead Armlets, from Lokoja; two long Brass Pipes, Hide Bottles, Red Leather Mosquito Boots, from Kano; Grass Baskets and Lids from Bauchi, near Zaria; Basket of Coiled Work and Open-work Trays from Bornu; Brass Pipe from Benue River; Earthenware Water Cooler, from Egga; Earthenware Water Cooler and Earthen- ware Vase, from Loko; Bow and Arrows, from the Haussa Country ; and Red Earthenware Pot and Lid from Keffi, interior of Loko, by Mr. A. Ridyard. Earthenware Lamp Stand, painted in colours, by Captain Carderay. Grass Basket and Cover from Gia, Baro, by Mr. W. J. Johnson. Bone Hairpins, from Kano and Sokoto; Calabashes and Lids, from Yola and Wooden Stool, from Bida, by Mr. J. B. Bailey. MUSEUMS. 63 Wicker Tray, from Kano or Sokoto, by Mr. P. E. Quainoo. Very fine black polished Earthenware Bowl and Calabashes and Gourds, from Onitsha, by Mr. John G. Taylor. Earthenware Dishes, from Ilorin, and Earthenware Bowls and Covers, from Ibadan, by Mr. J. C. Henderson. Earthenware Bowl and Cover, from Burutu, by Mr. A. E. Williams. Brass Spoon, used for drinking ‘‘ pap,’’ from Lokoja, by Mr. J. A. Macaulay. Earthenware Water Cooler, from Loko, and Skin Water Bottle and Cover, from Lokoja by Mr. A. E. Christian. Native Basket, from Katcha, and Calabash and Lid, from Lokoja, by Mr. J. D. Doherty. Carved Cocoa-nut Bowls, from N. Burutu, by Mr. C. S. Morgan. Pair of Leather Sandals, from Lokoja, by Mr. E. W. Fine Country. ; S. Nigeria. Coiled Basket and Lid, Gourd Bowl and Club with iron head, from Ilorin, by Mr. A. Ridyard. Small Mats of Coiled Basketry, decorated with cowrie shells, by Mr. J. B. Bailey. Large Karthenware Bowl and Calabashes, from Idah, R. Niger, by Mr. John G. Taylor. Ivory Comb, from Calabar; Calabash, Grass Trays, Hide Bottles and Fly Whisk, from Kano; Alligator in wood, by Mr. S. E. Thorpe. Copper Manilla, from Bonny, by Mr. N. E. Halliley. Grass Basket and Lid, from Jalingo, by Mr. W. G. Johnson. Poison Leaves called ‘‘ mfri ntan,’’ by Prince Adam Duke, Carved Wooden Paddle, by Mr. A. Ridyard, 64 MUSEUMS. Portuguese Congo. Carved Wooden Stick, from Landana, by Mr. A. Ridyard. Rings carved from elephant hide, from the Congo, by Mr. W. O. Davies-Bright. S. Africa. Purchased : Enlarged Photographs of Bechuana krall and natives stamping mealies. Melanesia. Australia. Presented : Shields, Throwsticks, Boomerang and Heads of Spears, from Perth, by Mr. William Day. New Guinea. Purchased : Carved Canoe Head, from Panietti; Club, from South Cape; ‘Tapa’? Cloth, from Port Rawdon, Goodenough Bay; Lime Spatulas and Ear-tubes. Selection of Photographs of natives and native customs in Goodenough Bay District Solomon Islands. Purchased : Carved Cane Ear-tube and piece of Carved Tortoise Shell. Santa Cruz. Purchased : Mat of Plaited Grass. MONGOLIAN Race, N.. America. Presented : Five Arrowheads, by Mr. John Fagan. Model Loom, coloured illustration of a Navaho Indian, small painted Vase, Navaho; Photograph of a Cliff Dwelling; Frag- ment of Pueblo Pottery, and an Arrowhead, by Miss M. Thurland. MUSEUMS. 65 Arrowheads from caves near Jacob’s Cavern, Arkansas, and from Oregon, Maryland, Georgia, Ill. and the Ohio River, collected and presented by Mr. Warren H. Moorhead, Curator, Dept. of Archeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., U.S.A. S. America. Presented : Three Quartz Arrowheads, found at Punta Pichalo, Chili, by Mr. G. R. Langmaid. Japan. Purchased : Group of objects, consisting of Lacquered Boxes, Bowls, Sword Seabbards, Model Sword Scabbards, Model Quivers and Swords, Moustache Sticks, Netting Needle, Quivers, Arrows, Baskets, Sword Bands of Fibre, Belts, Nets, Bows, Reeds, &c., from the Ainus. Presented : Dyak Costume, from Java, by Mr. S. Lowell. Caucasian Race. Egypt. Presented : Mummy of a child beautifully bound in 12 distinct wrappings, with painted portrait of the deceased bound in, from a cemetery at Hawara, Fayum, Egypt, period 1-2 century. a.p., by the British School of Archeology in Egypt, per Prof. Petrie. Painted Wooden Coffin of a Priest of Min, 6th Dynasty, found at Ekhmin, Upper Egypt, Feb. 4th, 1911, by Prof. Newberry and _ Mr. H. Whitaker; by Mr. Hugh Whitaker, Lymington, Hants. es _ ~per Prof. Newberry. SUMMARY OF ACQUISITIONS. Ethnography and 7 ieee sess | 0 wi Wagga iis, AGE Ceramics SA: Ane cee tor cee | JoL Miscellaneous Por oe = x aoe on or ong ey 637 JOSEPH A. CLUBB, Curator or Museums, Sigismund Goetze.] eH DEATH US DO PART.” [Presented. 67 REPORT by E. RIMBAULT DIBDIN, Curator of the WALKER ART GALLERY. I have the honour to report in reference to the work during the year 1911 of the Department under the direction of the Art and Exhibitions Sub-Committee of the Library, Museums and Arts Committee of the City Council, The removal of the registering turnstile at the entrance door having been sanctioned by the Council in November, 1910, there are not available any statistics as to attendances. There is not, however, any reason to doubt that the usefulness to students and to the public in general of the collection of works of art in the Gallery is fully maintained. The improvement as regards convenience and the better appearance of the entrance hall is generally recognised. The modernisation of the interior, with a view to the better and safer housing of works of art, was continued during the year to such extent as the funds available permitted. The two ground floor rooms on the east side were thoroughly re-constructed and re-decorated ; the small front room, formerly used as a cloakroom, being added. The heating pipes in the dado were removed, and radiators in the ‘entre of the floor were substituted. The windows were filled with prismatic glass; the walls were panelled with wood; and oak floors were laid down. The hanging-space, as well as the lighting of the rooms, was considerably increased; and additional hanging-space was provided by the introduction of four specially-designed screens, Tn all, there are now five rooms instead of three, on this floor. available for the display of works of art, and free from the dangers ot deterioration due to the old method of heating, with the excep- tion that in each front room, there is still one unsatisfactory part where a furnace flue is in the wall, which, though not involving 68 ART GALLERY. any special fire risk, is likely to affect pictures hung near it. These five rooms are now devoted to the exhibition of Foreign and British Old Masters, including the Roscoe Collection, and other pictures deposited by the Trustees of the Liverpool Royal Institution. Specially-designed cases have also been provided in each of the small front rooms for the exhibition of miniatures, illuminations, etc. The new Cloakroom constructed in an unused part of the cart-yard has been completed, and it is found of great assistance to the staff in dealing with the deposits of cloaks, umbrellas, etc., and also the sale of photographs. In connexion with the latter, a new opening to the east back room provides special facilities. In addition to the re-arrangement of the telephones, with an exchange in the cloakroom, a special connexion has been formed with the Central Fire Police Station. During the troubles in connexion with the Railway Strike in August, a number of panes of glass in the windows on the east side of the building were broken by rioters. The cost of replacing, amounting to £12 18s. 0d., was borne by the Watch Committee. Prior to the falling due of the renewal premiums for insurance of the Permanent Collection against fire, I entered into negotiations with the offices concerned, with a view to a revision of the rate charged, having regard to the exceptional character of the risk. Eventually, I was able to obtain an abatement of 1s. per cent., which will result in a saving of £68 on the total annual premium. The sum for which the Permanent Collection is now insured, including £3,100 added during the year, is £156,562. My attention having been drawn to a clause in the new Copyright Bill, which was calculated to prejudice and perhaps destroy the Corporation’s copyright in pictures in the Gallery, I approached the Imperial Arts League with a view to protective action, and, ata conference on the subject held at Leighton House, at which there was arepresentative gathering, I was appointed on a Sub-Committee to take such steps as were possible to get the Bill amended. Lord ART GALLERY. 69 Redesdale and other influential personages took the matter up, and Sir John Simon, with whom I had an interview through the good offices of Colonel W. Hall Walker, M.P. (Deputy-Chairman of the Art and Exhibitions Sub-Committee), undertook to give the matter favourable consideration. Eventually, the objectionable clause was dropped, on the motion of the Earl of Derby. With the sanction of the Committee, I attended the meeting of the Museums Association at Brighton, on 10th to 14th July, and, while there, being requested to contribute a paper to the proceedings, I wrote one on ‘‘ The Functions and Scope of a Municipal Art Museum,’ which provoked considerable useful discussion, and was afterwards published in the proceedings of the Association in January, 1912. (Vol. II., No. 7, page 193.) In the course of the year, the No. 5 Loan Collection of Turner Drawings, lent by the National Gallery in 1909, was returned. Twelve casts of antique statuary were transferred to the City School of Art, and the Model of Rome was removed from the East Back Room, prior to the alterations which have been referred to. The care of the Permanent Collection has been greatly facilitated by the new and capacious gilders’ room, constructed in 1909. During the year the following special work has been done :— No. 269, Portrait of Alderman W. Bennett, by W. B. Boadle, was repaired by the artist. New frames were provided for No. 407, H. L. Elmes (Engraving), by T. Oldham Barlow, R.A. (also new mount) ; 39 Etchings and Mezzotints, by John Finnie; 25 Liverpool Sketch Club Drawings; 39 Hunt Drawings. The following were mounted:—39 Finnie Etchings and Mezzotints; 145 Hunt Drawings; 62 Liverpool Sketch Club Drawings. The frames of the following were repaired and re-gilt :— No. 893, ‘‘ Kittie,’ by Frederick Sandys; No. 655, ‘‘ The Widower,’’ by Sir Luke Fildes, R.A.; No. 330, ‘‘ Tried 70 ART GALLERY. Friends,’’ by W. Huggins; No. 387, ‘‘ Interior of a Butcher’s Shop,’ by Jan Steen; No. 285, “‘ Venus beseeching Vulcan ”’ ; No. 47, ‘‘ Farm Buildings,’’ by Patrick Nasmyth; No. 897, ‘White Pike, Broughton Moor,’ by D. A. Williamson (also new mount); No. 357, ‘‘ The Progress of Intemperance ”’ (‘Sick and Repentant,’’ ‘‘The Ruined Family,’ “ The Expectant Wife,’ and ‘‘ The Robber,’’ from this series), by E. V. Rippingille. Three pedestals and six small oak block plinths, for the display of sculpture, were provided; also four screens and two pedestals with attached revolving frames, for the display of reproductions. Four screens were also provided, and two pedestals and attached revolving frames for the display of reproductions. Under the Agreement with the Trustees of the Royal Institution, the work of conserving the Roscoe Collection made further progress. Twelve works were cleaned and repaired, and the frames re-gilt. The cost of this work amounted to £108 14s. 8d. The pictures in the Branch Libraries were inspected. Inscrip- tions were written on the frames or mounts of 346 pictures, ete. The attendances of students during the year numbered 1,099. Twelve new students’ tickets were granted. During the year pictures have been lent to the following :— Royal Academy of Arts, London; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art, and Industry, Glasgow; The Coronation Exhibition, London; The International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers, London; Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; The Canadian National Exhibition of Toronto; and the Art Galleries of the following Corporations :—Aberdeen, Blackpool, Bury, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Wallasey, and York. < \arh VIU; =. ; ,. > 7 of ' ia = t y P res rSICk ee Denis Eden-] (Purchased under Derby Bequest. GRISELDA AT “THE WHEATSHEAF.” aS Ow see ART GALLERY. al The following additions to the Permanent Collection were made during the year: 1.—By Purchase from the Autumn Exhibition. *“ St. Paul’s from the River—Morning Sun’’ (oil), by Henri le Sidaner. ‘April”’ (oil), by S. J. Lamorna Birch. ““A Theme ’”’ (oil), by T. E. Mostyn.. *** Griselda at the Wheatsheaf ’’ (oil), by Denis Eden. ** Won't you come too ?”’ (water-colour), by W. H. Margetson. *“ Richmond ’’ (water-colour), by A. W. Rich. ** Sailing Ships ’’ (water-colour), by J. E. Southall. *“ Chasing the Fleet-foot Roe’’ (water-colour), by Charles Sims, A.R.A. ‘Bon Jour! ’’ (miniature), by Miss Bess Norriss. ‘** Highland Shearing ”’ (pastel), by J. R. K. Duff. ** Mon petit chou”’ (bronze), by Miss K. E. Wallis. ‘“* Head of Cupid ’’ (marble), by W. J. McLean. “© The Picture Book ’’ (bronze), by Herman Neujd. *“ Echo ”’ (bronze), by Miss IL. E. C. Maryon. ** Mother and Child ’’ (bronze), by Charles Ricketts. ‘““The Hum of the Wild Bee’’ (drawing), by Miss Katherine Cameron. ‘The Poisoner’’ (drawing), by Sydney Joseph. ‘*The Etcher’’ (lithograph), by A. S. Hartrick. ** Professor Tindall’ (lithograph), by J. McClure Hamilton. ** Musicians” (lithograph), by John Copley. “The Tramp ’’ (lithograph), by Miss E. A. Hope. **T] Ponte, Venice ’’ (lithograph), by J. Kerr Lawson. ‘A Seaboard Hamlet, Norfolk ’’ (etching), by Martin Hardie. “Place du Bourg, Bruges’? and ‘‘ Quai Long, Bruges’ (etchings), by Frank M. Armington. ? 72 ART GALLERY. ‘* Poole Harbour ’’ (aquatint), by C. H. Baskett. “The Beguinage, Bruges—Moonlight’’ (colour print), by Frederick Marriott. ‘The Palace Gardens, Venice’? and ‘‘The Ducal Palace, Venice ’’ (colour prints,) by Charles H. Mackie. ‘Swan and Cygnets ’’ (colour print), by W. Giles. “St. Ives Bay ’’ (colour print), by Sydney Lee. “‘ Waterloo Bridge ’’ (colour print), by E. L. Laurenson. ‘Les pommes de terre ’’’ (woodcut), by Paul EH. Colin. ‘‘ On décharge ’’ (woodcut), by Paul E. Colin. ‘Tes Foins dans les Vosges’’ (woodcut), by Paul E. Colin. ‘Ta Moisson 4 Domrémy (Meuse) ’’ (woodcut), by Paul E. Colin. ‘Le Troupeau ’’ (woodcut), by Paul E. Colin. Three vases by the Pilkington Tile and Pottery Co., Ltd, Two vases by the Ashby Potters’ Guild. * Bought under the terms of the Lord Derby Bequest. 2.—By Purchase. “ More complimentary than it seems ’’ (original pen drawing), by G. du Maurier. “‘ Portrait of a Lady ’’ (miniature), by Thomas Hargreaves. Portfolio of reproductions ‘‘ Masterpieces of Mimiature Painting.” ‘“White Pike, Broughton Moor’ Williamson. 3 (water-colour), by D. A. ‘“‘ Holyrood Palace,’’ and ‘‘ The Canongate, Edinburgh ”’ (pencil and wash drawings), by Edwin Moore. 3.—By Donation. «Till death us do part ’’ (oil), by Sigismund Goetze; presented by an anonymous donor. ‘“Wensleydale’’ (oil), by D. A. Williamson; presented by Councillors Joseph Bibby, J.P., and F. C. Bowring, J.P. J. &. Southall.) [Purchased SAILING SHIPS. , ; 4 ART GALLERY. 73 ‘“The Great Gale of January, 1839’ (oil painting, attributed to Samuel Walters); presented by H. Noel French, Esq., on behalf of the Shareholders of the Liverpool Steam Tug Co., Ltd. “4 Sunny October Morning” (oil), by Thomas Huson, R.I., “Scene in the Vale of Conway ”’ (oil), by John Finnie, R.E., and “Women of Phenicia ’’ (oil), by Robert Fowler, R.I.; presented by Arthur Geddes, Esq. ‘‘Fantine’’ (oil), by Miss Bernardine Hall; presented as Executor by Douglas B. Hall, Esq., M.P. ** Wallasey Marsh ”’ (oil), by William Davis; presented by James King, Esq. ““Near Lever Park,’’ ‘‘ Rivington Lakes,’’ ‘‘ Lever Park, Rivington,’ ‘‘ Rivington Church,’’ and ‘“‘ View of Rivington ”’ (water-colour drawings), by Sir Alfred East, A.R.A., P.R.B.A. ; presented by Sir W. H. Lever, Bart. “A Sussex Village’ (water-colour), by Vivian Rolt; presented by Miss Anna Thompson. ** Kittie’? (crayon), by Frederick Sandys; presented by Miss Ellen Ells. ** Pontoise, France ’’ (two drawings—one pencil and one water- colour), by Ambrose Poynter; presented by Miss H. M. Poynter. “The late J. Campbell Brown, D.Sc., LL.W., Professor of Chemistry, University of Liverpool ’’ (marble bust), by Charles J. Allen; presented by Mrs. Campbell Brown. Forty etchings and mezzotints, by John Finnie, R.E.; presented by Dr. H. Nazeby Harrington, in order to show his appreciation of the recent development of the Black and White Section in this Gallery, and with a view of including, as far as possible, an adequate representation of the copperplate work of the artist. ““Encombe Woods,’’ the original etched copperplate by Sir F. Seymour Haden, P.R.E.; presented on behalf of the Executors of the Artist by Dr. H. Nazeby Harrington. 74 ART GALLERY. “The Celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of H.M. Queen Victoria at St. Paul’s Cathedral, 22nd June, 1897’ (photogravure after the painting by Andrew C. Gow, R.A.); presented by Henry Clarke, Esq. Parts IV and V, Reproductions of prints, third series; presented by the Trustees of the British Museum. 4.—By Bequest. Portrait of the late H. Stacy Marks, R.A. (oil), by W. W. Ouless, R.A.; bequeathed by Mrs. H. Stacy Marks. 5.— Deposited on Loan. By John Elliot, Esq., J.P., ‘‘ Cattle with Landscape,’’ and “‘ Lions and Boa-constrictor,’’ by W. Huggins. By Victor C. Haag, Esq., ‘‘ A Bridal Procession at Damascus ”’ (water-colour), by Carl Haag, R.W.S. By O. S. Pilkington, Esq., ‘‘ The Virgin and Child,”’ by Cima; “The Virgin and Child,’’ Flemish School; ‘‘ The Holy Family,’’ by Andrea del Sarto; ‘‘ Blue Boy,”’ by Carlo Dolci. By Messrs. Lindsay, Howe & Co., on behalf of A. Rainy, Esq., “Mr. Adam Rolland, of Gask ” (oil), by Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. The Permanent Collection has thus, during 1911, been enriched (apart from pictures lent) by the addition of 111 works, viz. :— By Deceased Artists, 5 paintings in oil. 2 nf water-colour. 1 miniature. 1 crayon drawing. 1 pen drawing. 3 pencil and wash drawings. 40 etchings and mezzotints. 1 etched copperplate. ART GALLERY. 75 By Living Artists. 8 paintings in oil. 11 water-colour. picture in pastel. pencil drawing. miniature. marble busts. bronze statuettes. ) lithographs. 5 etchings. colour prints. woodcuts. photogravure. keramic pieces. 1 1 1 2 4 3) 3 1 aquatint. 6 5 if 5 3 portfolios of prints. All the purchases were made, as in previous years, from profits earned by the Autumn Exhibition account; no money from the rates having for many years been expended in the purchase of works of art for the Permanent Collection. The annual Exhibition surplus has, for a good many years, been steadily dwindling, in harmony with the general experience of Art Exhibitions: the result probably of the increase of counter-attractions; and, as a result, the Committee is no longer able to deal adequately with the duty of enriching the Permanent Collection with new acquisitions. It is a necessary matter of policy that the money earned by the Exhibitions should be spent in them, but, as no fund whatever is provided for purchases, apart from the small income of the Derby Bequest, which is especially set apart for the encourage- ment of rising artists, the Committee has found it necessary to divert 76 ART GALLERY. a considerable amount for the acquisition of older works, chiefly by local artists. In this way, there have been purchased during the year 1 water-colour, 1 miniature, 3 pencil and pen drawings, and a portfolio of reproductions. Cordial thanks are due to a number of generous donors (a list of whom is given above) who have added some very desirable works to the Permanent Collection. Acknowledgments are also due to the kind lenders of several very important works especially a particularly choice example of the Art of Sir Henry Raeburn, hitherto unrepresented in the Gallery. There are now 1,276 items in the list of the Permanent Collection, of which 117 are at present on loan to public buildings in the City, viz., Town Hall, 25; Newsham House, 24; Central Library, 20; Kirkdale Library, 9; Everton Library, 7; Wavertree Library, 12; Toxteth Library, 4; St. Martin’s Hall, 1; Calderstones House, 14; Museum, 1. The Galleries were opened on Saturday evenings until 8 o’clock during the months of October to May, inclusive, and also on Sundays from 2 to 4-30 p.m. during the same period. During the year, rooms have been used for the following special exhibitions : — 1. Exhibition of pictures by H. Clarence Whaite, P.R.C.A., R.W.S., from 28th January to Lith February. 2. Exhibition of work by students of the Liverpool City School of Art, from 28th January to 11th February. 3. The Northern Photographic Exhibition, from 3rd to 18th March. 4. Forty-first Annual Autumn Exhibition of Modern Art, trom 23rd September, 1911, to 8th January, 1912. ART GALLERY. 77 The Autumn Exhibition was open during 91 days and 59 evenings, from 23rd September, 1911, to 6th January, 1912. The catalogue comprised 2,540 items, as against 2,445 in 1910, and the collection was similar in plan to that of 1910, including amongst its special features a room devoted to Continental art, a complete exhibition of works (102 in number) by members of the Royal. Society of Miniature Painters, a very important black and white section, including lithographs by members of the Senefelder Club, and collective exhibitions of works by members of the Pastel Society and the Society of Graver-Printers in Colour. The Continental Section, which was shown in Room B, included a special exhibit of Swedish pictures, 21 in number, which with 28 etchings, etc., formed a collection representative of the art of the day in that country. For this interesting novelty we were indebted to the kind co-operation of Mr. H. D. Roberts, Director of the Public Library, Museums, and Fine Art Galleries, Brighton; the pictures being selected from those at the Swedish Exhibition held during the earlier mouths of the year at the Brighton Gallery. A special exhibition of paintings by Mr. T. E. Mostyn, of 27 items, which was arranged in Room 4, proved a most attractive novelty. This innovation, which was strenuously opposed and adversely criticised by a number of those connected with the exhibition, and especially by the professional members of the Hanging Committee, showed emphatically the desirability of getting away as far as possible in future exhibitions from the indefinite, miscellaneous character, which has become a tradition. The Subscription Banquet at the opening of the exhibition, instituted in 1909, was repeated on 21st September with great success, there being 110 ladies and gentlemen present, including the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress of Liverpool, the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress of Manchester, Sir W. H. Lever, Bart., Mr. J. Y. Dawbarn, M.A. (President of the Liverpool Academy), and Mr. E. A. Hornel. 78 ART GALLERY. A painting commemorative of the occasion was voluntarily under- taken by Mr. Arthur J. Lyons, of Paris, on the suggestion of the Chairman of the Sub-Committee, and this, which contains the portraits of over 50 well-known Liverpool people, was offered by subscribers, and accepted as a gift to the Art Gallery. The subject, an extremely difficult one, was handled with great ability by Mr. Lyons, who has specialised in compositions of this kind. Opinions vary as to his success, but those which were unfavourable may, perhaps, have been due to the natural distrust of anything unusual in pictorial art—which similarly found expression when Rembrandt produced his so-called ‘‘ Night Watch,’’ in which he disregarded the arid conventions regulating such pictures. It is to be regretted that, as the picture was intended for the Permanent Collection, the subscription list was not such as to justify the artist in spending a month or two longer in doing his utmost to make it worthy of his reputation. 386 works were sold, the catalogue prices of which amounted to £8,394 6s. 6d. This shows a very gratifying improvement, the total being more than double that of the previous year, and larger than that of any year since 1900. In addition to the official catalogue, an illustrated one was, as usual, published by Messrs. D. Marples & Co. The Committee had vaiuable professional assistance in the preparation of the Autumn Exhibition from Messrs. Adrian Stokes, A.R.A., I. A. llornel, and Adolph C. Meyer, A.R.E. The attendance of the public at the Exhibition was somewhat less than that of the previous year. This may, in part, be attributed to the shorter duration of the Exhibition, due to the delay in opening it, caused by the Railway Strike, which prevented pictures being brought from London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, &c. There is, how- ever, a general shrinkage in attendance at all exhibitions in recent years, but it may be noted that, as regards the Autumn Exhibition, the falling off during the last two years coincides with the great Charles J. Allen.) THE LATE if CAMPBELL BROWN, [Presented by WCrs. Campbell Brown. D.Se., LL.D. (Marble Bust.). ART GALLERY. 79 reduction in advertising on hoardings, and otherwise. The figures for 1911 are as follows : — Atjone sailing (Ol Gays). 2.5... 55.005 entndedsben 19,036 At sixpence (48 evenings) ................00085 8,685 At threepence (11 evenings) ............:-.... 7,572 Mipeellanmuast yin: yltorks whe ven tyy dics erhin 579 — 39,872 School Tickets :— At two shillings (admitting 24 scholars and a teacher) 294 tickets, representing Adi; ALLEN ANCE AVE. ic h000 8h: siaco an sd cnadvea nets 7,390 Season Ticket Holders :— RPCRRIOIGID Ge ore ssn d oe em na tant iapes saan a 162 A aceaes (ese oN ciel. Paap Te ae co. aaah thn nd dhote 728 Pinmetiber mes. (28- (Gd) dad cs acpanencddens=sneess 2,314 MRTUITUMIOIEGRES, C08 go oan estes teavigngiarsasnecsess 650 47,076 Season ticket holders’ soirees were held on 22nd September and 8th January, at the former of which there were present the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Lady Mayoress, and other civic dignitaries. On each occasion there was a programme of vocal and instrumental music. The interesting series of Friday afternoon ‘Talks’’ on art subjects was discontinued, because I found it impossible to obtain a sufficient number of volunteers to form a programme. I was, however, fortunate in obtaining one very eminent volunteer in the person of my friend, Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, who visited Liverpool specially to give a ‘‘ Talk”’ on Friday, 29th December. It was unwillingly and with regret that I gave up the ‘‘ Talks,”’ for I should rather have wished to extend the idea, which proved most acceptable to the public, by having such things in the evenings as well as in the afternoons. If an attraction of this kind could be provided, it 80 ART GALLERY. would do much to improve attendance at, and interest in, the exhibition. It is not, however, possible to do so without some expenditure of money. On 18th October, a miniature No. 1,993 ‘‘ Fiona’’ by Miss E. Macpherson was stolen by some visitor to the exhibition, and though every possible effort was made, with the assistance of the police, to detect the thief, no clue was obtained. On 5th July a proposal to hold an Art Union in connection with the Autumn Exhibition was approved by the City Council, and a Committee was formed, with the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor as President, and Councillor P. Charles Kelly as Chairman, to carry on the enterprise, which had for its sole object to aid the Autumn Exhibition by increasing the sales. The project, after it had been launched, met with a good deal of unexpected opposition, and this, combined with the delays thereby caused, greatly hampered the Committee in its work. 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OF THE MOORE RENTAL, bequeathed by Mr. HENRY YOUNG, of Liverpool, to the Liverpool Public Libraries. SIXTIETH ANNUAL REPORTS LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS ARTS COMMITTEE CITY OF LIVERPOOL, FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER 1912. LIVERPOOL : C. TINLING & Co., LTpD., PRINTING CONTRACTORS, 53, VICTORIA STREET. 1923 COMMITTEE AND OFFICERS for the Year 1912-13. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J.S. HARMOOD BANNER, M.P., D.L., LORD MAYOR. Committee : ALDERMAN FRANK J. LESLIE, F.R.G.S., CHAIRMAN. RICHARD CATON, ESQ., M.D., LL.D., J.P., DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN. FRANCIS W. BAILEY, ESQ., M.R.C.S. (Chairman, Lectures Sub-Committee.) PROF. R. C. BOSANQUET, M.A., F.S.A. FREDERICK C. BOWRING, ESQ., J.P. ALBERT BUCKLEY, ESQ. JOHN BYRNE, ESQ., J.P. ALDERMAN A. COMMINS, LL.D. ALDERMAN A. CROSTHWAITE, J.P. THE RT. HON. THE EARL OF DERBY, PGy CB: ALDERMAN SIR WILLIAM B. FORWOOD, D.L., J.P. ERNEST C. GIVEN, ESQ., M.1.C.E. (Chairman, Libraries and Reading Rooms Sub-Committee.) ALFRED GRIFFITHS, Esq. FRANCIS J. HARFORD, ESQ., J.P. PROF. W. A. HERDMAN, DSc., F.B.S. (Deputy-ChairmanMusewms Sub-Committee) ROBERT C. HERMAN, ESQ. PHILIP DURNING HOLT, ESQ. C. SYDNEY JONES, HSQ., M.A. P. CHARLES KELLY, ESQ. REGINALD G. LAYTON, ESQ. ALDERMAN JOHN LBA, J.P., (Chairman, Arts and Exhibitions Sub- Conunittee.) PROFESSOR A. M. PATERSON, M.D. HERBERT R. RATHBONE, ESQ., B.A. (Chairman, Museums Sub-Committee.) RONALD STEWART-BROWN, ESQ., M.A., F.S.A. (Deputy-Chairman, Libraries Sub-Committee). COLONEL W. HALL WALKER, M.P. (Deputy-Chairman, Arts and Exhibitions Sub-Committee) Advisory Members of Museums Committee : ARTHUR H. ARKLE, Esq. Prof. JOHN GARSTANG, D.Sc., M.A., B.Litt. ROBERT GLADSTONE, Jun., Esq., B.C.L, M.A. Prof. JOHN LINTON MYRKES, M.A. Prof, PERCY E. NEWBERRY, M.A. Chief Wibrarian: GEORGE T. SHAW. Deputy-Xibrarian : HENRY E. CURRAN. Curator of Wusenms: JOSEPH A. CLUBB, D.Sc. Deputy-Curator of Hluscums: P. ENTWISTLE, F.R.A.I. Curator of the Walker Art Gallery : E. RIMBAULT DIBDIN. Assistant Curator, Walker Art Gallery: ARTHUR G. QUIGLEY. CHAIRMAN’S” PREFACE. With this volume the Library, Museum and Arts Committee may be said to have reached their Diamond Jubilee, for it forms the Sixtieth Annual Report of their work. The steady progress of that work, and the way in which, year by year, the departments under their charge have been made more and more useful to the community, appear in the interesting Historical Summary, prepared by the Chief Librarian, on pages 7 to 14 of his Report. It is a happy circumstance that the donors to whose generosity we owe the inception of the three branches which are served by the Committee’s Institutions in William Brown Street, the 13th Earl of Derby, Sir William Brown, and Sir Andrew Walker, are all to-day represented on the Committee by their descendants, the 17th Earl of Derby, Mr. Ronald Stewart-Brown, and Colonel W. Hall Walker. In this fact there is security that in the development of those Institutions the original intentions of the benefactors are being duly respected. The work has grown beyond any anticipations which those benefactors could have formed. It was said years ago that a Library could be fairly representative of all branches of literature when it reached 10,000 carefully selected volumes. But that number of volumes are issued every day in our Libraries, while the Museums and Art Gallery are visited by nearly a million persons in the course of a year. One very satisfactory feature in the Library statistics is the greatly increased issues, nearly 84,000 volumes more than last year, to juvenile readers. There are now 19,500 children holding Reader’s Tickets in the Lending Libraries, and although a large proportion of the books they take out come under the heading of fiction, last year 414,000 volumes were in other departments, more than half of these being books of Travel, History, Biography and Fine Arts. 4 CHAIRMAN’S PREFACE. A notable event of the year was the visit of the Library Associa- tion in September, after an interval of twenty-nine years since their last meeting here. They expressed their admiration of our system of Lending Libraries and Reading Rooms, more complete, in their opinion, than in any City they had visited. A number of American Librarians were present, and they were specially interested in the close co-operation which now exists between our Branch Libraries and the neighbouring schools, by which on certain days in the week whole classes are taken to the Libraries for an object lesson in the use of books. ‘They told us that in that respect we were ahead of anything which has been attempted in the United States. The Report of the Museum Curator shows also the educational work which is being done there in direct partnership with the Schools. The Schools Loan Collections, comprising. over 1,000 scientific objects, now circulate among 103 of our Elementary Schools, and, in addition, daily visits are paid to the Museum by school classes and their teachers. Over 1,500 Secondary School and University Students also attended at the Museum during the year for special work on Students’ days. Numerous school classes, and many students, have also made use of the Art Gallery. I especially emphasize these growing uses of the three buildings, because they confirm and strengthen the view I have always held that familiarity with the City’s splendid literary, scientific and art collections should be a recognised part of our educational system, and that the earlier in a child’s school life it is taken in hand, the better. The Local History Gallery in the Museum has grown to an extent which delights those who are interested in the story of our City. I would earnestly appeal to all who have in their possession objects which illustrate that story, to consider whether they cannot deposit them with us, as gifts or as loans. I venture to think that no better way can be found of inspiring civic pride and patriotism in our future citizens than by showing them, as children, the living history of the City, brought together in such a Gallery. CIIAIRMAN’S PREFACE. 5 In the Art Gallery our gratitude is due for many valuable gifts, -which have, with the purchases, added 40 more items to the Permanent Collection. Towards the urgently needed extension of the Gallery the late Mr. Thomas Bartlett's legacy of £10,000 is a welcome and important contribution. There is now ample land for the extension in the hands of the Corporation, designs have been prepared, and it is to be hoped that there may be no long delay before a beginning is made. The revised Catalogues of the Libraries and the Art Gallery, and the popular Guides to the Museums, are making good progress. These are very necessary features in the general scheme of in- creasing the popularity and usefulness of all the Institutions. FRANK J. LESLIE, Chairman. 1848 1850 1851 {| HISTORICAL SUMMARY. Suggestion by the Rev. Canon A. Hume at a meeting of the Roscoe Club, February 1848, that a Free Public Library be established in Liverpool. Committee cL ator by Town Council, 3rd April, on the motion of Councillor James A. Picton, to consider and report upon the establish- ment of a Publie Library for Liverpool. Negotiations with the Trustees of the Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, and Report of the Provisional Committee, 4th September, recom- mending that an Act of Parliament be obtained for the transfer of the Royal Institution and its contents (paintings, casts, natural history specimens, books, ete.) to the Corporation, and that a Public Library, Museum, and Gallery of Art be established in that building. An Association of Citizens formed, 10th December, to promote the formation of the proposed Library, Museum, and Gatiery oi Art, and to solicit subscriptions, books, and specimens. The Bequest by the Right Honourable Edward-Smith, 13th Earl of Derby, K.G., F-L.S., of his collections of Natural History Specimeas intimated to the Corporation of Liverpool by the Kight Honourable Edward- Geoffrey, 14th Earl of Derby, k.e., F.L.s. Mr. Thomas J. Moore appointed first Curator of the Museum. 1852 1854 1855 The “Liverpool Royal Institution (Transfer of Property) Bill” sub- mitted to Parliament and withdrawn, May 1851. The purchase of the Union News Room, Duke Street, for the purposes » of a Library and Museum decided upon, 9th September. Act of Parliament, 3rd May, to establish a Public Library, Museum, and Gallery of Art, and to provide Public Lectures. Councillor James Allanson Picton became first Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts: Committee. Mr. John Stuart Dalton appointed first Chief Librarian. Collection of maps, views, portraits, documents, etc. illustrative of the history of Lancashire (particularly Liverpool), purchased from the Executors of Mr. Thomas Binns. Reference Library, Duke Street, opened by the Mayor of Liverpool (Councillor Thomas Littledale), October 18th. The Library, Museum, and Arts Committee were also charged with the management and maintenance of the Botanic Gardens and Park. The Museum of Natural History, bequeathed to the town by the Earl of Derby, was opened to the public by the Mayor of Liverpool (Councillor Samuél Holme), Duke Street, 8th March. Two Branch Lending Libraries opened: in (1) the North Corporation Schools, Bevington Bush, 18th October; and (2) the South Corporation Schools, Park Lane, Ist November. A Superintendent of Branch Libraries decided upon. Mr. W. Roulston appointed. The South Branch Lending Library transferred from the South Corporation Schools to premises in Hardy Street, December 1854. Parliamentary powers obtained, 16th July, to appropriate a site in Shaw’s Brow (now William Brown Street) on which to erect a new Public Library and Museum building. The North Branch Lending Library transferred from the North Corporation Schools to special premises in Great Nelson Street, June 1855. 1856 Offer of Mr. William Brown, m.r., Merchant of Liverpool, to erect a new Public Library and Museum on Shaw’s Brow. 1858 1859 1860 1862 1863 1865 1866 1867 1869 1871 1873 1874 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. Books for the Blind provided and circulated for the first time from the Lending Branches. Foundation stone of new Library and Museum on Shaw’s Brow laid by Mr. William Brown, m.pv., 15th April. The “Savage ’’ Collection of Ethnography purchased for the Museums. The South Branch Lending Library transferred from Hardy Street to special premises in Upper Parliament Street. Standard music provided and circulated for the first time from the Branch Libraries. New building erected in Great Nelson Street, providing additional accommodation for the North Branch Lending Library. The Brown Library and Museum, Shaw’s Brow, formally opened by Mr. William Brown (afterwards Sir William Brown, Bart.), 18th October. The Library was transferred from the old building in Duke Street, and opened for public service on 3rd December. Gift of £1,000 by Mr. Joseph Shipley (of Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A., and formerly of the firm of Brown, Shipley, and Co., Liverpool) for the purchase of important books for the Reference Library. The administration of the Botanic Gardens and Park transferred to the Finance Committee. Mr. Peter Cowell appointed Superintendent of Branch Libraries, in succession to Mr. W. Roulston, resigned. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales visited the Library and Museum, 31st October. Lectures Sub-Committee appointed. First group of British Birds (Common Bald Coot) with natural surroundings, prepared in the Liverpool Museum, and exhibited at the British Association Meeting, Birmingham. Mr. George Hudson appointed Chief Librarian, in succession to Mr. John Stuart Dalton, deceased. The Corporation Free Lectures inaugurated, January 1866. Councillor Edward Samuelson, s.p., elected first Chairman of the Lectures Sub-Committee. The “ Mayer ” Collection, presented to the town by Mr. Joseph Mayer, F.s.A. Bequest to the Museum by Mr. William Tyrer Gerrard of a collection of Natural History Specimens from Madagascar. A large and important collection of Shells presented to the Museum by Mr. Samuel Smith per the Rev. H. H. Higgins. An extensive series of fossils from the coal measures, chiefly from the Railway excavation at Ravenhead, presented to the Museum by the Rev. H. H. Higgins. Bequest to the Museum by Mr. John Mather of a collection of Miniatures, etc., relating to the Bonaparte Family. The First Autumn Exhibition of Pictures opened 4th September, closed 18th November, and continued annually in the Museum building until 1876. Councillor Edward Samuelson, j.p., elected first Chairman of the Fine Arts Sub-Committee. Councillor Joseph Armstrong elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub- Committee, in succession to Councillor Samuelson. Councillor Andrew B. Walker, Mayor of Liverpool (afterwards Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, Bart.) offered to devote the sum of 420,000 to the erection of an Art Gallery. Foundation Stone of the Walker Art Gallery laid by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, 28th September. 1875 1876 1877 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 9 Mr. Peter Cowell appointed Chief Librarian, in succession to Mr. George Hudson, deceased. Foundation Stone of Picton Reading Room, William Brown Street, laid by Councillor James A. Picton, J.p., ¥F.s.a., Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, 2nd December. The Chairman of the Museum Sub-Committee (Rev. H. H. Higgins) and two assistants took part in an Expedition to the West Indies on the Steam Yacht “‘ Argo” for the purpose of collecting marine specimens of Natural History, on the invitation of Mr. R. Cholmondeley, of Condover Hall, Salop. Councillor Thomas Holder, s.p., elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub- Committee, in succession to Councillor J. Armstrong. The Rutter-Phillips collection of Minerals presented to the Museum by the Liverpool Medical Institution. Mr. Charles Dyall appointed first Curator of the Walker Art Gallery. The Walker Art Gallery opened by the Right Honourable Edward-Henry, 15th Earl of Derby, x.¢., 6th September. The Seventh Autumn Exhibition of Modern Art opened in the Walker Art Gallery, 8th September. The office of Superintendent of Branch Libraries abolished, and the duties transferred to the Chief Librarian. The Picton Reading Room, William Brown Street (adjoining the Brown Library and Museum) opened by the Mayor of Liverpool, Mr. Thomas B. Royden (afterwards Sir Thomas Royden, Bart.) 8th October. Mr. Charles T. Gatty appointed Curator of the “ Mayer’? Museum. Councillor William J. Lunt elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor T. Holder, retired. Temporary Annexe to hold the Museum Ethnographical Collections built at the rear of the Walker Art Gallery. Extension of the Walker Art Gallery determined upon by the City Council. Inauguration of the Picton Lecture Hall for Free Lectures, 3rd January. he Hall is constructed in the basement of the Picton Reading Room, and was first styled the Rotunda Lecture Hall. Newspapers provided for the first time in the Reference Library. The Library Association of the United Kingdom held their 6th Annual Meeting in the Reference Library, 11th-14th September, under the Presidency of Sir James A. Picton, s.p., F.s.4., Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee. Evening Reading Rooms opened in five Schoolrooms: Stanley Road, Queen’s Road, Chatsworth Street, Wellington Road, Low Hill. (In consequence of the subsequent establishment of Branch Libraries in the several districts, these Reading Rooms, excepting that in Chatsworth Street Council School, have since been closed.) First issue of the Circulating School Museum Cabinets to various Schools in the City, in May. Entire cost of the extension of Walker Art Gallery, on completion, defrayed by Alderman Sir Andrew Barclay Walker. The extension was opened 30th August. Bequest to the Museum of the Nicholas Cooke Collection of Lepidoptera. The Major Austin collection of Crinoids purchased for the Museum. Loan Exhibition of works of Art from Lancashire Collections, in the Walker Art Gallery 10 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 HISTORICAL SUMMARY Councillor Philip H. Rathbone, s.p., elected Chairman of the Arts and Exhibitions Sub-Committee in succession to Alderman E. Samuelson, retired. Collection of Skins and Horns of large Game Animals presented to Museum by Mr. St. George Littledale. Exhibition of pictures by the Russian artist, Vassili Verestchagin. (A second Exhibition by this artist was held in 1899.) First opening of the Museums on Monday evenings from 7 to 10 during the winter months (October to March). International Photographic Exhibition held in the Walker Art Gallery under the auspices of the Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association. First Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Art and its application to industry, was held in the Walker Art Gallery, under the Presidency of Lord Leighton, p.R.a., 3rd-7th December. Alderman Edward Samuelson, s.p., elected Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, in succession to Sir James A. Picton, who died on 15th July. Libraries and Reading Rooms Sub-Committee appointed 8th August. Councillor Thomas Holder, s.p., elected first Chairman. The Rev. Henry H. Higgins, m.a., elected first Chairman of the Museum and Mayer Collection Sub-Committee. Kensington Branch Library opened by the Mayor of Liverpool, Alderman Thomas Hughes (afterwards Sir Thomas Hughes), 30th January. Alderman Sir William Bower Forwood, J.p., elected Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, in succession to Alderman E. Samuelson, retired. Councillor Andrew Commins, LL.D., M.P., elected Chairman of the Libraries and Reading Rooms Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor Thomas Holder, J.P., retired. Inaugural meeting of the Museums Association held in the Museum, 17th July, under the Presidency of the Rev. Henry H. Higgins, m.a., Chairman of the Museum Sub-Committee. The Library, Museum, and Arts Committee becomes also the Technical Instruction authority. Sub-Committee appointed, with Councillor W. E. Willink, m.a., as Chairman. Photographic Exhibition held in the Walker Art Gallery, under the auspices of the Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association. The Permanent Collection, Walker Art Gallery, opened to the public on Sundays for the first time. Councillor W. H. Picton elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub-Committee, in succession to Alderman Lunt, deceased. Reconstruction of the basement of the Brown Library: Special Reference Room for Specifications of Patents and Newspaper Files opened there, 12th December. Exhibition of Naval and Nautical appliances, organised at the suggestion of the Right Hon. Sir Arthur B. Forwood, Bart., m.p., Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, opened by the Right Hon. Lord George Hamilton, m.p., First Lord of the Admiralty, lst February. Councillor W. H. Picton elected Chairman of the Museum and Mayer Collection Sub-Committee, in succession to the Rev. H. H. Higgins, deceased. Bequest to the Museum by the Right Honourable Edward-Henry, 15th Earl of Derby, «.e., of a collection of Agates, etc. he Roscoe Collection transferred to the Walker Art Gallery by agree- ment with the Trustees of the Liverpool Royal Institution. 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1900 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. if Appointment of Mr. Henry O. Forbes, uu.p., as Director of Museums, in succession to Mr. Thomas J. Moore, deceased. The nucleus of a collection of West African Ethnographical Objects, presented to the Museum by Mr. A. Ridyard, Chief Engineer, Elder, Dempster, and Co. Central Lending Library established in the basement of the Brown Library building. Opened 17th June. Councillor Frank J Leslie, F.r.a.s., elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor W. H. Picton, deceased. The Foundation Stone of the Everton Branch Library and Technical Schools laid by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Councillor W. H. Watts) on behalf of the Lord Stanley, m.p., 5th July. Councillor Morris P. Jones, s.P., elected Chairman of the Museum and Mayer Collection Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor W. H. Picton, deceased. Opening of the Ethnographical Gallery of the Museum by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Councillor W. H. Watts.) Councillor John Lea appointed Chairman of the Arts and Exhibitions Sub-Committee, in succession to Alderman Philip H. Rathbone, who died 22nd November 1895. The Everton Branch Library, St. Domingo Road, opened by the Right Honourable Frederick-Arthur, 16th Earl of Derby, x.e., Lord Mayor of Liverpool, 9th October. The Library was transferred from the old premises in Great Nelson Street. The Tristram Collection of Birds purchased for the Museum. Extension of Kensington Branch Library. The Technical Instruction Sub-Committee constituted a separate Com- mittee of the Council. Sefton Park Branch Lending Library opened in the Public Offices, Lark Lane, 4th October. Walton Branch Library opened in the Town Hall, Walton, 11th October. The Seton Karr Collection of Flint Implements from Egypt purchased for the Museum. Exhibition of Pictures by the late Alfred W. Hunt, r.w-s., held in the Walker Art Gallery. Foundation Stone of the Museums Extension Buildings and Technical School laid by Sir William Bower Forwood, p.u., 3.p., Chairman ot the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, 1st July. Expedition to the Island of Sokotra for the collection of specimens of Flora and Fauna. Councillor Frank J. Leslie, F.R.c.s., elected Chairman of the Libraries and Reading Rooms Sub-Committee, in succession to Alderman Andrew Commins, LL.D., M.P. Councillor Arthur Crosthwaite elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub- Committee in succession to Councillor F. J. Leslie. Alteration of the title “Museum and Mayer Collection Sub-Committee ”’ to “The Museums Sub-Committee,’ 24th July. Bequest by Mr. Hugh Frederick Hornby, Merchant of Liverpool, of his Art Library (comprising books, prints, autographs, and art bindings), together with £10,000 for the erection of a building suitable tor its reception. Alderman Joachim N. Stolterfoht elected Chairman of the Libraries and Reading Rooms Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor F. J. Leslie, retired 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1SGZ HISTORICAL SUMMARY. Councillor Edwin Berry elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub- Committee, in succession to Councillor A. Crosthwaite, elected Lord Mayor of Liverpool. Key's Plenum System of Heating and Ventilation installed in the Brown Library and Museum, June 1901. Councillor Arthur Crosthwaite, s.p., elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor E. Berry. Toxteth Branch Library, Windsor Street, opened by Mr Andrew Carnegie, 15th October. The Library was transferred from the old premises in Upper Parliament Street. Removal of plateau fronting Brown Library and Museum, and alteration of approaches to the building. Councillor J. Harrison Jones elected Chairman of the Museums Sub- Committee, in succession to Mr. Morris P. Jones. The Wavertree Branch Library, Picton Road, opened by Councillor Robert Durning Holt, s.p., Deputy-Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, 12th May. Opening of the Rawdon Reading Room, Breck Road, Anfield, by Councillor William Evans, s.P., 18th October. Mr. E. Rimbault Dibdin appointed Curator of the Walker Art Gallery, in succession to Mr. €. Dyall, retired. The Northern Photographic Exhibition, under the auspices of the Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association, held in the Walker Art Gallery, (This exhibition also took place in 1907 and 1911.) The Kirkdale Branch Library, Brock Street, opened by Alderman J. N. Stolterfoht, Chairman of the Libraries Sub-Committee, 21st June. The Andrew Carnegie Branch Library, Green Lane, West Derby (the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie) opened by Sir William B. #orwood, D.L., J.P., Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, 27th June. Extension of the Museum Aquarium completed. Councillor William Permewan, m.p., elected Chairman of the Museums Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor J. Harrison Jones, resigned. Inauguration of the Hugh Frederick Hornby Art Library, on 26th ctober, by Mrs. Madden, of Sandown Hall, Wavertree, to whom an illuminated address (enclosed in silver casket) was presented by the Library, Museum and Arts Committee. During the ceremony a marble bust of the late Hugh Frederick Hornby, executed by Mr. C. J. Allen on the commission of the Committee, was unveiled by Colonel H. H. Hornby, s.ep. The Hornby Library building is an annexe to the Picton Reading Room. Opening of the New Galleries of the Museums Extension by the Right Honourable Frederick-Arthur, 16th Earl of Derby, K.c¢., 19th October. The Walker Art Gallery first opened to the public in the evening. The Gallery was first experimentally opened on Monday evenings, this being afterwards altered (successfully) to Saturday evenings. The collection of Botanical Literature forming the J.ibrary of the Liver- pool Botanic Gardens transferred by the Parks and Gardens Committee to the Reference Library. Dryden Street Evening Reading Room opened, 21st October. Councillor H. Chaloner Dowdall, m.a., B.c.L., elected Chairman of the Museums Sub-Committee, in succession to Dr. Permewan. Exhibition of the Art of W. Holman Hunt, o.m., v.c.t., held in the Walker Art Gallery. 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 13 Memorial Exhibition of the Art of the late John Finnie, R.£., R.C.A., held in the Walker Art Gallery. Historical Exhibition of Liverpool Antiquities held in the Walker Art Gallery in connection with the Liverpool Sept-Centenary Celebrations. Alderman E. W. Turner elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub-Committee in succession to Councillor Crosthwaite. Councillor Frank J. Leslie, r.n.c.s., elected Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, in succession to Sir William B. Forwood, D.L., J.P. Councillor Herbert R. Rathbone, 8.a., elected Chairman of the Museums Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor H. Chaloner Dowdall, elected Lord Mayor of Liverpool. . Historical Exhibition of Liverpool Art held in the Walker Art Gallery. The Garston Branch Library, Bowden Road (the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, LL.D.), opened by Councillor F. J. Leslie, Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, 26th May. Mr. George Thomas Shaw appointed Chief Librarian, in succession to Mr. Peter Cowell, deceased. Establishment of Lending Libraries Depot for the circulation of special books and the interchange of books amongst the Lending Branches. The Herbarium Collection of over 40,000 specimens transferred by the Parks and Gardens Committee from the Botanic Gardens to the Museums. An illuminated address presented to Mr. A. Ridyard, 2nd July, in recognition of his gift to the Museums of numerous ethnographical objects and natural history specimens from the West Coast of Africa. Councillor Richard Rutherford, s.p., elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub-Committee in succession to Alderman E. W. Turner, resigned. Inauguration by Councillor William Evans, s.p., of Branch Lending Library in the Rawdon Reading Room, Anfield, 3rd February. On 13th October, an address (enclosed in silver casket) was presented to Miss Mary L. Hornby, in recognition of her generous gifts during many years, of Braille Books for the blind. The Art of Albrecht Diirer, a collection brought together and arranged in chronological order by Sir W. Martin Conway, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., exhibited in the Walker Art Gallery. The Centenary Exhibition of the Liverpool Academy of Arts held in the Walker Art Gallery. Exhibition of Canadian Art held in the Walker Art Gallery, under the auspices of the Royal Canadian Academy .of Arts. Councillor Ernest C. Given, m.1.c.z., elected Chairman of the Libraries and Reading Rooms Sub-Committee, in succession to Alderman J. N. Stolterfoht, deceased. Evening Reading Room, Stanley Road, opened by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Councillor S. Mason Hutchinson), 13th June. The New Sefton Park Branch Lending Library, Aigburth Road, opened on August 3rd by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, tu.p.. the donor of the building. The Library was transferred from the Public Offices, Lark Lane. Mr. Joseph A. Clubb, p.sc., Deputy Curator, appointed Curator of Museums in succession to Dr. Forbes, retired. Afternoon Conference of Chairmen of Museum Committees and Museum Curators from towns in the North of England, held in the Museums, 18th October. 14 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 1912 The Walton and Fazakerley Branch Library, Evered Avenue (the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, tu.p.), opened by Councillor Richard Caton, M.D., LL.D., J.P., Deputy Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, 23rd November. The Library was transferred from the Walton Town Hall, Rice Lane. The Library Association held their 35th Annual Meeting in Liverpool, Qnd—5th September, under the presidency of Councillor Frank J. Leslie, F.R.G:S., Chairman of the Library, Museum and Arts Committee. Hours of duty of Lending Libraries Staffs revised, and the services of Evening Assistants discontinued. A Legacy of £10,000 bequeathed by the late Thomas Bartlett, of 12, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, to be devoted to an extension of the Walker Art Gallery, such extension to be (if possible) indentified with the Donor’s name. Mr, Charles Dyall, first Curator of the Walker Art Gallery, died on the 13th October. LIBRARIES. 15 CHIEF LIBRARIAN’S REPORT. GENTLEMEN, I respectfully submit a report of the work of the Reference and Lending Libraries during the year 1912. The attached tables of statistics shew that 2,424,460 volumes were issued over the counters in the Reference Library, Lending Libraries, and Reading Rooms. In addition, it is estimated that there has been a use equal to an issue of 423,000 volumes of the books on open shelves in the Reference Library. The issues in the Reference and Hornby Libraries shew an increase of 23,854 over those for the year 1911. The issues from the Lending Libraries shew a total increase over those for the previous year of 185,521 volumes (101,644 to adults, and 83,877 to juveniles). This is mainly accounted for by the fact that the Walton and Fazakerley and the Sefton Park Libraries were only open during a portion of the year 1911. There was an increased issue of books to adults at the Central, West Derby, Rawdon, Sefton Park, and Walton Lending Libraries, and a decreased issue at the Toxteth, Kensington, Wavertree, Kirkdale, Everton, and Garston Libraries. There was an increased issue to Juveniles at all the Branch Libraries except Kensington, Kirkdale, and Garston. The Kirkdale and Kensington Branches are the only Libraries which shew no increase of issues to adults, juveniles, or from the Lending Libraries’ Depot. There was an issue of 12,663 volumes from the Lending Libraries’ Depot, shewing an increase of 1,631 issues over the previous year. Nearly 2,800 volumes were issued from the special collection of books for Blind readers—an increase of nearly 450 volumes. 16 LIBRARIES. STOCKTAKING The stock of books in the Reference Library was checked during the year, and a report submitted to the Committee. Tut Moorr MSS anv DocuMEN's. The Calendar of Moore MSS and Documents compiled by Mr. John Brownbill has been typed, and an Index is now being made. By arrangement between the Libraries Committee and the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, the Calendar will be printed in the Transactions of that Society. PRESENTATIONS TO THE LIBRARY. Early in the year the Committee received from the Executors of the late Henry Young, Bookseller, of Liverpool, the original MS of the Moore Rental, which that gentleman had bequeathed to the Public Library. Mr. Henry Nicholson, of Windermere, presented a handsomely- bound volume of letters which had passed between his kinsman Matthew Nicholson, of Richmond Row, Liverpool, and Mrs Felicia D. Hemans, her mother, and her sister Harriet Browne. These two volumes are valuable historical records of Liverpool in the 17th and early part of the 19th centuries, and their addition to the important local collection already in the Library is a matter for sincere congratulation. As in former years the Committee have had the pleasure of expressing thanks to Miss Hornby for her generous gifts of books in Braille type for the use of Blind readers. Revision oF LenpinG Lipraries’ STOCKS. The work of improving the condition of the stock at the Branch Libraries has been continued, and during the year 3,235 volumes were withdrawn and cancelled, while 5,172 worn-out volumes were replaced. The larger number of these volumes were from the stocks in the Toxteth and Everton Libraries. Needless to say, this is a LIBRARIES. 17 costly work, and therefore cannot be done rapidly. The revision of the stocks, apart from their condition, in all the Branch Libraries will require careful consideration at an early date, as an effort must be made to make the supplies in the Libraries equal to the demands. Garston, with a stock for adults of 8,500 volumes, has an issue of 64,600 volumes, while Rawdon, with a stock for adults of 6,300, has an issue of 117,800 volumes. Kirkdale, with a stock of 10,500 volumes, issued 84,600 volumes, and Sefton Park, with a stock for adults of 9,250 volumes, issued 160,600 volumes. It is calculated that every novel in the Sefton Park Library circulated 23 times during the year, and at the Rawdon Branch each novel was issued 29 times. CATALOGUES. A new Catalogue of the books in the Wavertree Library was published during the year, and Supplemental Catalogues were issued for the Kensington and Rawdon Libraries. New Catalogues of the Books for Children in the Kirkdale and West Derby Libraries were also published. Fines on Books For CHILDREN. With a view to diminishing the number of Children’s tickets detained for non-payment of fines at all the Branch Libraries, an arrangement has been made with the Headmasters and Head- mistresses of Council Schools whereby lists are sent to them regularly of those children in each school who are holding Library books that are overdue. On the receipt of the lists, the teachers request the children to return or renew the books, and so avoid fines. The arrangement has worked most successfully, and thanks are due to the teachers for their hearty co-operation. CLEANING AND PAINTING. The Kirkdale, Rawdon, and West Derby Branch Libraries were cleaned and painted. 18 LIBRARIES. MEETING OF THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION In September, the Library Association held its 35th annual meeting at Liverpool by invitation of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee. The Association had not visited this City since the year 1883. In the interval all the Branch Libraries and Reading Rooms have been built. The meeting was in every way a success, and the Members generally were favourably impressed with - the Liverpool Public Libraries and their work. Free LEcTURES. The number of Free Lectures delivered during the course of the year was 166, one less than in 1911. Twenty-eight were given in the Picton Lecture Hall, and 136 in the various District Halls, the total attendance being 71,148, shewing a decrease of 6,762 compared with the previous year. The principal reason for the diminished attendance was the comparatively long spell of abnormally incle- ment weather during January and February; the attendances at the Picton Lecture Hall falling from an average of over 950 to as low as 254. The number of special Lectures for Children was increased from 20 to 22, and the attendance at the Lectures was 12,084, as against 11,296 in 1911. The signal success attending this very important branch of our Lecture work justifies the Lectures Com- mittee’s action in extending these special Lectures to centres where children have not previously been provided for. Your obedient Servant, GEO. T. SHAW, Cuter LIBRARIAN. The Library, Museum, and Arts Committee. LIBRARIES. TABLE I. SUMMARY OF STATISTICS OF LIBRARIES DEPARTMENT. Volumes issued on application. | Reference Library. 7rcTON READING Room: Volumes issued on application .............:ccceeeeeee 211,208 Approximate estimate of the issues of volumes of Reference Works and General Literature, MONT Open SHELVES ....cecccecosecescsscessescoscceces Approximate estimate of the issues of current Literary, Scientific and Technical Reviews _ and Periodicals, from open shelves ............... -ROWN READING Room: Volumes issued: Prose Fiction ...............0c00c0008 40,465 ie 3 General Literature, from open RINOIMOS uescctkck sek -ades coco seats 115,442 Approximate estimate of issues of current Periodicals, from open shelves .............00-00008 lewsPaPers: Bound volumes .....-......s00c06 veces 6,427 BAMAOMPARTMENT ....00csceccccosdeccssoscerseesscues 36,954 H FREDERICK Hornpy Art Liprary: BRDEIOISSOCH | <--.25.cucedsbaget cuccedsscshecessedesciees 1,187 SMEG Crete ids feats cudsectiadebdecsccsacsceseceesonses Totals—Reference Library.............:+++ 411,683 3 Branch Libraries. VoLUMEs IssuED, LENDING DEPARTMENTS | : AND READING Rooms. Adult. | Juvenile. Total. Eecsek ss 160,667 — 160,667 160,646 53,153 | 213,799 130,252 67,734 197,986 | Re easet 129,206 34,164 | 163,370 119,328 35,882 | 155,210 Risa 117,808 45,212 | 163,020 112,210 32,364 | 144,574 none 107,539 | 61,292 168,831 Rentks 86,924; 60,354 147,278 fdale ...... 84,602 70,310 | 154,912 es 64,693 29,490 94,183 _ ‘Totals—Lending Departments .. 1,763,830) 2.012.777 y Branch Reading Rooms 248,947) | “7! Lectures—(17 Centres). tendances— sercton Lecture Hall.............ccccoseees angel Grand: Totals .cuticcscsedasectteoerceivtee 2,424,460 | Approximate estimates. Volumes, Periodicals. 127,459 104,329 191,896 127,459 296,225 127,459 | 296,225 Prints issued. 4,205 *4,205 *4,205 Norr.—The references to current newspapers and directories are not included. * Hornby Library closed for cleaning July 1-23. 19 Lecture Attendance 20 LIBRARIES. TABLE STi: Classification of volumes issued in the Reference Department. Picton Reading Room and Brown Reading Room :— Theology, Morals, Metaphysics ... Natural Philosophy, Mathematics, Bysiclosy ; hie. + Natural History ae ate see Fine and Industrial Arts ... Specifications of Patents ... History and Biography, &c. Topography and Antiquities Voyages and Travels, Gazetteers, Atlases Collected Works, Essays, &c. Jurisprudence, Law, Politics st Commerce, Political Economy, Social Sciedee, ‘ke. a Education and Language... : Poetry and Dramatic Literature Prose Fiction Latin and Greek Classics and Translations Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, &c. Newspapers: Bound volumes .. 36,954 Volumes issued Total TABLE III. “55,390 | 1912. 1911. 22,694 22,637 24,409 26,844 13,390 13,451 92,884 89,244 60,526 58,096 26,764 23,427 42,496 36,950 32,905 83,954 16,075 12,666 26,231 26,533 38,642 31,989 23,417 20,036 40,465 43,488 3,062 3,580 17,518 14,882 6,427 6,686 537,955 514,463 1,187 825 539,142 515,288 Shewing the number and classification of volumes contained in the Reference Department :— Theology, Morals, Metaphysics... ot Natural Philosophy, Mathematics, Phy eh as &e. Natural History an aa Fine and Industrial Arts (including Patents) History and Biography, &c. Topography and Antiquities ce Voyages and Travels, Gazetteers, Atlases .. Miscellaneous Literature (principally Reviews, Societies’ Proceedings, &c., in volumes) . Jurisprudence, Law, Politics Commerce, Political Economy, Social Science, ke. Education and Language Poetry and Dramatic Literature Prose Fiction ... = Latin and Greek Classies and. ianclations Encyclopedias and Works of General Reference... Hugh Frederick Hornby Art Library Totai Collected W ee 9,568 4,544 9,182 22,351 17,946 8,686 = ae 7,563 Teas 36,998 12,946 5,526 3,125 5,375 5,442 1,155 6,326 7,860 164,593 21 LIBRARIES. 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TABLE V.—Shewing the numbe CLASSIFICATION. Theology, Ethics Physics, Mathematics... Natural History ......... Arts: Fine, Industrial History, Biography...... Topography, Antiquities Voyages, Travels......... M’cellaneous Literature awe “POHPICS! c<- a? ” Enock, Fred, F.L.S., F-E.S., F.R.M.S. “Montenegro and _ its people.” ** Glaciers and Icebergs. ' ** Camping days and ways on road and river.” “The seaports of Northern Europe.” ** Charles Dickens and his writings.” ““T> the Tongan Islands in pursuit of a shadow.”’ “ Oxford: City and Uni- versity life.” “Coal mining and its dangers; with special reference to dust explosion.” « Blectricity and __ its modern application,”’ with experiments. “An artistic tour in Holland.” “An hour with the micro- scope.” « The every-day life of a Savage.” «The English Lake Dis- trict and its assocla- tions.” “On and off the Great Dyke: the scenery and the from antiquities of Welsh Border Chester to Hereford.”’ ** Insect mimicry.” Halls. Garston—David Lewis Club—Picton. Picton. Wavertree—Lister Drive, West Derby—Picton. St. Martin’s Hall. Anfield. Picton. Kirkdale. Picton. David Lewis Club— Aigburth. Lister Drive, West Derby— Aintree—Kirkdale. Aintree. Wavertree—Lister Drive, West Derby—St. Mar- tin’s Hall—Picton. Picton—Kirkdale—Greg- son Institute, Sefton Park. Aintree. Picton—Knotty Ash. LIBRARIES. 29 Lecturer. Fletcher, F. J., F.R.H.s. ... Gibbs, H. Lionel, m.sc. Grensted, Rev. Canon F, F. M.A. Hamilton, Rev. James, m.a. Heaton, Professor Noel, B.S¢c., F.C.S. Heron, Ernest P. .............. Hodges, T. R. .....--....ceee ce. Holland, C. Thurstan, M.R.C.S., F.R.P.S. ted ” Hoult, James »”» a3 Johnston, Rev. James, ¥.R.H.S. Kennedy, John, F.R.G.s. .. -| ** Finland, Subject. ** The romance of flowers.’’ .| “ Belgium and the Belgians.”’ ** A holiday ramble in Belgium.”’ “In the Zuider Zee: Holland, a _ country made by the hand of man.” “Siena and other medieval cities of Tuscany.” “Voyagers to the Isle of Man a thousand years ago, and the relics they have left.’’ ““Grey Galloway.” “Crete, the kingdom of King Minos.” “The Val d’Anniviers: off the beaten track in Switzerland.”’ * Algeria, weird and wild.”’ ** Wanderings in Switzer- land.” “* X-Rays and their uses.” * Childwall and Waver- tree: historical, anti- quarian, legendary, and anecdotal.’’ ““The Hundred of West Derby : historical, topo- graphical, and anec- dotal.’’ “* Mexico, “the land of romance and beauty.’’ the country and the people.” Halls. Lister Drive, West Derby. Kirkdale—St. Martin’s Hall. Walton. St. Martin’s Hall. Aintree—Lister Drive, West Derby—Picton— Knotty Ash. Gregson Institute, Sefton Park—Aintree—Aig- burth. St. Martin’s Hall. Wavertree—Picton— Kensington—Aigburth. Everton. Wavertree—Lister Drive, West Derby—Kirkdale —Picton. Anfield. Kirkdale. Wavertree. Anfield. Kirkdale. David Lewis Club— Crosby Home Mission Hall—Walton. 30 LIBRARIES. Lecturer. Lea, Alderman John, J.P., Chairman, Arts and Exhibitions Sub-Com- mittee, Liverpool. Lund, Rev. T. W. M., M.A. McCullagh, Rev. B.A. 13ly dle. Martin-Duncan, F., F.R.P.S., F.R.M.S. Moir, James, B.SC. ............ Neill, Daniel J Newstead, Robert, M.sc., Dutton Professor of Entomology, Univer- sity of Liverpool. Nicholson, Harold, B.A. ...... Northcote, Henry F. ......... Patten, Professor Charles J., M.A.. M.D., D.SC., F.R.A-I., University of Sheffield. Payne, ‘Rev. G. A. ...ccsseec- 33 ey Subject. Halls. ‘© Tndia and the Durbar,”’ with cinematograph. «At the foot of the Cotswolds.”’ «A vagabond in England with a camera.” “* Handel and his music,” with musical illustra- tions. *“Nature’s masonry and Nature’s ruins.” ** Colour and colour photo- graphy,’’ with experi- ments. ‘“ With a camera in the by-ways of the Western Highlands.” «A trip to Nyassaland.”’ «© Wander-birding in Ger- many: a record of a camping tour.” ‘©The revolutions of Nature.”’ “A naturalist’s tour in the Far West.”’ “The Cranford Country : Knutsford and Mrs. Gaskell.” ** Wanderings in the Black Forest.” “The country as seen by a naturalist.’ ** Protective resemblance ; or, Mimicry in Nature.”’ Picton. Lister Drive, West Derby. Picton. Wavertree. Picton. Walton. Kirkdale. Lister Drive, West Derby— Aigburth—Aintree— Picton. Everton. Anfield—Garston— David Lewis Club—Picton. Aintree—Picton— Kensington—Aigburth. Aintree. St. Ambrose Mission Hall— St. Martin’s Hall. Crosby Home Mission Hall. Everton. Lecturer. Saxby, Fred. W. «.........0... ” cE] Shaw, George T., Chief Librarian, Liverpool Public Libraries. Taylor, Alfred seen ee eeeeceeeees Thompson, George E., F.R.P.S. Tinne, P. F., M.a., M.B. - Tobin, J. Raymond, MUS. BAC. 3) Ed Tupling, Charles Walshe, Rev. T. J., B.A., F.R.A.S. Ward, Miss Ada, L.L.A. ...... Ward, H. J. B., B.A. ....3:546 Wells, Samuel, F.R.4.s., F.R.A.I. 2” 3. ” ” LIBRARIES. 31 Subject. Halls. “Dust; its origin and | Aigburth—Wavertree— influence,” with experi- ments. “In crystal wonderland.” ** Marvels of insect life.’’ ** Makers of Liverpool.”’ “* Secrets of land and sea bird life.’’ ** Portugal and the Portuguese.” -| ** Experiences on the West Coast of Africa.’’ ** Chamber Music,”’ with musical illustrations. **English composers of yesterday and to-day,” with musical illustra- tions. “Rambles in the Fens.”’ “Memories of Rome.’’ “Types and phases of London life.” «The poeial life and labour of Morocco.” ° ** Across Europe by water from the Black Forest to the Black Sea.’’ “Dead and living cities: Rome, Naples, and Pompeii.” “The land of the Vendetta : Corsica.” Picton. Everton. Garston. Wavertree—Kirkdale— Everton. Wavertree—Lister Drive, West Derby— St. Mar- tin’s Hall. Crosby Home Mission Hall—St. Martin’s Hall. Aigburth. Crosby Home Mission Hall —Lister Drive, West Derby. St. St. Hall. Hall— Mission Martin’s Ambrose Everton. St. Martin’s Hall—Crosby Home Mission Hall— Picton. Wavertree—Picton— Kensington—Aigburth. Picton— Kensington — Aigburth—Knotty Ash. Aigburth. Picton. Gregson Institute, Sefton Park—St. Martin’s Hall. 32 LIBRARIES. Lecturer. Subject. Halls. Wethered, Councillor W. P. Wing, Tom (late M.P. for Grimsby) Workman, Albert E. ......... eee ete teeerneeee Bellingham, Edgar Brown, Samuel E., M.A., B.SC. Headmaster, Liver- pool Collegiate School. Cairns, W. Murray, M.B.... Coop, Rev. J. O., MA. «+++ Crowther, Henry, F-.R-M.S.... “Take Vyrnwy, Riving- ton, and the water- works of the Liverpool Corporation.” «‘ Life in a trawler on Northern Seas.” * Opera: its origin and development,”’ with musical illustrations.”’ «© Sir Arthur Sullivan and his music,’ with musical illustrations. « Purcell, a great English composer,’ with musical illustrations. “West Country Folk- songs,’ with musical illustrations. “The cruise of the ‘Defiance’: a holiday on the Leeds and Liver- pool Canal.” “ J : m4 _ ve rx 7 oot a eee ae is z He Wal asa eer io aye (2 ‘Pr. 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Be Ow THEQYEAR: ENDIN ae fe DEC EMBER 19 v1, See x 4 int ae “4 acer Pte ipso na he eaves r aces ey ee a a ae ue 5 “Pj —_ va a eens eh ead eee » : 7 s - i "ke ay “f 2. » a . ma ‘ ei ith aie oe cu a —— bed . a - a a a oe ie te as = = + ie A - a ~ a 4 od “7 afA ‘on * 1 eos Pa?” s : . a Pears 7 7 a 5 7 = A — ap Pee: : ; 2: Jon ae ek a eae cai.) ST -.Y ar 7S area be : ae Per ee NOILVLS AYAAIIAG NOOM GNV WOOYU ONIGVAY NVAS GIO AHL So Pill SIXTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORTS TO THE Libraries, Museums AND Arts Committee OF THE CORPORATION OF LIVERPOOL, FOR THE YEAR ENDING 3lst DECEMBER 1913. LIVERPOOL : C. Tinztine & Co., Lrp., Printinc Contractors, 53, Vicroria STREET. 1914, COMMITTEE AND OFFICERS for the Year 1913-14. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HERBERT R. RATHBONE, B.A., LORD MAYOR. Committee : ALDERMAN FRANK J. LESLIE, F.R.G.S., CHAIRMAN. RICHARD CATON, ESQ., M.D., LL.D., J.P., DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN. FRANCIS W. BAILEY, ESQ., M.R.C.S. (Chairman, Lectures Sub-Committee.) PROF. R. C. BOSANQUET, M.A., F.S.A. FREDERICK C. BOWRING, ESQ., J.P. THOMAS BURKE, ESQ., J.P. HENRY A. COLE, ESQ. JAMES C. CROSS, ESQ. THE RT. HON. THE EARL OF DERBY, P.C., C.B. ALDERMAN SIR WILLIAM B. FORWOOD, D.L., J.P. ERNEST C. GIVEN, ESQ., M.1.C.E. (Chairman, Libraries and Reading Rooms Sub-Committee.) FRANCIS J. HARFORD, ESQ., J.P. ALDERMAN JAMES HEALD. PROF. W. A. HERDMAN, D.Sc., F.R.S. Deputy-Chairman Museums Sub-Committee) ROBERT C. HERMAN, ESQ. LAWRENCE D. HOLT, ESQ. C. SYDNEY JONES, ESQ., J.P., M.A. (Chairman, Museums Sub-Committee.) P. CHARLES KELLY, ESQ. REGINALD G. LAYTON, ESQ. ALDERMAN JOHN LEA, J.P. (Chairman, Arts and Exhibitions Sub- Committee.) JOSEPH LUCAS, ESQ. PROFESSOR A. M. PATERSON, M.D. JOSEPH W. SMITH, ESQ. RONALD STEWART-BROWN, ESQ., M.A., F.S.A. (Deputy-Chairman, Libraries and Reading Rooms Sub-Committee). COLONEL W. HALL WALKER, M.P. (Deputy-Chairman, Arts and Exhibitions Sub-Cominittee) Advisory Members of Museums Committee : ARTHUR H. ARKLE, Esq. Prof. JOHN GARSTANG, D.Sc., M.A., B.Litt. ROBERT GLADSTONE, Jun., Esq., B.C.L., M.A. Prof. JOHN LINTON MYRKES, M.A. Prof. PERCY EB. NEWBERRY, M.A. Chief Fibrarian: GEORGE T. SHAW. Deputy-Xibrarian: HENRY E. CURRAN. Gurator of Wuseums: JOSEPH A. CLUBB, D.Sc. Deputy-Curator of Museums : P. ENTWISTLE, F.R.A.I. Gurator of the Walker Art Gallery : E. RIMBAULT DIBDIN. Assistunt Curator, Walker Art Gallerp : ARTHUR G. QUIGLEY. CHAIRMAN’S PREFACE. The separate Reports of the Chief Officials of the Libraries, the Museums, and the Art Gallery, contained in this volume, form a collective record of another year’s active and useful work in all those Departments. Columns of statistics are usually looked upon as very dry and unattractive, but facts of great interest and import often lie hidden in them. Thus, pages 19 to 25 of this volume will in themselves demon- strate the value to the Citizens of the vast collections of books on our Library shelves. An analysis of the figures shows that there are, im all the Libraries under the management of the Committee, 350,000 volumes, grouped among fifteen different Sections, a number which, if placed side by side on one continuous shelf, would extend from William Brown Street to Sefton Park. It will-be seen that the largest Section is that of Prose Fiction, which contains 65,000 volumes, but these only form 18°5 per cent. of the whole. The two next largest Sections, those of Fine and Industrial Arts, and History and Biography, contain respectively 42,000 volumes and 36,000 volumes, being 12 per cent. and 10°3 per cent. of the whole. Thus, in view of the oft-repeated fallacy, that the shelves of Public Libraries are mostly given up to Fiction, it is interesting to note that these other two Sections together exceed in numbers the Section of Fiction by 13,000 volumes. I trust no imper- tinent critic will remark that the Section of History and Biography probably contains a good deal of Fiction in itself. The total issues during the year were, in round figures, 2,389,000, so ‘that, on the average, every book in our thirteen Libraries was issued more than six times last year. It is indeed surprising how very few volumes of the 350,000 fail to be consulted at all in the course of a year. The gloomy picture which has sometimes been drawn of a Public Library as a ‘‘Cemetery of Dead Books” certainly cannot be realised in Liverpool. Every day we have cause to be grateful to those who built up the Libraries in the past, for the sound judgment and common sense they displayed in their selections. 4 CHAIRMAN’S PREFACE. Pages 26 to 32 of the Reports contain a list of Free Lectures given in the year which cannot, I believe, be equalled in any other City. The fact that 168 Lectures were given, with an average attendance of 425 per Lecture, is very satisfactory, in view of the many counter attractions of a less intellectual character now provided in the evening in all parts of the City. Liverpool was the Pioneer of the Free Lecture movement, as she has been in so many other spheres of social progress, and it is intended this year to mark, in some appropriate way, the 50th anniversary of the first Municipal Free Lecture given in our City. In the Museums, too, 24 Free Lectures were delivered, all of which were well attended, the special object there being to bring under public notice the many valuable and interesting collections in those buildings. The official recognition of the importance of the educational side of Museum work, by the British Association, in appointing a Special Committee on the subject, of which our Curator, Dr. Clubb, was made a Joint Secretary, is a notable forward step in Museum progress. Much good ought to result from the deliberations and conclusions of that Committee. The list of additions to the Museum Collections during the year, embracing over 4,000 separate objects, mostly gifts from Travellers and Explorers, affords once more gratifying proof of the general esteem in which the Institution is held. The transfer to the Museum last year, from the Town Hall and the Municipal Offices, of various objects which have been stored there for generations, gives the public of Liverpool the opportunity, for the first time, of seeing many interesting relics of the City’s past history. Iu the Art Gallery, the problem of exhibiting the Permanent Collection as it ought to be shown, and at the same time finding room for the Autumn Exhibition of Contemporary Art, has not yet been solved, and cannot be so until the much-needed extension of the (Galleries has been carried out. The legacy of £10,000, bequeathed by the will of the late Mr. Thomas Bartlett, for this purpose, has not yet CHAIRMAN’S PREFACE. 5 been received, and, in the uncertainty as to when they may expect it, the Committee have not felt justified in commencing the work. Mean- while, the Municipal Art Collection was enriched in 1913 by the addition of 49 works, some presented and some purchased. The ever-increasing demands made on the available space, not only in the Art Gallery, but also in the Library and Museum, have, of late years, altogether overtaxed the accommodation provided in those buildings, and the Committee last year adopted a comprehensive scheme, including a considerable number of improvements and extensions of different kinds. It is a curious fact that when the Libraries were built no provision was made for the administrative staff, and as the work has grown they have had to be housed in various parts of the buildings, ill-adapted for the purpose, with a sacrifice of both convenience and efficiency. The books too have long outgrown the space originally provided for them, and have been stored wherever room could tem- porarily be found. The alterations decided upon last year, and now commenced, include the provision of an additional Book Gallery round the Picton Reading Room, a more convenient mode of access by the public to that Room, new rooms for the Chief Librarian and his staff, the remodelling of the heating system in the Libraries and Art Gallery, a separate entrance to the Brown Reading Room, a larger Entrance Hall to the Museum, and a much improved means of communication between the whole range of buildings in William Brown Street. It is hoped to complete this work during the present year. There have, during recent years, been few changes in the constitution of the Committee to record, but, unfortunately, last year was exceptional in this respect. Two old and valued Members, Dr. Commins and Mr. A. Crosthwaite, resigned. Both of them had given efficient service as Chairmen of Sub-Committees. Mr. A. Buckley and Mr. Alfred Griffiths also resigned, and Mr. John Byrne left the Council. The Lord Mayor, Mr. H. R. Rathbone, who had made the Museum his special care, to its great advantage, vacated office on his election to the Chief Magistracy, but we hope to see him back again. Mr. Alderman Heald, and Councillors T. Burke, H. A. Cole, J. C. Cross, J. Lucas, 6 CHAIRMAN’S PREFACE. and J. W. Smith have filled the vacancies thus occasioned by resignations. The Committee unhappily lost a kind and generous friend in the death of Miss Mary Hornby, to whose constant devotion to the interests of blind readers it was mainly due that the issue of their special books had increased from 181 volumes in 1893 to 3,036 last year. Here again, in the beneficent provision of books for the blind, in all departments of literature, Liverpool has led the way. FRANK J. LESLIE, Chairman. 1848 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 7 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. Suggestion by the Rev. Canon A. Hume at a meeting of the Roscoe Club, February 1848, that a Free Public Library be established in Liverpool. Committee appara by Town Council, 3rd April, on the motion of Councillor James A. Picton, to consider and report upon the establish- ment of a Public Library for Liverpool. Negotiations with the Trustees of the Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, and Report of the Provisional Committee, 4th September, recom- mending that an Act of Parliament be obtained for the transfer of the Royal Institution and its contents (paintings, casts, natural history specimens, books, etc.) to the Corporation, and that a Public Library, Museum, and Gallery of Art be established in that building. An Association of Citizens formed, 10th December, to promote the formation of the proposed Library, Museum, and Gallery of Art, and to solicit subscriptions, books, and specimens. The Bequest by the Right Honourable Edward-Smith, 13th Earl of Derby, K.@., F.L.S., of his collections of Natural History Specimens intimated to the Corporation of Liverpool by the Right Honourable Edward- Geoffrey, 14th Earl of Derby, k.e., F.u.s. Mr. Thomas J. Moore appointed first Curator of the Museum. The ‘Liverpool Royal Institution (Transfer of Property) Bill’ sub- mitted to Parliament and withdrawn, May 1851. The purchase of the Union News Room, Duke Street, for the purposes of a Free Public Library and Museum decided upon, 9th September. Act of Parliament, 3rd May, to establish a Public Library, Museum, and Gallery of Art, and to provide Public Lectures. Councillor James Allanson Picton became first Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee. Mr. John Stuart Dalton appointed first Chief Librarian. Collection of maps, views, portraits, documents, etc. illustrative of the history of Lancashire (particularly Liverpool), purchased from the Executors of Mr. Thomas Binns. Reference Library, Duke Street, opened by the Mayor of Liverpool (Councillor Thomas Littledale), October 18th. The Library, Museum, and Arts Committee were also charged with the management and maintenance of the Botanic Gardens and Park. The Museum of Natural History, bequeathed to the town by the Earl of Derby, was opened to the public by the Mayor of Liverpool (Councillor Samuél Holme), Duke Street, 8th March. Two Branch Lending Libraries opened: in (1) the North Corporation Schools, Bevington Bush, 18th October; and (2) the South Corporation Schools, Park Lane, 1st November. A Superintendent of Branch Libraries decided upon. Mr. W. Roulston appointed. The South Branch Lending Library transferred from the South Corporation Schools to premises in Hardy Street, December 1854. Parliamentary powers obtained, 16th July, to appropriate a site on Shaw’s Brow (now William Brown Street) on which to erect a new Public Library and Museum building. The North Branch Lending Library transferred from the North Corporation Schools to special premises in Great Nelson Street, June 1855. Offer of Mr. William Brown, m.p., Merchant of Liverpool, to erect a new Public Library and Museum on Shaw’s Brow. 1858 1859 1860 1862 1863 1865 1866 1867 1869 1871 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. Books for the Blind provided and circulated for the first time from the Lending Branches. Foundation stone of new Library and Museum on Shaw’s Brow laid by Mr. William Brown, m.v., 15th April. The ‘ Savage’ Collection of Ethnography purchased for the Museums. The South Branch Lending Library transferred from Hardy Street to special premises in Upper Parliament Street. Standard music provided and circulated for the first time from the Branch Libraries. New building erected in Great Nelson Street, providing additional accommodation for the North Branch Lending Library. The Brown Library and Museum, Shaw’s Brow, formally opened by Mr. William Brown (afterwards Sir William Brown, Bart.), 18th October. The Library was transferred from the old building in Duke Street, and opened for public service on 3rd December. Gift of £1,000 by Mr. Joseph Shipley (of Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A., and formerly of the firm of Brown, Shipley, and Co., Liverpool) for the purchase of important books for the Reference Library. The administration of the Botanic Gardens and Park transferred to the Finance Committee. Mr. Peter Cowell appointed Superintendent of Branch Libraries, in succession to Mr. W. Roulston, resigned. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales visited the Library and Museum, 31st October. Lectures Sub-Committee appointed. The first Lecture Session comprised four series, each of ten lectures on a scientific subject, and was inaugurated on November 3rd. The first Chairman of the Sub- Committee was Councillor Edward Samuelson, J.P. First group of British Birds (Common Bald Coot) with natural surroundings, prepared in the Liverpool Museum, and exhibited at the British Association Meeting, Birmingham. Mr. George Hudson appointed Chief Librarian, in succession to Mr. John Stuart Dalton, deceased. The ‘ Mayer’ Collection presented to the town by Mr. Joseph Mayer, r.s.a. Bequest to the Museum by Mr. William Tyrer Gerrard of a collection of Natural History Specimens from Madagascar. A large and important collection of Shells presented to the Museum by Mr. Samuel Smith per the Rev. H. H. Higgins. An extensive series of fossils from the coal measures, chiefly from the Railway excavation at Ravenhead, presented to the Museum by the Rey. H. H. Higgins. Bequest to the Museum by Mr. John Mather of a collection of Miniatures, etc., relating to the Bonaparte Family. The First Autumn Exhibition of Pictures opened 4th September, closed 18th November, and continued annually in the Museum building until 1876. Councillor Edward Samuelson, s.p., elected first Chairman of the Fine Arts Sub-Committee. Councillor Joseph Armstrong elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub- Committee, in succession to Councillor Samuelson. Councillor Andrew B. Walker, Mayor of Liverpool (afterwards Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, Bart.) offered to devote the sum of £20,000 to the erection of an Art Gallery. Foundation Stone of the Walker Art Gallery laid by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, 28th September. 1875 1876 1877 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1835 1886 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 9 Mr. Peter Cowell appointed Chief Librarian, in succession to Mr. George Hudson, deceased. Foundation Stone of Picton Reading Room, William Brown Street, laid by Councillor James A. Picton, J.P., F.S.A., Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, 2nd December. The Chairman of the Museum Sub-Committee (Rev. H. H. Higgins) and two assistants took part in an Expedition to the Wer* Indies on the Steam Yacht ‘ Argo’ for the purpose of collecting marine specimens of Natural History, on the invitation of Mr. R. Cholmondeley, of Condover Hall, Salop. Councillor Thomas Holder, s.r., elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub- Committee, in succession to Councillor J. Armstrong. The Rutter-Phillips collection of Minerals presented to the Museum by the Liverpool Medical Institution. Mr. Charles Dyall appointed first Curator of the Walker Art Gallery. The Walker Art Gallery opened by the Right Honourable Edward-Henry, 15th Earl of Derby, «.c., 6th September. The Seventh Autumn Exhibition of Modern Art opened in the Walker Art Gallery, 8th September. The office of Superintendent of Branch Libraries abolished, and the duties transferred to the Chief Librarian. The Picton Reading Room, William Brown Street (adjoining the Brown Library and Museum) opened by the Mayor of Liverpool, Mr. Thomas B. Royden (afterwards Sir Thomas Royden, Bart.) 8th October. Mr. Charles T. Gatty appointed Curator of the ‘ Mayer ’ Museum. Councillor William J. Lunt elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor T. Holder, retired. Temporary Annexe to hold the Museum Ethnographical Collections built at the rear of the Walker Art Gallery. Extension of the Walker Art Gallery determined upon by the City Council. Inauguration of the Picton Lecture Hall for Free Lectures, 3rd January. The Hall is constructed in the basement of the Picton Reading Room, and was first styled the Rotunda Lecture Hall. Newspapers provided for the first time in the Reference Library. The Library Association of the United Kingdom held their 6th Annual Meeting in the Reference Library, 11th-14th September, under tie Presidency of Sir James A. Picton, J.p., F.s.A., Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee. Evening Reading Rooms opened in five Schoolrooms: Stanley Road, Queen’s Road, Chatsworth Street, Wellington Road, Low Hill. (In consequence of the subsequent establishment of Branch Libraries in the several districts, these Reading Rooms, excepting that in Chatsworth Street Council School, have since been closed.) First issue of the Circulating School Museum Cabinets to various Schools in the City, in May. Entire cost of the extension of Walker Art Gallery, on completion, defrayed by Alderman Sir Andrew Barclay Walker. The extension was opened 30th August. Bequest to the Museum of the Nicholas Cooke Collection of Lepidoptera. The Major Austin collection of Crinoids purchased for the Museum. Loan Exhibition of works of Art from Lancashire Collections, in the Walker Art Gallery 10 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 HISTORICAL SUMMARY Councillor Philip H. Rathbone, s-p., elected Chairman of the Arts and Exhibitions Sub-Committee in succession to Alderman E. Samuelson, retired. Collection of Skins and Horns of large Game Animals presented to Museum by Mr. St. George Littledale. Exhibition of pictures by the Russian artist, Vassili Verestchagin. (A second Exhibition of works by this artist was held in 1899.) First opening of the Museums on Monday evenings from 7 to 10 during the winter months (October to March). International Photographic Exhibition held in the Walker Art Gallery under the auspices of the Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association. First Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Art and its application to industry, was held in the Walker Art Gallery, under the Presidency of Lord Leighton, p.r.a., 3rd-7th December. Alderman Edward Samuelson, s.p., elected Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, in succession to Sir James A. Picton, who died on 15th July. Libraries and Reading Rooms Sub-Committee appointed 8th August. Councillor Thomas Holder, s.P., elected first Chairman. The Rev. Henry H. Higgins, m.a., elected first Chairman of the Museum and Mayer Collection Sub-Committee. Kensington Branch Library opened by the Mayor of Liverpool, Alderman Thomas Hughes (afterwards Sir Thomas Hughes), 30th January. Alderman Sir William Bower Forwood, g.r., elected Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, in succession to Alderman E. Samuelson, retired. Councillor Andrew Commins, Lu.p., M.P., elected Chairman of the Libraries and Reading Rooms Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor Thomas Holder, s.P., retired. Inaugural meeting of the Museums Association held in the Museum, 17th July, under the Presidency of the Rev. Henry H. Higgins, m.a., Chairman of the Museum Sub-Committee. The Library, Museum, and Arts Committee becomes also the Technical Instruction authority. Sub-Committee appointed, with Councillor W. E. Willink, m.a., as Chairman. Photographic Exhibition held in the Walker Art Gallery, under the auspices of the Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association. The Permanent Collection, Walker Art Gallery, opened to the public on Sundays for the first time. Councillor W. H. Picton elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub-Committee, in succession to Alderman Lunt, deceased. Reconstruction of the basement of the Brown Library: Special Reference Room for Specifications of Patents and Newspaper Files opened there, 12th December. Exhibition of Naval and Nautical appliances, organised at the suggestion of the Right Hon. Sir Arthur B. Forwood, Bart., m.p., Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, opened by the Right Hon. Lord George Hamilton, m.p., First Lord of the Admiralty, Ist February. Councillor W. H. Picton elected Chairman of the Museum and Mayer Collection Sub-Committee, in succession to the Rev. H. H. Higgins, deceased. Bequest to the Museum by the Right Honourable Edward-Henry, 15th Earl of Derby, K.c., of a collection of Agates, etc. The Roscoe Collection transferred to the Walker Art Gallery by agree- ment with the Trustees of the Liverpool Royal Institution. Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, Bart., donor of the Walker Art Gallery, died 27th February. 1894 1895 - 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 11 Appointment of Mr. Henry O. Forbes, tu.p., as Director of Museums, in succession to Mr. Thomas J. Moore, deceased. The nucleus of a collection of West African Ethnographical Objects, oie to the Museum by Mr. A. Ridyard, Chief Engineer, Elder, empster, and Co. Central Lending Library established in the basement of the Brown Library building. Opened 17th June. Councillor Frank J. Leslie, ¥.r.c.s., elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor W. H. Picton, deceased. The Foundation Stone of the Everton Branch Library and Technical Schools laid by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Councillor W. H. Watts) on behalf of the Lord Stanley, m.p., 5th July. Councillor Morris P. Jones, s.p., elected Chairman of the Museum and Mayer Collection Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor W. H. Picton, deceased. Opening of the Ethnographical Gallery of the Museum by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Councillor W. H. Watts.) Councillor John Lea appointed Chairman of the Arts and Exhibitions Sub-Committee, in succession to Alderman Philip H. Rathbone, who died 22nd November 1895. The Everton Branch Library, St. Domingo Road, opened by the Right Honourable Frederick-Arthur, 16th Earl of Derby, x.c., Lord Mayor of Liverpool, 9th October. The Library was transferred from the old premises in Great Nelson Street. The Tristram Collection of Birds purchased for the Museum. Extension of Kensington Branch Library. The Technical Instruction Sub-Committee constituted a separate Com- mittee of the Council. Sefton Park Branch Lending Library opened in the Public Offices, Lark Lane, 4th October. Walton Branch Library opened in the Town Hall, Walton, 11th October. The Seton Karr Collection of Flint Implements from Egypt purchased for the Museum. Exhibition of Pictures by the late Alfred W. Hunt, r.w-s., held in the Walker Art Gallery. Foundation Stone of the Museums Extension Buildings and Technical School laid by Sir William Bower Forwood, p.u., s.p., Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, Ist July. Expedition to the Island of Sokotra for the collection of specimens of Flora and Fauna. Councillor Frank J. Leslie, ¥F.R.¢.s., elected Chairman of the Libraries and Reading Rooms Sub-Committee, in succession to Alderman Andrew Commins, Lu.D., M.P. Councillor Arthur Crosthwaite elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub- Committee in succession to Councillor F. J. Leslie. Alteration of the title ‘Museum and Mayer Collection Sub-Committee’ to “The Museums Sub-Committee,’ 24th July. Bequest by Mr. Hugh Frederick Hornby, Merchant of Liverpool, of his Art Library (comprising books, prints, autographs, and art bindings), together with £10,000 for the erection of a building suitable for its reception. Alderman Joachim N. Stolterfoht elected Chairman of the Libraries and Reading Rooms Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor F. J. Leslie, retired. 12 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. Councillor Edwin Berry elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub- Committee, in succession to Councillor A. Crosthwaite, elected Lord Mayor of Liverpool. Key's Plenum System of Heating and Ventilation installed in the Brown Library and Museum, June 1901. Councillor Arthur Crosthwaite, gs.p., elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor E. Berry. Toxteth Branch Library, Windsor Street, opened by Mr Andrew Carnegie, 15th October. The Library was transferred from the old premises in Upper Parliament Street. Removal of plateau fronting Brown Library and Museum, and alteration of approaches to the building. Councillor J. Harrison Jones elected Chairman of the Museums Sub- Committee, in succession to Mr. Morris P. Jones. The Wavertree Branch Library, Picton Road, opened by Councillor Robert Durning Holt, s-p., Deputy-Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, 12th May. Opening of the Rawdon Reading Room, Breck Road, Anfield, by Councillor William Evans, s.p., 18th October. Mr. E. Rimbault Dibdin appointed Curator of the Walker Art Gallery, in succession to Mr. C. Dyall, retired. The Northern Photographic Exhibition, under the auspices of the Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association, held in the Walker Ait Gallery. (An exhibition under the same auspices also took place in 1907 and 1911.) The Kirkdale Branch Library, Brock Street, opened by Alderman J. N. Stolterfoht, Chairman of the Libraries Sub-Committee, 21st June. The Andrew Carnegie Branch Library, Green Lane, West Derby (the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie) opened by Sir William B. f'orwood, D.L., J.P., Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, 27th June. Extension of the Museum Aquarium completed. Councillor William Permewan, m.p., elected Chairman of the Museums Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor J. Harrison Jones, resigned. A special collection of some 5C0 volumes of popular literature (History, Biography, Travel, Science, Industry, &c.) provided for Brown Reading Room on open access shelves, Inauguration of the Hugh Frederick Hornby Art Library, on 26th ctober, by Mrs. Madden, of Sandown Hall, Wavertree, to whom an illuminated address (enclosed in silver casket) was presented by the Library, Museum and Arts Committee. During the ceremony a marble bust of the late Hugh Frederick Hornby, executed by Mr. C. J. Allen on the commission of the Committee, was unveiled by Colonel H. H. Hornby, s.r. The Hornby Library building is an annexe to the Picton Reading Room. Opening of the New Galleries of the Museums Extension by the Right Honourable Frederick-Arthur, 16th Earl of Derby, k.cG., 19th October. The Walker Art Gallery first opened to the public in the evening. The Gallery was first experimentally opened on Monday evenings, this being afterwards altered (successfully) to Saturday evenings. The collection of Botanical literature forming the Library of the Liver- pool Botanic Gardens transferred by the Parks and Gardens Committee to the Reference Library. Dryden Street Evening Reading Room opened, 21st October. Councillor H. Chaloner Dowdall, m.a., B.c.u., elected Chairman of the Museums Sub-Committee, in succession to Dr. Permewan. Exhibition of the Art of W. Holman Hunt, o.m., p.c.u., held in the Walker Art Gallery. . 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 13 Memorial Exhibition of the Art of the late John Finnie, R.z., R.C.A., held in the Walker Art Gallery. Historical Exhibition of Liverpool Antiquities held in the Walker Art Gallery in connection with the Liverpool Sept-Centenary Celebrations. Alderman BE. W. Turner elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub-Committee in succession to Councillor Crosthwaite. Councillor Frank J. Leslie, r.r-c.s., elected Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, in succession to Sir William B. Forwood, D.L., J.P. Councillor Herbert R. Rathbone, B.a., elected Chairman of the Museums Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor H. Chaloner Dowdall, elected Lord Mayor of Liverpool. Historical Exhibition of Liverpool Art held in the Walker Art Gallery. The Garston Branch Library, Bowden Road (the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Lu.p.), opened by Councillor F. J. Leslie, Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, 26th May. Mr. George Thomas Shaw appointed Chief Librarian, in succession to Mr. Peter Cowell, deceased. Establishment of Lending Libraries Depot for the circulation _of special books and the interchange of books amongst the Lending Branches. The Herbarium Collection of over 40,000 specimens transferred by the Parks and Gardens Committee from the Botanic Gardens to the Museums. An illuminated address presented to Mr. A. Ridyard, 2nd July, in recognition of his gift to the Museums of numerous ethnographical objects and natural history specimens from the West Coast of Africa. Councillor Richard Rutherford, s.e., elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub-Committee in succession to Alderman E. W. Turner, resigned. Inauguration by Councillor William Evans, s.P., of Branch Lending Library in the Rawdon Reading Room, Anfield, 3rd February. On 13th October, an address (enclosed in silver casket) was presented to Miss Mary L. Hornby, in recognition of her generous gifts during many years, of Braille Books for the blind. The Art of Albrecht Diirer, a collection brought together and arranged in chronological order by Sir W. Martin Conway, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., exhibited in the Walker Art Gallery. The Centenary Exhibition of the Liverpool Academy of Arts held in the Walker Art Gallery. Exhibition of Canadian Art held in the Walker Art Gallery, under the auspices of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Councillor Ernest C. Given, m.1.c.z., elected Chairman of the Libraries and Reading Rooms Sub-Committee, in succession to Alderman J. N. Stolterfoht, deceased. Evening Reading Room, Stanley Road, opened by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Councillor S. Mason Hutchinson), 13th June. The New Sefton Park Branch Lending Library, Aigburth Road, opened on August 3rd by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 1u.p., the donor of_ the meg The Library was transferred from the Public Offices, Lark ane. The Walton and Fazakerley Branch Library, Evered Avenue (the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Lu.p.), opened by Councillor Richard Caton, M.D., LL.D., J.P., Deputy Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, 23rd November. The Library was transferred from the Walton Town Hall, Rice Lane. 14 1911 1912 1913 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. Mr. Joseph A. Clubb, p.sc., Deputy Curator, appointed Curator of Museums in succession to Dr. Forbes, retired. Afternoon Conference of Chairmen of Museum Committees and Museum Curators from towns in the North of England, held in the Museums, 18th October. A Special Collective Exhibit of Paizitings by Tom Mostyn (27 items) was arranged in room N of the Walker Art Gallery, the first of the kind to be included in the Autumn Exhibition. The Library Association held their 35th Annual Meeting in Liverpool, 2nd—5th September, under the presidency of Councillor Frank J. Leslie, F.R.G.S., Chairman of the Library, Museum and Arts Committee. Hours of duty of Lending Libraries Staffs revised, and the services of Evening Assistants discontinued. A Legacy of £10,000 bequeathed by the late Thomas Bartlett, of 12, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, to be devoted to an extension of the Walker Art Gallery, such extension to be (if possible) identified with the Donor’s name. Mr. Charles Dyall, first Curator of the Walker Art Gallery, died on the 13th October, A Special Exhibit of 28 Paintings by John Lavery, a.R.a., arranged in room N of the Walker Art Gallery, formed part of the Autumn Exhibition. Councillor Francis W. Bailey, m.n.c.s., u.R.c.P., elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor Richard Ruther- ford, J.P. The Old Swan Reading Room and Book Delivery Station (the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, LL.D.) opened on 4th June by Councillor E. C. Given, M.1.c.2., Chairman of the Libraries Sub-Committee. ; Site purchased for new Reading Room and Book Delivery Station in Edge Hill District (Beaumont Street). Incorporation of Allerton, Childwall, and Woolton. Transfer of the Much Woolton Public Library to the Library, Museum and Arts Committee, 9th November. Councillor C. Sydney Jones, m.a., elected Chairman of the Museums Sub- Committee in succession to Councillor H. R. Rathbone, B.a., elected Lord Mayor of Liverpool. The first meeting of the British Association Committee, formed at Birmingham to report on the work of Museums as institutions for education and research, was held in the Liverpool Museum in November, The Lord Mayor was elected on the Committee and attended. Special items included in the Autumn Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, were: (1) Memorial Exhibition of works by the late Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, o.m., R.A. (44 examples), lent by various Collectors; (2) Collection of 61 Paintings by modern French and Dutch Artists, lent by Denys Hague, Esq., London; (3) Collective Exhibit of works by Emil Fuchs, m.v.o. (46 items). At the inaugural banquet, Autumn Exhibition, Mr. Fuchs presented to the Permanent Collection his marble Sarcophagus, entitled ‘ Sisters,’ to mark his appreciation of the sympathy shown by the Committee towards his work. LIBRARIES. 15 CHIEF LIBRARIAN’S REPORT. GENTLEMEN, I respectfully submit a report of the work of the Reference and Lending Libraries during the year 1915. STATISTICS. The attached Tables of Statistics shew that 2,268,530 volumes were issued over the counters in the Reference Library, Lending Libraries, and Reading Rooms. In addition it is estimated that there has been a use equal to an issue of over 464,000 volumes of the books on open shelves in the Reference Library. There is a decrease in the total issues in both the Reference and Lending Libraries. The issues from the Reference Library were 53,500 less than in the previous year, while the issues from the Lending Libraries shew a decrease of over 102,000 volumes. It is impossible to give any satisfactory explanation of this decrease which is general, as all the Libraries have reduced issues to adults, while only four shew increases in the issues to children. There are one or two cases where the conditions have been exceptional. The Wavertree Branch Library was closed for nearly a month for painting and alterations, and the issues at the Kensington and West Derby Libraries were affected by the counter attractions at the Exhibition in Edge Lane. The Branch Libraries where there have been increased issues to Juveniles are Toxteth (13,629), Everton (6,353), Rawdon (8,019), and West Derby (2,933). There was an issue of 12,481 volumes from the Lending Libraries Depot, a decrease of 182 volumes. There were 3,036. volumes issued to Blind Readers as mapa 2,797 issued in 1912, an increase of 239 volumes. 16 LIBRARIES. LENDING LIBRARIES STOCKS. The work of revising the stocks at the Branch Libraries, as indicated in my Report last year has been continued, and during the year 2,610 soiled volumes were cancelled, while 6,396 volumes were replaced. Over 10,000 new volumes were purchased for the Lending Libraries (including a stock for the Old Swan Reading Room and Book Delivery Station), and care was taken to augment the stocks of those Branch Libraries where the supplies have not hitherto been equal to the demands. CATALOGUES, The Cataloguing staff has been actively engaged on the Reference Library Catalogue, and satisfactory progress for the year was reported to the Committee. Catalogues of the books in the Adult sections of West Derby and Kirkdale Branch Libraries were published, as well as Catalogues of Books for Children in the Kensington, Wavertree, and Rawdon Branch Libraries. 1913. 1912. Theology, Morals, Metaphysics ae 23,337 22,694 Natural Philosophy, Mathematics, Physiology, &e. 24,446 24,409 Natural History .. = 12,305 13,390 (Fine and iadaecoel ne ae sea hits 247 i | Specifications of Patents ae sh .. 40,222 = cee History and Biography, &c. ... ae ope 50 58,063 60,526 Topography and Antiquities ... , Ate on 23,948 26,764 Voyages and Travels, Gazetteers, Kilades ee Sat 37,799 42,496 { Collected Works, Essays, &e. ... ae ae fe 64,742 32,905 | Newspapers: Bound volumes .. 5,852 6,427 Jurisprudence, Law, Politics ... A 16,295 16,075 Commerce, Politiedl Economy, Soeial Sgicnes: aa, 24,037 26,281 Education and Language eee ce See so 32,841 38,642 Poetry and Dramatic Literature cme _ ae 19,567 23,417 Prose Fiction... a aA 20,045 40,465 Latin and Greek Gianden: and ean Gaieaee és 3,622 3,062 Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, &c. ... “a 500 15,532 17,518 476,340 537,955 Hugh Frederick Hornby Art a — Volumes issued ; 1,569 1,187 Total tte. see aa: iis 478,509 539,142 TABLE III. 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' : f ‘ ; . spe! | Sua | Zea | "aba |ommsvco| cee | asst | ed” | Spe |onBtah [aS e) Enea locSRGntGy| SURE |GET | seme | -xoxvonsrssw2p ‘sMOOY SuIproy pue solrerqiy Surpusry oy} ur sowmjoa jo uoyeoyIssefo pue reqrunu yy Surmeyg—AI BTAVL 22 LIBRARIES. TABLE V.—Shewing the number CLASSIFICATION. | LENDING DEPARTMENTS: ADULTS. Conte. Bromage | Boman Peguangion) grat: | gies, | gearts| brace] Derby | Seis | Sema A. Theology, &e...| 2,195 | 801] 1,471 969 | 1,633 | 2,100 873 | 686| 935| 497! 86 B. Physics, &ce. “ed 2,971 983 | 1,298 | 1,075 | 1,366 | 1,758 985 962 869 727 C. Natural His....; 2,279 627 848 719 | 1,383 | 2,547 | 1,099 787 | 1,161 490 1D). Ne SEAS icigeeseeee 15,336 | 3,694 | 6,108 | 7,729 | 8,274 | 9,283 | 6,145 | 4,229 6,863 | 3,970 E. History, &c....! 4,704 | 1,811 | 2,688 | 2,056 | 2,666 | 4,440] 2,246 | 1,739 | 2,209 | 1,176 F. Topography ...| 1,349 375 527 570 | 1,031 | 1,549 715 335 531 448 G. Voyages, &c....) 3,479 | 1,007 | 1,879 | 1,720 | 2,213 | 3,342] 2,010 | 1,361 | 2,015 | 1,684 We Mise. Tit: -.2..: 3,637 | 4,879 | 5,500 | 5,058 | 3,659 | 3,243 | 4,670 | 2,757 | 4,481 | 4,179 i oaw, 102. 2b. .-- 568 79 230 276 165 401 241 193-324 159 K. Commerce, &c.| 2,626 897 | 1,392 888 | 1,479 984 803 643 860 639 _ Education ...... 1,603 413 697 542 850 | 1,012 785 869 | 1,105 439 ‘a Lit. ...) 1,642 31 370 167 100 524 199 123 231 382 M. Poetry, Drama| 2,045 404 735 791 | 1,130 | 2,726 703 841 802 | -457 N. Prose Fiction..|104, 544] 62,114 | 86,360] 93,548 | 100,727) 122,889] 72,979 |56,981 | 80,361 |41,783 83,641 . O. Classics ......... 302 145 146 87 37 210 144 154 217 65 | Blind Lit....... 1,111 298 744 537 _ 31 110 160| 35 = Teed | P ; =| ae TOTALS ...... 150, 391) 78,558 |110,993| 116,727 | 126,713) 157,039| 94,707 | 72,920 to3,g00 [aria 103,4 § Of this total 38,739 were volumes of Music. * Wavertree Branch closed for painting June 2nd— July 5 TABLE VI.—Shewing the number Central. | Branch, | Branch. | Branch." New Tickets issued during 1913— ING cree esvardces se wnaeas 2,774 979 1,629 1,562 Shadent:.. > cea dvoeze 5,759 1,999 | 3,274 | 3,316 BISONS cernec eee .cste0e+0e 1,131 141 319 203 DRAIN BOUL 5 caucs aes cacecwen vere _ 2,841 2,658 | 2,918 6,890 | 4,981 6,251 | 6,437 Walte Brancl LIBRARIES. 93 volumes issued for Home Reading. Lenpina DEPARTMENTS : CHILDREN. —<—<—<—<—<_____ Sefton West motel | Branch, | Beate |Rensington| Walton pratt | "Branch. | Branch: | Derby | Branch, | Brawom, { Total l | 13,066 | 236 99 64| 220| 143 173 | 324} 121] 160] 177| 4,747] 14,783 14,018 267! 2028 50| 251! 613 217; 310] 174, 85| - 165| 2,335] 16,358 12,876 | 2,229 | 1,160 719 | 684 |1,021 892] 1,623] 992! 480 1,801 | 11,501] 24,377 /§77,840 | 2,247 | 1,414 879 1,273 |1,183 1,375 | 2,260] 1,886 | 915 | 2,306 | 15,238] 93,078 | | 2 27,964 | 5,313 | 2,642 1,587 | 2,418 | 3,050 2,534 | 5,478 1,915 | 2,349 | 4,181 | 31,462] 59,426 8,105 11 73 — 485 | — — — 195 276 | 5,918 | 6,958} 15,063 22,802 | 1,983 | 1,390 655 | 1,027 | 2,326 1,376 | 2,408 | 1,373 | 1,406 | 1,817 | 15,764 38,563 45,397 | 3,064 | 3,518 1,308 | 581} 209 1,712 | 1,908 | 2,371 | 2,004 | 1,521 | 18,196 63,593 Bao; — i Pa BO ee as 31 4 5 42] 2,952 12,227 9 a ee st ee ae ipo = 63 39| 214] 387] 12,614 9,353 10 43;). = Ta eee = a 24; 29} 164} 262] 9,645 3,938 | — a = MN ee 35} = — 3,938 11,576 | 982 149 355 | 462) 521 370 872 247 572 629 | 5,159] 416,735 909,170 50,356 | 48,085 | 53,002 | 23,020 35,806 23,529 49,414 | 29,987 | 15,968 | 45,412 |374,579 1,283,749 1,538 2S te Dah ee 4 x = See to 1 37| 1,575 SG ee od Gey en ee Sy ht | ee | ‘ | Lt . } | * 1,175,816 66,707 |58,774 | 58,619 S079 44872, 32,178 | 64,592 | 38,815 | 24,287 | 64,311 483,634 1,659,450 -T Old Swan opened June 5th. { Includes 12,481 vols. issued from Lending Libraries Depot. ers from Lending Libraries. Kirkdale |West Derby] Garston | Rawdon Ola Total ch. Branch. Branch. Branch. Branch. Swan. eee ia rk) Wavertree j “ithe q _——— —___ —-1,554 970 | 1,535 934 1,237 212 17,206 Wye 53 158 131 71 11 2,067 647 1,215 662 522 1,037 _ 9,536 2,380 | 2,288 | 2,355 | 1,587 | 2,345 *223 28,809 3,133 1,935 | 3,162 1,566 | 2,975 212 35,120 355 143 364 248 215 11 4,412 1,304 | 2,805 | 1,374 | 1,010 2,384 — 20,180 - a a 4,792 | 4,883 | 4,900 | 2,824 5,574 *223 59,712 * Also 41 West Derby tickets in use at Old Swan. 24 OLASSIFICATION. Theology, &c.......... Physics, &¢. ......--. History, &c. ......... Topography ......... Voyages, &c. ......... Misc. Literature Law, Politics Commerce, &c. ...... Phere ne aR eee oo a Education a ca Poetry, Drama = Fiction Classics sete wee e ee reeeee LIBRARIES. TABLE VII.—Shewing the number ¢ ApuLT Rooms. Everton Branch poet epee Branch 724 | 282 463 | 831 184 | 422 1,267 | 2,742 608 | 772 169] 481 295 | 578 1,985 | 3,210 74| 107 292 | 645 195 | 354 264] 338 5,334 | 7,832 70 15 11,924 | 18,669 Walton Branch 47 124 47 237 104 1,221 va, 163 124 221 426 274 174 1,218 783 395 350 139 74 306 244 386 651 69 81 138 157 169 308 118 257 1,173 | 4,417 31 96 4,800 | 8,147 West Derby Branch 235 480 440 2,076 541 210 502 10,189 Garston Branch Old Swan Rawdon Branch K¢ 5,114 | *2 ** Old Swan opened June 5th. TABLE VIII.—EVENID Reading Rooms. Chatsworth Street (Council Schools) Dryden Street Stanley Road Old Swan Pee eee eee eOe reer eee reer eee err eeeree eee reer Peer re eee rece eee reer ree es olumes issued in Reading Rooms. LIBRARIES. 25 CHILDREN’s Rooms, Dryden gaeeer ale) 151 | 2,162 — 3,521 113 | 2,380 172 | 10,929 747 5,460 286 | 1,914 638 | 3,989 1,135 | 11,277 143 753 93 | 2,423 181 | 2,272 160 | 2,133 2,744 | 31,822 = 445 6,563 | 81,430 Everton|Toxteth| Kensing-| Walton | Waver- Kirkdale | raneh | Branch | ton | Branch | ,'7¢e one eee Be 71 66 363 142 586 373 7 281 389 160 293 496 410 396 2,542 713 | 1,750 | 3,310 245 518 2,274 | 635 | 2,588 | 1,477 1,233 730 3,912 1,415 | 3,579 | 2,973 4 40 18 211 — — 614 747 1,182 317 | 2,033 | 3,007 2,958 | 3,787 1,560 120 | 1,447 | 9,889 2 _— — 21 —- — Aes oti wine i — = 45 123 753 246 355 869 6,334 | 7,750 2,929 9,563 | 2,485 | 13,053 EV eee a 9 | er = 11,924 14,441 | 15,922 | 13,561 |+15,116 | 35,447 | West Derby Branch 1,084 21,175 68 Garston | | Branch | 1 i=) j Total | 2,239 2,111 11,460 10,945 21,307 1,136 13,919 31,673 92 354 155 3,933 70,078 72 44,139 | 18,993 169,473 | 250,903 Grand Total 4,401 5,632 13,840 21,874 26,767 3,050 17,858 42,950 845 2,777 2,426 6,066 401,900 517 EKADING ROOMS. 1912. Average Attend- Average ance per Night. ance. per Night. 24,781 82 24,035 77 23,163 77 24,231 78 65,899 218 70,022 223 9,095 52 — — 122,938 118,288 + Wavertree Branch Children’s room used as Adult room, through painting, May 28th to August 12th. 26 LIBRARIES. FREE LECTURES. During the year 168 Free Lectures were delivered, the total attendance being 71,464. specially for children. halls, 1.e.— Twenty-one of the Lectures were Twenty-eight Lectures were given in the Picton Lecture Hall, the remainder in the following district (1) Scotland Road (St. Martin’s Hall); (2) Sandhills (Crosby Home Mission Hall, Commercial Road); (3) Kirkdale (Co-operative Hall, Walton Road); (4) Walton (Assembly Hall, Corporation Baths, Queen’s Drive) ; (5) Aintree (Aintree Institute, Longmoor Lane); (6) Everton (Branch Library, and St. Ambrose Mission Hall, Prince Edwin Street); (7) Anfield (Council Schools, Anfield Road) ; (8) Tue Brook (Branch Library, Green Lane) ; (9) West Derby (Village Hall) ; (10) Kensington (Lundie Memorial Hall, Beech Street); (11) Low Hill (St. Jude’s Schools); (12) Wavertree (Town Hall) ; (18) Sefton Park (Gregson Memorial institute, Garmoyle Road) ; (14) Garston (Assembly Hall, Corporation Baths, Speke Road); (15) Aigburth (Parish Hall, Dundonald Road); (16) Toxteth (David Lewis Club, Great George Place). LECTURERS AND SUBJECTS. (Excepting where otherwise stated, the Lectures were illustrated by Lantern Views.) Lecturer. Akhurst, Forbes Allen, Perey Benson, Captain W. J. P..... F.R.G.S. Blake. tA ikl... Mia ass sopuraiess Blair, Andrew ween eee e ween es Subject. ““Famous prose writers of the 19th Century,” with illustrative recitals from Ruskin, Carlyle, Thackeray, Dickens, and others. ** Romances of Old France: the Splendid Duchy of Burgundy (South).” Canal up-to- date, and the West Coast of South America.” “ Panama “The by-ways of a great city; or, the past and present life of the Streets of London.” “Through the snows of Grisons to the lakes of Italy.” Halls. Wavertree — Tue Brook— Picton—Low Hill. Anfield—Picton—Kensing- ton—Walton. Aintree—Picton—Aigburth —Kirkdale. Tue Brook—Aigburth. Kirkdale. LIBRARIES. 27 Lecturer. Brigg, Edwin W. ............... Brodrick, Harold, m.a., F.G.S. Budden, Charles W., m.p.... Chinnappa, Ananda Royer A. B.A., F-R.5.1. 2” 2 Coop, Rev..J.O., mA. oc... Cortie, Rev. A. L., s.z., F.R.A.S., Stonyhurst College Observatory. Costain, Rev. A. J., wa. ... Dennis, G. P., a.w.te.r. ... Lecturer on Electr’cal Engineering, Central Technical School, Liver- pool. Dibdin, E. Rimbault, Curator, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. ” ”) Myer. Wie Fhe. scant ts cco 3 Ellis, John W., m.v., F.F.s Subject. “Through Flanders and Walcheren to a Dutch Wonderland.’’ “ Romance and legend in Northern France.” “In the Norwegian High- lands.”’ “Camping days and ways on road and river.” ‘Hunting in the Indian Jungle”; with folk- songs. races of with native “The native India ”’; songs. “The fortresses of Ger- many.” “The Sun’s surface and surroundings.” “Cambridge: City and University life.” ** Oxford: City and Uni- versity life.” ** Electricity and its modern application”; with experiments. *“ An artistic tour in Hol- land.”’ “An invasion of Ger- many: notes of an artistic tour.” “An hour with the micro- scope.” “Days in ‘Merrie Sher- wood,’ with glimpses of f[vanhoe Land.” Sandhills. Tue Brook—Everton (Branch Library). Garston—West Derby. Anfield. Sefton Park (Gregson Inst.) Aintree. Sandhills. Picton. Kensington—Picton. Wavertree. Sefton Park (Gregson Inst.) —-Walton. Scotland Road (St. Martin’s Hall)—Everton. Picton. Kensington—West Derby. Sandhills—Tue Brook. 28 LIBRARIES. Lecturer. Subject. Ellis, John W., M.B., F.E.S.. Enock, Fred., F.L.s., F.E.S., F.R.M.S. Eustace, Harry K. ............ iHlowlkes, “(Bev Be see.ct ences. Grensted, Rev. Canon F. BS aA Hamilton, J. Erik, B.sc. ... Hamilton, Rev. James, M.A. Haynes, Arthur FE. ............ Hewson, J. James ............ Heron, Ernest P. ............... Hoult, James Jenkins, Miss E. Vaughan.. JONES; VOWS c..cvssatececevovsss “On and off the Great Dyke: the scenery and | antiquities of the Welsh Border from Chester to Hereford.” “Fairy flies and their hosts.” “ Hunting and smuggling in Africa: 1 and adventures in the Jungle.” Canal “Canals and Folk.” ““ Voyagers to the Isle of Man a thousand years ago, and the relics they have left.’ “ Experiences at an Irish Whaling Station.” “Grey Galloway.” ** Off the beaten track in Finland.” “Charles Dickens: dramatist, and the stage in his writings.’ | “The Val d’Anniviers: off the beaten track in Switzerland.” “Childwall and Waver- tree: historical, anti- quarian, legendary, and anecdotal.’’ “The Hundred of West experiences | actor, | Halls. / Picton. | Aintree—Tue Brook— Picton—Aigburth. Anfield—Garston—Picton— Toxteth. | ) Anfield—Picton—Toxteth— Sandhills. | Walton—Everton (St. Am- brose Mission Hall)— Kirkdale. | Aighurth. | Toxteth—Garston. Anfield—Garston. Kensington—Toxteth. Everton (St. Ambrose Mis- / sion Hall). | Picton. | Walton—West Derby. | Derby: historical, topo- | graphical, antiquarian, and anecdotal.”’ “The land of the Beaver and the Maple.” “The Wild Welshman.’’ (Not illustrated.) | Sefton Park (Gregson Inst.) —Garston—Toxteth— Picton. Anfie!d—Walton. 2 LIBRARIES. 29 Lecturer. Subject. Kennedy, John, ¥F.R.G.s. Lund, Rev. T. W. ™., m.a.. McCullagh, Rev. H. H., B.a. 33 a” 33 3) 33 >” 3) 33 iaraIiG.o Wi ARhiss tes Poss 3 Marsden, Prosper, H., r.c.s., Lecturer in Materia Medica and Pharmacy, University of Liver- pool. Moir, James, B.sc. ............ Moir, John M., mse. ......... eee eee er re rrr Nairn, Peter Neill, Daniel J. Nicholas, Rev. T. F., m.a., F.R.G.S, ..| "A voyage to the Near | East; with some re- marks on the war in the Balkans.” |“ At the foot of the Cots- wolds.’’ “Beethoven and his music’; with musical | illustrations. “Brahms: his work, his friends, and his critics ’’; with musical illustrations. ““ Edward Grieg, music’s northern light”; with musical illustrations. “* Handel and his music ”’; with musical illustra- tions. “Mozart and his music ”’; with musical illustra- tions. “On tramp in Dickens’ Land.” ** Moscow, Mother of Cities: being an ac- count of a visit to one of the ancient capitals of Russia.” “Waves of the sea and other waves. “Wonders of Wireless Telegraphy ’’; with ex- periments. “Wirral, historic and picturesque.” “The land of the Gael: from Stirling to Ben | Nevis.”’ “The Gambia River and Protectorate: the olcest English Colony in West Africa.’’ | Aigburth. Picton. Picton. Kirkdale. Kensington. Aintree—Everton (Branch Library). Everton (Branch Library). Anfield—Toxteth. | Picton—Sefton Park (Greg- son Inst.). West Derby. Scotland Road (St. Martin’s Hall). Wavertree— Picton— Aigburth—Low Hill. 30 LIBRARIES. Lecturer. Subject. Halls. Northcote, Henry F. ......... |** The Mechanics of the | Picton. O’Beirne, Calder, formerly | Professor of Elocution, | St. Edward’s College. ” 29 O’Mahony, Michael Parkinson, Rev. George A... Raffalovich, George Rea, W. Lawrence Ross, Rev. William D., B.SC. Saxby, “Wred Wo" rc csdeeten- Seatree, George, J.P. ........- . Shaw, George T., Chief Librarian, Liverpool Public Libraries. Universe.”’ “Poets of the four nations ’’; with recitals from Shakespeare, Ad- dison, Tennyson, Hood, | Le Fanu, Charles T. Kickham, Aytoun, Hy- wel ab Eimion, and Ceiriog. ‘*Shakespearian Recitals, and selections from the | Poets.”’ “ Architecture of the Celt and the Norman in Treland.”’ “The Channel Islands: their customs, beau- | ties, ete.” “The Folk-songs of Britain and their | story’; with vocal illustrations. ‘From Budapest to Con- stantinople, via Rou- mania.” “To the Highlands of the Grisons: a tour in Eastern Switzerland.’’ ‘From Hamburg to Ber- lin, via Sweden, Fin- land, and St. Peters- burg.” “Dust: its origin and influence ’; with ex- periments. **Microscopic revelations by direct projection ”’ ; with experiments. — “Lakeland mountaineer- ing in summer and winter.”’ “The Makers of Liver- pool.”” | Scotland Road (St. Martin’s Hall)—Picton. Sefton Park (Gregson Inst.) Scotland Road (St. Martin’s Hall)—Kirkdale. Garston. Sandhills—West Derby. Wavertree—Picton—Scot- land Road (St. Martin’s Hall)—Kirkdale. Wavertree. | Aigburth Sefton Park (Gregson Inst.) —? 2? ” 3” Lund, Rev. T. W. M., m.a... Moir, James, B.SC. .....-..000- Moir, John M., Msc. ......... Northcote, Henry F. ......... Taylor, Alfred, F.R.P.s. , -| * Home development ”’; with musical] illustrations.” “West Country Folk- songs”; with musical illustrations. CHILDREN’S LECTURES “The life of a River from its cradle to its grave.”’ “Children’s homes in Japan; or, the daily life of a Japanese boy and girl.” “The little Folk of China and Japan, at their work and at their play.” “The little Folk of Far Eastern Lands.’ of “The conquest the Soudan.” “In the reign of Terror: the story of the French Revolution.”’ “ Regimental emblems and their stories.” ‘* A trin round Britain.” “The country of William Tell: peeps into Swiss life.” ““A piece of glass: its manufacture and uses.”’ “A peep into the wonder- land of Electricity ”’; with experiments. ‘ Animals: their ways and homes.” life of Wild Birds,” Garston— Wavertree—Scot- land Road (St. Martin's Hall)—Low Hill. Sefton Park (Gregson Inst.) —Anfield. Aintree—Wavertree. Sandhills. Kensington. Sefton Park (Gregson Inst.) Tue Brook. Wavertree. Everton (St. Ambrose Mis- sion Hall). Anfield—Garston. Kirkdale. Everton. Garston—Kensington— Sandhills. Aintree—Tue Brook—Aig- burth—Kirkdale. m+ LIBRARIES. 33 DONATIONS. Mrs. ALFRED BootrH :— European years: letters of an idle man, by H. J. Warner; ed. by G. E. Woodberry. 1912. New letters of an idle man, by H. J. Warner. 1918. Auuan H. Bricut, J.P.:— Catalogue of Emblem books and of a few other similar books, the property of Allan H. Bright, Esq., Ashfield, Knotty Ash, Liverpool. 1913. Pamphlets on the South African War, 1899-1902; published by the National Reform Union, &c. 5v. Tue TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MuSEUM :— Catalogue of printed music published between 1487 and 1800, by W. B. Squire, 2v.; Index to the charters and rolls in the Depart- ment of Manuscripts, ed. by H. J. Ells, v.2; Queen Mary’s Psalter: miniatures and drawings by an English Artist of the 14th century, ed. by Sir George Warner ; Catalogue of the books, manu- scripts, maps, and drawings, v. 4; Catalogue of additions to the manuscripts, 1906-1910; Index to the charters and rolls in the Department of Manuscripts, ed. by H. J. Ellis, v.2; Catalogue of engraved British portraits, by F. O’Donoghue, v. 3; Catalogue of the finger rings bequeathed by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, by O. M. Dalton; Handbook of instructions for collectors, 3rd ed. ; The history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments, v.2, by Albert Giinther; Guide to the specimens illustrating the races of mankind (Anthropology), 2nd ed.; Guide to the domesticated animals (other than horses), 2nd ed. ; Guide to the exhibition of specimens illustrating the modification of the structure of animals in relation to flight; Catalogue of the mammals of Western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia), by G. S. Miller; 34 LIBRARIES. Catalogue of the Ungulate mammals, by R. Lydekker, v.1; Cata- logue of the heads and horns of Indian big game bequeathed by A. O. Hume, by R. Lydekker; Catalogue of the collection of birds’ eggs, by W. R. Ogilvie Grant, v.5; Guide to the gallery of Reptilia and Amphibia, 2nd ed.; Descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford clay, by W. C. Andrews, pt. 2; Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae, v.12 (Text and Plates); The house-fly as a danger to health, by Ernest E. Austen, 2nd ed.; Catalogue of the British species of Pisidium (recent and fossil), with notes on those of Western Europe, by B. B. Woodward; Catalogue of the Chaetopoda: Polychaeta, by J. H. Ashworth, pt. 1; A revision of the Ichneumonidae, pt. 2, by C. Morley; Catalogue of the plants collected by Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Talbot in the Oban District, South Nigeria, by A. B. Rendle, &c. Mrs. BULLEY :— The Gentleman and Gardener’s Kalendar, by Richard Bradley, F.R.S., 1718; Gaston de Latour, by Walter Pater; The works in prose and verse of William Shenstone, 3v. 1773; Deutsche Anthologie: a manual of German prose, selected by L. von Miihlenfels, 1841; Geschichte Friedrichs des Grossen, geschrieben von F. Kiigler, gezeichnet von A. Menzel, 1840; Saimmtliche Fabeln und Erzihlungen, von EH. F. Gellert, illustrirt von G. Osterwald, 1844; and 22 other volumes. OrvDER oF Notre-Dame or Mount-CarMEL : — Etudes Carmelitaines, historiques et critiques, sur les traditions, les priviléges, et la mystique de l’Ordre, par les péres Carmes dechaussés de la province de France, 1911-1912. ?v. Tur Co-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY :— The story of the C.W.S.: the jubilee history of the Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited, 1863-1913, by Percy Redfern. (7 copies.) LIBRARIES, 35 Tue Rigut Hon. tHe Kart or CRAwFORD AND BALCARRES :— Bibliotheca Lindesiana, v.8. Handlist of Proclamations issued by Royal and other constitutional authorities, 1714-1910, George I to Edward VII. 1913. Haroip Cusiey :— Engraved Portrait of Thomas Green, assertur of the constitu- tional right of Election at Liverpool, May 1807 (coloured copy). E. Gorpon Durr, M.A. :— Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp: an essay in biblio- graphy, by Robert Proctor. 1894. ALDERMAN Sir Wituiam B. Forwoop, D.L., J.P.:— Large photographic Portrait of himself taken by Elliott and Fry of London. Signed: ‘ William B. Forwood, Chairman, Liverpool Libraries and Arts and Museum Committee, 1889-1903.’ Tue SENATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW :— The Matriculation Albums vf the University of Glasgow from 1728 to 1858, transcribed and annotated by the late W. Innes Addison. 1913. Miss M. A. Harpine :— Pierre et Camille, par Alfred de Musset; Sacs et parchemins, par Jules Sandeau; Das wahre Gesicht: drama von Max Halbe; Quisisana von F. Spielhagen; Gedichte in Prosa, von Ivan Turgenieff; and 13 other volumes of foreign literature. Curis. HEALY :— The Irish Nation: its history and its biography, by James Wills and Freeman Wills, 8v.; Margaret Ethel Macdonald, by J. Ratisay Macdonald, 1912; The Sorcery Club, by Elliott O’ Donnell, 1912. Miss Mary L. Hornsy :— Books for the Blind in Braille type, 37 vols. Miss Laneton :— Le secret de la vieille demoiselle, par E. Marlitt, 2v.; Les derniéres années de la Duchesse de Berry, par Imbert de Saint- Amand; Mémoires de Madame la Duchesse de Gontaut. 1778-1836: 36 LIBRARIES. The Light of Asia, by Sir Edwin Arnold; New dictionary of the English and Italian languages, by Alphonsus de Bermingham; and 7 other volumes. THE CoRPORATION OF THE City or LonpDoN :— Calendar of letter-books preserved among the archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall. Letter-book L, tempo. Edward [V—Henry VII, ed. by Reginald R. Sharpe; Report of the Medical Officer of Health of the City of London, 1912. Tuer Duc pe Lovusat :— Le Duc de Loubat: a collection of diplomas, resolutions of learned societies, &c., addressed to the Duc de Loubat, 1894-1912. Artuur Lucas :— John Lucas, portrait painter, 1828-1874: a memoir of his life mainly deduced from the correspondence of his sitters; arranged and connected by his son, Arthur Lucas. 1913. Mrs. LystTer :— The Imperial Family Bible according to the authorised version, with notes, references, &c., and engravings on steel after J. Martin, H. Vernet, and others. 1844. W. KE. Moss :— Holograph Letter of George Stephenson to the Mayor of Liver- pool regarding new dock for Birkenhead, January 1840. Frank OLLERENSHAW :— Cobbett’s Paper against gold; with Portrait of William Cobbett eng. by E. Smith, Liverpool, after a drawing taken on board the ‘Importer’ on her departure from Liverpool, March 1817. LIBRARIES. 37 Tue Rr. Hon. Hersert R. Ratrusone, B.A., Lorp Mayor or LIVERPOOL :— Poll for the Election of a Member of Parliament for the Borough of Liverpool taken between William Ewart and John Evelyn Denison, November 1830, with MS notes of sums paid to various electors. Henry I. Renspure :— Arrangements for violin and piano by J. B. Singalee, from the great operas, viz., Gounod’s Romeo and Juliette, Verdi’s Ernani, Wagner’s Lohengrin, &c. Roya. Soctety or Lonpon :— Philosophical Transactions, Series A v.212, Series B v. 203; Proceedings, Series A 600-611, Series B 585-593; Year Book, 1913; Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission, Nos. 10-13; National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904; Meteorology, Part 2. JuLius A. SCHROTER :— Life and explorations of Fridtjof Nansen; The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle’s letters, by Henry H. Spink; Sir George White, V.C., by T. F. G. Coates; Romance of modern invention, by A. Willams; First footsteps in East Africa, by Sir R. F. Burton, 2v.; Deep sea plunderings, by Frank T. Bullen; and 51 other volumes. : Tue Rr. Hon. tHe SEcRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA: — District Gazetteer of India, 40 v. Mrs. E. A. Smita :— Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, by John Willcock. 1899. 38 LipRaRIEs. SMITHSONIAN InstirutTion, WaAsHineaton, U.S.A. :— Report of the United States National Museum, 1912; and 51 other Reports, Bulletins, &c. Ronatp Stewart-Brown, M.A., F.S.A.:— The Royal Manor and Park of Shotwick in Cheshire, by Ronald Stewart-Brown, 1912; Plan of the Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks, published by the ‘Liverpool Mercury,’ 1844; Plan of Liverpool reduced from Gage’s Survey, and published 1836; Statistical diagram exhibiting by fluxional curves the population, tonnage, &c., of Liverpool, 1700-1850. J. Cartton Stitt, J.P. :— Stitt of Liverpool, by James Carlton Stitt, 1901; Portrait of the Rey. John Kelly (1801-1876), sometime Pastor of Crescent Chapel, Liverpool; Book-plate of James Carlton Stitt. Unitrep States GOVERNMENT :— Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1911-12, 2v.; Special reports of the Bureau of the Census, 7v.; and 496 other Reports, Bulletins, Circulars, &e. Str WiLtiamM WEDDERBURN, Bart. :— Allan Octavian Hume, C.B., ‘Father of the Indian National Congress,’ 1829 to 1912, by Sir William Wedderburn. J. C. WiLLiaMs :— A naturalist in Western China, by Ernest Henry Wilson. 2vy. 1913. Henry YOUNG anv Sons :— Bygone Liverpool illustrated by 97 plates reproduced from original paintings, &c., with historical descriptions by Henry S. and Harold E. Young; and a narrative introduction by Ramsay Muir. 1918. (3 copies.) LIBRARIES. 39 Other Books, Pamphlets, &c., have been presented by the following :— William Adams. Publishers of the ‘ African World.’ Mrs. James Allen. Architect’s | Compendium Publishing Co. John S. Arthur. Roland Austin. Australian Museum, Syd- ney. W. E. A. Axon, M.A. Sir R. G. Baggorre. R. Barker. Barrow Naturalists’ Field Club. Worshipful Company of Basket-makers of Lon- don. Bennett & Co. T. H. Bickerton, M.D., J.P. C. H. Bird-Davis. Birkenhead Literary Scientific Society. Board of Trade, Labour Department. Joseph C. Bridges, M.A. Bristol Printing and Pub- lishing Co. British Association. British Guiana Permanent Exhibitions Committee. T. B. Browne Ltd. A. Theodore Brown. National Museum, Buenos Aires. Major W. Roper Caldbeck. Syndics of Cambridge Uni- versity Press. Professor E.T. Campaguac, and M.A. Geological Survey of Canada. Industrial Department, Ottawa, Canada. Carnegie Foundation for tha Advancement of Teaching. Catholic Publishing Co., Liverpool, Central Association of Accountants. Joseph Chadwick & Sons. Chartered Institute of Secretaries. Medical Officer of Health, Cheshire. Chicago Board of Trade. Chicago Bureau of Statistics. J. and A. Churchill. Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. Cincinnati Museum Asso- ciation. City and Guilds of London Institute. Cobden Club. Collingwood Brothers. Co-operative Union, Man- chester. Crane & Co. A. A. Dallman. C. W. Daniel Ltd. Edward M. Darken. Dublin University. A. W. Duncanson. Sir Edwin Durning-Law- rence. H. Norman Edge. Edinburgh University. John Edwards. Thomas L. Elder. John W. Ellis, M.D., F.E.S. J. J. Faragher, B.A. F. W. Faxon. Financial Reform Associa- tion. Bureau of Productive Industries, Formosa. William D. Foulke. Free Trade Union. Charles W. F. Goss. Royal Observatory, Green- wich, Gregg Publishing Co., New York. T. Walter Hall. Charles R. Hand. Borough Meteorologist, Hastings. G. W. Heaton. Professor W. A. Herdman, D.SC., F.R.S. W. Morland Hocken. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Miss Margot C. Horth. James Hoult. Howard Association. Jamieson B. Hurry, Ice and Cold Storage Publishing Co. Illinois University. Society of Incorporated Accountants and Audi- tors. National University of Ireland. Mrs, Nevill Jackson, Charles Janet, College of Science, Tokyo, Japan. Japanese Financial Com- mission. David Jones. Kyoto Imperial University, Japan. Rev. W. S. Lach-Szyrma. Alcxander Lamb. Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes. Charles and Edwin Layton. Alderman John Lea, J.P. S. Levy. Mrs. Littlewood. Society of Antiquaries of London. London College of Divinity. London College of Music. London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. Louisiana State Museum. William Macdonald & Co. Cecil Mackie Ltd. Macmillan & Co. Charles Madeley. Manchester Geological and Miming Society. Manchester Microscopical _ Society. Manchester Statistical Society. Manchester University. Marconi’s Wireless Tele- graphy Co. Massachusetts General Hospital. Master Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers’ As- sociation. Charles E. Mate. Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Society of Mechanical En- gineers, Japan. Mercantile Marine Service Association, Mersey Conservancy. Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. Meteorological Council. George L. Miller. University of Minnesota. C. Mitchell & Co. 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University Corresponience College. Republic of Uruguay. Vancouver Board of Trade. Venezuela Legation, J. W. Vickers & Co. Victoria, British Columbia, Board of Trade. Department of Mines, Vic- toria, Australia. Geological Survey of Vic- toria, Australia. Astronomical Society of Wales. University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. University of Wales, Cardiff. University College of North Wales, Bangor. University College of South Wales and Monmouth- shire. Councillor J. Wilson Walker. Mrs. Walter. National Academy of Sciences, Washington. A. Pelham Webb. F. Parkes Weber, m.a., M.D. Dr. C. Williams. Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. J. Whitaker & Sons. Working Men’s Club and Institute Union. Zoological Society of Lon- don. Liprarigs. Reports, Catalogues, &c., have been received from the following :— Aberdeen. National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Adelaide, South Australia. Arbroath. Ashton-under-Lyme. Bnoch Pratt, Baltimore. Peabody Inst., Baltimore. Barrow-in Furness. Barry, Battersea. Belfast. Berlin Royal Library. Birmingham. Blackburn. Bolton. Bootle. Boston, U.S.A. Brighton. Bristol. Brookline, U.S.A. Brocklyn, U.S.A. Budapest Municipal Library. Bury. Buxton. Cambridge Public Library. Cambridge University Library. Cardiff. Chelsea. Cheltenham. John Crerar, Chicago. Chorley, Cleveland, Ohio. Coventry. LIBRARIES. 4] Derby. Dewsbury. 4 Marsh’s Library, Dublin. Dundee. Dunedin. Edinburzh. Fulham. Grand Rapids, U.S.A. Hereford, Hindley. Hove. Huddersfield. Hull. Ipswich. Jersey City, U.S.A. Kendal. Kingston-upon-Hull. Lansing, Michigan. Leeds, Lincoln. Liverpool (Lyceum) Library. ‘ Los Angeles, California. Maidenhead. Manchester. Middlesborough. Montrose. Newark, New Jersey. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. New South Wales. Newton, Mass. Newton-in-Makerfield. Columbia University, New York. Library. New York Public Library. Queen’s Borough, New ork. ; Northampton. Nottingham. Osaka, Japan. Paisley. Paterson, New Jersey. Peoria, Illinois. Friends’, Germantown, Philadelphia. Philadelphia Public Library. Portsmouth, _ Providence, Rhode Island. Rawtenstall. Reading. Mercantile _ Richmond. Rochdale. Runcorn. St. Annes-on- Sea. St. Helens. St. Louis Mercantile Asso- ciation. St, Louis Public Library. Salem, Mass. Salford. Shoreditch. South Shields. Stoke Newington. Taunton. Toronto. Tottenham. Victoria, Australia. Walsall. Walthamstow. Warrington. Waterloo-with-Seaforth, West Bromwich. West Hartlepool. Westminster. Widnes. Wigan. Willesden Green. Windsor, Canada. Worcester. York. LiverPoon Institutions AND SOCIETIES. Reports have been re- ceived from the following: Architectural Society. Auxiliary Bible Society, Father Berry’s Homes. Biological Society. Bishop of Liverpool’s Fund. Blue Coat Hospital. Boys’ Brigade. Catholic Young Men’s Societies. Central Relief and Charity Organisation. Chemists’ Association. Children’s Country Holi- day Fund. City Mission. Clerks’ Association. Convalescent Institution, Woolton, David Lewis Northern Hospital. Deaf and Dumb School. Dental Hospital. Dispensaries. District Provident Society. Dogs’ Home. Engineering Society. Home for Epileptics, Mag- hull. Eye and Ear Infirmary. Female Orphan Asylum. Female Penitentiary. Society of Friends of _ Foreigners in Distress. Geographical Society. Geological Association. Hahnemann Hospital. Horticultural Association. Hospital Saturday Fund. Incorporated Chamber of Commerce. Incorporated Law Society. Infirmary for Children. Insnrance Institute. Liverpool Institute. Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Liverpool University. School of Local History and Records. Medical Institution, Mersey Mission to Seamen. Microscopical Society. Naturalists’ Field Club. Asylum for Orphan Boys. Peace Society. Penny Savings Bank. Philharmonic Society. Preventive Home for Train- ing Young Girls for Service. Royal Infirmary, Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Royal Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals. Royal Southern Hospital. Savings Bank. Scripture Readers’ Society. Seamen’s Friend Society. Seamen’s Orphan Institu- tion. Shipowners’ Association. Shipwreck and Humane Society. Sunday School Union. Training School and Home for Nurses. Training School of Cookery. Training Ship ‘ Indefatig- able.’ United Gas Light Co. Workshops for Outdoor Blind. Welsh Society. Young Mea’s Christian Association, Young Women’s Christian Association. 42 LIBRARIES. The following Periodicals, Newspapers, &c., and others, have been regularly presented :— Accountant. African Mail. Australian Official Jouroal of Patents. Board of Trade Journal. British Architect. Canadian Patent Record. Clerk of Works’ Associa- tion Journal. Commercial Motor. Daily Dispatch. Decorators’ and Painters’ Magazine. Domestic Engineering. Educational Times. Electrician, Esmediuna. Estates Gazette. Gwalia. Herefordshire Times. Homoeopathic World. Horological Journal. Incorporated Accountants’ Journal. Incorporated Society of Musicians, Journal of. Investors’ Guardian. Irish Times. Lahour Gazette. Life-Boat. Office Liverpool Catholic Times. Liverpool Courier (daily and weekly). Liverpool Diocesan Gazette. Liverpool Echo. Liverpool Express. Liverpool Institute Schools Magazine. Liverpool Journal of Com- merce. Liverpool Weekly Mercury. Liverpool Porcupine. Liverpool Post and Mereury. Liverpool Weekly Post. Liverpool Y.M.C.A. Journal, Local Government Chronicle. Locomotive Journal. Mariner. Master Builders’ Associa- tion Journal. Mona’s Herald. Motor. Motor Ship Boat. Motor, Cycle. Motor Traction. Musical Herald. and Motor New Church Magazine. Northampton Mercury. Oddfellows’ Magazine, Official Journal of the Patent Office. Our Programme. Paper Maker. Patents. Petroleum Review. Positivist Review. Preston Herald. Printers’ Register. Railway Review. Report of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks. Sanitary Record. Script Shorthand Journal. Shipping World. Society of Chemical Indus- try: Journal Sphirx. Stationery World. Stonyhurst Magazine. Students’ Journal. Timber News. Timber Trades Journal. Trade Marks Journal. University Correspondent. Wallaseyan. Western Daily Press. Zoophilist. 0 43 REPORT BY THE CURATOR OF MUSEUMS. I beg to furnish the Sixty-first Annual Report upon the CONDUCT and PROGRESS of the Museums. 1.—GENERAL. The visitors to the Museum during the year are as follows :— Total Visitors ... > nes ce ... 458,671 Weekly Average at Ev eee et 8,820 Daily Average ae Fa Saat sae 1,750 Many special visitors from other Museums and Educational Institutions have visited the Museums for the purpose of inspecting important specimens or for other special purpose. The following, from among others, may be recorded: Dr. Eduard Seler, Royal Kthnographical Museum, Berlin; Sir T. P. Martin, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh; Dr. Gann, British Honduras; Dr. S. J. Johnson, Department of Biology, Sydney University ; Dr. Bather, British Museum; Dr. Adolphe Reinach, Paris; Prof. Green, Sheffield University; Prof. Baldwin Brown, University of Edinburgh; Dr. Hoyle, National Museum of Wales; H. Bolton, Esq., Bristol Museum; Dr. J. W. Scott-Macfie and Lieut.-Colonel Croft Lyons. Twenty-four lectures were delivered by the members of the Staff and others on Monday evenings in the lecture theatre of the Museums, specially dealing with the various collections in the institutions. They were illustrated by specimens and lantern slides. More than 9,500 visitors were recorded in the Museums on these Monday evenings, and a large percentage attend the various lectures. 44 MUSEUMS. During October and November, Prof. Newberry, of the Institute of Archeology, gave a course of eight afternoon lectures, in the Museum Lecture Hall, on ‘‘The Ancient History of Egypt,’’? in which special reference was made to the many interesting and important specimens contained in the Museum Collection. A very appreciative audience attended, and the Museum Committee accorded thanks to Professor Newberry by resolution. Professor Garstang, also of the Institute of Archeology, gave one or two informal discourses on the replicas of sculptures erected last year in the Hittite Gallery. These important Hittite Monuments have been deposited on loan in the Museum, by the Liverpool Institute of Archeology. Further efforts made during the past year to enlarge the direct . educational value of the Museum collections have been attended with success. Numerous schools under the charge of teachers have visited the Museums, with the special object of receiving lessons, illustrated by Museum specimens. The teachers are unanimous in appreciation of the value of such lessons, whereby the intelligent interest of the pupil is stimulated by having the spoken word supported and illustrated by actual specimens. The Loan Collection for use outside the Museums by schools and other educational institutions has been considerably added to, and has been largely made use of. Many applications for the loan of special objects in the Museums have been received during the year. On the occasion of the Royal visit several of the British Bird Groups and a few other objects of interest were displayed in the Town Hall, and an extensive series of art objects was loaned to the School of Art on the occasion of their Annual Exhibition. By order of the Committee, I attended the meetings of the Museums Association in Hull in July, and the British Association at Birmingham in September. One of the more important matters of interest at the Birmingham Meeting was a MUSEUMS. 45 joint discussion on the ‘‘ Educational Use of Museums”’ by the Educational Science and Anthropology Sections of the British Association. I submitted a short paper in opening the discussion, and eventually an influential Committee was formed, composed of representatives from the Educational Science, the Anthropology, the Zoology, the Botany and the Geology Sections, to examine, inquire into and report on the character, work and maintenance of Museums, with a view to their organisation and development as Institutions for Education and Research, and especially to inquire into the requirements of schools. Prof. Green, of Sheffield, was made Chairman, and Mr. Bolton, of Bristol and I were appointed Joint-Secretaries. Liverpool was selected for the first meeting of this Committee, which took place on November 26th. The Lord Mayor (H. R. Rathbone, Esq.) was elected a member of the Committee, and attended. Early in the year, the Director of the Federated Malay States Museums made a generous offer to the Committee, that if they could see their way to give facilities for Mr. Laverock, Assistant on the Museums Staff, to visit the Malay States for the purpose of making collections for the Museums, he would be pleased to give him hospitality for a period of six months. The Committee decided to accept this offer, and Mr. C. Sydney Jones, of the firm of Alfred Holt & Co., the present Chairman of the Museums Sub- Committee, very kindly offered a free passage. Mr. Laverock left for the Malay States in October last, and I have pleasure in stating that his reports are satisfactory, his health remains good, that specimens are beginning to arrive from him, and there is every reason to hope that the expedition will be attended with success, and that large and important collections will be made illustrating the Fauna and Flora, the Geology and Ethnology of the country. In the Exhibition Galleries many improvements and additions have been made. The Cretan Collection, deposited on loan by Prof. Bosanquet, remains on exhibition, and a short guide to the specimens prepared by Prof. Bosanquet will shortly be published. 46 MUSEUMS. The Romano-British Collection on exhibition has been augmented by some important casts of representative examples of Romano-British Sculpture, prepared under the authority of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. The Local History Gallery continues to develop, and questions of space are becoming urgent. The collection now contains many remarkable and valuable objects illustrative of the past history of the City. Considerable additions have been made to the Ceramic exhibits. In the section of Liverpool Pottery, exhibited in the Local History Gallery, several very important pieces have been added. Mr. Ridyard has continued his donations of West African Ethnological specimens, and these, together with others received from other sources, have further enriched the Melanian Section of the Museums. The Natural History collections on exhibition have been increased by some interesting additions. The Giraffe, which was acquired some years ago, has now been mounted. Other acquisitions to the Mammal Gallery include the somewhat rare Ecuador Bassaricyon and an interesting albino Badger. A number of Monkeys and some of the Dolphins have been remounted, and the large Tiger group has been renovated and cleaned. Among the acquisitions for the year is an Arabian Camel, and both the skin and skeleton have been prepared for mounting. In the Bird Galleries progress has been made with one of the introductory cases to the General Collection by the preparation and placing cn exhibition of over seventy specimens designed to illustrate, by comparison, the various modifications of the beaks, feathers and feet of the Birds of the World. This case is to be supplemented in other ways, and will be of a highly instructive character. Another highly educational case, added during the year to the British Bird Gallery, is a collection designed to facilitate the comparative study of Birds’ Eggs. Several new MUSEUMS. 47 groups have been added to complete the British Series mounted with natural surroundings, and the much needed Handbook and Guide to the British Birds on exhibition is now on sale in the Museums. A number of replicas of Fishes in plaster have been cast, painted and added to the collections, and several wax models to illustrate small organisms have been prepared. All the collections of Mammal and Bird Skins in the Study Cabinets have been kept in proper conservation. The acquisition list for the year is a large one, over 4,000 specimens having been added to the collections. Perhaps the most important of these acquisitions is the large collection of Pre-Spanish Conquest Antiquities, collected by Dr. Gann in British Central Honduras, during 20 years’ residence. They embrace many unique specimens in pottery, flint and stone, some of which are engraved in characters. It is hoped as soon as the necessary cases are provided to display this collection in a manner worthy of its importance. 2.—ACQUISITIONS. A. LORD DERBY MUSEUM. INVERTEBRATES— Ccelenterata. Presented : Some fragments of Coral from the Nubian Coast, by Major Lyster, Enfield House, Endbutt Lane, Great Crosby. Sea Fan Coral from Barbadoes, West Indies, by Mr. Arthur F. Cummins, 25, Setton Street, Walton. Purchased : Enlarged model of Coral (Corallium rubrum). Echinodermata. Presented: Sea Urchin (Zchinus miliaris) from the Isle of Man, by Mr. P. Entwistle, Deputy Curator of Museums. 48 MUSEUMS. Exchanges : 25 Echinoderms, representing 17 genera and 18 species, from New Zealand, Auckland Islands, Kermadec Islands and Chatham Islands, part of the material received in exchange from the Otago Univer- sity Museum, New Zealand, per the Curator, Dr. W. B. Benham. Purchased: Enlarged model of Starfish (Asterias glacialis). Vermes. Presented : Sea Mouse (Aphrodite sp.) from India, by J. J. Richardson, Esq., 128, Selborne Street, Liverpool. Three Sea Mice (Aphrodite aculeata) from the Southport Channel, by J. Norris, Esq., 18, Talbot Street, Southport. Purchased : Enlarged models of Leech (Hirudo officinalis), Lug Worm (Arenicola piscatorum) and Earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris). Exchanges : Fifty-seven Annelids, representing 29 genera and 33 species, four Oligochtes, two Sipunculids and nine specimens of Platyhelmia, from various localities of New Zealand. Part of the material received in exchange from the Otago University Museum, New Zealand, per the Curator, Dr. W. B. Benham. Brachiopoda. Exchanges : Two Brachiopods (Magellania lenticularis), from New Zealand. Part of the material received in exchange from the Otago University Museum, per the Curator, Dr. W. B. Benham. BH hips +x. MUSEUMS. 49 Arthropoda. Crustacea. Exchanges : Twenty-six Crustaceans, representing 13 genera and 13 species, from various localities of New Zealand. Part of the material received in exchange from the Otago University Museum, New Zealand, per the Curator, Dr. W. B. Benham. Purchased : Enlarged model of Crayfish (Astacus fluviatilis). Tracheata. Presented : Four Spiders, from Bjerred, and Six Spiders, from near Lund, Sweden, by Dr. T. O. Hirst, Chapelstead, Gateacre. Collection of Exotic Butterflies, Moths and Beetles, containing about 2,000 specimens, by A. EH. Jacob, Hsq., ‘‘ Brentwood,”’ Aigburth, Liverpool. Two Clearwings (4geria crabroniformis, Lewin), by Isaac Cooke, Esq., Glebe Road, Wallasey. Pill Millipede (Glomeris limbata), from Higher Bebington, Cheshire, by G. B. Eaton, Esq., Gorsey Hey, Higher Bebington. Two Larve of Wood-boring Beetle, by Messrs. Milward, Bradbury & Co., The Atlantic, Brunswick Street, Liverpool. Two Spiders, from San Domingo, West Indies, by Messrs. Richard Forshaw & Co., 57, Moorfields, Liverpool. Three Small Collections of Insects, containing about 60 specimens, from West African localities, mostly obtained by means of the ship’s arc light, by Mr. G. T. Lochead, Chief Engineer, R.M.S. ‘‘ Burutu,’’ Elder, Dempster & Co. One Scorpion and one Caterpillar, from West Africa, by Cyril C. Talboys, Esq., ‘‘Glenavon,’’ Abbey Road, Rhos-on-Sea, North Wales. 50 MUSEUMS. One Hemipteron, one Dragon Fly and one Orthopteron, from Brazil, by Mr. Mellor, 36, Christchurch Road, Oxton. Two Millipedes, found in bananas from Jamaica, ae H: A. Auden, Esq., 13, Broughton Drive, Grassendale. Scorpion, found to be unregistered and now referred to this year. Purchased : Enlarged models of Cockchater (Jelolontha vulgaris), Bee (Apis mellifica) and Spider (Epeira diadema). Beetle, from the West Coast of Africa. Exchanges : Large Stick Insect (Acanthoderus horridus), two Insects (Hemideina maori) SG and 9, two Myriopodes (Spaotheriwm leiosoma), two Arachnids (Nemesia gilliesti) and two sections of Tubes of Nemesia gilliesti, Part of the material received in exchange from the Otago University Museum, New Zealand, per the Curator, Dr. W. B. Benham. Mollusca. Presented : Five odd valves of Shells, from the Southport Channel, by J. Norris, Esq., 18, Talbot Street, Southport. Collection of Shells, containing about 250 specimens, by A. E. Jacob, Esq., ‘‘ Brentwood,’’ Aigburth. Egg masses of Natica monilifera, from the shore at Formby, by Miss Reid, LL.A., Formby, per J. W. Wilkie, Esq., Birkenhead, Purchased : Enlarged models of the Snail (Helix pomatia), of the Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) and of the Freshwater Mussel (Anodonta cygnea). Exchanges : Fifty-six Molluscs, representing 32 genera and 38 species, from various localities of New Zealand and the Antipodes. Part of the material received in exchange from the Otago University Museum, per the Curator, Dr. W. B. Benham. i, a, MUSEUMS. 51 Tunicata, Exchanges : Nine Tunicates (7 Boltenia pachydermatina and 2 Salpa zonaria- cordiformis), from New Zealand. Part of the material received in exchange from the Otago University Museum, per the Curator, Dr. W. B. Benham. Purchased : Enlarged models of an Ascidian (Molgula sp.). Fishes. Presented : Agriopus Fish, from Caroline Bay, South Island, New Zealand, per Mrs. Brewer, 64, Eversley Street, Liverpool. Muller’s Top-knot (Zeugopterus punctatus), from the St. George’s Channel, by Messrs. Harvey and Miller, Wholesale Market, Liverpool, per Capt. R. B. Thorpe, Steam Trawler “ Celtic.”’ Five Butterfly Fish (Pantodon buchholzi), three Fish (Xenomystus nigrt), from West Africa, and a Catfish (Silurus wynaadensis), from Wynaada, India, by H. E. Rogers, Esq., Cross’s Menagerie, Liverpool. Rostrum of Saw Fish, from Forcados River, West Atrica, by Capt. A. Halcrow, per A. Ridyard, Esq. Freshwater Eel (Anguilla vulgaris), from ““Gorsey Hey,’ by G. B. Eaton, Esq., Gorsey Hey, Higher Bebington, Cheshire. One Scabbard Fish (Lepidopus cqudatus), two Cat Fishes, three Gobies (Hleotris africanus), one Horse Mackarel (Caranx sansum) and other fishes, from West Africa, by G. T. Lochead, Esq., Chief Engineer R.M.S. ‘“ Burutu,’’ Elder, Dempster & Co., Liverpool. One hundred and_ thirteen Walking Fish (Periophthalmus kelreuteri), from West Africa, by A. Ridyard, Esq., Chief Engineer, R.M.S. “ Tarquah,’’ Elder, Dempster & Co. Three Electric Catfish (Malapterurus electricus), from West Africa, by J. McCreath, lisq., 1, Oxford Avenue, Bootle, 52 MUSEUMS. One Flying Fish, found to be unregistered and now referred to this year. Purchased : Enlarged anatomical model of Amphiovus. Exchanges: Two Fishes (Galazias brevipennis) and one Fish (Ketropinna richardsoni), from Auckland Island. Part of a miscellaneous collection received in exchange from the Otago University Museum, New Zealand, per the Curator, Dr. W. B. Benham. Reptiles. Presented : Five Snakes, from China and India, by J. J. Richardson, Esq., 128, Selborne Street, Liverpool. Snake, from West Africa, by T. Foran, Esq., per A. Ridyard, Esq. Tortoise, by Miss Dobson, 10, Bridge Road, Wavertree. Wagler’s Viper (Lachesis waglert), from Sumatra, by E. F. Tolmie, Esq., 832, Hampstead Road, Fairfield. Skink, from West Africa, by Cyril C. Talboys, Esq., ‘‘ Glen- avon,’ Abbey Road, Rhos-on-Sea, North Wales. Sculptured Terrapin (Chelopus insculptus), by W. 8. Cross, Esq., Cross’s Menagerie, Liverpool. Chameleon, by C. Wynne, Esq., 63, Brookdale Road, Liverpool. Tortoise (living), by Mrs. Davies, 6, Ermine Street, Liverpool. Snake, from West Africa, by J. McCreath, Esq., 1, Oxford Avenue, Bootle. Presented : Gecko, by R. W. Gick, Esq., 15, Beech Street, Liverpool. ee MUSEUMS. 53 Birds. Presented : Small collection of 38 British birds, containing representatives of the following species: Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica), Black- tailed Godwit (L. belgica), Ring Plover (gialites hiaticulus), Grey Plover (Squatarola helvetica), Curlew Sandpiper (7ringa sub- arquata), Sanderling (Calidris arenaria), Little Stint (Tringa minuta), Black-throated Diver (Colymbus arcticus), Sandwich Tern (Sterna cantiaca), Sheldrake (Tadorna cornuta), Mallard (Anas boscas), Pintail (Dafila acuta), Gadwall (Anas streperus), Tufted Duck (Fuligula cristata), Scaup Duck (F. marila), Golden-eye (Clangula glaucion), Longtail (Harelda glacialis), Pochard (Fuligula ferina), Common Scoter (Hdemia nigra), Widgeon (Mareca penelope), Eider Duck (Somateria mollissima), Teal (Querquedula crecca), and Goosander (Mergus merganser), by David Anderson, Esq., ‘“‘ Rodono,’’ 2, Eshe Road, Great Crosby. Quaker Parrot (Myopsittacus monachus), by Mrs. Brewer, 64, Eversley Street, Liverpool. Parrot Finch (Spermophila albigularis), by Mrs. Stone, 61, Elmsdale Road, Walton. Amazon Parrot (Chrysotis estiva), by Mrs. Arthur Poole, ““Tullamore,’’ Willaston, near Chester. About 100 miscellaneous Birds’ Eggs, by A. E. Jacob, Esq., “* Brentwood,’’ Aigburth. Female Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), assuming male plumage, from Prescot, by H. B. Daglish, Esq., Forest House, Prescot. One Macaw (Ara macao), two Laughing Jackasses (Dacelo gigas), one Common Guillemot (Uria troile), one Glossy Cow Bird (Molothrus atroniteus), and one Sheldrake (Yadorna cornuta) 6, from the Aviaries at Sefton Park; one Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) S, and one Tree Duck (Vendrocygna viduata) from the Aviaries at Stanley Park, by the Parks and Gardens Committee, per the Superintendent. 54 MUSEUMS. Thrush’s Nest from Upton, by the Curator of Museums. Robin’s Nest in a carbide tin, from Allerton, by L. Stewart- Brown, Esq., 3, Derby Road, Allerton. Cuckoo’s Egg and Meadow Pipit’s Egg from Martin Mere, by Mr. G. Barclough, Martin Mere, per H. J. Laing, Esq., Netherby House, Lathom. Three Wren’s Nests from North Wales, by Geo. Ellison, Esq., 52, Serpentine Road, Liscard. Jabiru Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis), from the Zambesi River, Africa, by A. Doughty, Junr., Esq., 11, Redcross Street, Liverpool. Parson Bird (Prosthemadara novee-zealandia). Sixteen Eggs of the following birds: Green Love-Bird, Yellow Love-Bird, Australian Orange-Cheek, Australian Singing Finch, Australian Zebra Finch, Black-headed Nun, Silverbill, and Californian Quail, by R. H. Chapman, Esq., 1, Valkyrie Road, Liscard. Skin of ‘‘ Molly Hawk’ (Diomedea culminata), by S. H. Gould, Esq., 73, Littledale Road, Seacombe. Ten Fancy Pigeons, viz., Satinette, Bluette, two Turbiteens, Black African Owl, ditto ditto, small, Pied African Owl, White African Owl, Blondinette, Short-faced Almond Tumbler, by EK. Curtis Moy, Esq., Bromborough. Faleon (Antenor unicinctus) from Chili, by A. Johnson, Esq., » 334, New Chester Road, Rock Ferry. Barn Owl (Strix flammea) from Melmerby, Yorkshire, by Miss Florence Entwistle, 7, Ormonde Street, Liscard. Four Cambodian Pastors (Poliopsar cambodianus), two Q ad., two ¢ juv., from Cambodia, China, by W. 8. Cross, Esq., Cross’s Menagerie, Liverpool. MUSEUMS. 55 Purchased : Kestrel (Valco tinnunculus). Exchanged : Albatross (Diomedea exulans) juv., from Auckland, New Zealand, part of an exchange from the Otago University Museum, per Dr. W. B. Benham. Deposited : . Nubian Vulture (Otogyps auricularis), by Prof. Garstang. Mammals. Presented : Mounted Siamese Cat, by Miss Addenbrooke, Heron House, Dryden Road, Edge Lane. Badger (Meles tarus) ¢, albino var., by W. S. Cross, Esq., Cross’s Menagerie, Earle Street, Liverpool. Hybrid Squirrel from the Aviaries at Sefton Park, by the Parks and Gardens Committee, per the Superintendent. Scotch Terrier Dog (‘‘ Dick Turpin ’’), by Wm. Scholfield, Esq., The Conigre, Linthwaite, Huddersfield, Yorks. Two Black Rats (Mus rattus) and one Brown Rat (Mus decumanus), by Dr. Stallybrass, Port Sanitary Offices, Pier Head, Liverpool. Crab-eating Raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus) from South America, -by Alex. Pallis, Esq., ‘‘ Tatoi,”’ Aigburth Drive, Sefton Park, Liverpool. ___- Skull of Horse found in excavations in Dublin 60 years ago, by _ Miss Evans, 30, Breckfield Road South, Liverpool. Dromedary, or Arabian Camel (Camelus dromedarius), Q, by _ the Executors of the late Frank C Bostock (Bostock’s Menagerie), per Mr. Pillars, Veterinary Department, Liverpool Corporation,. 56 MUSEUMS. Whiskered Bat (Vespertilio mystacinus) from Church Broughton, near Derby, by Harold A. Auden, Esq., 13, Broughton Drive, Grassendale, Liverpool. Entellus Monkey (Semnopithecus entellus) 9, from India, by W. Holmes Seward, Esq., Hatton Garden, Liverpool. Pinché Monkey (Midas ewdipus) from New Granada, by W. Simpson Cross, Esq., Cross’s Menagerie, Liverpool. Purchased : Cast of Skull of Pithecanthropus erectus. Allen’s Bassaricyon (Bassaricyon alleni) from Iquitos, Upper Amazon. Hight enlarged Physiological Models of the Human Head, Eye, Ear, Skin, Heart and Lungs, Larynx, Nose and Mouth, and Organs of Thorax and Abdomen. White-whiskered Paradoxurus (Paradoaurus leucomystar), 9 juy. Deposited : Horn of Narwhal, by the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, now referred to this year’s Stock Book. Botany. Presented : Bird’s Nest Fungus, from Ness, by Mrs. A. K. Bulley, Neston, Cheshire. Flower of Fritillaria meleagris, from Winnington, Northwich, by Miss Louisa A. Jones. Six Kola Nut Pods. from Sierra Leone, West Africa, and a small bunch of Fibres, by A. Ridyard, Esq. Flower Spike of a Palm, from the Hinterland of Monrovia, by W. O. Davies Bright, Esq., Monrovia, Liberia, per A. Ridyard, Esq. MUSEUMS. 57 Purchased : A series of 81 enlarged botanical models, illustrative of the natural orders of plants. _ Deposited : A small collection of dried plants, deposited by the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, now referred to this year’s Stock Book. Paleontology. Exchanged : 5 Plaster Casts of an enormous extinct Cirripede, part of a miscellaneous collection received in exchange from the Otago University Museum, per the Curator, Dr. W. B. Benham. Geology. Presented : Twenty-three specimens of Rocks from Odensjorn, Rostanga and Lund, Sweden, by Dr. T. O. Hirst, Chapelstead, Gateacre, Liverpool. A group of Crystals of Common Salt, formed in a Salt Pan at Northwich, by James H. Quail, Esq., 46, White Rock Street, Liverpool. Three specimens of Quartz and Marble, by J. Tippings, Esq., 58, Menzies Street, Liverpool. Piece of green Slate with dendritic markings, from Honister Quarry, Borrowdale, Keswick, by W. Kneale, Esq., 133, Islington, Liverpool. Purchased : Fifty-six specimens of Holbrook Aerolite, complete Physical Series of 200 specimens of Minerals and 200 specimens of Crystals. Tur AQUARIUM. The Aquarium continues, as heretofore, to be one of the chief attractions of the Museums. The various tanks have been kept well stocked with examples of both marine and fresh-water life, and the Seal continues in good health and to be of great interest to visitors. 58 MUSEUMS. Donations of living specimens have been numerous, and special thanks are due to Messrs. Sills, F. Vaughan, Pennington, Roche and W. H. Hurst and the Misses Strawford and others for numerous gifts of fresh-water fish; to Captain W. T. Turner, of the R.M.S. ‘‘ Mauretania,’ for specimens of American birds and reptiles; and to Mr. A. Ridyard for West African Walking Fish. The surplus trout hatched in the Aquarium Hatchery have been given in exchange for other living specimens for the Aquarium. SuMMARY OF ACQUISITIONS. Zoological Coelenterata te Eee 3 Species ... on 3 Specimens Echinodermata cc 20 2: nee cn ee ae Vermes ... we ee bes, Fe oe ao e FA Brachiopoda ae ae il a oe Be 2 ot Arthropoda (Crustacea) 14 hs Wad Jeg el Be Arthropoda (Tracheata) 600 > a3: 3 eye aan Approx. Mollusea ke sn? 243 sy = to Vee 43 Tunicata pea ee 3 - a ast, BD a Fishes... ce Sat teu a pha =. 68 s Reptiles... a ag et 38 an han wl S ae Birds Ae a | ae ed fa 5 ad Mammals ee Capek | | ts: roe es: e, 960 3,145 Botanical. Plants hie oi se a he ... 127 Specimens. Palzontological. Zoological and Botanical... es abt at 5 Specimens. Geological and Mineralogical. Rocks and Minerals ee AS an ... 89 Specimens. Total additions to the Lord Derby Museum. Specimens as 8 Be rH oe me os 3,366 MUSEUMS. 59 B.-MAYER MUSEUM. (a) GENERAL, As in previous years, the Melanian Department continues to receive numerous acquisitions from West and South-West Africa, through the kind offices of Mr. A. Ridyard, Chief Engineer (Klder, Dempster & Co., Ltd.). | (b) Loans anp Deposits. The following collections still remain on exhibition :— The collection of Chinese and Japanese Porcelain, lent by Mr. John Mellor, Junr. A small collection of fragments of Pottery, illustrating Glazes, etc., lent by Prof. P. E. Newberry. The small collection of Chinese Porcelain, deposited by Captain H. E. Laver, per Mr. Gordon Saies. The collection of Cretan Antiquities, deposited by Prof. R. C. Bosanquet. The Casts of Hittite Antiquities, deposited by Prof. J. Garstang. A further collection of Antiquities from Merée, Egyptian Sudan, has been deposited by Professor J. Garstang. Five Roman Coins (circa 300 4.p.), found June, 1898, during excavations for Alderman James Ruddin’s Cold Storage Depdt, at the corner of Hood Street and Tryon Street, Liverpool, by _ J. iH. Ruddin, Esq., per R. Gladstone, Junr., Esq. 4 Collection of Book Plates, Squibs, Prints, Drawings, &c., _ relating to Liverpool, by Alderman A. H. Arkle. _ Liverpool Policeman’s Truncheon, painted with the “‘ Liver” Crest and G. 27, circa 1820, by Ernest H. 8S. Gladstone, Esq. __ Liverpool Policeman’s Truncheon, painted with the “Liver” Crest and C. 10, circa 1820, by A. A. Beloe, Esq., per _ R. Gladstone, Junr., Esq. 60 MUSEUMS. A selection of focal Prints, Maps and Drawings, from the Public Library, by the Libraries Sub-Committee. Protest, dated 2nd June, 1713, regarding the undue detention of the Liverpool ship ‘‘ Penelope’’ at the Island of St. Christopher, and Letter of Instructions from Foster Cunliffe & Sons, Liverpool, to Capt. Henry Hayston, of the ‘‘ Young Foster,”’ instructing him to collect slaves; by the Committee of the Bootle Museum. Model of Two Men-of-war in bone, and Straw Work-basket and Wool-winder, made by French Prisoners in Liverpool; Silver Badge of the Liverpool Volunteers; Coin of Queen Anne, engraved with view of a privateer, the “ Hawk,”’ of Liverpool; Porcelain Mug, Liverpool transfer printed; ivory Theatre Ticket, “‘ Thos. Shuttleworth ’’; Copper Medallion, engraved with ship and “‘ Success to the Golden Lion,’ Fev.: ‘‘John Fanan, 1786.” by Dr. Philip Nelson, F.S.A. SPECIMENS FROM THE TowN Hatt ann Municrpat OFFICES, DEPOSITED BY THE FinancraL SuB-COMMITTEE. Town Hall. Large Silver-gilt Mace, presented to the Corporation by Charles, 8th Earl of Derby. Length 3ft. 2in. Small Copper Mace, presented by Charles, 8th Earl of Derby, 30th September, 1667. Length 17}in. Silver-gilt Mace with Brass Medallions, 17 century. Sword carried before His Excellency Sir Wm. Norris, of Speake, on his embassy to the Great Mogul, 1702, and descriptive plate. Brass Tipstaft, George IV, 1820. Flag, 2nd Regiment of Liverpool Volunteers, 1803. Silk Union Jack, Liverpool Volunteers, 1803. Pottery Name-plates of ‘‘ Castle Street’? and ‘‘ Hanover Street,”’ made at the Herculaneum Pottery, Liverpool. MUSEUMS. 61 Specimen of the original Dinner Service, made at the Herculaneum Pottery for the Liverpool Corporation. 14}in. dia. Copper Beer Barrel. Municipal Offices (Town Clerk’s Department) Brass Plate, 25in. by 19in.—‘‘ Leverpoole, 1674, a table of the Customs and Hallidge Duty,’’ with charges. Two Brass Plates, 23in. by 184in.—Liverpool Town Duties (Dues). Two Copper Plates, by Matthew Gregson, showing the Dock Improvements, 1810 and 1811. (c) EXcHANGES. Earthenware Jug, bearing impressed mark on a lozenge, on base, LIVERPOOL; received from Dr. W. Allen, Shotley Bridge, C.M. Co. Durham, for duplicate Liverpool printed tiles Nos. 9, 12, 80, 3 and 12. Cream ware Bowl, bearing transfer print of two ships, inscribed “* Success to the Ellis and Gregson,’’ received from the Warrington Municipal Museum, for a transfer-printed Cream ware Bowl, No. 15.1.74.10, and a Wedgwood medallion portrait of King George II., No. D.3772. Flax girdle dress; stone flax beater (Dr. Hockins Coll.); stone net sinkers; stone adzes; fragment of a stone adze; two adze heads; three flakes, found at feeding places; obsidian flake; casts of axe and adze heads, from various localities in New Zealand; received in exchange from Prof. W. B. H. Benham, Otago University Museums, Dunedin, New Zealand, together with a collection of Natural History specimens, for the following duplicate Egyptian Antiquities : — 10/4/02—11. Cast of a Statuette of ‘‘Betmes,’’ a high functionary of the IVth dynasty; 10/4/02—2. Cast of a Statuette of ‘‘ Amen-en-ra,’’ a functionary of the XIIth dynasty ; 16/11/06—418. Sandstone model tablet of offerings. From Esna. 4/10/97—3; Wooden Mallet from Deshaheh. Vth dynasty. 62 MUSEUMS. 4/9/07—13; Model of a Soul House. Found at Rifeh, Upper Egypt, 1896; 16/11/06—408. Pottery votive altar (repaired). From Esna, XIIth dynasty; 16/11/06—36. Vase, two-handled. From Esna, XXIInd dynasty; 16/11/06—17. Vase (imperfect). From Esna, XVII-XVIIIth dynasty; 16/11/06—355. Earthenware Vase. From Esna, XI-XIIth dynasty; 16/11/06—94. LKarthen- ware Vase. From Esna,XIIth dynasty; 11/10/98—40. Earthenware vessel from Denderah; 16/11/00—400. Upper part of a terra- cotta Coffin Lid with moulded face. From Esna, 100 8.c.—100 a.p. ; 25/9/99—53. Earthenware Vase. Prehistoric; 25/11 /05—137. Red Earthenware Bowl. From Esna, XIIth dynasty; 25/11/05 —91. Earthenware Vase, banded. From Esna, XIIth dynasty; 25/11/05—201. Red Earthenware Vase. From Hissayeh, Roman period; 13/10/04—11. Pottery Vase—a votive offering. From Deir-el-Bahari. XIth dynasty; 13/12/05—5. Red Earthen- ware Vase. From Kom-el-Ahmar, predynastic; 11/10/98—88. Tall Earthenware Vase. From Dendareh, prehistoric; 25/9/99 —143. Alabaster Kohl Pot. From Hu, XIIth dynasty; 24/9/00—137. Lid of a Canopic Jar. Amset. From Abydos, XXIInd dynasty; 13/12/05—11. Slate Palette with traces of colour on it. From Kom-el-Ahmar, predynastic; 16/9/02—23. Glazed Ushabti. From Abydos, XXXth dynasty; 24/9/00—163. Glazed Ushabti of “Hor.’’ From Abydos, XVIII-XXVth dynasty; 16/4/61—32. Wooden figure of Ptah-Socharis-Osiris; 25/9/99—132. Bronze Mirror. From Hu, XII-XIVth dynasty ; 24/9/00—186. Earthenware Vase. From Abydos; 13573. Wooden Ushabti of Seti; 11621. Bronze figure of Imouthis; 11409. Bronze figure of Osiris; 11025. Wooden Headrest; Stelae. Deposits : 1 Tobacco Box; 1 Pipe Rack and Clay Pipes; 1 Grill for Cooking Steaks, &c.; 2 Irish Forged Candlesticks; 1 Pan for melting Tallow; 1 Tinder-box for Flint and Steel; 27 Rushlight Holders, various patterns; 3 Hanging Candlesticks and Rushlight Holders; by Mr. Walter Smith. Bone Meri or Hand-club, from New Zealand, by Mr. W. E. Gregson, Moor Lane, Crosby. MUSEUMS. 63 Three large dishes, 16in., 17}in. and 18in. in diameter, respectively, in Chinese Celadon porcelain; probably made at Lung Chuan, in the Province of Chekinang, early in the period of the Ming Dynasty (1368—1643). They are decorated with rough designs of lotus flowers and foliage incised in the paste under the glaze. Dish 133in. diameter, of same porcelain, with fluted rim and wavy edge; the centre plain. Dish, diameter 123in., of the same porcelain, with rim externally fluted, and decorated inside with lotus flowers and a foliage incised under the glaze; wavy edge; the centre moulded with a medallion of trellis pattern; by Mrs. Caroline B. Horsford, 72, Cheyne Court, Chelsea. (d) ACQUISITIONS. (1) MisceLLaNnovs. Presented : Lead Matrix of a Seal, found June, 1915, in a garden at Temple Grafton, Warwickshire. The design is a fleur-de-lys, and the legend: SIGILL . MATILDE [FILIE?] . ASCELIN . D.G. (The seal of Matilda [daughter] of Ascelin, by the Grace of God; 13th century work; by Robert Gladstone, Junr., Esq. Set of Guinea Scales, in box, and a set of bucket weights, by Mr. J. Coward, 2, Florence Road, Seacombe. Model No. 1 Remington Typewriter, first placed on the market in 1874, by Remington Typewriter Co., Ltd. Purchased : Series of Implements illustrative of methods of hafting and binding flint, and other implements in various localities. Selection of appliances to illustrate Fire and Lighting. (2) Liverpoot History Room. Presented : _ Dial of a Grandfather Clock, by ‘‘ W. Lascelles, Toxteth,”’ _ by George Eccles & Sons. Ticket for the Dejiiner given to Prince Albert on the occasion of the opening of the Albert Dock, 1846, by Mr. W. H. Williams. 64 MUSEUMS. Programme of Entertainments on the occasion of the visit of the Duke of Cambridge to Liverpool, 1855, by Dr. W. Marland Hocken. Tron Door-knocker and Smoke Jack, from Edge Lane Hall, by the Estate Committee, Liverpool Corporation. Three Clay Pipes, found in the excavation for the ‘‘ Liver ”’ Buildings, by Robert Gladstone, Junr., Esq. Ribbon of blue silk, worn by Thomas Tesseyman on the occasion of the opening of the Sailors’ Home and Albert Dock by Prince Albert, by Mrs. Kitchen, Heswall. Water-colour drawing of William Brown Street, by H. Magenis, 1882, by Mr. James Cross, C.C. Three Steel Keys, 18th century; wrought-iron Nail from the north door of Sefton Church; iron Pot-hook, from a cottage at Thornton, Parish of Sefton, by Mr. W. E. Gregson. Set of collotype prints of Church Screens in Lancashire and Cheshire Churches (see His. Soc. Lanc. and Ches., 1912), by Mr. Arthur Wolfgang. Small Oval Bronze Medallion, ‘‘ Galloway’s Liverpool Omnibus, value 2d.,’? by Mr. John Pye. Purchased : Grandfather Clock, in original walnut case, by [J.] “‘ Park, Liverpool ’’—cirea 1730-1760. Delft-ware Plate, blue decoration. Stone Axe and Arrow-head, found in a sluice at Martin Mere, Burscough. Earthenware Jug of large size, bearing numerous transfer-prints both inside and out; inscribed on the base: ‘‘ Andrew Jones, John McAdam Steamer, Feb. 14, 1837, Charles Dale, maker, Herculaneum Pottery, near Liverpool.’’ Printed Handkerchief with views commemorating the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. MUSEUMS. 65 Porcelain Jug, with painted trophy of Arms and Armour and the inscriptions, ‘‘ Success to the Liverpool Independent Volunteers,”’ and on either side ‘‘ In defence of our King and Country’ and “To protect our Families and Property.’’ Oval Brass Badge from a belt of the Liverpool Artillery Volunteers, engraved ‘‘L.A.V.,”’ below. in centre, and the ‘‘ Liver”’ Two long painted wooden Staffs, evidently used by the Town’s Watchman during the Mayoralty of T. Littledale, in 1827, painted on the top Gg R ,and bird and T. L. M., 1827, below. Oil-painting, view of St. Nicholas’ Church and the north shore from the north. Cream-coloured Jug, with transfer-print in red of ‘‘ The Castle in Danger,’’ signed ‘‘ I. Poulton,’ &c. Oil-painting of the “‘ Royal William ’’ steamer. Cup and Saucer, made for the Liverpool Corporation at the Herculaneum Pottery, 1827. Delft-ware Dish, with blue decoration, on back the initials and date 14M. 1760 Bronze Medallions commemorating the opening of the Museums and St. George’s Hall, Liverpool. Coffee Pot of stoneware, chocolate ground, figures in relief, impressed mark “‘ HERCULANEUM.” (5) Ceramics. Presented : Series of earthenware vessels made from English and African clay with the object of ascertaining if similar results, under some- what similar conditions, could be obtained, made and presented by Mr. W. Burton, Pilkington’s Tile and Pottery Works, Clifton Junction. Series of Plates illustrative of transfer-printing in line and bat,”’? by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, Ltd. 66 MUSEUMS. Jasper Portrait Medallion of “‘ John Voyez,’’ from the original mould at Etruria, by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, Ltd. (4) Erunocrapuy. Mevanian Race. Presented : List of specimens from West and South-West Africa, collected and presented by and through Mr. A. Ridyard, Chief Engineer, R.M.S. ‘‘ Tarquah,’? Elder, Dempster Line, Liverpool. Sierra Leone. Presented : Wooden Mask; white-metal ankle ring; trap for Cray-fish; by Mr. C. S. Haffner. ‘* Shekiri,’’ or rattle, used in the dance; carved figure to repre- sent a Government official; wood-carving of an Ostrich and copy of a European Helmet, made by the Mendi people; by Mr. C. H. D. During. Gold Coast. Presented : Black polished earthenware figure of a man holding a gun, from Oblogo; plaited fans; gourds used as enemas; by Mr. A. Ridyard. Dahomey. Presented : Two red earthenware vessels, one with ox-heads and crescents in relief; bowls, water coolers and other vessels, all in red earthenware; by Mr. Ashley, 8.8. ‘‘ Ekuro.”’ Nigeria, Presented : Large plaited basket decorated with coloured grasses, from Egga, Nupé country; Basket and cover, from Kano; Basket and lid, small plaited basket, or calabash, and cover, from Lokoja; by Mr. A. Ridyard. Earthenware water cooler, bronzed earthenware jug, earthenware water-bottle decorated in blue and white, from Lokoja; Ostrich feather fan, from Kano; earthenware water vessel, from Llorin; MUSEUMS. 67 basket, from Ebi, Yola country; decorated calabash, from Yola; by Mr. John G. Taylor. Large earthenware vessel with lid, painted, from Bida, by Mr. S. A. Ki. Pratt. Painted calabashes, by Mr. J. B. Bailey. Plaited basket; plaited basket and lid of dyed grass; plaited grass mat and hat; gourd water-botile; calabashes and lids, dyed and carved; boxes made of hide; carved wooden figures of carriers ; axe with long iron head and wooden handle; spear; by Mr. Thomas Foran. Wooden Juju figure, painted yellow and black, by Mr. W. A. Stacey. Model of a trading canoe, made at Ofunamo, Jaws Town, Benin River, by Mr. A. Ridyard. Red earthenware bowl, from Cooper Abuyi; ivory armlets, from the hinterland of Garua, worn by the bush people; by Captain Smart, S.W.S. “‘Scarborough.”’ _ Pipe, from Garua, by Mr. Thomas Okotcha, 8.8. ‘‘ Oguta.”’ Dagger in leather sheath, from Law, Benue River, by Mr. A. E. Brown. Fan of plaited leaves, from Carsha, by Mr. S. Sawyer, S.W.S. ‘‘ Naraguta.”’ Juju, from Azumiri, Ibo country; and a family Juju and attendants from the Ogoni country; by the Rev. Archdeacon _ Crowther. Walking stick, bound with iron, brass and copper spirals, the handle in form of a crescent, from the Munchi people; by Mr. Max Kohn, Seldwebel, Berlin. Canoe and paddle, from Brass River, by Mr. J. J. Hunt, R.N.R. Three spears with iron heads, barbed and poisoned, from Garua, Benue River, by Mr. G. T. Lochead. 68 MUSEUMS. Group of red and black glazed pottery vessels of various forms and stages, and photographs of their manufacture, from Tlorin, collected and presented by Dr. J. W. Scott-Macfie. Plaited basket, from Ilorin, by Dr. J. W. Scott-Macfie. East and East Central. Purchased : Selection of objects from various localities, comprising, bracelet, caravan rattle, drinking tube, tobacco pipes, earrings, rest-sticks, water-bottle, stool and headdress. Iron arrow heads, from the Pygmy Races of Central Africa, collected by Major Barlow; by Mr. Harold Laing. Moncorran Race. Japan. Presented : Six paintings on silk, figures of native women in national costumes, by Miss Andree. China. Purchased : Fan, with silver filagree handle and frame, the ground decorated in blue, purple and red; three vignettes with figures, the heads being painted ivory. Malay. Small collection of Ethnographical objects as used by the Sakai natives, Batang Padang, South Perak, Malay Peninsula, comprising girdle dresses, bamboo combs, hairpins, necklets, bark cloth, hair fillets, baskets, &c.; by the Federated Malay State Museums, per Mr. H. C. Robinson, Director Phillipines. Purchased : Cotton girdle dress, worn by women; woman’s cotton skirt; girdle, worn by men; working jacket, worn by women; butong, or purse, with brass wire suspender; fibre blanket; boar’s tusk armlets, worn by men; brass earrings; rattan case, containing flint and steel ; tobacco pipes in brass, tin, wood and clay; neck ornaments with brass pendant; bamboo lime tube; bamboo musical instrument; MUSEUMS. 69 double-edged knife in sheath: rattan hat; wooden spoon; basket or bird-cage; carved wooden ladles; carved wooden figure; wooden hat; wooden rice and salt dish; wooden food bowl; carved wood box and cover in form of a cow (?); spears with iron heads. N. America, Purchased : Headdress of eagle feathers, worn by Chief Hiawatha; fur pouch; silver pendant; silver fibula: circular silver brooch; painted wooden mask; hand rattle, made of a horn; hand rattle, made of a long-necked chelonian ; pair of dance rattles made of goats’ hoofs; necklace of teeth and beads; bow and arrow: all from the Six Nation Indians, S. America. Purchased : Collection of Archeological Remains from burials jn Central Honduras, collected by Dr. Thomas Gann during many years’ residence there. In many ways the collection is remarkable; some of the flint-worked implements in form and size may be classed as unique, and the series of pottery figurines and pottery are remarkable. The collection comprises several hundreds of objects, including a celt and a stone imitation of the shell of a bivalve, on which Maya hieroglyphs are engraved. In the collection are small figures of reptiles, men, warriors, heads of animals, birds and men, and the hands and feet off figurines, all in earthenware; stone and flint implements ; spearheads, knives, celts, knack stones, pounders, metatas, mortars, knives, scrapers, and obsidian cores ; necklaces of beads in stone and shell; ear ornaments in stone; rubbers and beaters and other stone and flint objects; remains of plaster carvings and mouldings from temples, with the original colours zm situ, and facsimile drawings of figures of deities? on the walls of the temples. India. Presented : A small collection of objects from the natives of the Naga Hills, consisting of hatchets—iron heads and wooden shafts; spears; 70 MUSEUMS. baskets; shirt; various carved wooden figures and heads of figures, probably from burial platforms and the decoration of baskets; girdle belt; tobacco pipes; and earrings; by Miss Andree. CAUCASIAN, Presented : Necklace of sard beads and pendants, XVIIIth dynasty; part of a basalt bust from the Temple of Memphis, XX VIth dynasty; blue-glazed bowl with figure of Sekhmat seated, XVIIIth dynasty ; three scarabs of the XVIIIth and XIXth dynasties, found at Riggeh (Gerzeh); by the British School of Archeology in Egypt. Wreath and fragments of wreaths from mummies, found at Hawara, Fayoum, Ist cent. B.c.; bouquet from a mummy, found at Dahr-el-Bahari, XVIIIth dynasty; by Professor P. E. Newberry. Cast of the Bronze Head of Augustus, found at Merée, Egyptian Sudan, by Professor J. Garstang. Plaited Basket, from Biskra, North Africa, by Professor R. Bousanquet. Purchased : Selection of casts of Danish Crosses from specimens in the Isle of Man, as follows: Maughold, St. Michael, Bride, Braddan, Calf of Man, Onchon, Jurby, Malew, and Andreas. SUMMARY OF ACQUISITIONS. 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