. Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums. . Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums UNDER THE CITY COUNCIL. Editeil hij H. 0. Forbes, , Dimior of Miimtms. Vol. I. OCTOBER, 1898. Xos. 3 and i. The New Museums Extension Buildings. Laying of the Foundation Stone. The present Museums Buildings were erected in 1860 by the late Sir AV. Brown for the splendid Natural History collections bequeathed to the City of Liverpool by the Xlllth Earl of Derby in 1851. These were so extensive that the accommodation they required necessitated the building of what was, at that time, one of the largest Museums in Englan
. Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums. . Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums UNDER THE CITY COUNCIL. Editeil hij H. 0. Forbes, , Dimior of Miimtms. Vol. I. OCTOBER, 1898. Xos. 3 and i. The New Museums Extension Buildings. Laying of the Foundation Stone. The present Museums Buildings were erected in 1860 by the late Sir AV. Brown for the splendid Natural History collections bequeathed to the City of Liverpool by the Xlllth Earl of Derby in 1851. These were so extensive that the accommodation they required necessitated the building of what was, at that time, one of the largest Museums in England outside the Metropolis. Since that date the collections have been constantly added to, not so much by purchases, as by gift—some of them of the highest value—from donors possessing an interest in Natural Science, and appreciating, in advance of their time, the importance of that subject as a means of education, with the result that, to-day, every available foot of space in the Museums has long been occu- pied—every cellar even being stored to its utmost capacity—so that any intelligible arrangement of their contents has now become well-nigh impossible. Within the past decade, also, the change in the public attitude has been growing very rapidly towards an appreciation of Museums as institutions of high educational value and importance. This is due, no doubt, to the rapid increase of scientific and technological knowledge, and to the advocacy of no one in Europe so specially as Sir William Flower, Avho, by his writings, and, perhaps, principally by the methods, inaugurated by him, of displaying and labelling the specimens in the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, has made manifest, not the interest only, but the educational value of, the study of natural objects. The Corporation of Liverpool has been one of the first to recognise this advance in opinion in raising the City's Museum to the position of a first-class scientific Institution, by voting the necessar
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