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'Western'
Oct 20 Tuesday Liverpool
Liverpool Free Museum.
Cases in Geology Dept of brass, solid
frames and the glass frames secured in
therefore great difficulty to open. Frames
very narrow and therefore the entire case
made all glass.
Fossil Invertebrate collection small,
in table cases. Mounted on paper covered
corrugated tiles (Archyars). Labeling inadequate.
The museum is undergoing radical
transformation in all lines.
One room devoted to classification.
First a case dividing all matter into
organic and inorganic. Then cases
to the Chordata, and others to the div,
of the Mammalia