We characterise the link of derivatives in measure, which are introduced in [2, 3, 8] respectively by different means, for functions on the space M of finite measures over a Riemannian manifold M . For a reasonable class of functions f , the extrinsic derivative D E f coincides with the linear functional derivative D F f , the intrinsic derivative D I f equals to the L-derivative D L f , andwhere ∇ is the gradient on M , δ x is the Dirac measure at x, andis the extrinsic derivative of f at η ∈ M. This gives a simple way to calculate the intrinsic or L-derivative, and is extended to functions of probability measures.