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windows along one side, and a double series in the roof. Out 

 of the museum-hall is another small room which will be useful 

 as a private study. 



To the rear of the building a piece of ground has been secured 

 on which, if it should be at any time found necessary, additions 

 more than doubling the accommodation, could be erected ; but 

 in the meantime it is proposed that this ground should be used 

 as a garden, in which all the more notable Perthshire plants will 

 be grown., 



Though on ordinary occasions it is expected that the lecture- 

 room will be quite large enough, yet for special occasions (such 

 as conversazioni, &c), arrangements have been made by which 

 access from the building can be obtained to a much larger hall 

 immediately adjoining, which again communicates with a large 

 public hall, capable of seating upwards of 1200 persons. 



The museum is to be strictly confined to the Natural History, 

 Botany, and Geology of Perthshire, with the exception of a small 

 well-selected type collection, illustrative of the chief forms and 

 structure of animals and plants. In thus restricting the scope 

 of the Museum, we think that the promoters have shown 

 great w T isdom ; and if the Society (the Perthshire Society of 

 Natural Science) in whose hands the management of the 

 Museum is placed, keeps strictly to its programme, and works 

 with reasonable energy, there seems every prospect that, con- 

 sidering the richness of the natural history of Perthshire, one 

 of the most interesting and valuable local collections in Britain 

 should, in course of time, be gathered together. 



The cost of the building has been upwards of ^1700, all of 

 which has been subscribed. A further amount is necessary to 

 defray the expense of furnishing, &c. ; and to get funds for this, 

 it is purposed to have a bazaar about the end of the year. 



