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the place be bad, if the officers be inefficient and insufficient in num- 

 ber, if the means of obtaining information be difficult or rather quite 

 useless, and if there be not that facility of access that should lead us 

 to agree that the Museum is fully available as a ' great national store- 

 house of literature, arts, and science.' 



A select committee have been engaged in the investigation of the 

 Museum affairs during two sessions of parliament ; and we shall pre- 

 sent the results to our readers accompanied by a few passing com- 

 ments. But it will be right, out of respect to the committee, to give 

 their names. 



The committee of 1835 was much larger than that of the follow- 

 ing year, those marked with the asterisk only being on the committee 

 of 1836. 

 *Mr. Estcourt, Chairman Lord Claude Hamilton 



Mr. Baring (now Lord Ashburn- Mr. Benjamin Hawes 



ham, a Trustee) *Sir R. Inglis (Trustee) 



*Mr. Bingham Baring (relation Earl of Kerry (dead) son of 

 of Trustee) Trustee 



Dr. Bowring Lord Morpeth 



Mr. Carter *Mr. J. Parker 



*Mr. Clay* *Mr. Pease 



*Mr. Ridley Colborne Sir R. Peel (Chanc. of Exchq. 



*Mr. Compton and off. Trustee) 



Mr. R. Clive ' Mr. Spring Rice 



Lord Dalmeny Mr. Ross 



*Mr. Evelyn Denison Lord John Russell 



Lord F. Egerton *Lord Sandon (son of Trustee) 



*Sir Philip Egerton Mr. Poulett Scrope , 



*Mr. Elphinstone *Lord Stanley (son of Trustee) 



Mr. Ewart Mr. E. Tennant 



Mr. Fazakerly *Mr. Thorneley 



Such was the committee of the enquiry, containing, among others, 

 seven members personally interested in the continuance of the pre- 

 sent government. 



The result was the following paper : 



7 " At a Committee of the Trustees of the British Museum, July 20th, 

 1836, the Resolutions passed by the Select Committee of the House of Com- 



* For Mr. Clay Mr. W. Marshall was afterwards substituted. 



