It is now proposed to make such alterations in the 

 Hall as will afford not only considerably more room, but 

 also of a kind better suited for the arrangement and 

 exhibition of the specimens. This will be accomplished 

 by converting the large room in which at present the 

 antiquities are deposited, into the Geological Museum ; 

 to adapt it for which purpose it will be necessary to build 

 up the windows, and to admit the light from the roof by 

 lanthorns, by which a very considerable space of wall 

 room will be gained for the receiving cases. The anti- 

 quities, and other artificial objects of curiosity, will then 

 be transferred to the present mineral room, &c. The 

 estimated cost of these alterations, and repairing the 

 roofs and sky-lights over the zoological and mineral 

 rooms, which are in a most defective condition, (having 

 been badly constructed at first) is rather more than 

 £700. To raise this sum, and to liquidate the debt, a 

 subscription was a few weeks since commenced among 

 the Members and friends of the Society. So liberal 

 have been the responses to this application, that the sum 

 already received is such as to justify the alterations being 

 immediately undertaken. It is, therefore, anticipated 

 that ere the commencement of another session, the 

 Museum will have assumed an appearance which need 

 not fear the critical examination of the scientific visiter. 

 Leeds has for long, both in the number of its inhabitants 

 and in its commercial importance, ranked as the metro- 



