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The Hesolution for giving free admission to the 

 Museum on one day in each month, was not acted 

 upon till some months after the last Annual Meeting : 

 but a trial was made for one day, in December, by 

 admitting the Subscribers to Dr. Young's Lectures, 

 and a few others. On that occasion^ a report being 

 spread, that all persons would be admitted freely to 

 see the Museum, numbers flocked to it for that 

 purpose, and upwards of an hundred were allowed 

 that gratification. It was pleasing to notice the 

 high estimation in which the Museum is held by the 

 public ; yet the result of that experiment clearly 

 shewed, that to grant indiscriminate admission would 

 not answer the purpose in view. The Council found 

 it most advisable, to give free admission on the first 

 Monday of every month, by Tickets from Members 

 of the Society, presented to any of their friends or 

 acquaintance. As the season was far advanced 

 before this plan was adopted, only 37 persons have 

 been admitted in this way, which added to the 

 number received in December, will make 140 free 

 admissions; to which if we add the strangers enter- 

 ed as visitors, we find that above 490, or about 500 

 persons have been admitted this year into the Mu- 

 seum. The admission money amounts to £6 Os. 6d. 



Something was done in the winter season towards 

 completing the arranging and marking of the articles 

 in the Museum; but for several months past, the 

 process has been at a stand ; not only because Mr. 

 Simpson's service has expired, but because the 



