gfave such g^eneral satisfaction, both as ornamenting 

 the Museum, and securing from nejrject and decay, 

 its vast fussil treasures, that your Council resolved in 

 the early part of the year, to fit up the south and 

 north ends, and also the east side of the Museum, with 

 similar cases and shelves, as receptacles for specimens 

 in the departments of natural history, and other 

 curiosities. The south end, and part of the side 

 cases, as far as the third windovi^ in front, were 

 intended to contain antiquities and miscellaneous 

 curiosities; the north end, and north-east side, to 

 contain specimens in zoolog^y, &c. 



The whole is now tastefully fitted up; hut for the 

 sake of uniformity, and to g-ive due effect to the im- 

 provements, your Council would recommend, that the 

 south end cornice be replaced by an entablature to 

 correspond with the rest of the interior; and that 

 other sections of strata of other parts of England, be 

 painted under Mr. Simpson's direction, on the north 

 and east facia. Then we should have a complete 

 geological section of England, which would be found 

 useful for the youthful g^eologist, in tracing the out- 

 lines of that infant science, and conveying a clear 

 idea of the stratified crust of the globe. Then, also, 

 there would be no need for further decorations, as there 

 is now no room in the Museum, for additional fix- 

 tures. The cost of these improvements will be con- 

 siderable. 



A good number of specimens has been placed on 

 the shelves in the new cases; but owing to the confu- 

 sion from the presence of workmen, during a large 

 portion of the year, a great deal remains to be done 



