THE COUNCIL. S> 



public spirit of the County for further subscriptions. An 

 opinion seems to be generally entertained, that the plan 

 formerly submitted to consideration, is inadequate to the 

 object proposed ; and that, if a great Northern Museum is 

 to be formed, a building \\ill be required of more dignified 

 character, and larger dimensions. Coinciding in these views, 

 and believing that the success and utility of the Institution 

 will depend much on the scale upon which it^ walls are con- 

 structed, the Council would recommend that no attempt 

 should be made to build, till the subject shall have been laid 

 more fully before the Public. They are far from thinking 

 that the Subscription has reached the limits to which it may 

 be practicable to advance it : they conceive that whenever 

 the Society shall become actually possessed of the ground, an 

 immediate increase of contributions may be looked for: they 

 remark that a large proportion even of the Members of the 

 Society have not jet subscribed ; and that the Subscriptions, 

 though in some instances splendidly munificent, are not yet so 

 general as might be expected, particularly in the place which 

 will profit most by the result. They cannot believe that 

 those who have shown a zeal for Science, in promoting the 

 first efforts of the Society, will leave the work which they 

 have commenced, incomplete, and allow the Institution to 

 which they have united themselves, to become stationary, or 

 retrograde. They do not entertain so low an opinion of the 

 public taste and spirit of this Northern Metropolis, as to sup- 

 pose that its citizens will regard with indifference, the 

 execution of a plan which will redound so much to its credit 

 and advantage. They look with confidence towards the 

 great and enlightened County to which it is their pride to 



