1^2 REPORT OF. 



printing and advertising, which, with the legal and other 

 miscellaneous expenses, amount to 219/. 



" The sum of the expenditure on all these heads is 9787/., 

 a sum certainly greater than had been anticipated, but not 

 greater, the Committee feel assured, than was necessary to 

 do justice to the plan of a County Museum, and to fulfil 

 the wishes of the Subscribers. They request that their 

 Minutes may be laid before the Society at its Annual Meeting, 

 in order that a judgement may be formed of the manner in 

 which the work has been conducted ; and they beg to be 

 indulged in making a few observations upon this subject. 



'' It has been already remarked, that of some part of the 

 task which devolved upon them, it was impossible to cal- 

 culate the cost. Of this nature was the investigation of the 

 remains of antiquity discovered in the Society's premises, 

 and the conversion of the large tract of rubbish which 

 covered them into garden ground. But in all cases where it 

 was practicable, it will be found that the charges for every 

 part of the work were ascertained beforehand and contracted 

 for, and that as much pains were taken in checking the 

 expenditure as if it had been of private concern. 



'* It cannot be necessary to enlarge upon the obligation 

 which the Society owes to Mr. Wilkins, for the liberality 

 with which he has conferred upon it the benefit of his well 

 known talent and enlightened taste. The professional assist- 

 ance received from Mr. Pickersgill has been already acknow- 

 ledged in a manner which could not but be gratifying to his 

 feelings ; and it only remains for the Committee to state, in 

 justice to one of their own members, that the disinterested 



