2 REPORT OF 



within the most extensive, the wealthiest, and the most 

 patriotic district in England. 



Justice has been done to the genius of the Architect, both 

 in the beautiful material of which the Building is constructed * 

 and in the fidelity with which the Committee have executed 

 the design ; and it is highly gratifying to remark, that though 

 on subjects of taste differences of opinion may always be 

 expected to occur, it seems in the present instance to be the 

 general sentiment of the County, that ^ the work which it has 

 so liberally supported has not been unskilfully performed, 

 and that Science has here been presented with a suitable and 

 a delightful abode. 



Not the least popular part of the new establishment is the 

 GARDEN which surrouuds the Museum, and which gives 

 already so ornamental a character to its site. The ground is 

 now put into a state of cultivation. A plan has been formed, 

 and partly executed, for laying it out in such a manner as to 

 combine a botanical distribution of the plants with a pleasing 

 effect to the eye. The irregularities of form which the 

 present taste in landscape gardening approves, will become 

 subservient to the subdivision of the orders, so as to make 

 both the afl&nities and differences as evident as possible to the 

 observer, without producing that formality which usually 

 accompanies scientific arrangement. The method which the 



1 The freestone of which the Museum is built is a fine variety of the 

 Kelloways Rock, quarried at Hackness : it was given in a very liberal xnanner 

 to the Society by Sir J. V. B. Johnstone, Bart. 



