REPORT. 



Iq the Society's Report for 1869, it was intimated 

 that the Council were about to direct their attention 

 to the acquirement of more space for the Museum 

 Collection, as a step long felt to be needed. Accord- 

 ingly, during the present year 1870, the forty-eighth 

 year of the Society's existence, this measure of 

 extension has, in part, been carried out, by raising 

 the wino; on the south side of the Bath buildino; so as to 

 attach to the Museum an additional room 40 feet long 

 from front to back, and upon an average 10 feet wide, 

 with its amount of wall surface for the placing of 

 upright glass cases and other fittings for the reception 

 of specimens. The arrangements in the new part are 

 nearly finished; while, as a further advantage, the 

 alterations have given another chamber to the apart- 

 ments in this quarter, occupied by the tenant of the 

 Baths. To complete the plan, the north wing will 

 now require to be raised equal with the south, both 

 for the sake of external uniformity, and for gaining 

 the full space and convenience proposed at the outset. 



An increase in the Society's rooms naturally points 

 to a state of prosperity ; and in this respect we have 

 nothing of a contrary nature to imply. Grifts to the 

 Museum in its various departments continue to be 



