132 FOUNDATION AND EARLY WORK 



R.S. TAS. 



"Hobart Town, called the 'Tasmanian Society,' or by any 

 "other Society or Societies, pei-son or persons, or by the 

 ''public at large,' as the trustees might think proper. 



Of the collections, little record remains; they are said 

 to have come into the custody of the Society (28), no doubt 

 at about the time when the cases and fittings were pur- 

 chased by the Society. (See p. 156) A catalogue of the 

 books, 152 in all, in th© library of the museum in 1844 

 is published in the "Tasmanian Journal," ii., 313-6. Some 

 of these books are now in the library of the Society ; others, 

 doubtless, are among the books belonging to Christ's 

 College. The rules of the library were as follow: — (29) 



''Rules of the Library of the Franklin Museum. Ancan- 

 "the. 1844. 



"I. That the booksi admissible into the library be of 

 "three classes only. 



A. Works illustrative of Tasmania and the neighbour- 



ing colonies. 



B. Works written by authors who are, or have been, 



inhabitants of Tasmania. 



C. Works printed and published in Tasmania, unless 



of a kind objected to by the trustees- 

 'TI. That the booksi be taken out of the library with the 

 "2>ermission of one of the trustees. 



'TIL That they be called in once every year, in the 

 "month of December." 



The Tasmanian Society seems to have received the rents 

 for some years, and afterwards they were received by 

 Christ's College. (30) The Rev. J. P." G-ell, in a letter to 

 Archdeacon Marriott in 1847, writes as if Christ's College 

 already had the disposal of the Ancanthe estate. It does 

 not appear that any Bishop of Tasmania has expressed his 

 approbation of Christ's College as recjuired by the deed of 

 trust, and in the decree pronounced in the equity suit of 

 1874 the Coiurt declined to state that the College had a 

 title to the property; but the rents have continued to be 

 received by the trustees of the College property. (31) 



(28) Affidavit of Bishop Bromby in tlie equity suit in connection with 

 the property and trusts of Christ's College in 1874, the Bishop of 

 Tasmania and others v. Reibey and others. 



(29) Tafimaniaa Journal, ii., 316. 



(30) See note 58, 



(31) The Tasmanian Society, the New Norfolk College, and the 

 Ancanthe Museum dc not complete the list of the benefactions of Sir 

 .fohn and I^dy Franlclin to Tasmania. Of others, it is appropriate 

 to m^ention here the gift of Betsy (or Willaumez) Island (now also 

 called Franklin Island) in Storm Bay, near the entrance to the 

 Derwent, Lady Franklin purchased this island in 1840, and it was 

 conveyed to Dr. E. S. P. Bedford and Mr. R, C, Gunn as trustees 

 for her (deed registered No. 4723), In 1866 the Tasmanian Acclimatisa- 



