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If the Museum was well housed, I am quite sure that a 

 number of our members would be very willing to make the 

 collection in many of its branches very much better than it is. 

 I only trust that the Memorial, which is proposed to be raised, 

 will take the form of a Museum and Art Gallery, a very suitable 

 site for which, in my opinion, is the vacant land at the Linthorpe 

 Road entrance to the Albert Park. English towns are very much 

 behind many of the Continental towns, especially those in 

 Germany, often much smaller than Middlesbrough, where they 

 have perfectly equipped Museums, and these take a very 

 important part in the educational development of the district. 

 During the past year, one of our Members, Mr. R. G. Clayton, 

 has been added to the Free Library Committee. 



In conclusion, I should be glad if our members would do all 

 in their power to extend the scope and usefulness of our Club, 

 especially in the way of making our Publication a Record which 

 will be looked back to in the future years as one of some 

 considerable value. I also hope that they will assist to bring 

 the membership up to a number commensurate with the popu- 

 lation of the district. Members, by contributing papers to 

 Winter Meetings, might, and probably would, be the means of 

 starting others to make investigations in paths in which there is 

 plenty of scope for earnest workers. 



Before bringing my Report to a close, I have one other 

 suggestion to make, and that is that the members of our Club 

 interested in Microscopy (of which there are a good number), form 

 themselves into a section, and that they hold Meetings in the 

 Winter for Microscopic work. A section of this kind would be 

 of great use both to Microscopists, and also to workers in other 

 sections who wished for their aid ; it would also probably be the 

 means of adding both to the membership and the usefulness of 

 the Club. 



