TO THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY AND 

 COUNTY OF BRISTOL. 



The Report of the Museum 

 Committee. 



Your Committee remind the Council that at their 

 meeting on the 2nd of January 1893, the following letter, 

 dated the 27th of December 1892, was read : — 



To the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Bristol, 

 William Robert Barker, Esq. 



Dear Mr. Mayor, 



The Shareholders of the Bristol Museum and 

 Library have generously resolved to offer to make over 

 to the City their Institution with its valuable contents, 

 stipulating only that its present liabilities shall be 

 discharged, and that the Corporation shall undertake its 

 maintenance for the use of the citizens. Towards the 

 discharge of these liabilities it is hoped that a fund now 

 held in trust for the endowment of the Bristol Museum, 

 with reversion to the Trustees of the British Museum, 

 may be made available. The Trustees of the British 

 Museum have been approached on the subject at my 

 instance, and have provisionally consented, if the 

 Institution and its maintenance be taken over by the 

 Corporation, to permit this use of the fund, and to 



