waive the reversionary claims of the British Museum. 

 The sanction of the Charity Commissioners will be 

 needed to confirm the appropriation of the fund which 

 is thus proposed to be made, and assuming that under 

 the circumstances such sanction will not be withheld, 

 there will still be a sum of upwards of £3,000 required 

 to clear off completely the liabilities of the Institution. 

 I therefore ask you to be so good as to inform the 

 Council that I shall have much pleasure in providing 

 the additional sum required to enable the Corporation 

 to take advantage of the offer made by the Shareholders, 

 and I venture to express the hope that the Council 

 may see fit to avail itself of the opportunity thus 

 afforded of acquiring an Institution in every respect 

 suited to the promotion of the purposes of the Museums 

 and Gymnasiums Act of 189 1, and well worthy to be 

 maintained and developed under such favourable auspices. 



I am, dear Mr. Mayor, 



Yours faithfully, 



CHARLES WATHEN. 



and thereupon the Council resolved that the offer of the 

 Shareholders of the Bristol Museum to make over their 

 Institution to the Corporation for the use of the Citizens 

 on the conditions set forth in such letter, and Sir Charles 

 Wathen's generous proposal to provide the money required to 

 enable advantage to be taken of that offer be gratefully 

 accepted and appointed your Committee to arrange for and 

 carry into effect the transfer to the Corporation, and for 

 the maintenance and management of the Institution under 

 the provisions of the Museums and Gymnasiums Act 1891, 

 which so far as it relates to Museums, was subsequently 

 adopted by the Corporation on the 14th of February 1893. 



