TO THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY AND 

 COUNTY OF BRISTOL. 



The Report of the Museum 

 Committee. 



Your Committee in their Report presented on the 1 1 th 

 of December 1894., detailed the circumstances in which the 

 Institution was transferred to the City, and informed the 

 Council of the steps they had taken to put the premises in 

 a complete state of repair. Any work of the nature of 

 repair and renovation at that time incomplete, has since been 

 carried out, and in addition, the carving of those portions of 

 the exterior which required ornamental treatment has been 

 executed as far as the Committee could go. With the funds 

 at their disposal they were not able to entertain the question 

 of filling the vacant niches with figures. 



The Museum. 



When so much had been accomplished your Committee 

 considered the building to be in a satisfactory condition, 

 and were able to turn their attention to the renovation 

 of a number of the cases on the ground floor, and a better 

 display of their varied contents. In addition, therefore, to 

 the ordinary work of classification and arrangement which is 

 systematically carried on by the Staff, the whole of the 

 cases contained in what is called the "extension" part of the 



