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one of the spacious apartments as a " Bristol Room " ; 

 a feature that they are confident will prove both attractive 

 and instructive. In the meantime, they have removed 

 from two cases the European and Asiatic objects which 

 formerly occupied them, and having repaired, and 

 refitted them with glass shelving, have placed therein as 

 a temporary arrangement such Bristol antiquities as 

 they possessed, together with other objects of a similar 

 character but not local in their origin. The specimens 

 of Bristol china and pottery which are still very 

 inadequate in number and variety, have been separately 

 provided for by the construction of a new case after the 

 South Kensington pattern. 



Feeling sure that their desire to develop this important 

 part of the Museum undertaking will commend itself to 

 many of their fellow citizens, they would take this oppor- 

 tunity of asking for their practical assistance by the gift of 

 some of those relics of the past, which formerly could only be 

 retained in private hands, because there was no free public 

 Museum where such objects could find a home for the benefit 

 of the people at large. 



H "Mest of BnGlano" Case. 



Hitherto one of the large new cases on the ground 

 floor has been only temporarily occupied, the Committee 

 being desirous of ultimately setting up within it, a 

 Natural History group with appropriate surroundings, 

 illustrative of the different forms of life found in the 

 West of England. They are glad now to report that this 

 idea has been adopted by Mr. P. F. Sparke Evans, and 

 that he has generously undertaken to defray the entire 

 cost of providing and grouping the various specimens, 

 the chief of which will be a fine and specially provided 

 example of the Red Deer of Exmoor, displayed as a 



