that they resolved to issue it as a handbook of the 

 Institution. 



The papers which the Association deliberated upon 

 were of a most practical character, whilst the special 

 discussion upon museum case construction resulted in 

 valuable practical information, especially the observa- 

 tions of Dr. Meyer, who is rightly regarded as the 

 foremost authority upon museum questions. Model 

 cases in use at the Science and Art Museum, Dublin, 

 the Ipswich Museum, and at other places were exhibited, 

 as also the working drawings of many of the cases 

 designed by H.M. Board of Works for the British 

 Museum, Bloomsbury, and the British Museum of 

 Natural History, South Kensington. 



The meetings had also the great practical value of 

 bringing the Bristol Museum into line' with those in 

 other great public centres, and of eliciting opinions and 

 observations of considerable usefulness. 



STRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENTS. 



Lecture Theatre. — The scheme of repainting 

 and general renovation commenced the previous year in 

 the Entrance Hall and Lower Room of the Museum, 

 was extended during the year to the Lecture Theatre 

 and the exterior. Numerous minor improvements in 

 the lecture theatre and elsewhere were effected at the 

 same time, so that the whole building, with the exception 

 of the rooms formerly occupied as the library, and the 

 east annexe, are now in thoroughly good order and 

 condition. The use of the lecture theatre by the Choral 

 and Instrumentalists' Societies has been continued, and 

 it has also been made use of by the Day Training Classes 

 of University College, for singing practices, for which it 

 is admirably fitted. 



