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Dr. CarPENTER said the proposition made by the President was 
one which must meet with their approval. For some years he had 
hoped they would have a local museum which would be of service 
to the town and to the Microscopical Club. Latterly he had been 
trying to raise a fund sufficient to enable them to have that museum, 
and either to appropriate a room beyond the one in which they were 
assembled, or build a room above it, so as to have a top light, and 
have it fitted up properly as a museum. He hoped to see this 
carried out in the course of the present year. Last year many 
things occurred to prevent it, amongst which was the estab- 
lishment of the new hospital; the year before was the School of 
Art ; and the year before that the clearing off of the debt of the old 
church, and a number of other things which had occupied a great 
deal of his energy and taken money which might otherwise have 
been appropriated to the object; but during the present Spring he 
hoped to see the museum carried out, and then there would be a 
permanent home for the Microscopical Club. He could only look 
upon the museum as an appendage to their Society. There would 
be a curator’s room, which might be made available as a room for 
the Members of the Club where they could meet for the purpose of 
microscopical examination and instruction. If this proposal to 
obtain professional instruction were carried out, they would rapidly 
advance to a more general knowledge of the mode of cultivating 
microscopical examination of the kind of subjects which he 
had alluded to as being so important, and on which he (Dr. 
Carpenter) would like to have some instruction ; for there were 
various things connected with microscopical examination which 
he did not understand. It would be a great pleasure to have 
assistance and information from such an eminent authority as Mr. 
Suffolk, and when they had received it many of them would perhaps 
be able to repeat what they had learned for the benefit of others. 
He was therefore most anxious to see the museum carried out in 
the course of the year. 
Mr. Warren said, on behalf of the Members of the Club he 
thought he might express their appreciation of the hints which had 
