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been thrown out. As they had an increase of £10, he believed they 
would fall in with the President’s desire to be careful about expending 
that money, and not to spend it simply because they hadit. It 
struck him very forcibly that they might reserve that money to help 
on that which was so essential a matter in connection with their 
Society, viz., the local museum. If they had a museum he hoped 
it would be of a strictly local character in which they might store 
objects of natural history, and objects connected with natural science. 
He felt that if they had such a museum it would be a great incen- 
tive to the study of natural science in connection with their own 
locality. A museum would help the Microscopical Club and also 
promote the study of other sciences. He was sure the members of 
the Club wished to help Dr. Carpenter in this object. Let the 
museum be the cry of the town, and then they would soon get it. 
The Presipent explained that it was not the intention to devote 
‘one farthing of the funds of the Club to the purposes of the museum. 
His remarks were simply intended to show the benefit that might 
accrue to the Club from having the museum, and in return for the 
hospitality they would receive in having the use of the room, he 
thought they might give their services as amateur curators, and in 
many other ways. 
The Rev. R. R. Surrrep expressed his strong sympathy with 
the objects proposed by the President, in utilizing their future room. 
He referred to the immense interest which working men in London 
took in lectures of a scientific character, and the equally strong desire 
of the members of the Working Men’s Club to be instructed in similar 
subjects. He thought the Committee of the Microscopical Club might 
see their way to giving lectures on Saturday evenings, and on other 
occasions, to a number of people in the town on natural history and 
_ kindred subjects. He knew that in the Working Men’s Club, the 
_ greatest interest was taken in botany and other subjects, and he 
believed that by promoting the study of these things more would be 
done to elevate the taste of the people than could’ be done in any 
other way. With reference to the library, he thought that when 
