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This accommodation to be, for the former, adequate working 
space; and for the latter two laboratory tables; also the use of 
the Departmental Library with book shelves, and of the 
Museum Lecture Hall, when these are not otherwise engaged. 
(2) The Committee accepts the services of Dr. Drabble and 
Mr. Newstead for the carrying out of any research work or 
investigations which to the Museums Sub-Committee might 
seem desirable in the Botanical and Entomological Departments 
under the control and supervision of the Director of Museums. 
(3) The Committee agrees to accept and house or exhibit the 
collections (when suitable) which the Institute is forming on 
loan, for so long as this Agreement lasts, subject to a provision 
that the Institute should have the right to give temporary 
exhibitions of particular collections of economical or commercial 
interest from time to time elsewhere. 
(4) All permanent fixtures and fittings in the laboratories to 
be provided or erected at the Museum’s expense, and all 
reagents and movable laboratory requisites and materials to be 
provided by the Institute of Commercial Research. 
(5) The arrangement to last three years, subject to six 
months’ notice on either side. 
IJ. —Vis1Tors. 
During the year there has been some slight decrease in the 
total number of visitors to the Museums, but compared with that of 
the previous year the daily average has been well maintained, as 
shown by the following table. 
1904. 1905. 
(263 Days.) (262 Days.) 
Total Visitors ea ve , ee 482,910 Ae 481,746 
Weekly Average... Bas te <5 9,286 a 9,264 
Daily Average = im vee a 1,836 fe 1,838 
The attendance of school children under the charge of teachers has 
considerably increased, over 2,000 children and 120 teachers having 
availed themselves of the clause in the Education Code, whereby 
