FOLKESTONE MUSEUM. 



As this will be the most suitable place for informing the 

 Members what has been done with regard to the Town 

 Museum, we here give an account of the proceedings. 



The following communication was forwarded by the Com- 

 mittee of the Society to the Corporation in September last : 



TO THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND COUNCILLORS OF THE 

 BOROUGH OF FOLKESTONE. 



September, 1868. 



Gentlemen, 



Youiare no doubt aware that a Society has been 

 formed in this town called the "Folkestone Natural History Society," 

 the object. of which is not only to afford pleasure and recreation by 

 rambles in well known localities in the open air, with descriptive lee- 

 tares, but to collect specimens connected with Natural History, with 

 which the neighbourhood of Folkestone so richly abounds. The 

 Society though recently formed, consists of upVrards of eighty Mem-' 

 bers, and has met with much encouragement and success during the 

 past season, and has already by the exertions and assiduity of in- 

 dividual Members collected many valuable specimens. 



As it is the desire of the Society that any benefit which it may 

 attain, shall not only be for itself but also for the town, and that the 

 results of its labours shall be open to all, the Societyis very anxious to 

 secure some place where the specimens may be exhibited, and enter, 

 taining explanations may be given on the subject, and as the Society 

 is aware that a very valuable collection of specimens (though in sad 

 disorder) is already possessed by the town, the Society beg to ask you 

 whether you will allow it to have the use of the room at the Sessions 

 Hall, where the present collection is placed, and to have the present 

 museum placed under- its charge. If this request is granted, the 

 Society will undertake the charge of the museum, to arrange- and 

 classify the specimens, to famish a catalogue to the Corporation, to 

 keep the museum open for pubUo inspection at suitable periods to be 

 fixed by the Society, and in the event of the dissolution of the Society, 

 to return to the Corporation all the specimens placed by that body 

 under its charge. 



The Society wiU also pledge itself to preserve the specimens, and 

 to use the room only as a museum and for holding meetings and giving 

 lectures and entertainments connected with the objects of the Society. 



