jS FOLKESTONE MUSEUM. 



By this moans the present collection will be utilizecl and placed 

 under the care of gentlemen well acquainted with its value and im- 

 portance. 



The Corporation are no doubt aware that the room and the speci- 

 mens are now in a useless state from dirt and dnst, and as it will not 

 only be a matter of great labour, but of considerable expense to 

 arrange the specimens and to put the museum into a state fit for public 

 inspection, the Society trust that the Corporation will give them some 

 substantial aid towards cleaning and painting the room, towards fitting 

 it up with shelves, cases, and other adjuncts, and for adapting it for 

 the purposes of a museum. 



The Members of this Society trust that you will be pleased to 

 entertain their request, and thus farther their exertions in securing a 

 museum for this town. 



We have the honour to be, 

 Gentlemen, 

 Your obedient servants, 



C. E. FITZ GERALD, Pkebident. 

 Members of the Oommittee, on behalf of the Society, 



Hy. ULLYETT, Beceetaet. 



In reply to this, the following was received by the Com- 

 mittee in January of the present year : 



Borough of Folkestone \ At an Adj oumed Quarterly Meeting of the 

 im, the [■ Council of the said Borongh, held at the Town 



Cotmty of Kent. J Hall, in the said Borough, on Wednesday, the 

 Twenty-seventh day of January, 1869. 



Present — 



Mr. Alderman John Gambrill (in the Chair), Aldermen Ham Tito, and 

 James Tolputt. Councillors Ebenezer Pope, Henry Stock, Franoia 

 Coules, John Head, John Sherwood, James Jinkings, Joseph Christian 

 Davidson, John Bamford, and John Fitness. 



The following Report of the Museum Committee wae read, and 

 ordered to be received and entered upon the Minutes : — 



MUSEUM COMMITTEE. 



•' In pursuance of the instructions that your Committee should 

 consider the Memorial received from the Members of the Committee 

 on behalf of ' The Folkestone Natural History Society,' relative to the 

 Fossils at the Sessions Hall, and report thereon to the Council. 



" Your Committee have considered the Memorial and the applica- 

 tion made thereby, and beg to recommend, with a view to secure the 

 objects contemplated by the Society, 



" 1st— That the Corporation do grant the use of the large room of 



