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was very rich in the objects required. A portion of the Mu- 
seum should also be devoted to the exhibition of all objects ; 
that would be, of course, a work of time, and could only be 
effected by exchanges, and they had not much to exchange, 
havin, only one thin bed in which any rarities were found; 
he alluded to what was called the Folkestone Junction bed, 
this had nothing whatever to do with the Junction station 
(laughter), but was a bed lying between the Lower Greensand 
and Gault; they could work that to advantage, All Town 
Museums ought to have a speciality, the one at Salisbury had 
made a speciality of exhibiting flintheads and other vestiges 
of pre-historic life; he believed the speciality of Folkestone 
should be an exhibition of foreign and colonial produce— 
solids and liquids, and he was glad to find that a collection of 
these objects had been lent by Mr. Robinson, a collection that 
had gained a prize medal at the South Kensington Museum. 
He would now say a few words as to the addition of an anti- 
quarian section ; he believed that a lot of antiquarian objects 
existed in the neighbourhood, and the fine field of employ- 
ment the investigation would open out, was sufficient to 
encourage the adoption of the suggestion. By doing this they 
would get hold of many people who were fond of rummaging 
(laughter); all men liked rummaging in something or the 
other, some in natural history and others in antiquities. They 
also wanted a library of reference; a great many people had 
reference books lying useless on their shelves and would be 
glad to send them if they knew that they would be preserved 
in a fitting place, easily accessible to those who study; those 
of course who could not give books would not be too proud 
to contribute the money for the purchase of some (laughter). 
They must not forget that had it not been for the extreme 
liberality of the Corporation they would never have had the 
room they were then in so well fitted up. A word about classes 
and lectures; he had the pleasure of conducting a class on 
elementary botany last winter, and he was glad to know that 
many novices who attended had become to a greater or less 
extent botanists; they could, no doubt, form classes with 
similar results in the other branches of science if they could 
only find the scholars, and if they found the scholars he would 
undertake to say the Society would do their best to find the 
teachers. (Loud applause). 
