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a more liberal spirit in our Municipal Authorities, and a more 
thorough realisation of the uses and necessity of a proper building 
for a Museum and Art Classes. Hitherto the ‘‘ powers that be” have 
seemed to consider that no place was too remote, gloomy, or in- 
accessible for a Museum, probably under the impression that the 
researches after science implied some difficulties and self-sacrifice ; 
and anyone who has visited the gleomy premises where our museum 
is situated will acknowledge it requires both resolution and ingenuity 
to reach it. It appears, now however, that there really is a chance 
of our getting a museum in a conspicuous and accessible place, and 
one which will not be a disgrace to so rising and important a town 
as Folkestone. I trust, when we have obtained a more suitable 
locale, we shall strive to render our museum all that a provincial 
museum should be ; not a place of mild amusement and recreation, 
a heterogeneous collection of South Sea Island bows, idols and 
mermaids, but an institution for popular instruction, calculated to 
diffuse scientific knowledge and cultivate a taste for natural 
history among the people For this purpose it should, 
as Mr. Gunther advised, consist of well assorted and well arranged 
specimens, representing as many types of living forms as are 
attainable ; a series of economic products derived both from the 
animal and vegitable kingdoms ; of useful as well as noxious and 
poisonous animals and plants, and last but not least, a complete 
and accurately named series of the flora and fauna of the neigh- 
bourhood. Theseare, [know well and gratefully acknowledge, the end 
and aim of Mr. Ullyett’s indefatigable exertions, and right well has 
he endeavoured to carry them out; but a visit to our dismal cells 
in High Street will show you with what insuperable difficulties of 
want of light and spacehehashadtodeal. Lhope, however, we areon 
the eve of, literally, brighter days, and with this hope and a_hearty 
wish for increased prosperity to our Folkestone Natural History 
‘Society, I will end these somewhat desultory remarks. 
Dr. Bowles said they had heard the address, which he considered 
most excellent. It was a very difficult thing to write an address to 
generalise sufficiently well and yet to put the subjects clearly before 
them. Dr. Fitzgerald had succeeded admirably ; he had touched 
on various points of natural history and science lightly and clearly 
so that tiey could all understand them and so as to 
excite in them a feeling that they would like to know more 
of the subjects. That of course was the end and aim of his 
address—to excite more thought on science and natural history—to 
excite in the minds of all a desire to help forward that society by 
doing something themselves to instruct others and to promote and 
advance science. He felt very greatly an amount of shame when Dr. 
Fitzgerald pointed out how little was done except by a few, and resolved 
