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" In offering this Report to the favourable consideration 

 and better judgment of the Council, the Committee take the 

 liberty of suggesting, with a view of giving a determinate 

 character to any future inquiries, that the sentiments of the 

 Society at large, with reference to the question of buihling 

 or purchasing, should be ascei'tained at the earliest practi- 

 cable period ; and the Committee conclude with expressing 

 their readiness to resume their labours in any way, or at any 

 time, that may best promote the wishes and interests of the 

 Council and the Society." 



In laying before the Society the Report which they have 

 received from the Museum Committee, the Council think it 

 necessary to state that they are not now prepared either to 

 concur in or dissent from the opinion expressed in that Re- 

 port " that the interests of the Society are less likely to be 

 advanced by building in the immediate neighbourhood of the 

 Gardens than by acquiring a Museum in a more central part 

 of London :" but the Council propose that a Special Meet- 

 ing of the Society shall be called on an early day to take in- 

 to consideration all questions connected with the locality, 

 purchasing, renting, or building a Museum, with the view of 

 ascertaining the sentiments of the Society in aid of the 

 Council on these subjects. 



With the view of furthering the acquisition of a Museum, 

 by providing a portion at least of the requisite funds, the 

 Council have directed that a book should be opened to re- 

 ceive the names of individuals disposed to contribute, either 

 by Annual Subscriptions or by Donations, towards a Museum 

 Fund. A book has been accordingly opened for that pur- 

 pose, and is now on the table. 



The number of 



Visiters to the Museum 



in 1833 was 5333 j and the sum received for admission was 

 £104 \s. 



