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and the requisite alterations and repairs, it will be necessary 

 to have recourse to the Capital Funded, and probably also to 

 interfere with the Investment which should be made in the 

 present year ; but the Council trust that this will not be the 

 case to any great extent, as they anticipate great assistance 

 from the 



Subscription to the Museum Fund 



which was commenced at the last Annual General Meeting. 

 The Subscriptions announced, up to the present time, amount 

 to £752 9s., in addition to £1 15 145. promised annually. 

 Of the former sum £267 126. have been received, and the 

 greater part of this receipt has been invested in the purchase 

 of Exchequer Bills, In the absence of a definite plan, the 

 Council have abstained from applying for the Subscriptions j 

 but they propose, as soon as an arrangement shall have been 

 completed, not only to apply for those which have been al- 

 ready announced, but also to circulate generally among the 

 Members a List of the Subscribers to the Museum Fund, and 

 to solicit the addition of other names to those already com- 

 prised in it. 



The number of 



Visitors to the Museum 



in 1834 was 4939 ; and the sum received for admission 

 was £77 3s. 



THE FARM 

 had, at the time of the last Annual General Meeting, ceased 

 to exist as a distinct establishment. Since that period the 

 leasehold portion of it which still remained in hand has been 

 underleased for the whole unexpired term at the rent and 

 under the covenants of the original lease. The Council have 

 been, and still are, anxious to dispose of the freehold por- 



