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Resolutions. 
The PresipENT informed the Society that the authorities of 
the Science Museum had persuaded the Government to allow 
them to take a portion of the land belonging to the Natural 
History Museum at South Kensington, for the purpose of 
erecting new buildings of their own, thereby precluding 
much-needed additions to the Natural History Museum, 
especially in the Entomological Department, and called on 
Mr. G. T. Beroune-Baker to submit to the Society a Resolu- 
tion on the subject, which had already been unanimously passed 
by the Council. 
Mr. Brernunr-Baxker fully explained to the Society the 
position of affairs. He said that owing to differences of 
opinion which had arisen between the authorities, the land 
in question had been definitely assigned in 1899 to the 
‘Trustees of the British Museum (of which the Natural History 
Museum is an integral part), and that the Spirit Building had 
been erected on this land at a cost to the nation of about 
£35,000. The Trustees of the British Museum had now 
been asked to hand this land over to the Science Museum, 
and on their refusal had been over-ridden by the Government. 
In order to strengthen the hands of the Trustees, it was 
hoped that all the Societies interested in Natural History 
would pass Resolutions against this forcible expropriation, 
since the Spirit Building would have to be erected (at much 
greater cost and of about twice its present size) on the only 
ground available for extending the Zoological, and especially 
the Entomological, accommodation of the Museum, He then 
read the following Resolution :— 
““The Council and Fellows of the Entomological Society of 
London have heard with grave anxiety that it has been pro- 
posed to build a part of the contemplated extension of the 
Science Museum on land belonging to the Natural History 
Museum. It has been represented to the Society that this 
would involve the demolition of the Spirit Building, and its 
re-erection between the main part of the Museum and one of 
the public roads. 
“Tt appears to the Society that the rebuilding of the Spirit 
Room in this position would involve the occupation of ground 
