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In order to raise money for the payment of such interest 

 on the subscribed capital, it ^vill be requisite that a certain 

 sum be collected at the door from each person demanding 

 admittance to view the museum. 



It is proposed that such sum should not exceed two shil- 

 lings for each person. 



That on one day in every week the museum be open to 

 any of his majesty's subjects not paying for their admittance. 

 Not more than fifteen to be admitted at one time, and a cer- 

 tain portion of time to be fixed for showing the museum on 

 6uch days to each party. 



That the trustees and officers of the museum, and mem- 

 bers of a committee, to be appointed for conductins: the 

 affairs of the museum, be allowed to grant tickets fur the 

 gratuitous admission of well-educated foreigners. 



That a part of the sum collected for the establishment of 

 the National Museum be vested in the names of the trustees 

 in the government funds, and that the dividends thereon be 

 applicable U> the payment of certain officers and servants re- 

 quired for the arrangement and exhibition of the museum. 



Other ceconomical details may be considered at the first 

 meeting of subscribers, when a committee must be ap- 

 pointed. 



Not to encumber this proposal with the enumeration of 

 the several classes, 8cc. of natural objects, it may suffice 

 to observe, that it is fundamentally essential to the great ob- 

 jects above expressed, that every article be disposed accord- 

 ing to the most approved method of scientific arrangement. 



With a view of illustrating the important areuments so 

 luminously developed in Dr. Paley's Natural Theolo-xy, it is 

 proposed that a considerable part of the exhibition be dedi- 

 cated to comparative anatomy, illustrated by natural speci- 

 mens or models, either separately assembled, or displayed ia 

 rooms dedicated to the several branches of zoolugy*. 



Adjoining to each press, containing specimens of every 



• But a small part of the British Museum is dedicated to objects of natural 

 hiitory. Tlie spicimens of zoology are without arrangement, r.nd greatly 

 decayed. There is no fund for replaciog those which moulder away, nor for 

 augmenting the collection. 



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