INTRODUCTION. " 



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Lieut-Col. Strange, F.R.S. (since 

 deceased). 



Professor P. G. Tait, M.A. 



Mr. J. Torr, M.P. 



Rev. J. F. Twisdeii, M.A. 



Professor Tyndall, LL.D., F.R.S. 



Professor W. C. Unwin, B.Sc. 



Mr. C. V. Walker, F.R.S., Presi- 

 dent of Society of Telegraphic 

 Engineers. 



Mr. F. H. Wenham. 



Sir C. Wheatstone, F.R.S. (since de- 

 ceased) . 



Sir J. Whitworth, Bart., F.R.S. 



Professor A. W. Williamson, Ph.D., 

 F.R.S. 



Mr. Bennet Woodcroft, F.R.S. 



Dr. J. Woolley, F.R.S. 



Colonel H. Stuart Wortlev. 



The first meeting of this Committee was held on the 13th 

 February 1875 ; the number of those who were present 

 showing the interest already felt in the subject. The Lord 

 President of the Council, the Duke of Richmond, and the 

 Vice-President, Viscount Sandon, in explaining the objects 

 of the Collection, took occasion to refer to the recommen- 

 dations of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction, 

 with regard to the creation of a Science Museum. 



Their Lordships stated their conviction that the develop- 

 ment of the Educational, and certain other, Departments of 

 the South Kensington Museum, and their enlargement into 

 a Museum somewhat of the nature of the Conservatoire 

 des Arts et Metiers in Paris, and other similar institutions 

 on the Continent, would tend to the advancement of 

 science, and be of great service to the industrial progress 

 of this country. While expressing their hope that the 

 Loan Collection might forward this desirable object, their 

 Lordships guarded themselves against committing Her Ma- 

 jesty's Government, which had not yet fully considered 

 the subject, to any definite scheme. 



On the motion of the President of the Royal Society, 

 Dr. Hooker, it was unanimously resolved by the meeting 

 that an exhibition such as that proposed would be most 

 instructive and valuable. 



The question of the limits of the collection were dis- 

 cussed, and Sub-Committees were appointed to consider the 

 limitations it might be desirable to place on the term 

 " scientific apparatus " in the respective sections, while 

 bearing in mind the space disposable for the exhibition in 

 the Museum. As a provisional arrangement five Sub-Com- 

 mittees of sections were appointed, to whom it was left to 

 suggest such modifications in classification as might be found 

 advisable. 



