ii PLAN FOR A NATIONAL MUSEUM 53 



museums, 1 so I need say nothing further on the subject now. 

 Indeed, I fear I have exhausted your patience, so I will 

 conclude by expressing an earnest hope that this meeting 

 may prove a stimulus to all of us to continue heartily and 

 thoroughly at our work, which I hardly need say is the only 

 way to ensure that general recognition of it which we all so 

 much desire. 



1 Nature, vol. xli. p. 177, and infra p. 58. 



