230 . Notes and Comments. 



sort are usually considered to be of sufficient importance to be 

 included in Bibliographies, we consider it would be much 

 better if authors, editors and publishers would use a httle 

 care in preparing the title pages of this class of work, as, for 

 instance, in this case people in search of information relating 

 to Lead Ores would have to look in the index under ' Imperial 

 Institute.' The volume (127 pages, John Murray, London, 

 6/- net) contains a summary of the occurrence and sources of 

 supply of Lead, not only in the British Empire, but in various 

 foreign countries in the world. There is a brief appendix 

 dealing with the question of Lead poisoning, a poor map 

 showing the Lead-bearing districts of the world, and what is 

 described as a ' list of references to literature on Lead,' but 

 this only deals with such as are referred to in the text. The 

 publication is issued under the direction of an advisory Com- 

 mittee on Mineral Resources. 



THE LEEDS MUSEUM. 



The proposal to transfer the hall and museum of the Leeds 

 Philosophical and Literary Society to the Leeds Corporation 

 came before an extraordinary general meeting of the pro- 

 prietary and ordinary members and annual subscribers of the 

 Society recently, but it was not found to be possible to deter- 

 mine the policy. It is necessary for three-fifths of the members 

 to pass a resolution to dissolve the Society, as a necessary 

 preliminary to its immediate reconstruction, but the voting 

 at the meeting did not include a number sufficient to represent 

 three-fifths of the membership. The heads of arrangement 

 have received the unanimous approval of the Council of the 

 Society, and, with very few exceptions, the approval of the 

 members who attended the meeting. The Society will convey 

 the Philosophical Hall, Park Row, and transfer all its collections, 

 property, investments, and other assets, except the Society's 

 books, to the Corporation upon the following terms ; — ■ 



THE CORPORATION TERMS. 



The Corporation will undertake to set aside £1,500 a year 

 for 25 years, £1,000 of which will be for the use of the new 

 Society, and £500 for a special fund under the control of a 

 sub-committee for maintaining the collections and adding to 

 them. The Corporation will either keep the collections in the 

 present museum or remove them to other buildings suitable 

 for the purpose. While the collections remain in their present 

 buildings, the Corporation will allow the Society the free use 

 of the present lecture hall and council room and secretary's 

 room, and pay all rates and charges. If the Corporation 

 remove the collections to another building, they wifl j)rovide 

 therein for the use of the vSociety a lecture hall to accommodate 

 at least 400 persons, and a council room to accommodate 



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