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at least 50 persons, and a secretary's room upon similar con- 

 ditions. The Corporation will be able to use the lecture hall 

 and council room, and let and take rent, provided they are 

 not required for the purposes of the Society. The management 

 of the museum and its collections will be under the control 

 of a special sub-committee of the Libraries and Arts Com- 

 mittee to be set up by the Corporation, and to consist of 14 

 members, seven to be nominated by the City Council, and 

 seven to be nominated by the Society. The Corporation 

 will undertake that the museum and its collections shall be 

 always placed under the charge of a competent scientific curator, 

 who shall hold no other office under the Corporation, and such 

 collections shall be open to public inspection at reasonable 

 times. They will take over Mr. H. Crowther (Curator) and 

 the existing staff of the old Society, and will take over all 

 financial liabilities of the Society existing at the date of the 

 transfer. The sub-committee will be at liberty to transfer 

 certain duplicates and other articles to the Leeds University, 

 or other authority, one month's notice of such proposal to 

 be given in each case to the members of the sub-committee.* 



A BRONZE-AGE MOULD. 



The Hull Museums have just acquired a cast of a Bronze 

 Mould found at Hotham Carrs, East Yorks., in 1867. The 

 mould was used for casting bronze axes of the palstave type, 

 and was found with a hoard of axes, nearly all of which were 

 damaged and broken, and seemed to have been gathered 

 together for the purpose of being re-cast. Examples of stone 

 moulds have, at times, been found, but it rarely happens 

 that bronze moulds are discovered in this country. The 

 mould is 7j inches long, nearly 2 inches broad in the centre 

 (when the valves are placed together), and 2| inches wide 

 in its widest part. The two parts fit together with much 

 precision, which is strong evidence of the high degree of 

 efficiency in bronze casting attained by the Britons. On the 

 outside the mould is slightly ornamented by ridges, but as 

 near as possible the mould is the shape of the axe, being not 

 unnecessarily thick in any part. One valve has five pro- 

 jections (two on each side and one on the bottom), the other 

 half having corresponding holes into which the projections 

 fit. In every detail the mould is well and carefully made. 

 Colonel J. B. Stracey-Clitherow presented to the Museum 

 some little time ago a bronze palstave found at Hotham in 

 1884, which is probably part of the hoard found with the 

 above mould. 



* We hear the Corporation has since agreed to these terms. 

 1921 July 1 



