ADD2ESS. a1 
of Music; to which list we may ere long see added a National Gallery 
of representative British Art. A more fitting location could scarcely 
be conccived for this pre-eminently National Institution, which has for its 
main objects the comprehensive and continuously progressive illustra- 
tion—of the practical applications of the vast resources presented by the 
Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms to Industries and the Arts; of 
_ the extent, and the progressive opening up, of those resources in all parts 
of the Empire ; of the practical achievements emanating from the results 
of scientific research ; and of the utilisation of the Arts for the purposes of 
daily life. With the attainment of these objects it will be the function 
of the Imperial Institute to combine the continuous elaboration of 
systematic measures tending to stimulate progress in trades and handi- 
crafts, and to foster a spirit of emulation among the artisan and industrial 
classes. Another branch of the Institute’s work, upon which it is already 
engaged, is the systematic collection of data relating to the natural 
history, commercial geography, and resources of every part of the Empire, 
for wide dissemination together with all current information, bearing upon 
the commerce and industries of the Empire and of other Countries, which 
ean be comprised under the head of Commercial Intelligence. The 
achievement of these objects should obviously tend to maintain intimate 
intercourse, relationship, and co-operation between the great Home and 
Colonial centres of Commerce, Industries, and Education, and to enhance 
importantly our power of competing successfully in the great struggle, in 
which Nations are continuously engaged, for supremacy in commercial 
and industrial enterprise and prosperity. 
To the elaboration of the practical details of a system of operation 
‘calculated to secure the objects I have indicated, eminent public-spirited 
men are now devoting their best energies, with the sanguine expectation 
of realising the hope cherished by the Royal Founder of the Imperial 
Institute, that this memorial of the completion, by our beloved Sovereign, 
of fifty years of a wise and prosperous reign, is destined to be one of the 
most important bulwarks of this Country, its Colonies and Dependencies, 
by becoming a great centre of operations, ceaselessly active in fostering the 
unity, and developing the resources, and thus maintaining and increasing 
the pow:2r and prosperity, of our Empire. 
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