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4. The Council of the British Association feel that it is not necessary for them 

 to press upon the Government the arguments for the changes in the administration 

 of the Natural History Collections which have been so amply stated by the Com- 

 missioners in the Report above mentioned. The Council think it sufficient to call 

 the attention of the Government to the fact that the provisions of the Act are 

 directly at variance with the recommendations of the Royal Commissioners. 



5. As, however, a fresh application to Parliament will be necessary in order to 

 defray the expense of the removal of the Natural History Collections from their 

 present situation to South Kensington, the Council of the British Association beg 

 leave to point out to H.M. Government that the question of the administration of 

 the Natural History Collections is one of the utmost importance as regards the 

 future progress of Natural History in this country, and to urge upon them to take 

 the opportunity which will thus present itself of effecting the alterations in the 

 mode of administration of the Collections recommended by the Royal Com- 

 mission. 



We have the honour to be, 



Your Lordship's most obedient servants, 

 The Council of the British Association foe the Advancement 



of Science. 



Signed, far the Council, 



W. SPOTTISWOODE, President. 

 DOUGLAS GALTON, 1 e , . 

 P. L. SCLATER, \ Secretaries. 



COPY OF A MEMOEIAL PRESENTED TO THE RIGHT HON. THE 

 CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. 



London, May 14, 1866. 

 To the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 



Sir, — It having been stated that the scientific men of the metropolis are, as a 

 body, entirely opposed to the removal of the Natural History Collections from their 



? resent situation in the British Museum, we, the undersigned Fellows of the Royal, 

 jinnean, Geological, and Zoological Societies of London, beg leave to offer to you 

 the following expression of our opinion upon the subject. 



We are of opinion that it is of fundamental importance to the progress of the 

 Natural Sciences in this country that the administration of the National Natural 

 History Collections should be separated from that of the Library and Art Collec- 

 tions, and placed under one Officer, who should be immediately responsible to one of 

 the Queeris Ministers. 



We regard the exact locality of the National Museum of Natural History as a 

 question of comparatively minor importance, provided that it be conveniently 

 accessible and within the metropolitan district. 



W. Kitchen Parker, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 

 Andrew Ramsat, F.R.S., V.P.G.S. 

 Arthur Russell, M.P., F.R.G.S.. 



F.Z.S. 

 Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



G. SCLATER-BOOTH, M.P., F.Z.S. 



S. James A. Salter, M.B., F.R.S., 



F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 W. H. Simpson, M.A., F.Z.S. 

 J. Emerson Tennent, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 

 Thomas Thomson, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. 

 H. B. Tristram, M.A., F.L S. 

 Walden, F.Z.S., F.L.S. 

 Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. 



George Bentham,F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 William B. Carpenter, M.D., F.R.S., 



F.L.S., F.G.S. 

 W. S. Dallas, F.L.S. 

 Charles Darwin,F.R.S.,F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 F. Ducane Godman, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 J. H. Gurney, F.Z.S. 

 Edward Hamilton, M.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 Joseph D. Hooker, M.D., F.R.S., 



F.L.S., F.G.S. 

 Thomas H. Huxley, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., 



F.L.S., F.G.S. 

 John Kirk, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S. 

 Lilford, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 Alfred Newton, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



