12 Timehri. 
We have carried on as_ best we could, relieving the Honorary Curator 
as far as possible of the Society’s general secretarial work to enable 
him to devote more attention to the Museum. It is clear that further Govern- 
ment assistance must entail further Government supervision and control and 
the Society will welcome the most active participation of the Department of 
Science and Agriculture under whatever form such assistance can be most 
effectually secured or which may be dictated by the interests of science and 
education, by the general objects of the Society and by the necessities of the 
public purse. Meanwhile a special appeal to the public spirit of those 
interested in the colony, both resident citizens and absentee proprietors or 
directors of companies with headquarters abroad, will probably be necessary. 
The duty of taking an interest in this great and unique achievement of 
their predecessors is one which they should not lightly neglect. The 
privilege of identifying themselves with those who created it by supporting 
the Museum now in its days of revival and on the eve of a general forward 
movement (such as we all confidently anticipate) in this great but too long 
stationary colony, is one which touches their honour and_ prestige. 
Tue Eprror-in-Cuier, 
(FoR THE EprrorIAL CoMMITTER.) 
