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Looking however at the problem practically, it is a choice between. 

 a Museum developed and supported as described above and the being 

 content with a Museum having wholly inadequate accommodation and 

 funds. The Trustees have little doubt but that public opinion will 

 endorse the larger view taken by themselves in the matter. The 

 Trustees, however, wish to brins' their general scheme to the notice of 

 the public with a view to invite suggestions and expressions of 

 opinions." 



Conclusion. 



As mentioned before, this is piinted more as a siimmary 

 of the general scheme for the planning ont of the collections, and 

 to let our members — particularly those outside Bombay — knoAv the 

 movement that is afoot and what we propose to-day to carry out in 

 the future. There are many problems to be considered into which 

 we have not entered here. Chief of these is certain I3- the financial 

 aspect of the scheme, which is indeed the veritable crux. It will 

 be noted also that nothing has been said of alterations in the- 

 Museum, donations, presentations, taxidermists and mounting 

 of specimens, the position in regard to Botany, Geology and 

 Forestrjr, all of wdiich are by no means light problems for consider- 

 ation. 



If the whole of these far-seeing schemes for the Museum 

 materialise, our plans for housing the collection of the Bombay 

 Natural History Societj- may have to be changed. But sub- 

 stantially the general ideas will hold throughout. In bringing 

 out the scheme I am much indebted to m}^ colleague, Mr. Praier, 

 who has helped me with all his valuable ideas culled from the 

 Museums of India and twelve years' work with the Society, both 

 in the Museum and the field. Also to Mr. E. A. Spence, m.l.a.,- 

 Mr. Millard, Mr.Kinnear, Rev.E. Blatter, S.j.,f.l.S. and Mr. Hefibrd 

 To these and all who have helped me I tend my sincerest thanhs . 



Bombay Natueal Histoey Society, 

 ^rcl May 1921. 



