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we are faced with the fact that an extension of premises is 

 becoming- an ahsohite necessity. The matter has caused the 

 Council a considerable amount of anxiet}^, and a sub-committee 

 specially appointed for the purpose met to consider the possibility 

 of acquiring some portion of the adjoining property. It was 

 found that extension was possible in two directions — towards 

 Pydar Street or towards the High Cross. The latter direction 

 was considered the most suitable, as the principal entrance 

 could be from the High Cross, and the museum would be well 

 under the observation of the people, being in touch with one of 

 the main parts of the city. The museum now suffers owing to 

 its not being in a more prominent position. 



It appearing that arrangements were about to be made by 

 Viscount Clifden to grant a long lease of the premises in the 

 High Cross, and that, if the Institution wished to acquire them 

 with a view to tlieir being added to the museum so soon as funds 

 should permit, it was necessary to secure them almost immediately, 

 the Council have entered into an arrangement for their purchase. 



Until funds j)ermit of a suitable building being erected on 

 the site, it is proposed to retain the present shops as an invest- 

 ment of a part of the Keam trust moneys. 



Many valuable gifts liave been made to the museum. In 

 response to the appeal for new cases Mr. J. C. Williams has 

 generously consented to give six at a cost of nearly £200, and 

 these are now being installed and will be in order before the end 

 of the year. There are still six more wanted to complete the 

 set of fourteen for the mineral collection. 



Mr. Alderman Dorrington has presented two valuable 

 copper plates of the exterior and interior of old St. Mary 

 Church, Truro, which were engraved by F. Lewis from sketches 

 made by William Varley in 1806 ; also a copper plate of Truro 

 from Kenwyn in 1806, showing the old cavalry barracks which 

 were taken down in the early part of the last centuiy. 



Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence has presented Varley's original 

 sketch of the exterior of the old St. Mary Church, from which 

 the plate given by Mr. Dorrington was engraved. 



The late Mr. T. H. Hodge bequeathed a portrait of his 

 grandfather, Mr. Blee, of Truro, said to have been painted by 



