PKOPOSED EXTEXSIOX OF BUILDINGS. 303 



It may be regarded as certain that sucli a School will, ere 

 long, be established in Truro, and it ought to be a matter of 

 course that it should be placed in close contiguity with the 

 extensive buildings and collections already in our possession. 

 Fortunately, the freehold site referred to as open to purchase is 

 exactly what is wanted, affording, as it does, sufficient sj^ace 

 immediately adjoining the Museum, with ample room for substi- 

 tuting, instead of its present almost concealed position, a hard- 

 some elevation in Pydar Street, in close connection with some of 

 the new principal public edifices. 



This newly-purchased freehold, and the rooms erected on it, 

 although so close to the present Museum, will constitute an 

 entirely distinct property, secured for educational purposes 

 under the Trusts required by the Department of Science and 

 Art, from which substantial aid may be expected towards the 

 purchase of the site and the cost of building in the first j)lace, 

 and subsequently to the maintenance of the Classes and their 

 Teachers by the grants on the results of instruction. 



To conduct the study of Natural Pkilosophj and Natural 

 History by direct and practical teaching, in accordance with the 

 system adopted from time to time by the Department, would be 

 the main purpose for which a Lecturer would be appointed ; 

 and it would be his business also to render the Museum as per- 

 fect as possible for the illustration of his subjects. 



The cultivation of Archeology, the third great aim of the 

 founders of the Institution, may be entrusted, as it has hitherto 

 been, to voluntary efforts, the maintenance of a Library as ser- 

 viceable as possible for all the objects of study being regarded 

 as of primary importance. 



Among the more active promoters of the Scientific Societies 

 in Cornwall, a wish has often been expressed that the number 

 of these bodies might be lessened, or that some mode of com- 

 bined action among them might be introduced. It may per- 

 haps be hoped that these ends may be in great part attained by 

 such an interchange of Teachers as may furnish at all the cen- 

 tres a fairly complete course of education, without interfering 

 with that independence and autonomy which is the mainspring 

 of local zeal and liberality. 



