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«<The registration of the Gold Ornaments has not been completed 
nor can it be. so until proper cases are provided in the safes at each 
end of the Museum, as originally intended by the Board of Works. 
Upon this subject the Committee of Economy have reported to the 
Council. 
«<« As many as 240 illustrations have been drawn on wood, and paid 
for from the funds of the Catalogue: of these, only two are of gold arti- 
cles, and five of silver,—so that ‘both these materials may be said to be as 
yet undrawn. Of the 240 articles which have been drawn on wood, 100 
have been cut, and paid for, and the remainder are now in the engraver’s 
hands. The cost of these latter will be about £35. As it is not possible 
to complete the MS. of the Catalogue without having the illustrations 
before me, I have induced the engravers to proceed with the work on 
the understanding of being paid one-half the cost when finished, and the 
other half at the end of March, 1859. The former part I hold myself 
bound to pay. 
‘‘ ‘The numbering has been completed by means of the old printed 
figures remaining since the former part, or cut out of Catalogues, &c., 
without any additional expense to the Academy. But I look on the present 
numbering as only temporary. Kelly, the porter of the Academy, is 
quite competent to number each article separately in paint, and might 
employ a portion of his time during the vacation in so doing, pro- 
vided the Council would give him some remuneration in addition to his 
wages. If this is not soon done, great injury will accrue to the collection, 
as the numbers at present attached to the articles for the purpose of re- 
gistration are not only unseemly, but cannot be expected to last longer 
than a few years. Not having any funds at my disposal for printing 
labels in continuation of those already adopted, that most necessary part 
of the work has not yet been completed; I therefore request the Coun- 
ceil to sanction the expenditure from the funds of the Academy, of a 
sum not exceeding £3 for that purpose. This is immediately neces- 
sary—not merely for the benefit of visitors, but in compliance with the 
Treasury Minute, which requires all public Museums receiving Parlia- 
mentary grants to be supplied with such labels, as already communi- 
eated to the Secretary of the Academy. 
«Some of the printed Catalogues have been sent on sale to the 
Academy’s London bookseller, and the work still goes off from the 
office; but as we have not the means of advertising it, and no person to 
push it with the trade, the sale must naturally be slow; yet I have 
reason to hope that it will eventually pay the entire expenses of the 
registration of the Museum, and the illustration and preparation for the 
press, of the second Part. Until, however, 200 more copies are disposed 
of, this cannot be efiected. I, therefore, request the Council to take 
some means of increasing the sale among the Members. In the mean- 
time, as there is a sum of £8 still due for the registration and transcrip- 
tion of the Catalogue, I trust the Council will direct the Treasurer to have 
the money paid at once,’ 
‘“‘ That debt of £8, due for work, and balanced by the sales Ka the un- 
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