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Dr. James Moore suggested that Mr. Gray's paper should be 

 printed and circulated. It would give the public imformation 

 as to what they might expect from the operation of the Act, and 

 also as to what they should do. 



Mr. John Vinycomb moved the following resolution : — " That 

 this meeting would urge upon the Town Council the absolute 

 necessity of making an art gallery and museum an integral part 

 of the building about to be established under the Public 

 Libraries Act." 



Mr. W. J. Fennel] seconded the motion, which was unani- 

 mously agreed to. 



Mr. Donaldson said the Town Council never went against 

 the adoption of the Public Libraries Act. They left the matter 

 in the hands of the ratepayers, and he thought the Council 

 were not to blame for the course they had taken. If there was 

 to be a museum and art gallery, the people of the town would 

 have to establish it themselves, for such an institution could not 

 be established and maintained out of a penny rate. The Council 

 had done their duty, and it was now for the people to do theirs. 



Mr. Lockwood (hon. secretary) suggested that a deputation 

 should be appointed to wait upon the Town Council on the 

 subject. He thought it would also be well if a standing com- 

 mittee were formed of gentlemen interested in the question, to 

 watch the proceedings of the Town Council. 



Mr. Gray having briefly replied •with reference to the various 

 matters touched upon in the course of the discussion, 



The meeting separated. 



A Special meeting was held in the Museum, College Square 

 North, on Tuesday evening, 2nd January — the Rev. Canon 

 Grainger, M.R.I.A., in the chair — when a paper was read on 

 "Sensitive Plants" by Mr. Thomas H. Corry, M.A., F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., M.R.I.A., &c., of Cambridge, of which the following is a 

 brief resume : — Among the many results of biological research 

 none are perhaps so striking as those which have shown that 



