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list of subscribers to the Electric Lighting Fund was given in 

 full, as also the recommendation of the Committee to continue 

 the opening of the Museum on Saturday evenings from 7 o'clock 

 to 9 p.m. This has been continued through the year with the 

 following result : — The cost of lighting for two hours is about 

 18/6. The fees taken for admission vary from 1/3 to (on one 

 occasion only) 17/10, the average being 6/3. The loss for the 

 Saturday evenings during the year amounts to about £18:0:0, 

 excluding the heavy charge of £14 : : for the annual rental 

 of the transformers. Having regard to the continued loss on the 

 evening lighting of the Museum the Committee feel that they 

 cannot recommend its continuance during the coming winter. 



Mention was made in the former Eeport of a recommendation 

 by the Committee and other officers of the Society to erect a 

 Mural Tablet to the Memory of John and Albany Hancock in 

 the Entrance Hall of the Museum. This resolution was formally 

 endorsed and approved of at the last General Meeting of the 

 Society, when it was agreed that the design for the Hancock 

 Memorial Tablet should be left in the hands of the Sub-com- 

 mittee previously appointed to report on this subject. 



The following is the Eeport of the Sub-committee appointed 

 to consider the details of the Memorial Tablet. 



Report read 2nd December, 1891 : — 



"The Sub-committee appointed 7th February, 1891, to con- 

 sider and report on the details of the proposed Hancock Memorial, 

 beg to say that they first consulted Mr. R. J. Johnson respecting 

 the form of the Memorial Tablet and received several designs 

 from him, one of which, with modifications of the style of orna- 

 mentation, they have agreed to recommend for adoption. 



They found it also desirable to have the advice and assistance 

 of Mr. Craggs on various points of their enquiries, and he has 

 furnished them with a full-sized drawing of the proposed Tablet 

 with the style of ornamentation recommended. They consulted 

 him also on the kind of stone to be used ; and he has undertaken 

 to submit to the Committee a full-sized drawing of the lettering 

 and the inscription. 



