a more liberal spirit in our Municipal Authorities, and a more 

 thorough realisation of the uses and necessity of a proper building 

 for a Museum and Art Classes. Hitherto the "powers that be " have 

 seemed to consider that no place was too remote, gloomy, or in- 

 accessible for a Museum, probably under the impression that the 

 researches after science implied some difficulties and self-sacrifice ; 

 and anyone who has visited the gloomy premises where our museum 

 is situated will acknowledge it requires both resolution and ingenuity 

 to reach it. It appears, now however, that there really is a chance 

 of our getting a museum in a conspicuous and accessible place, and 

 one which will not be a disgrace to so rising and important a town 

 as Folkestone. I trust, when we have obtained a more suitable 

 locale, we shall strive to render our museum all that a provincial 

 museum should be ; not a place of mild amusement and recreation, 

 a heterogeneous collection of South Sea Island bows, idols and 

 mermaids, but an institution for popular instruction, calculated to 

 diffuse scientific knowledge and cultivate a taste for natural 

 history among the people For this purpose it should, 

 as Mr. Gunther advised, consist of well assorted and well arranged 

 specimens, representing as many types of living forms as are 

 attainable ; a sei'ies of economic products derived both from the 

 animal and' vegitable kingdoms ; of useful as well as noxious and 

 poisonous animals and plants, and last but not least, a complete 

 and accurately named series of the flora and fauna of the neigh- 

 bourhood. These are, I know well and gratefully acknowledge, the end 

 and aim of Mr. Ullyett's indefatigable exertions, and right well has 

 he endeavoured to carry them out ; but a visit to our dismal cells 

 in High Street will show you with what insuperable difficulties of 

 wantof light and spacehehashadtodeal. Ihope, however, we areon 

 the eve of, literally, brighter days, and with this hope and a hearty 

 wish for increased prosperity to our Folkestone Natural History 

 Society, I will end these somewhat desultory remarks. 



Dr. Bowles said they had heard the address, which he considered 

 most excellent. It was a very difficult thing to write an address to 

 generahse sufficiently well and yet to put the subjects clearly before 

 them. Dr. Fitzgerald had succeeded admirably ; he had touched 

 on various points of natural history and science lightly and clearly 

 so that they could all understand them and so as to 

 excite in them a feeling that they would like to know more 

 of the subjects. That of course was the end and aim of his 

 address — to excite more thought on science and natural history — to 

 excite in the minds of all a desire to help forward that society by 

 doing something themselves to instruct others and to promote and 

 advance science. He felt very greatly an amount of shame when Dr. 

 Fitzgerald pointed out howlittle was done except by a few, and resolved 



