154 REPORT OP THE COMMITTEE. 



income, in addition to the subscriptions of members and the 

 admission fees of the public, is required. The present annual 

 income of the Society is barely sufficient, even on the present 

 economical management, to maintain the limited number of 

 officials and to defray the current expenses necessary for keeping 

 the collections in good order and supervision, and nothing is left 

 to complete the arrangement of the Galleries and "West Corridors, 

 or to purchase such specimens as are required to fill up the many 

 deficiencies in the general collections, and also to provide for 

 the repairs necessary to keep so large a building in proper con- 

 dition. The necessity of a Fund for this purpose has forced 

 itself so strongly upon your Committee, that they have been in- 

 duced to draw up a Circular, in which they appeal to their 

 friends and the public to assist them with donations towards a 

 permanent Maintenance Fund. The following Circular has been 

 issued by your Committee, and they trust that this appeal will 

 be liberally responded to, so that they may be enabled to carry 

 out the plans for the completion of the furnishings of the Museum 

 and the enlargement and enriching the Collections. 



Copy op Circular. 



"Natural History Museum, B arras Bridge, 



" Newcastle-upon-Tyne, June 4th, 1888. 



" It will be seen from the Report of the Natural History Society, recently 

 issued, that the Society, after completing the New Museum Building, the 

 removal of the Collections, and sale of the old Building, is now quite free 

 from debt, but the Committee have to state that the income of the Society 

 from all sources is not sufficient for the maintenance and proper development 

 of the Museum, even ou the present very economical management, and in 

 order to carry out the work efficiently, £400 a year, in addition to the present 

 income, is required. 



" As the Committee feel the great importance of efficiently preserving and 

 extending the present Collections of the Society, and as the Museum is the 

 only first-class Institution of its kind in the North of England containing 

 extensive and unique Collections for the use of students and the public 

 generally, they have resolved to appeal to their friends and the friends of 

 Natural History to assist them to form a Fund, the interest of which will be 

 sufficient with the present income to enable the Society to carry on efficiently 

 its work in the future. 



