BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 103 



By the terms of the above-mentioned settlement the Trustees 

 are debarred from extending the existing Spirit Building on 

 the same alignment, either eastward or westward, as they had 

 hitherto contemplated. 



Correspondence on the subject has taken place between 

 them and the First Commissioner of His Majesty's Works, who 

 has submitted plans for the erection of a new Spirit Building 

 on the open space lying between the Natural History Museum 

 and Cromwell Road. 



It is proposed that the new Spirit House shall be partly 

 below the ground, the roof being at the same level as the 

 footway adjacent in Cromwell Road. 



The Trustees have found serious objection to placing the 

 Spirit House in front of the main building, and they have only 

 assented to the scheme because they are assured that no other 

 suitable site is available. 



Photographic Room. 



This has been provided with two arc-lamps of 1,000 candle 

 power, so that photographs may be taken at all times with a 

 constant supply of sufficient light. 



Entor)iological Research Committee, 



Increased accommodation has been afforded at the Museum 

 for the purposes of the Entomological Research Committee. 



The Trustees have had brought to their notice the probable 

 considerable development in the staff and work of the Com- 

 mittee, for which still further accommodation will be required 

 in the near future ; and they have under their consideration 

 the question of the best way to provide quarters for the work 

 of the Committee. The Trustees feel assured that it is in the 

 interest of the Natural History Museum, not less than in that 

 of the Entomological Research Committee, that the present 

 close association of the Committee with the Museum should be 

 ■established on a permanent footing, and they propose to reserve 

 ample accommodation for the work of the Committee in the 

 scheme for an extension of the Natural History Museum on its 

 west wing which they have under consideration. 



Destructive Action of Light. 



Further reports have been received from the Director of 

 the National Physical Laboratory on the results of experiments 

 carried out to test the effect of light on skins of mammals and 

 birds, recommending the use of tinted glass for electric light 

 lamps, and stating that the deleterious rays can be excluded by 

 interposing a sufficient number of layers of ordinary glass. 



These reports have been brought under the notice of the 

 Office of Works, with a view to the carrying out of the 

 recommendations contained in them. 



