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South Kensington Museum. — A Select Committee of the House of Commons on 

 the subject of the South Kensington Museum, has been sitting, consisting of tbe 

 following members : — Mr. Hutt, Mr. Blackburn, Mr. John Locke, Mr. Stirling, 

 Mr. Kinnaird, Lord W. Graham, Sir J. Shelley, Mr. Alderman Cubitt, Mr. Joseph 

 Locke, Mr. J. Cole, Mr. Hankey, Mr. Adderley, Mr. Beamish, Mr. G. C. Bentinck, and 

 Mr. Lowe. Although the numerous attractions of this Museum have lifted it far above 

 all other similar institutions in public favour, yet it still experiences opposition and 

 hindrance in certain quarters. It has, however, taken too deep a root to be easily 

 demolished, and the various inquiries and discussions rather tend to benefit than to 

 injure its progress and utility. Mr. Henry Cole, the general superintendent of tbe 

 museum, in his evidence before the committee, stated that the total cost to the public 

 of tbe Collections of Ornamental Art, now deposited in the South Kensington Museunii 

 amounts to £38,269. The value of gifts and loans liberally contributed by the public 

 were estimated at £460,000. Including the cost of land, buildings, and the other collec- 

 tions, the South Kensington Museum has cost the public £167,805 ; and Mr. Cole 

 affirmed, that such had been the economy of the proceedings, that if Parliament 

 desired to abolish the Museum, he was prepared to find responsible parties who would 

 pay all that it had cost, with £5 per cent, interest. Although much remains yet to be 

 done in the development, fittings, and arrangement of the several departments of the 

 Museum, when the funds are available, the facttbat nearly half a million persons visited 

 it last year, is a proof of how generally it is appreciated by the public at large. 



Inauguration of the Economic Museum of Botant at Oxford.— During the 

 past year an interesting feature has been added, by the zeal of Dr. Daubeny and his 

 assistant, Mr. Baxter, sen., to the botanic establishment of this University— t he 

 various specimens illustrative of the structure, functions, and uses of vegetables, to- 

 gether with the products, useful or ornamental, which have been obtained by art from 

 their several pai-ts, having been arranged in a separate _ apartment, on the plan of the 

 remarkable Museum established at Kew, in connection with the Boyal.Botanic Garden, 

 under the superintendence of Sir William Hooker ; and on the 23rd May, a soiree was 

 o-iven by Dr. Daubeny, to commemorate the opening of the museum. — A Bill has been 

 passed through Parliament, enabling the Commissioners of Public Works to acquire 

 further property in or adjoining Argyle-square, Edinburgh, for the erection of the 

 Industrial Museum for Scotland. We are glad to find tbat the lamented death of 

 Professor George Wilson is not causing any stoppage in the progress of this National 

 Museum of Industry in the North. 



