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recommends all that present space permits — a 

 small additional room at an estimated cost of about 

 3,000/. I take this opportunity to renew a pro- 

 position to the Council which on former occasions 

 has been distasteful, involving an application for 

 Government aid, to be applied to the increase of 

 the museum under the control of the Hunterian 

 Trustees, coupled with facilities of admission to 

 the male adult public. Having discussed the 

 subject with Sir B. Brodie and two other influen- 

 tial members of the Council, they admit the futility 

 of wasting the College funds by expenditures which 

 would give only temporary relief to pressing 

 inconvenience, and the Council call upon me for 

 a report. In that I propose that they should 

 consider the question of museum enlargement in 

 the light of its adequacy to the reception of a 

 national collection of recent and fossil comparative 

 anatomy ; to look to Government for the requisite 

 funds ; to consent to resign to the Trustees the 

 control of such funds, and to be prepared for the 

 reception of the national collection of fossil com- 

 parative anatomy if offered ; and to submit the 

 whole to the inspection of the male adult public 

 on the same days and hours as those on which 

 the public are admitted to the British Museum. 



' The Council have accepted my report, are 

 willing to agree to such an arrangement, and 

 have referred it to the Hunterian Trustees. The 

 Trustees have memorialised the Treasury, but, 



