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the builder seems to follow me. But, I wish it was 

 everywhere as successful as it has been here. Great credit 

 is due to the architect, Mr. Mansfield, and to the Building 

 Committee of the Council, Professor Liversidge and 

 Messrs. Maiden, Guthrie, and Houghton, and especially 

 to the last-named gentleman, who has devoted a great 

 amount of valuable time to the immediate supervision 

 — on behalf of the Council and Committee— of the work 

 while in progress. Of the success of the new hall nothing 

 need be said — we are met in it — look around and observe 

 also the better provision for ventilation. The absence of 

 noise from passiug trams and the installation of the electric 

 light are great comforts. The whole arrangements of the 

 house have been transformed to render it at once beautiful 

 and more commodious and convenient. Our most valuable 

 collection of books will for the first time be properly housed, 

 and when, further, owing to the letting of some of the 

 additional rooms to kindred bodies we " stand on velvet," 

 and also bring around us more of the scientific societies 

 of the metropolis, it will readily be admitted that it is a 

 change advantageous in every way. 



