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_which was expected, and the income of the Museum yearly di- 
minished; the revenue, which at one time was £600 per 
annum, being now reduced to £130 per annum; but still all 
this had no effect on Jameson, which shews well his high 
spirit and determination, not to allow even a trace of retro- 
gression, far less to allow his noble Museum to fall into in- 
evitable decay for want of means and public support. 
He now made another appeal to Government for an increase 
of allowance, and without much difficulty got the one hun- 
dred per annum raised to two hundred per annum; this, 
along with the scanty means he derived from the door fund, 
again restored matters, and allowed him to carry on the 
movements of the Museum up till the hour of his death, 
but not without great private outlay. In short, the whole 
comes to this, that the present Museum was founded, cre- 
ated, arranged, and exposed for public exhibition by the 
head and the industrious hands of one man—Jameson. We 
_ have stillto learn what the public have to say for all this. 
In fact, if Jameson had received the whole amount granted 
by the Exchequer for his own toil and labour, he would have 
been, even then, ill paid. But let it be understood that he 
has accounted by vouchers for the whole Exchequer money. 
_ It has been mentioned that Jameson, in 1826, had already 
filled all the halls and galleries of beth Museums, and at that 
time he had exerted himself much to get the Museum ex- 
tended to the west. He reported and memorialized the 
Crown, the Town, and the Senatus on the subject, but with- 
out success. Still we find he never dropped the matter ; and 
we hope to be able hereafter to shew that before his death 
| he actually carried his long-wished-for scheme into effect— 
and that was to extend the Museum to the west, and to con- 
vert the whole into a National Museum. 
It must not, for a moment, be supposed that he was adverse 
to the Museum being thrown open to the public free of charge ; 
on the contrary, he was ever most willing and anxious, but 
as he had no means for its support, it was not in his power 
to gratify the public. But he carried his feelings out as far 
as he possibly could, by admitting now and then large and 
numerous bodies of operatives—and on one occasion, at the 
‘}request of the Lord Provost, by throwing open the Museum 
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