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up of this Museum, an interesting and valuable collection of objects 
of Natural History, the property of Mons. Dufresne, assistant in the 
Garden of Plants in Paris, was offered for sale. This collection was 
carefully examined by agents, sent by the College to Paris, and being 
found fully worth the sum demanded for it, was purchased by the 
Professors for the Museum. About the same time a good many 
valuable articles of Natural History were purchased by the order of 
the Professors at the sale of the cabinet of the late Mr Bullock. 
These collections, and those contained in the first and second Mu- 
seums, were brought together and arranged in the Museum in the 
New College, in the year 1820. Since that time the Museum has 
increased more than at any former period, so that the collection is 
nearly double what it was in 1820. About a year ago I again 
stated to the Commissioners for College Buildings, that further ac- 
commodation for objects of Natural History was wanted, the cases 
in the New Museum being completely filled. The Commissioners, 
with their usual liberality and activity, after considering my pro- 
posal, ordered a suite of rooms, five in number, to be immediately 
fitted up. This series of rooms, at the time this report is 
writing, is nearly filled with beautiful and interesting objects of 
Natural History. The Museum is rapidly increasing, and will, ere 
many years pass, equal in extent and splendour some of the most 
distinguished museums in other parts of the world. 
“‘In order, however, to enable me to realize those hopes, another 
series of rooms must be provided. The Commissioners for College 
Buildings, to whom I have again applied, are now considering of 
the propriety of erecting another Museum of Natural History, on the 
ground to the westward of the present Museum.” 
History of the Funds of the Museum from the Year 1804 
to 1826. 
“¢ At the period of my appointment to the chair of Natural History, 
that is, in 1804, there was no regular allowance for the maintenance 
and increase of the Museum, and the only resources I had to look to 
were occasional assistance from the Town-Council and my own pri- 
vate funds. From the year 1804 to the year 1812, the expenses 
of the Museum, in collecting, receiving, and preserving objects of 
Natural History, servants, and other expenses, were partly paid. 
by the Town-Council and partly by the Professor of Natural His- 
tory. The increasing expenditure of the Museum, and the want of 
regular funds, induced me in the year 1812, to lay a statement on 
this subject before the Honourable the Barons of His Majesty’s Ex- 
chequer in Scotland. 
“ The result of this application was a gracious order from His Ma- 
jesty, that £100 should be paid annually to the Professor of Natural 
History for the use of the Museum. From the year 1812 to the year 
1820, when the Museum was for the first time open to the public, 
the Museum funds were,—the annual grant of £100, occasional al- — 
