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either if some alteration on the old system was not adopted, 
or a new system altogether introduced. This led to a com- 
mittee being appointed to inquire into the matter. The com- 
mittee ordered the furnace to be pulled down, and recon- 
structed on a plan more likely to throw a larger volume 
of heat into the halls, and less dust; but the experiment 
proved a complete failure. A new system of heating alto- 
gether was recommended, which had been in use several 
years, viz., that of Perkins. Jameson, after a good deal of 
anxiety and trouble, obtained the sanction of the Patrons of 
the University and the Senatus Academicus to introduce 
this admirable and truly useful system of heating into the 
Museum, and to remove the old system entirely, which was 
agreed to. 
The halls and galleries are now well heated and perfectly 
free from dust. Still, I may add, that it would require two 
more coils to supply the whole apartments of the west Mu- 
seum with a proper temperature, viz., a coil in the British 
gallery, and a coil in the class-room, which might be intro- 
duced at a small expense. I hope the patrons will not lose 
sight of this, as the perfect safety and durability of the col- 
lection will depend on it. 
Museum extension is a subject that Jameson has urgently 
moved in since 1826, but his anxious call was never listened 
to; nevertheless he went on extending and improving the 
Museum in all its departments in his usual way. 
In 1852 he drew out a statement of the many thousand 
valuable specimens that could not be exhibited for want of 
proper accommodation, and laid this before the Town-Coun- 
cil, who at once entered into his feelings, and saw the actual 
necessity of urging Government for a grant to extend the Mu- 
seum tothe west. The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Coun- 
cil, submitted to the Right Honourable the Lords Commis- 
sioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, a memorial for Museum 
extension, and for converting the present Museum into a 
National Museum for Scotland. Jameson, as keeper of the 
Museum, forwarded a strong memorial of the same nature. 
Government appears to have taken those memorials into se- 
rious consideration, as it is now understood that the feelings 
of the Government are awakened on this important subject, 
