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Museum premises. The subject is one of much 

 ** greater difficulty than might have been expected, 



but I have not failed to give it every considera- 

 **tion in my power. There appear to me to be 

 ** two plans capable of adoption. 



** 1. — To build a new Room for prints, &c., 

 ** on the vacant ground north of the Elgin 



Room, and on the same level therewith. To 

 " leave the present Print Room (with the Insect 

 ** Room under it) as it is, but devoting it to the 

 "public exhibition of prints, &c., leaving also 

 **Mr. Gray's and Mr. Carpenter's studies as 

 " they are."^ 



"2. — To build a new gallery for prints, &c., 

 "as in Plan VII. To lower the floors of the 

 " present Print Room and studies to the general 

 "level of the ground-floor, thereby destroying 

 " the present Insect Room and Zoological studies, 

 "and bringing the whole department to one 

 " level. To build new rooms for the Entomo- 

 " logical and Osteological Collections over the 

 " Print Department, with access from the Minera- 

 " logical Department."^ 



" I am quite aware that both of these plans 

 " are open to many objections. No. VII. does not 

 " meet the want of space for the Osteological Col- 

 " lection, and No. VIII. only meets it imperfectly; 

 " for, the present specimens of recent osteology, 

 " now kept in the basement, would alone far more 

 "than fill all the space that this plan would 

 ^ Plan VII. b piaji yill. 



