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making the wall-surface available for the display 

 of specimens, the space thus gained will prove 

 of advantage for some time to come, provided 

 no large fossil remains be added to the collec- 

 tion. The wall-space so obtained cannot, how- 

 ever, be all spared for new additions. At the 

 north end of the large tables in those rooms there 

 are smaller tables, which will have to be removed, 

 if presses be put up against the north wall : and 

 room for the contents of those tables must be 

 provided in the presses which are to be sub- 

 stituted. 



As to the Mineraloo-ical Collection, valuable 

 space may be obtained by fitting all the under 

 part of the show-tables with drawers, vvhich might 

 contain such specimens as are kept for the use of 

 students and scientific men, to whom they are ex- 

 hibited on application. Some of the cases are 

 already so fitted up. The same advantage may 

 be derived from the space undei* the tables con- 

 taining geological specimens. This, to some ex- 

 tent, is already done for small specimens ; but it 

 cannot be done for any of a large size. In con- 

 clusion, it may be said that although want of room 

 will be less felt, and more easily provided against, 

 in this department of Natural History, it does not 

 seem that the additional space to be gained by all 

 the above-mentioned expedients will satisfy the 

 wants even of the MineraWical and Geolog-ical 

 Departments for more than seven years afc the 



