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education, and £17,359 was devoted to relief of rates. It 

 appears that 26 out of the 33 county councils applied the 

 whole of the grant to technical education, and 4 a part of it, 

 while 3 applied the grant wholly to relief of rates. Of the 

 206 burghs and police burghs, 53 applied the whole and 73 a 

 part of the residue grant to technical education ; 80 applied the 

 whole to relief of rates. No amount has been applied to the 

 building or maintenance of science and art schools, art 

 galleries, or museums out of the local rate under the Public 

 Libraries Acts. The total amount available for purposes of 

 technical education during the year 1899-1900, including 

 balance in hand, contributions under section 2 (5), c, of the 

 Education and Local Taxation Account (Scotland) Act, 1892, 

 bank interest, etc., was £72,527, and the total amount 

 expended was £54,136, of which £13,93- was handed over to 

 secondary education committees. 



Committee on Botanical Work : Report of the Departmenta 

 Committee on Botanical Work and Collections at the British 

 Museum and at Kew. /7.6\ 205. \_Price 2 si] 



This Committee was appointed to consider the arrange- 

 ments under which botanical work is done and collections 

 maintained at the British Museum and at Kew, and whether 

 any changes were desirable to avoid duplication. The 

 Committee recommend that the whole of the botanic 

 collections at the British Museum, with the exception of the 

 collections exhibited to the public, should be transferred to 

 Kew, and that an advisory board should be appointed whose 

 members should be nominated by the Crown, the British 

 Museum, Colonial Office, Foreign Office, India Office, and 

 the Royal Society, to advise on all questions of a scientific 

 nature arising out of the administration of Kew Gardens. 

 The Committee further recommended that the illustrative 

 botanical collections now publicly exhibited at the British 

 Museum be maintained, and so far as it is possible and 



