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THE MUSEUM OF THE SOCIETY. 
I hope you will be able to attend our council meeting on the 
17th, that we may make some satisfactory arrangement with our 
sub-curator, and prepare a plan for his operations. You are aware 
that our next meeting is to be either immediately before or after the 
Manchester gathering, we must therefore fill our cases, and get into 
a creditable appearance. If you should be engaged on the 17th, 
perhaps you would name some other day when we might meet. 
I should be glad if you would also send me the sections of the 
railways that they may be forwarded to the Museum of Economic 
Geology. 
I am, my dear Sir, yours truly, 
Thomas Wilson. 
Mr. Simpson to Mr. Emhleton. 
Museum, Wakefield, May 18th, 1842. 
Sir, 
The Council of the Geological and Polytechnic Society have 
requested me to see you respecting the Catalogue of Fossils and other 
matters connected with the museum. During the last week I have 
been examining and arranging some of the fossils, but am unable to 
apply their proper labels until I know something- respecting their 
localities, and the beds from which they have been procured. 
It is the wish of the Council that the duplicate specimens should 
be made up into collections, to be exchanged for those of other 
formations, or localities. In order to do this, as well as to preserve 
various other specimens which may be sent to the museum, cabinets 
will be almost indispensable. I suppose plain well-made cabinets, 
about four feet long, and two feet broad, would be the most appro- 
priate. These when placed back to back, in the middle of a room of 
similar dimensions to the one we at present occupy, would leave a 
suitable passage on either side ; and ultimately they might be sur- 
mounted with glass-cases. The room, I believe, would admit of 
eighteen such cabinets, which might be procured in pairs as the.y 
become necessary. This, however, can be a matter for future con- 
sideration. But as we are about to make an inventory of the pro- 
perty of the Society, and as I wish to hasten the business of labelling 
the fossils, it seems necessary that I should see you without delay. 
