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'I’lii'. assistance which I have received from the principal 
scientific men in Knropo and America in my endeavours, as 
director, to make our National Museum worthy of lint 
country, has boon of the most cordial and active kind, every 
one entering into the spirit of the undertaking with a zest 
which must surely he duo to kindly feelings of appreciation 
for this young country in its endeavours in every depart 
moot to earn ipiickly a foremost place. 
In the department of mining machinery, so important to 
tllO Colony, I have succeeded in getting together a series far 
surpassing those of most of the ( government Schools of M ines 
in Kuropo, and scarcely behind any of them. 
Considerable materials both in manuscripts and lithe 
graphed plates, have been accumulated Ihr the publication of 
a serial memoirs of the Museum, in which catalogues ami 
various treatises connected with the collections are to 
appear ; and in the present year the publication will com 
luence of a series of I )ocados which I have been preparing, 
illustrative of the Natural History a, ml Paleontology of the 
Colony. 
The most important step in the progress of I, he Museum 
was made last year, in the erection of rather less than half of 
the permanent building, devoted to containing the whole of 
the ( ioverument collections appertaining to the Natural and 
Applied Sciences, on a plot of ground granted by the 
University for the purpose, at about 150 feet from the 
University Science Lecture I ton urn. This has afforded about 
half the space required for the arrangement of the mining, 
geological, and other collections, and seen res the important 
advantage for tlio country of making the collections useful 
as a, ids to the instruction given in the adjacent lecture 
rooms (whe.ro non matriculated students may attend lectures 
in any one of the brandies of science illustrated in the 
Museum), as well as accessible to the general public, upwards 
of 40,000 of whom visit the rooms yearly. 
The establishment ol a Mining School is rendered easy by 
this proximity of the University Lecture Rooms (in which 
eight out of the ten courses of instruction required a, re 
already given) to the oolleefionn*of geology, mineralogy, and 
mining models, in the adjacent National Museum. 
If tin! building were completed, I believe the development 
of the Museum would satisfy even, the M/usoum Committee 
