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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. IX. 
recommends all that present space permits — a 
small additional room at an estimated cost of about 
3,000/. I take this opportunity to renew a pro- 
position to the Council which on former occasions 
has been distasteful, involving an application for 
Government aid, to be applied to the increase of 
the museum under the control of the Hunterian 
Trustees, coupled with facilities of admission to 
the male adult public. Having discussed the 
subject with Sir lb Brodie and two other influen- 
tial members of the Council, they admit the futility 
of wasting the College funds by expenditures which 
would give only temporary relief to pressing 
inconvenience, and the Council call upon me for 
a report. In that I propose that they should 
consider the question of museum enlargement in 
the light of its adec^uacy to the reception of a 
national collection of recent and fossil comparative 
anatomy ; to look to Government for the requisite 
funds; to consent to resign to the Trustees the 
control of such funds, and to be prepared for the 
reception of the national collection of fossil com- 
parative anatomy if offered ; and to submit the 
whole to the inspection of the male adult public 
on the same days and hours as those on which 
the public are admitted to the British Museum. 
‘ The Council have accepted my report, are 
willing to agree to such an arrangement, and 
have referred it to the Hunterian Trustees. The 
Trustees have memorialised the Treasury, but, 
