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Accommodation for study collections is no better. A small building 
on Frank street has already been secured for the overflow, but it is too far 
away from the main building to be useful for specimens needed for refer-, 
enee. To do effective scientific work the Museum should be provided 
with several times as much storage and laboratory space as it now possesses, 
for at its present rate of growth, it seems clear that the Museum will have 
occupied all available space for public exhibits and for storage of specimens 
by the end of 1930. 
LEGISLATION CONCERNING THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF 
CANADA AND NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CANADA 
Resolution passed in the Estimates, 10th September, 1841. 
81 . Resolved, — That a sum of money not exceeding one 
thousand five hundred pounds sterling, be granted to Her 
Majesty to defray the probable expense in causing a Geological 
Survey of the Province of Canada. 
Anno Octavo 
Victor iae Reginae 
CAP. XVI 
An Act to make provision for a Geological Survey for this 
Province 
(17th March , 181^5.) 
Whereas a Geological Survey of this Province of Canada has been instituted for 
ascertaining the Mineral Resources thereof ; And whereas the sum of fifteen hundred pounds, 
already granted to Her Majesty to defray the probable expenses of the same, has been found 
inadequate for the effectual investigation of so extensive a territory as is comprised within 
the limits of the Province; And whereas it is expedient that the said Survey should be 
continued to a completion; Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, 
by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative 
Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under 
the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 
and Ireland and intituled “An Act to Re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, 
and for the Government of Canada,” and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, 
That it shall and may be lawful for the Governor of this Province, in Council, to employ a 
suitable number of competent persons whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the 
Governor in Council, to make an accurate and complete Geological Survey of this Pro- 
vince, and furnish a full and scientific description of its Rocks, Soils and Minerals, which 
shall be accompanied with proper Maps, Diagrams, and Drawings together with a col- 
lection of Specimens to illustrate the same; which Maps, Diagrams, Drawings and Specimens 
shall be deposited in some suitable place which the Governor in Council shall appoint, and 
shall serve as a Provincial collection, and duplicates of the same, after they have served 
the purposes of the Survey, shall be deposited in such of the Literary and Educational 
Institutions of the Eastern and Western divisions of the Province, as by the same authority 
shall be deemed most advantageous. 
