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REPORT OF 
within the most extensive, the wealthiest, and the most 
patriotic district in England. 
Justice has been done to the genius of the Architect, both 
in the beautiful material of which the Building is constructed 1 
and in the fidelity with which the Committee have executed 
the design ; and it is highly gratifying to remark, that though 
on subjects of taste differences of opinion may always be 
expected to occur, it seems in the present instance to be the 
general sentiment of the County, that the work which it has 
so liberally supported has not been unskilfully performed, 
and that Science has here been presented with a suitable and 
a delightful abode. 
N ot the least popular part of the new establishment is the 
garden which surrounds the Museum, and which gives 
already so ornamental a character to its site. The ground is 
now put into a state of cultivation. A plan has been formed, 
and partly executed, for laying it out in such a manner as to 
combine a botanical distribution of the plants with a pleasing 
effect to the eye. The irregularities of form which the 
present taste in landscape gardening approves, will become 
subservient to the subdivision of the orders, so as to make 
both the affinities and differences as evident as possible to the 
observer, without producing that formality which usually 
accompanies scientific arrangement. The method which the 
1 The freestone of which the Museum is built is a fine variety of the 
Kelloways Rock , quarried at Hackness: it was given in a very liberal manner 
to the Society by Sir J. V. B. Johnstone, Bart. 
