THE COUNCIL. 
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public spirit of the County for further subscriptions. An 
opinion seems to be generally entertained, that the plan 
formerly submitted to consideration, is inadequate to the 
object proposed ; and that, if a great Northern Museum is 
to be formed, a building will be required of more dignified 
character, and larger dimensions. Coinciding in these views, 
and believing that the success and utility of the Institution 
will depend much on the scale upon which its walls are con¬ 
structed, the Council would recommend that no attempt 
should be made to build, till the subject shall have been laid 
more fully before the Public. They are far from thinking 
that the Subscription has reached the limits to which it may 
be practicable to advance it: they conceive that whenever 
the Society shall become actually possessed of the ground, an 
immediate increase of contributions may be looked for: they 
remark that a large proportion even of the Members of the 
Society have not yet subscribed; and that the Subscriptions, 
though in some instances splendidly munificent, are not yet so 
general as might be expected, particularly in the place which 
will profit most by the result. They cannot believe that 
those who have shown a zeal for Science, in promoting the 
first efforts of the Society, will leave the work which they 
have commenced, incomplete, and allow the Institution to 
which they have united themselves, to become stationary, or 
retrograde. They do not entertain so low an opinion of the 
public taste and spirit of this Northern Metropolis, as to sup¬ 
pose that its citizens will regard with indifference, the 
execution of a plan which will redound so much to its credit 
and advantage. They look with confidence towards the 
great and enlightened County to which it is their pride to 
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