2io TlMEHRI. 
the public functions it is performing, and the extension 
of which it is capable, it is but right that the annual vote 
which has been stationary for very many years, should 
be increased with the increased requirements. It is at the 
least unfair that, as a public institution, it should be 
labouring under such disadvantages as a want of trained 
assistance, and of proper working rooms and suitable 
appliances, which increased funds could remedy. Private 
donations are not to be always relied upon, though, in 
this way, Mr. Hawtayne succeeded, by appealing to the 
more wealthy members of the community, in giving an 
impetus to the institution which its progress illustrates. 
By fulfilling a public function, and that an ever increas- 
ing and important one, it deserves that public recognition 
which can best be shown by an increased vote of the 
public funds for its maintenance and development. 
J. J. QUELCH, 
Curator. 
Meeting held on the nth February. — Hon. A. Weber, 
President, in the chair. 
There were 16 members present. 
The President declared that the Report of the Jews' 
Colonisation Committee was open for discussion, the 
Report having been again read. 
Mr. Bayley spoke in favour of the project, and thought 
there should be no hesitation in giving the Jews a trial, 
as if they should turn out well it would be much better 
than spending so much on the passages and back 
passages of coolies,. He moved the adoption of the 
report, and that the Society should lay the matter before 
the Government, asking that some a6lion should be taken. 
