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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 
321. 
6. The Governor-General in Council also fully recognizes the 
historic association connected with the Asiatic Society, its present 
high position and reputation, the great services which it has rendered 
to Literature, Archaeology, and Science, and the assistance which it 
has afforded from time to time in developing the material resources 
of India. 
7. His Excellency in Council, therefore, considers that it will he 
both just and appropriate to secure to the Society a liberal share in 
the control of the Museum, by constituting its representatives members 
of the Board of Trustees in such proportion, and under such condi¬ 
tions, as may be hereafter determined. 
8. The Governor-General in Council is further prepared to furnish 
whatever accommodation may be requisite for the business of the 
Society, and for the reception of its Library, in close proximity to the 
proposed Museum. This accommodation would of course be assigned 
to the exclusive use of the Society, and would be given in exchange 
for their present premises, which under this arrangement, would 
become the property of Government. 
9. With regard to the locality of the Museum, the Governor- 
General in Council, as at present advised, considers that it may most 
advantageously be placed on the site now occupied by the Small 
Cause Court in Chowringhee Road, and he is disposed to believe that 
some such building as that which haft been recently proposed by Hr. 
Oldham (himself a member of the Society’s Council) for the Govern¬ 
ment Geological Museum will be well adapted to the purposes of the 
General Museum. 
10. His Excellency in Council would suggest “ The India 
Museum” as an appropriate name for the Institution. 
11. I am directed to submit the above outline of the measures 
which the Governor-General in Council would propose to adopt for 
the consideration of the Asiatic Society. If they meet the wishes of 
the Council and o£ the Members of the Society at large, His Excel¬ 
lency in Council will be happy to receive any suggestions upon 
matters of detail which the Societ}" may wish to offer, with a view to 
secure more completely the interests of the proposed Museum, as well 
as those of the Society. 
I have Ac., 
(Sd.) E. C. Bayley, 
Secretary to the Government of India. 
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