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special importance in connection with his duties in 
the Museum ; and by a minute of 21st March 1833 
they authorise him to absent himself from the 
Museum on Saturdays, “ for the purpose of enabling 
him to go into the country and give demonstrations 
on natural history.” 
A minute of 2nd August following bears that 
the Curators in their quarterly report to the 
College, 
“ desire to express their satisfaction with the 
state of the collection under their care, and with the 
skill and attention by which the duties of the 
Conservator have been performed, and that it 
appeared to the Curators that, as he is at present 
engaged in preparing the catalogue, considerable 
advantage would be derived from his being enabled 
to spend three or four weeks in London for the 
purpose of inspecting the museums there. Mr 
Brown moved, agreeably to the recommendation 
intimated in the report of the Curators, that the 
Conservator be sent to London at the expense of 
the College for the purpose of examining the 
museums there, with the view of preparing himself 
to adjust the catalogue of the Museum belonging 
to this College, which motion was agreed to.” 
The minute of 12th November contains the 
following passage from the Curators’ report:— 
“ It will be recollected that the College, with 
the view to the preparation of the catalogue, gave 
permission to the Conservator to inspect the 
museums in London. He visited previously the 
University and Andersonian Museums of Glasgow, 
the collections of natural history in Liverpool, and 
