INDUSTRIAL public bodies who have pressed them on his attention. He would
only add, in his own name, that the large addition of specimens during last year, the impossibility of exhibiting them, the total inadequacy of the present arrangements for lectures, and the greatly increased interest now taken by the public in the Museum, give additional force to the reasons which were urged in the preceding Report as forbidding delay in the erection of the projected buildings.
GEORGE WILSON,
Director.
The Secretary of the
Department of Science and Art.