which great stress was laid on the desirability of
establishing a permanent Colonial Museum in London, as a
powerful means of diffusing throughout the Mother Country a
better knowledge of the nature and importance of the several
Dependencies of the Empire, of facilitating commercial
relations, marking progress, and aiding the researches of men of
science, and also of affording valuable information to
intending emigrants.

"At that time I was able to do little more than to assure the
Commissioners of my readiness to promote such a scheme, and to
recommend the respective Governments to give it their full
consideration.

"I trust that the British Colonial Exhibition which I propose to
hold in 1886, may result in the foundation of such a Museum--the
institution of which would secure for the people of this country
a permanent record of the resources and development of Her
Majesty's Colonies; and I hope that an important section of the
proposed Exhibition of that year may result from the
co-operation of our fellow-subjects, the people of India, in a
suitable representation of the industrial arts of that Empire.

"In conclusion, I desire, as President of these Exhibitions, to
thank the Special Commissioners, the Members of the General
Committee, and the Jurors, for the time and labour they have
devoted to the business of the Exhibition; and to express my
high approbation of the cheerfulness and assiduity with which
the members of the Executive Staff have discharged their very
onerous duties.

"And I must finally signalize, as especially deserving of our
gratitude, my brother, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the other
foreign and English gentlemen, to whom we are indebted for the
bestowal of much time and thought upon the papers which have
been brought before those Conferences, which have formed so
interesting and so useful a feature of the Exhibition. I am glad
to hear that the value of the contribution to Fishery
Literature, effected by the publication of these papers and the
discussions to which they gave rise, has received authoritative
recognition."

FINANCIAL RESULTS OF FISHERIES EXHIBITION, AND DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS.

After all the affairs of the Exhibition of 1883 had been wound up,
including the financial accounts, a meeting of the General Committee was
held on Satur