§ COLONEL SYKESsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for India, Whether there is any foundation for a report that the Museum lately belonging to the East India Company is to be broken up and dispersed; and why the practice of sending ten or more copies of the Printed Selections from the Records of the Indian Government to the Parliamentary Paper Office for sale has been discontinued? A rumour having got abroad that this Museum was to be broken up was the reason of his asking the question.
§ SIR CHARLES WOODstated, in reply, that the collection of the Indian Museum had been removed to Fife House, which formed a convenient place for its exhibition. With respect to the second question, since 1856 only two copies of the Papers alluded to had been sent for the use of the Library of the House, but he could not state the reason of the alteration in the practice.