§ MR. LAYARDsaid, he wished to ask the First Commissioner of Works, Whether the Government intend to carry out the recommendation of the Select Committee on the Patent Office of 1864, and of the Commissioners of Patents made at various periods, with regard to the Library and Museum of the Patent Office, and to find proper accommodation for them; and, if not, why not?
§ LORD JOHN MANNERSsaid, in reply, that the result of the recommendations of the Committee was that a room, ninety feet long and fifty feet wide, had been provided for the purpose of a library, and no complaints had been received of want of accommodation; though if it were found to be insufficient there would be no difficulty in increasing it considerably. The recommendations of the Committee respecting the Museum of Patents were not very clear, and the Government, for various reasons, did not intend to submit any proposals on the subject to Parliament.