§ MR. COWPER-TEMPLEsaid, he wished to ask the First Commissioner of Works, Whether the Government are prepared to take measures for relieving the overcrowded condition of the objects placed for exhibition in the British Museum, by means of the erection of a new Building for the Collections of Natural History?
§ MR. AYRTON,in reply, said, the subject referred to in the Question of the right hon. Gentleman had engaged the attention of the Government, who were fully alive to the importance of relieving the overcrowded state of the Collections in the British Museum; but they had not yet arrived at a final determination as to the best mode of accomplishing that object, and until that determination had been come to, he could not further answer the Question.