§ LORD ARTHUR RUSSELLasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether Her Majesty's Government intend, on the removal of the Natural History Collection from the British Museum to South Kensington, to carry out the recommendation contained in the Fourth Report of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction (page 23), and to effect a change in the governing authority of that division of the British Museum?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERSir, the arrangements which will have to be made on the removal of the Natural History Collections from the British Museum to South Kensington are under the consideration of the Government; but they are still in so inchoate a state that I cannot answer with any precision the Question of the noble Lord.