§ SIR HARRY VERNEYasked the First Commissioner of Works, Whether the ground on the western side of the building lately occupied by the Health Exhibition, where boards are put up, offering the ground for sale, can be secured for the public, the late Chief of the Natural History Museum having said that, in the course of a generation, all that ground would be required for the extension of the Museum?
§ MR. SHAW LEFEVRE,in reply, said that the Government were already in possession of 14 acres of land immediately adjoining the Natural History Museum; and, under these circumstances, this seemed sufficient for any possible extension.