HC Deb 10 May 1894 vol 24 cc762-3
SIR A. BORTHWICK (Kensington, S.)

I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he will direct such experts as the Keeper of the Marbles at the British Museum, the President of the Hellenic Society, and others to visit the gallery where the casts from the antique are placed at South Kensington, and to report as to its suitability; and whether there was a better place for the display of the tapestries which have been hung in the hall allotted by Lord Spencer to Mr. Capland Perry for the Museum of Casts actually vacant in the new gallery behind the Imperial Institute?

THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Mr. ACLAND, York, W.R., Rotherham)

I am unable to adopt the suggestion made by the hon. Baronet, whom I may perhaps refer to my answer of last Thursday to the hon. Member for Deptford. I do not think that the gallery referred to is a better place for the tapestries.