§ LORD BALCARRES (Lancashire, Chorley)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education why the Catalogue of the National Engraved Portraits at the South Kensington Museum has been reduced in price from 5s. 3d. to 3s. 6d.; and, whether he can state what will be the net loss upon each copy sold, assuming that the entire edition of 500 be sold?
§ SIR J. GORSTthe price of the catalogue, as sold at the Museum, was fixed at 3s. 6d. last January by the Stationery Office, and has not been altered. The net loss on each copy so sold is 1d., but this loss may possibly be covered by sales outside the Museum.