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shall also include, if possible, and so far as funds may from time
to time permit, a Laboratory, Workshop and Class-room, with
fittings, apparatus, and instruments suitable for the preparation of
specimens for the Museum, and for the practical study and teaching
(either in the Museum or in selected local stations in various
parts of the county) of biology, geology, microscopy, and other
sciences necessary for their pursuit and elucidation, and for their
practical application in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, manufactures,
industries and education, &c., &c. The use of such laboratory
and instruments, &c., to be under the control of the Council, who
may permit students, investigators, and others, to work therein and
therewith, and the Council may also lend instruments and prepara-
tions out of the Museum buildings for purposes in furtherance of
the above objects. In addition to the purely local collections, the
Club Museum may contain, as funds and space will permit, an
Educational Series of specimens, preparations, &c., and any objects
serving to illustrate the history, use, or development of minerals,
rocks, animals, plants, fossils, antiquities, &c. ; but in the selection
and exhibition of such specimens the primary object of the Museum
shall always be kept in view. And it is also agreed that the
purely local character of the Museum shall be subject to the
following exceptions :—
1st. That specimens appertaining to classification, anatomy,
development, distribution, &c., of animals, plants, fossils,
minerals, antiquities, &c., need not necessarily be of Essex
origin.
2nd. That the Council may accept entire collections or specimens
of British or foreign natural history, geology, antiquities, &c.,
provided that they are or can be preserved so that they
may be kept in cabinets or otherwise entirely distinct from
the Essex series, and provided also that they do not limit or
interfere with the primary objects of the Museum as a local
collection.
3rd. That inasmuch as the present Chelmsford Museum contains
certain local (Essex) archaeological and other specimens which
have been presented from time to time, it is agreed that these
shall be retained in the Museum of the Essex Field Club.
III. That the Council may at its discretion promote the teaching
and pursuit of science, and the application of science in technical
education, &c., by means of biological or other stations, lectures,