THE ESSEX MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 345
which the Museum Maintenance Fund is established by individual members
of the Club or other persons. The said annual contribution of Fity pounds
shall commence as from the date of this Agreement. All such annual or other
donations shall be carried by the Treasurer of the Club to a separate account
to be called the "Museum Maintenance Fund" and the Club shall cause to
be prepared and presented to the Corporation annually an account of all con-
tributions receipts and payments to for and out of or on account of the said
Fund.
(8) THE Club will endeavour to raise by public subscription or other-
wise in as short a time as may reasonably be possible a Fund to be called
"The Museum Purchase Fund" and the amount of the Fund which the Club
is so enabled to raise shall be applied in the purchase at the discretion of the
Council of the Club of additions to the said general collection of articles and
things of a nature hereinbefore mentioned to be comprised in such collection
and for the obtaining of special expert assistance in determining and arranging
collections and other expenses of a like nature which may be required in the
Museum.
(9) THE Club will as heretofore keep the said general collection and all
additions thereto covered by Insurance against loss by fire and will apply any
moneys received under such Insurance in replacing as far as possible such
articles and things as shall be destroyed or damaged by fire.
(10) THE Museum shall be primarily a local museum serving to illustrate
in the most scientific and modern manner possible with the means at command
the biology geology meteorology topography ethnology pre-historic and other
antiquities agriculture fisheries manufactures industries of Essex and the
neighbouring sea rivers and border lands. The Plan of the Museum may also
include illustrations of local antiquities and views pictures maps of local
interest as well as occasional loan collections and exhibitions. In addition to
the purely local collections the Museum may contain as funds and space will
permit an educational series of specimens and preparations and any objects
serving to illustrate the history use or development of minerals rocks animals
plants fossils and antiquities but in the selection and exhibition of such
specimens the primary object of the Museum shall always be kept in view.
Also the purely local character of the Museum shall be subject to the follow-
ing exceptions :—
(a) That specimens appertaining to classification anatomy development
distribution et caetera of animals and plants fossils minerals
antiquities need not necessarily be of Essex origin but may be
specimens from any locality British or Foreign selected with the
view of securing the best illustrations possible of the fact or
principle desired to be elucidated.
(b) That the Museum may contain specimens or collections of British
or Foreign natural history geology antiquities 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.
(11) IF within the period of twenty one years from the death of the
survivor of the now living descendants of Her Majesty the Queen the Club