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shall cease to exist or if within such period the Club shall fail to perform or
observe any one or more of the stipulations herein expressed or appearing to
be performable or observable by them for the space of six calendar months
after notice of such failure shall have been put up by the Corporation in the
Museum then and in either of such cases the contents of the Museum shall
become the property of the Corporation and the Corporation shall thereafter
and thenceforth preserve and carry on the Museum as a permanent Institution
and as a Local (Essex) and Educational Museum on the lines of the scheme
laid down in Clause 10 of this Agreement.
(12.) THE Corporation have been endeavouring to purchase some free-
hold property for the erection of a Museum and from the negotiations it
appears that the land is subject to certain covenants which cannot be removed
and which might interfere with the Corporation using the land for the above-
named purposes. The Corporation will at their own expense during the
present Session apply to Parliament and endeavour to obtain powers
authorizing them to build notwithstanding such Covenants. In the event
of such powers not being obtained on or before the thirtieth day of August
one thousand eight hundred and ninety eight this Agreement shall thereupon
become absolutely void.
IN WITNESS whereof the Corporation has caused its Corporate Seal
to be hereunto affixed the day and year first above written.
The Corporate Seal of the Mayor Aldermen and
Burgesses of the County Borough of West Ham
was hereunto affixed in the presence of
W. Ivey
Mayor
Fred. E. Hilleary
Town Clerk
ON THE PREPARATION OF MARINE
ANIMALS AS TRANSPARENT LANTERN-
SLIDES.
By H. C. SORBY, LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S.. Sc.
[Being Abstract of a Lecture delivered to the Club on May 21st, 1898.]
THOUGH for some years I have prepared mounted
animals by various chemical methods, it is only quite
recently that I have seen the importance of a more complete
development of such processes; and the cause of some of the
reactions still remain to be explained. In all cases the specimens
are properly arranged and dried on the glass, and almost always
soaked in benzole and then mounted in Canada balsam, which
not only makes them far more transparent, but preserves them
from mites, and from the growth of mould, which soon occurs