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SOCIETY'S MEMORIAL TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL IN SUPPORT OF THE LOCATION OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY FOR WALES AT CARDIFF. To THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH, K.T., THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL OF JERSEY, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., and THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD JUSTICE COZENS-HARDY. Memorial of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, given this 23rd day of March, 1905. Shemeth: 1. — ®bat your Memorialists represent the largest Scientific Society in Wales that they are well acquainted with the site offered by the Corporation of Cardiff for the National Museum and Library for Wales, and that its position and aspect are in their opinion all that can be desired. The site is in an open Park, and thus free access of light and air is secured with a minimum of noise. 2. — Hljat your Memorialists being deeply interested in the study of Natural History, Geology, Archaeology, and in every- thing that concerns the advancement of Science and Art generally in Wales, accord their most earnest support to the proposal to establish the National Museum and Library for Wales in Cardiff. 3. — Sbat your Memorialists hail with satisfaction the offer made by the Corporation of Cardiff to hand over the whole of the contents of their Museum to the proposed National Museum