been successful beyond anticipation.—(Ap plause.) Contributions had bean promised to the.' extent of : nearly £450.000, which .wat sufficient not only to pay for the election:; of a building which would be a moßt handsome archi tectural ornament, but also to provide the minimum amount of endowment fund required." The list of donations was being added to from time to time • and, as illustrating the amount of support' which _was bemg recaived from" India, it might be men tioned that two rajahs had eVbh given £10,000, and one hadoffered to maintain entirely the department representing the district in which he lived—(Ap plause.) The title of the institute had led to some misconception, and it Bhould be thoroughly under stood that it was in no sense a.political one. The title had been selected after considerable discussion and anxiouß consideration by the governing body merely to express the combination of many coun ties under one head. The Koyal Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851 had granted a site of seven acres of land nt South Kensington for the erection of the buildings of the institute, and they would be admirably situated in tt*e neighbourhood of a large ■number of kindred public institutions.' Attached to the buildings would be courts allotted to each colony and India, and in those courts it was the desire of the governing body to see placed -as" per fect a collection of the economic and indus trial products of each colony as. could be cot together. Theise would constitute' not an exhi bition .bazaar merely, but a. living rcuseum— a collection of products'thatmeno'f business would find of great utility.; The'products would ba de scribed in a comprehensive dictionary," and the in formation given would be of a practical as well as of a scientific character, while there would be a super intendent of each court who could be applied to for ■any explanation. No appointments would be made in which the colonies were not likely to concur, and thoroughly competent men would be employed in connection with the institution.—rApplause.) It was desired that the colonies should get the product* collected and classified in the same manner as had been done by the Indian Government. 