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THE Statement which the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 have recently published, concerning their future policy in dealing with their Estate at Kensington Gore, is a reply to the memorial of the Metropolitan Gardens Association, a memorial in the same terms as that printed in NATURE of May 9 (p. 25). From the Times of July 9, it appears that various public bodies, Corporations, &c., who had memorialized the Commissioners, have been supplied with copies of this Statement. The result has been that further remonstrances have been addressed to the Commissioners. The Statement to which we refer is drawn up in ten paragraphs, the first of which quotes a sentence from the Commissioners' Charter of Incorporation, to the effect that they are to apply their resources “to increase the means of industrial education and extend the influence of science and art upon productive industry.” By the side of this we may place a passage from the second Report of the Commissioners—the Report, in fact, which laid down in 1852 the broad lines upon which the Commissioners determined to act. The passage runs thus: “We are of opinion that if the surplus” (profits from the 1851 Exhibition) “were applied in furtherance of one large institution devoted to the purposes of instruction,” &c., &c., “it would be productive of important results; whilst if subdivided amongst local institutions,” &c., &c., “the effects produced would be comparatively insignificant.”
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The Proposals of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851.. Nature 40, 265–267 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040265a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/040265a0