I leave our accounts now wholly in the hands of Mr. Walker and Mr.
Rydings, reserving to myself only the usual—as I understand—and proper
functions of Director,—that of spending the Company’s money. I have
ordered, as above stated, repairs at Barmouth, which will somewhat
exceed our rents, I fancy; and a mineral cabinet for the Museum at
Sheffield, in which the minerals are to rest, each in its own little
cell, on purple, or otherwise fittingly coloured, velvet of the best.
Permission to handle and examine them at ease will be eventually given,
as a moral and mineralogical prize to the men who attain a certain
proficiency in the two sciences of Mineralogy and Behaviour.
Our capital, it will be observed, is increased, by honest gift, this
month, to the encouraging amount of £16 16s.;—the iniquitous interest,
of which our shareholders get none, I have pretty nearly spent in our
new land purchase.