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Norton-House, Wilts, for a valuable Donation of Fossils, 

 illustrative of the Norfolk and Suffolk Crag, and Casts of 

 the Horn and Teeth of the Iquanodon. 



From Mr. Cullingworth has been received an inte- 

 resting series of Articles of Dress, Implements of War, &c. 

 from New Zealand, collected himself in that Colony in 

 1843-4. The value of such relics, in an historical point of 

 view, and their fitness for deposit in a Museum, is becom- 

 ing daily more evident, — illustrating, as they do, the man- 

 ners and customs of a people who are fast disappearing 

 before the advances of civilization, and whose moral and 

 social condition have undergone so great a change during 

 the last fifty years, that their Native weapons have, to a 

 considerable extent, been laid aside, as well as their manu- 

 factures discontinued for those of European construction : 

 hence, when a few generations shall have passed away, 

 theyy and their various articles of savage life, will become 

 the subjects of tradition ; the land which gave them birth 

 will know them no longer; and, unlike the inhabitants of 

 Ancient Egypt, Mexico, or Hindostan, whose paintings 

 and sculptures have handed down their deeds to posterity, 

 these will leave nd memorial of their existence, save such 

 trophies as may have found lodgment in the Museums of 

 Public Institutions; and they will then become the only 

 oracles, to guide the pen of future historians, when describ- 

 ing the once warlike or domestic habits of the aboriginal 

 inhabitants of our Colonial possessions. Viewing, there- 

 fore, such native productions in an Ethnological point of 



