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from the wind, yet open totlie sun and air. The Castle Museum Com- 

 mittee are also happy in having the Lord Walsinj^ham for their 

 Chairman, one who is himself a Norfolk man, and an ardent naturalist, 

 and who has, by his princely contributions to the British Museum of 

 Natural History, of which he is a Trustee, abundantly proved his 

 generosity and disinterestedness in public matters. 



The Committee of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum have 

 acquired their new building at a fortunate time, for they have no 

 need to make expensive experiments in furniture and fittings. All 

 such trials have been made for them in the new Natural History 

 Museum, Cromwell Road. They may there see, not only what is 

 good to imitate, but also what to avoid in the fitting up of exhibition 

 cases ; and by careful study of work already executed they may make 

 the Norfolk and Norwich Museum not only a grand historical 

 museum, which it is certain to become, but also the finest and most 

 approved provincial museum of Natural History in the kingdom. 



To the Worshipful the Mayor and Corporation it may also be 

 desirable to mention that although they have acquired the finest 

 historical building and the most commanding site within the ancient 

 city of Norwich for a museum, yet that museum, when completed, 

 cannot be maintained creditably unless the Corporation are prepared 

 by a liberal provision from the funds at their disposal (and under the 

 Libraries and Museums Act) to provide it with a proper staff of 

 officers, men who by their training and qualifications are fitted effi- 

 ciently to carry on the work of curating the treasures which have 

 occupied so many years in collecting. Nor should they ever allow 

 the museum of their venerable and historical city to become a mere 

 " Old Curiosit}' Shop," but rather strive to make it a grand educa- 

 tional centre, so that, like the beacon-light which shone from its 

 " keep '■• in days of old, its light and culture should radiate over the 

 whole city and county, and many names be added to the list of 

 Norfolk and Norwich worthies among the future, as there have 

 been in the past generation of its citizens. 



Henry Woodward. 



REFERENCE. 



For some account of this ancient building, see the " History and Antiquities of 

 Norwich Castle," by Samuel Woodward, of Norwich, 4to, 1836 (edited by B. B. 

 Woodward). London : 1847. Nichols & Son, Parliament Street, and Charles 

 Muskett, Norwich. 



