THR AI'STRALIAN MCSKUM EAUI,V lllSTol.'V K III Kl; I HdK. 



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wliich collections on a sniiill sciilt' luive hocn making for a few years past, 



I consider, tlierefore, it wouM lie more advisable to Imild a 



house for a liihrary and IMuseuiii'-." 



fii lX'17 the " Au.straliaJi Subscription ijihraiv " was located in 

 Tei'iy's ]iuikliiio:s, Pitt Street, but in Decenibei/, ib'M, was removed to 

 I'ooiiis at the Old Post Office in George Street, and again in May, 1886, 

 ti) a liouse in Bridge Street, then recently vacated by the Cliief Jiisticei-'. 



•• This building stood on the site of the present oflSces of the Department of 

 Lands [and must thereft>re have been the Judfje Advocate's Old Office ] 

 at the corner of Bridge and (Jresham Streets .... On the Estimates 

 for the ye:ir 18;iS aii amount of .£4,000 was voted fnr building a I'liblie 

 Library and Museum " . . . . '^ 



Fid. 6. 



" Residence of the Chief Justice in which the Library was located from 



] 836-40." 

 (After Bladen — " Public Library of N.S.Wales, Historical Notes," 



1906, p. 13.) 



Confirmator}' evidence of this statement is fo be found in the 

 Australian Museum Committee's Minutes, foi-, on the 1st August, 183S, 

 it is recorded : — 



" A letter was read from His Excellency the Governor [Sir George Gipps] 

 stating that the Colonial Architect had been directed to confer with the 

 Committee of the Australian Museum and the Australian [SuViscription] 

 Library for the purpose of proposing an eligible situation for the erection 

 of an edifice suitable for those Institutions." 



'- Bladen — Loc. clt., pp. 13-14. 

 '•'• Bladen — Lor. cit., p. 15. 

 '■* Bladen — Loc. cil., p. 15. 



