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t!EC01Jl»S OK I'HIO AI'SIKALIAN Ml'SEUM. 



We left tlie collection, variously alluded to as tlie " Colonial 

 Museum," " Austi'aliau Museum," etc., located uear the coiiier of wliat is 

 now Macquarie and King 8ti-eets, in apartments spoken of b}' the Rev. 

 W. B. Clarke in anything but flattering terms. From this point there is, 

 unfortunately, a cotifusion of dates in the Museum's history, and misstate- 

 ments in contemporary literature ; all acct)unts, liowever, agree that the 

 next move was to the " New Court Himse, Woolloomooloo," the present 

 Criminal Court at Darlinghurst. Fowles, the authoi- of " Sydney in 

 1848'*1," says the removal to the Court House took place in 1840 in the 

 following words ; 



" In the year 1840 Mr. Wall, uinler the in.sti iK'iiuiis of the ('oinniittee, and at 

 the reqiie.st of tlie (lovenior, SirGeorj^e (iipps, ay;ain ivuioved the Museum 

 to apartments prepared for it in the Supreme Court Huildiii^s at Darling- 

 hurst." 



Again, in " Tegg\s New South Wales Pocket Almanac" for 1842 is 

 a further error, in the following words : — 



"The Museum at present is at the New Court House, Woolloomooloo, but will 

 shortly be removed to the apartments in Macquarie Street recently in the 

 occupation of the Surveyor-General's Department and under the same roof 

 with the Australian Subscription Library^-." 



Maclehose gives a view^'' of this "New Court House" (as completed) 

 on the New South Head Road, Sydney (Fig. 8). 



Fui. 8. 



New Court House (as completed). South Head Road, Syduoy. 



(.After Maclehose — " Picture of Sydney and Strangers' Giude in N.S.Wales for 



1838,'' pi. opp. p. 120, 



*' Fowles— Sydney in 18J.8. etc., p. 84. 

 ■*'- Tegg's N.S.Wales Pocket Almanac for 1812, ]>. I'll^. 



^•' Maclehose — Pictures of Sydney and Strangers' Guide in N.S. Wales ft)r 1838, 

 pi. opp. p. 120. 



