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Tliese errors are only t'qiialkMl by the siateiiieiit made in tlie 1890 

 " Guide to the Contents of tlie Austialian Mu.seuni, etc.^^" tliat : — 



" The Museum was soon afterwards removed to tlin Surveyo'-Cieneral's OtKte 

 in Bridfjfe Street, where it remaine<l till 18i9, in wliicli year it was a^rain 

 reniiiveil to its present site at the corner of William and ('olle<^e Streets." 



Tliat the removal did not take place to the C'oiirt House site in ISlO 

 as stated by Fowles is proved from the followiiifj c.xt i-Mct.s from official 

 documents. At tlie Committee meeting held on fth Aufifust, ISU, it 

 was : — 



" Resolved that the Secretary [VV. H. ClarkeJ comuiuuicate with tiic ('ulonial 

 Architect respecting the removal of the Museum to more suitahle a])art- 

 ments than those allotted for its use in the Surveyor-fieneral's Office. 

 The' Secretary accordingly addressed a letter to Mr. Lewis [Colonial 

 Architect] to that ett'ect." 



Ap[)arently no notice was taken of this recjiiest, foi- the minutes of 

 4th August, 1841, record a resolution alnu)st in the same words as the 

 above that the Secretary this time communicate with the Colonial 

 Secretary direct : — 



" Respecting the removal of the Museum to more suitable apartments than 

 those allowed for it in the Surveyor-General's Office " [i.e., in Macquarie 

 Street]. 



Evidently a little official energy manifested itself after this second 

 appeal, for there is a copy of a letter extant^^ from Mr. Clarke to the 

 Colonial Architect dated the 7th December, 1841, asking the latter to 

 meet the Museum Committee at a date to be named : — 



" At the Court House, Woolloomooloo, adjourning thence to the building in 

 Macquarie Street." 



The next letter'**' passing between the same parties, 20th December, 

 1841, leads one to believe that by this date the removal to the Court 

 House was practically settled, for therein Mr. Clarke invited Mi-. Lewis 

 to meet the Committee on 23rd December : — 



" At the Museum in the New Court House." 



It may, therefore, be taken foi- granted that the removal from the 

 Surveyor-Greneral's Office, near the corner of Macquarie and King Streets, 

 to Darlinghurst took place some time veiy early in 1842. In fact, it is 

 so stated in Tegg's Almanac for 1842*^, but as this is followed by the 

 exploded story of subsequent removal again to Macquarie Street, too 

 much reliance cannot be placed on it. Here Mr. W. Holmes' " beautiful 

 collection " certainly remained until February, 1849. That it was there 

 in 1848 is stated in Coleman's " Almanac**^" for 1848 : — 



■** Sinclair— Guide to the Contents of the Australian Museum, 1890, p. 5. 



■•■ OfKcial Letter-Book, i., p. 42. 



■"i Official Letter-Book, i., p. 45. 



•*■' Tegg's N.S.Wales Pocket Almanac and Remembrancer for 1842, p. 153. 



*^ Coleman's N.S.Wales Almanac and Remembrancer for 1848, p. 48. 



