356 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Museum, he cannot be allowed more than £100 a year ! The following, 

 copied from a document in the Rev. W. B. Clarke's handwriting''*', illus- 

 trates the disbursements of this £200 a year : — 



"Application for Grant of ^200 for the year 1841-2, for the service of the 



Museum. 



Salary paid to the Secretai-y from 1st Jan. to 31st July 



Salary paid to the Collector from 1st Jan. to 31st July 



Salary paid to the Collector hy the Secretary 



Bills paid hy the Colonial Treasurer 



Incidental exj^enses paid hy the Secretary 



Balance in Secretary's hands to lueet hills (unpaid) 



Portion of Secretary's salary unpaid 

 ,, of Collector's ,, ,, 



£TS 16 8" 



From May, 1842, onwards the £200 was paid in half-yearly instal- 

 ments^", leaving its entire disti'ibution to the Committee. The application 

 for an increase already mentioned as taking place in 1846, is recorded on 

 the minutes of 7th September of that year. 



As early as 1847 the Museum accounts appear to have been trans- 

 mitted direct to the Auditor-GeneraF*^, a practice and privilege still in 

 vogue. 



Once the removal of the collections from Darlinghurst was accom- 

 plished, it clearly became the policy of the Committee to increase thein as 

 rapidly as possible. This was effected, even at this early date, by soliciting 

 donations and inaugurating a system of exchanges. 



In " Tegg's New South Wales Pocket Almanac and Remembrancer 

 for 1842 " it is intimated that^" :— 



" Specimens of Natural History, especially such as helong to the Australian 

 Colonies, the Islands of the Pacific, and surrounding countries are earui'stly 

 requested. Connnunications to he addressed to the Rev. W. B. Clarke, 

 Secretary .... As the Geological and Mineralogical dejiartments 

 are very defective, specimens .... of rocks, minerals, w fossils, 

 will he very acceptaVde." 



Acquisitions by exchange were equally sought, for on 5th October, 

 1836, we find the Museum Sub-Committee recommending that relations 

 be opened up with the British, Cape, Calcutta, and other similar institu- 

 tions, as well as the Ijinnean and Zoological Secieties"*^ in London, the 

 Royal Society in Kdinbui-gh, and the Asiatic Society, Calcutta. At the 

 contiimation ol" this recommendation on 16th Novembei', 1836, it was 

 resolved"! : — 



10.40. 



•"'fi Document G. ■ — ■ — 

 5 



«' Minutes, 12th May, 1842. 



«« Minutes, 4th Dec+miher, 1847. 



69 Tegg—Loc. rit., pp. 153-4. 



"> There is an interesting letter in existence from Edward Charlesworth, 

 Secretary of the Linnean Society, addressed to C apt. (A(hniral) P. P. King, K.N., 

 and dat<'d 28 Leicester Square, 9th Mny. 1838, iiit r(.(hu'iiig "diir (^niif liologisl . Mr. 

 Gould." 



"I Minutes, KHh Novciidicr. IS3(i. 



