382 RECOKlJS OF TUK AUSTRALIAN MDSEUM. 



ailniitted tor one week, and it is recorded tliat during that time 12,000 

 visitors attended, a by nt) means bad attendance for those days. From 

 tliis time onward the days and lioms of visitation weie being constantly 

 altered. 



In May, a Foreign Coi respondence and Exchange Committee was 

 formed''-'". The first members were the Hon. R. J. Want, Hon. H. W. 

 Parker, W. S. Maeleay, and Dr. Woolley. Again in the same month the 

 " Finance Committee " was resuscitated^^^ in the persons of Captain E. 

 W. Ward, R.E., Prof. J. Smith, and W. C. Mayne, Esqr. (Auditor- 

 General). Snch a body first appeared in March, 1855, to "furnish a 

 statement of the expenditui'e of the funds of the Museumi^^." The new 

 Committee was instructed to "show a balance sheet at every monthly 

 meeting." 



The Hon. R. J. Want i-esigned his Trusteeship, to which he had been 

 elected in April, 1856, in December, 1857, and was replaced by Sir 

 William Macarthur, Kt., elected 6th February, 1858. 



It Avould appear that upwards of eight years had been allowed to 

 pass without providing a proper w^ater supply, for on the 13th October, 

 Secretary Angas wrote to the Trustees of the Sydney Grammar School 

 inviting them to join in an application to have connection made with the 

 main in Staidey Street. 



In the Annual Report foi- 1856, the Trustees called the Governt)r- 

 General's attention to the very limited accommodation which the Museum 

 affoided in its then state for the proper display of the vai'ious collec- 

 tions'-^^, and again threw themselves on the liberality of the Government 

 for means to extend the building. 



In August, Mr. Angas forwai'ded to the Colonial Secretaiy (Honorable 

 H. W. Pai'ker) for His Excellency's consideration plans prepared by the 

 Government Architect (either William or Alexander Dawson) and adopted 

 by the Board for the above purpose, inclusive of the " proposed entrance 

 from Hyde Park"-*^"." This last sentence clearly indicates this as the 

 inception of the West or College Street Wing, and fixes the year as 1857. 

 This application met with no cordial response, the Council expressing its 

 regret that owing to the condition of the public funds it was unable to 

 comply with the request-'^''-. 



'»' Minutes, 2nd May, 1857. 



'■•"* ,, 2nd May, 1857. 



'»'•• ,, ard March, 1855. 



■i"" Also Anniiid lii'i.ui't for 1858 (1859), pp. 2-A. 



-'" Mmutos, lull July and Isi Au-^-ust, 1857; Letter-book, i., p. Kiti ; 

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