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The Museum Gazette 



to obtain at once the whole series. We shall on a future 

 occasion give specimens of the illustrations, which are 

 liberally supplied. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



TO THE EDITOR OF THE "MUSEUM GAZETTE." 



Dear Sir, — The attention of the King's Lynn Museum Committee, 

 of which I am chairman, has been called to a statement with refer- 

 ence to their Museum, which appeared in your January issue, which 

 is so very erroneous that, at their request, I am writing to correct it. 



Under the heading "Museum Statistics" you summarise the infor- 

 mation in "the Directory of Museums and Art Galleries " thus : — 



44 The following towns (twenty-four) possess but the nucleus of a 

 Museum, one or two small rooms with few exhibits ; " the list includes 

 King's Lynn. 



The actual facts as regards Lynn are as follows : — 



We have a Natural History Room 75 ft. long, 42 ft. in average 

 width, and an Art Room, 48 ft. by 36 ft. The former contains an 

 extensive collection of birds, presented by the late John Henry 

 Carney, who was member for the Borough in 1863. The cases alone 

 for this collection cost 1,000. Recently there has been an addition 

 of two extensive collections of British Birds, though one of these is on 

 loan. 



A classified collection of fossils, containing many specimens from 

 nearly all the British strata, with maps showing the probable distri- 

 bution of land and water in each geological period, and cards giving 

 information of its fauna and flora. 



A collection of local palaeolithic and neolithic implements. 



A large, properly-arranged and named collection of butterflies and 

 moths. 



A collection of land and fresh-water shells, &c, &c. 



The Art Room has, it is true, but the nucleus of a picture gallery. 

 It contains a number of paintings of South African landscapes, by 

 Baines, the companion of Livingstone, and paintings of local scenes 

 by his brother, who lived at Lynn. 



I am, 



Yours truly, 



King's Lynn, S. S. Burlingham. 



* March 13, 1907. 



It would be ungracious to reply that our information was avowedly 

 taken from another journal, and thus shift the blame for inaccuracy. 

 We doubt not that the Editor of the Museum Journal will, with us, 



