ADDRESS AT GREAT YARMOUTH. 
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Starfish, Shells, Zooplutes, Sic,., as well as minerals, antiquities, 
books, and prints. It is evident from the catalogue that Boulter 
must have been a person of considerable acquirements, and no mere 
dealer, although he attaches prices to the great bulk of the objects, 
making a delicate exception with regard to those — and they are 
many — which had been presented to him. Amongst those who 
had thus contributed to his collections were many distinguished 
persons, of which 1 may name, Astley Cooper, Sir Ashton Lover, 
J. 1). Downes, noted as a falconer, John Ives, F.R.S., antiquary, 
and others. 
Many of the objects in the Museum were of local interest, and 
would bo valued in the present day far in excess of the modest 
prices he affixed to them. Who would not wish to become possessed 
of the “ Tusk of an Elephant, live feet long, taken by a fisherman’s 
net at sea,” for five shillings ; and modern geologists would like 
to see the “ Large and lino specimen of Stag’s Horn, taken out of 
a chalk-pit at Whitlingham,” offered for the same price, as well as 
“Another, remarkably large, with part of the .Skull,’’ from the 
same locality. Charles J. Palmer, in his ‘ Perlustration,’ says that 
Boulter lived in a house at the south-east corner of Row No. 35, 
facing the Market Place ; the printed advertisement on the fly- 
leaf of the Catalogue gives the number as 1 9 Market Place ; 
ho was a member of the Society of Friends, a silversmith 
by trade, but also dealt in “natural curiosities, antiquities, 
coins, medals, curious hooks,” Ac. “ During a long and useful 
life ho made an extensive collection of ‘ natural and artificial 
curiosities,’ together with some paintings, prints, drawings, and 
books. The whole he called the * Museum Boulterianum,’ and 
published a catalogue of it. lie died in 1802, and was buried in 
the Friends’ burial ground. His collections were then sold.” Of 
what became of the contents of this remarkable museum I cannot 
find any record, but Palmer adds in a foot-note, “ It is very much 
to be regretted that the opportunity thus offered was not embraced, 
of forming the commencement of a Town Museum ; but at that 
time the war, money-making, and social enjoyments, were the only 
things thought of. He issued a tradesman's token of superior 
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