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workmanship, which is now very rare.” We cannot but share 
Palmer’s regret that this exceedingly interesting collection should 
have been dispersed, but, as he says, the taste in such matters was 
at an exceedingly low ebb just about that period. 
I have already spoken of Charles Stuart Girdlestone, who seems 
to have possessed a good collection of birds, which at his death, with 
his books, and other objects of interest passed to his sister, the wife of 
Mr. John Baker, a solicitor in Yarmouth, more than once previously 
mentioned, who subsequently removed to London ; but I am 
not aware what ultimately became of them. One of the 
birds, a Jack Snipe, killed on the 2nd July, 1825, was given 
by Mrs. Baker to Lubbock, who in turn gave it to the late 
Mr. Newcome of Feltwell, with whose collection it still remains in the 
possession of his son. Many Yarmouth killed birds passed into the 
collection of Mr. Edward Lombe of Melton, and are now in the 
Norwich Museum. The Iiev. J. B. P. Dennis of Bury St. Edmunds, 
also by his own gun, and through his agent, old John Thomas, 
obtained a large number of Yarmouth rarities, most of which 
may now be seen at the Bury Museum ; Mr. Clark of Saffron 
Walden also secured many for the Museum of that town, and the 
Booth Collection, now in the Brighton Museum, contains many 
East Norfolk rarities, as well as the Gurney collection at Keswick. 
The collections of Stephen Miller ; Rev. C. W. Steward of Caistor ; 
Rev. S. N. Micklethwait of Hickling ; Mr. Robert Rising of 
Horsey ; Mr. J. G. Overend of Yarmouth, and Mr. Stevenson 
have all been dispersed, but of late years, our Chairman, the 
Rev. C. J. Lucas of Burgh, Mr. W. W. Spolman, and Mr. Connop of 
Caistor, have each formed large collections, in addition to which 
many other rarities have gone to enrich collections in all parts of 
England. 
I am happy to say that a large number of the rarest specimens 
which were contained in such of the collections as have been 
dispersed of recent years, have found a permanent home in the 
Norwich Museum, where they are open to the study and inspection 
of all who may be interested in them ; and now that a museum 
has at length been formed at Yarmouth, 1 trust the first thought 
