MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 5S1 
IX. 
SOME ADDITIONS TO THE NORFOLK AND NORWICH 
MUSEUM IN THE YEAR 1893. 
By Thomas Southwell F.Z.S., President. 
(Hon. Curator — Vertebrata.) 
Read 27th February , 1894. 
By a deed, dated April 17th, 1893, the Trustees of the “ Norfolk 
and Norwich Museum” transferred their collections to the Cor- 
poration of Norwich, and the institution which for seventy years 
had been known by the above title, and which had grown to its 
present magnitude under private management, supported entirely 
by voluntary subscriptions, became the “Norwich Museum,” 
under the Public Libraries Act of 1892, the governing body for 
the future being composed jointly of Members of the Corporation 
and citizens, presumed to be specially qualified to control the 
technical working of such an institution. It was not, however, 
until the 31st December, 1893, that the management of the Museum 
passed out of the hands of the old committee, and on the 1st of 
January, 1891, it commenced its career as the “Norwich Museum.” 
In closing their last Annual Report the Committee, after stating 
that during the period of the Museum’s existence as private property 
it had grown from a small beginning to its present dimensions, 
entirely from private gifts, the Report concludes as follows: “Should 
the second period of the Museum’s history, under its greatly 
improved conditions, be in proportion to the past advance, it may 
confidently be asserted that the citizens of Norwich will at no 
distant date be in possession of a Museum second in extent and 
value to no local Museum in this, or, perhaps, it may even be said, 
in any other country.” In view of the rapidly increasing collections 
and the beautiful and spacious home which is rapidly approaching 
completion for their reception, I do not think the anticipations 
foreshadowed in the Report are unduly sanguine. 
