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VII. 
SOME ADDITIONS TO 
THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM IN 1900. 
By Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., V.-P. 
Read 26tli February, 1901. 
Could the Committee of Management which at their First Annual 
Meeting on the 25th October, 1825, under the presidency of 
Sir James Edward Smith, “adverted in terms of high satisfaction 
to the very considerable prosperity of the Museum .... which 
had been constantly and rapidly increasing in public favour and 
estimation,” but visit the present succession of bright and beautiful 
galleries filled with choice specimens, they would indeed be gratified 
at the results of their initiative, and share the satisfaction felt by 
the members of the existing management, some of whom have for 
many years watched the continued steady progress of the Institution, 
despite the many difficulties with which it had to contend ; these 
are now happily things of the past, but the growth of the collections 
continues undiminished. When the scheme for the conversion of the 
Castle buildings to their present purpose was first considered it was 
not contemplated to provide a gallery for a collection of Pictures, 
then virtually non-existent ; but happily wiser councils prevailed, 
and in less than seven years the present Picture Gallery has been 
filled with valuable works of art, and the committee are contem- 
plating its immediate extension at a considerable cost. 
The year just brought to an end has witnessed the erection of 
a gallery in the Fossil Room, rendered necessary by the very exten- 
sive additions to the Mammalian remains, almost all of local origin, 
which entirely fill the lower wall cases, those in the gallery being 
devoted to a stratigraphical collection now in course of arrangement. 
This extension has been rendered necessary by the liberal gift by 
Mr. Russell J. Colman, of the fine collection of Mammalian remains 
