84 MR. SOUTHWELL ON AUDITIONS TO THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM. 
X. 
SOME ADDITIONS TO 
THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM IN 1894. 
By Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S. 
Read 25th March, 1895. 
The year 1894 lias been an eventful one in the history of the 
Museum. On the 1st of January the Norfolk and Norwich 
Museum, which had for seventy years prospered exceedingly, 
notwithstanding its chronic state of impecuniosity, closed its career 
as a private institution, and under the new title of the Norwich 
Castle-Museum, passed into the hands of the Corporation, and 
commenced a new era as a public rate-supported institution. The 
management was taken over by a mixed committee consisting 
of members of the Corporation and citizens, selected for their 
special qualification, most of whom were members of the old 
Museum Committee, the Mayor for the time being acting as ex-officio 
chairman, and Mr. Edward Wild vice-chairman. 
The building being in a sufficiently advanced state to receive the 
collections, the removal actually commenced on the 9th July, 1894, 
and on the 23rd of October of the same year the Museum was 
opened to the public by the Duke and Duchess of York. Although 
wonders had been accomplished in that brief period in the way 
of removing and arranging, and all the departments were quite 
presentable to the distinguished visitors on that occasion, a vast 
amount of work remained to be done, and a considerable period 
must still elapse before the collections are fully arranged and 
systematically labeled, yet sufficient has been accomplished to 
render all the galleries very attractive ; and the greatest possible 
credit is due to Mr. Reeve and his assistants for the rapid progress 
which they have made, and are still making, towards completing their 
very arduous task. The appreciation of the public may be judged 
from the fact that a total of 10,736 persons visited the Museum 
