390 MR. SOUTHWELL ON ADDITIONS TO THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM. 
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SOME ADDITIONS TO 
THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM IN 1897. 
By Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., V.-P. 
Read 29th March, 1S98. 
The main purpose of these annual notices of the Norwich Castle- 
Museum is to chronicle the progress of the Natural History- 
Collections; but it is pleasing to note in the Report of the Committee 
for 1897, just issued, the evident desire of the body of management 
to popularise and render as useful as possible the excellent institu- 
tion of which they have the control. Considerable advance has 
been made during the past year in arranging the collections, 
especially those devoted to Ethnology, and the systematic arrange- 
ment of the collection of British Birds, which, owing to the hasty 
removal and pressure of other work on the altogether inadequate 
staff under the direction of the Curator, was not all that could be 
wished, is now making good progress, whilst by the addition of 
sketch maps, coloured, to show the distribution of the genera and 
species, and some beautiful drawings by Iveulemans (the gift of 
Mr. Gurney), illustrating the structure and classification of the 
Birds of Prey, that important section of the Museum is rendered 
much more instructive. The Museum is also indebted to Mr. Gurney 
for a plaster cast of the fossil remains of the Archseopterix, and a 
drawing showing the restoration of the same, which it is to be 
hoped is only a commencement of a series of representatives of 
fossil and extinct forms of animals, so indispensable to a proper 
study of their existing representatives. 
In general Ornithology, Mr. Gurney has given us a specimen of 
Sabine’s Gull, killed at Aberystwyth in 189G, and Mr. Robert 
Gurney an Icterine Warbler, shot at Cley-next-the-Sea, in 
September, 189G. Some beautiful specimens of Skua Gulls, 
