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IX. 
SOME ADDITIONS TO 
THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM IN 1898. 
By Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., V.-P. 
Read 28th February, 1899. 
It is pleasing to find that the interest in the Castle-Museum has 
survived the novelty of its early days, and in the third complete 
year of its removal to the Castle has attracted nearly 129,000 
visitors ; in this largo number of people of all classes there has 
not been a single instance requiring the intervention of the 
attendants, and the intelligent interest evinced in the collections, 
as indicated by scraps of conversation one hears in passing through 
the rooms, is very gratifying. 
The most conspicuous addition to the Mammalian collection is 
a very fine specimen of the Ice Bear ( Ursus marifimus), killed in 
Wyche’s Land by Sir Savile Crossley, by whom it was presented. 
In life this must have been a grand animal, and it is to be regretted 
that the fancy of the taxidermist has, by studying to produce a 
startling effect., given to it* an attitude which may occasionally be 
assumed by a “begging” poodle, but never by a Polar Bear in a 
state of nature. We have often been indebted to Mr. E. H. Bostock 
for animals which have died in his travelling menagerie, and which 
as they are “ set up ” from fresh skins, made excellent specimens ; 
the Quadrumana are proverbially short-lived in such institutions, 
and the Museum has on previous occasions been indebted for 
specimens to this source ; in the past year, Mr. Bostock has 
given us an excellent, but of course immature specimen of the 
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