CATALOGUE. 
A portrait of the late Richard Fowler, Esq., M.D., is placed 
over the door in the Circular Room. It was painted by Benjn. B. 
Wadham, in 1844, and is 'presented by Mrs . Fowler . 
Dr. Fowler was born November 28th, 1765, and died April 
13th, 1863. 
The late Dr. Fowler and Mrs. Fowler are virtually the founders 
of the Museum ; through their liberality the present commodious 
building has been purchased, enlarged, and presented to trustees 
for the use of the Museum. The well-wishers of the Museum 
are greatly indebted to the late Dr. Fowler and to Mrs. Fowler 
for pecuniary aid and for liberal donations of specimens ; whilst 
from its foundation until his death Dr. Fowler did his utmost to 
promote its welfare by his advice, and through his extensive 
influence he endeavoured to secure its prosperity ; in all 
this he was most warmly and ably seconded by Mrs. Fowler. 
Since his decease no one has worked harder to carry out what 
would have been his wishes than his widow ; and the public have 
in very great degree to thank her for the establishment of a 
Museum which bids fair to be a credit to the City and the 
neighbourhood. 
Ethnological Department. 
CIRCULAR ROOM.—CENTRAL CASE. 
The Stone, Bronze, and Iron Weapons and Implements in the 
collection are classed according to the material employed—a system 
not so arbitrary as may at first sight appear; true, the Celtic flint 
hatchet, white with age, will thus be arranged with the New 
Zealanders’ stone adze of yesterday, whilst those mysterious flint 
implements from the Drift, which will commence the series, might 
claim for themselves a place in the geological, rather than the 
archaeological department. However, no abrupt line of demarca¬ 
tion will be found to separate the labours of the geologist from 
those of the archaeologist. Geology is only the archaeology of our 
globe—archaeology but the geology of the pre-historic period of 
the human race. 
With age, as measured by years, the present arrangement has 
nothing to do. The classification attempted is that of the de- 
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