Mr Drew's Museum

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 27, 14 August 1886, Page 3

Mr Drew's Museum

A visit to the private museum of Mr Drew, in Wanganui, is always interesting. A few days ago one of «ur staff was invited to inspect some recent additions to the cabinets, and was much pleased .with what he saw, and the courtesy oi Mr Drew who took considerable trouble to describe the several items. The specimons of humming birds with their brilliant plumage, the metallic lustre of which is unimpaired by the process of embalming end preserving ; the toucan, with its enormous beak ; a newly discovered bird of paradise, from New Guinea; ah iguana and native bear, from Australia ; a kea, or sheep killing hawk, from Otago ; a white sparrow, from Feilding; akakapo, from the West Coast; and a few deadly snakes, from India ; specimens of sulpher and mud thrown up during the recent eruptions at Tarawera. These with hundreds of other objects of interest were pointed out to the gratified visitor. We hope the day i& not far distant when. Mr Drew will be able to : open to the public his collection. As it now., stands we id not think there I is another in the colony to equal it. He has on his shelves and in his cabinets, many strange objects of nature not to be found in the larger museums of Wellington, Auckland or j Christchurch.