The Albany Museum, South Africa is situated in Grahamstown in South Africa, is affiliated to Rhodes University and dates back to 1855, making it the second oldest museum in South Africa. The natural history and geology collections of the Eastern Province Literary, Scientific and Medical Society were used as its nucleus. The herbarium is staffed by the South African National Biodiversity Institute and has material dating back to 1812, collected by William John Burchell, as well as geological material gathered by Andrew Geddes Bain and W. G. Atherstone. It also houses a large collection of South African vertebrate and invertebrate fossils, and palaeolithic stone tools discovered by Thomas Holden Bowker (1808–1885) near the Great Fish River.