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THE LATE LIEUT. -GENERAL PITT-RIVERS. 



Locks and Keys, 1883, which is ilhistrated by drawings of specimens from the 

 collection referred to above. 



Later, on taking up his residence at " Rushmore," in Wiltshire, the 

 General set himself to form a local museum, which he established at the 

 neighbouring village of Farnham. For this purpose he withdrew from his 

 other collection the objects relating to agriculture, to which he has since con- 

 siderably added and this museum now contains a splendid collection of peasant 

 objects and agricultural appliances from all parts of the world. Here also are 

 preserved all the relics from the excavations, illustrating which are numerous 

 models showing the sites excavated and the position of the objects discovered. 

 This forms a perfect means of studying the antiquities of the district. As a 



Rushmore House, near Salisbury, Wilts. 



local educational institution the Farnham museum has proved a great success, 

 the interest of the people being aroused by seeing objects with which they are 

 so famihar. It is visited on Sundays by great numbers of people of the 

 neighbourhood from many miles around. In order to promote a more 

 enlightened manner of spending Sunday the General, in addition to the 

 museum, also opened a pleasure garden in which a band, composed of w^ork 

 people on the estate, played selections of music. This had a tendency to 

 destroy the practice among the natives of standing at the cross-roads to grin 

 at the passers by, a time honoured institution, but the discontinuance of 

 which will cause no regret to students of folk-customs. 



In 1880 Gen. Pitt-Rivers succeeded to the estate of Lord Rivers, at 

 Rushmore, near Salisbury, by descent from his grandmother, who was the 



