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of Arthur Vernon Jones, an Eton boy, who himself collected the 

 greater part of it. 



The Geological collections are arranged in three long table-cases, 

 extending two-thirds of the total length of the Museum. One of 

 these is occupied by fossils arranged stratigraphically, another by a 

 collection of rocks and minerals, and the third by a set of cases 

 illustrating economic processes, such as the ores, varieties and uses 

 of coal, sulphur, iron, tin, lead, and soda. 



The collections in these cases have been received from various 

 sources ; a considerable number were given by Eton Masters — the 

 late Mr. P. H. Carpenter, Mr. Hale, and the late Mr. Drew and 

 others. A large number of the specimens, especially of the fossils, 

 were purchased from Mr. J. R. Gregory, who also named and 

 arranged most of those already in the Museum. 



The Museum now possesses a very excellent collection of minerals, 

 derived from three sources, (i) A collection in a cabinet presented 

 by the Rev. S. A. Donaldson, an Eton Master ; (2) a collection 

 made by the late John Murray, of Albemarle Street, and recently 

 presented in memory of him by his son, the present Mr. John Murray, 

 also contained in a cabinet ; and (3) a collection specially formed for 

 the Eton Museum at the Natural History Museum at South 

 Kensington. 



There is one set of objects in the Museum which has a very close 

 relationship to Eton, and in fact forms almost the only part of the 

 Museum which has a distinctly local interest. This is a series of 

 prehistoric implements of neolithic age, which has been obtained by 

 Mr. Edward Hale from the men who dredge for gravel in the 

 Thames. Besides many examples of the ordinary type of adze, the 

 collection contains flint-chippings, arrow heads, bone-needles, and all 

 the other characteristic remains of the neolithic people, including a 

 remarkable dolichocephalic skull dredged up in the same way. 



There is also a small collection of anthropological implements, of 

 which the larger objects such as clubs, weapons, etc., etc., have been 

 mounted on a large wooden shield. This collection was made by the 

 late Sir John and Lady Franklin, and presented to the Museum by 

 Mr. G. B, Austin Lefroy. 



A great speciality has been made of photographs in the Eton 

 Museum ; a large collection of Gambler Bolton's well-known studies 

 of animals, mounted and framed, with short descriptions and small 

 maps of the geographical distribution, form a prominent object on 

 the south wall of the Museum. We have also got three of Mr. 

 Saville Kent's photographs of the Great Barrier Reef which were 

 specially enlarged for museum purposes, and finally a considerable 

 number of photographs of geological phenomena have been accu- 

 mulated, all of which are mounted and framed, with descriptions 

 appended and hung on the walls. 



The Museum is open every day, except Saturday, between the 



