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A sovereign of Henry VIII., found in sinking a shaft, ten feet below the street 



level, in Broadmead. 

 A wooden Tinder-box with cover, and containing striker and flints, from a 



farm-house at Marshfield, and a small engraved copper Sundial, dated 



1793, from Chippenham. 

 A set of 40 original Water-colour drawings, illustrating features of bygone 



Bristol, and dating from the early part of this century. 

 A few choice mounted Birds. 

 A specimen of Calcite in Coal. 

 A valuable series of fossil mollusca, selected by the late Curator from the 



collection of Mr. S. S. Buckman, F.G.S. 



In October, 1897, your Committee received from 

 Alderman Francis F. Fox, the gift of a portrait in oils of 

 Sebastian Cabot, which, has been placed in the Library. 

 The portrait is one of the replicas of the original which 

 was taken to America and there destroyed by fire. The 

 copy now generously given to the City was many years 

 ago brought from New York, and the gift was peculiar^ 

 well-timed from the fact of its having been presented during 

 the year of the Cabot celebrations. 



Further, in the month of May of the past year, the 

 Committee formed to provide some memorial of the late 

 Mr. James Greig Smith, offered on behalf of the Subscri- 

 bers, to place permanently in the Museum a bronze bust 

 of that eminent surgeon, the work of E. Fabian. Your 

 Committee cordially accepted this offer, and the bust, 

 standing on a marble pedestal, is placed in the entrance 

 hall with other memorials of eminent Bristol citizens. 



During the past two years the Committee have received 

 many other interesting and valuable gifts, which are 

 recorded in the list appended to this Report, and for which 

 the Committee have, on behalf of the Council, expressed 

 their thanks. It is a great pleasure to find the Museum 

 thus remembered not only by our fellow-citizens, but also 

 by others residing at a distance. 



