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The full list of presentations to the Museum during 

 the year, affords strong evidence of continued interest in 

 its welfare ; and in every case the Committee have, on 

 behalf of the Council, expressed their cordial thanks to 

 the donors. A few words of explanation with regard to 

 some of these gifts will not, however, be out of place. 



The extensive and valuable presentation of Lady 

 Smyth has already been fully dealt with. 



From the Estates Committee, through the City 

 Valuer, the Museum Committee received a number of 

 cannon balls, one of unusually large size, recovered from 

 the alluvium in sinking for the deep foundations of a 

 new building at the corner of Thunderbolt Street. 

 Another series of these mementos of the fierce 

 struggles of the past, which was found during excava- 

 tions in Telephone Avenue, has been presented by Mr. 

 P. W. Wilkins. 



At another spot (see plate), which marked the 

 position of the old bed of the Frome, a number 

 of relics were found at a depth of about 18 feet 

 from the surface. This was in sinking for the founda- 

 tions of the building now being erected for the Scottish 

 Provident Institution, at the corner of Clare Street and 

 St. Stephen Street. Two presentations of these relics 

 were made by the Directors of the Institution through 

 Mr. M. F. Ledward, and they included portions of antlers, 

 a number of antler tips and boars' tusks, the horn cores 

 and jaws of various animals, a bone needle or borer, 

 many fragments of mediaeval pottery, and several large 

 rounded pebbles. These were all taken from the allu- 

 vium, out of which were also removed portions of 

 the piles upon which the demolished building rested. 

 The whole circumstances carry the mind back beyond 



