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representative collection of Nailsea glass, numbering 

 twenty-two specimens, was acquired ; with the recent 

 destruction of the remaining glass-house at Nailsea, 

 this manufacture becomes more emphatically a thing of 

 the past, the memory of which still lingers in the 

 neighbourhood. Amongst other numerous purchases 

 the following may be mentioned : — a large and general 

 collection of local antiquities ; numerous worked flints 

 of the Neolithic period, found locally ; specimens of Old 

 English pottery from various localities, including Bristol 

 pieces ; rare geological specimens ; a series of deep-sea 

 deposits ; a collection of the birds of Somerset ; several 

 further series of early Bristol newspapers, dating from 

 the year 1742, and not before available; autograph 

 letters of Southey and Burke, and historical documents 

 of great local importance ; original drawings of Bristol, 

 by Nicholas Pocock ; and other purchases of a mis- 

 cellaneous character. 



At present it is not possible to arrange all the 

 above for exhibition, but with enlarged premises and 

 greater facilities the difficulty will no longer exist. In a 

 limited sense, the Committee hope to make the proposed 

 Bristol Room a sort of epitome of Bristol history. 



Statistics. 



The following are the comparative attendances 

 during the Bank Holiday weeks of the past two years : — 



29,811 29,416 



