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Aonations to the Ausenm and Library. 
The Council of the Society have the pleasure of acknowledging the following 
Donations to the Museum and Library. 
By the Rev. James Henry Hvueues, Surat :—Supplemental Descriptive 
Catalogue of ancient Scottish seals, from A.D. 1150 to the 18th century. 
Edinburgh: Edminstow & Douglas, 1866, 4to. 
By W. G. Evererrt, Esq., M.D.:—A Portrait in oil, of a Town Clerk of Devizes, 
CHetherell Bequest. 
The Council also have the satisfaction of announcing, that they 
have received from the Executors of the late Mrs. Wetherell, a 
very valuable bequest of Cabinets, Minerals, Fossils, and Books on 
Geological and Mineralogical subjects. 
The following is an 
‘Extract from the Will of Mrs. Ann Wetherell, of Harrow 
Weald Lodge, in the county of Middlesex, widow and relict 
of the Rev. Robert Wetherell, late Prebendary of Hereford, 
and Rector of Newnton Longville in the county of Bucking- 
ham, deceased, who died on the 28th April, 1866. 
*‘ Also I give and bequeath to my said Executors in trust, for the use and 
purposes of the Public Institution at Devizes, called the Wilts Archeological 
and Natural History Society, my four small mahogany Cabinets or sets of 
drawers and my two small sets of drawers contained in the deal painted book- 
case in my Library (making six in the whole,) and a large mahogany box, 
together with all the Fossils and geological specimens therein and elsewhere in 
my house, whether packed in boxes or drawers, or on my chimney pieces and 
Book-case or otherwise disposed of (except those herein given to Mrs. Elizabeth 
Calverley.) And I desire that Institution may be informed of this bequest and 
may send a competent person to pack and take them away after my death. 
And I direct that the several articles hereinbefore bequeathed to, or in trust 
for the several Institutions and Colleges, hereinbefore mentioned, shall be de- 
livered to the respective Heads or Managers or Treasurers of such respective 
Institutions and Colleges, whose receipt shall be a good discharge to my 
Executors for the same.” 
Extract from third Codicil to the above-mentioned Will. 
**T bequeath to the Wilts Archeological and Natural History Society at 
Devizes, all my Mineralogical, Geological, and Fossil books, bound and unbound, 
with ‘Whitehurst on the Earth,’ 1 vol. quarto; and ‘ Buckland’s Organic 
ains,’ 1 vol. quarto.” 
Mrs. Wetherell was a lady of Wiltshire family, the sister of the 
late Sergeant Merewether, and of the late Dean of Hereford, so 
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