By W. Jerome Harrison, F.G.S. 137 



Thurnam, Dr. John, and Dr. J. B. Davis [1801—1881]. 

 185G— G5. Ckania Britannica; two vols., foL, viii., 254 ; with 



fifty-seven plates, etc. : London. 



Vol. I. has for frontispiece a portrait of Dr. Davis. In Vol. II. eight 

 "Ancient British" and one "Anglo-Saxon" skulls are figured and 

 described. Dr. Thurnam's share of this important book consists mainly 

 of Chap, v., pp. 44—155 : " Historical Ethnology of Britain." For Abury 

 and Stonehenge see pp. 123—126. They were temples where justice was 

 administered and religious rites celebrated by the Druids. The date of 

 erection of Stonehenge was probably about 100 B.C. ; while Abury is 

 more ancient, and may be the " round temple " referred to by Hecatseus, 

 B.C. 330. 



For Abury see also plate 11., descriptive of an Ancient British Skull, from 

 a barrow at Kennet ; with plan and view of Abury and Silbury Hill. 



Timmins, Sam : Shakspearean critic ; historian. 

 1886. Stonehenge, etc. Times, 23 Aug., p. 7. 

 Both Stonehenge and Stratford Church (the grave of Shakespeare) ought 

 to become the property of the nation. 



Toland, Jno. [1670—1722]: Deist. 

 1726. Collection: including the History of the Druids; 

 two vols., 8vo., xcii., 474 ; and iv., 495 ; with appendix, 76 pp. : 

 London. 



Reprinted, 1747 ; 1814. 



Stonehenge is a Druid Temple (p. 88, etc.). The " History of the Druids " 

 is contained in Vol. I., pp. 1—228. "John Aubrey ... was the 

 only person I ever then [at Oxford] met, who had a right notion of the 

 Temples of the Druids . . . wherein he was entirely confirm'd by 

 the authorities which I show'd him . . . And though he was ex- 

 tremely superstitious ... yet he was a very honest man, and most 

 accurate in his accounts of matters of fact " (p. 112). 



Towuson, Dr. Thos. [1715—1792]: Divine. 



1799. Tracts, etc., in Natural History; 8vo. : London. 



1810. " Life and Works " of Townsou ; two vols., 8vo. : London. 



Townson gives a mineralogical account of the stones of Stonehenge. " The 

 great slab or altar is a kind of grey Cos, a very fine-grained calcareous 

 sandstone." The large sarsen stones are "of a fine-grained compact 

 sandstone." The smaller stones of the inner circle and ellipse are mostly 

 "a kind of fine-grained Griinstein " containing black hornblende; but 

 there are two of schist. 

 Tozer, Rev. H. F. : Tutor, Exeter Coll., Oxford ; traveller. 



1897. History of Ancient Geography; 8vo., xvii., 387: 

 Cambridge. 



