THE WILLIAMS MUSEUM. 7 



We have bones and teeth of the rhinoceros, elephant, 

 Avolf, fox, hyfena, tiger, bear, bufFalo, stag, deer, horse, bog, 

 and many other animals. The occurrence of vast accnmu- 

 lations of bones in the caverns of Banwell, Bleadon, 

 Hutton, and elsewbei'e, is a circumstance of great interest, 

 and, I think, not satlsfactorily accounted for by all that has 

 been written on tbe snbject. 



" Most of the species of these hnge creatures are now 

 not only removed from England, but are altogether extinct. 

 It is difficult to pieture to our minds our rural hills and 

 vallies, much more so the sites of our populous towns and 

 cities, thickly occupied by hippopotarai, rhinoceri, ele- 

 phants, lions, tigers, wolves, hytenas, bears, boars, etc., 

 although there can be no reason to doubt that these 

 animals were once denizens of our beautiful and peaceftil 

 county. 



" With this coUection, the Society came into possession 

 of an iinportant unpublished work, by the late Mr. Wil- 

 liams, on the Geology of Somerset, Devon, and Comwall. 

 It is a work of great research, and contains new views of 

 the Order of stratification in the western counties. The 

 manuscript book is accompanied by Mr. Williaras's field 

 maps of the counties, geologically coloured, and large and 

 extensive diagrams of the district in various directions, 

 with the strata numbered, so that the Palffiozoic fossils, 

 which are also numbered to corresj^ond with the numbers 

 on the diagrams, can be readily referred to their proper 

 beds. 



" The interest evinced by the public, encourages confi- 

 dence in the steady progress of the Society, and its 

 museum." 



Mr. DiCKiNSON Said that he was one of those gentle- 

 men who had assistcd in obtaining the museimi, and it 



