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tlie most remarkable vlews, buiklings, and persons, con- 

 nected vvlth Bath, and extracts from the current Journals 

 of the date of each engraving ; all these arranged in the 

 best taste, and with great care conibine to constitute a 

 work illustrative of the present state and past history of 

 Bath, without the aid of which no future account of the 

 city can, we believe, be faithfuUy compiled. — Mr. CoL- 

 LINGS contributed two rare views of Bath, done in body 

 colours ; also portraits of Ralph Allen, Esq., and of 

 Dr. Harrington. — As a whole, the largest contribution 

 to the Natural History department, was that made 

 by Mr. W. Sainsbury, consisting of a hundred or 

 more specimens of the rarer stufFed birds, and nearly as 

 many preserved specimens of forcign reptiles. This col- 

 lection has been greatly commended. Mr. Sainsbury also 

 coutributed two palntings of rural subjects, by John 

 Cranch, one of our forcmost antiquaries in Bath, in past 

 years. — We must not omit to mention several rare books, 

 contributed by the Rev. A. Townsend, on the fly leaf of 

 one of which is an autograph letter written by the martyr, 

 John Bradford ; also his autograph, on the title page of a 

 copy of " ^colampadius on Daniel," prlnted at Basil, 

 1530. — Mr. Synge contributed four coins, found at Ban- 

 well, viz., a silver British coin, a Roniano-British, bearing 

 the sacred monogram, a penny and a farthing, of the reign 

 of Edwai'd I. — Befoi'e completing our report of the Mu- 

 seum, which must necessarUy be au imperfect and general 

 one, mention must be made of the varied and hlghly inte- 

 resting contributions made by Messrs. Raine Y, of Etruscan 

 and Roman pottciy, among which are ampullaj of all kinds, 

 lamps from Pompeii, and a numerous assemblage of other 

 objeets of a similarly antique character, a sepulchral slab 

 with its inscription, and a beautiful figure of Minerva, 



