IN MEMORIAM. XV11. 



county shows that his interest and knowledge in this branch of 

 archaeology were great. But I do not think that the general esti- 

 mate of his attainments therein, and of his long-continued collecting 

 of coins, is nearly high enough. In enlarging his knowledge of 

 Saxon coins he went far afield. Considering the vast drain of 

 money from England in Saxon times, caused by actual raids and 

 by the Danegeld, Mr. WARNE bethought him that the museums of 

 Northern Europe must be rich in our coins of that epoch. He 

 found this to be the case, and he summed up no less than 10,722 

 Saxon coins as existing in various Danish and other northern 

 museums. Among these were several Dorset types, before unknown 

 to antiquaries. From such and other sources he gradually gathered 

 a fine collection of Saxon coins. Another feature of his cabinets is 

 a probably unequalled assemblage of coins of Carausius. Moreover, 

 he collected a great display of antiquities of other and various 

 kinds. " Ancient Dorset," and, now of late, the " Warne Collec- 

 tion," in the Dorset Museum, make us in some degree aware of this. 

 But apart from that collection, which was long deposited in the 

 Brighton Museum, he possessed a great number and great variety 

 of antiques, home and foreign, in his house, which is half furnished 

 with old oak, half hung with old tapestry. 



With such antiquarian tastes, it is no wonder that he made a 

 number of antiquarian friends, both in and out of Dorset. Of 

 these many have passed away, such as Mr. Hall, Mr. Sydenham, 

 Mr. Shipp, and last, not least, the Rev. W. Barnes. Two of his 

 chief allies survive him, the veteran antiquaries, Mr. Roach 

 Smith and Dr. Smart. The latter gave Mr. WARNE most valuable 

 help by contributing an admirable ethnological essay and other 

 archaeological notices to "Ancient Dorset." Again, Mr. WARNE 

 was much encouraged in his antiquarianism by his cousin, Miss 

 Warne, of Yeovil, daughter of Dr. Warne, physician to King 

 George III., when at Weymouth. This lady possessed not only 

 keen taste for conchology, geology, botany, and archaeology, but also 

 matchless energy in the practical pursuit of knowledge. Entirely 

 alone, she visited most of Europe and parts of Asia, Africa, and 



