18 THE BATH INSTITUTION. 



remarkable of the benefactions which the Institution 

 has received. The foundation of its Cabinet of Coins 

 was laid by Mr. Wiltshire, of Shocker wick, and to 

 his collection was soon added the numerous consular 

 and family medals, the gift of the Rev. Dr. Nott, who 

 happened to be an invalid visitor of Bath soon after 

 the opening, if not at the time of the opening. The 

 remarkably curious collection of foreign matrixes of 

 seals was the gift of the Eev. Mr. Battell: it may 

 be added as a fact in their history that they were 

 bought by him at the sale of Mr. Tyssen's museum. 

 Mr. Leman, the eminent student in the Eoman 

 Antiquities of Britain, bequeathed to the library his 

 annotated Horsley and other topographical writings, 

 as well as a large collection of manuscript county 

 genealogies. The library also contains two quarto 

 volumes of Annotations on Shakespeare, by Dr. Sher- 

 win, the adventurous defender of the authenticity of 

 Rowley. 



Add to these, that the remains of Bath in the 

 time of the Romans, an extraordinary collection for 

 England, are now deposited within the walls of the 

 Institution. 



