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presented the original to the Dublin Society. This I cannot, 
under the above-mentioned circumstances, accept as authentic. 
I think it more probable that Dr. Fraser’s model came into Mr. 
Glennon’s hands from some predecessor of his, or was perhaps 
purchased by him at a sale, or it may have been merely a copy 
of the Dublin Society’s model. 
Having ascertained that there were no copies of this model 
in the museums of London or Edinburgh, I have supplied the 
deficiency from some plaster casts which have recently been 
prepared. 
If the history about to be presented is, as I believe it to be, 
the true one, then the original mould from which the models 
were cast was probably prepared about the end of the year 1795 
or the beginning of 1796, and the best chance of finding any 
record of the-fact would probably be in the press or magazines of 
that period, which have as yet only been partially examined for 
that purpose. 
The Dublin Society’s model is the best and sharpest of the 
four, and was probably the first taken from the mould, which 
became injured by successive lead castings, as is commonly the case. 
Before completing the history which follows, I made inquiries 
through Mr. Richard Holmes, Librarian at Windsor Castle, as 
to the possibility of the nugget being still in existence, and as to 
there being anything on record regarding it, but I have been in- 
formed by him that so far he has been unable to trace it. 
With reference to the origin of the story connecting this nugget 
with George IV., it may be suggested that a gold nugget received, 
as we shall see, from the Government in 1800, which at the time 
of his visit was in the collection of the Royal Dublin Society, 
and is now in the Science and Art Museum, may have been shown 
to his Majesty as being an object of special interest. It weighs 
1502°5 grs., vide post, p. 321, and Pl. xut., fig. 3); but, if so, as 
it is here still, the statement made in some of the stories that 
the king thereupon put the nugget into his pocket is thereby dis- 
proved. As regards the large nugget which weighed nearly 2 lbs. 
it is ridiculous to suggest that his Majesty could have so far for- 
gotten his dignity as to have done so, and it is in itself sufficient 
to discredit the whole myth. There is no evidence, it may be 
added, of any other nugget having been in the possession of the 
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