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interest in his work, and has no inclination for a listless kind of 

 loafing through life. These, he said, were general platitudes, but, 

 for these general reasons, he had great pleasure in coming there 

 that day to declare the Lincoln Museum open, and might God's 

 blessing be upon it. 



The President, in moving a vote of thanks to the Bishop, 

 touched upon the want of funds necessary for the successful 

 carrying out of an adequate museum for the county, of which the 

 start they had made that day was only intended to be a nucleus ; and 

 lie hoped the antiquaries of Lincolnshire w r ould join the Museum 

 Committee, and aid in collecting the valuable relics and records with 

 which the county abounded. He had, he said, large collections of 

 shells, insects, and other objects which he would gladly transfer to 

 the Museum when proper cases could be found for them. 



Canon Fowler seconded this resolution, and said that, when 



Lincoln got the School of Science and Art, there was a desire to 



Museum ; because so many good things, which would have 

 been given to the city, such as the great collection of l)e Wint's 

 pictures, now the glory of South Kensington Museum; the Franklin 

 relics, which were very important ; and other well-known collections 

 had gone elsewhere for want of a proper place to keep them in ; 

 and he hoped, now that they had made a small beginning towards 

 a County Museum, they would ultimately attain that object, which 

 they had so sincerely at heart. The vote of thanks was then 

 passed with enthusiasm. 



The objects shown in the Museum were of considerable interest. 

 The County Herbarium, consisting of some 10,000 specimens, which, 

 through the untiring energy of the Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock, 

 and his knowledge of plants, especially in the relation of species to 

 outcrops and soils, had been collected and brought together for 

 years past, and was enclosed in four large cabinets, must be men- 

 tioned first. Mr. Peacock has worked unceasingly in this department, 

 and if as good collections are hereafter made of the birds, insects, 

 shells, and fossils of the county, then the Museum will form, what 

 it is intended to be, a most instructive collection not only for 

 students, but for all who come to see it. Mr. Burton had given 

 a case of W hooper Swans, shot the previous winter near Lincoln, 

 and lie had also lent a collection of British Land Shells, and of 

 Zoophytes, the latter taken mainly from the Lincolnshire coast. He 

 also showed some Rhcetic and Liassic fossils, and Beaver teeth 

 found, with other animal remains and pieces of pottery, in the refuse 

 heap of a Roman villa, which was unearthed, >me years ago, in 



making a lake in Thonock Park, near Gainsborough. 



l »rch 1896. 



