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written on leaves of plants, and held together in long 
narrow wooden covers. On the floor beneath these 
cases will be noticed a standard Winchester bushel 
measure of the Tudor period, and in the wall cases are 
smaller standard measures of a like date, that 
belonged to the Norwich Corporation. 
A curious vase or urn, reminding one of the simile 
that man is like a potter’s vessel, is the Igacaba of the 
Muros Indians, from Manaos, South America. 
Human features and limbs are being developed, as it 
were, out of this urn, that was used for sepulchral pur- 
poses. Against the wall are models, one of a hand- 
some monument to the Marquis of Ormond, and 
the other of a Burmese priest’s house. The cases on 
the south side contain a remarkable collection of 
feather ornaments, articles of apparel, implements 
and utensils from Brazil and the region of the 
Amazon River in South America, most of them the 
gift of Mr. William Wethered. But at the time this 
edition of our guide is being issued, the arrangement 
of the antiquities and ethnological specimens is 
far from complete. 
The Dungeons, 
In the centre division of the basement of the keep 
will be found a relic of the past in the form of a 
“Yarmouth cart.” : 
In the glass cases round the walls are a large num- 
ber of fossils from the pre and post-glacial formations, 
the bulk of them consisting of Mammalian remains 
from the Forest-bed ; but there is one case of chalk 
fossils, part of the Rose collection. ‘The contents of 
other cases are of a miscellaneous character. In 
September, 1839, the minute book of the Museum 
states that ‘‘ Mr. Stark had most handsomely offered 
