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fireplaces of the dining room and hall shown in these photographs are 

 introductions of the 1911 alterations. The small domestic chapel to 

 the east of the entrance, used as a stable during the farmhouse period, 

 now acts as a storehouse. The letterpress gives a short account of the 

 Gascelyn and Hungerford Families, by whom the porch of the latter 

 part of the 13th century and the 17th century portions of the house 

 were built respectively. 



Report of the Marlborough College Nat. Hist 

 Soc. for the year ending Christmas, 1912. 



No. 61. 1913. The most important article in this number is 

 that describing the cutting made in the Castle Mound in ] 912, in which 

 results which were summarised in a short note by Mr. H. C. Brentnall 

 in the last number of Wilts Arch. Mag. are stated by him in greater 

 detail. No decisive evidence of the age of the mound was discovered, 

 but the presence of fragments of red deer horns with the brow tines 

 broken as if by use as picks seems to point to a Pre-Roman origin, 

 though antler picks may well have been used in later times. A 

 section of the cutting is given. Good work by the various sections is 

 reported during the year, one new Grass and seven new species of 

 Lepidoptera having been added to the local lists. It is noted that the 

 Little Owl (Athene Noctua), which has been on the increase in various 

 parts of England of recent years, appears to have taken up its abode at 

 Totterdown, where three have been shot and one caught alive since 

 1911. The rainfall of 1912 was 4035 inches, or 8£ inches in excess of 

 the corrected average for 48 years, which is 3193. 



Bo WOOd. An article by A. T. Bolton in Country Life, Sept, 6th, 1913, 

 pp. 324 — 331, with the usual magnificent photographs. These are : — 

 Adam's Porch on W. Side ; Centre of the Diocletian Wing ; Mausoleum ; 

 Interior of Mausoleum ; South Portico ; Orangery, Vestibule leading to 

 Chapel ; Hall ; Dining Room Ceiling ; Drawing Room ; Indian Room ; 

 A Fireplace, and the Drawing of it ; Ground Plan. The writer believes 

 that Britton's account is at fault in several important particulars. John 

 Earl of Shelburne, bought Bowood 1754, and died 1761. He is believed 

 to have built the Mausoleum, 1761. As Adam only started in business 

 about 1758, little work could have been done to the house under his 

 guidance in the time of this earl. It must have been in the time of his 

 successor, William, Earl of Shelburne and first Marquis of Lansdowne, 

 that what we now see of Adam's work on the house was carried out. 

 In 1768 the earl bought the unfinished Lansdowne House, in Berkeley 

 Square, which Adam had been building for Lord Bute. He died 1805. 

 The second marquis took no interest in Bowood. Henry Petty 

 Fitzmaurice, third marquis, half-brother of the second marquis, held 

 the property 1809 to 1863. George Dance's alteration of the approach 

 to the Diocletian wing was carried out before 1814. The chapel was 

 opened 1824. The final shaping of the house as we see it to-day 

 by Sir Charles Barry extended from 1834 to 1857. By this marquis 



