By W. Jerome Harrison, F.G.S. 



137 



Thurnam, Dr. John, and Dr. J. B. Davis [1801—1881]. 

 1856 — 65. Crania Brltannica; two vols., fol., viii., 254 ; with 

 fifty-seven plates, etc. : London. 



Vol. I. has for frontispiece a portrait of Dr. Davis. In Vol. II. eight 

 "Ancient British" and one "Anglo-Saxon" skulls are figured and 

 described. Dr. Thurnam's share of this important book consists mainly 

 of Chap. V., pp. 44 — 155 : " Historical Ethnology of Britain." For Abury 

 and Stonehenge see pp. 123 — 126. They were temples where justice was 

 administered and religious rites celebrated by the Druids. The date of 

 erection of Stonehenge was probably about 100 B.C. ; while Abury is 

 more ancient, and may be the " round temple " referred to by Hecatseus, 

 B.C. 330. 



For Abury see also plate 11., descriptive of an Ancient British Skull, from 

 a barrow at Kennet ; with plan and view of Abury and Silbury Hill. 



Tim mills, Sam : Shakspearean critic ; historian. 

 1886. Stonehenge, etc. Times, 23 Aug., p. 7. 



Both Stonehenge and Stratford Church (the grave of Shakespeare) ought 

 to become the property of the nation. 



Toland, Jno. [1670—1722]: Deist 

 1726. Collection: including the History of the Druids; 

 two vols., 8vo., xcii, 474 ; and iv., 495 ; with appendix, 76 pp. : 

 London. 

 Eeprinted, 1747 ; 1814. 



Stonehenge is a Druid Temple (p. 88, etc.). The " History of the Druids " 

 is contained in Vol. I., pp. 1 — 228. "John Aubrey . . . was the 

 only person I ever then [at Oxford] met, who had a right notion of the 

 Temples of the Druids . . . wherein he was entirely confirm'd by 

 the authorities which I show'd him . . . And though he was ex- 

 tremely superstitious . . . yet he was a very honest man, and most 

 accurate in his accounts of matters of fact " (p. 112). 



Townson, Dr. Thos. [1715—1792]: Divine. 



1799. Tracts, etc., in Natural History; 8vo. : London. 



1810. "Life and Works " of Townson ; two vols., 8vo. : London. 

 Townson gives a mineralogical account of the stones of Stonehenge. " The 

 great slab or altar is a kind of grey Cos, a very fine-grained calcareous 

 sandstone." The large sarsen stones are "of a fine-grained compact 

 sandstone." The smaller stones of the inner circle and ellipse are mostly 

 "a kind of fine-grained Griinstein " containing black hornblende; but 

 there are two of schist. 



Tozer, Rev. H. P. : Tutor, Exeter Coll., Oxford ; traveller. 

 1897. History of Ancient Geography ; 8vo., xvii., 387 : 

 Cambridge. 



