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The Museum. 



seat. Chinese shoe. Australian shield, boomerang, spear, instrument for 

 throwing spear, waddie, &c. 

 By Henry Fox Talbot, Esq., Lacoch Abbey : — 



* Ten specimens of Engraving by Photography, including views of The 

 Tuileries at Paris ; Statue of Charles IY. at Prague ; Chamber of Deputies, 

 Madrid ; Great Bell of Moscow ; Doorway of San Gregorio, Valladolid ; Bird's 

 eye view of Paris ; Cascade in the Tyrol ; Sea view on the English Coast, &c. 



By Rev. T. F. Ravenshaw, Pewsey 



* Twelve Stereoscopic views, including Amesbury, Pewsey, and Wootton 

 Rivers Churches, Stonehenge, &c. 



By John Thuknam, Esq., M.D., F.S.A., Devizes: — 



Fossil Sponges and Shells from the Upper Green Sand near the Wilts 

 County Asylum. Model of the large trilith at Stonehenge, showing the mor- 

 tises and tenons. Ancient British skull from a barrow on Morgan's Hill. 

 Small earthen cup from a barrow at Wansdyke ; also several cards of flint, bone , 

 ivory, and jet objects from barrows in the neighbourhood of Marlborough. 



By W. Baetlett, Esq., Burbage :— 



Three ancient horse-shoes found near Silbury Hill ; accompanied by a 

 printed description from Mr. Bracy Clark's work on shoeing horses, in which 

 two of the examples are represented in a lithographic plate. [Mr. Clark con- 

 siders them to be the oldest known specimens, and to have belonged possibly 

 to' the same horse, although not found together. The close resemblance in their 

 peculiar formation, shows beyond doubt that they are of the same period; and 

 from the appearance of the shoes, with the nails in them, Mr. Clark conjec- 

 tures that the horse was buried with the shoes on its hoofs. No bones of the 

 horse are said to have been seen, but a human skeleton lay near the spot 

 where one of the shoes was found.] An ivory carving of the Yirgin and 

 Child, about ten inches in height, found at Martin, in the parish of Great 

 Bedwyn. [This probably belonged to the ancient chapel of St. Martin, some 

 other relics from the site of which were also exhibited by Mr. Selfe. The 

 top of the head, in the effigy of the Virgin, is flat, and has a hole or socket, 

 by means of which a small moveable crown (perhaps of silver) seems to have 

 been attached.] A collection of Chalk Fossils from the neighbourhood of 

 Burbage, with specimens of fossil "wood, and horns of Cervus elathas, from 

 the same locality ; and fossil ivory from Shalbourn. Tomtit's nest and eggs 

 found embedded in a large elm tree at Burbage. An iron weapon or gisarme, 

 and two ancient spurs and rowel. Also, a small but interesting collection of 

 English coins, including many gold pieces, some of early date. Exchequer 

 Tally. Gold ring, with initials I. H. and a true lover's knot, found at Frox- 

 field. A landscape, composed of lichens and mosses from the neighbourhood, 

 by Miss Wride of Froxfield. 



By Rev. J. H. Austen, Embury, Dorset: — 



* Specimens of "Kimmeridge Coal Money," found in Dorsetshire. 

 By J. Iveson, Esq., Marlborough : — 



Preserved heads of Red and Fallow Deer, from Savernake Forest. 

 By J. Ttjknbtjll, Esq., Durley : — 



Specimens of fifteen varieties of Ferns, from Savernake Forest and neigh- 

 bourhood . 



By Rev. E. Wilton, West Lavington : — 



Stone celt from the Shannon. Bronze ring with the initial found at 



