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The Council of the Society have the pleasure -of acknowledging the following 



Donations to the Museum and Library. 

 By the llev. James Henry Hughes, Surat .-—Supplemental Descriptive 



Catalogue of ancient Scottish seals, from A.D. 1150 to the 18th century. 



Edinburgh: Edminstow & Douglas, 1866, 4to. 

 By W. G. Everett, Esq., M.D.: — A Portrait in oil, of a Town Clerk of Devizes, 



Date, 1562. 



The Council also have the satisfaction of announcing, that they 

 have received from the Executors of the late Mrs. Wetherell, a 

 very valuable bequest of Cabinets, Minerals, Fossils, and Books on 

 Geological and Mineralogical subjects. 



The following is an 



" Extract from the Will of Mrs. Ann Wetherell, of Harrow 

 Weald Lodge, in the county of Middlesex, widow and relict 

 of the Rev. Robert Wetherell, late Prebendary of Hereford, 

 and Rector of Newnton Longville in the county of Bucking- 

 ham, deceased, who died on the 28th April, 1866. 

 "Also I give and bequeath to my said Executors in trust, for the use and 

 purposes of the Public Institution at Devizes, called the Wilts Archaeological 

 and Natural History Society, my four small mahogany Cabinets or sets of 

 drawers and my two small sets of drawers contained in the deal painted book- 

 case in my Library (making six in the whole,) and a large mahogany box, 

 together with all the Fossils and geological specimens therein and elsewhere in 

 my house, whether packed in boxes or drawers, or on my chimney pieces and 



I Book-case or otherwise disposed of (except those herein given to Mrs. Elizabeth 

 Calverley.) And I desire that Institution may be informed of this bequest and 

 may send a competent person to pack and take them away after my death. 



And I direct that the several articles hereinbefore bequeathed to, or in trust 

 for the several Institutions and Colleges, hereiubefore mentioned, shall be de- 

 livered to the respective Heads or Managers or Treasurers of such respective 

 Institutions and Colleges, whose receipt shall be a good discharge to my 

 ; Executors for the same." 



Extract from third Codicil to the above-mentioned Will. 



"I bequeath to the Wilts Archaeological and Natural History Society at 

 \ Devizes, all my Mineralogical, Geological, and Fossil books, bound and unbound, 

 ! with ' Whitehurst on the Earth,' 1 vol. quarto ; and ' Buckland's Organic 

 Remains,' 1 vol. quarto." 



Mrs. Wetherell was a lady of Wiltshire family, the sister of the 

 late Sergeant Merewether, and of the late Dean of Hereford, so 



