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The Temporary Museum. 



together with the engraving which contains his likeness, with that 

 of other literary characters, at Abbotsford, from the painting by 

 Thomas Faed, R.A., were contributed by Mr. Henry Clark. It is 

 well that the county contains these memorials of so eminent a man. 



The contributions from the Westbury Iron Works Company were 

 very interesting. They consisted principally of fossil remains and 

 Roman antiquities found in digging the iron ore. Among the 

 fossils were large bones of Pliosaurus and other Saurians of the 

 Kimmeridge Clay period. Among the Roman remains were several 

 specimens of samian ware, and other pottery, many coins, fibulae, 

 and small bronze implements, and a crucible containing some of the 

 metal, apparently lead, 1 which had been formerly melted in it. There 

 were also sundry masses of hard claystone, perforated at one end, 

 which are conjectured to be the loom weights of Roman weavers. 



The following, also, are some of the articles exhibited on this 

 occasion :-— 



By Mr. and Miss Tayler — 



A collection of antiquities and coins. 

 By Mr. John Hayward — 



Old engravings of Trowbridge Castle. 

 By Miss King and the Rev. S. Mann — 



Copies of the Bible of different dates. 

 By Mr. Mackniel — 



A case of large shells. Six cases of Wiltshire fossils, including a series of 

 fine corals from Steeple Ashton, and specimens of Apiocrinus Parkinsoni. 

 A case of Wiltshire and other tokens. A geological map of the neighbour- 

 hood. Clubs and other native weapons. Dresses and cloth brought from the 

 South Seas in the first voyage of the ship Duff. 

 By J. Bayeield Claek, Esq. — 



A case of British birds. 

 By Mrs. Edwards, Hilperton — 



A large and very fine collection of china. Several cases of shells. Corals 

 and other specimens of Natural History. A musket, apparently petrified 



1 Mr. Cunnington remarks that though there is ample evidence that the 

 Romans lived on this very spot for a kmg time, it appears that they failed to 

 discover the value of the rich iron ore beneath their feet, through which they 

 dug their wells, and in which they buried their dead. This is the more remark- 

 able as no farther off than Seend they had works for smelting iron. The Rev. 

 W. H. Chamberlain has lately contributed to the Museum the remains of a fine 

 Roman urn from Seend. 



