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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



A LINXOLN MUSEUM AT LAST! 



At a meeting- of the Lincolnshire County Museum Committee, 

 held recently, an application was received from the municipality 

 of Grimsby, for the transfer to them of the specimens in the 

 possession of the Committee, at Lincoln. The applicants 

 pointed out that they now had funds for the purpose, a museum 

 building-, and a curator ; and would pay the cost of transfer of 

 the specimens. It was announced, however, that the Lincoln 

 Corporation had undertaken to repair and alter the Grey Friary 

 at Lincoln, and were willing- to spend, within the next twelve 

 months, the sum of ^£,^1,500 in preparing- the upper chamber 

 and crypt for the purposes of a Museum. Whether as a result 

 of the Grimsby application or not, it must be most g-ratifying- to 

 all who are connected with Lincolnshire to learn that a County 

 Museum is at last to be established in its capital. The pity is 

 that this were not done long ag'o. Not one, but hundreds of 

 most valuable objects — antiquarian, geolog-ical, and natural 

 history have left the county for ever, when a proper Museum 

 mig-ht have retained them. We noticed in a recent publication 

 of a Yorkshire Museum, an account of the acquisition of some 

 most valuable Roman Mosaic pavement, vases, etc., found in 

 Lincoln, but which are now permanently housed across the 

 Humber. The people of Lincoln ought never to have allowed 

 the removal of these relics. There are, however, still scores 

 of suitable objects in Lincoln and around, which will no doubt 

 find their way to the new County Museum. 



THE BRIDLINGTON 'CRAG." 



The so-called Bridlington 'Crag-,' which for nearly twenty 

 years has been hidden from the reach of geologists, is just now 

 being exposed in connection with the erection of a new sea-wall. 

 When first described it was considered to be a deposit in situ, 

 beneath the boulder-clay, and was therefore referred to the 

 Crag series of Norfolk and Suff"olk. Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, 

 however, demonstrated that the shelly patches were fragments 

 torn up from an old sea bottom, which had been transported 

 and included in the boulder-clay, in the same way as boulders of 

 harder materials. The patches now being exposed in the excava- 

 tions are found to occur in irregular patches in the Basement 



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