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MUSEUM CURATORS AT BOLTON. 



By the invitation of the curator of the Bolton Museum, a con- 

 ference was held at Bolton, on Saturday, 30th September. 

 Representatives attended from the following museums : — Man- 

 chester, Keighley, St. Helens, Bury, Rochdale, Huddersfield, 

 Warring-ton, Halifax, York, Stockport, Liverpool, Bolton, 

 Oldham, Cawthorne, Sheffield, and Hull. 



The principal point of interest was the Hall-i'th-Wood 

 Museum, a 15th century building, which has been purchased, 

 equipped, and presented to the inhabitants of Bolton by W. H. 

 Lever, Esq. This visit was most instructive. The museum is 



Hall-i'th-Wood Museum (from an old print). 



entirely occupied by furniture and other antiquities, relating, as 

 near as possible, to Bolton, and its famous son, Samuel Crompton, 

 who invented the spinning' mule in the building. A striking 

 feature was the manner in which the place had been restored, 

 and the attractive way in which the exhibits were shown. It 

 was particularly agreeable to notice that even the exhibition 

 cases containing the smaller specimens were principally con- 

 temporary cupboards and other old pieces of furniture. The 

 large size of the building enabled the various objects to be 



Naturalist, 



