PRELIMINARY NOTICE. 
It has been felt that some of the visitors to the Museum will be 
desirous of obtaining information respecting many objects in the 
Collection, without being compelled to seek it in the scattered 
form in which it exists : with the view of supplying such a want 
the present descriptive Catalogue is issued. 
The Stone, Bronze, and early Iron objects in the Collection 
have been catalogued by Mr. E. T. Stevens ; the Mediaeval series 
and the Pottery by Mr. Nightingale ; the Mediaeval seals by Mr. 
W. Osmond, Jun. ; the Mammalian remains belonging to the 
pleistocene period by Dr. H. P. Blackmore ; and the Birds by Mr. 
Henry Blackmore. The Catalogue is necessarily in great degree a 
compilation, but it has been found impossible to make continual 
reference to authorities in the course of the work. From the very 
hurried manner in which the subject-matter has been brought toge¬ 
ther, and the rapidity with which the Catalogue has passed through 
the press, it is feared that many errors will be detected, but the 
Public will doubtless make due allowance for any trifling inac¬ 
curacies. 
The illustrations are intended to render the descriptive matter 
more clear than could otherwise be the case. The wood-blocks 
have been kindly lent by Mr. Wm. Brown and Mr. Nightingale ; 
the anastatic drawings are by Mr. E. T. Stevens, and have been 
printed by Mr. Highman, of this City. 
All communications respecting the catalogue as to corrections or 
furnishing additional information should be addressed to Mr. E. T. 
Stevens, Minster-street, Salisbury. 
Salisbury and South Wilts Museum, 
Jan. 23, 1864. 
