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Jftwscum (Collections of the Bournemouth $atural 
Science Societtj. 
By Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., D.Sc., D.C.L. 
The following notes contain a brief account of the Collections 
now in possession of the Society or likely to be shortly acquired 
by it. The formation of a Public Museum of Natural Science has 
already received attention. The Museums Act was adopted by 
the Borough Council in 1906, but no steps have since been taken 
to give practical effect to it. In the meantime the Society is 
making an effort to bring together and arrange collections 
acquired by it until they have attained such bulk and importance 
as will justify the erection of a building in which they could be 
effectively displayed. The primary aim would be to illustrate the 
progress of human knowledge and attainment, with special regard 
to objects of local significance and value* 
Antiquarian Collection. 
Mr. Brownen has kindly supplied the following information 
relative to some of the specimens presented by him:—All the 
specimens are strictly local, and some of them are of historic 
interest. The black glazed ware—similar to Upchurch, but quite 
distinct in type both from New Forest as well as Upchurch ware 
—seems to have been made by steeping the biscuit ware in a 
thin solution or emulsion of fine clay and iron pyrites and fired with 
a bituminous fuel—possibly our local Kimmeridge shale. It 
approaches the early Egyptian type, and our local manufacture 
may have been originally derived from the Levant. 
The coin of Vespasian from our neighbourhood is not a 
solitary “ find,” and may doubtless be associated with the cam¬ 
paign of that General of Claudius against the Durotriges in A.D. 
43-47, or else the later operations of Agricola, when that coinage 
was current. The small hoard of semi-fused Roman coins, whose 
condition must be assigned to a later date than the first of Gratian 
(A.D. 375) suggests the result of a Saxon raid not long, before the 
Roman recall. 
With reference to the English coins. It is interesting to note 
that during the reigns of Henry II. and Henry III. there were 
times when the lords were minors, and the manors in the adminis¬ 
tration of the Crown. 
Edward I. bought the manor and other properties from 
Isabella de Fortibus outright in consequence of the death of his 
sister-in-law Aveline, who was Isabella’s only daughter. 
