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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM.

Two Vessels in Grey Pottery, supposed to have been used as wine-measures. Found in excavating ground adjoining the West side of the Angel Inn, High Street, Guildford.

Presented by J. R. Stedman, Esq.

The early Kings of England, after they became Earls of Anjou, had wine-stores in this town. Precepts to the Sheriffs of Surrey are still extant, directing that no wine should be sold within the Bailiwick of Surrey except from the King's Stores.

A Series of Eighty Facsimiles of Corporate, Abbatial, and other Seals relating to the County, including those of the Earls of Surrey.

Impression in wax of the Seal of Sir Thomas Bysshe, Knight, Lord of the Manor of Burstowe, Surrey, 1382, temp. Richard II.

Presented by the Honorary Secretary.

Nuremburg Counter. Found at Bagshot.

Presented by C. R. Cayley, Esq.

Stone Celt. Found at Coombe Hill, near Kingston.

Presented by Arthur Brown, Esq.

Terra-Cotta Ring. Found, with others, in Richmond Park.

Presented by Edward Jesse, Esq.

Seventeen Ancient English Coins. Found at various times between 1840 and 1852, on the site of the Archiepiscopal Palace, at Croydon.

Presented by S. Lee Rymer, Esq.

A Roman Brick from the Gaer, Brecknockshire.

Four Specimens of Fossils.

Key of Chertsey Abbey.

Stirrup and Horse-shoe worn by Marlborough's Cavalry, 1708.

Fragment of a Skull and Bone. Found at Newark Abbey.

A Shepherd's Leathern Bottle.

A New Zealand Shield.

Wooden Nut-Crackers from Almners Barns, Chertsey.

A Piece of "The Royal George" in the form of a Book.

A Stuffed Alligator.

Presented by the Committee of the late Chertsey Literary and Scientific Society.

Fragment of Bread taken from a Tomb in Alexandria, and supposed to be 2,000 years old.

Presented by Miss E. Webb.

Two Bronze Medals. Commemorative of William Roscoe, and of the opening of St. George's Hall, Liverpool.

Presented by Joseph Mayer, Esq., F.S.A.

A New Zealand Spear and a Malay Spear.

Presented by Mrs. Richard Webb.

Sixty-eight Fragments of Encaustic Tiles from Chertsey Abbey.

Fifty-four presented by S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A. five by Captain Oakes, and nine by William Hawkes, Esq.

Encaustic Tile from Weavers' Hall, Basinghall Street.

Presented by J. Wickham Flower, Esq.