248 THE LATE LIEUT.-GENERAL PITT-RIVERS.
Lochs and Keys, 1883, which is illustrated by drawings of specimens from the
collection referred to above.
Later, on taking up his residence at "Rushmore," in Wiltshire, the
General set himself to form a local museum, which he established at the
neighbouring village of Farnham, For this purpose he withdrew from his
other collection the objects relating to agriculture, to which he has since con-
siderably added and this museum now contains a splendid collection of peasant
objects and agricultural appliances from all parts of the world. Here also are
preserved all the relics from the excavations, illustrating which are numerous
models showing the sites excavated and the position of the objects discovered.
This forms a perfect means of studying the antiquities of the district. As a
Rushmore House, near Salisbury, Wilts.
local educational institution the Farnham museum has proved a great success,
the interest of the people being aroused by seeing objects with which they are
so familiar. It is visited on Sundays by great numbers of people of the
neighbourhood from many miles around. In order to promote a more
enlightened manner of spending Sunday the General, in addition to the
museum, also opened a pleasure garden in which a band, composed of work
people on the estate, played selections of music. This had a tendency to
destroy the practice among the natives of standing at the cross-roads to grin
at the passers by, a time honoured institution, but the discontinuance of
which will cause no regret to students of folk-customs.
In 1880 Gen. Pitt-Rivers succeeded to the estate of Lord Rivers, at
Rushmore, near Salisbury, by descent from his grandmother, who was the