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Excerpt from The Thruston Collection: Vanderbilt University It was in these scientific excursions in boyhood that the strong taste for archaeology, mineralogy, and paleontology was developed, which later in life was to furnish General Thruston diversion and enjoyment. The boy was evidently father to the man. When General Thruston came to Nashville at the close of the Civil War he brought with him a small but interesting collee tion, which became the nucleus of the collection recently pre sented to the university. Additions were made to this collection as time and opportunity permitted, as, notably, for instance, when on a European trip he obtained special permission as an ex-officer of the United States army to excavate for himself among the ruins of Pompeii and retain his finds. As a result of this concession, now no longer to be gained by any one, the Thruston collection contains a number of most interesting relics of this ancient Roman city. On these European and other trips he made a habit of frequenting the shops of lapidaries and deal ers, and constantly added choice specimens of gems, minerals, and crystals to his collection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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