14 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



by the Intelligence Departments o£ the Admiralty and War Office. 

 The visitors to the temporary exhibition between August and 

 December amomited to 150,442. 



The number o£ separate objects incorporated in the several 

 Departments during 1918 is as follows :-r- 

 Printed Books : 



Books and Pamphlets - - _ _ _ 18,612 



Serials and Parts o£ Volumes _ _ - _ 51,835 



Maps and Atlases ------ 2,344 



Music - - - ----- - 6,938 



Newspapers (single numbers) _ - _ - 258,084 



Miscellaneous ------- 3,609 



Manuscripts and Seals ------ 244 



Oriental Printed Books and MSS.- *- - - 1,356 



Prints and Drawings ------ 2,234 



(Oriental) - - - - 114 



Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities - - - - 690 



Greek and Roman Antiquities - - - _ 15 



British and Mediaeval Antiquities - - - .- 652 



Coins and Medals ------ 1,149 



Total ----- 347,876 



The full list of accessions is again omitted, since the need for 

 economy in paper and printing still continues. The departmental 

 reports are accordingly reserved for future publication. 



The purchase grant being still limited to the acquisition of 

 current books, notable acquisitions were again mainly confined to 

 the gifts of generous friends of the Museum. The most important 

 were a selection of drawings of Old Masters from Sir Edward 

 Poynter's collection, presented by Mr. Otto Beit ; the bequest of 

 the Rev. E. S. Dewick, supplemented by gifts from his son, 

 the Rev. E. C. Dewick, including twelve printed and eight 

 manuscript liturgical books ; a selection of Blake's illustrations to 

 Dante, partly purchased and partly presented ; and the torso of 

 an Aphrodite, some classical gems, and 162 fine Greek coins, 

 bequeathed by Mr. and Mrs. John Ford. In addition the Museum 

 derived some early Sumerian objects from excavations undertaken 

 by Mr. R. Campbell Thompson on its behalf at the sites of Ur and 

 Erech in Mesopotamia. On Mr. Thompson's return from the East, 

 Mr. H. R. Hall was sent out to assist the military authorities in 

 Mesopotamia with advice as to the protection of antiquities, and to 

 make such further researches as might be feasible. 



Arranged by Departments, the most notable accessions are as 

 follows : — 



Printed Books : 



Phalaris, Epistolse, printed at Valencia, about 1474. 

 Amadis of Gaul, book vi, printed at Salamanca, 1510. 

 Indulgence, printed by Pynson, 1515. 



