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Donations. — The most remarkable donation of the year 

 lias been one for which the Museum is indebted to M. Leopold 

 Delisle, Director of the Bibliotheque Nationale, who, having 

 idiscovered the two leaves missing from the Gaignat copy of 

 the block-book of the Apocalypse printed at Mentz about 

 1465, now in the Bi'itish Museum, obtained the authority of 

 the Minister of Public Instruction to present them to the 

 .Museum, in recognition of the services rendered by the 

 Manuscript Department in assisting in the restoration to 

 France of some leaves of a mutilated MS. 



The following donations and bequests also are of especial 

 interest. 



An extensive set of colonial newspapers, chiefly for the 

 year 1893. Presented by the Royal Colonial Institute. 



A bequest of upwards of 250 books and pamphlets relating 

 to the organ, being a collection formed by the late Colonel 

 Lewis Conway-Gordon, of the Royal Engineers, and presented 

 after his death to the Museum by his widow, Mrs. Conway- 

 Oordon, in accordance with his wish. The portion of the 

 <;ollecfcion already in the library has, with the assent of Mrs. 

 Conway-Gordon, been presented by the Museum to the Koyal 

 College of Music. 



Upwards of 250 pieces of music, being part of a collection, 

 bequeathed by the late Sir George Scharf, k.c.b., to 

 W. Barclay Squire, Esq., of the Department of Printed Books, 

 and presented by Mr. Squire, in compliance^vith the testator's 

 -wish that such pieces as were not already in the Museum 

 might be deposited in the Library. 



The first poetical composition of Christina Rossetti, 

 :a,ddressed to her mother, 27th April 1842; printed at the 

 private press of her uncle Gaetano Polidori. Presented by 

 W. M. Rosseiti, Esq. 



A pass granted by the Duke of Cumberland during the 

 Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Fort Augustus, 29th May 1745, 

 accompanied by a MS. letter b}'' Sir Walter Scott. Presented 

 by Robert Marshall, Esq. 



Maps. — The principal accessions to the collection of maps 

 have been as follows : [Hemisphjerium Australe.] A map of 

 the Southern Celestial Hemisphere. With MoDOgram of 

 Albert Diirer ; circa 1527. 



Britannise Insulfe quse nunc Anglise et Scotise Regna con- 

 tinet cum Hibernia adjacente nova descriptio. Venetiis apud 

 Joannem Andream Valvassorem cognomine Guadagninum, 

 A.D. 1556. An exceedingl}- rare map, engraved on soft metal, 

 And having the appearance of a wood-cut. 



0.97 Nova 



