24 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE Br.ITISlI MUSEUM. 



not more than a dozen are believed to exist. The Museum 

 has also acquired the proof of James Hogg's " Chaldee 

 Manuscript," which created so great a sensation in the early 

 days of Blackwood's Magazine, with copious MS. additions by 

 Hogg, none of which were printed ; the proof-sheets of the 

 correspondence between Burns and George Thomson, anno- 

 tated by the latter ; and the first volume of Sir Richard 

 Burton's " Abeokuta," with corrections by himself for a 

 second edition. 



Donations. — Among these are to be particularly men- 

 tioned : — A set of engravings prepared for the "edition de luxe" 

 of the works of Frederick the Great (1846-57), and com- 

 pleting the publication. Presented hy H.I.M. the Emperor 

 of Gerinany. 



Geschichte der gross-herzoglich-hcssischen Fahnen und 

 Standarten, an illustrated work pi-epared by command of 

 H.R.H. the Grand Duke of Hesse, by whom it is presented to 

 the British Museum. 



A most remarkable proclamation of Henry VIII, for 

 diminishing extravagance in living : — Prouysion made by the 

 King's hyghnes and his counsayll for puttynge a parte the 

 •excessyue fare and redusynge the same to such moderacion as 

 folowyngly ensueth. Imprinted by Richarde Pynson. 

 J^resented hy the late Sh' A. W. Franks, k.c.b. 



Barrett's History of Bristol, bound in nine volumes, and 

 interleaved with water-colour and pencil drawings, chiefly 

 executed by Miss Sarah S. Fripp, engravings, lithographs, 

 and other illustrations of Bristol, and accompanied by a 

 collection of Bristol municipal seals. Presented by the Artist, 

 31iss Sarah S. Fripp. 



An extensive collection of colonial newspapers, for 1894 ; 

 presented hy the Royal Colonial Institute. 



Maps. — The principal accessions to the collection of maps 

 liave been: — Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive Cosmographicae 

 Meditationes de fabrica Mundi et fabricati tigura . . . 

 cmendatus et appendice auctus studio Judoci Hondii. Sumpt- 

 ibus Johannis Cloppenburgii, Amsterodami, 1630. obi. 4to ; 

 showing part of the western coast of Australia ; and the 

 earliest known General Atlas in which any portion of that 

 .continent is represented. 



Gerardi de Jode Speculum Orbis Terrarum, with Latin 

 text by Daniel Cellarius. Antverpise, [1578.] fol. : exceedingly 

 rare. 



Two Celestial Planispheres of the Northern and Southern 

 Heavens, from drawings by Albert Durer, entitled : — Imagines 

 :Coeli septentrionales cum duodecim imaginibus Zodiaci- 

 Imagines coeli meridionales. Joann. Stabius ordinavit. 

 'Conradus Heinfogel stellasposuit. Albertus Durer imaginibus 



circumscripsit. 



