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e '. At the sale. of the Marlboroiigh.Gems the Trustees acquired 



.four cameos of Roman wori:maiiship,-oiie of ^theim being thfe 

 great sardonyx, bearing two iinperial heads confronted, which 

 have been identified as portraits of Julian t]ie Apostate and 

 his wife Helena, in the character of the deities Amimon an^ 



'Isis. A double cameo , of historical interest, as, having been ja 

 gift from the Emperor Charles' V., to Pope Clement VII. was 



^also obtained from the same soiirce ;' and to these 'h|ive been 

 added a' beautifully mounted' onyx cameo bearing the hea^ 

 of Lucius Yerns, and a ifine' portrait cameo, both of t|ie 

 Renaissance period, the gift of Mr. Charles Butler. 



\ To the Department of Egyptian aiid Assyrian Antiquities 

 have been added a further series of early antiquities fro^ 



.^Egypt, including objects, of the prse-dynastic , period, and a 

 large collection of cuneiform_ tablets of a remote age frofia 

 Lower 'Babylonia.' Among the acquisitions of the DepartmerOt 



J of Greek and Roman Antiquities may be -noticed the Greek 



"vases obtained at the sale of theEorman Collection,' including 

 a remarkable red-figured lebes of the finest' style ; and the 



. Department of Prints and Drawings has been enriched by the 

 bequest of a volume of sketches- and studies' by ^ir Edwa^ 

 Burne-Jones; and by the gift of av collection of etchings iDy 

 Colonel Robert Gofl*.. . ' ._ _ . . . 



A most.v^luable addition to the Department of; Manuscripis 

 is the correspondence, papers, and historical ^nd legal. collec- 

 tions of the first three Earls of Hardwicke. The whole will 

 form upwards of nine hundred volumes,' a large portion 



" consisting of political correspondence of special importance 

 for the years 1740-l79i3. Included also is the correspondence 

 of Robert Keith, Ambassador to Vienna and ^t. Petersburg 



•in 1758-1762, and of his son, Sir^ Robert Murray Keith, 

 Ambassador to Denmark and Vienna in 1771-1791. " " ' 



Gifts of Museum publications, including reproductions of 

 prints and drawings by old masters, and electrotypes of Britisli 

 historical medals, have been made to Free Public Libraries, 

 Local Museums, and Art Schools throughout the_ United 

 Kingdom. ' .' ") 



The following are the publications issued ^by the Depart- 

 ments at Bloomsbu^y during "the year : — ■ ! • ;i 

 Continuation of the General Catalogue of the I^ibrary, 

 quarto, 10 parts, viz.: — Bible, Part III., and AppendijO; 

 France; Liturgies, Parts I., II., and III. ; and Periodical 

 Publications (new edition).. Parts I., IL, III., and IV.' . ^^ 

 Catalogue of Accessions to the Library, quarto, 26, parts.,!} 

 Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik 

 Collection of the British Museum, by C. Bezold. ■ VoL V., 

 octavo, 11. 3s. 



'The Book of the Dead : Facsimiles of the Papyri of Hune- 

 fer, Anhai, Kerasher, and Netchemet, with supplementary 

 text from the Papyrus of Nu. With transcripts, translations, 

 &c., by E. A. Wallis Budge, Litt. D. Folio, 21. 10s. 



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