GENERAL PROGRESS AT THE MUSEUM. 19 



which general opinion, both at home and abroad, assigns to it, 

 if the purchase grant voted by Parliament were not largely 

 supplemented by the enlightened liberality of many benefactors, 

 great and small. The number of desirable objects which come 

 into the market annually is so large, and the money value of 

 the more important specimens has risen so greatly, that no 

 Parliamentary grant could be expected to suffice to meet all 

 demands ; and it is therefore all the more satisfactory to 

 recognise that private individuals, rich and poor, are more and 

 more recognising the claims of this form of national service. 



Gifts of Museum publications, including reproductions of 

 prints by Old Masters, and sets of electrotypes of British 

 Historical Medals, have been made to many Free Libraries, 

 Museums, and Art Schools throughout the United Kingdom, 

 and to certain libraries and institutions in the overseas 

 Dominions and in foreign countries ; and similar gifts have been 

 received in return. 



The following are the publications issued by the Depart- 

 ments at Bloomsbury during the year : — 



Hieroglyphic Te>xts from Egyptian Stelse, &c. in the British 

 Museum. Part I. 56 plates. Folio, 7s. 6d. 



Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, &c. in the 

 British Museum. Parts XXX. and XXXI. 50 plates each. 

 Folio, 7s. Gd. each part. 



Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, in 

 the British Museum. By F. H. Marshall. With 73 plates. 

 4to., 11. 15s. 



Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and 

 Ireland. Parts XIV.-XVII. 10 plates each. Folio, 6s. each 

 part. 



Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and 

 Ireland. Part XVIII. 13 plates. Folio, 8s. 



Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and 

 Ireland. Part XIX. Indexes, General Title, and Preface. 

 Folio, 10s, 



Catalogue of the Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths and 

 Lombards, and of the Empires of Thessalonica, Nicsea and 

 Trebizond in the British Museum. By Warwick Wroth. With 

 43 autotype plates. 8vo., 11. 2s. 6d. 



Subject Index of the Modern Works added to the Library of 

 the British Museum in the years 1906-1910. Svo., 21. 



Catalogue of Greek Papyri in the British Museum ; with 

 Texts. Vol. IV., The Aphrodito Papyri. 4to., U. 



An Alphabetical Index to the Chinese Encyclopaedia in the 

 British Museum. Compiled by Lionel Giles. 4to., 1 5s. 



