16 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The number of separate objects incorporated in the collec- 

 tions of the several Departments during the year 1914 is as 

 follows : — 



Printed Books : 





Books and Pamphlets 



- 32,539 



Serials and Parts of Volumes 



- 71,831 



Maps and Atlases - - - - 



2,942 



Music _____ 



- 12,391 



Newspapers (single numbers) 



- 231,882 



Miscellaneous _ - _ - 



8,734 



Manuscripts and Seals . _ _ 



1,353 



Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts - 



4,626 



Prints and Drawings _ _ . 



6,657 



(Oriental) 



386 



Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities - 



5,454 



Greek and Roman Antiquities 



146 



British and Mediaeval Antiquities - 



3,072 



Coins and Medals - - - - 



3,090 



Total 



- 385,103 



The most noteworthy of these accessions have been the 

 Hazlitt bequest, which will ultimately provide a fund of about 

 lO.OOOL for the purchase of early English printed books ; the 

 printed books and manuscripts ,purchased at the Dunn sale ; 

 several large collections of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, 

 inciuding a valuable bequest from H. F. B. Lynch, Esq. ; and 

 a selection from the remarkable find of Jacobean jewellery, of 

 which the greater part is in the London Museum, presented 

 by the Right Hon. Lewis Harcourfc, M.P. 



From the Dunn sale the Department of Printed Books 

 acquired (with the assistance of friends) the Commentary of 

 Servius on Virgil, printed at Florence in 1471, being the first 

 book printed in that town, and a very fine volume ; also 82 

 other volumes of incunabula which fill gaps in the Museum 

 collections. Particulars of these will be found in the Depart- 

 mental report below. The Department also acquired from the 

 Chapter of Lincoln an interesting collection of musical vtorks 

 (chiefiy madrigals, motets, etc., by Italian composers of the 

 16th and early 17th centuries). The most interesting among 

 the remaining acquisitions of the Department is perhaps the 

 sheet of four Indulgences, printed in Caxton type by Wynkyn 

 de Worde in 1498. 



The Department of Manuscripts has received, under the 

 will of the late Lady Layard, as was briefly mentioned last 

 year, the whole of the diplomatic papers and general corres- 

 pondence of her husband, Sir A. H. Layard, G.C.B. In 

 addition to the political importance of these papers (which will 

 necessitate the withholding of certain portions from public 

 access for some time, in accordance with the wishes of the 

 Foreign Office), they contain a good deal of matter relating to 

 the excavations which Layard, in his earlier days, conducted 



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