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interesting collection of Yorkshire broadside ballads, formed 

 by the late Mr. Carr, of York ; Quaker tracts ; West Indian 

 pamphlets ; Icelandic books ; Romansch books ; books re- 

 lating to Madagascar ; Armenian ecclesiastical works of the 

 seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ; modern Persian books, 

 principally of Shiah theology and philosophy; 92 Afghan' 

 books, purchased from Professor James Darmesteter, com- 

 prising nearly all the printed Afghan literature not previously 

 in ^he Museum; a collection of 112 Chinese works in 1,210 

 volumes ; priced auction catalogues ; playbills and other 

 local documents relating to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; files of- 

 the Batavia Courant, commencing before the English con 

 quest in 1811 ; and of the VaviKt] 'E(prifx£piQ, the ofiicial journal 

 of the Greek Provisional Government, from the autumn of 

 1825 until the end of 1832. 



Donations and Bequests. — These have been unusually nu- 

 merous and valuable. By far the most important, in a pecuni- 

 ary point of view, is the vast collection of postage stamps, with 

 cards, envelopes, telegraph forms, and similar objects relating 

 to postal and telegraphic communication, bequeathed by the late 

 Thomas Keay Tapling, Esq., m.p. for South Leicestershire. 

 The present selling value of this unique collection, the equal 

 of which is little likely to be formed again, has been estimated 

 at 50,000 I., and it is, at all events, certain that no benefaction 

 approaching it in this respect has been received by the De- 

 partment of Printed Books since the bequest of the Grenville 

 Library, more than 40 years ago. The Department has also to 

 acknowledge a very extensive and important collection of books, 

 pamphlets, and reports relating chiefly to economic and sanitary 

 matters, formed by the late Sir Edwin Chadwick, k.c.b., and 

 presented, in accordance with his wish, by his son, Osbert 

 Chadwick, Esq. ; an extensive collection of colonial newspapers, 

 presented by the Royal Colonial Institute ; 120 volumes of 

 New Zealand State Papers, presented by the New Zealand 

 Government ; rare Armenian books, presented by the Rev. 

 Johannes Catchieck, of Calcutta; " Memoire a consulter pour 

 son altesse le Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte contre le 

 Tresor Public," respecting the arrears of his mother's dotation, 

 privately printed at London in 1848, and afterwards withdrawn, 

 presented by George P. Cooke, Esq. ; a copy of the second 

 edition of Pugin's " Contrasts, or a Parallel between the Archi- 

 tecture of the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries," enriched with 

 Pugin's MS. preface to the first edition, and nine additional 

 drawings by him, bequeathed by the late John Drayton Wyatt, 

 Esq. ; reproduction of an ancient Glagolitic Missal, presented 

 by the Austrian Government ; drawings from architectural 

 monuments in the State of Jeypur, Rajputana, presented by 

 his Highness the Maharajah ; the Adi Granth, or sacred book 

 of the Sikhs, with a lectern, draperies, and other accompani- 

 ments, which have been transferred to the Ethnographical 



0.108. B 4 Collection, 



