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Donations.— The most remarkable donation of the year 

 lias been one for which the Museum is indebted to M. Leopold 

 Delisle, Director of the Bibliotheque Nationale, who, having 

 ^discovered the two leaves missing from the Gaignat copy of 

 the block-book of the Apocalypse printed at Mentz about 

 1465, now in the Bi^tish Museum, obtained the authority of 

 ihe Minister of Public Instruction to present them to the 

 jy[useum, in recognition of the services rendered by the 

 Manuscript Department in assisting in the restoration to 

 France of some leaves of a mutilated MS. 



The following donations and bequests also are of especial 

 interest. 



An extensive set of colonial newspapers, chiefly for the 

 year 1893. Presented by the Royal Colonial Institute. 



A bequest of upwards of 250 books and pamphlets relating 

 to the organ, being a collection formed by the late Colonel 

 Xewis Conway-Gordon, of the Royal Engineers, and presented 

 sdiev his death to the Museum by his widow, Mrs. Conway- 

 Gordon, in accordance with his wish. The portion of the 

 collection already in the library has, with the assent of Mrs. 

 Oonway-Gordon, been presented by the Museum to the Royal 

 College of Music. 



Upwards of 250 pieces of. music, being part of a collection, 

 bequeathed by the late Sir George Scharf, k.c.b., to 

 W. Barclay Squire, Esq., of the Department of Printed Books, 

 .and presented by Mr. Squire, in compliance with the testator's 

 wish that such pieces as were not already in the Museum 

 might be deposited in the Library. 



The first poetical composition of Christina Rossetti, 

 addressed to her mother, 27th April 1842; printed at the 

 private press of her uncle Gaetano Polidori. Presented by 

 W. M. Rossetti, Esq. 



■ A pass granted by the Duke of Cumberland during the 

 Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Fort Augustus, 29th May 1745, 

 a,ccompanied by a MS. letter by Sir Walter Scott. Presented 

 by Robert Marshall, Esq. 



Maps. — The principal accessions to the collection of maps 

 have been as follows : [Hemisphasrium Australe.] A map of 

 the Southern Celestial Hemisphere. With Monogram of 

 Albert Diirer ; circa 1527. 



Britannise Insul?e quee nunc Angli?e et Scotite Regna con- 

 tinet cum Hibernia adjacente nova descriptio. Venetiis apud 

 Joannem Andream Valvassorem cognomine Guadagninum, 

 A.D. 1556. An exceedingly' rare map, engraved on soft metal, 

 jand having the appearance of a wood-cut. 



0.97 Nova 



