24 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



not more than a dozen are believed to exist. The Museum 

 has also acquired the proof of James Hogg's " Chaldee 

 Manuscript," which created so great a sensation in the early 

 days o£ Blackwood's Magazine, with copious MS. additions by 

 Hogg, none of which were printed ; the proof-sheets of the 

 correspondence between Burns and George Thomson, anno- 

 tated by the latter ; and the first volume of Sir Richard 

 Burton's " Abeokuta," with corrections by himself for a 

 second edition. 



Donations. — Among these are to be particularly men- 

 tioned : — A set of engravings prepared for the "edition de luxe" 

 of the works of Frederick the Great (1846-57), and com- 

 pleting the publication. Presented by H.I.M. the Emperor 

 of Germany. 



Geschichte der gross-herzoglich-hessischen Fahnen und 

 Standavten, an illustrated work prepared by command of 

 H.R.H. the Grand Duke of Hesse, by whom it is presented to 

 the British Museum. 



A most remarkable proclamation of Henry VIII. for 

 diminishing extravagance in living : — Prouysion made by the 

 King's hyghnes and his counsayll for puttynge a parte the 

 excessyue fare and redusynge the same to such moderacion as 

 folowyngly ensueth. Imprinted by Richarde Pynson. 

 Presented by the late Sir A. W. Franks, k.c.b. 



Barrett's History of Bristol, bound in nine volumes, and 

 interleaved with water-colour and pencil drawings, chiefly 

 executed by Miss Sarah S. Fripp, engravings, lithographs, 

 and other illustrations of Bristol, and accompanied by a 

 collection of Bristol municipal seals. Presented by the Artist, 

 Miss Sarah S. Fripp. 



An extensive collection of colonial newspapers, for 1894 ; 

 presented by the Royal Colonial Institute. 



Maps. — The principal accessions to the collection of maps 

 have been: — Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, si ve Cosmographicae 

 Meditationes de fabrica Mundi et fabricati figura . . . 

 cmendatus et appendice auctus studio Judoci Hondii. Sumpt- 

 ibus Johannis Cloppenburgii, Amsterodami, 1630. obi. 4to ; 

 showing part of the western coast of Australia ; and the 

 earliest known General Atlas in which any portion of that 

 continent is represented. 



Gerardi de Jode Speculum Orbis Terrarum, with Latin 

 text by Daniel Cellarius. Antverpise, [1578.] fol. : exceedingly 

 rare. 



Two Celestial Planispheres of the Northern and Southern 

 Heavens, from drawings by Albert Durer, entitled : — Imagines 

 coeli septentrionales cum duodecim imaginibus Zodiaci- 

 Imagines coeli meridionales. Joann. Stabius ordinavit. 

 Conradus Heinfogel stellasposuit. Albertus Durer imaginibus 



circumscripsit, 



