18 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



it comes into possession of two Greek papyrus rolls from 

 Herculaneum, which formed part of the series presented by 

 the Neapolitan Government to the Prince of Wales in 

 1803-6, five of the same series having been given to the 

 Museum in 1865 by Her late Majesty Queen Victoria. Other 

 valuable additions to the departmental collection of Greek 

 papyri have been made by a donation from the Egypt 

 Exploration Fund and by purchase. The Department has 

 also acquired two valuable MSS. of Chaucer's " Canterbury 

 Tales," and a volume of English Metrical Romances of about 

 the year 1400 ; • as well as the official diplomatic corre- 

 spondence of Charles, Lord Whitworth, from 1702 to 1725, 

 and the political and private correspondence of the Marquess 

 Wellesley, from 1797 to 1842. Mr. R. P. Brereton has 

 bequeathed his collections relating to the churches of 

 Northamptonshire, Rutland, and Somerset. 



The Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manu- 

 scripts has secured some important Coptic MSS., and has 

 added some further examples to its fine collection of Arabic 

 MSS. of the 13th and 14th centuries. The large series of 

 Tibetan MSS. and books which were presented by the 

 Government of India in 1905 are noticed in this Return. 



The Department of Prints and Drawings has purchased 

 an interesting series of portraits of eminent persons of the 

 nineteenth century by Henri and Rudolf Lehmann. A 

 selection of them is exhibited in the King's Library. The 

 very important collection of Japanese woodcuts printed in 

 colours, which was formed by Mr. Arthur Morrison, has also 

 been added to the Department, which has further benefited 

 by many liberal donations from private persons. 



To the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities 

 are added a remarkable statue of Sen-Mut, the architect of 

 the Egyptian Queen Hatshepset, about 1550 B.C. ; a large 

 series of scarabs which are an im.portant supplement to the 

 Museum collection ; and a number of miscellaneous Egyptian 

 antiquities, presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund. 

 Among the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities are a 

 remarkable historical inscribed cone of a king of Babylon, 

 about 2145 B.C. ; series of inscribed Babylonian tablets of 

 2400-2000 B.C. ; and some very early and rare cylinder seals. 



To the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities is 

 added an interesting series of Greek bronzes of the best 

 period (p. 66, Nos. 9-16); and among the many donations to 

 the Department are a series of casts of fragments of sculpture 

 from the frieze of the Parthenon, presented by the Greek 

 Government ; a rare series of votive off'erings, of the pre- 

 Roman period, found in Spain and given by Mr. Horace 

 Sandars ; and a group of Greek vases, the gift of Sir Henry 

 H. Ho worth. 



The Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography has secured a remarkable Italian albarello of 

 the 15th century, together with other valuable specimens of 



