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by the author ; and two sumptuous modern publications, viz., the 

 Catalogue of the Schwerdt Collection of books, MSS., prints and draw- 

 ings relating to hunting, hawking and shooting, presented by Mr. 

 C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, and the first instalment of the Boswell Papers, 

 presented by the owner, Colonel Isham. 



The Department of Manuscripts received from His Majesty the King 

 the original typescript, with autograph signature, of His Majesty's 

 Message to His People on his recovery from his illness ; an illuminated 

 French Bible of the 13th century, presented by Mrs. H. Yates Thompson 

 in memory of her husband ; the Middleton and Kenelm Digby diplo- 

 matic papers, in 33 volumes ; some letters of Charles Greville to Colonel 

 Windham, during the Crimean War, presented by Mr. Gabriel Wells ; 

 a bound set of the si^ecial correspondence of Lord Curzon while Viceroy 

 of India ; an autograph play, The Divine Gift, by Henrj^ Arthur Jones, 

 presented by his daughter, Mrs. Thornc ; and the Mum Sothsegger MS. 

 and the Galsworthy holographs, mentioned above. 



In the Department of Prints and Drawings, the most important draw- 

 ings acquired were a previously unidentified drawing by Diirer of " The 

 Maries at the foot of the Cross," presented by Sir J. Duveen and Mr. E. 

 Innes ; a "Visitation " by Burgkmair ; " Aristotle and Phyllis", by an 

 Antwerp artist of about 1520 ; " The Stoning of the Wicked Elders", 

 by Jan Swart ; a selection of drawings by old masters, including 

 Boucher, Greuze, and Tiepolo, presented by Mrs. Bateson ; and the 

 complete set of watercolour illustrations (567 in number) of Young's 

 "Night Thoughts", by Blake, presented by Mr. Geoffrey Keynes and 

 Mrs. F. W. Emerson. Among prints, special mention maj^ be made of 

 the very fine impression of Altdorfer's "Virgin and Child in a Land- 

 scape" ; seven rare progress proofs of colour-mezzotints by J. C. Le 

 Blon ; a selection of French line engravings and colour-prints of the 

 18th centur3'% partly presented by Viscount Bearsted, Sir Otto Beit, and 

 Messrs. E. and R. Mond ; and a collection of etchings and lithographs by 

 Whistler, bequeathed by Mr. A. K. Studd. In the Oriental section of 

 the Department the most notable accession \^'as a line Chinese painting 

 of the Ming period, for M'hich the greater part of the purchase price was 

 contributed by Sir Herbert Thompson, Bart. Among other purchases 

 were a Chinese painting of a Lohan, and colour-prints by Utamaro, 

 Hiroshige, and others. 



The Department of Egyi:>tian and Assyrian Antiquities was again 

 enriched by a share of the wonderfid discoveries in the royal tombs of 

 Ur, to which are added electrotypes of the most remarkable of the 

 objects which have fallen to the share of Baghdad and Philadelphia. 

 The Department also received large and important selections from the 

 discoveries of the Egypt Exploration Society at Armant and el-Amarna, 

 of the British School of Archaeology in Egypt at Qau and Badari, and 

 of Mr. Guy Brunton in the same neighbourhood. Other acquisitions 

 included an open-work gold plaque of the Xllth Dj^nasty, presented by 

 the Birmingham Jewellers and Silversmiths' Association, through Mr. 

 J. R. Ogden, who also gave a gold Egyptian relic -case from Beirut ; the 

 "Dramatic Papyrus" from the Ramesseum of Thebes, presented jointly 

 by Dr. Alan Gardiner and the British School ; a beautiful series of 

 reproductions of wall-paintings from Egyptian tombs, deposited on 

 indefinite loan by Dr. Gardiner ; a choice selection of small Egyptian 

 antiquities from the collection of the late General Sir John Maxwell, 

 presented by Mr. Robert Mond and six other members of the Council of 



